Jiang presents Oracle as a company built to collect and organize data for companies and governments, then stresses that its early incompetence did not prevent continued support from CIA and Navy clients with effectively unlimited resources.
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Navy
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Key Notes
He says U.S. strategy no longer needs to control the whole ocean; it only needs the key choke points that make trade depend on American generosity.
The speaker predicts Russia's goal at sea will not be to defeat the U.S. Navy outright, but to create a war of attrition that degrades U.S. naval capacity because American ships are old, hard to rebuild, and crewed by tired sailors.
Jiang says British imperial power rested on financial absorption through the Bank of England, legal protection for property, soft-power security, and naval control of sea lanes.
Britain's world empire rests on three mechanisms: finance through the Bank of England, schooling or soft power, and the Navy's coercive force.
Merchant oligarchies use banking, navy/trade control, and diplomacy/intelligence to extract energy across time and space.
He explains Sparta as a conservative oligarchic land society built around controlling Helot labor, while Athens becomes a democratic naval society because rowers fight and therefore vote.
Xerxes' invasion is framed as overwhelming in manpower and naval resources, drawing on Egypt, Phoenicia, Ionian Greeks, and other imperial subjects.
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"Is this clear, guys? All right. Yes? But what is the techno -Marxism? Yeah, I'm explaining, okay? All right. So this is Larry Ellison...."
"...incompetent. But who were their clients? It's the CIA and the Navy who had unlimited money. Okay? So the company is incompetent, destroys data,..."
"...means is that America has the world's greatest nation state, the Navy. No one else comes close. And so all that they do is..."
"So that they can control global trade, okay? They're not going to control the entire ocean because it's much too big, but if they..."
"...do that. The major question is, to have a blue water navy to challenge uh american hegemony over the seas and the answer is..."
"...japanese military and japan has actually the um best blue water navy in east asia okay gordon chang you know roughly 90 of iran's..."
"and they did so without arrangement with iran so i think that if you parked a couple arleigh burke's in just outside the strait..."
"...america's control over the seas right so rather than the american navy protecting global trade the american navy will now impose tariffs on those..."
"to guarantee a national trade they were the policemen of the world in order to maintain the rules -based national order and now that's..."
"we're seeing the Americans deploy went through the navy into the Caribbean to block trade into the western hemisphere that's why we're seeing this..."
"...in the oceans. The point is not to defeat the American Navy. You can't do that, okay? The point is to create a war..."
"okay? This is something to look out for over the next year or two years. This conflict in the seas that will arise between..."
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