Glossary
Jiang's adopted phrase for an incentive structure in which the military-industrial complex profits more from perpetual conflict than from decisive success.
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never-ending wars
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...not to have successful wars. The point is to have never -ending wars. Because what wars do is they transfer taxpayer money into the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...not to have successful wars. The point is to have never -ending wars. Because what wars do is they transfer taxpayer money into the..."
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Jiang argues that the American military-industrial complex is a corrupt institution that benefits from permanent warfare, invoking Julian Assange's line that the point is not successive wars but never-ending wars.
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"...not to have successive wars. The point is to have never -ending wars. So I mean, I don't think people recognize the corruption in..."
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"...not to have successful wars. The point is to have never -ending wars. Because what wars do is they transfer taxpayer money into the..."
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"...is not to win wars. The point is to have never -ending wars, which allows the military industrial complex to transfer American taxpayer money..."
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"...is not to win wars. The point is to have never -ending wars which allows the Military Industrial Complex to transfer American taxpayer money..."
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"...terror is not to have successful wars but to have never -ending wars where the military industrial complex can steal as much as it..."
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"...not to have successful wars. The point is to have never -ending wars so that a military -industrial complex, this transnational security system can..."
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"...and what he's saying is we're moving towards continuous war, never ending war, which is what will happen if you destroy the."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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