Jiang says the major 2026 Russia story will be conflict with the United States at sea rather than only battlefield developments in Ukraine.
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Oceans
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Key Notes
Jiang argues that Russia now understands Ukraine as only one front in a wider fight over global trade access and the American monopoly on policing the oceans.
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"...be the conflict between Russia and the United States in the oceans."
"...for the longest time the americans were able to control the oceans and contest it and that's that's a source of american power okay..."
"america in the oceans otherwise americans can strangle the economies of everyone including russia including china so right now there's about a thousand ships..."
"...you know can uh neptune's all the water and great neptune's ocean wash clean uh uh this hand of blood no rather will my..."
"...ours had fallen and never rose above the plane of the ocean. Five times the light beneath the moon had been rekindled and as..."
"...time see the meridian touched by the sun elsewhere along the ocean night now has set its foot upon"
"...have the idea of partialism. Partialism is that, like, in an ocean, you have different seas, right? Well, God is the unity of God..."
"...thank god then we will turn away from god and god ocean will shine less brightly on us okay keep on going but part..."
"...fly must be permitted so they could fly high above the ocean. And lastly, when I was in that world and there was no..."
"...together. But what happens is this, Gay Talese grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey. He is Catholic, and Ocean City, New Jersey is..."
"...Into the heart of human darkness, into sex, he returns to Ocean City, and by now he's in his mid -forties. And he decides..."
"...the declaration of their names was the lettering of the locale, Ocean City, New Jersey. And seated on the decks were people wearing Bermuda..."
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