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Jiang's model of successful politicians as actors who care primarily about political power rather than ideas or principles.
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Political opportunist
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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"...know about very successful politicians is they are first and foremost opportunists. They have no ideas. They have no principles. All they care about..."
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"Does that make sense? Okay? So that's the thing you need to know about politicians, okay? All they care about is political power. They..."
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"...american supremacy then they'll be much more likely to fight they're opportunists right so that's the second pillar and the third pillar which which..."
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"...then you have the global financial elite and these people are opportunists they're speculators"
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"...answer for people who hate Paul is he was just an opportunist, a charlatan. Okay? He saw a business opportunity. Everyone loved Jesus. Jesus..."
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"...the answer is this. I don't want to say Paul is opportunist. Or he's evil. I believe he was also a believer in his..."
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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A dated May 2024 election model: Biden's 2020 coalition weakens, the suburbs become the hinge, and Trump can win by turning Nikki Haley from enemy into evidence that he has changed.
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