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People die not for abstract ideas but for each other, which Jiang presents as Stalin's fundamental insight into mass sacrifice.
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Jiang argues Trump believes capturing a leader means capturing the country itself.
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Jiang says policy designers underestimate individual agency: when a social game is rigged, people will cheat rather than loyally carry the burdens imposed on them.
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"Look, that's how Donald Trump thinks. He thinks that, oh, I've captured Maduro, therefore now Venezuela belongs to me. And Venezuela now must obey..."
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"And you're not giving enough agency to individuals, right? If you are the game maker and you create this crappy game, which everyone loses,..."
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"at it from a different perspective, it screws over the people who buy into the stable coin, right? So do you think that they're..."
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"So, people die not for ideas. People die for each other. And that's what Stalin understood fundamentally. So, yeah, Mother Russia was his promise..."
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This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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