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Jiang answers that special forces expanded both because more people wanted to enter them and because post-Soviet America needed shadow wars against rogue regimes.
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Post Cold War
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Right. So as you point out, America is desperate. It's anxious. It's afraid that its empire is collapsing and therefore it is lashing out..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Right. So as you point out, America is desperate. It's anxious. It's afraid that its empire is collapsing and therefore it is lashing out..."
Key Notes
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Jiang says America's current aggression comes from imperial fear: a collapsing empire lashing out after an era of post-Cold War prosperity curdled into corruption.
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"Right. So as you point out, America is desperate. It's anxious. It's afraid that its empire is collapsing and therefore it is lashing out..."
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"was a flourishing, prosperous, middle -class nation, it destroyed Libya, it destroyed Syria, again, for no particular reasons. And so America started to become..."
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"So shotgun all is really a theory of empire as opposed to a theory of war, okay? So does it make sense to you..."
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"And so a lot of the resources were shifted into special forces and that allowed more people to enter special forces, okay? Does that..."
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"...legitimized, then by liberal democratic values, this world order, the post -cold war or world order of liberal hegemony is gone. Uh, so the..."
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"...a giant mirage created by American empire as well as post Cold War peace and prosperity. And now this Iran war, this mirage has..."
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"...main pillars of how Europe has been structured in the post -Cold War era, they were supposed to be the hegemonic order of Europe..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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