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He says Dante's doubts are intensified by political factionalism, institutional corruption, and the question of whether any hope remains for humanity.
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Power struggle
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Jiang frames Dante as an aristocrat involved in Florentine politics and says the wider Italian power struggle will matter later in the course.
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Jiang says Iranian bombardment of Tel Aviv paradoxically helps religious-nationalist forces inside Israel by weakening the cosmopolitan Tel Aviv pole and intensifying the struggle over Israel's spiritual identity.
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Jiang uses elite overproduction to explain mounting American conflict: as the economy shrinks and hegemony declines while elites keep multiplying, intra-elite competition for power intensifies.
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Alexander says there is no sign of a political challenge to Putin in Moscow and that a real power struggle there would show obvious outward signs.
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"I have kids. I have no property. What am I going to do now? Also, I look around the world, I look around the..."
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"...florence and this was true for throughout italy okay and this power struggle is something that we will discuss as we as move along..."
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"...is the conservative religious theocracy. Right. So there's almost like a power struggle in Israel to determine the soul of the nation. And because..."
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"Yeah, I think the wars will be driven by civil discontent around the world. So let's just use the United States as an example...."
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"...always retained an interest in this and when there is a power struggle in Moscow you can always see the signs I mean that..."
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"And so there's almost like a power struggle in Israel to determine the soul of the nation. And so there's almost like a power..."
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"And so there's almost like a power struggle in Israel to determine the soul of the nation. And so there's almost like a power..."
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"...a, you know, this transnational global power. I think there's a power struggle within that because historically, you know, military was the basis of..."
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"...global capital. You can control military. And so there is a power struggle between the real factions of power that finance might become subordinate..."
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"...handing the power over to financial. And then financial's in a power struggle with technical. That's what's happening here."
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"...uh nation states in order to um defer their their own power struggle so um i i i don't think the united states and..."
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"like Maryland, navigating a complex era where Enlightenment critiques and royal power struggles had dismantled their public presence but couldn't extinguish their spirit, even..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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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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The interview starts with Iran and ends with American civil unrest, but Jiang treats the whole arc as one machine: a declining empire overextends abroad, factional war at home drives the timing, and chokepoints...
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