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Jiang asks the class to identify present-day equivalents of fortune tellers and students answer with fake news and agenda-driven media shaping public opinion.
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Public opinion
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Public opinion does not matter in geopolitics; power matters, as shown by empires later worshiped despite violence.
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Jiang says that as the war continues, more incidents will be failures that Donald Trump and the American military spin as tremendous successes, causing Americans to believe the war is going well.
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The counterfactual model says nonintervention would have let Russia overextend, lose logistics and public support, and give Ukraine a better chance of winning through guerrilla and probing attacks.
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Senate confirmation works in Jiang’s account because fear of public embarrassment and norms inhibit presidential favoritism more than formal rules alone.
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In response to David, Jiang says most Russians do not want war, and at most about 10 percent actively think Putinism is a great idea, but determined minorities can direct history.
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Jiang predicts that even with large antiwar protests, most Americans would support the invasion after the speech.
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Jiang says Chinese online opinion flipped against Iran after Trump visited China, and he treats that swing as evidence that Chinese public sentiment is fundamentally pragmatic and oriented toward whoever can make money.
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"finish divine comedy uh in the next two days if so in our present day what kind of people will be condemned to hell..."
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"newspaper like in a way to move public opinion so that it fulfills the prophecy that the media wants yeah yeah yeah yes people..."
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"United States, Israel, and China, the Israels will be the silent partner. Before Trump visited China, I had an argument with my wife. My..."
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"So here's a funny thing, OK? Before Trump visited China, I had an argument with my wife. My wife is like, there's no way..."
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"As you point out, the Chinese are not eschatological in the way that the Russians and Americans are."
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"Yeah, I think people are just tired of this war. So even if this war were to restart this weekend, people would not be..."
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"So, like, if this were to restart, people won't be as interested, right? So you don't even need to have a propaganda push. You..."
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"No, I mean, like like the empire is going to commit a lot of atrocities. Right. And so what Gaza is is normalizing people..."
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"I think I think that we will be slowly desensitized, normalized into another forever war in Iran. So what we're looking at right now..."
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"Cuba is definitely on the menu. So Trump will want to take over Cuba at some point. So you're distracting the population. The third..."
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"And it's not ridiculous, a 50 % tax on baby boomers. But by paying for the 50 % tax, this will ensure world peace...."
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"There's only one demographic. And it's the baby boomers. And this demographic is also the only demographic that supported Israel's actions in Gaza. So..."
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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