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Jiang argues that war is usually a pyramid scheme because fighting becomes costly and creates pressure to fight more wars for resources and manpower.
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Pyramid Scheme
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...but to maintain hegemony otherwise the entire ponzi scheme the entire pyramid scheme collapses and and you know that that worries me and i..."
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"...why we think war is huge. Because war is usually a pyramid scheme. Okay? And what that means is... So, the example is Nazi..."
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"Okay? So, in the long term, this could lead to disaster. Okay? This could lead to a large -scale war. But in the short..."
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"...but to maintain hegemony otherwise the entire ponzi scheme the entire pyramid scheme collapses and and you know that that worries me and i..."
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"...Go on. Continue. I mean, the Bank of England is a pyramid scheme."
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"...mean, I mean, that's what financial financial system is. It's a pyramid scheme. As long as you're able to convince people that you're that..."
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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