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Jiang defines game theory analysis as treating real-world society as a game in which each actor tries to optimize its own outcome.
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Rational actors
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...But however, if you want to know why people stop being rational actors, we'll get to that. So we've got this Mackinder's Heartland thesis...."
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Alexander says that, despite the presence of some unbalanced people in the American military, the officials responsible for nuclear weapons remain rational, wise, and in control.
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"that professor chang here i i think that in the end people will draw back governments will draw back and they will avoid doing..."
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"And this is what I've been teaching you this semester. And the idea is that society, what happens in the real world, is a..."
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"...But however, if you want to know why people stop being rational actors, we'll get to that. So we've got this Mackinder's Heartland thesis...."
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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