Mercouris says corruption eventually takes over decision-making in declining powers and cites late-fifth-century Athens, Republican Rome, and late-nineteenth-century Britain as examples.
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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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