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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So we're assuming that anyone, someone wants to be the new leader. And the reality is that it's actually stupid to be the world..."
Jiang argues that becoming the world reserve currency or world leader is undesirable because the hegemon must spend its resources defending that position against everyone else.
Jiang says American policymakers treat the war cynically as a way to drain both Russia and Europe because the deaths are borne elsewhere inside the imperial system.
"So we're assuming that anyone, someone wants to be the new leader. And the reality is that it's actually stupid to be the world..."
"On the other hand, in Ukraine, you have high desertion rates. You have all these stories of men being abducted on the streets in..."
"And it's something that they can enforce because they are the empire."
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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