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America can retreat into a continental fortress and use naval control to block rival trade, making Iran the pivot for China's Belt and Road access and Afro-Eurasian integration.
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America can retreat into a continental fortress and use naval control to block rival trade, making Iran the pivot for China's Belt and Road access and Afro-Eurasian integration.
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Jiang says American grand strategy is to prevent heartland cohesion by blocking any great power or by creating enough conflict that Eurasian powers fight each other.
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The British Empire is modeled as a small island that rules by controlling global trade, sea lanes, the Bank of England, English-language reach, and colonial nodes.
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He says Alexander Dugin translates Orthodox eschatology into a master plan for Moscow to unify Eurasia, negate sea power, and challenge Anglo-American hegemony.
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The Dutch strategy against Spain was to use sea power and East Indies trade to generate the wealth and military resources a small population lacked on land.
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"It's not sustainable. And it will not last. So, the idea of competing empires, it's much more common in human history. So, yes, you'll..."
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"America can do that other nations cannot do is basically retreat into its continental fortress and control sea trade. Okay. So, right now, the..."
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"So, you have to challenge Russia to trade with Africa. Okay. All right. I would challenge Professor Zhao on his assessment of why Russia..."
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"Okay? Why? Because if the heartland unifies, it can trade. It can trade by itself through railways. But America is primarily a naval power,..."
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"Something else I will show you today is that the empire, which is Transnational Capital, they get all the profit. They hide behind the..."
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"So for the British Empire, the way they control the world, it's a very simple concept. As long as the British Empire is able..."
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"So for example, maybe the city of London. So that's the Islamic tradition. Then you have the Orthodox tradition, which is what we talked..."
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"...Asian continents into the Eurasian continent, then that power can negate sea power and become the global hegemon. And that's why the British Empire..."
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"And that's why the British basically provoked Germany into World War I because Germany was threatening to be this power. And that's why Britain..."
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"This war would last for 80 years. Now, the problem is that Spain, it is the most powerful nation in the world at this..."
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"And then what this would do is negate American sea power, because it's American ships that patrol and protect the oceans. And then what..."
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"...needs to build alliances throughout Eurasia in order to negate American sea power and air supremacy. All right? So what are the attack vectors..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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