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Jiang treats American sea power as the strategic advantage a continental Eurasian trade network would negate.
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Sea power
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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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Jiang says Russia cannot realistically defeat America at sea but has no choice but to challenge American sea power.
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Jiang says Anglo-American empire rests on sea-power control and therefore cannot tolerate a unified Eurasian trade bloc that would negate maritime dominance.
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Jiang presents Iran as the world's pivot because a Russia-Iran-China trade corridor could negate American sea power and let Eurasia trade outside US naval control and dollar dependence.
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"to the peloponnesian war the main aggressor was athens and what happened ultimately was that um the entire world ultimately aligned against athens because..."
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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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"...a trade bloc that is continental, which can negate Anglo -American sea power. This is called the Mackender thesis. And so people believe that's..."
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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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"...together and create a trade path um that can negate american sea power right so basically russia iran and china through the breaks is..."
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"Look, I mean, for the past current years, Britain, Great Britain, has been the chief instigator of wars throughout the world. You know, you..."
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"And it would negate sea trade. And so Britain would collapse economically, militarily. Demographically. And so for the past 200 years, Britain has been..."
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"...to rise. And that's why America is going to use its sea power to disrupt global trade. So we've seen American troops boarding this..."
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"In order to weaken China and Russia. It's now resorting to global piracy basically."
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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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