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Dave says American culture had extraordinary global goodwill around the Soviet collapse, symbolized by heavy-metal enthusiasm in Moscow.
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Soviet collapse
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Jiang argues that this cost asymmetry punctures the aura of American invincibility that sustained U.S. hegemony after the Soviet collapse.
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The host suggests the best realistic outcome may be a Soviet-style slow collapse rather than a violent civilizational explosion, using Eliot's 'not with a bang' line to frame that preference.
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"Yeah. Listen, I mean, I can't I can't really disagree with anything you said. There. I thought that was all very interesting about the..."
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"And dude, it's the craziest thing to watch. There's like I mean, there might be a million people in the crowd just losing their..."
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"Right. So, my first point is that the United States military is not designed to fight a 21st century war. Remember that the military..."
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"inviability that sustained American hegemony for the past 20 years, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this is really a reordering..."
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"That goes from the poem of Eliot. The hollow man. The way the world ends. Is not with a bang. The best we can..."
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The hosts begin by replaying Jiang's earlier prediction that Trump would win, the United States would fight Iran, and America would lose.
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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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