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Jiang's term for the way dominant ideas such as secularism and materialism constrain even powerful actors and shape what policies are thinkable.
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stranglehold
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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"...think I think there are some ideas that that have a stranglehold over society. So I think like over the past 20 years, we've..."
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"...cut off the straight of taiwan and sort of and can stranglehold beijing because we did all the planning"
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"...venice zuela and the u.s is really trying to get a stranglehold on latin america of course so countries like china russia don't get..."
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"...card really it closes off the issue of hummus it's a stranglehold on the global economy united states will be forced to send in..."
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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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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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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