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Jiang's 'death' or strategic depth: the empire's ability to lose battles and continue fighting because it has enough space, people, and reserves.
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Strategic depth
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Glossary
Jiang uses this to mean the reserve industrial and military capacity needed to sustain and absorb a major war without becoming vulnerable elsewhere.
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Jiang argues that Pike's account of Masonic responsibility for the French Revolution, Napoleon, and long-range revenge for Jacques de Molay is not factual history but a mythic retrospective that grants the movement centuries of strategic depth and sacred mission.
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Russia cannot allow Iran to fall because Jiang says a successful attack on Iran would lead to Russia being targeted next.
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An empire has mass, organization, and strategic depth; a borderland lacks those but has compensating advantages that make interaction explosive.
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Strategic depth lets empires survive defeat: Persia, China, and Rome can lose many battles because their mass and territory let them keep fighting.
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Jiang says a full-scale invasion of Venezuela would be complete suicide for America because the United States lacks the manufacturing capacity and strategic depth for such a war and cannot control how rival powers would exploit the distraction.
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"So we had to disguise ourselves under stone masonry, okay? So that's why we took the guise of the Freemasons, because the Freemasons were..."
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"the Freemasons actually created conditions for the French Revolution and conspired for generations, for decades, in order to avenge the dead. In order to..."
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"That's a good question. Okay? So I don't want to spend too much time on this question because we will explore this question as..."
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"...for America. America doesn't have the manufacturing capacity, doesn't have the strategic depth to launch a full -scale invasion of Venezuela. China, their response,..."
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"And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself..."
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"An empire and a borderland culture, they are almost complete opposites of each other. Their advantages mirror their disadvantages. They compensate for each other's..."
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"the Persians at the battle of Isis, but Darius was able to go deeper into his empire and assemble another large army for the..."
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"But because of the idea of death, Rome did not have to surrender. And Rome only won one battle against Hannibal in its history,..."
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"...now, I mean, you talked earlier about Venezuela, not having the strategic depth to topple and dominate. You know, we heard Jesse Waters on..."
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"...The problem, though, is the American military does not have the depth, the strategic depth, the resources, the supply lines, in order to sustain..."
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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