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Jiang says a declining empire becomes unable to plan strategically because leaders combine arrogance, desperation, and unwillingness to admit defeat.
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Strategic Planning
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you look at the empire's decline, they're no longer capable of strategic planning because there's a lethal and toxic combination of hubris and desperation...."
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Jiang treats Naftali Bennett's phrase 'Turkey is new Iran' as evidence that Israeli planners are thinking beyond the present Iran war toward later confrontation with Turkey.
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"...you look at the empire's decline, they're no longer capable of strategic planning because there's a lethal and toxic combination of hubris and desperation...."
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"Peter Hegstaff in his press conferences is just saying, like, you know, the problem with you guys is you don't talk about the good..."
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"Well, it's really a question of what your interests are, right? So we're assuming that they all want to defend the American empire. But..."
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"real politic uh long -term strategic planning okay so with that as the backdrop we now understand that america has taken the baton they're..."
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"...these silly strategic mistakes and is not capable of long -term strategic planning. And the corruption within the military is endemic. And there's really..."
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"...bureaucracy. It doesn't really have strategic foresight. It doesn't really do strategic planning anymore. It's very reactive."
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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