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Jiang says European elites may pursue war with Russia from a mix of anti-Russian hatred, sunk costs, energy-driven economic collapse, and fear of internal civil war.
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Sunk cost
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Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang says U.S. leaders face a sunk-cost trap where retreat means admitting America no longer looks invincible.
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Jiang predicts Trump is structurally pushed to double down because quitting would crystallize loss, like a gambler refusing to leave a casino after heavy losses.
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Jiang says sunk costs and GCC pressure could still push Trump toward invasion because Gulf allies need Hormuz stabilized for shipping to resume.
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Jiang argues that Putin is dragging out the war intentionally because a long attritional struggle deepens Europe's sunk-cost commitment and lets Russia fight NATO on advantageous terms.
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Jiang's model is that Europe invested too much in victory over Russia and now behaves like a gambler who cannot leave the casino after losing, because it expected indemnities, land, and minerals from a winning Ukrainian outcome.
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Jiang argues that NATO is trapped by a sunk-cost logic: trillions have already been spent on the expectation that Russia will be defeated and forced to repay Ukraine and Europe.
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Jiang characterizes Britain's imperial base as financial and says that once such a power commits capital to war, it becomes trapped into continuing because retreat would lock in losses and foreclose the chance to recover them through victory and indemnities.
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"...European elite. That's one possibility. Another possibility is that there's a sunk cost fallacy in that Europe has invested too much resources into this..."
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"And the local population feels threatened. And so there's this white -wing backlash in Europe. So maybe to avert a civil war, maybe it's..."
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"...casino, losing a million dollars, and then you're stuck. It's a sunk cost fallacy where you either stay and try to gamble back your..."
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"Right now there's a fog of war. So it's almost impossible for us to ascertain who's winning this war because the Israelis and Americans..."
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"But if he doesn't secure it, he'll move to Israel. And so you have a mission creep. And unfortunately, he's being egged on by..."
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"...is that given the way the war is going given a sunk cost fallacy you know given the fact that the gcc nations are..."
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"is blown up that's not the ukrainians either man okay so just to be clear it's it's always been nato right um and so..."
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"interest of europe they're just going to do what they're told and third of all this is most important is the idea of some..."
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"can't go home and face your wife or your pot committed already so you got to keep throwing bad money after good here right..."
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"Yeah, so let's go over some of the major reasons why they can't let it go. Okay. I mean, first of all, NATO and..."
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"So a so -called policy, they went to the casino, they lost a million dollars, they can't go home to face the wives, so..."
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"bilateral support of the european nation with a lot of popular research into the south and north is that britain is a financial party..."
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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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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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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