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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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He compares Trump to Zelenskyy as a leader who prioritizes television image and predicts Trump is likely to order a land invasion of Iran because it would look strong on TV.
Jiang says the Venezuela success helped sell Trump on an Iran decapitation fantasy in which he would be celebrated in Tehran and receive an even better television victory.
Jiang treats mass media figures like Johnny Carson and television itself as former institutions that once unified Americans around shared experience.
Jiang says television has ceded its role to YouTube, which he treats as the new spoken medium through which politics now travels.
"...think he speaks strategically. He thinks he thinks in terms of television, there are advisers who believe this. But Donald Trump is just interested..."
"...and institutions. Right. So Johnny Carson was an institution in America. Television was an institution in America because everyone just sat down as a..."
"So, that's a real threat in the United States. These institutions that unified the nation before, including the judicial system, the media, the education..."
"He was distorting reality for people through television. The problem with that, though, is it's not reality, guys, okay? Reality, the reality on the..."
"...idea here is that the medium itself, whether it's radio, or television, or the internet, it shapes the way you perceive yourself and the..."
"...The Europeans will agree to buy manufactured goods from the Americans. Television sets, radio, bicycles, cars. But then the Europeans and the Japanese are..."
"The same situation here where it's a silly television drama. It's all fake. Once people watch too much of it, they want it to..."
"...Beijing and they were giving interviews to CNBC and Bloomberg, Bloomberg television from their Beijing office."
"...you're really powerful, he would not be in front of the television cameras taking all the blame for the failed negotiations, not just in..."
"...history of working in reality TV he thinks in terms of television he asked himself what will draw attention what will look good on..."
"...going to be a disaster. Unfortunately, Donald Trump is a reality television star. And so what he's interested in is not strategy, but optics...."
"if he can pull off another great television spectacle this war will be over and then he can be the winner of this war..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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