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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...power. The problem with Pax Silica is that it's really a trade network. Now trade networks are often very, very fragile. Trading networks requires..."
He argues that AI-centered trade networks are intrinsically fragile because they depend on cooperation among states, while real coercive power still comes from nation-states.
In the 17th century, Dutch trade in textiles, Atlantic slaves, and East Indies goods makes the Dutch Republic the wealthiest nation and its middle class the wealthiest in the world.
Jiang says the IVC had long-standing trade networks from roughly 7000 or 6000 BCE and could trust partners rather than fight.
Jiang says Russia could welcome Pax Judaica because it would let Moscow route carbohydrates and energy through Israel for value processing and onward sale into the Middle East and Africa instead of building those trade networks itself.
"...power. The problem with Pax Silica is that it's really a trade network. Now trade networks are often very, very fragile. Trading networks requires..."
"Yeah. So, um, okay. Um, I think that there are a lot of constraints to the greater Israel project. I mean, first of all,..."
"Do I really want to set up, um, trade networks in Africa? Um, piecemeal, um, and ad hoc, or would I just rather trade..."
"it basically trades textiles across this area and then it will trade slaves across the Atlantic and then it will monopolize trade in the..."
"And because they've been trading for such a long time we're talking like you know they start maybe trading about 7,000 6,000 BCE they..."
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's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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