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The United States has no choice but to fight the war, in Jiang鈥檚 simple explanation, because preventing heartland unification is its strategy for maintaining world hegemony.
Jiang says Trump is using the Venezuela crisis to enforce the Monroe Doctrine and demonstrate that Washington wants the whole of South America under U.S. control.
He says U.S. hegemony looked unchallengeable a decade ago but now resembles a house of cards vulnerable to rapid collapse.
"Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, would probably follow. Okay? Because it is easier to trade in the heartland than it is to trade with..."
"Right. So I think Trump is thinking of the bigger picture, which is he wants to enforce Monroe Doctrine. So he wants the entirety..."
"Right. And I mean, like, the thing is, like, these collapses happen really quickly. They happen almost overnight. So maybe 10 years ago, I..."
"uh maintain your empire yeah yeah well uh I wanted to then get to how you believe then given that these are the possibilities..."
"And so, if Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state countries start using more renminbi, more Chinese currency, then that's a threat to U.S. hegemony...."
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang鈥檚 law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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...
Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
Jiang frames the Tianjin summit as proof that the real U.S.-China fight is no longer just about ideology.
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