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Jiang defines the IVC's five major urban centers as value-adding processing centers that convert raw metals and agricultural products into finished goods for trade.
Jiang defines de-industrialization as moving away from energy-hungry urban knowledge economies because cheap Middle Eastern energy is no longer dependable.
"...your economy much more balanced before we have the growth of urban centers, which engage in a knowledge economy, which engage in AI, in..."
"...through trade. Okay? So what we have found is five major urban centers in the Indian Valley civilization, and these urban centers, you can..."
"...one reason is that the Americans are intent on destroying Iranian urban centers like Tehran, okay? So the Americans and the Israelis are bombing..."
"...saying they have actually no choice in the matter because again urban centers are dependent on globalization and access to cheap energy and cheap..."
"...still have to get through Kramatorsk, which is a fairly large urban center in the Donbas. And I think there's another one as well,..."
"These are different urban centers of Europe at this time, and they engage mainly in trade. Okay. So the church becomes a much more..."
"...basically artisans, craftspeople, people who work in cities and in the urban centers, and they have a specialized craft. That makes them valuable. Okay?..."
"...Because of this excess wealth, you saw the rise of cities, urban centers."
"...you have Rome, London, Paris, all emerging as major manufacturing and urban centers. What's important for us to remember also is that around this..."
"...there might have been some warfare, okay? But with these five urban centers that we've dug up, we have found them pretty intact, meaning..."
"...in the king. Okay? But when we look at these five urban centers of the IVC, there are no palaces. There are no temples...."
The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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...
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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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