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The ruling-class choice Jiang presents when people might revolt: send them outward to war or face revolution at home.
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war or revolution
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"...a French Revolution on your hands. Right? That's your option. War or revolution? I think war is the better option. That's why we're heading..."
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"...similar pattern will play out today. Where there's a civil war or revolution in America, where the entire world unifies against America because they..."
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"...At this point in the life cycle, you either get war or revolution, you say. And to avoid revolution, the elite will opt for..."
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"...the case, then elite overproduction will ultimately lead to either war or revolution. It will lead to the collapse of society. And there's no..."
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"...elements of the people. And now, what happens is civil war or revolution. And this marks the collapse of society. What's really important for..."
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"...society breaks up into different factions, which leads to civil war or revolution or war. So, that's the model we're working with. All right...."
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"...Sparta. The lower nobility can only become upper nobility through war or revolution. Okay? That's why the status quo. So even though this war..."
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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