Jiang argues that a war-making nation-state must take care of workers and soldiers because the whole people contribute to military production and survival.
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Jiang argues that a war-making nation-state must take care of workers and soldiers because the whole people contribute to military production and survival.
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Jiang says Bismarck understood that a nation-state must make warriors and keep workers healthy because workers produce the machines of war.
Russia's drone trajectory is presented as a move from Iranian dependence to domestic production, with future export capacity back to Iran against the Americans.
He says the deeper U.S. problem is manufacturing capacity: America moved manufacturing to China, and he cites a Pentagon comparison that China can build 232 ships for every one U.S. ship.
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"All right. So the idea here is that, listen, we're a German nation. Okay. And as a nation state, as a people, we must..."
"The real grievance of the war is the fact that we are a nation. We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence...."
"So Bismarck will turn Germany into the most powerful nation in the world by recognizing that it's not just soldiers who contribute to the..."
"...a minute here. So Russia is switching its entire economy to war production, which means that Russia will always fight wars."
"What's the problem with this? What's the problem with sending in more troops? No, there's actually a huge problem with this idea of sending..."
"...its economy. Okay? It allows Russia to center its economy around war production. Okay? So the red, as you can see, is total industry...."
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