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Jiang rejects war as the main explanation because bonobos complicate the violent-primate analogy and because archaeology does not show enough early weapons or large intergroup violence.
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Weapons
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Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang argues that Ukraine aid reveals U.S. military overextension because America is moving existing weapons systems from Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere rather than manufacturing enough new weapons.
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Talabani says no weapons were stolen on his Suleymaniyah side and calls any theft from allies shameful if it occurred elsewhere.
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Jiang says the concrete policy instruments for forcing that demand are opening the Chinese market to dollar extraction and pushing Japan to remilitarize so its excess savings flow into US weapons.
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Jiang argues that the military-industrial complex needs new wars to justify its bureaucracy, especially after spending billions on weapons that create pressure to be used.
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prediction
Jiang warns that any eruption of civil discontent in the United States would be exceptionally ugly because Americans are heavily armed.
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In the inserted clip, Netanyahu boasts that Israel has shared uniquely advanced offensive weapons with America that even superpowers supposedly do not possess.
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"Morgan. Did you steal them? No, I didn't actually. But, you know, Kurdistan is a tale of two cities. We're kind of a country,..."
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"...remilitarize, to force Japan to save its excess savings on U.S. weapons, okay? So that's a game plan. It's really simple, okay? So Kanye's..."
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"...new wars um if you spend billions of dollars on new weapons then you're kind of forced to use them another factor is as..."
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"to united states there's the government is shut down i'm not sure people recognize this but the government is shut down it's possible when..."
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"...I can't share it with you, okay? The most advanced offensive weapons on the planet, things that none of the superpowers have. All of..."
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"...if it is war, then we should be able to find weapons, and we don't really find weapons, okay? In archeology, we don't really..."
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"We don't find that. So, war, we don't really think is a possibility. Now, it's possible that in the future, we'll find evidence. But..."
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"...I mean by that is that in order to give Ukraine weapons, what America is doing is basically taking weapons systems from Japan and..."
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