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He argues that in geopolitics the operative goal is to win the game rather than survive it, so a U.S.-China struggle can rationally continue even if it collapses both sides.
"...a game, your objective is to win the game. Now by winning the game, it may cause the game to collapse. But you don't..."
"...the larger picture and they only win if they're focused on winning so they're willing to do whatever it takes to win even if..."
"...fight to the bitter end. And that's actually the key to winning a war. All right. So everyone makes fun of North Korea. Okay?..."
"...I was like, oh, my God. I mean, the Iranians were winning this war. They had popular opinion behind them. Their people were enthusiastic...."
"...and eventually they turned the title war so they were actually winning the war and it was only because americans started to use chemical..."
"...sweep the midterms. I think they have a good chance of winning the House and the Senate, according to the polls."
"...in humanity's history. And I think that we, the people, are winning."
"...is much more concerned about the Democrats than he is about winning this war in Iran."
"...our warfighters' warrior ethos and our military's core, irreplaceable role, fighting, winning, and thereby deterring the wars that really matter to our people. Consequently,..."
"...will refocus the American military on its core, irreplaceable goal of winning the nation's wars decisively. In doing so, as President Trump has so..."
"...America may in the short term seem as though it is winning, but in the long term, because of corruption, division, and nationalism, America..."
"...on my show as well. I call this a no one's winning war, right? Everybody loses is kind of the way I'm looking at..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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