diagnosis
Jiang claims World War II was won by the Allies because they could destroy German and Japanese productive capacity while America and the Soviet Union preserved theirs.
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World War II
He claims the Great Depression and frontier closure force America to conquer and scale the game to the world after World War II.
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Jiang connects the creation of the Federal Reserve with America entering World War I, the 1929 crash, the Great Depression, and World War II.
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He claims the Great Depression and frontier closure force America to conquer and scale the game to the world after World War II.
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prediction
Jiang predicts Japan should dominate East Asia because World War II destruction and humiliation forced reflection and preserved energy, openness, and cohesion.
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American universities rose from nonexistence in the global research hierarchy to dominance through research investment and postwar importation of German scientific talent.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that the Red Army purge, though disastrous by conventional standards, may have improved Soviet wartime adaptability by removing conservative senior hierarchy.
model
In Jiang's game-theory counterfactual, the only Soviet-winning scenario is Germany invading deeply enough to threaten Moscow; Soviet offensive or shallow defensive outcomes would push America against the USSR or let both sides bleed.
diagnosis
He treats the postwar destruction of Prussia and Konigsberg as an intentional civilizational destruction, not merely a territorial settlement.
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"...or the peak of the nation -state. And so during World War II, they had to fight a war to destroy the entire society...."
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"So in World War II, what they recognized is there's no point in killing soldiers on the battlefield because they'll just send in more..."
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"...followed by the Great Depression. And then 1941, America joins World War II. Okay, do you understand? So, Federal Reserve System means that, like..."
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"...go and conquer the world, which it does, okay? In World War II, America conquers the world. And so now what America needs to..."
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"...a great empire and that is Japan. Because Japan lost World War II. It was never a great empire. So, Japan should come to..."
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"And now, they want vengeance, basically. Alright? And the last country, of course, is Israel. Alright? Because Israel, the people in Israel believed that..."
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"...started to move up and up. And then it won World War II."
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"So now it can import all these German scientists. And that's why it dominates today. So the best universities in the world are now..."
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"...that this was ultimately beneficial to the war effort in World War II. Why? Because you've removed all the dead weight. You've removed the..."
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"And so I know this is a hard idea to understand, but let's just do a thought experiment to understand this idea. Let's say..."
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"Different outcomes. Okay? So let's just say, so everyone knows the Soviet Union and Germany is going to go to war at some point...."
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"...and civilians. Only in this situation does Soviet Union win World War II. Only in this situation. And every other"
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