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Professor Jiang argues that the U.S. move in Venezuela wasn’t about “taking oil” in any practical sense, but about denying China access and signaling dominance in the Western Hemisphere. He frames the broader U.S.–China standoff as a dangerous co-dependence: Washington needs China to keep absorbing dollars and Treasuries, while China needs secure energy and critical minerals—creating a “ladder over an abyss” where either side pulling too far risks mutual collapse. From there, the discussion shifts to the fragility of the U.S. economy, highlighting an AI-driven investment boom with unclear profitability, extreme financialization in commodities like silver (paper claims far exceeding real supply), and crypto speculation—warning that if these bubbles unwind, social instability could escalate dramatically.

The conversation then expands to Europe’s strategic drift, portraying EU/NATO leadership as trapped in self-reinforcing narratives, unable to admit mistakes, and therefore prone to escalation even without a viable path to victory—raising the risk of miscalculation and a slow-burn political rupture inside Europe. Finally, Jiang returns to Venezuela as a case study in imperial optics: he claims Trump traded long-term strategy for short-term spectacle by humiliating a sovereign head of state, which could unify Latin America against Washington and accelerate global resistance to U.S. power—while the U.S. simultaneously builds leverage ahead of a major China meeting later in 2026.

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