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Hey, everybody.

Great speaking with you.

Want to go back to a classic format that I haven't tread in a little while, the old

response video.

My buddy, academic agent, recently made a video about how the American Empire is over.

It's done for Trump has failed, America has

failed, and it's war in Iran. The whole thing is going down and the entire global American order

is going with it. Now, I do think that there are some interesting points made in the video.

I don't necessarily disagree with everything that academic agents said, but I do think he very much overstates his case and conflates the idea of the American Empire with kind of the current MAGA coalition, which is something that academic agent usually doesn't do.

He's usually pretty careful with his analysis in these kind of areas, the academic areas, even if he's a little

more bombastic in his overall political rhetoric. So I wanted to dive in and kind of pull this apart,

see where we agree, where we disagree. Because like I said, I do think academic agent is somebody

who, whether you agree with kind of his current political trajectory or not, is ultimately a guy who does have important insights.

He's somebody who has studied political theory, specifically elite theory quite thoroughly and regularly comes away with some important things to say on any given topic.

So I want to go ahead and play this.

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