Clean Break memo
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Clean Break memo has come up in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts in TMT, including The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Danny Jones Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jiang XueqinYale-educated geopolitical analyst and commentator known for forecasts about global conflict and the decline of American hegemony
Jiang says the escalation could only have been avoided if the United States had pressured Israel into peace with Arab nations, but it is now too late.
“What would have happened is the United States had pressured Israel into seeking peace with the Arab nations”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World Order (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:33:26
Jiang says he believes he was placed in U.S. secondary inspection because he publicly named the authors of the Clean Break memo and linked it to the Iran war.
“I said certain things during my podcast interviews that pissed off some really powerful people in the United States”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World Order (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:50
Xueqin JiangBeijing-based teacher and YouTuber behind the channel Predictive History, covering philosophy, geopolitics and forecasting
Jiang says the 1996 Clean Break memo urged Netanyahu to abandon the two-state approach in favor of dominance and regime change in Iraq and Syria.
“So this memo calls for regime change in Iraq as well as Syria”
Danny Jones Podcast: #425 - "They Control Trump & Netanyahu" The Secret Family No One Talks About | Professor Jiang (Aug 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:03
Scott HortonDirector of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show and author of Provoked
Horton says Richard Perle and David Wurmser wrote the Clean Break paper in 1996 for Netanyahu, and that it underlies later US policy.
“But Perle and David Wormser had written up this policy paper called A Clean Break in 1996. And they wrote it for Netanyahu when he was first prime minister”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2500 - Scott Horton (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 16:36
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
- Danny Jones Podcast · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
Professor Jiang: Three Predictions On the Collapse of the World OrderThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Sep 14, 2026 · 1 h 48 min
Geopolitical analyst Jiang Xueqin tells Steven Bartlett the petrodollar order is collapsing and offers predictions about war, finance and migration.
#425 - "They Control Trump & Netanyahu" The Secret Family No One Talks About | Professor JiangDanny Jones Podcast · Aug 24, 2026 · 4 h 4 min
Professor Xueqin Jiang tells Danny Jones how China really works and argues Chabad-linked messianic religious beliefs drive U.S. and Israeli policy.
#2500 - Scott HortonThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 15, 2026 · 2 h 41 min
Joe Rogan talks with libertarian antiwar author Scott Horton about neoconservative foreign policy, NATO expansion and the Ukraine war, and the US war with Iran.