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The weaker person is going to engage in much more self -reflection, self -debate than the empire. Okay? Because the empire will become arrogant. And so, ultimately, Iran should triumph over America. And in fact, what's going to happen is that this strategy that America will use against the Iranians will lead to Iranians becoming much more energetic, open, and cohesive. Okay? So, let's look at the American strategy specifically. So, this is an ethnic map of Iran. Okay? Now, certain things that you will see is how divided the country is. Yeah, the Persians are in the center, but people you want to watch are the Kurds. Okay? The Kurds. And the Azzaris. And the Baliks. Okay? These are the three major problem areas for Iran, and it's always been the case. Remember, the Persians are in the middle. So, the Baliks are, first of all, Sunni Muslims. 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Okay. Or what we call command and control. Okay. You're basically limiting the capacity of Iran to govern itself. To have a leadership. To have an elite. All right. Command and control. Okay. So that's the first strategy. Second strategy is um um aerial bombardment. Okay. Aerosupremacy. So again America has the most advanced airplanes in the world. And the way that it's using its airplanes is to destroy as much military installation as possible. But it's also engaging in acts of sabotage. Okay. So what they're doing is they're carpet bombing. Okay. So they're carpet bombing Tehran. Okay. Um they're doing soft targeting. Soft targeting. Soft targeting means that instead of attacking military installations, you attack hospitals. Why? Because you're degrading the capacities, sorry, you're degrading the state's capacity to rejuvenate itself, to be resilient, okay? The last thing is something called double tap. Double tap is this, okay? 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You attack a place, right? You kill some people, and then people try to come and help the people who are injured. And it could be like doctors, it could be emergency personnel, it could be relatives, right? And then you strike again to create as many civilian casualties as possible, right? And the entire idea is to create as much fear and anxiety in people as possible so that they lose the capacity to resist, right? And the last thing you do, and the last thing, of course, is to arm and bribe insurgents, okay? So these are the three main pillars of the American strategy. And you will see this over the next few weeks. The problem with this is that when you do these three things, you're not actually hurting the Iranians, you're actually helping them. 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This American strategy is gonna create a more energetic, more open, and more cohesive Persian society, all right? Let me show you how. All right, decapitation. We just said that one major problem for America is elite overproduction, right? Well, with decapitation, what you're doing is, you're solving this problem for the Iranians, right? Before, the huge problem for the Iranians were you have too many leaders, and they all have their own stupid opinion, and they all want to lead this war, right? But by killing so many leaders, you allow for more mobility, for more meritocracy, right? You're solving the problem of elite overproduction for the Iranians. That's a huge, huge bonus, guys, okay? So, the leadership will become much more lean, much more mean, much more determined, and much more strategic, okay? That's number one. Number two, air supremacy. 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So you come bomb me with all, everything you have, I'll just hide in my mountains. And then when you leave, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna attack your GCC countries. I'm gonna lob drones, rockets at you. I'm gonna lob rockets at Israel, okay? I don't have to strike that hard, I just have to be a pain in the ass, okay? Because then, what happens is you're forced to come back and bomb the living hell out of me, but guess what, I'll just hide in my mountains again. It's hide and seek, okay? So Iran can do this for years and years and years. 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