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And that's what's happening in Ukraine. What I will show you is that Iran will be the first 21st century war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate the leadership, you destroy the military, and you destroy production. That's the idea of shock and awe. I come in, I kill your leadership, I kill your military, I kill your war factories. And you do it as soon as possible. But this is not working against Iran because they've prepared this war for 20 years, so it's decentralized. Okay? So you've killed their leaders, but they don't care because they've got new leaders coming to place. Their military is hidden. Okay? They're hidden in mountains, and their factories are also hidden in mountains as well. So even though the Americans have really destroyed the military, they've destroyed the military. 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Sorry, last year, Nepal, when young people overthrew the government. Now, guys, okay. Here's the thing. In Nepal, most people don't speak English. They don't read English. So why are these young people holding up signs? Okay, boomer, time's up. Okay? That's in English. Who's it for? Also, okay, boomer, it's an American phrase. Okay? It's an American phrase, not a Nepalese phrase. So, in other words, they're doing this not to have impact locally in Nepal. They're doing this because someone's paying them to do this. You understand? It's being funded by Washington. And Washington's like, okay, well, I'll pay you this much. This amount of money if you give me a slogan, if you hold a slogan, so that I can show my boss that this protest is working. Also, guys, here's another sign. We pay you flex enough. Okay? Another English sign. 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And this is very common in the world today, where these protests are being orchestrated by Washington for Washington, as opposed to being organic. This was in 2010, 2012. You have these Arab Spring protests happen all around the Middle East. Okay? Do they stabilize the governments in the Middle East? And we know that social media, basically Twitter and Facebook, were instrumental. And organizing people and promoting unrest in these places. All right? So, these are all called color revolutions or the color revolution playbook. 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Okay? So, that is what the 21st century is. That's what the 21st century war looks like. Okay? You don't send troops. You don't destroy. What you do is you strangle a people to death and force the people to rise up against the nation state. Okay? And so, the concluding message is this. Ultimately, to fight a 21st century warfare, okay, it's really about population management. What I mean by that is your enemy is trying to provoke your population into unrest to destroy you. So, you have to respond by managing your population better. Okay? And that can often mean culling your population. Culling your population just means killing them. Okay? Killing them can mean you deny them food. You create famine. Okay? It can mean you spread diseases. 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And so during World War II, they had to fight a war to destroy the entire society. Because the soldiers were not a mercenary army like they were in the past bef..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1531.64, "end": 1594.61, "time_label": "25:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "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 soldiers with more weapons. So we need to destroy the civilian population. That's how..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1594.61, "end": 1662.14, "time_label": "26:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to fight wars. So this is World War II, and at least 20 to 30 million people were killed, okay? And depending on y..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1662.14, "end": 1735.92, "time_label": "27:42", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "the recognition that to fight wars, you need more people who want to kill themselves for the nation. And to get them to do that, you have to treat them well as well, okay? And that's what... And so the nation state want..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1736.28, "end": 1795.82, "time_label": "28:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "It made a lot of people more wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth that China has generated in the past 30, 40 years because of its participation in consumer capitalism. Okay? 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So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 1886.38, "end": 1966.07, "time_label": "31:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So what's going to happen is that over the next few months, America is going to shift its strategy into a 21st century war strategy, which will have three components. The first component is economic strangulation. I wil..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 1967.67, "end": 2027.23, "time_label": "32:47", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "And this is what the Americans will deploy in Iran over the next few months. Now, why haven't they done this before? Well, because these are war crimes, OK. 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The general will is who we could be if we came together as a people. Okay? And the best way to understand the general will is through Kant's theory of the category. Kant's theory of the ca..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "note": "SPEAKER_00 is not Jiang here; it is Ivory reading a passage from Rousseau.", "suggested_speaker": "Ivory reading quoted source", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 948.55, "end": 1000.91, "time_label": "15:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "To renounce your liberty is to renounce your status as a man, your rights as a human being, and even your duties as a human being. There can't be any way of compensating someone who gives up everything. 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And..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "note": "The transcript says 'Johan Fette'; context indicates Johann Fichte, discussed as a father of German nationalism.", "suggested_speaker": "Jiang", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1170.22, "end": 1233.89, "time_label": "19:30", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "This is a Johan Fette. Who is considered the father of Germany. The father of German nationalism. And his argument is that it is language that binds us as humans. Okay. 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The reality is that when the Americans do this, okay, when they do three things, right? They destroy your economy. When they strangle... Sorry. When they destroy your infrastructure. And when they divide and..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3283.99, "end": 3349.69, "time_label": "54:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "were forced back okay but if left alone the iranians would have defeated the iraqis so think about that how it galvanized the population of iraq and then it was the same thing with no ariba into resistance. The other th..." } ] }, { "term": "general will", "usages": [ "The people as they could be if they came together around universal moral law and total freedom." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0006" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 248.13, "end": 310.892, "time_label": "4:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So why do we choose to surrender our freedom in order to join a community? And so his theory is that we join society to become more free. So by ourselves. Okay. We together, okay, all of us together, we create something..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 310.892, "end": 369.34, "time_label": "5:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "The common will is who we are. The general will is who we could be if we came together as a people. Okay? And the best way to understand the general will is through Kant's theory of the category. Kant's theory of the ca..." } ] }, { "term": "iron and blood", "usages": [ "Jiang's label for German nationalism grounded in language, culture, race, and war-making power." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 599.62, "end": 681.34, "time_label": "9:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "call on their citizens to fight and to die, and it was almost unlimited amount of soldiers. Whereas the other countries like Prussia, Russia, Austria, they had professional soldiers who were afraid to die. 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So for Dr. Rousseau, it's liberty that we should s..." } ] }, { "term": "liberty or death", "usages": [ "The revolutionary logic that freedom is so essential to humanity that death is preferable to slavery." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0018" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1004.05, "end": 1050.63, "time_label": "16:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay, so the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by God. Our freedom is what connects us to God. So our freedom cannot be surrendered. If we surrender our freedom, if someone takes our freedom away from us, tha..." } ] }, { "term": "martyrdom", "usages": [ "Dying for God and nation, framed by Jiang as the practical military force produced by eschatology." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0053" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "segment_id": "seg-0051", "start": 3060.54, "end": 3161.96, "time_label": "51:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay. Look. The reality is that when the Americans do this, okay, when they do three things, right? They destroy your economy. When they strangle... Sorry. When they destroy your infrastructure. And when they divide and..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3228.65, "end": 3283.99, "time_label": "53:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "greatest glory is to be a martyr the greatest glory is to die for your nation and for god so they all these young people went into the battle with just a rifle okay guy like like imagine this okay you have this young gu..." } ] }, { "term": "myth of the nation", "usages": [ "A created faith or passion that subordinates everything else to national greatness and makes war meaningful." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1395.925, "end": 1428.2, "time_label": "23:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "And it was Mussolini who basically understood that the real purpose of a nation -state is to fight wars. In fact, it is wars that give people meaning in their lives. If you have a war, if you create a nation -state arou..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1429.26, "end": 1455.55, "time_label": "23:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality. It is a reality in the sense that we have created our myth. It is a stimulus, it's hope, it's faith, it's courage. Ou..." } ] }, { "term": "Operation Popeye", "usages": [ "U.S. Vietnam War cloud-seeding operation cited by Jiang as evidence that weather manipulation has been used militarily." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0042" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2468.81, "end": 2532.48, "time_label": "41:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "The future of warfare is not about weapons. It's about weather. So it's not about how many weapons you make. It's about how well you can control the weather. Because if you think about it, if you can create a drought in..." } ] }, { "term": "population management", "usages": [ "The defensive requirement in 21st-century war: controlling one's population so external pressure cannot turn it against the state." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0048" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 2902.72, "end": 2989.76, "time_label": "48:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "you have unemployment, and it's possible that you have protests happening in China because of the collapse of the economy. Okay? So, that is what the 21st century is. That's what the 21st century war looks like. Okay? Y..." } ] }, { "term": "productive capacity war", "usages": [ "A 20th-century war form in which victory comes from destroying factories, infrastructure, and civilian productive capacity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0029" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0028", "segment_id": "seg-0028", "start": 1455.65, "end": 1531.52, "time_label": "24:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So this is the highlight or the peak of the nation -state. And so during World War II, they had to fight a war to destroy the entire society. Because the soldiers were not a mercenary army like they were in the past bef..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1531.64, "end": 1594.61, "time_label": "25:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "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 soldiers with more weapons. So we need to destroy the civilian population. That's how..." } ] }, { "term": "reset the game", "usages": [ "Destroying the existing global game, framed by Jiang as World War III, after inequality and debt make the system unstable." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0014" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 823.09, "end": 890.17, "time_label": "13:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "They had their own game. And so what happened was that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this game conquered the world, right? You had globalization. Okay? The problem is this. Once this game keeps on going, event..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 890.17, "end": 945.65, "time_label": "14:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "in the first place, therefore have World War III, bring everything down, and start the game over again. Okay? And that's why we are in the situation we are in today. Okay. So now what? So now what I'm going to do is go..." } ] }, { "term": "shock and awe", "usages": [ "A strategy of rapidly decapitating leadership, destroying military capacity, and destroying war production." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0033" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0033", "segment_id": "seg-0033", "start": 1795.82, "end": 1885.92, "time_label": "29:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay? And that's what's happening in Ukraine. What I will show you is that Iran will be the first 21st century war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate..." } ] }, { "term": "sovereign", "usages": [ "The highest authority; in Rousseau's revolutionary model, the general will of the people rather than a monarch." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 369.34, "end": 439.4, "time_label": "6:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "you should behave the law of universality secondly is the idea of free will no one can compel you to smile you must smile out of your own free choice even though smiling makes you feel happy if i make you smile that goe..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 439.52, "end": 528.557, "time_label": "7:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "This is God, basically. And from the sovereign, we achieve the state, the government. And the state makes us into citizens. And then we have laws, culture, education, okay? So for Jean -Jacques Rousseau, this is the soc..." } ] }, { "term": "triangulation", "usages": [ "A slow 21st-century war method that forces the state to handle multiple simultaneous pressures instead of suffering one knockout strike." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2301.8, "end": 2390.35, "time_label": "38:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "is forced to deal with multiple threats at the same time i'm going to collapse their economy all right okay so this is what a 21st century war looks like it's slow you focus on triangulation as opposed to a knockout pun..." } ] }, { "term": "war welfare", "usages": [ "A nation-state's care for workers and soldiers as a condition of effective war-making." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1264.72, "end": 1292.71, "time_label": "21:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "All right. So the idea here is that, listen, we're a German nation. Okay. And as a nation state, as a people, we must protect our freedom by going to war. Okay. It's only through war that we can survive and thrive as a..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1293.96, "end": 1332.67, "time_label": "21:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The real grievance of the war is the fact that we are a nation. We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence. He's not sure that he will always have work. He's not sure that if you will always be healthy. 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But unfortunately, we've now reached a po..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0035" ], "note": "On 2026-04-28, Jiang forecasts a near-term American shift in Iran from military targeting to civilian infrastructure, ethnic tension, and economic strangulation.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": true, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0034", "segment_id": "seg-0034", "start": 1886.38, "end": 1966.07, "time_label": "31:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So what's going to happen is that over the next few months, America is going to shift its strategy into a 21st century war strategy, which will have three components. The first component is economic strangulation. 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Y..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0054" ], "note": "On 2026-04-28, Jiang predicts a surge in eschatology and religious extremism over the next few years as a counter to 21st-century war.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": true, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3283.99, "end": 3349.69, "time_label": "54:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "were forced back okay but if left alone the iranians would have defeated the iraqis so think about that how it galvanized the population of iraq and then it was the same thing with no ariba into resistance. 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We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence. He's not sure that he will always have work. He's not sure that if you will always be healthy. And..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "note": "The claim that millions are dying in Ukraine is Jiang's statement in the source and should not be treated as externally verified by this packet pass.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 1736.28, "end": 1795.82, "time_label": "28:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "It made a lot of people more wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth that China has generated in the past 30, 40 years because of its participation in consumer capitalism. Okay? But unfortunately, we've now reached a po..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "note": "The transcript phrase 'cervical moves' appears to be a transcription error for Strait of Hormuz.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2301.8, "end": 2390.35, "time_label": "38:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "is forced to deal with multiple threats at the same time i'm going to collapse their economy all right okay so this is what a 21st century war looks like it's slow you focus on triangulation as opposed to a knockout pun..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "note": "Weather warfare is presented through accusation and rumor; Jiang signals uncertainty around the mechanism.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2301.8, "end": 2390.35, "time_label": "38:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "is forced to deal with multiple threats at the same time i'm going to collapse their economy all right okay so this is what a 21st century war looks like it's slow you focus on triangulation as opposed to a knockout pun..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0041" ], "note": "Jiang explicitly flags HAARP/weather-warfare claims as rumor or conspiracy theory before using them as strategic speculation.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2390.64, "end": 2468.59, "time_label": "39:50", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "regions like Dubai, which Iranians claim to be the source of this weather warfare, they experience droughts. Sorry, floods. So again, I don't know how science works, and this is all rumors. But it does make sense where..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0045" ], "note": "The Nepal protest interpretation is Jiang's inference from signs and language choice, not independently verified in this pass.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 2674.35, "end": 2752.76, "time_label": "44:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "And we saw this play out most recently in 20... Sorry, last year, Nepal, when young people overthrew the government. Now, guys, okay. Here's the thing. In Nepal, most people don't speak English. They don't read English...." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0054" ], "note": "The line that America used chemical weapons against Iran is Jiang's claim in the source; this pass does not independently verify it.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3283.99, "end": 3349.69, "time_label": "54:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "were forced back okay but if left alone the iranians would have defeated the iraqis so think about that how it galvanized the population of iraq and then it was the same thing with no ariba into resistance. The other th..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0055" ], "note": "The transcript phrase 'next Scorpio I believe. tuesday' appears garbled class logistics and is not semantically important.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "segment_id": "seg-0055", "start": 3349.69, "end": 3354.11, "time_label": "55:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "back next thursday and we'll continue this okay all right thank you" } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ] }