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So, what I believe is that Iran and Israel are committed to a war. And it's possible that in two years' time, there will be a ground invasion of Iran, okay? But it's going to take time to build up to the ground invasion. But just because the Americans and the Israelis attack Iran does not mean they will win, okay? And the reason why is that, as you know from your research, in 2002, the Americans actually tried to invade Iran, okay? They ran a simulation called the 2002 Millennium Challenge. And the idea is, let's pretend that we will invade Iran and let's see what happens. So, they divide the military into two teams, right? Team USA and Team Iran. 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Does that make sense? All right? And so the classic example of this is Vietnam. Where the Viennese were clearly dominated by the Americans. But the Viennese were using extremely creative and flexible tactics against Americans. Whereas the Americans insisted on their power. Their main military doctrine. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? Great. Okay. Any more questions? That was a great question. Thank you. Any more questions before we move on? Okay. So now I want to talk about, okay. If the Iranians are going to use asymmetrical warfare, what would it look like? And the answer is this. When Americans invade, okay, the war started. Before the invasion, the Iranians must do four things. If it is to prevail in the war. Okay? And this is what we call the Iran strategy matrix. Okay? 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Okay? So, there's a lot of division in that country. But I think that most Iranians would resist an invasion. And the reason why is that the Iranians have a very bad history with Westerners. Okay? So, the example is the 1953 coup d 'etat. Okay? So, what happened is that in 1909, the British discovered oil. In Iran. It was called Persia back then. So, they created a company called the Anglo -Iranian Petroleum Company, which we now know as British Petroleum. Okay? BP. And the idea is that this company would be responsible for extracting and selling all the oil. But, unfortunately, the deal was that Iran, Persia, would only get 16 % of the oil. Of profits. Okay? They only got 16 % of profits. So, the Iranians are very upset about this. It's their oil. 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Well, because after Iran attacked Israel, Israel wanted to show a strong response. Okay? The reason why is that Israel has a policy of disproportionality. So Israel is committed to disproportionality. So what does that mean? It means that if you kill one Israeli, they'll come and kill about a hundred of you, a thousand of you, okay? If you throw one rocket at them, they'll throw a thousand rockets at you. And the idea here is deterrence, right? To make you afraid of Israel so you would not dare to think to attack Israel, okay? So when Iran attacked Israel, for the first time, by the way, this is the first time that Iran has attacked Israel. When Israel was committed to a disproportionate response, who stopped Israel from a disproportionate response? Who? Yes. Why? 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And also, if the United States were to fight a war, it would have to do something. It would have to do so by itself, okay? NATO would not involve itself. The Middle Eastern countries, like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, would not involve themselves either, okay? So the United States had to restrain Israel. And so this is creating conflict between Israel and the United States, okay? So that's why... So in other words, from a military dominance perspective, Operation True Promise accomplished nothing, okay? Because you blew nothing up. But from an asymmetrical warfare perspective, you accomplish all your four major goals. And that's why the Iranians claim success. And you can make the argument that from a strategy perspective, it was a very successful operation. 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Never before this war happens, Russia and China could, if they choose, sign a treaty with Iran saying that if anyone attacks you, we'll come to your aid. Right? They will not sign this treaty because they need to maintain strategic ambiguity. Okay? China and Russia do not want to be dragged into this war. Does that make sense? Okay? So my guess is that China will provide assistance to Iran, but on a very limited basis and on a basis that the United States can accept. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is, listen, I'm just making a prediction that this war will happen. I don't know if it's going to happen. Okay? You understand? I'm just your high school teacher. 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And third of all, when you're actually in the United States, you'll find that there's so much anger at Israel that no one really cares about Chinese students. Do you understand? I mean, like, at that point, most Americans would... It would be like the Vietnam War, where you have this massive protest and civil unrest because there were a lot of Americans who were against the war. And quite honestly, it was a pointless war. America accomplished nothing by fighting the war. So great question, Peter. Does that make sense to you? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Great question. Okay. So we talked about the idea of hubris, right? Emperors have hubris. And so Israel is a small nation, about eight, nine million people, right? It's not the American empire. The problem is this. 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Israel does not actually need American protection. If the entire Middle East got together... If the entire Middle East got together and attacked Israel, Israel would win because this happened twice before, right? In the Yom Kippur War and the Six -Day War. So militarily speaking, Israel is powerful. And quite honestly, if the United States were to retreat from the Middle East, Israel would dominate. Okay? So even though it does not look like an empire, it's basically an empire. You understand? So therefore, it suffers from hubris. Okay? It's not going to be strategic and flexible and creative. It doesn't have to be because it has military dominance over everyone. But that's a very good question. Okay? Just because Israel is small does not mean it is weak. It's very, very powerful. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. The question is very interesting. 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But you can also make the argument that Israel right now is using America to pursue a lot of its geopolitical interests. Okay? So it's a very complicated question. Okay? But I think that... I personally think that America is right now constraining Israel. Okay? Because Israel needs American support. And that constrains the actions of Israel. But if America were not around, then it's possible that Israel unleashes the full might of its military. And its military is very, very powerful. Okay? All right? But... But if America were to lead the region, then I think Israel would become the dominant power in the region. But I think the same is true for throughout the world. If America left Europe, who would become the dominant power? Germany. Right? 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If the entire world were to get together and say, let's go fight the United States, the world would lose. 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You cannot cheat. And then the Americans won.", "why_it_matters": "This is Jiang's sharpest expression of imperial hubris: the dominant power tries to change the rules instead of learning from defeat.", "tone": "provocation", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 674.1, "end": 749.21, "time_label": "11:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Why is it? Why is it? Why is it asymmetrical warfare is so effective against empires and dominant military powers? What's the problem of empires usually? What is the biggest problem? What is the fatal flaw? Okay, they h..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 749.84, "end": 826.44, "time_label": "12:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Now, the Americans won. In the second instance, the Americans said, no, asymmetrical warfare is cheating. 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