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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Iranians would be complete suicide, right? Because then you're exposed to air power. And that's what the Americans and Israel specialize in. So Iran..."
Jiang predicts Iran will not launch a conventional ground offensive because that would expose it to overwhelming American and Israeli air power, so Tehran will keep using a hide-and-seek guerrilla strategy instead.
Iran has escalation control, in Jiang’s account, because its targeting options are more diverse and selective than U.S. and Israeli air-power escalation.
Jiang says shock and awe's apparent effectiveness depended on technologies like air supremacy, cluster bombs with GPS-guided submunitions, and special forces directing air power.
Using Kurds as cannon fodder would mean baiting Iranian troops into concentrated positions for airstrikes that would kill the Kurds too, a logic Jiang says the Kurds understand perfectly well.
Jiang says there is no historical precedent for achieving regime change from the air alone, so any serious American commitment to regime change in Iran points toward ground troops.
"...Iranians would be complete suicide, right? Because then you're exposed to air power. And that's what the Americans and Israel specialize in. So Iran..."
"...and Israel, they're just attacking Iran. Okay? And they attack with air power, so that's very blunt. All right? Okay? So you go from..."
"So I don't want to spend too much time on this, but as you can see, if you think about it, Iran can be..."
"I think that's a fantasy. That's point number one. Point number two is the entire intention of using Kurds is as a cannon fodder...."
"And it's really. Right. They can probably get a lot of weapons, a lot of money, a lot of gold and a lot of..."
"Right. So everyone says that the worst calamity that could happen in the United States is if it were to send ground troops into..."
"Thunder runs. Okay? So these three things show the incredible superiority of this doctrine of shock and awe. Okay? So how is America able..."
"And it was true. So what was happening was that special forces could drive around and look for military installations by themselves. Okay? We're..."
"...quell these rebellions, that's great because now you can use your air power to decimate the Iranian military. Your problem right now is the..."
"...your your it's gonna be very hard to maintain your your air power uh we're already seeing some planes crashing because they're not well..."
"Let's talk about this air power because you've been critical of I think you've referred to it as the inverted pyramid where the United..."
"...Act. So we can get all into the finite details about air power and this drone struck this particular oil plant and this. But..."
This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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