He warns that if Venezuela accidentally shoots down American aircraft or hits U.S. ships during such strikes, symbolic escalation could turn into a full-scale war because Americans would demand retaliation.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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"...airstrike against Venezuela, and Venezuela responds and it shoots down American aircraft, now you've got a full -scale war on your hands, right? Or..."
"know whether the nuclear aircraft carrier is taken out by Iranian attacks or by sailors stuffing their own clothing into the sewerage system to..."
"weapon in this war are no longer my planes and my aircraft carriers my best weapon is the Iranian people themselves that's what a..."
"...the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz, the Americans can have aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and blockade the Iranians. Okay? This is..."
"...they remilitarize Japan. It's possible that Taiwan becomes a fortress, an aircraft fortress. And the Chinese don't care, all right? So I'm reading the..."
"...for taking the giant pallets of money off of the incoming aircraft. and he was basically told not to ask questions but he would..."
"...STS goes in and they get what they have A -10 aircraft. These are close air support aircraft that are naturally part of rescue..."
"...to 50 plus miles of separation between these pilots, between the aircraft, because they're also coming at elevation under a parachute winds at elevation..."
"...going to be a um a runway that was a typical aircraft runway what it turned out is a bunch of moon dust so..."
"...and then what they couldn't do is leave all these american aircraft they're only about two and a half miles outside of the city..."
"...that they were pulling out of the back. Is this this aircraft right here fit for four operators in it? And this is why..."
"...been seeing is that the George H. W. Bush, the third aircraft carrier is now moving towards the theater and it's bringing about 10,000..."
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