He says U.S. decapitation and military-target attacks have not worked, and attacks on civilian water and oil infrastructure mark the current stage of escalation.
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Airstrikes
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"Does that make sense to you guys? All right? Any questions? Okay. So that's a theory. All right? So now what we're going to..."
"That's the second step. And the idea is that you beat the crap out of the military so they surrender. But that didn't work..."
"...people behind the government. Because the idea is that you use airstrikes to split apart the government and the people. And you want the..."
"...war is over. There's actually no way you can defend against airstrikes, because you're entirely a desert. Now let's go to listen to the..."
"...You have some ground forces deployment and you have some continual airstrikes, but the tempo of the war will be not as high as..."
"...But eventually, state media admitted that he did die in the airstrike. But then what they also said is that the Ayatollah, he's 86..."
"...news is that there's chatter now that the Israelis will resume airstrikes against Iran very, very shortly. And this comes after Netanyahu's visit to..."
"...most definitely signals that Israel and the United States will resume airstrikes against Iran and we will see an increase in the escalation ladder..."
"...three times the size of Iraq. So I'm not convinced that airstrikes will do any real lasting damage to the infrastructure of Iran. Propaganda,..."
"...vibrant, harmonious, brilliant nation was destroyed by American sanctions and American airstrikes. So I don't think that the Americans have a compelling case to..."
"...okay? Israel, on April 1st of this year, also staged an airstrike against the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing two Iranian generals. But again,..."
"...General Soleimani and the two generals who died in the Israeli airstrike, they all belong to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? So these..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang鈥檚 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.
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