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His predicted upshot is that Israel removes America from the Middle East and becomes the Empire of Israel, Iran unites the Muslim world behind its leadership, and Trump probably gets a third term.
Jiang says America's retreat from the world will produce a difficult transition into a multipolar world.
Jiang says American retreat from the Middle East would trigger remilitarization in Japan and South Korea, European pressure for peace with Russia, and collapse pressure on the U.S. dollar's reserve role.
In Jiang's model, a U.S. retreat back into the Western Hemisphere would allow Israel to become the dominant regional power and pursue the Greater Israel project.
Jiang argues that a failed American invasion of Iran will force the United States to retreat from the Middle East and leave CENTRAL COMMAND effectively absorbed into Israeli regional power.
Jiang says China also needs to prepare for a future Japanese naval challenge in Southeast Asia after an American retreat, because Japan would be more dangerous there than a trade-oriented United States.
Within that proxy model, Jiang argues that American bases, technology, and infrastructure will be transferred or leveraged so that Washington can keep exerting hegemony indirectly even while appearing to retreat.
"Also, there'd be a chain reaction in that Japan and South Korea would look at what's happened in the Middle East and decide that..."
"reserve currency remember that america is sitting on 39 trillion dollars in debt and so the american economy is a punchy scheme that relies..."
"Well, it's really a question of what your interests are, right? So we're assuming that they all want to defend the American empire. But..."
"they believe that God promised their ancestor Abraham, they will have control from all the Middle East, from the Nile to the Euphrates. That..."
"Yeah, so right now the United States and Iran are at war with each other, and what I expect to happen is that the..."
"OK, which which means that Japan will most likely retreat from the Strait of Malacca. Japan will most likely become the dominant naval power..."
"is that america has no pair competitors but russia has a pick and bet it's called germany right so what's happening is that germany..."
"So it's really interesting in that. Okay. Okay. So the first three players, Donald Trump, Israel, and Iran, want America to use ground troops..."
"Okay? So, again, unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans who benefit from empire. Okay? That's why they want war with Iran. So, these..."
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
George Galloway brings Jiang on for an immediate wartime reading, and Jiang answers by turning battlefield questions into a larger trap structure.
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
On June 22, 2025, the morning after Trump orders strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, Jiang turns the Iran war into a three-player game.
A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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