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Jiang's shorthand for a costly American ground intervention in Venezuela that would run into guerrilla resistance and domestic political blowback.
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another Vietnam
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "it'll be another vietnam for the united states because iran is a mountain fortress and the united states right now doesn't have the manpower..."
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"hidden civil war in the united states between different factions of the deep state right so if you're the u.s military and you're blowing..."
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"it'll be another vietnam for the united states because iran is a mountain fortress and the united states right now doesn't have the manpower..."
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"...that I think this war is heading in the direction of another Vietnam. You know, at that time it was a military war. You..."
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"...United States to send in ground troops to Iran. It becomes another Vietnam. It is extremely unpopular in America. There's a national draft. There's..."
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"...ground forces, there's no turning back. It's all in. There'll be another Vietnam. We're going to kill all the bad guys and we're going..."
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"...It's all in. The sunk cost fallacy kicks in. It'll be another Vietnam for the United States because the United States is a mountain..."
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"...to 10 years. And there's no escaping it. It'll be like another Vietnam, right? This gives Putin and Russia the perfect opportunity to"
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"...the freedom. You know, all this guerrilla warfare. It'd be like another Vietnam. So what? So what? So, yeah, you can destroy Venezuela. And..."
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"...going to blow up in his face right it'll be like another Vietnam Venezuela is a very modernist country Venezuela has preparations for a..."
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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