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Jiang says the American theory that Iranians will rise up against Tehran will fail because Iranians remember U.S. support for the Shah, the destruction of Iraq, their civilizational independence, and religious duty against America.
The reconstructed embassy documents convinced the students, in Jiang's telling, that the U.S. Embassy had directed Iranian policy, repression, and the 1953 coup against the democratically elected government.
Jiang claims that some former embassy student radicals became top Iranian defense, IRGC, and military leaders, carrying anti-American hostility into state power.
Jiang says the war may create a generation of Iranian children who want to fight America because U.S. strikes killed civilians and schoolgirls.
Jiang says Maduro cannot accept an American deal lightly because opening Venezuela to American private interests would threaten anti-American constituencies and patronage networks inside his coalition.
"Well, I mean, I've never been to Iran. It depends where you are in Iran, right? So the cities are very different from the..."
"Okay. That's number one. Number two is. Um, he has constituencies in Venezuela, um, that are anti -American. And if you were to bring..."
"You can't resupply them. And they've been encircled by Iranian forces. All right? Does that make sense? Okay? Okay. Now, the logic of having..."
"What happened in Iraq? America destroyed Iraq. Right? From 2003 until 2011, America was there destroying the country. America said that it would bring..."
"They believe that America is Satan. And they have a duty, a religious obligation to fight Satan. Okay? So for many reasons, there's just..."
"And the machine will cut the paper into about 100 different strips of paper. Okay? And this is the fastest, most effective way to..."
"Okay? And you can imagine that these students, because they pieced together these documents, right? They're fanatics. And guess what, guys? These students have..."
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central move: the crash was probably an accident, but if it was not, Jiang asks who had opportunity, motive, and the most to gain.
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