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Jiang says seizing Kharg Island might sound attractive because it would cripple Iranian oil exports, but the position would sit within Iranian artillery range and therefore be militarily suicidal.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the problem if you do that is that you're now within artillery range of the um of the iranians so that they don't even..."
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"...the problem if you do that is that you're now within artillery range of the um of the iranians so that they don't even..."
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"the short -term adrenaline boost of like yeah we knocked out their economic capacity in the long term it would be suicidal for the..."
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"...to galvanize. Believers into supporting Russia. The third attack vector is artillery. So Russia has the best land army in the world. And we're..."
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"...their army in Ukraine. And this is where their infantry, their artillery is based. At the same time, Russia has something called the shuttle..."
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"...is located in Seoul and Seoul is about about 20 minutes artillery from North Korea. So in 20 minutes North Korea could bring artillery..."
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"...encompasses all of Eurasia. And then, of course, you have the artillery. So, Russia is basically the world's best land army. And we're seeing..."
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"...people who make the machines of war, the machine guns, the artillery, the munitions, and therefore, you have to make sure they are healthy...."
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"...to use this as time to build up more troops and artillery?"
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"...risk of overstretching themselves? I mean, they've used a lot of artillery the last couple of months here with the war in Iran, have..."
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"...Bosnia. And the Serbian troops from Bosnia were running low on artillery ammunition. So they called up the Croatian side and they said, we..."
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"...with the united states is hey we can we can use artillery to sink your ships if you try to put them through much..."
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