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The speaker argues that Iran defeated Saudi Arabia in the Iraq proxy war by exploiting Iraq's Shia majority after the U.S. invasion, and also won the Syria proxy war by supporting Assad alongside Russia.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang agrees that the fall of Assad in Syria was a strategic defeat and embarrassment for Russia that gave Israel and the United States a much easier operational path into Iran.
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"That's a great point. Syria was definitely a strategic defeat for Russia. You're absolutely right. It was embarrassing for Russia. Russia was definitely caught..."
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"...Saudi Arabia. Then they fought another war in Syria. Syria's leader, Assad, faced a rebellion. And Saudi Arabia, America, Israel support the rebels against..."
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"And Iran came in to support Assad as well as Russia. And over time, Assad was able to crush the rebellion, okay? So, in..."
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"...Gaddafi is a madman. He's killing his own people. Bashar al -Assad is a madman. He's killing his own people. We can run the..."
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"...overthrowing of a leader, as we saw in Syria recently with Assad, for example, where it's driven by people from within Syria? Is that..."
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"...depending on the time of day, I'm either a spy from Assad or a spy for the CIA or for the Communist Party, or..."
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"...history behind this war. And the fact that, you know, the Assad battalion are a bunch of neo -Nazis. They never, ever mentioned that...."
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"That's why they had invested so much in protecting the Assad regime. So in the first few days, it seemed as though Israel was..."
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"...him, his Twitter account, saying that these protests were subverted by Assad -slash -CIA agents. So this is true. Do you think that Americans..."
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"...because you know who support the rights of the house of assad and wahhabism the right guys so you can argue like you know..."
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"...I think where your argument gets more interesting is the house Assad you know because yes why are they friends with the Jews like..."
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"...instability. So if Ukraine signs a ceasefire, then it's possible the Assad battalion, launches a political coup in Kiev and overflows the regime. You..."
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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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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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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