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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It is the biggest choke point in the world. It would collapse the East Asian economies if America were to choke it off. China..."
A correct war cost pyramid puts infantry at the bottom because soldiers are cheapest, then armor/artillery, naval power, and air power as more expensive layers.
The Pyrrhus story is used to show that Rome could defeat superior Greek arms by absorbing losses until victory became too costly for the opponent.
Rome's first naval struggle with Carthage is presented as another attritional pattern: Rome loses ships, builds more, loses again, then builds until Carthage is overwhelmed.
Jiang argues Xerxes chose Salamis from a desire for remembered greatness over the safer strategy of starving out the Greeks.
Jiang says Persia could still have won through attrition after Salamis, but Mardonius repeated the mistake by fighting an unnecessary equal-force battle at Plataea.
Jiang says the opposite of Western expectations happened: Russia has basically won through attrition, achieved its main objectives in eastern Ukraine, and avoided economic destruction because the world still needs resources.
The American home front is preparing for a long war of attrition through a larger Pentagon budget, munitions manufacturing, automatic draft registration, and expanded naval pressure.
He argues that attacking Iran's economic lifeline would incentivize Iran to strike GCC oil infrastructure and push oil toward $200, creating a long attrition war.
"It is the biggest choke point in the world. It would collapse the East Asian economies if America were to choke it off. China..."
"...home front is going up for a long, long war of attrition. Again, the Pentagon has asked for $1.5 trillion. And that's not enough...."
"...saying is that we're going to fight a very long war attrition that could last years um so so i i don't see what..."
"...an airplane. This is important because wars are usually wars of attrition. Meaning that you have to put all your resources in to win..."
"It hasn't been done well. But this is a war of attrition, though, to a large extent. That is both sides seeking, well, not..."
"...soon as possible. So the Iranians are fighting a war of attrition. Unfortunately, the Americans are fighting a war of destruction. So even though..."
"able to manufacture about 500 drones a day and quite honestly you you only need to like have 10 drones hit their targets in..."
"streets and forcing a fight on the front lines of uh of donbass without any real training without any hope and so you have..."
"...delay this war as much as possible and create this water attrition in ukraine look the reality is that in ukraine russians have battlefield..."
"is blown up that's not the ukrainians either man okay so just to be clear it's it's always been nato right um and so..."
"europeans are able to consolidate uh western ukraine um and um and and then threaten you so you you rather fight the the um..."
"...you want to drag this thing out it's a war of attrition the final battle will be odessa you know and i think this..."
The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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?
A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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...
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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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