Jiang mocks elite European military gestures, such as sending an aircraft carrier, as useless theater in the face of ballistic-missile vulnerability.
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Ballistic Missiles
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"...an aircraft carrier so that the Iranians can sink it with ballistic missiles?"
"I mean, what's the point of that? So, and, and still at this time, the Europeans are still talking about drafting young men to..."
"...Americans suspected that the ship had important fuel and components for ballistic missiles. Okay? The Americans tried to board the ship. The ship would..."
"...off certain moves and threatened to attack ships with drones and ballistic missiles, that is wrong. That is piracy. Unless the Americans do this,..."
"to nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles that's I think that's where we have to go I don't know what the right approach is going..."
"...of us especially if we try to take karg island right ballistic missiles start raining down drones start raining down 100 we're going to..."
"...might come to a ceasefire and then province 29 is like ballistic missiles to tel aviv tonight baby"
"...americans sitting on island that can't get resupplied and i can ballistic missile strike the out of them if i want and i tell..."
"...near the shores of Iran and they can strike you with ballistic missiles and drones. So this is why this has become such a..."
"...Hormuz, then you're within range of Iranian drones as well as ballistic missiles."
"...the Strait of Hormuz because then you're within range of Iranian ballistic missiles and drone strikes. But what they can do is they can..."
"...to the Strait of Hormuz, then you're in range of Iranian ballistic missiles. And so the Americans won't risk that because we've seen that..."
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