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Special-forces activity that Jiang says can operate outside normal military supervision, making public budgets incomplete.
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Black ops
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Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang says America expanded special forces after 2003 even though such forces are partly outside ordinary military supervision and therefore create control problems.
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"...a total army of 1.3 million. The budget for special forces, black ops, okay? It was about $2 billion in 2000, and today it's..."
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"Now, traditionally, militaries have been very strict hierarchies, and there are good reasons for this, okay? You have to enforce order and discipline, right?..."
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"They're independent sometimes of your military. They have a lot of space to maneuver and to be independent. Now, why are special forces a..."
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"...blockchain. Second is like the CIA, it does a lot of black ops."
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"...knows how much money the Pentagon has, because you also have black ops, you also have slush funds, okay, but but but it's a..."
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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