Glossary
A weaker actor’s strategy of using conflict among stronger actors to create new possibilities.
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chaos strategy
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He argues that the American objective in Iran is not necessarily battlefield victory but enough regime change pressure and chaos to stop the Eurasian alliance from cohering.
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"Okay? Does that work? So, if you're Saudi Arabia and you see the future, it's a pretty dismal future because eventually, your oil is..."
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"Now, Israel cannot be destroyed because Israel has nuclear weapons, but the goal is to negotiate a peace with Israel after the war is..."
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"For this alliance to take shape. To benefit itself. Because then America would lose. Trade access in the Eurasian continent. China, Russia and Iran...."
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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.
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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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