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He uses the Iran-Iraq War as evidence that martyrdom ideology galvanized Iran, frightened Iraqis, and could have defeated Iraq if America had not used chemical weapons against Iran.
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Chemical Weapons
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I don't want to die for God. I just want to live a normal life. Okay? But unfortunately, what history tells us is that..."
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"I don't want to die for God. I just want to live a normal life. Okay? But unfortunately, what history tells us is that..."
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"...the war and it was only because americans started to use chemical weapons against them that the iranians had to"
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"were forced back okay but if left alone the iranians would have defeated the iraqis so think about that how it galvanized the population..."
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"...doesn't work, then what you do next is use biological and chemical weapons. Okay? Biochemical weapons. Doesn't work either? Then, guys, nuclear weapons. All..."
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"...iraq there were so many birth defects as well from the chemical weapons being used so history just repeats itself"
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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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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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