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In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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Civilian Infrastructure
In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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The speaker claims Trump threatened that if Iran refused to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday, the United States would attack Iranian power plants, bridges, and universities.
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diagnosis
He says U.S. decapitation and military-target attacks have not worked, and attacks on civilian water and oil infrastructure mark the current stage of escalation.
normative
Jiang calls attacks on civilian infrastructure war crimes or violations of international law, while explaining them as the move actors make when they need more pressure to win.
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Future attacks on Iran are expected to target civilian infrastructure such as water supplies, dams, reservoirs, power plants, and hospitals to make Iran uninhabitable or provoke rebellion/refugee crisis.
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"...different peoples in Iran, okay? And the third thing is destroy civilian infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity,..."
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"as the economy right so the most most basic thing is water okay look guys these are all dams and reservoirs around iran okay..."
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"population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so..."
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"...and bridges and universities. Basically, the Americans will start attacking critical civilian infrastructure, which will force Iranians to strike hard against the GCC, the..."
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"Does that make sense to you guys? All right? Any questions? Okay. So that's a theory. All right? So now what we're going to..."
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"...either. So then what you do, of course, is you attack civilian infrastructure. Okay? Which is primarily water and oil. So you may have..."
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"...think we are here, which is the beginning of attacks on civilian infrastructure. But already, we're seeing arguments in the American political system against..."
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"...what we're gonna see right now, we're already seeing attacks on civilian infrastructure, hospitals. In the future, you'll see attacks on water supply, on..."
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"...fighting will get much worse. Okay? Iranians will start to target civilian infrastructure, including bridges, universities, reservoirs, power plants, desalination plants. Basically, it will..."
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"...is considered a war crime, because you're not supposed to target civilian infrastructure. Now, you can see that. You can make the argument that..."
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"...Okay? With missiles. Basically targeting oil fields. If you attack their civilian infrastructure, they will attack your civilian infrastructure as well. And what is..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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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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