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He defines the historical evolution of warfare as moving from killing soldiers, to destroying civilian production, to using civilian dissent against the state.
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Civilian Population
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "there is a ceasefire now between iran and united states but most analysts expect that this war will resume in a week two weeks..."
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Jiang claims World War II was won by the Allies because they could destroy German and Japanese productive capacity while America and the Soviet Union preserved theirs.
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"there is a ceasefire now between iran and united states but most analysts expect that this war will resume in a week two weeks..."
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"of the 19th century how traditionally wars wars were fought for hundreds of hundreds of years within sort of centuries something happened which is..."
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"then others will use nuclear will use new glories on you okay so now Now, in the 21st century, our goal is to use..."
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"So this is the highlight or the peak of the nation -state. And so during World War II, they had to fight a war..."
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"...more soldiers with more weapons. So we need to destroy the civilian population. That's how you win the war, okay? And that's how they..."
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"...you're trying to inflict as much pain as possible on the civilian population in order to force a political settlement. Okay? Some other news..."
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"...to cross that line? It would lead to destruction of the civilian population, okay? And then Israel doesn't really need to destroy Iran. Israel..."
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"...this is going to create a lot of pressure on the civilian population they'll be very angry they might protest against the government okay..."
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"...so create as much havoc as possible over time so the civilian population gets very angry so my best"
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"...defenses and military infrastructure. And then exert tremendous pressure on the civilian population by embargoing the economy and then by embedding themselves and promoting..."
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"...that many people, not just the Kurds, but everyone in the civilian population has memories of what happened in January when many thousands of..."
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"...to destroy everything, in which case it doesn't matter if the civilian population supports the government because everything is destroyed. So right now, Iran..."
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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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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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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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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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