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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...So everyone's like, this is just a sire. This is just disinformation, okay? No one took this seriously. I didn't take this seriously at..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...So everyone's like, this is just a sire. This is just disinformation, okay? No one took this seriously. I didn't take this seriously at..."
The speaker says people initially dismissed the reported plan to send special forces into Iran to steal uranium as implausible or disinformation, and that he also did not take it seriously at the time.
"...So everyone's like, this is just a sire. This is just disinformation, okay? No one took this seriously. I didn't take this seriously at..."
"Look, Professor Yang, we get a lot of misinformation, disinformation in the UK and in other European countries, frankly, about the South China Sea...."
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.
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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