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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a very long time for the Russians to really conquer the Donbas. But the issue is that the Ukrainian morale has collapsed. The Ukrainians..."
Jiang says Russia fights in a slow, methodical land-war style rather than through American-style shock-and-awe bombardment, so conquering the Donbas will take time.
Jiang says the major flashpoint in the world is now Ukraine because the frontlines have collapsed, Russia has made multiple breakthroughs, and the loss of the Donbas means Ukraine has effectively lost its agricultural-industrial heartland and the war itself.
Jiang argues that if peace came tomorrow and the Donbas went to Russia, the remaining Ukrainian state would survive only as a European-supported rump welfare state.
"...a very long time for the Russians to really conquer the Donbas. But the issue is that the Ukrainian morale has collapsed. The Ukrainians..."
"...city of Provozhsk has fallen, which allows Russia to control the Donbas region. And the Donbas is important because it is the agricultural industrial..."
"I scoured the internet uh for some actual information and I found you guys and like you literally saved my life because you actually..."
"...through Kramatorsk, which is a fairly large urban center in the Donbas. And I think there's another one as well, which... The Ukrainians, I..."
"...has battlefield dominance it basically controls most of eastern Ukraine the Donbas region and the Ukrainian military because of its relentless aggression against the..."
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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