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Jiang argues that Ukraine's actual aggressive doctrine trained the Russian military to adapt, master drone warfare, and gain battlefield dominance while draining Ukrainian manpower and morale.
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Drone warfare
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And so they are striking the GCC countries. And not only are they striking GCC countries, American bases, they're going after the critical energy..."
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Jiang says a successful drone strike on a desalination plant could leave a city like Riyadh without water in roughly two weeks.
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He uses Russia's wartime drone refinement in Ukraine as an analogy for why battlefield or survival conditions can produce stronger capabilities than superior paper strength alone.
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He argues that the Russian and Ukrainian forces are now among the most experienced armies in the world because four years of war have taught them drone, artillery, and other battlefield methods that Europe lacks.
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Jiang says Russian morale and drone warfare capacity show that Ukraine has already lost on the battlefield.
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"And so they are striking the GCC countries. And not only are they striking GCC countries, American bases, they're going after the critical energy..."
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"...has to fight this war, it has to refine drone technology, drone warfare. So it is the most dominant military nation in the world...."
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"...had four years of this warfare. They've learned a lot in drone warfare, in trans warfare and artillery warfare. These are very brave soldiers...."
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"...lines the morale among Russian soldiers is extremely high they've mastered drone Warfare um to an extent that no other nation can can emulate..."
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"...be resilient so quickly it quickly learned how to you use drone warfare to its advantage so the way of saying this"
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"...modern military capable of fighting a modern military campaign specifically using drone warfare and the result of this is that Russia now has battlefield..."
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"...the Ukrainians do or the Russians do since they've been in drone warfare for some time. So it changes the game, and it makes..."
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"...artillery Warfare um Russia has um innovated and mastered 21st century drone Warfare so if you're Putin you're sitting pretty you want to just..."
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"...the russians are highly motivated they're highly innovative um they've mastered drone warfare um they um feel as though this is a religious crusade..."
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"...point. Remember, where Iran excels are in missile warfare and in drone warfare. And so you could easily close off the Strait. I mean,..."
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"...So, so where, um, uh, Iran is really capable is in drone warfare and in ballistic missile warfare. Okay. That's number one. Number one...."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The hosts begin by replaying Jiang's earlier prediction that Trump would win, the United States would fight Iran, and America would lose.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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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.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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The interview starts with Iran and ends with American civil unrest, but Jiang treats the whole arc as one machine: a declining empire overextends abroad, factional war at home drives the timing, and chokepoints...
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