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Jiang uses this for a state formally sovereign but strategically subordinated so its resources and trade orientation serve American power.
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economic vassal
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He says Trump will publicly frame action against Venezuela as a non-war cartel operation designed to save American lives, while the real strategic objective is to turn Venezuela into an economic vassal and seize leverage over oil and the hemisphere.
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"It's a common pattern in history. Where all wars started out. As limited wars. Where one party is trying to achieve. Certain strategic objectives...."
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"And Trump is trying to. Create. Make Venezuela into an economic vassal. So I think. This war will be. Only to Venezuela. And America...."
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"...still in NAFTA, which means it is still very much an economic vassal of the United States, as you said, a resource."
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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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