Jiang argues that Israeli threats against Iranian civilian infrastructure and Iranian retaliation threats against Gulf energy and desalination infrastructure are creating an existential crisis for the GCC.
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"...power plants are attacked, then they will respond by targeting the energy infrastructure of the GCC. And possibly, they will also attack the energy..."
"...Iran annihilates Israel? For example, by destroying this alienation plants or energy infrastructures, et cetera, Israel has nuclear weapons, so it can't use it,..."
"...to weaken Iran? Wouldn't you be better off destroying reservoirs, railways, energy infrastructure, okay? I don't understand what the purpose of an attack on..."
"...supremacy, your aerial supremacy, your drones, to destroy the world's critical energy infrastructure. Already we're seeing oil refineries being destroyed throughout the world. Oil..."
"...say America now controls Venezuela and they want to develop Venezuela's energy infrastructure. But ExxonMobil refused to make the billions of dollars of investment..."
"...economy. He didn't expect that the Iranians would attack the GCC energy infrastructure. And so this has been very humiliating for Trump. And from..."
"...off the Red Sea. And then they can strike at Gulf energy infrastructure. They can destroy the pipelines. This will knock out one -third..."
"...in Myanmar. We're also seeing the Ukrainians start to strike Russian energy infrastructure. So what what's happening right now is basically a war over..."
"...nation state. In response, the Iranians can destroy a lot more energy infrastructure, okay? So what it's done now, it's basically closed off the..."
"...you shift the focus the iranian focus from attacking gcc any energy infrastructure to containing karg island i think you're absolutely right in that..."
"...and ballistics that you would have committed to against the gcc energy infrastructure right so the the gcc is like happy that that's a..."
"...Stone Age. And Iran obviously would retaliate by destroying GCC, the energy infrastructure and the desalination plants. So last Tuesday we were really on..."
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