Jiang concludes that NATO lacks a strategic plan and is escalating because it is trapped, not because it sees a plausible path to recover losses.
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Escalation Trap
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"nato because their governments are not very popular back in europe um you have massive migration that is weakening the social contract that is..."
"...me now is Robert Pape, international affairs scholar, and author of Escalation Trap on Substate. Welcome back to Uncensored, Robert. Last time you were..."
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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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