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Jiang says the war is existential for Iranians but not for Americans, giving Iran greater motivation and America less political will.
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Existential WAR
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Jiang says Iran, by contrast, sees the war as existential and has set aside internal divisions to commit fully to winning.
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"regime change will be very hard without the ground troops right um so america right now has several disadvantages um the first major disadvantage..."
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"And they're not motivated to actually win this war for you. They're actually motivated to scam you as much as possible. And they could..."
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"Okay? So, the first major problem that Americans are facing is they don't have any political will to fight this war, but they're still..."
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"...regime of, of the Islamic Republic. And therefore, this is an existential war. Therefore, just go for the juggler from the start. And I..."
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"...because for from nato's perspective as you say this is an existential war um it's all or nothing so um i mean you need..."
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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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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