In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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Key Notes
He argues that the Iran war is already moving the world economy by raising prices for energy, fertilizer inputs, jet fuel, diesel, gasoline, and food.
Jiang rejects the NATO-response explanation of Ukraine and says the invasion implements the Third Rome strategy by giving Russia food, energy, and Black Sea export control.
Global food abundance rests on fertilizer trade: land-poor and populous southern regions depend on northern exports of petroleum-derived ammonia fertilizer.
Food may be finite, but Jiang says it is abundant enough to feed people; starvation is therefore an artificial crisis rather than a simple result of natural scarcity.
Food is finite but abundant enough to feed people; hunger and starvation are artificial crises, not simple consequences of natural scarcity.
Jiang clarifies that rat utopia is an artificial experiment: in real life rats do not receive free food; in the experiment they are left alone and fed every day.
The first major steppe innovation Jiang lists is a pastoral economy: cattle, sheep, and goats convert grass humans cannot eat into human food.
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"...I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity, and food, the basic necessities of life. Okay? Why do I want to do..."
"...of 10 million people and they do not grow their own food they require food to come from the countryside from elsewhere so if..."
"population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so..."
"...urea is important fertilizer uh diesel gasoline fertilizer so basically um food and energy their price"
"have gone way up okay donald trump makes a statement saying that the iranian flag cargo ship tuska has been boarded by the americans..."
"...Sea, you are now able to export your energy and your food to Africa, to the Middle East, to Europe, to Asia. Okay? So..."
"...massive shrink. Okay? You're like, okay, how? And, the answer is food scarcity. Food is not, is today, pretty common. But, food is based..."
"And, that's it, guys. You understand? If this were to stop for the reason, people in the south would be in a lot of..."
"...infinitely, but resources can be printed infinitely, but resources such as food and land, they are technically unlimited. Does scarcity still exist in other..."
"That's a great question. Okay. So the question is, isn't food scarce? Because food is a finite resource, right? Do yourself a favor, okay?..."
"That's a great question, okay? So the question is, isn't food scarce? Because food is a finite resource, right? Do yourself a favor, okay?..."
"...in real life. Okay? There's no way the rats get free food in real life. So they have this experiment where the experimenters this..."
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