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Rick's description of Qeshm/Qasem Island as a possible staging point near the Strait of Hormuz.
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forward operating base
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you're trying to do is you're trying to set up forward operating bases in strategic areas of Iran in order to strangle the economy,..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...you're trying to do is you're trying to set up forward operating bases in strategic areas of Iran in order to strangle the economy,..."
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"...then they'll turn that into like an FOB, right, a forward operating base. You can see it right there on the map. It's that..."
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"...you're trying to do is you're trying to set up forward operating bases in strategic areas of Iran in order to strangle the economy,..."
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"...if you are the military, your strategy is to establish forward operating bases in these areas. A forward operating base is a spearhead of..."
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"Okay. So a forward operating base would be the U.S. putting troops......into the northwest and the southeast, and then using that as a way..."
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"...you want to do is this. You want to establish forward operating bases in these areas in order to arm and train ethnic insurgents......"
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"Second thing you do is that you set up forward operating bases in safe places in Iran, meaning ethnic enclaves, right? So it's possible..."
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"...일단. And the way you do that is you establish forward operating bases in ethnic regions, like Afghanistan and the Kurdish region. And then..."
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"...ground invasion of America. Okay? So, they would need a forward operating base. And this area could be a very good place for a..."
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"...could knock out the um air defenses america could establish forward operating bases very very quickly because the american military is equipped for our..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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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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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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