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Gulf economies Jiang says cannot defend themselves and are structurally dependent on Hormuz and U.S. protection.

The Gulf coastal countries such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait, treated as American-protected nodes of oil, finance, tourism, aviation, and logistics.

Gulf Cooperation Council states whose oil, finance, tourism, expatriate labor, and security model are treated as vulnerable to the Iran war.

Gulf Cooperation Council states that Jiang says Iran would pressure to draw America into ground war.

China and the GCC are described as mirages or vassal constructs produced by the empire's replicating system rather than independent civilizations or nation-states.

Iran does not need only the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt the global economy; it can also attack vulnerable GCC energy infrastructure and pipelines.

Saudi Arabia and the GCC prioritize defeating Iran first because they imagine later uniting the Muslim world against Israel, while Jiang calls them corrupt American vassals.

The speaker predicts that U.S. attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure would force Iran to retaliate against GCC oil fields, desalination plants, and universities, causing a loss of 20 percent of global energy supply.

The GCC and Chinese economy are treated as two pillars of the global economy: China imports GCC oil to industrialize, while the GCC recycles oil money into American markets and global infrastructure.

Jiang says Iran's strategy in this phase is to destroy the global economy by attacking GCC energy infrastructure because the modern economy rests on cheap energy.

The AI bubble is described as companies lending money in circles and relying on GCC investors and Trump-aligned Washington for eventual bailout support.

Jiang predicts the GCC economies will be destroyed and made irrelevant so Israel can absorb the GCC and parts of Turkey and Egypt into the Greater Israel project.