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Jiang's metaphor for the worldwide deep-state structure he thinks Trump sees as his real enemy.
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Global octopus
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...
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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...
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Jiang argues Trump's true enemy is a global deep state he describes as an octopus, and that this enemy structure is what Trump wants to destroy.
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"...And the deep state is something that is global. It's a global octopus, and he needs to destroy that. Trump is intent on a..."
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"...from the Israeli point of view is that they've been the octopus providing the tentacles of terrorism to the Houthis, to Hezbollah, to Hamas,..."
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"...terrorism against their own people in iran and they've been the octopus with the tentacles of terrorism throughout the middle east and predominantly aimed..."
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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...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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