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He argues U.S. jets and air campaigns are not built for a long war; maintenance, losses, and air defenses will push America toward ground forces.
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Ground forces
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...use a ground invasion it's impossible to win a war without ground forces uh even though it's not politically popular okay okay ao asked..."
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Jiang's clipped position is that Iran has the strategic advantage and that Trump will escalate by sending ground forces.
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Jiang predicts the United States will escalate by sending ground forces and attempting to control Hormuz-related territory such as Kharg Island, Qeshm Island, or another coastal naval base.
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Jiang predicts that if the United States sends ground forces into Iran, sunk-cost logic will lock it into another Vietnam because it lacks the manpower, manufacturing capacity, and political will for a long ground war.
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"so i think we're already in a ground invasion phase because what happened this weekend right so remember there was this pilot um that..."
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"reality is that these um um jets are not as invincible as people believe them to be also the iranians have shown themselves extremely..."
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"...long and historically what you do first is you send in ground forces to clear your defenses for your airplanes to come in to..."
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"...step in the escalation ladder is that Trump will sit in ground forces."
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"...step, in the escalation ladder, is that Trump will send in ground forces. So over 5,000 Marines and soldiers have been dispatched to the..."
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"And then there's a naval base further down the coastline. And so these are the three options that the Americans have. And it is..."
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"...of the day, the United States will be compelled to send ground forces. Once the United States sends in ground forces, there's no turning..."
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"...at the end there, it's highly unlikely that Trump would commit ground forces because he's always pledged not to. And I think he would..."
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"...use a ground invasion it's impossible to win a war without ground forces uh even though it's not politically popular okay okay ao asked..."
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"...three -pronged strategy to strangle Iran. The first is to use ground forces to establish foreign operating bases to incite ethnic violence in the..."
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"...the cervical moves the way i do that is i use ground forces okay so what i can do is seize khasem island seize..."
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"...of attrition, right? So it's a naval blockade. You have some ground forces deployment and you have some continual airstrikes, but the tempo of..."
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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