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Jiang uses this as the threshold separating punishing strikes from actual regime-change capacity against Iran.
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Ground troops
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...people to war. Right. Right. Right. And eventually, when you have ground troops, people are going to be indifferent as well. And eventually, you're..."
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Jiang predicts that the United States will use ground troops in the Iran war, leading Donald Trump to institute a national draft.
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Blumenthal's briefing comments are used as evidence that the White House has not specified the cost or endpoint of the war and is moving toward ground deployment.
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The Iranian official's comfort with U.S. invasion is treated as evidence that Iran sees American ground troops as a trap it has prepared for.
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Jiang predicts U.S. ground troops will produce a national draft, youth refusal, protests, National Guard deployment, and civil conflict in America.
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If the United States wants to win the Iran war, Jiang says it must use ground troops because it cannot afford to fight a real war primarily with expensive airplanes.
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Jiang closes by predicting that within the next year or two the United States will send ground troops if it wants to win or continue the war.
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Jiang predicts Christian Zionists and Zionists will win the coalition dispute over Iran and push ground troops for regime change despite financiers and the Empire preferring lower-risk escalation.
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Jiang says Trump's bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities marks the beginning of World War 3 and makes the decisive question whether the United States will use ground troops.
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"...people to war. Right. Right. Right. And eventually, when you have ground troops, people are going to be indifferent as well. And eventually, you're..."
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"...Americans recognize that this war is lost. Because once it commits ground troops, then this war becomes a St. Carlos policy mission creep, like..."
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"My family and I are no fans of the Iranian regime. There's no question about that. It's a theocracy. It's been repressive. However, you..."
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"...to deploy estimates range from half a million to a million troops. And no one in the United States has an appetite for that...."
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"so um the boots on the ground it's basically to maintain the war right so the problem with um with air warfare which is..."
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"...to um definitely bomb these election plans and they're definitely sending ground troops this thing will just escalate and escalate and the problem is..."
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"That is unfortunate. Last question. You made three very famous predictions in 2024. What is your big prediction now for 2026? We'll see what..."
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"...So my first prediction is that the United States will use ground troops. Yeah, I agree with that. I'm with you. And I believe..."
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"...States. Okay. Basically, they want the United States to send in ground troops to Iran. It becomes another Vietnam. It is extremely unpopular in..."
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"Well, you cause civil war back in America. Okay. That's number one. Number two is that once Iran is destroyed, Israel is able to..."
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"I don't know the timeline. Like I, I predicted that ground troops would be sent in March, 2027, but after six months, uh, uh,..."
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"...that America could go in with air power with very little ground troops and they could very quickly decapitate the regime by destroying its..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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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 interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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