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He argues that Iran's only path to defeating America is to drag US forces into Iran itself and then use asymmetrical guerrilla warfare to break supply lines and morale.
Jiang also rejects a simple prestige or hegemony explanation, arguing that invading mountainous Venezuela would produce little strategic gain while risking guerrilla war, regional destabilization, and a wider Latin American quagmire.
Jiang predicts that Venezuela itself would become another Vietnam-style quagmire because the population would resist occupation through guerrilla warfare even if the United States could destroy the state militarily and remove Maduro.
Jiang says a more plausible confrontation is a US ground invasion of Venezuela, and that Venezuela would have to fight asymmetrically through guerrilla war rather than conventional battle.
"And the reason why is that America will always win a conventional warfare against Iran. So the only way to defeat America is to..."
"It's very capital intensive. It's labor intensive. It's cost prohibitive. And that's why, you know, Venezuela has not risen to the ranks of great..."
"And also, it could turn into quagmire where you have troops in Venezuela and they are attacked by guerrilla warfare, by asymmetrical warfare. So..."
"Look, look, you're absolutely right. In that, if America wanted to. Invade Venezuela, it would take two weeks. The American naval power is overwhelming...."
"You can kill Maduro. It's not a problem. It's very easy for the American empire to do this. But it puts you in a..."
"...there's a ground invasion then Venezuela will choose to fight a guerrilla war as opposed to like a uh you know like a kinetic..."
The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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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