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The postwar order, in Jiang's model, has Israel controlling Middle Eastern resources while Iran controls Hormuz, collects tolls, and becomes central to north-south and Belt and Road trade.
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The war is described as a modern-economy shock because Hormuz disruption hits energy, fertilizer inputs such as phosphate and ammonia, and semiconductor inputs such as helium and sulfuric acid.
He reads Larry Fink's position as saying the war must continue because stopping it would leave Iran able to control Hormuz and keep oil high.
The postwar order, in Jiang's model, has Israel controlling Middle Eastern resources while Iran controls Hormuz, collects tolls, and becomes central to north-south and Belt and Road trade.
Jiang argues that if the United States leaves the Middle East, Iran can demand compensation, tax Hormuz access, redirect GCC money from the U.S. to Iran, rebuild, and become the Middle East superpower within five to ten years.
Saudi Arabia’s long-term problem is oil decline; Jiang says controlling Middle East trade access through Hormuz is a viable future compared with waiting for oil to lose importance.
Lagarde segment cited by the interview implies a significant supply-chain shock from reduced fertilizer flows with one-third of global fertilizer shipments associated with Hormuz traffic.
"...a third of the fertilizers is shipped through the strait of hormuz now that is also at risk and it matters particularly in the..."
"So this, because Iran is constraining movement in the Strait of Hormuz, we're seeing seven major shortages. Okay. So yes, we know oil and..."
"...threat, a threat to trade, a threat to the Straits of Hormuz. Then I would argue that we could have years, years of, you..."
"What happens to the global economy if that happens? How do we see it?"
"We'll have global recession. If there's a cessation of war, and yet Iran... Okay."
"...for many, many years. The Iranians will control the Straits of Hormuz, and therefore we must fight this war to the end. What he..."
"Okay? So what the conclusion he makes is this. Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief. Before the..."
"...of the Middle East and Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? And with the Strait of Hormuz they collect a toll which..."
"...other thing that Iran did was close off the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? They closed off the Strait of Hormuz. And this is important..."
"...Okay? Right? Also, hey man, now we control the Strait of Hormuz so if you want to use the Strait of Hormuz you have..."
"...get your money now is from trade access, the short of Hormuz. That's a viable future. If you just sit back and wait, eventually,..."
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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