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Jiang's forecast term for future conflict that mixes stealth, information operations, psychology, drones, proxy actors, and conventional tools.
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hybrid war
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah, I would say, like, for the past 20 years, America has perfected this sort of, like, shadow warfare, right? This shadow asymmetrical information..."
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diagnosis
Jiang says the war in Ukraine should be understood as Russia fighting NATO because Ukrainian troops supplied the ground presence while NATO provided strategy, targeting, weapons, drones, and special forces support.
prediction
Jiang predicts that future wars will become more hybrid, stealthy, informational, and psychological than the large conventional conflicts people associate with earlier eras.
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Akela's next prompt assumes the world is heading toward major conflict and asks Jiang to distinguish between conventional war and psychological or hybrid warfare.
diagnosis
Jiang argues Putin fights the Ukraine war not only at the front but through media and European politics, including support for far-right populist parties that can use immigration as a wedge issue.
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"Yeah, I would say, like, for the past 20 years, America has perfected this sort of, like, shadow warfare, right? This shadow asymmetrical information..."
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"It was NATO targeting, NATO weaponry, NATO drones, NATO special forces. So, the idea... So, in all future wars, these wars will be much..."
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"think um just the trajectory of of where we're heading really really speaks to or seems to indicate that that's um I I don't..."
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"the capacity to diminish um cohesion in other um uh in other nations right so when putin is from this war in ukraine he's..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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