The U.S. Technate is a plan, not a guaranteed success; occupying North America would create insurgencies and conflict.
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He predicts the next civil war would unfold as many violent episodes over 10, 20, or 50 years rather than as one clean conflict like the first Civil War.
Jiang says Vietnam was unwinnable because insurgents could disappear into tunnels, acquire U.S. weapons and unexploded ordnance, and grow angrier as civilian casualties mounted.
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"...when it does that, it's going to create a lot of insurgencies. It's going to create a lot of conflict, so it will be..."
"So, no one cares who's president anymore. And that's going to help Trump in November. Okay? Any more questions before I move on? Okay...."
"...a more major conflict. Okay? Then you have what we'll call insurgencies. So, basically, a political group who's trying to... To form a government..."
"You couldn't win this war, okay? And the reason why is that these Vietnamese peasants, they were unbeatable. Because what they were doing was..."
"You're now arming the enemy, right? Because these peasants would pick up these ammo and use it themselves. That's the first thing. Second thing..."
"yourself, no matter how much weapons you can bring into this country, how are you going to win this war? The other thing is..."
"...southeast Iran, by the Pakistani border. They have a history of insurgency against the government, okay? Second people that have been problematic are the..."
"...will now the same forces to respond to all these ethnic insurgencies around um Iran okay so before Iran could just focus its resources..."
"...won't be happy about it, okay? So you're going to have insurgencies. All right? And this three problems, nationalism, corruption, and division means that..."
"...the union if Trump becomes president again. Okay? You have these insurgencies all around America to rebel against the Trump regime."
"...would say that America lost the Iraq war because of the insurgency, right?"
"...and Afghanistan because they have not been able to control the insurgency, okay? But the problem with this is that shock and awe, it's..."
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