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Jiang says Iran differs from Venezuela because decades of sanctions have made the Iranian elite unified against the United States, with little to lose by fighting.
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Jiang says Iran differs from Venezuela because decades of sanctions have made the Iranian elite unified against the United States, with little to lose by fighting.
"...own interests. But for 40 plus years, America has sanctioned the Iranian elite, and Iran has become poor and angry and disgruntled because of..."
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.
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