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Jiang says expensive American and Israeli air-defense systems look impressive on paper but are proving ineffective against Iranian attacks.
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Iron Dome
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...billions of dollars. You have the Patriot system. You have the Iron Dome. I mean, it's all very impressive, but look, but look. Look..."
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Jiang says the backbone of Iran's military is drones and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and that the 12-day war showed Israel cannot reliably stop Iranian ICBMs, especially hypersonics.
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"...billions of dollars. You have the Patriot system. You have the Iron Dome. I mean, it's all very impressive, but look, but look. Look..."
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"And already Israel and the GCC are suffering massive casualties and massive damage from the war. So what this war has shown us is..."
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"a lot of these internal divisions that were happening in Iran these past few years, they will sort of die out as the population..."
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"...Israel cannot defend against Iranian ICBMs, especially hypersonics. The so -called Iron Dome, there's a lot of leakage in it. So Israel cannot possibly..."
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"...system, the THAAD system, they don't really work. Even Israel's vaunted Iron Dome system, same with David, they don't work either. The Iranians now..."
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"...Israel. So Israel is vulnerable. They wanted air defense system, the Iron Dome, the Sling of David. They did not hold up against these..."
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"...Israel. And, you know, all this vaunted Israeli air defense, the Iron Dome, the Sling of David, did nothing to protect Israel from the..."
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"...caused no damage. And the Israelis says, this shows that our Iron Dome system is amazing. We're amazing. Iran cannot touch us. What the..."
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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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...
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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