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Jiang expects American and Israeli strategy to focus on Iran's problem areas: Baluch Sunni unrest, Kurdish separatism, Sunni groups in Iraq, and Azerbaijani reunification incentives.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The first is economic strangulation. And we're already seeing that where Americans have bombed Clark Island so that the Iranians are no longer going..."
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Jiang says the limited ground-invasion component would focus on strategic regions where outside powers can arm and finance ethnic groups against Tehran.
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Talabani says no weapons were stolen on his Suleymaniyah side and calls any theft from allies shameful if it occurred elsewhere.
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Talabani rejects reports of CIA-backed Kurdish incursions and says making Kurds the tip of the spear would be disastrous because Kurds are a minority inside Iran and such a move would trigger Turkish and Iranian backlash.
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Jiang lists two main proxy options for such a war: bribing the Kurds to invade from Iraq and using Sunni ISIS insurgents backed by special forces, intelligence, and airstrikes.
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Jiang says the Kurds do not trust the Americans or Israelis because of repeated betrayals, especially after the 1991 Gulf War uprising against Saddam Hussein.
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Jiang says the Kurdish proxy route has already been dropped and that even other possible regional auxiliaries are hesitant because the war looks unwinnable and strategically incoherent.
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Jiang says the Kurds have refused an American offer to join the war and that a serious invasion would therefore require America to enter largely by itself.
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"The first is economic strangulation. And we're already seeing that where Americans have bombed Clark Island so that the Iranians are no longer going..."
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"...is the Northwest and the Southeast. They tried it with the Kurds, but they're probably going to try it again."
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"Yeah. The Kurds and the Bullocks. The Bullocks are these insurgents in southeast Iran near Pakistan, okay? So basically the ethnic Pakistanis. They've always..."
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"...it's one thing, to think that that tactic of using the Kurds as the bulwark of the assaults was a bad idea, but it's..."
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"If that doesn't happen, can the United States legitimately claim victory? Judging by some of the statements that were made, the initial objectives militarily,..."
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"...least in this side of Iraqi Kurdistan. Also, please remember the Kurds make up less than 10 % of the Iranian population of 92..."
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"...use proxies, right? So originally the strategy was to bribe the Kurds to go invade from Iraq. Another strategy was to deploy Sunni ISIS..."
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"...then when it came time for the Americans to support the Kurds with air power, they didn't do so because they thought that a..."
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"as well but it doesn't seem as though anyone's interested because they appreciate that first of all you can't really trust the Israelis and..."
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"...few days ago there was talk of the Americans bringing the Kurds into the war from Iraq. There's also talk of bringing the Sunni..."
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"...at three points. The first two, as you mentioned, are the Kurds and the Azerbaijanis, and the last group are the Balochs, which is..."
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"Bush encouraged the Kurds to rebel against Saddam Hussein. And the Kurds did. There was a massive uprising within Iraq, and the Kurds really..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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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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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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