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If Raisi is removed from the succession path, Jiang says Mojtaba Khamenei becomes more likely to succeed, but father-to-son leadership would produce a legitimacy crisis because Iran's revolution was against monarchy.
Even a legitimacy crisis over Mojtaba Khamenei could benefit the IRGC, because the regime would become more dependent on the institution that suppresses unrest.
Jiang's answer to the legitimacy crisis is that the public is effectively stuck rather than offered a realistic institutional way out.
Jiang calls AI the government's 'last hope' because a population that is waking up and thinking more independently still needs to be managed by a new mechanism of persuasion and narrative control.
Jiang says the United States is likely to enter a civil-war situation within two to four years, especially after the 2028 election, because the losing side will not accept the winner as legitimate.
"right well i mean like i'm sorry but like you're kind of stuck"
"But from the government's perspective, it's a very important sign -off. In fact, it's basically the last hope, right? You know, because, like, how..."
"to united states there's the government is shut down i'm not sure people recognize this but the government is shut down it's possible when..."
"...Moshtaba Khamenei did become Ayatollah, this would actually create a political legitimacy crisis in Iran."
"...of power. And even if this accession causes a disaster. A legitimacy crisis. Well, it's good for them because then the regime is even..."
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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,...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central move: the crash was probably an accident, but if it was not, Jiang asks who had opportunity, motive, and the most to gain.
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