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Jiang argues that Trump believed a successful U.S. kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela showed that a similar spectacular operation could work in Iran.
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Maduro
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Jiang says Maduro must have been a CIA asset or otherwise complicit in his own extraction, and predicts that he will publicly validate narco-trafficking charges and explain how Venezuelan voting machines can be rigged.
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Jiang says Trump wants the Maduro episode to prove the 2020 election was stolen and thereby justify a third presidential term.
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Jiang says Trump's disregard for sovereignty is already visible in the alleged kidnapping and public parading of Maduro, which he treats as a template for broader norm-breaking.
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Jiang says Maduro's public humiliation and possible future moves against Greenland show that American sovereignty rhetoric has collapsed into mafia tactics.
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Jiang interprets the Maduro kidnapping as an 'easy victory' designed to build Trump's personal myth, made possible because Venezuelan elites were compromised or bribed.
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Jiang says during the trial maduro will say that venezuela participated in the stealing of the 2020
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Simon says the Maduro extraction either happened with Maduro's coordination inside a larger power agreement or with the consent of other major powers even if Maduro resisted.
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"...3rd, when the Americans swept into Venezuela and kidnapped their president, Maduro, thus ending the conflict between Venezuela and America. So, this is great..."
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"this in Venezuela, we can do this in Iran. And this explains how and why Donald Trump would agree to such an insane plan..."
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"And then what happened, of course, was that Maduro was kidnapped. Delta Force went in, blew a lot of stuff up. Including the mausoleum..."
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"...to extricate him from the situation. And the deal is that Maduro will be put on trial. I don't know when. I mean, it's..."
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"...No, no, no, no. What does Trump want? And what does Maduro want? Right? Trump wants to overturn the 2020 election and get a..."
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"...refuses to acknowledge sovereignty, okay? So for example, the kidnap of Maduro, okay? You don't do that because you're violating a country's national sovereignty...."
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"And the fact that the Americans can just violate a nation's sovereignty and kidnap their president. And then not only that, but to hold..."
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"peer mafia tactics of the American empire, I think, has disgusted the entire world, including in China."
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"...clearly the elite of Venezuela, the leadership was compromised. Okay? Either Maduro was part of the deal or Delsi Rodriguez was part of the..."
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"during the trial maduro will say that venezuela participated in the stealing of the 2020"
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"...Venezuela. And they were already buying, selling oil to China. And Maduro had already agreed that the Venezuelan people and there'd be no Venezuelan..."
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"He's got all that Bitcoin and stablecoin wealth from selling the oil via the crypto networks. Or he genuinely didn't consent to what greater..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
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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 starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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