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The Beijing visit is only the front door.
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The Beijing visit is only the front door.
He gives the standard explanation that Rome's open citizenship and immigration policy gave it an enormous manpower pool compared with Greek and Carthaginian citizenship systems.
Jiang says Rome could raise enormous armies because it offered citizenship to fighters and could draw soldiers from the Italian peninsula through conquered neighbors' obligations.
He claims Ukraine instead refused to give up land and later launched a counteroffensive into Russian artillery, which he presents as major mistakes that made Ukraine lose the war.
He says Ukraine's manpower crisis is so severe that the average age of its army is over 40 and men in their 60s and 70s are fighting.
He predicts that the Ukrainian front lines may collapse within two months because Ukraine cannot replenish losses and NATO may need to backfill the line with volunteers from Poland.
Jiang says invading Venezuela would create a cascading pressure to do Cuba and Nicaragua next, exposing that the United States lacks the manpower, resources, political will, and manufacturing base to occupy South America and Latin America at that scale.
Jiang says that after 1948 Israel faced a manpower problem and cites rumored or argued false-flag attacks in Baghdad as a mechanism that pushed Iraqi Jews toward Israel.
"a period of global rapprochement so i think for 2026 the major flashpoint will between russia and nato right now the ukrainian front lines..."
"...empire would collapse very quickly. Because, one, America doesn't have the manpower, the resources, the political will, the manufacturing capacity to actually invade all..."
"...is that after Israel was founded in 1948, it suffered a manpower problem. It didn't have that many people. And you need laborers. OK?..."
"...as such, they could, throughout its history, draw on the vast manpower pool in the surrounding areas. Okay? And as such, with their almost..."
"Okay. That's a great question. Okay? So like you want to know more about Hannibal's invasion of Italy. Right? Okay. All right. So Rome..."
"That's the only way to win this war. But what did the Ukrainians do instead which made them lose the war? Yeah. So the..."
"...60s and 70s fighting in the military. They don't have enough manpower. The war is lost. Why would the Ukrainians do this? First of..."
"...Why? Because, because of this war, Russia is now short of manpower. So it needs people to run its factories. Eventually, it's going to..."
"...The technology, science, civilization of Germany combined with the resources and manpower of Russia. So America has been playing this game for a long,..."
"...okay? And this becomes a fortress. You have infinite resources, infinite manpower, and you can sell weapons, resources, and financing to the rest of..."
"...expertise. They have the political will. They have the resources, the manpower to go do this, because we have to assume that if this..."
"...mountain fortress and the united states right now doesn't have the manpower the manufacturer capacity and the political will to fight a long war..."
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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...
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...
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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