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Transnational capital is not monolithic, but Jiang expects the best short-term opportunity and most growth to be in Israel/the Middle East, so more capital will shift there.
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Middle East
The speaker identifies the Strait of Malacca as a major global chokepoint because China gets much of its resource flow from Africa and the Middle East through it, and because U.S.
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The speaker identifies the Strait of Malacca as a major global chokepoint because China gets much of its resource flow from Africa and the Middle East through it, and because U.S. military bases are nearby.
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The speaker argues that by maintaining control over the Panama Canal, the Middle East, the Strait of Malacca, and Greenland, America can control naval access, trade access, and maritime navigation.
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Jiang identifies Iran's three strategic objectives as removing America from the Middle East, deterring Israel, and destroying or resetting the global economy in a way that benefits Iran.
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Jiang says a possible end state is that America leaves the Middle East, Israel is humbled, and the global economy is destroyed, while Iran is also destroyed as a nation state and balkanized.
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Jiang says East Asia and Europe are heavily dependent on Middle East oil, with the world drawing about 20 percent of oil from the Middle East and Japan drawing about 75 percent from there.
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Jiang argues that a Middle East war would knock out oil production from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, the UAE, and Kuwait, leaving Venezuela, Canada, the United States, North America, and Russia as key suppliers.
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He says American bases across the Middle East are vulnerable to cheap drones and cannot be protected at reasonable cost.
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"AI will be bailed out, because Trump is very close with these AI overlords, like Peter Thiel and Senator Altman. And then resources. Resources..."
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"...term, but in the short term, it's going to be the Middle East. Okay? All right. How do we combat the war against truth?..."
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"...where China gets most of its resources from Africa, from the Middle East. Okay? Through this very small choke point. And again, unfortunately, there..."
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"points, the Panama Canal, the Middle East, and the Strait of Malacca, oh, and also, sorry, Greenland as well, then America can control naval..."
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"...look at the Iranians they want to get America out of Middle East alright? They want to destroy the global economy and they want..."
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"...Which is to say that America is now out of the Middle East"
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"um Israel is humbled and the global economy is destroyed. But at the same time Iran is destroyed as a nation state it's balkanized..."
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"20 % of its oil from the Middle East. Okay. Partly going to East Asia. So India gets about 6 % of its oil..."
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"This war in the Middle East is going to knock out the oil production of Saudi Arabia, of Iran, of Iraq, of UAE, of..."
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"...Okay? Meaning that you have all these American bases throughout the Middle East, and they are vulnerable. They cannot be protected against cheap drones...."
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"how they are bound together by a concept called the occult, which we'll study later on, okay? But the idea of the occult, okay?..."
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"...when it ends, is that Israel will replace America in the Middle East. Okay? Alright. So, let me first discuss why the American empire..."
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