Glossary
Jiang uses the term for a combination of superior technology, intelligence, and strike capacity held by Israel and the United States over Iran.
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Military dominance
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Key Notes
diagnosis
Jiang interprets the Damascus strike and the 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani as evidence that the United States and Israel possess military dominance over Iran through technology and intelligence.
model
Jiang says Israel looks small but functions like an empire because military dominance gives it hubris and makes it less strategic, flexible, or creative.
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Jiang argues that American soft power is partly coercive because US military dominance forces the rest of the world to consume mediocre American cultural products.
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"...as you point out America has soft power because of its military dominance you're sort"
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"of like forced to watch Holly movies you're forced to read American novels even though in your heart you know this is pretty mediocre..."
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"...incidents show us is that the Americans and the Israelis have dominance over Iran. Okay? So, military dominance. So, the first thing is they..."
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"...Israelis that this meeting will happen. Okay? So, this is clearly military dominance that Israel and the Americans possess over Iran. And when this..."
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"...flexible and creative. It doesn't have to be because it has military dominance over everyone. But that's a very good question. Okay? Just because..."
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"...is Duggan Maxing. Our end, Jonathan. Donald Trump has destroyed American military dominance for generations. This is the sad truth. Our driver, Dozer. Thank..."
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"...it's other it's either they go in now and establish um military dominance in Southeast Asia or they'll just die out in like 10..."
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"...who farmed. And so Sparta became a war society based on military dominance. The entire society was centered around how to take young boys,..."
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"...And the reason why is the Americans and the Israelis have military dominance over Iran."
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"But just because you have military dominance, it does not mean you'll win the war, okay? So, what I believe is that Iran and..."
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"...asymmetrical warfare. And even though Israel and the United States have military dominance, they may not be able to win this war, okay? Okay,..."
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"...States, okay? So that's why... So in other words, from a military dominance perspective, Operation True Promise accomplished nothing, okay? Because you blew nothing..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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