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The speaker argues that this weekend is different from prior Trump ultimatums because the United States has gone all in after a failed ground invasion and will now escalate rather than negotiate.
He predicts possible attacks on Kharg Island, Qeshm Island, Hormuz-related positions, and Iranian coastline defenses as part of a major escalation.
Mercouris argues that direct European intervention in Ukraine would most likely become a military debacle joined to a broader economic and political crisis in Europe that could put NATO itself in question.
"that Trump is trying to go for Maximus leverage in negotiation but the reality is that the Iranians um will not back down and..."
"to bluff before. In fact, he's issued many ultimatums to Iran before, and then he sort of tackled, right? Trump always chickens out, and..."
"even after the the end of the cold war it's still there let's let's just then discuss what happened so the europeans go in..."
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.
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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.
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