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The river-at-the-back analogy models taboo as a forced no-exit condition: once the worst modern taboo is crossed, the group either escalates together or is destroyed.
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Military strategy
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Austerlitz made Napoleon legendary, but the plan depended on Davout arriving quickly enough to hold the right flank.
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Jiang defines strategic hubris as blindness to one's own limits, opponents' strategy, and the broader geopolitical picture.
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Jiang says a ground invasion of Iran with only a few thousand Marines and airborne soldiers would be a disaster.
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Iran's military advantage, in Jiang's model, is calibration: instead of American shock-and-awe destruction, Iran can probe Gulf pressure points, degrade air defenses, threaten infrastructure, and split GCC monarchies from the U.S. alliance.
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Jiang says a US strike on Venezuela makes little geopolitical sense because it would strengthen Maduro domestically, antagonize Latin America and the Caribbean, and still not create viable conditions for regime change.
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Jiang says a more plausible confrontation is a US ground invasion of Venezuela, and that Venezuela would have to fight asymmetrically through guerrilla war rather than conventional battle.
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"Well, as you laid out, every military analyst will tell you a ground invasion of Iran with only a few thousand Marines and possibly..."
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"The air defense of both the Israelis and Americans, basically to blind them. And from reporting, it seems as though the Iranians have achieved..."
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"So what they're trying to do is they're trying to split off the GCC from the American empire. They're trying to cause instability within..."
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"You know, I've actually no idea what's happening in Venezuela, but I will say this. I think it's very, very unlikely that Trump will..."
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"Venezuela would ever do that um that that's I mean the United States would respond with nuclear weapons if that would happen because it'd..."
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"...okay the analogy is this in Chinese history the most popular military strategy M is to fight with a river behind your back you..."
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"or you can fight to the death and most soldiers will choose to fight to the death and so at this point the soldiers..."
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"But not only that, but B requires the capacity to ignore social values and focus on what is good by itself. Okay? That's why..."
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"So Napoleon needs to act first and knock out both Russia and Austria before the Prussians come in. Because Prussia is considered at this..."
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"Okay? But, and so what the coalition forces are going to do is this. They see the right flank of Napoleon. It's weak. So..."
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"The right flank needs to hold against the coalition attack. Otherwise, the coalition will just sweep in and outflank Napoleon. Napoleon has this plan..."
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"...why they're overextended. extended is hubris and what hubris is in military strategy is the idea of blindness so you are blind to the..."
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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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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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George Galloway brings Jiang on for an immediate wartime reading, and Jiang answers by turning battlefield questions into a larger trap structure.
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