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The dominant escalation-ladder theory says the actor with escalation dominance has the advantage, but Jiang rejects this theory as incomplete for the U.S.-Iran war.
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The dominant escalation-ladder theory says the actor with escalation dominance has the advantage, but Jiang rejects this theory as incomplete for the U.S.-Iran war.
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"So remember, today, what I'm going to do is do number one and number two, explaining to you why Israel will not use nuclear..."
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"And Iran doesn't. Therefore, the United States and Israel have a huge advantage over Iran, okay? But what I will show you today is..."
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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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