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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay? Why? Because in this class, what you're taught is game theory. And if you look at how wars are fought and who wins..."
Jiang uses fertility and morale as supporting indicators for his comparison, arguing that South Korea's low birth rate and affluent fear of death make it structurally weaker in prolonged conflict than poorer North Korea.
Nuclear use is constrained by troop morale, public opinion, political will, enemy morale, narrative control, political landscape, and resource marshalling.
Jiang says the missing consequence for a bad war appears as collapsing morale among soldiers and the public, not necessarily immediate international punishment.
Jiang says Iranian morale is rooted in the belief that they are on the side of truth and in a Persian-Zoroastrian civilizational memory of serving God's will.
The interviewer asks whether Khamenei intentionally accepted martyrdom because inspiring Iranian morale could be more strategically valuable than preserving his life.
Jiang says a U.S. war against Iran would face draft problems, low morale, and Vietnam-style fragging because Americans do not understand the purpose of the war.
Jiang argues that the planned airstrikes were supposed to shatter morale and sell the image of a collapsing regime, but that script failed once the protests were suppressed.
Jiang says Russia holds battlefield dominance through drones, morale, and initiative while European militaries are confused enough to contemplate absurd measures like mobilizing much older soldiers.
"Okay? Why? Because in this class, what you're taught is game theory. And if you look at how wars are fought and who wins..."
"North Korea will also lose people, but just if there's no war, if we just keep on going, eventually, South Korea will go to..."
"...there is actually a major consequence. A major consequence is the morale of your population which affects your will to fight. Right? So if..."
"...a laundry room to decapitate the supercarrier. So you're seeing low morale among American soldiers. First day of the war what happened? All the..."
"Yeah. Look, I think that the Iranians have extremely high morale, and the reason why is they think they are on the side of..."
"...worry about certain factors okay you have to worry about troop morale your soldiers have to believe that they are fighting for a good..."
"the eternal you know yeah yeah they want to become gods on earth because their mortality is what they fear the most and being..."
"years old this is not somebody capable of leading an army into battle the most effective use he could have uh you know the..."
"...So fragging was a huge problem in Vietnam. So, basically, troop morale, okay? You're going to have a problem of troop morale if you..."
"...strikes. strikes right and the airstrikes are are meant to sap morale of the security services they're meant to sway public opinion they're meant..."
"...to to control the front lines and their soldiers have high morale are pretty enthusiastic and are very energetic and the Europeans are completely..."
"a war um so the Europeans are just completely confused uh they have no strategy and they will just react"
Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
Mehdi Hasan does not let Jiang enjoy the Nostradamus frame.
Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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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