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Jiang says continuous war works by choosing small, contained conflicts because large-scale war is uncontrollable and may escalate to nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear escalation
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prediction
Jiang says tactical nuclear weapons may become attractive if conventional strikes cannot destroy Iran's underground missile infrastructure and if a ground invasion stalls.
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He predicts the war will not go nuclear because Russia can win through slow artillery attrition and Europe lacks a rationale to use nuclear weapons first in a distant theater.
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Jiang infers from the Anchorage meeting's body language that Putin and Trump have a genuine rapport, and he treats that rapport as further evidence against nuclear escalation.
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Jiang says Iran cannot defeat Israel and the United States conventionally and faces potential nuclear escalation involving Israel, the United States, and a Saudi-Pakistani mutual-defense axis.
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"Yeah, that's a really good question, okay? All right. So already discussing the possibility of nuclear weapons, and the reason why is that a..."
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"and it's it's and i don't think people can possibly imagine the amount of resources nato has put into ukraine because for from nato's..."
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"attrition uh russia uses trans -artillery warfare and it's a master of that and it and so this warfare it's really slow it's methodical..."
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"gruesome engagements, still, but no wars. in place. So even though Russia and the United States still have war with each other, they still..."
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"Right. Okay. So if you look at it from a game theory perspective, Iran cannot possibly defeat... Israel and the United States in the..."
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"Okay? But capitalism and democracy are contradictions. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. So, Jack makes a great point, which is,..."
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"Eventually, they'll be so angry at each other. They might have to use nuclear weapons. Okay? That's why one of the major tenets of..."
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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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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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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