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Jiang's assumption that reputational and civilizational costs still strongly constrain first use of nuclear weapons.
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nuclear taboo
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Nukes are a taboo in geopolitics. The Americans used them at the end of World War II and no one's used them ever since...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Nukes are a taboo in geopolitics. The Americans used them at the end of World War II and no one's used them ever since...."
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Jiang says nuclear use remains a geopolitical taboo; Israeli tactical nuclear use would break the post-World-War-II taboo and risk nuclear apocalypse.
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"Nukes are a taboo in geopolitics. The Americans used them at the end of World War II and no one's used them ever since...."
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"...nuclear weapons will be ever used. First of all, it's ultimately taboo, right? I mean, whoever uses nuclear weapons will be a prostate for..."
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"...that hard. Just hire the Chinese to do it, okay? On nuclear taboos, why would they respect a rational escalation ladder to avoid using..."
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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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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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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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