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Jiang says global leaders are insane but not stupid: they may kill millions but do not want to blow up the world.
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Nuclear war
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Jiang says the nuclear age changes war aims: the goal is not to destroy the enemy military outright but to inflict enough stress that citizens overthrow their own political system.
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Jiang predicts direct kinetic war between nuclear powers is extremely unlikely, but he still expects a future US invasion or attack on a non-nuclear state such as Iran.
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Alexander predicts that the crisis will stop short of nuclear war because governments, especially the great powers, will ultimately draw back from using nuclear weapons.
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Jiang says a literal Russian invasion of Turkey would be strategically foolish in a nuclear age because it would activate NATO Article 5 and risk Armageddon.
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Jiang says Dr. Strangelove reveals how American elites think: faced with nuclear danger, they imagine saving themselves in bunkers rather than preventing the catastrophe.
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Jiang says there is effectively zero possibility that the Russia-Ukraine war goes nuclear because nuclear war remains the ultimate taboo and no leader wants responsibility for humanity's destruction.
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"So remember, this is a time of nuclear war, so you can't actually destroy each other's military. But what you can do is put..."
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"over the next seven yeah yeah so I think in the age of nuclear weapons a kinetic war is extremely unlikely um you know..."
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"says with this will this all stop short of nuclear war will this happen i think so i i agree with"
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"that professor chang here i i think that in the end people will draw back governments will draw back and they will avoid doing..."
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"...prevalent and pretty popular. Now we live in an age of nuclear war, so obviously it'd be stupid for Russia to invade Turkey because..."
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"...think, okay? So in Dr. Strangelove, there's a real threat of nuclear war. So the president and his generals, they get together, and they..."
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"They're all selfish. They're all narrow -minded. They're all arrogant. They're all suffering from hubris. And so that's what's happening in America. Rather than..."
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"I think there's a zero possibility. That a war will go nuclear in this age. I think there's just too many restraints. It's like..."
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"But I think they won't break that taboo. I don't think this war will ever go nuclear."
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"Does that make sense? Okay? The thing about global leaders, world leaders, is they're all insane, but they're not stupid. You understand? There's a..."
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"from a nuclear war it'll probably be chili actually um okay okay this is a good question"
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"...except your relationship with God. The whole world could be in nuclear war. Doesn't matter. Okay? What matters is your true faith in God...."
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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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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