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American systems such as THAAD/Patriot are presented as strategically mismatched because they may spend millions of dollars trying to stop cheap drones and are large, slow, and visible targets.
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Patriot
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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Jiang says expensive American and Israeli air-defense systems look impressive on paper but are proving ineffective against Iranian attacks.
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"...The FAD system, which costs billions of dollars. You have the Patriot system. You have the Iron Dome. I mean, it's all very impressive,..."
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"And already Israel and the GCC are suffering massive casualties and massive damage from the war. So what this war has shown us is..."
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"...for Thermal High Altitude Air Defense. And, they also have like Patriot systems. There's a lot. Okay? The thing that you will, that you..."
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"This missile, guys, costs one million dollars. One million dollars. So, there's this $50,000 drone coming your way and you throw a million dollar..."
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"...got very emotional because I think that he is an American patriot. I've always admired and respected Tucker Carlson, even though politically we don't..."
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"...on the political wins in america he's also like an american patriot he loves america deeply in his heart um and so i think..."
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"...That is their motherland, their fatherland, Russia, and they are loyal patriots, an absolute majority."
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"...are prosperous. They are Chinese. They are proud to be Chinese patriots. So they share totally this, the common ideas. But they are lost..."
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"...would be between the cosmopolitans or globalists versus the nationalists or patriots so i thought it was insightful again it's uh it's interesting that..."
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"...and sophisticated system in the world. It's not. Same as the Patriot system. I talked to Ted Postal, and he came on my show..."
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"...war, it doesn't really do anything, okay? So this is the Patriot missile system that's supposed to protect the GCC in Israel and the..."
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"...back asymmetrically, right? So we see these air defense systems, the Patriot system, the THAAD system, they don't really work. Even Israel's vaunted Iron..."
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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