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Jiang argues that working with Hollywood also brainwashes the Pentagon into believing war can be perfected like a scripted movie, which he says will lead to disaster in Iran.
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The speaker says the Washington Post leaked a Pentagon plan about a week before this talk to do the same kind of uranium-seizure operation, though details continue beyond the focus refs.
Jiang speculates that generals may have leaked the top-secret plan after Trump accepted what they expected to be an obviously impossible uranium-seizure proposal, and that refusal to execute it may have led Peter Hexner to fire them.
Jiang argues that the Pentagon is a propaganda machine that cares less about truth than creating a Hollywood movie out of war.
Jiang argues that the Pentagon's optics-and-narrative habits may work against Somalis and Iraqis but are a major problem against Iran, where the United States would need total war focused on economics, organization, and logistics.
Jiang claims the Pentagon's mentality is now to turn war into a Hollywood movie.
The read paper excerpt says producers must comply with Pentagon entertainment policy, including script changes aligned with recruitment and public relations goals, in exchange for military equipment and personnel.
The read paper excerpt says more than 2,500 war-themed movies and TV programs have been made with Pentagon assistance since the inception of Hollywood entertainment more than a century ago.
The read paper excerpt says Pentagon-assisted movies and TV shows portray U.S. wars as necessary and glorious, downplay war's human, social, and environmental devastation, cast U.S. soldiers as noble protagonists, and stereotype non-U.S. enemies.
"...not four days, a week ago, the Washington Post leaks a Pentagon"
"the question is, wait a minute here. This is a top secret military plan. How did the Washington Post get this? Well, the answer..."
"screwed, man. And they refused to carry it out. So Peter Hexner is like, well, then you're fired. Okay? And then Peter Hexner orders..."
"...beaten and she was held hostage. Okay. So that's what the Pentagon does. The Pentagon is a propaganda machine. It doesn't care about the..."
"huge problem for the American military for the Pentagon as they fight this war. You can pull this crap when you're fighting Somalis and..."
"...equipment and personnel movies and TV program producers must comply with Pentagon entertainment policy including script changes to align with military goals including recruitment..."
"Okay. So what this paper is saying is that the Pentagon uses Hollywood in order to indoctrinate and brainwash American people to believe that..."
"of an American pilot that it will turn into a Hollywood movie at some point. And so from their perspective this is a huge..."
"Never in history has a modern military... Iran had a modern military, a modern navy, a modern air force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive..."
"And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard, as it's necessary. To ensure the interests of the United..."
"...this is Secretary of War Peter Heksev. And he represents the Pentagon, the military. And his attitude is, we're winning this war. We are..."
"...the Secretary of Defense for the Americans, he's head of the Pentagon, and this is a day before September 11th, the 9 -11 attacks,..."
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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