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Jiang says Khamenei cultivated personal ties with the IRGC, and Mojtaba Khamenei's unpopularity would make him dependent on IRGC support and obedient to IRGC policy if he became supreme leader.
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Personal loyalty
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Jiang argues that Trump's foreign adventures and Delta Force theatrics are meant to build a personally loyal military faction in the same way Caesar used plunder to secure troop devotion.
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"Yep, that's exactly it. So, if you look at empires and how they fall, whether it be the Athenian Empire or the Roman Empire,..."
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"So I think that you'll see Trump using special forces more, especially Delta Force, and that builds loyalty to Trump personally. You'll also see..."
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"And the third thing is, of course, foreign policy. Meaning that the Axis of Resistance gets... Sorry, the Axis of Resistance only interacts with..."
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"He even knows the names of their children. So the current Ayatollah Khomeini has a great personal relationship with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...."
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central move: the crash was probably an accident, but if it was not, Jiang asks who had opportunity, motive, and the most to gain.
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