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Domestic and allied willingness to sustain a war; Jiang says Israel wants a long war that destroys American political will.
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Political will
Domestic and allied willingness to sustain a war; Jiang says Israel wants a long war that destroys American political will.
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Glossary
The public and governmental willingness to sustain a war despite costs and casualties.
model
Wars require institutional alignment and eschatology; one man cannot simply control a country into war.
prediction
America will lose the Iran war unless it can galvanize popular patriotism and political will; money and technology are not enough.
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diagnosis
America faces three major constraints in Iran: lack of political will, lack of manufacturing capacity, and unwillingness to sustain casualties.
prediction
Israel would not want nuclear weapons used because nuclear use would end the war too quickly, while Israel wants the war prolonged until U.S. political will collapses.
diagnosis
America's three major problems in the war are lack of political will, weak logistics/manufacturing, and inability to tolerate large battlefield casualties.
model
Jiang says the war is existential for Iranians but not for Americans, giving Iran greater motivation and America less political will.
diagnosis
America repeats this policy because empire cares about itself, wants a cheap and fast victory, and lacks manufacturing capacity and political will for a long war.
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"...you need a eschatology okay because this is what allows for political will and that's the issue that the Americans are facing in Iran..."
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"...American people okay and that's why America doesn't really have the political will to sustain this war in Iran so again it there's there's..."
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"do nothing they'll do nothing and that's the situation that Iran face in the lead up to this war where everyone's like You Know..."
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"...lose this war in Iran because American people don't have the political will to fight this war. I don't care how much money you..."
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"Um, the first major issue is the lack of political will. Meaning that this war is very unpopular in America. Only 40 % of..."
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"...can be the empire by showing that it does have the political will. It does have the manufacturing capacity but that's more solid. Okay?..."
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"...world is on your side you have to worry about politics political will you have to make sure the people are unified uh and..."
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"...war. And that means a long war that destroys the American political will to fight any more foreign wars. If America loses, Israel becomes..."
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".S. and you want to humble Israel. All right? Does that make sense? All right? So, by understanding how each player perceives the game,..."
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"...three major problems. The first major problem is the lack of political will. And all this is saying is that the American people don't..."
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"...course, is casualties. All right. America, because it doesn't have the political will to fight this war, cannot afford to lose soldiers on the..."
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"...major problem that Americans are facing is they don't have any political will to fight this war, but they're still fighting this war anyway...."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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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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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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