Glossary
Jiang’s word for the consoling story a fearful person tells to make spiritual failure sound like acceptance.
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pretext
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Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang's term for the trigger narrative an empire needs in order to frame its wars as reluctant self-defense rather than chosen aggression.
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prediction
He argues that the only way America can win the hypothetical Iran war is by nuking the country, if it has enough of a pretext.
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Jiang says Chinese authorities could use renewed virus fears as a pretext for more lockdowns because confining discontented people to their apartments worked spectacularly well for the state before.
diagnosis
Jiang says U.S. officials cannot articulate a clear public purpose for attacking Iran because the real aim is to destroy Iran as a viable nation-state without being bound by a narrower excuse.
diagnosis
Jiang says there is no good military pretext or sound strategy for a ground invasion of Iran.
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Jiang argues that the Australian beach killings are being rhetorically linked to Iran despite the perpetrator being described as an Islamic State sympathizer, making the event a pretext for anti-Iran mobilization.
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Jiang says that if the United States goes to war with Iran, the public pretext will likely be either Israel acting out of control or Iran striking a base in Qatar or another American target, because American power always needs a usable trigger story.
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"...here so i'm just going to stay here yeah it's a pretext it's a rationale so it's like comforting yourself when you got like..."
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"...lockdowns. And so I think, you know, there are lots of pretexts that they can use to create these lockdowns. But they try to..."
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"and say there's a virus going around and people are going to like, you know, stay at home. So that's something that's trying to..."
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"But he never mentioned it again. And now the pretext, the excuse is, and this is what Marco Rubio told the press. He said..."
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"Iran, basically turn Iran into another Syria or Libya, because they can't, justify it to the American public. And so rather than, you know,..."
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"...so um so um from a military perspective there's no good pretext no good strategy for a ground invasion the problem is that given..."
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"...involved. In this significant police investigation. I mean. This is a pretext. To create public anger at Iran."
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"...base in Qatar or American interests overseas. They always need a pretext and Israel provides a perfect pretext. So not everyone does no one..."
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"...will do that. If it has enough, if it has a pretext."
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