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Jiang predicts that if Putin guarantees Iran protection under Russia's nuclear umbrella, Iran will provoke America into a wider war through Hezbollah, nuclear escalation, or Red Sea disruption.
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RED SEA
Jiang predicts that if Putin guarantees Iran protection under Russia's nuclear umbrella, Iran will provoke America into a wider war through Hezbollah, nuclear escalation, or Red Sea disruption.
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He uses Operation Prosperity Guardian and the Red Sea conflict with the Houthis as evidence that shock-and-awe assumptions are false because the United States lacks the infantry, ships, and force structure needed to stop them.
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"...attack Israel. It can expand its nuclear program. It can disrupt Red Sea shipping."
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"There are lots of ways that Iran can use to provoke America into a full -scale invasion, which is what Putin wants, all right?..."
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"...rebel group in Yemen, they started to attack ships in the Red Sea, okay? And a lot of trade goes through the Red Sea...."
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"...that, yes, we know we are losing the war in the Red Sea, and yes, we know that we cannot stop the Houthis, but..."
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"...threatening all the other GCC economies, threatening to close off the Red Sea for their proxies, the Houthis, and threatening to destroy pipelines and..."
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"...obvious thing that the Iranians can do is close off the Red Sea. And then they can strike at Gulf energy infrastructure. They can..."
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"...the Strait of Hormuz, but it can also close off the Red Sea, okay?"
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"...geography by the desert the Sarah desert and then by the Red Sea okay so Egypt has natural boundaries uh China also has natural..."
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"...new ideas. So Egypt has the Mediterranean, as well as the Red Sea. Mesopotamia goes into the Arabian Sea, which goes into the Indian..."
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"...most advanced civilization in the Bronze Age. Over here, across the Red Sea, is Arabia. And even though Arabia isn't really discussed that much..."
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"...the north is the Mediterranean Sea to the east is the Red Sea okay and then to the south are the cataracts so it..."
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"...have been disrupting shipping in the Middle East, in both the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz. Forty percent of the world's oil..."
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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...
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