Glossary
Jiang uses the term for a U.S. strategy that destroys a society's functional elite, infrastructure, and internal cohesion so that a political order can be replaced.
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Regime change
Jiang uses the term for a U.S.
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diagnosis
He says the intent of oil embargoes and blackouts, using Cuba as an example, is to strangle a nation until the population wants to overthrow the government.
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definition
He defines the color revolution playbook as U.S. training, NGO financing, social-media control, protest organization, and security-service bribery designed to overthrow governments using local populations.
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The speaker claims Venezuela illustrates U.S. blockade strategy because after removing the president, America has a blockade over Venezuela and the Venezuelan government has become cooperative and obedient.
model
Civilian-infrastructure attacks can backfire by uniting the population behind the government, when the attacker’s aim is to split people from the regime.
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Jiang answers that a Venezuela-style strategy was the initial U.S. approach to Iran: kill leaders, hope a compliant new elite emerges, and force surrender through superior power.
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Modern warfare is mostly hybrid warfare: informational, media, cyber, psychological, covert, economic, and sabotage operations may precede or substitute for visible kinetic war.
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Jiang predicts Christian Zionists and Zionists will win the coalition dispute over Iran and push ground troops for regime change despite financiers and the Empire preferring lower-risk escalation.
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Jiang summarizes that Christian Zionists will emerge as the dominant power in the Middle East, drive U.S. policy, overwhelm the American empire and global financial elite, and force U.S. ground troops into Iran for regime change.
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"And they do have weather manipulation technology. The question is, the debate is, how effective the technology is and how powerful is it? And..."
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"And so the rest of the world is facing energy scarcity. Okay? And food scarcity is going to have to beg North America, the..."
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"They're doing it for Washington. They're not doing it for their own country. They're doing it for their masters in Washington. All right? Does..."
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"Okay? Basically, by. By controlling social media, by organizing young people, paying them to protest, and bribing security services to not intervene. Okay? It's..."
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"global trade to America basically being a mafia state, being pirates, and allowing you to use sea lanes and giving you trade access. Okay,..."
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"Venezuela government is very cooperative, okay? They're basically very obedient. And so what we can expect next is for Trump to exert authority over..."
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"Okay? Unless I see biochemical weapons being used, I refuse to believe that nuclear weapons is on the table. Okay? All right? So I..."
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"Will Americans take over Iran like what they did to Venezuela, like they captured their president?"
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"Okay. Look. The strategy in the beginning was to do a Venezuela in Iran, meaning you go in, you kill a leader, a new..."
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"...the United States and Israel are committed to a policy of regime change in Iran. Ideally, they would like to assassinate the Ayatollah Khomeini..."
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"...Zionists are very much interested in using ground troops to force regime change in Iran. The financiers and the Empire they're risk adverse. So..."
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"So I know that for many of you, this is extremely controversial history. And I don't have enough time to go into the specific..."
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