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Jiang says Iranian restraint in the war follows from a Zoroastrian-style need to fight for light and truth rather than appear as villains.
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Restraint
Jiang says Iranian restraint in the war follows from a Zoroastrian-style need to fight for light and truth rather than appear as villains.
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Key Notes
prediction
Jiang predicts China will not be heard from much in the Iran conflict and can largely be discounted as a decisive participant.
diagnosis
He distinguishes Washington’s revered restraint from Hamilton’s founding vision: Washington could have become king but retired, while Hamilton supplied the imperial-industrial blueprint.
normative
Reason without love's relational restraint can reason its way to concentration camps, nuclear bombs, and genocide.
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Jiang suspects that politicians such as Raisi urged patience and restraint after Soleimani's killing and the April 2024 Damascus strike, while the IRGC wanted vengeance and war.
prediction
Jiang distinguishes between the United States losing a war with Iran and Iran winning it: he says Iran would be devastated, with tens of millions dying for no reason.
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"So light versus dark, and then you have a day of judgment. Okay, where the god Ahura Masta will come down and he will..."
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"will lead to Vietnam War protests and conflicts across America, which may in the end trigger an American civil war. So that's Putin and..."
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"Geopolitics doesn't really matter. So I would say these are the three big questions that we can watch out for. Will the Americans be..."
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"Because ultimately, the Americans didn't actually defeat the British. It was the French, the Spanish, who combined together to defeat the British. And eventually,..."
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"He's really the one who has the vision of where America could go, of what America could be. Okay? His name is Alexander Hamilton...."
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"...someone else. And because of that idea, interconnectedness, it puts a restraint on your reason. But if you're capable of reasoning by yourself, you..."
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"So there are people who are thinking like, maybe the problem isn't Israel. Maybe the problem isn't the United States. Maybe the problem is..."
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"...States right now is suicidal. So they were urging caution and restraint. And the Revolutionary Guard Corps didn't like that. And then April 1st..."
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"Because they have too much power. And they are creating too much tension. Overseas. And they are too fanatical. Okay? And so. It is..."
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Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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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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