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Pre-war or wartime limits among major parties over what forms of support, escalation, and weapon use are allowed.
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Rules of engagement
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Jiang defines rules of engagement as pre-war agreements among major parties over what actions are allowed, using Ukraine as an analogy for permitted weapons, finance, and intelligence support but not NATO troops.
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He proposes that one motive for the Caribbean campaign is to remake the American military into a more Trump-loyal force willing to follow harsh orders without the old constraints.
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"...We have to return to being warriors. No more stupid rules of engagement. You know, just kill your enemies and show no mercy, okay?..."
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"doing is they're just implementing policies that were announced in late September and what they're really trying to do is they're trying to revamp..."
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"...okay? The answer is, in a war, there's something called rules of engagement. And so before they have a war, all the major parties..."
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"Okay? So the same thing would happen if the United States were to invade Iran. Before the actual invasion, there would be an agreement..."
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"...does that make sense so the idea is war the rules of engagement require me to only attack soldiers and only attack weapons but..."
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"...was founded by too many rules, okay? What they call rules of engagement, okay? Or basically avoiding war crimes. You're not allowed to kill..."
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"...globalism. Now it's about America first. Before it was about rules of engagement. Now it's about the warrior ethos, okay? Please continue reading, Irene."
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"You know, we will disregard all rules of engagement. We will engage in maximum lethality. So he's really talking to a special group of..."
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"...this is the military so they have um lots of rules of engagement if they do not believe there's credible um um cause to..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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