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Jiang describes America's objectives as destroying Iran as a nation state by attacking infrastructure, encouraging ethnic uprisings, and isolating Iran from trade with Russia and China.
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Jiang says the global oil fires are probably deliberate acts to reduce world oil supply, with Russia and America as the actors most likely to have means, motive, and opportunity.
Jiang says Iran is central to Russian and Chinese trade corridors, so America will not stop attacking Iran while Iranian peace would let Russia and China trade with the world.
He predicts Russia will challenge America at maritime choke points through attrition, including around Cuba, and will also disrupt energy supplies to create dependency on Russia.
Jiang predicts most of the world will eventually side with Russia to balance the United States because America is too much of a bully, while China must work with both powers in the short term.
Jiang predicts that if the war drags on, economic strain will turn global opinion and even Russia and China against Iran while U.S.-Israeli strategy grows more coherent.
The speaker claims Ukrainian drone attacks destroyed a Russian oil terminal and took 40 percent of Russia's oil exports offline.
The speaker predicts the big event moving forward in 2026 is that Russia will militarize a roughly 1,000-ship shadow fleet with mercenaries and engage America in the oceans.
The speaker predicts Russia's goal at sea will not be to defeat the U.S. Navy outright, but to create a war of attrition that degrades U.S. naval capacity because American ships are old, hard to rebuild, and crewed by tired sailors.
"and you always look at three things means motive and opportunity and so from this you could figure out that the majority of these..."
"...major power in the world, you need to trade effectively. So Russia has something called the North -South Corridor. As you can see, it..."
"But if Russia, if Iran is being destroyed, there's too much war, this entire region is blocked off from both Russia and China, okay?..."
"...Well, in the long term, what's going to happen is that Russia will challenge America in these choke points. Okay? And this is already..."
"...the world to make the world more dependent on America, well, Russia can also blow up energy supplies to make the world dependent on..."
"ground troops, of U.S. planes, of U.S. artillery and tanks to the Middle East. So if there's really a peace, why is this happening?..."
"...will slowly turn against Iran. Okay? And even Iran's closest allies, Russia and China. Will feel the strain of this war and maybe even..."
"...to attack and destroy an oil depot, an oil terminal in Russia. And this means now that 40%, 40 % guys, of Russia's oil..."
"...is this. The big event this year, moving forward, is that Russia will militarize its shuttle fleet. Okay? Basically, Russia has a shuttle fleet..."
"...two years. This conflict in the seas that will arise between Russia and the United States. Okay? And then you ask yourself, okay, well,..."
"...is exactly what happened in Ukraine. For the past few years Russia has been dominating the battlefield and has been um killing many many..."
"...Iran. So you want to destroy Iran's capacity to trade with Russia and China. Okay? So if you look at what's happening one really..."
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