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Jiang reads Candace Owens's Russia messaging as evidence that sanctions branding does not break Russia and that she is willing to mock Western assumptions about Russian isolation.
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Jiang says Russia matters only marginally to China's total trade, yet Russia has become increasingly dependent on China since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the resulting Western sanctions.
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Jiang says Germany's sanctions response backfired because losing cheap Russian energy forced it to buy American LNG at a roughly 50 percent markup, worsening German economic decline relative to other major European states.
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Jiang says Iran differs from Venezuela because decades of sanctions have made the Iranian elite unified against the United States, with little to lose by fighting.
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He argues that targeted sanctions on Russian business elites removed their Western option and unified them around Putin, whereas broad U.S. pressure on China allegedly leaves Chinese business elites able to resist Xi Jinping.
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Jiang argues that Western expectations in February 2022 were that Ukraine would defeat Russia, sanctions would destroy the Russian economy, and the war would strengthen NATO and isolate Russia.
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Jiang argues that sanctions have not worked because Russia has oil and food that other economies still need, while Russia has also shifted toward a war economy.
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Jiang says the IRGC's monopoly of power and control of a large share of the economy produced corruption and economic stagnation, alongside the effects of Western sanctions.
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"So we're going to have a quick look. Kenneth Owens, the founder of ProDiabetes, is the one and only Canadian netizen in the world,..."
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"And, um, kind of Owen says, we called Russia, they couldn't have Starbucks and they said, fine, we'll just change the name. Okay. So..."
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"...highly dependent on its relationship with China because all these economic sanctions imposed on it by the West. Okay? So as you can see,..."
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"...Russia invaded Ukraine, Europe and the United States responded by imposing sanctions on Russia. The problem is that Germany was dependent on cheap Russian..."
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"You can tell from this chart the impact on Europe's economy. Where, okay, in 2019, they wouldn't buy that much. They wouldn't buy that..."
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"...to China and Americans don't really appreciate how, um, devastating these sanctions were on China, on the Chinese economy. So let me, let me..."
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"I was like, what's the problem? And he's like, we can't actually update the software. And then I was like, okay, okay, here, okay,..."
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"It cannot debug the existing, uh, software. Um, so, uh, that shows you how much innovation comes from abroad. China itself lacks the capacity..."
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"...a peace treaty with Iran. America should have lifted all trade sanctions against Iran and allowed for civilian Iranian enrichment. And this would have..."
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"The Pentagon has asked Detroit, General Motors, and Ford to start war munitions manufacturing. So it seems as though the American home front is..."
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"deem breaking sanctions so this could include russian uh shadow fleet uh tankers this can include chinese this can include iranian uh so if..."
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"...them. All you had to do was we, we moved the sanctions against them and they would have been probably happy to join your..."
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This first founding-members stream matters less as a news recap than as a method demonstration.
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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George Galloway brings Jiang on for an immediate wartime reading, and Jiang answers by turning battlefield questions into a larger trap structure.
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