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Jiang compares the proposed destruction of Iran with Iraq after 2003, where de-Baathification destroyed state capacity and helped produce ongoing sectarian violence.
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Sectarian Violence
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Jiang predicts America may face years of sectarian violence, riots, and National Guard deployments if the Iran war leads to a national draft, but not necessarily a full civil war.
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Jiang says the resulting American civil war would be low-intensity and sectarian rather than a classic army-versus-army conflict, but still sufficient to force imperial withdrawal from the world.
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"Look, I mean, if you just look at America's history in the Middle East for the past 20 years, what they did in Iraq,..."
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"...basic services to the Iraqi people. And this led to massive sectarian violence. That's still raging today. It's still going on in Iraq. So..."
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"And so from a geopolitical perspective, if the world is retreating into self -sufficiency, if there's mercantilism, if there's trade barriers, then America has..."
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"...unfortunately, America, it's probably gonna suffer a long, many years of sectarian violence, not a full fledged civil war, but maybe something along the..."
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"...So it'll be very complicated, but there'll be a lot of sectarian violence in America, which then forces America out of the world. America..."
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"It led to massive sectarian violence that continues even today in Iraq. So I can't believe that anyone is stupid to not know the..."
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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