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In response to an Iraq-route question, Jiang argues that Iraq's sovereignty, Shia militias, mountain terrain, and drones would prevent an easy staging or withdrawal route for U.S. troops.
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Shia Militias
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In Jiang's conditional escalation model, Iran can provoke Israel and the United States by encouraging Hezbollah, Shia militias in Iraq, and the Houthis to widen conflict.
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"And once it becomes trapped, some cost fallacy comes into play and America just puts in all its resources into the country, but it's..."
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"Okay? And they would see the American invasion force as something, as an opportunity to attack the Americans. Okay? Because they're still angry about..."
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"...determined to eventually attack Iran in some way. You also have Shia militias in Iraq who could attack U.S. military bases. Okay? You also..."
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"...abandon its proxies in the Middle East, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the Shia militias in Iraq and Hamas. And to end or drastically reduce its..."
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"...willing to negotiate with about our proxies as well as the shia militias hamas and the houthis but we're also in the negotiate our..."
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"...attack. They, through their proxies, the Hufis, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Shia militias, have been able to really grasp the American mentality. And now,..."
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"...ambassador in the Middle East, he's the one who runs the Shia militias in Iraq. He is the go between for Hezbollah and Hamas...."
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"...in Yemen, Syria, the Assad regime in Syria, as well as Shia militia in Iraq. Okay? And so all the money that the Revolutionary..."
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"...asked you to research. And the axis of resistance includes the Shia militias in Iraq. Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas, and the Houthis in..."
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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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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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The hosts begin by replaying Jiang's earlier prediction that Trump would win, the United States would fight Iran, and America would lose.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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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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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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