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Jiang says the United States and Israel escalated from sanctions and bombing toward possible siege logic: cutting Tehran's railways and roads, attacking infrastructure, and threatening Iran if Hormuz remained closed.
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Siege
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In the most severe formulation, Jiang says the strategy would be to besiege Tehran by cutting railways and roads and forcing the population into starvation.
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Jiang predicts Europe would have to defend Odessa 'to the last European,' exhausting itself in a siege that produces heavy casualties and political revolt back home.
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Jiang predicts that the NATO-Russia conflict will culminate in a years-long battle or siege of Odessa that functions like a second Stalingrad.
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"Right so we've seen a very strange sequence of events these past six weeks. The war's been going on for about six weeks. And..."
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"...off the railway system, the roads which would put Tehran under siege. They couldn't get food and water from the other parts of Iran...."
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"off torrent basically to cut off all railways cut off all roads and basically force"
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"the population into starvation so this is where you think we're going uh i think destroying the population or as trump would say kill..."
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"be the strategy going forward yes to to basically besiege torrent it's just such a big country it"
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"...European. And that's where the next major conflict will be, the siege of Odessa. And if the siege of Odessa were to happen, the..."
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"...Russia encircles Odessa and NATO refuses to surrender Odessa. And this siege could last for a number of years. And after the siege happens,..."
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"...and they were surrounded by this huge empire. They were under siege, and they were starving. So one young nobleman, Mucius, and he's like..."
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"...times. And Cubans are obviously sitting there in the middle, under siege, paying keen attention to what's going on. It may seem easy for..."
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"...be part of that. But the Americans will also try to siege Karg Island. They will try to seize the Iranian coastline. And so..."
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"...trump and at this time trump was bankrupt he was under siege because of law fair his house mar -a -lago was raided by..."
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"...other, but it'll be impossible to govern a nation. You'll have sieges of New York City, of Boston. You'll have massive sectarian warfare between..."
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