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Jiang argues that shock and awe is not meant to stabilize countries; it is meant to topple or destroy countries so no Middle Eastern power can challenge U.S.
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Jiang argues that shock and awe is not meant to stabilize countries; it is meant to topple or destroy countries so no Middle Eastern power can challenge U.S. supremacy.
Jiang says evidence from Iraq's post-invasion breakdown supports the argument that shock and awe was designed to destroy countries rather than build democratic replacements.
"Okay, so, okay, that's a great point, okay? You can make the point that America for the past 20 years have lost all wars..."
"And it comes down to what is the ultimate design and intention of the empire? Is it to replace regimes? Or is it to..."
"The third thing is that the very first thing the American government did when they took control over Iraq is something called depopulation, okay?..."
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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