The speaker says Iran and Saudi Arabia fought three proxy or shadow wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The speaker argues that Iran defeated Saudi Arabia in the Iraq proxy war by exploiting Iraq's Shia majority after the U.S. invasion, and also won the Syria proxy war by supporting Assad alongside Russia.
The speaker says Qasem Soleimani was the second most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader and was responsible for Iran's Iraq, Syria, and Yemen policies, making him Saudi Arabia's public enemy number one.
Jiang predicts false flags in 2026 against American interests in Iraq, Syria, possibly the homeland, as part of the path to war with Iran.
Jiang says the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, which is why previous attacks on Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, and Sudan make future escalation toward Iran unsurprising.
He argues that after 9/11 the United States destroyed multiple Middle Eastern states for no good reason, revealing itself as a bully rather than a guarantor of order.
Jiang says the American model for a ground campaign in Iran is to use proxies backed by air power, as in Syria and Libya, but Iran is a much harder case.
Jiang says Iranians understand that American intervention would not liberate them but break Iran into ethnic enclaves, as he says happened elsewhere in the region.
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"...2026, right? So these attacks against American interests in Iraq, in Syria. And basically, and also possibly on the homeland as well. So yeah,..."
"...behavior is past behavior if they went after iraq libya uh syria lebanon yeah uh sudan yeah yeah why won't they go out there..."
"Right. So as you point out, America is desperate. It's anxious. It's afraid that its empire is collapsing and therefore it is lashing out..."
"...a flourishing, prosperous, middle -class nation, it destroyed Libya, it destroyed Syria, again, for no particular reasons. And so America started to become this..."
"...a ground invasion, and that's what they did very effectively in Syria and Libya, right, where they financed these rebel groups and then support..."
"...the nation of all Iran which is what they did in Syria and Libya you're gonna see the you know remember a good thing..."
"functioning state you have slave markets and uh in Libya so so the Iranians know this this is a war to the death and..."
"...state's capacity to deliver basic services like water and electricity. Libya, Syria are in a state of constant civil war, as is Iraq. So..."
"and Syria, and so the Iranian people and the government are will basically fight to maintain their, their nation."
"So all of the proxies right now, they either integrate, get eliminated, or they serve the interests that they've been paid to serve at..."
"And all of the regions are being divvied up. Now, the Middle East, the strategy is regional stability, because essentially China normalized between Iran..."
"...up you know these um third world nations like libya and syria because you want you want to scare the world i mean you..."
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