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In the scenario, U.S. and allied forces quickly establish air supremacy, bring a supercarrier into the Strait of Hormuz, land 100,000 U.S. troops plus large Saudi forces in southern Iran, and prepare to strike Tehran.
He predicts the next American approach will rest on three pillars: economic strangulation, limited ground footholds that exploit ethnic fissures, and direct pressure on Tehran's civilian infrastructure.
Talabani says Pakistan sending a team to Tehran gives reason for optimism and that one bad day should not end negotiations.
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.
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.
Jiang says the American strikes on Tehran are war crimes because they hit civilian oil infrastructure and leave the city covered in toxic fallout that will cause long-term cancer.
Jiang says the bombing has unified Tehran and the broader Persian population against the United States, even though Tehran would otherwise have been the city most open to regime change.
Jiang says Iran's terrain and scale make fantasies of a short decapitation campaign unrealistic and that conquering Tehran would require years and deep logistics.
"So they're talking about a pretty heavy assault. Okay. So. Okay. So my understanding is that, and I'm just talking about this from a..."
"...trying to set up a ground invasion against the government in Tehran, okay? So that's the second approach. The third approach."
"...the ethnic Pakistanis. They've always had issues with the government in Tehran because the government in Tehran is Shia and they are Sunnis, okay?..."
"...I'm optimistic now that the Pakistanis are sending a team to Tehran very soon to continue the negotiations. And I think one day where..."
"...lot of strange events. So the moment that the Americans attacked Tehran and killed their supreme leader the Iranians basically closed off the Strait..."
"choke and strangle Tehran to death meaning cutting off the railway system, the roads which would put Tehran under siege. They couldn't get food..."
"off torrent basically to cut off all railways cut off all roads and basically force"
"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..."
"be the strategy going forward yes to to basically besiege torrent it's just such a big country it"
"first of all what the Americans are doing in Tehran is essentially war crimes right so they destroyed oil facilities there's a civilian oil..."
"So, Iraq was a desert, which makes it ideal for an air campaign. And this war was wrapped up in two weeks' time. There's..."
"You said three weeks in your lecture, that they bragged that it was three weeks to— Yeah, two or three weeks."
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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