Glossary
Transcript renders this as 'FAD'/'Thermal High Altitude Air Defense'; Jiang uses it as an example of expensive U.S. anti-missile defense.
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THAAD
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "They're easy to make. They make about $500 a day. Okay? And, estimates are about there's 80,000 right now that the Iranians have. So,..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "They're easy to make. They make about $500 a day. Okay? And, estimates are about there's 80,000 right now that the Iranians have. So,..."
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American systems such as THAAD/Patriot are presented as strategically mismatched because they may spend millions of dollars trying to stop cheap drones and are large, slow, and visible targets.
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"They're easy to make. They make about $500 a day. Okay? And, estimates are about there's 80,000 right now that the Iranians have. So,..."
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"This missile, guys, costs one million dollars. One million dollars. So, there's this $50,000 drone coming your way and you throw a million dollar..."
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"...this newscast a couple of times that I've been watching the THAAD missile system, supposed to be the most incredible and sophisticated system in..."
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"...So we see these air defense systems, the Patriot system, the THAAD system, they don't really work. Even Israel's vaunted Iron Dome system, same..."
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"...then apparently the news just came in that there was more THAAD deployments, another four launchers. Yes. And so to me, that's kind of..."
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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