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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So, these past four years, we've seen NATO reconnaissance, NATO intelligence, NATO weaponry, NATO intelligence, NATO special forces. You look at the curse offensive,..."
He argues Russia has shown restraint because it is winning, its economy can absorb the war, and time favors Moscow as Europe accumulates political and economic crises.
Jiang says he does not expect nuclear weapons to shape events over the next ten years.
Jiang says midterm predictions are hard on a one-year horizon because there is not enough information or data to support a stable forecast.
"So, these past four years, we've seen NATO reconnaissance, NATO intelligence, NATO weaponry, NATO intelligence, NATO special forces. You look at the curse offensive,..."
"You know, I actually discount the use of nuclear weapons. I don't think nuclear weapons will be ever used. First of all, it's ultimately..."
"...problem with predictive history is you need to have a larger time horizon. So you would ask me, like, next year, what's going to..."
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable historical method, then uses the interview to argue that Soleimani's assassination made a later U.S.-Iran war structurally legible, that Iran wins by luring America into ground commitment,...
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