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Washington was surprised by Trump's 2016 victory and sabotaged the first Trump administration through leaks, Russiagate, and internal turnover.
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Trump first term
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "now let's get back to the video so in the first trump administration his election caught everyone by surprise uh if you go back..."
Key Notes
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Jiang says Trump's first-term decisions already pointed toward a future Iran war, including the embassy move to Jerusalem, the Soleimani assassination, and the Abraham Accords.
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Jiang says media narratives, cabinet resistance, and security-state insubordination during Trump's first term made institutional opposition visible and fed his martyr image.
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Jiang treats Trump's first-term withdrawal from the nuclear deal, Jerusalem embassy move, Abraham Accords, and Soleimani assassination as the continuity behind the coming Iran strike.
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Jiang roots the present Iran crisis in Trump's first-term pro-Israel policy sequence, culminating in Soleimani's killing as a destabilizing act.
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"now let's get back to the video so in the first trump administration his election caught everyone by surprise uh if you go back..."
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"administration there was russiagate um you know where uh the the mainstream media was was promoting this hoax that trump is a putin agent..."
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"know it or does he know it yeah so i think this war is unwinnable um and the moment that you go into iran..."
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"the abraham accords which brought together um saudi arabia and israel and so he was doing all these things that from american foreign policy..."
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"Right. The media was spreading this Russian hoax that, you know, that that that Trump was was a Putin spy and and you had..."
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"Yeah, so let me clarify my comments. So my feeling is that they will attack Iran. They will use airstrikes. It will be very..."
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"embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which is extremely provocative. He initiated something called the Abraham Accords, which sought to brought peace between Israel..."
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"...for some context and background, if you remember about in Trump's first term, he's very much a pro -Israel president. Yes. Meaning that he..."
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"...One point, one thing I will say is remember during Trump first term, the liberal elite basically sold their soul to the deep state...."
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: the Iran file is really about strangling China, while Canada's new China turn is read not as strategy but as a banker trying to offload a...
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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