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Jiang maps the U.S. escalation ladder as decapitation, military targets, economic embargo, civilian infrastructure, secret weapons, biochemical weapons, then nuclear weapons.
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U.s. Escalation Ladder
Jiang maps the U.S.
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"Does that make sense to you guys? All right? Any questions? Okay. So that's a theory. All right? So now what we're going to..."
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"That's the second step. And the idea is that you beat the crap out of the military so they surrender. But that didn't work..."
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"Okay? And so you can keep on escalating. And then what you do is that now that you've attacked the civilians and they still..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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