Jiang argues Iran has more advantages than the United States because it can credibly threaten Gulf desalination, oil infrastructure, food routes, and political stability while the U.S. public is divided and unclear about the war's purpose.
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U.S. public opinion
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Jiang argues the war's changing U.S. rationales deepen American division, while civilian deaths and the memory of U.S. destruction in Iraq, Libya, and Syria make the conflict a fight to the death for Iran but a war of choice for Americans.
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"So what they're trying to do is they're trying to split off the GCC from the American empire. They're trying to cause instability within..."
"Basically destroy the desalination plants, the electric grid. Iran's response was that if you do so, then we will destroy the desalination plants of..."
"And it seems as though the rationale behind this war changed every day. So maybe in the beginning, it was about protests. And then..."
"You've seen what they've done. You've seen what they've done in Libya and Syria. This is a war of destruction. The Americans are hoping..."
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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