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He says U.S. leadership knew early that Vietnam was unwinnable despite dropping more bombs in Vietnam in the 1960s than were dropped in World War II.
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Unwinnable WAR
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...liquefied gas uh it's going to force us into this pointless unwinnable war in ukraine um and uh they are imposing tariffs on us..."
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Jiang says Vietnam was unwinnable because insurgents could disappear into tunnels, acquire U.S. weapons and unexploded ordnance, and grow angrier as civilian casualties mounted.
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"And it made three major points. The first point, is that American leadership, military leadership, has been expanding the war in Vietnam without public..."
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"You couldn't win this war, okay? And the reason why is that these Vietnamese peasants, they were unbeatable. Because what they were doing was..."
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"You're now arming the enemy, right? Because these peasants would pick up these ammo and use it themselves. That's the first thing. Second thing..."
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"yourself, no matter how much weapons you can bring into this country, how are you going to win this war? The other thing is..."
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"...liquefied gas uh it's going to force us into this pointless unwinnable war in ukraine um and uh they are imposing tariffs on us..."
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"...of Ukraine in order to fight in this war. It's an unwinnable war. So I think this war is lost. That's number one. Number..."
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"...best way to do that is by dragging them into an unwinnable war."
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"...is to destroy the American empire by rolling it into an unwinnable war against Iran. But not only that, but to compel the American..."
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"...this is a bad thing. But a civil war, and an unwinnable war in the Middle East, are going to greatly enhance the power..."
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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.
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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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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After the ceasefire announcement, Jiang refuses to read the moment as peace.
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On June 22, 2025, the morning after Trump orders strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, Jiang turns the Iran war into a three-player game.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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