Jiang’s shorthand for decapitating a regime and expecting a pro-American elite to negotiate surrender.
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Venezuela strategy
Jiang’s shorthand for decapitating a regime and expecting a pro-American elite to negotiate surrender.
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"Will Americans take over Iran like what they did to Venezuela, like they captured their president?"
"Okay. Look. The strategy in the beginning was to do a Venezuela in Iran, meaning you go in, you kill a leader, a new..."
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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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