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The speaker claims Venezuela illustrates U.S. blockade strategy because after removing the president, America has a blockade over Venezuela and the Venezuelan government has become cooperative and obedient.
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Venezuela
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...The Don Raul Doctrine, right? And that's why they went after Venezuela. That's why they're going to go after Cuba next. That's why eventually..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...The Don Raul Doctrine, right? And that's why they went after Venezuela. That's why they're going to go after Cuba next. That's why eventually..."
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Jiang argues that Trump believed a successful U.S. kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela showed that a similar spectacular operation could work in Iran.
prediction
He forecasts near-term conflict across Europe, the United States, South America, East Asia, and the Middle East, including Europe-Russia war, civil wars, a U.S. attack on Venezuela, and eventual U.S.-Iran war.
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He argues that this imperial turn would aim at a self-sufficient continental fortress spanning territory and influence from Panama and the Caribbean up through Greenland and Canada.
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He argues that, from China's perspective, doing business with a consolidated empire can be easier than working through a corrupt client regime such as Venezuela.
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Jiang reads recent moves in Venezuela, the Caribbean, and Iran as a military imposition of America First: onshore production and force the world to buy American oil.
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The December national security strategy treats the Western Hemisphere as American territory, including Venezuela's oil and South America's lithium triangle.
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A devastated GCC and closed Hormuz would make Venezuelan oil development financially attractive to oil executives who otherwise reject it.
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"...The Don Raul Doctrine, right? And that's why they went after Venezuela. That's why they're going to go after Cuba next. That's why eventually..."
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"...China is going to deal with anyone. So you look at Venezuela. They're trying to really care that America went in and took over..."
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"...these past few months especially with the kidnapping of maduro in venezuela especially with one -third of american naval assets patrolling the caribbean especially..."
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"...for its ai and ev industries including all the oil in venezuela they belong to america and so um everything that we're seeing right..."
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"And basically, Trump's like, you know, Venezuela is ours for the take in. And the world executives rebuffed him and said, no, well, we..."
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"...resources. So we saw that the United States in January attacked Venezuela, and now it's attacked Iran. Recently, these past few days, there was..."
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"...permission from the U.S. government. And the example, of course, is Venezuela, where they removed the president. And now they basically have a blockade..."
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"Venezuela government is very cooperative, okay? They're basically very obedient. And so what we can expect next is for Trump to exert authority over..."
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"...sane. Okay? This is June 3rd, when the Americans swept into Venezuela and kidnapped their president, Maduro, thus ending the conflict between Venezuela and..."
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"this in Venezuela, we can do this in Iran. And this explains how and why Donald Trump would agree to such an insane plan..."
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"...a grand bargain where um and so for example look at venezuela where trump has said that american companies will go and modernize the..."
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"...podcast. And I kept on arguing that this American war in Venezuela makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you look at it from a..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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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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