prediction
As of June 18, 2025, Jiang expects the United States will probably bomb Iran in the next couple of days even though it has not yet declared war.
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War forecast
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prediction
Jiang predicts that the most likely regional outcome over the next few years is an American war with Iran that destroys US morale, forces an American retreat from the Middle East, and leaves Israel holding the former US military architecture in the region.
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"The only impediment to Israel becoming an empire in the Middle East is America. You have the American military assets in the Middle East,..."
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"Hi YouTube, this is Professor Jiang again. I am in Toronto. I'm still trying to recover from the jet lag and the time difference...."
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The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
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