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Jiang answers that America is still the empire and will not fall because of this war, even in a worst-case scenario where it loses the war.
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War outcomes
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "You're absolutely right in that America is still the empire and America will not fall because of this war. Worst case scenario they lose..."
Key Notes
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Jiang argues that American and Iranian strategic objectives are not actually in conflict, so both sides could achieve their objectives by the end of the war.
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Gideon Levy says Israel has never truly benefited from its wars and that the present war will also leave long-run losses rather than security gains.
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"You're absolutely right in that America is still the empire and America will not fall because of this war. Worst case scenario they lose..."
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"of Iran in this war. Let's look at America. America is okay destroy Iran as a nation state. Okay? Which basically means you destroy..."
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"um Israel is humbled and the global economy is destroyed. But at the same time Iran is destroyed as a nation state it's balkanized..."
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"Well, let me, let me ask Gideon the same, the same question. Gideon, what do you, what do you think is going to happen..."
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"They always brought either immediate losses or losses for the long run like this fatal 1967 war which stacked us with this horrible, damped..."
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"Is Gaza a more stable place? Is the danger of Gaza smaller or bigger for the long run? Same will be here and I'm..."
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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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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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