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He forecasts escalation pressure to rise and labels the Gulf of Tonkin style move as a likely pretext pattern, warning that a ground invasion of Iran would be strategically disastrous and socially costly.
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War risk
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He argues that Trump's announced embargo on Venezuelan oil shipments amounts to a de facto declaration of war, with threatened airstrikes serving as the next coercive step.
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The host says China has been the world's largest economy by purchasing-power parity since 2014 and that Russia, despite renewed material strength, is still excluded from the European table, making the current order a recipe for war rather than stability.
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Alexander says Russia has been extremely alert to the danger of false-flag operations and has warned about that possibility many times throughout the special military operation.
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"Yeah, but the person that knew that better than anybody was President Trump. You know, I've known him a long time. You have. Yes,..."
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"And after that, I think that the Iranians recognized that there really is no hope in negotiating with the Americans. The Americans want to..."
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"know whether the nuclear aircraft carrier is taken out by Iranian attacks or by sailors stuffing their own clothing into the sewerage system to..."
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"OK. So China imports 80 percent of U.S. dollars. China imports 80 percent of Venezuela's oil. OK, so 80 percent of Venezuela's oil goes..."
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"Yet all its major waterways that is outside, you know, internally in Germany are patrolled and controlled by the British. It's... It doesn't really..."
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"Yet they're supposed to be the only country in Europe which doesn't have a seat at the table. So all these red flags should......"
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"that's absolutely right but the Russians have been extremely on top of the possibility of false flags beyond the special military operation they warned..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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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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