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In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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Fresh water is used as a stability index: regions with abundant water are less prone to conflict, while water-poor regions become future conflict zones.
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China's water position is unstable because much of the water that India and Southeast Asia depend on flows from the Tibetan plateau, creating a future flashpoint if drought leads China to keep water upstream.
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"...civilian infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity, and food, the basic necessities of life. Okay? Why do I..."
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"as the economy right so the most most basic thing is water okay look guys these are all dams and reservoirs around iran okay..."
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"population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so..."
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"if you have a lot of water, you're less prone to conflict, but if you don't have that much water, then you're prone to..."
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"...China though, is this. China sits on a lot of fresh water. There's a lot of fresh water that Southeast Asia and India depends..."
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"Water and electricity. Okay? And financing. They cost a lot. They waste a lot of water. They waste a lot of electricity. And, it's..."
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"...population, but they don't have agricultural resources. They also don't have water resources. And so they have two major vulnerabilities, which is food and..."
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"Okay. So a desalination plant takes salt water from the seas, and then through an electrochemical process, turns it into portable water that people..."
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"...have some leverage in shutting down such a critical piece of water for shipping fertilizer, energy, et cetera? You think that they would have..."
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"...strangle Tehran is you deny them three things. You deny them water, electricity, and food. Okay. So you attack power plants. You attack reservoirs...."
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"...the Americans want to knock out Tehran's capacity to provide food, water, and electricity to its people. But from the Caspian Sea, the Russians..."
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"...neighbors and say, listen, there's a blackout and there's probably no water. But don't fear because if we come together as a community, if..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
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