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Iran’s decision tree aims to force the United States to admit defeat and retreat from GCC military bases so Iran can control Hormuz and world trade.
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World Trade
Iran’s decision tree aims to force the United States to admit defeat and retreat from GCC military bases so Iran can control Hormuz and world trade.
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The United States has no choice but to fight the war, in Jiang’s simple explanation, because preventing heartland unification is its strategy for maintaining world hegemony.
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Jiang formulates the hegemonic rule as: whoever controls world trade controls the world, and whoever controls the heartland controls world trade.
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"...control over the charitable moves and therefore it can control all world trade. All right? So that's the strategy. So this strategy means that..."
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"...maritime routes. Okay? America is still the hegemon because it controls world trade. Whoever controls world trade controls the world. Whoever controls the heartland..."
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"...come in. We'll let them in. We become member of the world trade organization. They want to send all their industries to us because..."
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"...the United Nations. Such as the World Bank. Such as the World Trade Organization. And so people didn't notice that the American empire was..."
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"...okay multinational organizations which includes the UN and the WTO okay World Trade Organization okay this is called the rules -based international order. okay..."
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"...the ones who hijack a plane and crash it into the World Trade Center so they can blame it on terrorists so they can..."
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"...six weeks before 9 -11, he buys the lease to the World Trade Center. Okay? Why is that stupid? Because the World Trade Center..."
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"Okay? And so the insurance company says, we value the World Trade Center at $1.5 billion. Okay? And Larry Silverstein says, no, it's not..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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