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The speaker says Iran and Saudi Arabia fought three proxy or shadow wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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The speaker treats Yemen as the proxy war that directly threatened Saudi Arabia because the Houthis could align with Iran on Saudi Arabia's border.
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The speaker says Saudi Arabia launched a large Yemen invasion backed by advanced U.S. weapons, a broad coalition, and a shock-and-awe strategy under Operation Decisive Storm.
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The speaker concludes that Saudi Arabia lost the Yemen war because the Houthis could inflict massive economic damage on Saudi Arabia.
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The speaker says the Yemen war taught Saudi Arabia three lessons: defeating local enemies requires defeating Iran, the Saudi economy is extremely vulnerable, and Saudi Arabia needs America to fight Iran for it.
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The speaker says Qasem Soleimani was the second most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader and was responsible for Iran's Iraq, Syria, and Yemen policies, making him Saudi Arabia's public enemy number one.
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Simon argues that the region's proxies are being integrated, eliminated, or reassigned as powers negotiate Yemen, Somaliland, Somalia, Syria, and broader Middle Eastern borders from positions of leverage.
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Jiang reads the leaked White House war-camp split around Yemen as evidence that the administration is staging a visible internal drama between anti-war and hawkish factions.
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"...to serve at the moment. And so in the case of Yemen, you've got the Houthis, which have historically been funded via Haitian promotion..."
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"And all of the regions are being divvied up. Now, the Middle East, the strategy is regional stability, because essentially China normalized between Iran..."
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"he tells us to do we'll just ignore okay this is I don't know I mean this sounds like treason to me right but..."
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"he's gonna play up throughout his entire term that you know that there's this two major factions within the White House and it seems..."
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"course a lot of hoofies in Yemen they're poor they don't have access to modern weapons they're being a crap out of the Americans..."
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"So for example, in Israel, there are two groups opposing Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. And they're both financed and supported politically by Iran. And..."
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"And it could do so because two -thirds of the population were Shias. And therefore, they had affinity with Iran. And a third were..."
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"...war, Iran won as well. Now, there's another proxy war in Yemen, okay? And it started in 2016. So, the wars in Iraq and..."
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"They also had a coalition of about 30 nations, including Egypt and the UAE. Saudi Arabia named this operation Decisive Storm, right? Which sounds..."
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"And guess what, guys? It's really, really easy to blow up oil fields. Okay? So, that's what the Houthis were doing. They were sending,..."
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"The first thing it learned is that if it wants to defeat their enemies, the Houthis, the Syrians, and the Iraqis, they also need..."
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"So, MBS was looking very good. But then, in 2018, he did something that scared the world. Okay? MBS had, was a visionary. He..."
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