Why America is Blindly Walking Into a Trap in Iran - Prof. Jiang Xueqin

The issue is that when empires decline and die, they do not sow peacefully. And so what we're seeing right now, as you say, is a decline of the American empire, but when an empire declines, it engages in certain uh counterproductive activities. So for example, it engages in too many overseas military commits. So So what we're seeing of of course it uh was the Venezuela kidnapping of Maduro. Um now we're seeing that a huge ama has assembled around Iran. It is possible that the Americans will strike Iran at at any time, possibly today, tomorrow. But very quickly, Trump has talked about annexing Greenland uh and Canada. He's talked about blockading Cuba. He's talked about regime change in Colombia, in Mexico. So, this is what an empire decline looks like. It it it's very very traumatic for the world and for America itself. And the domestic front, you see ruptures everywhere. So, if you've been following the news about Minnesota, there's almost like a civil war going on where you have a a heavy militarized opposition going on. You have the uh Minnesota local police who are being harassed by ICE agents, these offduty police officers who are who are of color, Latino or black. They're being stopped by ICE agents and being asked for the papers. And I think this is all very deliberate to provoke them. Kim Waltz, who is a governor of Minnesota, has has this deployed the National Guard to guard certain buildings. So, you have three possible uh forces, the local police, the National Guard, and the ICE and Border Patrol all in Minneapolis right now. And uh as you know, just yesterday, an American citizen who was 37 years old as pretty uh he is an ICU nurse. He was executing cold blood. We we can only call an execution based on the video evidence so far. I I understand that the Trump administration said that the ICE agents were acting in self-defense. If you just look at the videos, if you just look at eyewitness testimonies, he was a man who was disarmed and then he was shot in the back and then the ICE agents start to round up eyewitnesses and confiscate their mobile phones. So, it seems as though these ICE agents are for the reason they're trying to incite a civil war and there's there's there's fear that it's possible that one ICE agent might be shot by sniper at some point which would allow Trump to declare the interaction act. also possibility of a shutdown in Washington DC where the government no longer functions. There's all this um talk about the Epstein files and how the entire EP billionaire class in America is implicated in these epsen files. So right now in America it's really a powder cake and this powder keg can go off at any moment and there's talk of ICE being deployed to other cities as well throughout the nation. Again, Trump is just looking for any pretext right now to declare the insurrection act which would allow him to delay the midterm elections. And yeah, it's a very very dire situation for both Americans and for any citizen of the world right now. So what's happening is that the hypocrisy of American empire has been exposed. Everyone understands that the American empire only believes in might is right. In fact, Mark Carney has said this as well at the World Economic Forum and a speech that received a standing ovation from the audience. So right so across the world there's dismay there's disgust at the brutality at the mafia tactics of the American empire and the fact that the Americans can just violate a nation's sovereignty and kidnap the president and then not only that but to haul him before like like there was he he was put in a van and he was paraded on the streets of New York and now he's being tried even though according to national law as a president of Venezuela he does have immunity and he's being he's being charged with domestic American laws. for like for so for for example gun possession which is just ridiculous. So this entire thing is a farce and now you know Trump is talking about annexing Greenland. I know that at the World Economic Forum that he sort of compromised with the Europeans but I guarantee you in a week or two in a month or two he's going to go back to threatening to annex Greenland and it's possible he sends in some troops to annex Greenland. So just the pure mafia tactics of the American empire I think has disgusted the entire world including in China. And I think that if you examine what's happening in the United States right now, it's clearly a civil war. Uh it's being fought between the Democrats and the Republicans. I think behind these two parties lies different vested interests. So when the Republicans are mainly the financial global elite as represented by Wall Street, that's the old power and they came into power through um Clinton and Obama. Then sending with Trump are is a new money the Silicon Valley elite as exemplified by Elam, Peter Teal, JD Vance and you know they want to create an AI surveillance state. So these are the two major factions fighting out in America right now and these citizens um unfortunately unfortunately are just pawns in a larger game and that's why my great fear is that what's happening in Minnesota will escalate will spread across the country and it will engulf the nation especially if Trump decides to seek a third term which I suspect he will. The great danger right now is that Trump is creating loyal bases among the military. Okay. So I think that Peter Hex and his reforms in the Pentagon, it's really to weed out people who are not loyal to Trump and create a army that is more loyal to Trump so that when he does seek a third term essentially when he launches a day tie against the constitution, he will have the muscle in order to enforce this. ICE is turning out to be his secret police to get to get uh J get out and they're being very loyal. I mean, the fact that they shot an armar woman any good and then now they've shot another arm uh you know, innocent American uh citizen means that they are increasingly violent and therefore more and more beholden to Trump who is their warlord. So that's a great danger right now in America where Trump could could be the Julius Caesar of our age, which is what also Spangler predicted in um in in in in his works. And I I I think that the trends are clear. I think that we're moving towards that direction. And I hate to say this, but given historical trends, it seems as though Trump will succeed. It seems that he will get his third term. And it seems that the military will be more and more loyal to him, especially as he seeks more and more victories overseas. So, I'll make a point that in Donald Trump's national security strategy, okay, he argues that multilateralism is dead. It's a lie. And multilateralism is a pretext for the Europeans, the British to free ride on American military power, on American free on American generosity basically. So he says in the future America America is going to put self-interest first uh like above everything else. Okay? And so America says this and I think everyone should be doing this, right? China should be doing this, the UK should be doing this, Europe should be in this, okay? You should put national self-interest above everything else because that's the world we live in. Okay? The American empire, it's dying. America is trying to cling on to this empire and now it's it's it's devolved in this mafia empire where might makes right and so every nation needs to act in its own best interest. And right now as you say the the EU it's a huge bureaucracy that's not capable of being innovative that is not capable of being strategic. So it just continues to be what it is and it's leading to disaster. Right now, what they should be doing is trying to negotiate as quickly as possible an end to this war in Ukraine because it is not helping anyone that this war continues. And the longer that this war continues, uh, the more people will suffer. But instead, the EU is continuing this war in Ukraine because honestly, these are bureaucrats and they do not know what else to do. They don't want to lose faith. They don't admit they're wrong and they don't want to suffer the consequences for their mistakes. And so, the EU right now has become its wor it its worst enemy. uh this bureaucracy is blinding these these nations from making strategic long-term interests. I think the Americans are extremely corrupt. And so, you know, Trump just recently announced that he's going to increase the P Pentagon budget for from a trillion dollars to $ 1.5 trillion. You know, America already outspends everyone else in the world in military spending. And no, there's no military in the world that can actually challenge the American military. So, so why is he spending this much money? Well, the answer is kickbacks to the military-industrial complex. Okay, so this money does not mean uh troops will be paid better. In fact, troops are many American troops are actually on food stamps. It's just ridiculous. It does not mean a more effective fighting force. It means more corruption. It means more weapon systems that have no relevance in modern warfare. It means the golden dome, right? And you know this 5% new spending it's really the vasilization of Europe where you know now these European states to please Trump they have to like pay off these American military contractors like Rathon and Boeing. You know that's the entire point of all this. It's not to you know start more wars. It's not to make NATO much more potent against uh Russia. It's just it's just so that Trump's friends can continue to steal some more from the people. I you know I'm sorry. And this is why the war in Ukraine will not end. It's a huge money laundering operation. A million Ukrainians have died already. Putin has offered peace countless times. This war is over. But unfortunately, this is not about winning the war. It's not about defending Europe. It's not about countering Putin aggression. It's all about money laundering. That's all it is. So, I think that China is very conservative with its foreign policy. And so, what's happening in the South China Sea, there is a lot of conflict, but it's it's caused by the fact that China is blockaded by the first island in chain. And if America were ever choose to embargo China first island chain then China will lose access to overseas markets which is the like lifeblood of the Chinese economy. So China imports a third of its food from overseas. China imports 3/4 of its oil from overseas and all that passes through the straight of Malaka. So it's very easy for America to blockade China. So just for its long-term strategic best interest, China needs some military presence in South China Sea. Okay, that's number one. Number two is that there will be a time when America has to retreat from Southeast Asia because you know it's in civil war or because it's bankrupt or for whatever reason. Okay. Which which which means that uh Japan will most likely become the dominant naval power in Southeast Asia and China needs to prepare for the day when it has to confront Japan militarily in the South China Sea. Look, if you just look at the history between these two countries, there's a lot of conflict. Okay. So, I think that the Chinese are perfectly happy with America being being a dominant hegeimon in the South China Sea because the Americans believe in in in global trade, but the Japanese I mean it's a resource poor island and so it needs to build resource colonies throughout Southeast Asia. It has this history of doing so. So, Japan will be militarily aggressive and so China needs to to preempt this strategically. So I think these these are the two factors driving a lot of China South China Sea policy and I I think I think it's very very conservative and I think it makes sense. So Prime Minister Taki like a month ago said that Taiwan was a vital strategic interest for Japan and this was very provocative. This was very controversial because for the longest time it was basically like let's pretend that Taiwan is both independent and a part of China. If you don't say anything we won't say anything. Okay. Okay, so that was just a status quo for the longest time among the major powers in Southeast Asia. And for Takayachi to say that we will defend Taiwan if it were to be attacked and that is a direct provocation towards China. And this relationship between Japan and China right now is extremely extremely strained and we can see we can expect an isolation over next few months. Now if you just look at this from a game theory perspective the issue with Japan right now is its aging crisis and in 20 years time it's not going to have the economy the population and the political will to fight a war with China and in 20 years time it's possible that China is so strong that it's able to reunify with Taiwan economically in which case China is not a position to blockade Japan in which case Japan starves. So Japan's not thinking like okay well can we fight can we take on China militarily. It's more like the t the clock is running out on us and we need to act now. Okay the Americans are are about to leave Southeast Asia. Japan China is on the rise. We need to seek decisive confrontation now or never. It has to be a 5-year time frame because in 20 years time we'll be too old to fight a war. So, so I hate to say this, but that that is a strategic calculation uh for the Japanese right

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