Professor Jiang

So am I right in thinking, because Iran, Russia and China were colluding, it threatened US dominance, which is driven by the world using the dollar as the primary currency for trading?

Okay, so they felt they needed to invade because then they can control more of the Middle East?

So as part of your prediction in 2024, I believe it was, you said that the US would lose this war.

Right.

Why did you predict that the US will lose this war with Iran?

How are they, you know, because he's taken out the leaders.

And do you also think that Trump thought that if I just bomb the leader, then everything will sort of regenerate itself and we'll be fine?

What was the sort of fundamental misunderstanding?

And he didn't realise that Iran is fundamentally different from Venezuela.

Did he think that he was going to bomb Iran, the people would rise up, they would elect a new government, and that would be that, and then he could control Iran?

What's a war of attrition?

What's that?

And Trump didn't, you think they'd consider this before they started bombing Iran, that Iran would have some leverage in shutting down such a critical piece of water for, you know, shipping fertilizer, energy, etc.

You think that they would have known this?

When you say the Western Hemisphere, what do you mean?

What region is that?

Is that Canada as well?

Okay, so everything over here.

So supercharged the US defense industrial base.

That's exactly correct.