Professor Jiang
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You need ground troops.
And so unfortunately, what's going to happen over the next few months is that pressure will build on America to send ground troops, especially from the GCC countries and from Israel, which are being pounded right now by the Iranians.
So remember that if the GCC countries, Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, UAE, Iran, if they go, then the petrodollar goes with them.
So the Americans need to protect these countries.
And these countries are going to demand that either the Americans bribe the Iranians to cease, and this is like $520 in indemnity, okay?
Mm-hmm.
or send ground troops to wipe out the Iranian threat once and for all.
And I know that there's no political will for ground troops to be used against Iran among the American people.
But remember that 78% of American people was against initial strikes against Iran in the first place.
So I've always argued that both Saudi Arabia and Israel are heavily invested in regime change in Iran.
In fact, Saudi Arabia sees Iran as much more of an existential crisis than Israel.
Because remember, Israel still has nuclear weapons, and Israel is a very diverse, very sophisticated economy.
Whereas Saudi Arabia is completely reliant on oil.
And it's always had problems with Iran because Iran is a theocracy opposed to the Saudi monarchy.
Iran funds and equips the Houthis, which have been antagonistic towards Saudi Arabia for the longest time.
And right now, the Saudi economy is suffering.
It's been trying to pivot towards more of a tourist economy.
That's why they brought in Renato.
That's why they're switching to e-gaming.