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Pepe Escobar : It's DANGEROUS to Be Right When Government Is Wrong

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How did Iran

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engineer its multipolar

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breakthrough? I know that you could

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write a treatise on that, but you know,

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in the

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>> Yes, we could we could write a treaty on

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that.

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>> How did they engineer this? Because the

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whole world recognizes

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that Iran defeated Israel and the United

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States. The whole world except the

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characters in Tel Aviv and in the Oval

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Office.

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>> First of all, Judge, they were prepared

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for this war. They have been preparing

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de facto for this war in practice at

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least since the early 2000s, at the time

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of the axis of evil in

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2002.

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So, they had time to organize themselves

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strategically,

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upgrade their military

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knowledge, equipment, etc. which is

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something that we see when we go to

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Tehran and we are allowed to visit some

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of the installations of the IRGC.

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They had General Soleimani, which not by

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accident was at the beginning of the our

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decade, which I call the raging 20s.

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Uh it was with a murder on January 3,

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2020, Donald Trump ordered the

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assassination of General Soleimani, who

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was at the time on a diplomatic mission

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going to Baghdad to more or less

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reorganize the ties between Iran and

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Saudi Arabia. But, General Soleimani was

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the mastermind of what we can say is the

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military strategy of the overall axis of

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resistance. Not only Iran, but also

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Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, the militias in

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Iraq, uh

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uh Hashd al-Shaabi, the militias across

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Iraq. And of course, after his

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assassination,

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everybody that worked with him

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started to implement what later was

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later effect only 3 months ago was

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became known as the decentralized mosaic

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military strategy, which is what they

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applied not only in the war against

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Israel and the US, but the axis of

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resistance was applying that to all

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across the spectrum as well. The

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Houthis, they basically were

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implementing decentralized mosaic

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against the US and the US had to flee

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the Red Sea.

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So,

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it's a

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very well organized military strategy

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long-term and at the same time

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politically

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with the assassination of Ayatollah

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Khamenei, which by the way was deeply

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involved in military matters. Mojtaba

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basically continued uh

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tweaking what his dad had already

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uh envisaged and this has a lot to do

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with the how the decentralized mosaic

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strategy works. So, they knew uh the

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enfeebled points of the Israeli and the

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American machine. Uh they

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reacted in the beginning and then they

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went on the attack. They calibrated what

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kind of military equipment they would

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use along the 39-day war or the 40-day

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war.

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And of course, because they were not

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striking civilians and they were

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striking American military uh

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assets all across the the Persian Gulf,

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they got immense political capital in

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terms of support by the global south.

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So, they also won the soft power war all

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across the global south. Not only they

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won in the battlefield by resisting

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sovereign resistance and by repelling

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everything that Israel and the US threw

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against them, but they also all across

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the global south from Africa to Latin

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America to South

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>> And all of this happened right under the

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noses of the Central Intelligence Agency

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and the Mossad and the Defense

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Intelligence Agency and all these other

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tentacles that the Pentagon has?

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>> Mhm. Yes. Uh which proves once again uh

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don't mess with the Persians.

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>> Wow.

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>> 2,500 years of history and of course

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military clashes as well. And of course

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diplomacy. They are some of They have

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some of the best diplomats on the

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planet. Always have.

Interactive Summary

The video discusses Iran's strategic military success against Israel and the United States, attributed to long-term planning dating back to the early 2000s, the legacy of General Soleimani, and the implementation of a 'decentralized mosaic' military strategy. Additionally, the analysis highlights Iran's ability to gain political capital and soft power across the Global South by focusing on military targets rather than civilians, all while operating effectively beneath the detection of Western intelligence agencies.

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