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In 2024, you made three predictions that have come perfectly true, like Trump would start a war with Iran. And you've
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made a series of new predictions. >> Yes. And I'll explain each prediction
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one by one. Okay. So, first I predict that Trump will get a third term. >> But isn't this constitutionally illegal?
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>> It's not. The president now has emergency war powers and so he could
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actually delay the election. My second prediction is Iran is under a forever war and the United States will institute
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a national draft. Meaning that if you're between 18 to 24 in America and you're
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male, you'll be automatically put into the draft system and they just pass a
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law that says that starting in December, you will be automatically registered, which means you're obliged to go and
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fight. Exactly. Next, the world will move towards an AI civilian state. So everything you do online is being
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recorded to figure out and how to control you. And then this is the most controversial prediction. This is pretty
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bad and I'll explain why. And also I will tell you why this war can only lead
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to World War II. why there's a very strong possibility that the American Empire will collapse and also I'll show
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you what the Russians will do and how the private bankers are controlling it. I'm not owned by anybody. That's what
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Let's get on with the show. Professor Dian, there's so much going on in the world at
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the moment that it's quite confusing for an ordinary person like me. And you've
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blown up across the internet because you've been able to demystify all of all
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of this craziness, but also because in 2024, you made three predictions that have
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come perfectly true. Some might say unfortunately. >> Unfortunately, yes. What were those
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three predictions? >> My first prediction was that Trump would win in November 2024. Second prediction
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is that he would start a war against Iran. And the third prediction is that the United States would lose this war
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and in losing this war, this would radically reshape the geopolitical landscape.
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>> How did you know that Trump would start a war with Iran? >> The simple answer is this. The the
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United States having invaded Iran because it has no choice in the matter. If it were not to invade Iran, it would
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lose its empire. Its empire is based purely on the US dollar, the petro dollar, which is a Ponzi scheme. If it
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did not invade Iran, then people would choose not to trade with it anymore. People would choose to not buy US
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treasuries. >> Why? For the longest time, this system worked fine. But then in February 2022,
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Russia invaded Ukraine. >> Yeah. >> Okay. That was not the issue. The issue
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was the American response. The American response was to sanction Russia and remove Russia from the swift global
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payment system. It also ordered the Europeans to freeze over $200 billion in Russian assets. And there's a problem
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because the very basis for having the US dollar as the global reserve currency is
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that it would remain politically neutral. It it the Americans guaranteed seamless
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politically neutral international exchange. So if this trend continues, right, if
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you don't do anything about Russia, Russia would take over Ukraine and Russia then would build an alliance with
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China and Iran. If you look at these three countries on the map, Russia, China and Iran, this is the entire Asian
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continent. And then what they can do is this. They can say, okay, the United States is a bully.
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They force us to play by the rules. They get very angry if we don't play by the
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rules. So, let's not play with the United States anymore. Let's just trade
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amongst ourselves. And then what they can do is they can build a Eurasian railway system
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connecting Russia, Iran, and China together. And then what this would do is negate American sea power because it's
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American ships that patrol and protect the oceans. And then what would happen is the world,
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Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East Asia would look at the trading block and
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think to themselves, "Wow, these guys, the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese,
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they use gold as their medium of exchange. Gold is valuable. The Americans on the
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other hand use US dollars as the medium of exchange which is not valuable. So am I better off with the
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American system with this new brick system? >> What's bricks? >> It's an acronym. It stands for Brazil,
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Russia, India, uh South Africa, China. So am I right in thinking because Iran, Russia and China
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were colluding, it threatened US dominance which is driven by the world using the dollar as the primary currency
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for trading. >> That's correct. Okay. >> Okay. So they felt they needed to invade
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because then they can control more of the Middle East. >> Right. So by attacking Iran, certain
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things happen. Okay. The first thing that happened is that China is now cut off from Middle East energy.
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China receives anywhere between 50 to 60% of its energy needs from the Middle East. Not just Iran, but also Qatar and
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Saudi Arabia. A lot of people say that China today it's reliant on renewables, solar, wind,
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and that's true to a certain extent. But remember that China it is an industrial
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powerhouse. So it needs energy from everywhere and everyone. So the fact that China is losing all this energy
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from the Middle East presents China with a long-term strategic vulnerability. That's the first thing that happens.
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Second thing that happens is that Europe is in a lot of trouble because remember
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because of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russian energy was sanctioned and so Europe relied more on middle on
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the Middle East for its energy needs especially Qatar and now Europe has lost all of this oil.
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So you and then you have Japan and South Korea. These two powerful East Asian economies are also reliant on the Middle
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East for its uh energy. So another question is if you're not getting your energy from the Middle East, where can
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you get your energy from? And there's only two answers, either Russia or the United States.
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Russia is at war. And what's happening is the Ukrainian drones are attacking
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Russian oil refineries and export hubs. So the world in the short term have has no choice but to look to America for its
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energy needs. And what did Trump do recently? He took over he took over Venezuela which has the world's greatest
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oil reserves. He's threatening Canada. is threatening Greenland, Mexico, Colombia. If Trump
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controls the entire Western Hemisphere, the entire world has to beg Trump for energy and resources and it saves both
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the US dollar as well as the American empire. >> So, as part of your prediction in in
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2024, I believe it was, you said that the US would lose this war, >> right?
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Why did you predict that the US will lose this war with Iran? >> Because the the American society does
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not does not have the political will, does not have the manu manufacturing capacity,
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does not have the risk tolerance to fight this war in Iran. Basically, America wants to fight this war as
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cheaply, as easily, and as quickly as possible. Right? So Trump it Trump really thought that you know if I sent
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my airplanes to strike Tran and kill the Aatollah they would just surrender. That
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was like literally his plan going into this war. He paid no attention to the culture. He paid no attention to the
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history of the Iranian people. He had absolutely no respect for for the nation. And when you do that,
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when you disrespect your opponent, when you underestimate your opponent, when you yourself are not willing to commit
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to the fight, you're going to lose. >> So, is Iran's game just to draw this out
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as long as they possibly can? H how are they, you know, cuz he's taken out the
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leaders? And do you also think that Trump thought that just if I just bomb the leader, then everything will sort of
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regenerate itself and we'll be fine. What was the sort of fundamental misunderstanding? There's a lot of
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confusion as to how this war started. Even today, no one actually knows how this war started.
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But I think that Trump, given his personality, he was convinced that if he killed the leadership of Iran, then they
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would have no choice but to surrender. And his proof of concept was of course on January 3rd of this year, Delta Force
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went into Venezuela, kidnapped Maduro and they completely surrendered. So in Trump's mind, he wanted to replay
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this the Venezuela scenario. >> And he didn't realize that Iran is fundamentally different from Venezuela.
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>> The short answer is he is a reality TV star. He thinks in terms of optics. He
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doesn't think think in terms of like geopolitical strategy. The long answer is that the American military has become
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very corrupt and insular institution that is trying to generate as much congressional funding as possible in
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order to fund the military-industrial complex. >> Did he think that he was going to bomb
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Iran, the people would rise up, they would elect a new government and that would be that and then he could control
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Iran? That's exactly what he thought. So, what I want to do now is go to the
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map. >> Okay. >> All right. And show you what he got wrong. >> Okay.
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>> All right. So, this is a map of the Middle East. And the first thing to
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notice about this map is the topography. >> What does that mean? >> How many mountains you have? So this is
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what's really interesting is that the topography between Iraq and Iran are completely different.
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And this is important because two in 2003 the Americans invaded Iraq and they won
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the war in about two weeks. And the reason why they won the war is the Americans practiced something called
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shock and all. The idea of shock and all is that it is a military strategy that believes that
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if you cut off the head of the snake, the snake will die. The decapation strike. And so what they did was they
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went into Baghdad, seized Baghdad and the regime collapsed and the war was over.
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And they were able to do this because of the topography. If you look at the map of Iraq, it's all flat. It's all desert.
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Meaning that you can just fly in your planes, cut off the head of a snake, and the war
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is over. There's absolutely no way you can defend against air strikes because
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you're entirely a desert. Now let's go to let's look at topography of I of Iran and Iran. It's all
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mountainous. In fact, you can make the argument that Iran is a fortress. Okay. And so
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the first thing is that Iran can choose to fight a war of attrition. What's a war of attrition?
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>> A war of attrition is a game of uncle. >> What's that? >> Right. A game of uncle is where uh we
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don't have enough power to destroy each other. So what we try to do is we try to
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create pain points, leverage points to force you to submit to cry uncle, right? So because Iran is too large
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and that's 92 million people, it's impossible for the Americans and Israelis to destroy Iran. So what
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they're trying to do instead is bomb enough targets so that they recognize that resistance resistance is
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futile and surrender. Okay, that's the extent of the strategy. But again, the
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problem with this is that one, Iran is much too big. Number two is that it is a mountain fortress, which means that you
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can hide your weapons and your military inside mountains, right? Which allows you to conduct a guerilla warfare
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strategy against your opponent. And this is exactly what Iran is doing right now
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where their underground missile bases are hidden inside the mountains and then they're able to strike targets
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throughout the Middle East primarily American bases but also energy installations that are key to the
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American petro dollar system. And so it's a game of uncle where the Americans
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are trying to create as much damage as possible in the Iranian nation and Iran in response is trying to destroy as much
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of of the global economy as possible to force the world to pressure America to call the war off. So that's a situation
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we are facing right now. Second thing that Trump got got wrong is how vulnerable the global economy is.
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Because the Iranians control something called a shum moose. Okay. And as you can see on this map,
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it's a very very narrow piece of land. It's only about 33 kilometers across. You can
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actually swim across the straight of Humus. Okay. And why this is important is the GCC
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exports 20% of the world's energy. The G the G what? >> The Gulf cooperative council. Okay. So
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the Gulf cooperative council are certain nations in the mil middle east that align politically. So they include
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Qatar, Saudi Arabia, uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait. They they've been exporting
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energy but not just energy but also a lot of byproducts of of energy production including fertilizer
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to the world primarily East Asia and India. In return they've been getting um
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food back. So most people don't don't appreciate this but the GCC actually
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imports 80 to 90% of its food needs. And the reason why is that they become so rich these past few decades that the
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populations have um blown up and as a result they have to feed their population but they don't have
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agricultural resources. They also don't have water resources and so they have
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two major vulnerabilities which is food and water and they have a lot of desalination plants around the area and
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so >> it's a desalination plant. >> Okay. So a desalination plant takes salt
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water from the seas and then through an electrochemical process turns it into portable water that people can use uh
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for drinking purposes and for agricultural purposes. >> Okay. Right. So as you can see the
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entire area it is extremely vulnerable to drone and missile attacks from Iran. So that's the second thing that Iran has
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done which Trump did not expect. He did not expect that the Iranians would close
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off the strait of Hammoose. And how the Iranians were able to close of the shoo was just by threatening to attack any
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ships that wanted to cross it. The reason why is that these ships depend on maritime insurance in order to operate.
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But if there's a risk, a very high risk of being destroyed, then um you will not
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need to get insurance. >> Okay. >> So, it's not that the Iranians have said
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to these ships you can't cross. It's just that the insurers refuse to allow
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these ships to cross because it's too dangerous. And Trump didn't you think
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they'd consider this before they started bombing Iran that Iran would have some
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leverage in shutting down such a critical piece of uh water for you know shipping fertilizer energy etc. You
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think that they would have known this >> right? So, that's what a lot of people
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say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is hotheaded, that he was misled by the
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Israelis. And there's good evidence to support this, but I want to show you something,
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okay? It's it's called the National Defense Strategy. All right? And so, this is a document that was
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published by the Department of War. And in it, it explains what the American strategy to maintain global dominance
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is. And in the introduction, what it says is that for too long, America has been bullied by the world world. America
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is a nation that protects the world. Yet Europe, East Asia takes advantage of American generosity. The Europeans don't
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pay for their defense and so they put all this money into welfare into their pension system. The Chinese
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have been giving America a bad trade deal. The Chinese steal American technology and then use it to make
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products that they sell back to the Americans. So the Americans have been have been getting a really bad deal for
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decades. And President Donald Trump, he's going to change that by doing four
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things, right? The National Defense Strategy calls for a fourpoint program to put America first. The first thing
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that um America is going to do is going to secure the Western Hemisphere. Why? Because the Western Hemisphere belongs
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to the United States. >> When you say the Western Hemisphere, what do you mean? What what region is
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that? Is that Canada as well? And >> so if you look at the map, we can divide
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we can divide the map into the eastern hemisphere. >> Okay. And the western hemisphere.
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>> Okay. So everything over here, >> everything including Greenland,
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including Canada, including Mexico, every part of this area belongs to United States. Therefore, you cannot
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trade with any of these countries without American permission, without paying a tribute to the Americans. And
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that this is why that the Americans have parked onethird of their naval assets in
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the Caribbean today. It's to it's to tell the Chinese and the Russians, back off. If you want to come
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here, you either pay a tribute or you'll be attacked. Okay, that's the first point of the
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strategy. The Western Hemisphere belongs to America. Something that they call the
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Donro doctrine. Okay, which is Trump's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And so
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that's point one. Point two is that America wants to re-imagine its relationship with its
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allies. Basically, NATO needs to pay for its own defense. NATO needs to go fight Russia
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in Ukraine. America will provide support. It'll provide weapons and financing,
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but NATO needs to do more work. And in East Asia, South Korea and Japan need to do better job of keeping China in check.
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Okay, that's point two. Point three is specific to China. And the idea is the
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United States does not want to destroy China. The United States does not want to humiliate China, but China needs to
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be put in its place. China needs to respect the power and the reach of the United States. And how the United States
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is going to do this is by strangling China economically. Right? So you look at at a map of China,
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most of its trade goes to something called the sh of Malaa. And the sh of Malaca is the most important maritime
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choke point in the world. All America has to do is park naval carriers inside the Jamaala and China will lose 90% of
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its energy exports. But if they parked them there, China would still go through. No.
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>> No. Because you have to go for the straight Maka. So America has something
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called the first island chain. Okay. The first island chain prevents China from reaching the Pacific Ocean. The first
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island chain includes South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Malaysia. That blocks China from
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reaching out into into the Pacific. >> So in order for it to access trade, it
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has to go through the SH of Malaca. And for the Malaka, it can access uh India, Africa, and the uh Middle East.
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>> Okay. >> Right. And so by positioning naval carriers inside the Shalaka, it creates a
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blockade and China would have to pay a toll in order to access um the Shalaka. >> And the fourth one
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>> and the fourth one is to um rejuvenate reinvigorate America's defense manufacturing sector.
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>> So supercharge the US defense industrial base. That's exactly correct. Yes. All
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right. So, what this means is that the Pentagon a few weeks ago went to Detroit and talked to Ford and General Motors
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and said, "You know what? Because of this war in Iran, we might need you to
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stop making cars and start making more munitions." >> How do you know they said that?
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>> It's >> They published it. >> They published it. Yes. >> Really?
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>> Yes. >> So, the United States went to Forbes and GM and said, "We might need you to start
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making weapons with your factories." >> Yes. And they're happy doing this
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because the profit margins are much greater for weapons than for for cars. This is a Pentagon. So you can charge as
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you can charge them as much as you want and they'll pay for it. Whereas you make
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cars, it's for the consumer market and they may not buy your cars. >> Mhm.
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>> Right. So So you're like Ford or General Motors, the best deal in the world is to
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go make weapons for the Pentagon to fight these wars in the Middle East that can go on for forever. So, so, so we
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have the situation where, okay, look, if you read the news, if you talk to a lot
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of people, Trump's an idiot, and this war in Iran makes no sense at all. But
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then, if you just read the National Defense Strategy that is on the Department of War website, and anyone
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can go there and download it for free and read it themselves, it's a very clear road map of what America needs to
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do in order to maintain imperial hijgemony. And so let let's let let's just summarize the major points. The
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first major point is to maintain control over the western hemisphere and create a
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fortress America. >> Which is why he invaded Venezuela and he says he's going to invade Cuba.
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>> Exactly. >> And also Greenland. >> Look at all the countries that he's
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named over the past year. Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras. It's all
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the Western Hemisphere, right? And they're all together. Second point is to create divide and rule all around the
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world. So imagine a situation where in Europe, NATO fights Russia in Ukraine. In East Asia, China fights South Korea
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and Japan. In the Middle East, Iran fights the GCC allied with Israel. What does America do? America can now sell
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sell sell everyone weapons and resources and finance it. This would be back to World War II.
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>> But it makes them weaker as well generally. >> That's the point.
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>> Yeah. >> Right. And then what would happen is that $40 trillion that America has in
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debt, it would disappear because it would be absorbed by the world. Right. So you can say look Trump's an idiot.
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But if you actually look at a map and how America wants this map, this world map to play out, it makes perfect sense.
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>> H So the war is going well for Trump. >> The war is going very well for Trump.
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>> Really? >> Yes. >> But you said in your prediction that he would lose the war,
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>> right? >> What's your definition of lose the war? >> Losing the war means that America would
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send ground troops. Iran would survive this invasion and this would be so politically
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damaging that chaos breaks out the United States and the US guard invasion is forced to retreat and the United
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States is forced to retreat from the Middle East. >> And you still think that's going to
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happen? >> I still think that's going to happen. >> So you think the United States are going
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to put ground troops in, Iran are going to resist and then chaos is going to break out in the United States?
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>> Yes. Okay. So, let me explain to you why ground troops has to be sent. Okay.
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>> All right. Okay. So, in phase one of this war which started February 28th
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which lasted for about 6 weeks, the intention was to decapitate the regime. And you do that by striking Tran and you
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do that by striking the military bases in installations throughout Iran. It's
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it's what the Americans call sharp and all. And the point is to force the Iranians to call uncle. But that's not
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what happened. >> To give up >> to give up basically because what the
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Iranians did was they responded by attacking US bases throughout the GCC. They closed off a straight of
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Humus and they rallied their people. Okay. So rather than surrender, the Iranians
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basically double down. Okay, that's phase two of the war. Now we've gone to
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phase three of the war where Trump has basically decided that decapation does not work. And so what Trump's going to
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do is he's going to impose a naval blockade on Iran's naval blockade. Right? And so
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the question then is if Trump understands that decapitation does not work then using game theory.
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>> What's game theory? >> Game theory is the belief that all the world is governed by rules and
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incentives. And once you understand the rules and incentives, you can predict how people behave because people will
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always behave according to their best interest. So in geopolitics, the nation states are individual players
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and each nation state is trying to use its resources and um its advantages in order to
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pressure other nation states to obey it. Okay, so Trump recognizes that the Iranians have closed off the circle of
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moves, but not only that, but the Iranians have also used the circle of moves to finance the war, meaning that
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now they're forcing ships to pay a toll of $2 million in order to cross it. And
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so this is a huge advantage for the Iranians. And so Trump has said, "No, I'm going to blockade your blockade,
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negating Iran's advantage over the certical moves." So we think about it
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again using game theory. I want to discuss what the Americans will do in order to force uh the Iranians to
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capitulate. Okay. So I would say there's a three point strategy. The first strategy is
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economic strangulation. you basically destroy the state's capacity to finance
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the war. And there are two ways that Iran is financing the war so far. The first is using oil exports, right? 90%
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of Iran's oil goes to China and um this is Car Island. Okay, this this little spot here is Car Island. And
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this is where Iran will export 90% of its oil overseas. That's the first mechanism. Second mechanis mechanism is
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sit who moves where the RA now can collect tolls right. So what you have to do is you
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have to eliminate both of these finance mechanisms. You can close off both with a name of locket. Okay. So that's
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strategy one. strategy two is you need to create as much chaos within Iran as possible. You want to turn this fortress
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into a prison. And the way you do that is by stirring up ethnic tensions in the country. So if you look at a map, ethnic
00:32:44
map of Iran, what you'll discover is that the Persian people are primarily in
00:32:51
this area in the middle of the country. But if you go to the borderlands, okay, the border areas, it's primarily ethnic
00:33:00
minorities. And there are two ethnic minorities in the country that have always been
00:33:06
problematic for the government. The first problematic people are of color bullocks here
00:33:15
uh in south east uh Iran by the Pakistani border. They have a history of insurgency against the government. Okay.
00:33:27
Second people that have been problematic are the Kurds who are primarily in the uh northwest of the country.
00:33:38
So if you are the US government, if you are the military, your strategy is to establish foreign operating bases in
00:33:49
these areas. A foreign operating base is uh a spearhead of the military where you
00:33:56
insert ground troops to hold an area. >> Okay. So >> in order to resupply in in order to push
00:34:03
further into the territory. >> Okay. So a forward operating base would be the US putting troops into the the
00:34:11
northwest and the southeast and then using that as a way to move forward into Iran.
00:34:18
>> No, you don't want to move forward into Iran because it's too large. You don't
00:34:22
have enough forces to move into Iran. What you want to do is this. You want to establish port operating bases in these
00:34:29
areas in order to arm and train ethnic insurgents. >> Okay, >> that you can also finance as well. And
00:34:41
you do this because you want to turn them into cannon fodder. You for you have to force a response from the
00:34:46
Iranian military, right? So if they come in with the army in order to quell these
00:34:54
rebellions, that's great because now you can use your air power to decimate the
00:34:59
Iranian military. Your problem right now is Iranian military is hiding inside mountains.
00:35:06
And so you want to force them out in the open. And so you want to create as many
00:35:10
points of tension in the country as possible to force the Iranian military to respond.
00:35:16
Right? Does that make sense? Okay. And now your third strategy is to strangle the capital Tran because that's the
00:35:27
that's where the political elite are a city of 10 million people. And the way
00:35:32
you strangle Tran is you deny them three things. You deny them water, electricity, and food.
00:35:43
So you attack power plants. you attack reservoirs, you attack railways that bring um food into the capital. And when
00:35:54
you do that, these n these 10 million people in Iran will now oppose the government and
00:36:01
demand a political settlement because they need food, uh water, electricity to survive, right?
00:36:08
>> Is there a government? Right now, there's a debate as to the true extent of leadership in Iran.
00:36:17
>> Because Trump's recent interviews, he's saying he's he's claiming that the the
00:36:22
leadership in Iran are fighting themselves, but then he's also saying in other interviews that there's they don't
00:36:27
even know who they're dealing with. >> Exactly. Iran has a very unusual
00:36:32
political system in that um it's a theocracy. It's a religious government.
00:36:36
It's run by clerics call them moolas. in theory and then there's a parallel
00:36:42
system the state apparatus that actually takes care of day-to-day bureaucracy and
00:36:47
that's secular. Uh the mas control the morality of the country they also control foreign affairs. So basically um
00:36:56
this is important because Iran has two parallel military structures. You have the military but you also have the IRGC.
00:37:08
The IRGC are only loyal to the mullas >> which is the religious part. >> Exactly. All right. So you have this
00:37:15
divide in the in the country where the IRGC see this as a religious war as a crusade to kill the great Satan and they
00:37:24
want to fight to the death >> and the great Satan is >> the great Satan is the American Empire.
00:37:29
>> Okay. >> Uh which is a source of the misery that I has been suffering for the past few
00:37:34
decades. And they already see not only do they see America as great Satan, but they also see this as a global conflict
00:37:43
because they have proxies that support their beliefs, including here in Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in
00:37:51
Yemen, the Huies, and of course in Palestine, Hamas. Okay. and and before Syria was also part of their axis of
00:38:00
resistance but Syria has been toppled by the Americans and and Israelis. So the IRGC see this as a religious crusade
00:38:08
that is global in nature. The political leadership in Tran sees it completely different. They see this as a conflict
00:38:16
primarily between America and Iran and they want to reach a political settlement as soon as possible. And so
00:38:23
in other words, these ceasefire negotiations, it's really all for show because at the end of the day, even if
00:38:32
the Americans gave the Iranians everything they wanted, the RTC still controls um the battlefield and they would not um
00:38:43
surrender or or seek peace terms lightly. Another problem in this situation is the RTC practice something
00:38:51
called the Mosiaak strategy. Mosiaak. The idea of the Moak strategy is okay you know the Americans the most
00:39:00
effective military ever in human history. You know that they practice shock and all decapitation.
00:39:06
So how do you respond to that? You respond to that using decentralization. 31 provinces in the country with their
00:39:14
own command and control that is localized. >> So basically they have 31 different
00:39:19
armies that have their own leadership. >> That's correct. Okay. And when you do
00:39:23
this it's a fight to the finish. >> Why did they do that? >> They did it because the Americans
00:39:28
possess the most sophisticated surveillance technology in the world. meaning they can easily identify the
00:39:36
leadership and they can easily track you down and kill you. So the only way around that is to decentralize the
00:39:43
leadership and spread around the country so that the Americans cannot kill the everyone. How does the central
00:39:50
government orchestrate 31 different armies in Iran? How does it get a message out to them? I heard Peter Hexf
00:39:57
make a a comment in one of the interviews saying that it takes some time for the pigeons to get out to the
00:40:03
armies. And what he was saying basically is that um when the ceasefire was called
00:40:07
and there was still some um missiles flying, he was basically saying that's just because it takes a long time to
00:40:12
tell the 31 different armies to stop. >> The reality is that given a MOS strategy, there's actually no way to
00:40:19
coordinate these 31 different military operations. Because the Musk strategy was meant to
00:40:29
was meant to fight to the bird of air. You do not stop until you completely control the Middle East and the
00:40:35
Americans have been forced out of the Middle East and Israel has been humbled. >> Okay,
00:40:42
>> so let's go into the specifics of what the Mosak strategy is. The idea is that
00:40:48
they have an esquetology. Okay. So, esquetology is an understanding of how the world should be
00:40:56
and how we move towards this world. And for the Iranians, their esquetology is that Iran in order
00:41:07
to reach its true potential needs to be master of the Muslim world. It needs to displace Saudi Arabia because Saudi
00:41:16
Arabia it's too aligned with the United States which is the great Satan. Mecca
00:41:21
and Medina are under the influence of the great Satan because why are there US military bases in Saudi Arabia?
00:41:33
So this war from their perspective, it's a great opportunity to overthrow the
00:41:38
corrupt leadership of Saudi Arabia, but not only Saudi Arabia, but the entire GCC. Overthrow the corrupt governments
00:41:44
of the entire Muslim world and install governments that put God Allah first. >> So they're they're not going to quit
00:41:56
Iran. This war once it starts can only lead to World War II. >> That's a strong statement to make. As a
00:42:05
probability, >> okay, >> what probability would you assign to that claim?
00:42:09
>> I would put it pretty high. Anywhere between 80 to 90% probability. >> So that's certainty.
00:42:16
>> Basically certainty. Yes. >> Explain to me how that happens. >> Okay. So we need to step back and
00:42:21
appreciate um that there's a global dynamic going on. >> Okay. And we need to appreciate the
00:42:31
grand strategy of the different players involved. >> Right? So what what I'm going to do is
00:42:35
this. I'm going to explain to you how each nation sees itself in the world. >> Okay? And to do that, I'm going to use a
00:42:49
chess set. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. This is the king. This is the political system of the
00:42:56
United States, which is democracy. And there are certain strengths and weaknesses to a democracy. Democracy is
00:43:03
vibrant. It's creative. It's flexible. But its ultimate weakness is polarization
00:43:10
where today um the different political factions refuse to get along. And this may break
00:43:16
out the civil war. Okay. >> Mhm. >> So, the way you defeat the United States
00:43:19
is not to conquer it. You can never call the United States. The way to defeat the
00:43:24
United States is to force it into a civil war, which then kills the king >> to get its people to rise up against the
00:43:32
leadership. >> No, you want the Democrats and the Republicans to form different factions
00:43:37
and fight a civil war. >> Okay? >> You you want to create so much political
00:43:40
polarization the different elite factions take up arms against each other. Okay? So, this is the political
00:43:46
system. Okay, but democracy. Now let's look at the queen. What is the queen?
00:43:51
The queen is what I refer to as the grand strategy of the United States. How the United
00:43:58
States can maintain its control over the entire world. And the grand strategy, it's already outlined in the national
00:44:03
defense strategy, >> right? Let's create Fortress America and then create chaos throughout the entire
00:44:11
world so that we can sell everyone weapons and resources. Okay, that's a grand strategy. All right. All right.
00:44:18
Now, once you have a grand strategy, you need you need to implement this grand strategy. So, you need attack vectors.
00:44:24
All right. The attack vectors are the rook, the bishop, and the knight. All right. So, let's go over the
00:44:32
three major attack vectors of the United States. They are first of all, America's
00:44:37
technological supremacy. >> So, these are the basically the tools that they use to attack others.
00:44:42
>> Exactly. In order to achieve their grand strategy, right? All right. So, aeros
00:44:45
supremacy, right? >> Which is the planes and the stuff like that. >> Then you have the US dollar,
00:44:53
right? Because the US dollar allows you to finance everything and everyone wants
00:45:00
the um uh US dollar. Okay. >> Mhm. >> So, that is the second attack vector.
00:45:06
The third attack vector is propaganda. mean United States controls the world's
00:45:11
most powerful media including New York Times, CNN and as such they can control the narrative of the world. Okay, so
00:45:18
these are the three major attack vectors. Now they use the pawns. The pawns are weapons that they can sacrifice in order
00:45:27
to achieve the grand strategy. And in the case of United States, the pawn are the allies.
00:45:36
meaning I had to say this but the UK um Europe, South Korea and Japan. Okay. And also the entire Western
00:45:53
Hemisphere. This is the America the Americans. Okay. The people who are most opposed to this grand
00:46:01
strategy of Americans are the Russians. So let's go over the the Russian system.
00:46:06
In the Russian system, the king, the political system is an autocracy. And an autocracy, it's good because it
00:46:14
allows for coronation. It allows for decisiveness. It allows for um resolve, >> long-term thinking.
00:46:23
>> Exactly. Right. That's Putin. What's bad is if this guy dies, there's a secession
00:46:31
crisis, right? So basically once you topple the autocrat, then the system itself breaks down. Okay? So that's the
00:46:41
Russian system, right? For the Russians, a great strategy is something called the
00:46:46
third Rome strategy. >> The third Rome strategy. >> Yes. Okay. So the people in Russia
00:46:52
believe that they are the true successors to the Roman Empire and previously there are two Romes. It was
00:46:58
the first Rome then it moved to Kalanapole and Moscow is destined to the to be the
00:47:06
third Rome. And what makes Moscow interesting is that it wants to unite the entire
00:47:15
Christian world under its leadership. Um the main philosopher for the third Rome
00:47:20
strategy is Aern Dugan who in 1997 wrote a wrote a book called foundation of geopolitics. And what he said was this.
00:47:27
What he said that if Russia is to defeat the Americans, it needs to build alliances throughout Eurasia in order to
00:47:34
negate American sea power and aerosy. All right. So what are the attack vectors for Russia? Okay. The first attack that
00:47:45
door, the size of the country makes it almost invincible. So think about World War II, Operation Bar Rosa. The Germans
00:47:52
went into Russia with 67 million men and it didn't get very far. Okay? So the
00:47:58
Trin is very important. The geography is very important. Then you have the Orthodox religion
00:48:05
which is meant to galvanize believers into supporting Russia. The third attack vector is artillery. So Russia has the
00:48:17
best land army in the world and we we're seeing that play out in Ukraine where um
00:48:22
a combination of Russian artillery and drones it's devastating Ukrainian military in Ukraine. The pause for
00:48:30
Russia are are its soldiers. So Russia is able to sustain many many casualties in its military. If
00:48:42
you actually go and interview Russian soldiers, they are probably the bravest soldiers in the world. They are
00:48:48
literally not afraid to die for what they believe in. Okay. So, this is the um Russian third Rome strategy. You can
00:48:55
see how it conflicts with the Americans. >> Mhm. Okay. Now, we go to the Israelis.
00:49:03
Jerusalem, the capital, it's a mixed system, meaning it's both democracy as
00:49:08
well as a theocracy. And it's good in that the Israelis are very creative. But the fundamental
00:49:16
weakness is the division within the society where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem don't get along. Okay. So that is the
00:49:25
belief system of Israel. The grand strategy of Israel is called the greater Israel project. So the
00:49:33
Israelis believe that the entire Middle East belongs to them from the Nile to the Euphrates because that's what it
00:49:40
says in the Bible. This is what God Yahweh promised Abraham. So their intention is to conquer the entire
00:49:49
Middle East including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, even parts of Turkey. Okay. Now let's look at the attack vectors for
00:50:01
the the the the um Israelis. The first attack vector is Mossad. Mossad is the most powerful
00:50:12
intelligence agency in the world in that it is able to infiltrate and undermine different political
00:50:20
systems. >> And the Assad for anyone that doesn't know is their secret service
00:50:24
>> basically. Yes. >> Their spy system. Second attack vector for the Israelis is the Jewish diaspora
00:50:33
because the Jews do business everywhere around the world and Jewish businessmen work very closely with Mossad
00:50:42
and as such they have influence in a lot of places that they shouldn't have. And
00:50:47
the um third um attack vector is the Bible. Why? Because if you're a Christian, and
00:50:56
there are many Christians who believe this, you believe that the Jews are God's chosen people. So if you look at
00:51:02
what's happening in uh the Middle East, um all this conflict between Israel and
00:51:07
Palestine, a lot of this conflict is being supported politically in the United States by a group of people
00:51:14
called Christian Zionists. And these are Christians. They're not Jews. Christians
00:51:18
who believe that Israel should treat achieve the greater Israel project because this is part of God's plan and
00:51:26
the pawns for the Israelis are basically everyone else. Okay. So, a lot of the hardware underpinning
00:51:38
the global IT infrastructure um is being controlled by the Israelis. So now we go to the fourth player in
00:51:47
this great game and that's Iran. So Iran, it is a theocracy. People are not afraid to die for what they believe in
00:51:54
in Iran. But the weakness is that it can alienate the majority of the population
00:52:00
because only a minority are religious zealots in Iran. Most people just want to live to live a decent life. So if
00:52:09
they feel that these mas the IRGC are a threat to their peace and prosperity then they might rise up against the mas
00:52:18
>> which is what we've seen over the years. Right. >> Exactly. So so this political system of
00:52:23
the um Iranians their grand strategy is to unite the Muslim world under leadership. They have three attack
00:52:31
vectors. Okay. The first attack vector are their proxies. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthies.
00:52:40
Another attack vector um is their asymmetrical warfare, meaning using drones and missiles to
00:52:47
create as much economic damage as possible. Okay. And the third attack vector is their geography or their top
00:52:55
topography. They are a fortress. So it's almost impossible to um in invade them.
00:53:01
Right? So that's their Shia militi. these religious zealots who are not afraid to die. Um, essentially they're
00:53:08
all many of them could be suicide bombers. Okay? And and so for them, this is a religious war. Okay? So now we're
00:53:16
seeing how this entire battlefield unfolds across the world. All right? So I've mapped out the grand strategy of
00:53:25
these different nation states who will be involved in World War II. Let's look
00:53:30
at our present situation. Okay? So what we have so far is that the Russians are occupied with their army in Ukraine.
00:53:40
Okay, this is where their infantry, their artillery is based. At the same time, Russia has something called the
00:53:47
shuttle fleet. And these are about a thousand um tankers that evade sanctions around
00:53:53
the world. Okay? And this is essentially their navy. America is the most powerful military in the
00:54:01
world. They have the most sophisticated aerial supremacy as well as a control over the sea lanes and it tries not to
00:54:09
use infantry uh because that creates civilian casualties and that pisses everyone off in America. Okay. The
00:54:16
Israelis are essentially a mercenary army aligned with American Empire doing the bidding
00:54:24
of the American Empire. It's fighting in against Lebanon as well as Iran. The
00:54:32
Iranians, they don't have much of an air force, but they use a lot of drones to
00:54:37
threaten. So, this is where we are so far. According to the grand strategy, we can predict how they will make their
00:54:46
moves over the next few months, or next few years. America doesn't really care about this war in
00:54:53
Iran because what America wants to do is force entire world to become dependent on American weapons and resources and
00:55:04
you do that in two ways. The first is you control the strategic choke points of the world
00:55:12
and they include the sh of kumus but you also want to control the sh of mala right over here because that blocks off
00:55:20
east Asia. You also want to control the panama canal. You also want to control Greenland. You also want to control the
00:55:25
sh of uh Jibralar. You can see the American Navy expanding outwards and occupying all these maritime choke
00:55:32
points. At the same time, you want to use your technological supremacy, your aerial supremacy, your drones to destroy
00:55:40
the world's critical energy infrastructure. Already, we're seeing oil refineries being destroyed
00:55:47
throughout the world. >> Oil refineries. >> Oil refineries. Yes. So, you as as
00:55:52
America, you're trying to deplete the world's energy in inventory. So, they're
00:55:57
forced to beg you for to supply energy, right? And once this market is created, then you can
00:56:06
build infrastructure for Venezuela. You can take over Canada. You can control Mexico. You can take take over
00:56:11
Greenland. Okay? The Russians have no choice but to respond because if the Americans are controlling the shooting
00:56:21
control points, your shuttle fleet is rendered redundant, useless. So, how do you ship your oil
00:56:33
around the world? Well, you have two options. I'm just going to build railways to unite the Eurasian
00:56:39
continent, okay? And I'm I'll transport my oil using pipelines and railways. The
00:56:44
problem with that is not is now that you're vulnerable to American aerosy drone attacks. So, you have no choice
00:56:52
but to arm your shuttle fleet. And now what's gonna happen is this conflict in
00:56:59
the oceans between Russian shuttle fleet tankers that are trying to transport oil around the world and these
00:57:08
American destroyers who are trying to capture or destroy these shadow tankers. Now the advantage that Russia has is
00:57:18
that America doesn't have that much naval assets anymore. It used to but not
00:57:23
anymore. The other thing is that the world really needs energy. So you can imagine China financing the
00:57:31
militarization of the Russian shuttle fleet. >> Why would sir why would the US try and
00:57:36
stop Russian boats? >> Because um in this global outlook there are two nations that could provide
00:57:47
weapons and resources to the rest of the world. >> They are Russia and they are America. So
00:57:52
if America has become dominant, it needs to blockade Russia. The way you do that
00:57:56
is by seizing their shuttle fleet. >> But but if that happened, that would be
00:58:01
an act of war. >> But it's already happening. >> What? Really? >> Yes, it's already happening.
00:58:05
>> Where? >> Iranian tankers have been seized by the Americans and tankers are being seized
00:58:13
in the Caribbean as well by the American Navy. >> Whose tankers? >> I believe they are Russian tankers.
00:58:21
>> Yes. The United States has indeed been seizing tankers linked to Russia. A
00:58:25
major escalation occurred earlier this year on January the 7th, 2026 when the US military and Coast Guard intercepted
00:58:31
two sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers. While one was seized directly in the Caribbean, the other involved a dramatic
00:58:37
chase that started in the Caribbean and ended in the North Atlantic. US forces captured this sanctioned
00:58:45
tanker during a pre-dawn raid directly in the Caribbean Sea. The US military described it as stateless sanctioned
00:58:52
dark fleet vessel which was engaged in illicit activities. These seizures are part of operation southern spear, a
00:59:00
strict enforcement of the US embargo on Venezuelan oil exports. Both vessels were targeted for violating US sanctions
00:59:07
by transporting illicit crude oil linked to Venezuela as well as Iran and Hezbollah.
00:59:14
>> And as you point out, this is an act of war. So those were ships that didn't
00:59:18
have a country linked to them directly. >> That's why they're called shuttle fleet
00:59:22
tankers. >> Okay. >> Yes. But they essentially Russian, >> but they were essentially shipping oil
00:59:27
outside of the United States that the United States wouldn't control. Is that
00:59:31
kind of >> that? That is correct. Yes. Okay. Yes. So >> So the US said, "Listen, this is our
00:59:35
oil. Get lost." >> That is correct. Yes. Right. So what the United States is doing is slowly
00:59:40
expanding its global reach. The way it's doing that is by setting treaties with
00:59:44
nations that are part of these choke points. So the Malaa recently United States has signed a military cooperation
00:59:50
agreement with Indonesia and with the Jialter uh the Americans have signed an agreement now with Morocco right so they
00:59:57
are looking for the legal framework justification to control the world's choke points which would bring them
01:00:04
directly in conflict with the Russian shuttle fleet. So at some point you think the way that the war starts is the
01:00:10
US Navy attacks a Russian boat. So I personally believe that this will be a drawn out process that and there's no
01:00:22
real concrete flash point because not only are Russian shuttle flanker shuttle um fleet tankers being seized but
01:00:30
remember Russian or foundaries are being destroyed by Ukrainian drones. The Russians believe that it is NATO that is
01:00:36
responsible for the sabotage. >> So what when what do you think the catalyst moment is when this all kicks
01:00:42
off? >> I think we're already in the catalyst moment. I think we're already in World
01:00:46
War II because um this conflict it's going to expand outwards uh into a global conflict and there's
01:00:53
nothing anyone can do to stop this, right? Because again you have these different competing visions of how the
01:00:58
world should work and the Russians and Americans are already at conflict with each other. So the next step will be the
01:01:06
Russians come into this war on the side of the Iranians. >> Do you think that's going to happen?
01:01:11
>> I think that's going to happen because according to Russian grand strategy, you
01:01:14
have no choice but to save the Iranians because you're trying to promote this
01:01:18
view that the world is split between the spiritual and the material. The Americans are the antichrist. The
01:01:25
Americans support individual hedenism. Whereas we Russians, we believe in humanity. We believe in goodness. We
01:01:33
believe in community. Right? So if you believe if you if that is your argument, if that's your grand strategy, then you
01:01:38
have a moral ob obligation, a moral imperative to help the Iranians in their time of need. And in fact, prime prime
01:01:44
minister uh Arachi of of Iran has recently visited Putin in Moscow. Putin Putin personally received him and said
01:01:53
to Rachi, "We the Russian people admire your determination, your resolve um
01:02:00
against the Americans." And I think that is a sign that Putin has entered the
01:02:06
chat and that the Russians will start to help the Iranians as this war progresses. So let's go back to this
01:02:13
map. Okay. Okay. And the Americans have a threeprong strategy to strangle um Iran. The first is use ground forces
01:02:27
to establish sport operating bases to incite ethnic violence in the country. The second is to block officer of Humus
01:02:35
and cut off Iranian financing. The third is to strangle pan and cause the people
01:02:41
to rise up against the government. Okay. If the Russians, so if things stay the same as they are now, America wins
01:02:50
easily. But if Russia were to enter the war on behalf of the Iranians, the first thing
01:02:56
that Russia would do is provide Tran with reinforcement from the Caspian Sea, right? Because the Americans want to
01:03:05
knock out Tran's capacity to provide food, water, and electricity to its people. But uh through the fastman sea,
01:03:12
the Russians can support the uh Iranians. But not only that, and this is much more important, if the Russians
01:03:18
were to come in, they could also bring the Chinese into the war on behalf of the Iranians. And the Chinese could use
01:03:25
the belt and rolling initiative, basically the railway system to reinforce Tran from
01:03:31
uh the east. So now you can no longer strangle Tran because the Russians and the Chinese are reinforcing Tran. Then
01:03:39
what the Russians could do is provide financing to Iranians. Basically the Iranian the Chinese sorry the Chinese
01:03:47
and the Russians can say to Iranians don't worry about financing. We will give you enough uh financing for you to
01:03:54
continue this war for as long as you want and we'll use our resources as collateral for this financing.
01:04:01
Right? And the third thing, and this is actually the most important, is that Russia could put Iran under its nuclear
01:04:10
umbrella. And this would negate the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The Israelis and the Americans, if they
01:04:17
really felt under pressure, if they really put in a corner, they could always choose to use tactical nuclear
01:04:23
weapons. If the Russians were involved, that negates that option, right? So if the Russians get involved in this war,
01:04:31
they bring the Chinese, they provide, they provide the resources and the financing to continue this war for as
01:04:36
long as it takes. Mhm. Right. And now the Americans need to expand this war on the world to try now
01:04:47
to topple the government in Russia because the Russians are the main backers of the Iranians. And you're
01:04:56
predicting that Russia will get involved here. >> According to the grand strategy of
01:05:02
Russia, the Russians have no choice but to get involved because what will happen
01:05:06
is that if you look at this map, if Iran were to be conquered by the Americans or
01:05:12
the Israelis, the entire southern flank of the Russians are now exposed to possible attack. And that's that's
01:05:22
something that the Russians would never allow to happen. the sovereign fact. So what this from underneath
01:05:28
>> basically right right but not only that but the Americans already have close
01:05:33
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01:05:39
see how once the Americans consolidate this area they can now attack Russia from the south but what's most important
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01:05:54
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01:06:08
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01:06:13
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get were to give me a timeline of events you think are going to occur, what timeline do you think you're operating
01:08:30
under? I guess one of the factors here is that Trump only has what, three years left in power. So,
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you know, he's presumably going to leave power at some point soon. So, if you're
01:08:42
Iran, you might just want to play it out and hope that there's a different leadership in place by by 20 what be
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2030. >> The political leadership in Iran believe that they can wait Trump out. So they're
01:08:54
waiting for the midterms because they believe that in November the Democrats will win the midterms and then they will
01:09:00
impeach Trump and basically constrain his capacity to fight wars. And worst case scenario,
01:09:08
Trump will be gone in 2028. As you point out, there are certain problems with this. The first major problem is the
01:09:16
national defense strategy, which we looked at previously. the national defense strategy. It is a long-term
01:09:22
strategic framework for how America can control the world. And so one possibility is
01:09:30
that Trump is just creating enough chaos for America to trans to transition. When
01:09:35
the Democrats come to power, if they come to power, they will institutionalize the strategy. And we
01:09:41
know this as a possibility because in Trump's first term, he changed America's
01:09:48
strategy around the world. And then when Biden came into power, he then institutionalized the strategy
01:09:56
uh via v China, right? So it was Trump who launched these this tariff war against China and then finally comes in
01:10:03
power institutionalizes it. Right? So, I think World War II, it's a much more
01:10:09
long-term uh war of attrition, and I don't think that this war um will end anytime soon.
01:10:20
>> You've made a series of new predictions. You've made eight new predictions.
01:10:24
>> Okay. >> And I have them in this box here. >> Okay. >> I'll let you reveal what those
01:10:30
predictions are. >> Okay. Um this is one prediction. Okay. Okay. So, this is the most controversial
01:10:43
prediction. Okay. I predict that there will be a US civil war and Trump will get a third term.
01:10:48
>> You think Trump will get a third term? Isn't that constitutionally illegal?
01:10:53
>> There are things that are unconventional and immoral and wrong and evil and dangerous and
01:11:02
there are certain things that are illegal. Trump getting a third term is not illegal. So, let me explain the
01:11:12
loophole. What Trump could do is this. Okay, there there are two possibilities. The first
01:11:18
possibility is in 2028 he has his son Don Jr. run as a president and he runs as the vice president. And then when Don
01:11:29
Jr. wins, if he wins, then Don Jr. could abdicate and Trump would be the president. And in
01:11:38
the constitution, if you read the constitution very carefully, it doesn't actually prohibit people from doing
01:11:44
that. It's not been done in the past. And like no sane person with any morality would do this.
01:11:53
But that doesn't stop Trump from from doing this. Okay, that's one possibility. Another possibility is that
01:11:59
by 2028, America is at war with everyone. There's a national draft. The president now has
01:12:08
emergency war powers and so he can actually suspend the constitution and delay the election, which is what
01:12:15
Zilinski did in Ukraine. So these are two different possibilities. But I think that given Trump's track
01:12:24
record, given his personality, I think he very much um wants a third term. And I think that he will do everything
01:12:34
possible to get a third term. He would turn 83 years old in the same year that he finishes his second term.
01:12:45
>> This is a man who eats McDonald's hamburgers. every day. He doesn't really work out. Yet on the
01:12:57
campaign trail, he's able to go to two rallies a day. And in each rally, there's 50,000
01:13:04
people, and he will talk on and on and on. Then at night when he he should be sleeping, he's either on truth social
01:13:16
tweeting about the world or he's calling up reporters and telling him or her some
01:13:21
confidential information that he really shouldn't be discussing with the media.
01:13:26
This is a man who is addicted to attention. This is a man who loves the spotlight.
01:13:35
He's lived all his life in the spotlight. For him, death is to be ignored. So given his personality, he would
01:13:46
rather die in office than live uh peacefully somewhere else. >> And of those two strategies that you
01:13:54
named where he puts his son in and then becomes president that way or you know there's a war breaks out so he has he
01:14:00
says he has to stay in office. Of those two strategies, which one do you think he's more likely to deploy? I actually
01:14:05
think that given his narcissism, he would prefer the first strategy, >> his putting his son in
01:14:12
>> because because that shows himself in the world that America loves him.
01:14:18
>> Okay? And it could also be JD Vance or someone else, right? It doesn't have to
01:14:21
be his son necessarily. >> Trump does not trust anyone. Trump has never had a part on Jay. In fact,
01:14:27
everyone that's really worked for Trump has been kind of screwed over by him. Do
01:14:31
you not think that if his son decided to run and then announced that the vice president was his dad, do you not think
01:14:39
that there would be such a huge backlash in the United States that his son wouldn't win?
01:14:46
>> Well, I think there's a possibility that they figure out how to cheat in 2028.
01:14:52
>> Oh, as in actually cheat at the election, >> right? So, >> at the poll booth,
01:14:57
>> right? So, let's go into Trump's mind. All right. his his psychology. In his
01:15:02
mind, he won in 2020. The people voted for him, but the Democrats stole the election with mail and ballots
01:15:13
and by rigging the election machines. Okay? He in his mind, he literally believes that. So in his mind he
01:15:21
believes that this is actually his third term and the people and the government they owe him a second term which is what
01:15:30
he wants now. He wants uh compensation for having the election stolen from him in 2020.
01:15:38
>> I find it really um really implausible to think that Trump would run would run
01:15:43
for a third term. >> So again this is a prediction. >> Yeah. and it is a test of the validity
01:15:51
of my theorical framework. >> I was looking at some of the the constitutions and the laws and it says
01:15:58
that this 22nd amendment explicitly states no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.
01:16:05
Some theorists have tried to argue that since the amendment says elected, a person might be able to serve a third
01:16:11
term if they were appointed to succeed to the role. >> Exactly. if they were appointed or
01:16:16
succeeded to the role, eg by being vice president first. Legal scholars and the judicial committee almost universally
01:16:25
reject this. The 12th amendment requires that anyone serving as vice president must be eligible to be president since a
01:16:32
two-term president is ineligible to be elected again. They illegally barred from being vice president. So the point
01:16:39
is the there's nothing explicit in the constitution that bars someone from having a third term
01:16:47
>> and there's debate in the legal community about the spirit of the 22nd
01:16:53
amendment. >> It would go to the Supreme Court, right? >> And the Supreme Court is controlled
01:16:56
right now by the conservatives. Trump appointed three of the nine justices and there's a possibility he gets a fourth
01:17:04
later in the year. So it's entirely up to the Supreme Court whether or not he
01:17:08
can run. And again, there's something explicit in the constitution that forbids him from running as a vice
01:17:15
president. >> Okay. What's your next prediction? >> The my second prediction is there will
01:17:20
be a grand bargain between United States and China. >> What does that mean?
01:17:25
>> It means that people expect that United States and China will go to war at some
01:17:31
point over Taiwan. It mean a lot of people expect that China wants to challenge American
01:17:38
hijgemony and replace America as the global superpower. But China does not want to do that. China's perfectly happy
01:17:48
with America being the world's hegeimon because you have to invest so much of
01:17:53
your resources into fighting these wars that bank up your nation. China doesn't
01:17:58
want to fight these wars. So what China is going to do is try to triangulate between Russia and the
01:18:07
United States. This is what happened during the cold war when China was not actually on the side of the Soviet
01:18:12
Union. China was part of the nonaligned community and that's what China is going to strive
01:18:19
for in World War II where China may help out Iran, may provide financing for Russia, but it's also going to strike
01:18:26
deals with the United States as well. >> Okay. So I think that Trump and President C are supposed to meet at
01:18:35
least three times, possibly four times this year, only this year. The first will be uh in midMay in Beijing. And I
01:18:44
think that they will start a process in which China and America come to an enragment that benefits both
01:18:52
economically. What does America want? America wants China to continue to buy US treasuries in order to finance the
01:19:00
American debt. What does China want? China wants energy resources from the Western Hemisphere
01:19:08
and it wants to access the American market. >> So there's no reason why China and
01:19:14
America cannot come to a an arrangement that benefits both. And Trump is very much a transactional character. And
01:19:22
>> what will that mean for the world? It means that China is not really part
01:19:26
of World War II in a meaningful way. >> Okay. So, they're going to do a deal.
01:19:31
They'll continue to work together as friends. >> China will be friends with both Russia
01:19:35
and the United States as Russia and United States fight each other. >> Okay. What's your next prediction?
01:19:43
>> Iran is another forever war and the United States will institute a national
01:19:47
draft. >> Iran is another forever war and the United States will institute a national
01:19:51
draft. So you think Iran is going to Iran as a war is going to tumble on them for decades and that the US are going to
01:19:58
draft people which means you're obliged to go and fight. Exactly. Okay. So the
01:20:06
logic is this. America doesn't really care if Iran is a theater or not. That's not
01:20:13
really part of the American grand strategy. Iran right now is a perfect pretext for America to expand outwards
01:20:21
and establish maritime choke points around the world and to force the world to buy American energy. So this war in
01:20:31
Iran benefits America tremendously. So why not have it go on for a long long time?
01:20:37
In order to make sure this war goes on for a long time, you need ground troops. And you need a lot of ground troops. And
01:20:46
that's why you need a national draft. >> So what would a national draft look like
01:20:50
in the United States? Everyone between the age of 18 and 25 has to sign up to the army,
01:20:54
>> right? So most people don't appreciate this, but America has always had a
01:20:57
draft. But for the longest time, it didn't really care whether or not you actually signed for the draft. And
01:21:04
starting in December, participation in the draft will be automatic. Meaning that if you are between 18 to 24
01:21:11
in America and you're male, you'll be automatically put into the draft system
01:21:15
>> from when? >> I mean from December >> this year. >> Yes, that that is correct. Yes.
01:21:19
>> So between the age of 18 and 25, you think? But what does that what does that
01:21:22
really mean? I've not really experienced that in my lifetime. So it means that if
01:21:25
you're between the age of 18 and 24, either gender, >> no, male. >> Male, then you have to sign up for the
01:21:31
army. No, you already put into a draft. >> Oh, you already Okay, but you might be
01:21:37
called upon. >> That's right. It's a lottery system. >> Okay.
01:21:40
>> Right. And uh this created a lot of backlash during the Vietnam era. And so
01:21:45
they sort of tone it down. But starting in December, they just passed a law that
01:21:50
says that starting December um you will be automatically registered for >> They've passed a law.
01:21:56
>> Yes, they have. >> Well, in theory, Congress first needs to declare war.
01:22:01
>> Okay, fine. Right. That's a first step. And Takawa has not actually decided war
01:22:05
yet. >> Okay. So you think there'll be a draft and you think this will this war in
01:22:09
Iran's going to trickle on for >> a long time. >> How long? 10 20 years like Afghanistan
01:22:14
or >> I don't see it stopping. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> What's next in your prediction box?
01:22:20
>> Okay. >> Okay. This is pretty bad. The world will move towards an AI civilian state.
01:22:27
>> I feel like that's already happening. >> I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah. What
01:22:31
does that mean in reality for the average person? Because, you know, we're seeing some of these big companies like
01:22:36
Open AI and anthropical sort of signing up to government um military surveillance projects. What does that
01:22:43
mean for the average person? >> Right? So, for the average person, it means two things. It means digital ID
01:22:48
and digital currency. >> Okay. >> So, what that what that will allow is
01:22:51
for the government to basically monitor everything you do online and control all
01:22:55
financial transactions. it it can basically program your bank account so like you can't buy
01:23:02
cigarettes or you can't buy drugs. Um and this will allow the government to basically um categorize everyone and put
01:23:11
everyone into a certain database to monitor that person. And once you have once you're able to categorize everyone
01:23:18
you're allow then you are you are able to use AI to predict their behavior. >> Isn't this what goes on in some parts of
01:23:25
the world? This is what goes on in China. And that's how I know about this. >> How does it work in China?
01:23:31
>> Well, in China, we all have digital ID. If you want to access anything in China,
01:23:37
you need your digital ID. So, if you want to open a bank account, you have to you have to use um a digital ID. If you
01:23:43
want to use any uh e payments, you have to use digital ID. If you want to use a phone, you have to use digital ID. Okay?
01:23:51
So, everyone's part of this national database. And then this what this allows
01:23:56
government to do is basically monitor everything if you do because basically depending on how you buy things I can
01:24:04
then extrapolate to figure out your behavior and then I can figure out your thinking. Right? And then I can create
01:24:14
incentives in order to guide and control your behavior. >> So in China, can they see everything
01:24:21
that you do? >> Yes, they can. messages you send, >> everything, >> payments you make,
01:24:26
>> everything, everything. Everything you do online is being recorded and it's
01:24:33
being inputed into the database to figure out who you are, what you want, and how to control you. And they
01:24:43
think this is progress, by the way. This is progress because I'm making you a
01:24:49
better person, right? I'm helping you achieve your dream. I'm helping you lose
01:24:54
weight. I'm helping you avoid drugs. I'm helping you work harder. >> Won't you be in trouble if you talk
01:25:00
against this system? >> Well, me personally. Okay. So, I operate in a gray area where I do not interact
01:25:09
with the Chinese internet. So, everything I do is in English. It's meant for consumption in the Western
01:25:16
world. And um I I don't talk to Chinese reporters. I don't talk to Chinese
01:25:21
social media. I have no Chinese media presence and I am not at all influential in China and I prefer that way because
01:25:30
if I ever became famous in China then they would obviously want to control me in order to better influence other
01:25:39
people. >> What's your next prediction? Israel will achieve the greater Israel
01:25:46
project. So you think Israel are going to conquer the Middle East? Israel has essentially already conquered
01:25:53
the Middle East. The only force in their way right now is America. So once America leaves the Middle East, which I
01:26:01
expect to happen, then Israel will absorb SANCOM, which is the um central command, the American military bases in
01:26:10
the Middle East, and they'll achieve the greater Israel project. There's no other
01:26:14
power in the Middle East that can withstand the might and power of Israel. >> And do you have a timeline for this?
01:26:22
>> The moment America quits this war against Iran, the moment that America
01:26:27
leaves the Middle East, Israel will achieve the Greater Israel Project. And what's really interesting right now is
01:26:34
that Israel is trying to drag this war out for as long as possible because they see this war as a way to destroy all its
01:26:42
major enemies in the um Middle East. You know the Israelis have already said this
01:26:49
after Iran Turkey is next. >> Turkey >> Turkey is next. This war is already
01:26:54
destroying Saudi Arabia and the GCC, right? So the last opponent is Turkey. Once Turkey is brought into this war,
01:27:04
then Israel will achieve the Greater Israel Project. >> And the Greater Israel Project covers
01:27:10
all of this region here from Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Aman. >> So the Greater Israel Project is like
01:27:17
this. Okay, so it goes from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates and Iraq. and it covers part of Turkey, of Syria, of
01:27:27
Lebanon, of Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia, which also includes Mecca Medina. >> What is your next prediction?
01:27:35
>> NATO and Russia will fight for Odessa. >> Adessa. What's Adessa?
01:27:39
>> Okay, so if you look at the uh Ukraine front lines right now, Russia is preoccupied
01:27:47
in trying to control uh the Dawnbass, which is basically eastern Ukraine. Why Russia is doing
01:27:53
this is that eastern Ukraine has historically been part of Russia. Therefore, most people there speak
01:27:59
Russian or are are ethnically Russian. The Donas is also the agricultural and industrial heartland of Ukraine. So if
01:28:09
Russia were to control east eastern Ukraine doesn't really need western Ukraine and western Ukraine would
01:28:16
basically become a rum state. It'd be useless, right? So the last piece to this puzzle would be Odessa which sits
01:28:23
on the black sea. The reason why you want Odessa is that is the major port and once you control Odessa you
01:28:33
basically block off Ukraine from the Black Sea. You have complete control over the Black Sea.
01:28:38
>> The Black Sea is that the Black Sea? >> This is the Black Sea and this is Odessa
01:28:41
right here. Yes. >> Okay. So you're saying that you Russia will take take Adessa.
01:28:46
>> That's correct. >> Okay. Okay. So, they'll control the Black Sea.
01:28:49
>> That's right. But NATO recognizes that if Odessa falls, the Russians, the war
01:28:54
is over and Russia will have achieved all its major strategic objectives. >> Why is the war over?
01:29:00
>> Because Russia doesn't want to continue on after Odessa. It doesn't need of of
01:29:06
Ukraine. >> Why what does it get from taking Odessa? >> Once it takes Odessa, control of
01:29:13
onethird of the world's carbohydrates. If Russia wield it, Africa would starve
01:29:20
to death. The Middle East would starve. >> Why? >> Because Russia and Ukraine export a lot
01:29:28
of grain to these places. These places are not food independent. They rely on fertilizer. They rely on food imports.
01:29:37
>> Okay. And Russia's using the the Black Sea here to export. >> Exactly.
01:29:41
>> Okay. What is your next prediction? >> This is the last one. Please be good. Okay. I was hoping for
01:29:50
an optimistic one, but East Asia breaks out into conflict. >> Okay. What do you mean by that?
01:29:55
>> Okay. So, we've talked a lot about the Middle East and we've talked briefly
01:30:00
about Europe. Okay. So, now let's go into East Asia and I think there are three major sources of friction
01:30:11
and conflict in East Asia. And these could be potentially major flash points. The first flash point is of course over
01:30:20
Taiwan because China believes that Taiwan is part of its territory and so it wants
01:30:30
to take over uh Taiwan. Now the problem with this is the problem with this is that the recently Prime Minister
01:30:37
Takayachi of Japan has said that Taiwan is core to Japanese strategic interest and what she means by this is that Japan
01:30:50
has no resources. It's a manufacturing power that depends on resources from overseas.
01:30:56
If China were to take over Taiwan, it can now block Japan from accessing the street of Malaca. And that is a
01:31:04
possibility Japan cannot permit. So Japan would fight to ensure that Taiwan and China were never to unify,
01:31:17
>> would they? Actually, because China is so strong, right? Can they just knock
01:31:21
Japan straight out? Japan has no choice but to fight because again if China and Taiwan were to unify peacefully, Japan
01:31:31
be cut off from the entirety of Southeast Asia and Japan relies on Southeast Asia historically for
01:31:40
resources. >> Why would it be cut off from Southeast Asia? Can't it just go go down here
01:31:47
through the Philippines? >> There's a lot of resources around the South China Sea. Okay.
01:31:52
>> Right. Oil, minerals, all that. Yeah. >> Um, so if China and Taiwan were to uh
01:32:02
unify, basically, uh, Japan would feel a bit threatened >> and your prediction is that there will
01:32:09
be some kind of conflict in this region. >> Yes. So, so that's the first flash
01:32:12
point. Okay. Taiwan. >> There's another flash point which is sh Malaka, right? Because again, America
01:32:18
wants to control the sh of Malaka, but China recognizes that the sh of Malaa is key to its economic survival and so
01:32:26
there's a lot of conflict over the street of Mala. Okay, that's flash point
01:32:30
number two. The third flash point which I think will be the most surprising but actually will be the most uh pressing is
01:32:38
North Korea. Okay, so let's just use game theory. We are the leader, supreme
01:32:44
leader of North Korea. It is a dictatorship. Everyone worships me. It's it's it's a cult personality.
01:32:51
But we're poor and the rest of the world is in conflict, right? Europe is fighting with
01:32:58
Russia. The Middle East is in flames. America's distracted trying to control
01:33:03
the world to the best of its ability. Japan and China are fighting over the South China Sea. If you are in North
01:33:10
Korea, now is the best opportunity to create as much havoc in the world as possible. There's absolutely nothing
01:33:20
anyone can do to stop you. You are the brawler in high school that no one pays attention to, but because
01:33:29
all the big boys are fighting each other, you can come in and dominate the school. Now,
01:33:33
>> who would they be dominating? they could dominate South Korea because if you just
01:33:38
look at uh a population map of South Korea, most of the South Korean population is located in Seoul and Seoul
01:33:46
is about about 20 minutes artillery from North Korea. So in 20 minutes North Korea could rain artillery onto
01:33:55
Seoul and like basically a day flatten the entire city. Why wouldn't you extort the South
01:34:01
Koreans? Because the South Koreans are going to shoot back >> with what? >> Do they not have military?
01:34:06
>> They're being protected by the Americans right now. And the Americans are busy
01:34:09
transporting artillery and weapon systems, including a fat system, over to the Middle East. It's called FAD. T H A
01:34:18
D. It used to be in South Korea to protect against North Korea, and now it's over in the Middle East.
01:34:27
So, Americans are cannibalizing both South Korea and Japan in order to maintain this war in the Middle East.
01:34:35
Now's the time. Why not? It's free money. It's like taking candy from a
01:34:39
baby. >> But South Korea have their own military. No. How do you fan against artillery
01:34:45
strikes? >> Uh, I don't know. >> You don't. But but they they they would
01:34:51
fire back, right? You'd get they'd get themselves into a pretty ugly war. South
01:34:54
Korea have a have a big military. >> Well, my people are poor. They're not
01:34:58
afraid to die. In fact, I've sent thousands of them to go to Ukraine to fight for the Russians. And they fight
01:35:06
to the death because they're poor and they don't fight to the death and they're allowed to be taken prisoner.
01:35:11
I'll kill their families back at home. South Koreans are rich. They are used democracy. They're used to
01:35:20
individual rights. So, if I threaten to blow your city up, you're telling me you
01:35:25
won't bribe me not to do so. Isn't Isn't the fastest, quickest way is to bribe me
01:35:31
not to cause trouble for you? >> Okay. So, you think they're going to bribe them?
01:35:34
>> Extortion. This is extortion. I don't need to destroy South Korea. All I need
01:35:39
to do is is basically threaten the South Koreans and they'll just bribe me not to
01:35:45
do anything. >> So, what does all of this stuff mean for the average person? You know, people
01:35:50
listening right now, they're just normal people. A lot of them, not all of them,
01:35:53
but a lot of them are just normal people getting on with their lives and they care about their families, their their
01:35:57
jobs, their futures. What does what what message have you got for them in this new world? We will need leaders. We will
01:36:07
need average people who are able to bring hope to people around them, who are able to tell their
01:36:17
neighbors, their friends, we have to come together as a community and become a family if we are to survive.
01:36:28
That's what the world needs in the future. It will need um entrepreneurial leaders. It will need visionaries. It
01:36:36
will need prophets. Those who will most thrive are those who make an effort to reach out,
01:36:44
knock on the door of your neighbors and say, "Listen, there's a blackout. And
01:36:51
there's probably no water. But don't fear because if we come together as
01:36:57
community, if we go and knock on everyone's doors, then everyone in this apartment building, there might be 100
01:37:03
of us. If we just sit down and have a meeting and just discuss what's happening, one of us will come up
01:37:12
a solution and one of us will help everyone else figure out how to find water or how to build a better society.
01:37:22
And we know this because historically this has always been true. When empires collapse, infrastructure collapses.
01:37:28
>> Which empire do you think is collapsing? The United States empire. Uh the United
01:37:32
States empire is collapsing. Yes. >> Uh and who is taking its place? >> No one can take the place of the
01:37:39
American empire. So we live in a unipolar moment. And the closest historical analogy to today is something
01:37:46
called the Bronze Age collapse. >> The bronze bronze age. >> The bronze age collapse. This happened
01:37:52
um about over 3,000 years ago. And what happened during the bronze age collapse is that you have these established
01:38:01
kingdoms throughout the Middle East and Europe. You have Mician uh Greece. You had the highite uh empire in Anatolia
01:38:10
which is present day Turkey. You had uh the Mesopotian Empire. You had the Egyptians.
01:38:16
Um and one by one they collapsed. The reason why was that a perfect storm of calamities came at the same time. There
01:38:24
were earthquakes, there were famines, there was a climate crisis, there were wars, there were civil wars, there were
01:38:29
revolutions. And so you have this massive surge of refugees called the sea peoples flowing from north and uh west
01:38:37
Europe and sweeping the entire shipping food to the entire entire Middle East. And the reason why is they
01:38:46
were hungry. They didn't have any food to eat. So they organized into um you
01:38:51
know these large pirate armies and they overwhelmed uh entire civilizations. And so we're
01:38:58
see we will see a very similar dynamic play out in the world where in the future our concern won't be wars. Our
01:39:09
concern will be these millions of refugees who want to flood into our societies because they're hungry
01:39:17
and they're going to come from Africa. They're going to come from the Middle
01:39:21
East. They'll probably come from South America as well. So, I saw your show with Steve King, by
01:39:28
the way. Uh Steve Keen. Yeah. >> It was a great show, right? and he talked about this where look the world
01:39:34
depends on fertilizer. >> Mhm. >> And there's 8 billion people in the
01:39:38
world and without fertilizers the world could only sustain at most two billion people. Well, what what are the six bill
01:39:46
people going to do? Just starve to death? No. They're going to migrate and they're going to want food and this
01:39:52
going to create a huge global crisis throughout the world. I mean, one might argue that with the
01:39:58
rise of things like AI and robotics, the cost of production is going to drop and
01:40:02
there's going to be more. You know, Elon talks about the age of abundance and all
01:40:06
these kinds of things, >> but you have to grow food out of the ground and you are using fertilizer to
01:40:13
maximize the land's capacity to grow food. So, you know, fertilizer, you can
01:40:18
have as many robots as you want. They don't have to eat food. We have to eat
01:40:21
food. So what is your um you talked about hopefulness, >> right? >> Are you hopeful?
01:40:28
>> I'm very hopeful. >> What are you hopeful for? >> I believe that humans are first and
01:40:35
foremost creative and resilient and our abilities have become dormant because we've become too complacent.
01:40:43
Western lifestyle have made us um extremely lazy and fat and but the moment we're presented with
01:40:53
a crisis, the moment that we find our families in danger, we're able to come
01:41:00
together as a people and come up with all this tremendous imagination in order to make a better society.
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Professor, what's the most important thing we haven't talked about that we
01:42:03
should have talked about? So let's talk about the nature of reality. To explain the nature of
01:42:09
reality, um I'm going to explain Plato's allego the cave, which he talked about in his
01:42:16
book, The Republic. Right. Exactly. >> This book. >> Yes. The Republic. Okay. One of the
01:42:21
masterpieces of Greek civilization as well as Western civilization. All right. So this is how Plato explains the nature
01:42:28
of reality. And so he uses a metaphor called the cave. So, I want you to imagine a dark
01:42:37
cavern that is huge. And in this cavern, there are hundreds of people lined up together.
01:42:49
And they're all sitting in a row. And this goes on for, you know, miles and miles, just thousands of people. And
01:42:57
they are chained to the ground. Their necks are shackled, so they can't actually move. And all they can do is
01:43:05
stare in front of them at a giant wall that's empty. Okay. Now, behind these people, and again, they
01:43:16
they can't see behind them, right? It's a great fire. Along the alongside this
01:43:23
fire are people, okay, we don't know who they are. Never explains who these people are. They take puppets and they
01:43:30
project these puppets off the fire onto the wall. And when people see these shadows, they
01:43:45
think that this is reality. And as such, they begin to create narratives to explain this reality. They create
01:43:55
language. They give shadows names. They explain where these shadows come from. They create religion. Then these people
01:44:02
decide to specialize. So some people who are priests who explain this new religion. There's some people who are
01:44:09
poets that talk about the beauty of the shadows. And then you have teachers who teach
01:44:16
about the shadows to children. And then over time what happens is that these people
01:44:26
fall in love with this reality so that they are addicted to it. So if anyone comes on
01:44:35
and says hey guys why don't you look behind you and see it's all just a farce. These people will be so angry
01:44:43
that they kill this person. Right? So I'm not sure if you've ever watched a Korean drama. Have you watched
01:44:49
a Korean TV drama? >> Not really. No. >> All right. So, unfortunately, I have.
01:44:54
And this thing is going on for like thousands of hours. >> And for the first 10 hours, you're
01:45:01
disgusted by the plot and because it makes no sense. But by sometime by the 20th hour, you can't
01:45:10
stop watching it. >> Mhm. >> Right. The same situation here where it's a it's a silly television drama.
01:45:16
It's all fake. But once people watch too much of it, they want it to be true.
01:45:23
Okay? And that's the nature of reality that we live in. All right? So certain
01:45:27
things to remember is that what creates this reality are not the people in charge. What creates this
01:45:36
reality is our imagination. Okay. So the first thing to appreciate is that everything is a hallucination.
01:45:46
And this is something that nor scientists have confirmed. So what we're going to do is we're going to take
01:45:50
Plato's algorithm of the cave the framework and then apply it to our reality to understand how it's created.
01:45:57
>> Okay. So in the first layer you need a power a force to put people in change right and
01:46:08
this is what we call the military-industrial complex of America as well as the empire. So going back to
01:46:14
this example, it's the layer that puts the people into change. But now the second step is you need people to create
01:46:22
the reality to direct people's attention to create the game. And this these people are the financial elite, the bank
01:46:31
of international settlements based in Basil. So what do they do? These people are the
01:46:37
ones who set the the exchange currency rates >> and they also allow for seamless
01:46:44
financial transactions, the swift system basically. Then Wall Street and the city
01:46:50
of London were the financiers and then you have the Federal Reserve Federal Reserve system because the
01:46:57
Federal Reserve are the people who print money. Okay. Now once you create the rules of the
01:47:06
game, you need to create the game itself which is the global economy right global
01:47:12
economy and obviously this is a pretty vast system that encompasses everything. Okay.
01:47:20
Now you have to explain to people how the global economy works and you cannot tell people oh really there are these
01:47:26
secret people working behind the scenes that are projecting shadows onto a wall.
01:47:31
So what you do is you create multilateral organizations that pretend to control the global economy and they
01:47:39
are the World Bank, the United Nations, WTO. You make them believe that this is all being controlled impartially for our
01:47:49
benefit. Now you have to convince people that this system is legitimate. That when
01:47:58
you're actually seeing the shadows on the wall, they're real. That's why you
01:48:01
need the media. That's why you need culture such as Hollywood movies basically and you need education school
01:48:11
system. Okay, these are the people who are all prisoners who have become leaders of the prisoners and who are
01:48:19
helping them understand the shadows on the wall. >> So am I in the media? >> Yes, you are.
01:48:24
>> Am I? >> Yes. >> So am I what am I doing? Am I one of the people in the fire controlling the
01:48:29
narrative? Is that what? >> Yes. Yes. >> But but I'm not owned by anybody.
01:48:34
>> That's what you think. >> Oh, really? Who who am I owned by? >> Ultimately, it's the people who control
01:48:40
the fire that are in charge, right? So, ultimately, it's these people, the second layer.
01:48:45
>> Okay. >> The game masters, the financial elite that control everything.
01:48:49
>> And the financial elite again are like the World Bank, you said. >> No. No. The financial elite are these
01:48:54
private bankers. >> Okay. So, are the private bankers controlling me? Cuz you said I was in
01:48:59
the media. >> Do you want to make money? >> Yeah. >> Then they're controlling you.
01:49:03
>> Okay. >> Right. >> How are they controlling me? >> Because they control the creation of
01:49:08
money. And so now that you have the media, the schools and the cultural systems helping people
01:49:18
understand the shadows on the wall. These shadows now become internalized and they dictate the values and norms of
01:49:27
people, what they believe to be good and bad. They dictate habits and customs, how you live your life, and they dictate
01:49:35
the legal system, who's punished for what. Okay? And this becomes a top edifice. And what's amazing about the
01:49:43
system is that in our minds, okay, in our minds, we believe that the system is first of all the complete opposite where
01:49:53
un where the foundation is actually the laws, the habits and the values when in fact in reality these are just figments
01:50:03
of our imagination. Okay, that's point one. Point two is that this is a very
01:50:09
very delicate structure. So if anyone doesn't cooperate okay then this is this
01:50:14
NFS collapses because it's a very very delicate system okay and the third thing
01:50:20
and this is most important to understand the world that we live in as the system
01:50:23
becomes much more wobbly meaning that young people don't really believe in the
01:50:28
shadows anymore. Young people grow up and says hm are these shadows really real? They don't feel real to me. The
01:50:35
system needs to become much more authoritarian. It needs to force people to believe what
01:50:41
they refuse to believe because everyone in a system is incentivized to ensure this edifice is stable.
01:50:50
>> Do you think this is somewhat linked to what's going on with independent media?
01:50:54
>> Exactly. >> Because independent media are asking a lot of questions about the way society
01:50:58
functions. >> Exactly. And that's why we're seeing governments becoming very worried about
01:51:04
independent media because if you have people on the population saying these these shadows are fake, this creates a
01:51:11
ripple effect. It causes uh people to start questioning the shadows on the wall. You can't have that. So that's why
01:51:18
it's important to have censorship. That's why it's important to deplatform
01:51:21
people. That's why you have woke politics, DEI, because it's an enforcement mechanism.
01:51:28
>> Yeah. I mean, it is pretty hard. You know, it's pretty it's not easy being a
01:51:31
uh an independent podcaster if you have a big platform cuz you're not always the
01:51:36
most loved by the mainstream media >> and they'll figure out how to eventually
01:51:40
>> But I think that's I think that's very human actually. I think I think the
01:51:43
incentives are quite understandable from a human perspective. >> Look, if you look at the system, no
01:51:49
one's really in charge and no one's a villain. They just grow up in the system
01:51:55
>> and everyone's protecting their incentives. >> Exactly. That's kind of what I mean. I'm
01:51:58
like, yeah, human nature is to protect one's incentives. And you know, the media didn't like Mark Zuckerberg and
01:52:03
Facebook because 80% of 70 80% of ad revenue went to Google and Facebook. So, they had a bit of a war. So, I kind of
01:52:10
get it. People are trying to protect what's theirs and disruption causes people to, I guess, panic a little bit.
01:52:15
But, makes sense. >> But the problem is that over time more and more young people are going to grow
01:52:23
up and say, "I don't see shadows. I'm pretty sure we're being lied to. In
01:52:30
which case, this presents an opportunity to overthrow the system and create a new
01:52:36
system. And this is why AI is important. But we we we currently believe this one.
01:52:44
We currently believe in this structure. It's almost it's really difficult I
01:52:47
think for the average person listening now to accept the fact that they have believed a bunch of fundamental ideas
01:52:53
and stories that everything they care about is sat upon. But I mean you only if you read the book sapiens and
01:52:59
understood that humans got here because we had a remarkable ability to believe in stories that maybe the orangutang
01:53:05
could not believe. It couldn't believe in money and governments and religions
01:53:08
and all these kinds of things. It makes perfect sense that yeah, there's really
01:53:12
foundational stories we are accepting and that's what's brought us here today.
01:53:16
That's what keeps me from running out on the street without my clothes on or
01:53:19
doing other illicit activities is I'm held in place by a set of stories um that I've accepted and they are stacked
01:53:26
one upon the other to make me believe that everything I'm seeing and accepting
01:53:30
is valid. But >> you know, I guess the question becomes, am I okay with this reality?
01:53:37
And what's stopping us from creating our own reality that benefits everyone?
01:53:41
>> Is that possible? >> Well, in theory, it's possible, but as you point out, there are certain people
01:53:48
who are happy with the system and want to maintain the system. And that's why
01:53:53
we're going to wars around the world because it's not just a war between
01:53:58
different nation states. It's also a war for the fundamental nature of reality.
01:54:04
You have the bankers versus the tech broles, right? That's what we're seeing
01:54:09
in the world right now where for the longest time, Wall Street has controlled America. But now with the
01:54:16
with the Trump revolution, you have Palunteer, you have people like Larry Ellison, Peter Theo, uh Sen Alman who
01:54:25
want to create Operation Stargate, which gives them complete control over people's imagination. You can knock it
01:54:33
over now. >> Okay. And everything will come down eventually because that is just the fundamental
01:54:43
fact of human history. Everything no matter how stable it seems in the beginning, it all comes crashing down
01:54:50
eventually. >> Eventually. >> Eventually. >> Cyclic. Cycllically.
01:54:55
>> Yes. Ray Dalio talks about the cycles through history and how sort of predictable they
01:55:01
are and how frequent they are. Is there a frequency to the rise and fall of these I guess perceived realities or
01:55:08
empires as he calls it? >> Yeah. So they say empires last around 200 years. And so we are now in the
01:55:16
twilight of the American empire. And what we know is that when empires decline, it's always for the same
01:55:22
reasons. And um it's always because of too much debt, too much corruption, too much
01:55:31
inequality. And we're seeing that in America today. And the other thing that
01:55:35
we know is you can't actually stop the decline of empires. So Oswwell Spangler
01:55:41
uh who is a German uh theoretician, he argues that we are human beings and we have natural life cycles because we're
01:55:49
organisms. Well, societies are the same way where empires they will be born, they'll rise, they'll die. And it's and
01:55:59
it's a good thing because that's what allows for constant human innovation.
01:56:04
>> Do you think that will happen in my lifetime? I'm 30 years old, 33 years
01:56:07
old. It may happen in everyone's lifetime. It may happen in the next 5 to 10 years. We are we are seeing.
01:56:13
>> Do you think that's going to happen in the next 5 or 10 years? >> I think there's a very strong
01:56:16
possibility that the American empire will collapse in the next 5 to 10 years because it is overstretched. It's in too
01:56:23
much debt and it is really angering the entire world. It's basically unifying
01:56:27
the entire world against it right now. >> And if that is to be the case, what
01:56:31
would you give me as advice as a 33-year-old? what what actions should I be thinking about taking now based on
01:56:37
what you know about history to make sure that you know it's not too bad for myself. I guess I'm asking this question
01:56:43
in light of you predicting that there might be a collapse of the sort of western or the American empire
01:56:51
and in such a scenario I was wondering what what what it would look like to be an American and is there a a solution or
01:56:58
a course of behavior one should take in such a scenario but what I guess that's
01:57:01
the key question which is if the US empire does collapse how does American life change or western life change
01:57:07
>> okay so one theory that's very important to understand is something called
01:57:13
hermetic philosophy and heretic philosophy is what underpins um Plato's eye of the cave.
01:57:19
>> Mhm. >> And heretic philosophy comes from Egypt and it has certain principles but his
01:57:25
main principle is that reality is energy. It's vibrations. Okay. So we think of it as material when material is
01:57:34
a consequence of energy. >> Right? So what this means is that reality is consciousness itself.
01:57:44
>> So our thoughts are what's real. Our bodies are just vehicles to to
01:57:52
experience the world around us. But they're not real. When we die, our souls
01:57:56
return to the source and we come back again. And we are here permanently in order to experience things we cannot
01:58:03
experience in the spiritual world because in the spiritual world it's not material.
01:58:08
So what's really important is to appreciate that every one of us is part of the source.
01:58:16
And so if we think about the totality of things, we can only become despondent, we can only give up hope. But if we
01:58:25
think about how individually we can become a better person and how we can impact the people around us, then
01:58:34
that becomes reflected onto the reality itself because we're just part of God itself. Right? So the
01:58:42
idea is as above so below. As below so above meaning that we are each and every one of us fractals of
01:58:51
God. So if we choose to be a good person, this makes the world a better place. If
01:58:57
we choose to be a bad person, it also makes the world a worse place. So it's
01:59:01
not really about how can I stop these wars from happening because you cannot. It's not really about where can I put my
01:59:07
money to make generate more income because that because that's not going to happen. It's really about how do I
01:59:14
live my life to the fullest? How do I become a much more creative individual that brings goodness to the people
01:59:22
around me? If you do that, you're changing the world every day for the better.
01:59:32
That's a nice message. That's a very nice message. And I agree. And I It's really interesting. I've
01:59:38
spoken to a couple of physicists now who say similar things regarding um about consciousness and it really has stuck
01:59:44
with me. A lot of things people say, you know, sometimes because I I learn so much doing this that I forget them. But
01:59:50
this idea that um that we're all part of the same consciousness and that I think
01:59:54
someone said to me, a physicist said to me that um it's almost like consciousness divided into lots of
02:00:00
little pieces so that >> that's right. Fractals. >> Fractals. So that it could it could
02:00:03
experience the world or view the world. >> Exactly. >> And I found that to be a really
02:00:06
compelling idea. Weirdly, I was thinking about this the other I was in a European
02:00:10
country and I was I was driving in a taxi and I looked out the window and you had all of these like tourists just
02:00:16
stood at the edge of the water all just like looking up and looking around and I
02:00:19
just for a second thought of it thought of them as like little p pieces of consciousness exploring the world cuz
02:00:24
they were like looking up and looking around and looking at mountains and looking at the ocean and looking at the
02:00:27
floor and it it dawned on me for a second that that might just be consciousness is manifestation um for
02:00:34
sort of I guess exploration which is a really interesting idea. I don't necessarily know what it means,
02:00:39
but it does create a little lot of empathy. >> So, so one one area that you might want
02:00:43
to explore is the cabala. >> So, what how's this what what's this cabala thing,
02:00:47
>> right? It's what they call the tree of life. And in the tree of life, it's it's
02:00:51
what I'm trying to say is that it's certain dynamic in the world that governs all human affairs. And this
02:00:56
dynamic is thesis, antithesis, synthesis. So, God is the will to bestow creates Adam Canmon who is the will to
02:01:06
receive. And then Kmon has to abandon God. That's thus destroying the world.
02:01:11
But eventually because the world is destroyed and Enmlan and his and his descendants us recognize the father of
02:01:16
our ways and beg God for forgiveness. And this will redeem the world, repair the world. And if you think about it,
02:01:25
okay, this is what underpins a lot of actions that is happening in the Middle East where the Israelis are doing what
02:01:34
they're doing because they're trying to force the hand of God. Meaning that,
02:01:40
okay, if Israel is committing all these atrocities in the Middle East, it's committing all these wars, eventually
02:01:48
the world will have to punish the Israel, the Israelites, right? There'll be war between the world and Israel and
02:01:55
Israel will be humbled. But once Israel is humbled, everyone in Israel recognize the folly
02:02:04
of his or her arrogance, hubris, and then will beg God for forgiveness. And once that that moment happens, when all
02:02:14
people in Israel at the same time beg God for deliverance and for forgiveness, the world will end.
02:02:22
and will return to paradise. That's literally what they believe. Fascinating.
02:02:32
>> We're going to have to stop there, professor. Okay. Um, we have a closing
02:02:35
tradition where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest, not knowing
02:02:37
who they're leaving it for. And the question left for you is, who will you miss the most and why?
02:02:44
Well, I will miss my wife the most because I met my wife about 10 years ago and this was a time in my life when I
02:02:54
had and when I had I had hit rock bottom. Um I went to Yale and so I have a very um elevated sense of myself and
02:03:04
my abilities. And so I went into the world thinking that I would conquer it. And after decades of failure,
02:03:12
um I basically became very depressed. >> Failure? >> Yes. I meaning I didn't have a job,
02:03:19
meaning I didn't have much income, meaning I didn't have much hope in my
02:03:24
life. And so I was working as a teacher and then for a mutual acquaintance I met
02:03:29
my wife and I think that it was because I became so depressed that my heart I begged for
02:03:41
relief. I begged God even though I don't believe in God for salvation and redemption. And my wife came as an
02:03:50
angel. And what she did that no one else did before was she loved me unconditionally.
02:03:57
She was kind to me. She told me to believe in myself. And she proved it by making the ultimate
02:04:07
sacrifice and having a child with me. Right? It's one thing to for someone to
02:04:12
say, "I believe in you. I love you." But it's another thing to have a child with
02:04:17
that person. And so that changed me totally and I and I said to myself, I can't despair anymore. I have to work
02:04:26
hard. I have to provide for my family. And at this time I was thinking that maybe I could help students go to Yale.
02:04:38
Like you know in China trying to um consulting is a huge business where if you help package a kid and you get to
02:04:44
Yale, you get about a million dollars. That's a lot of money, right? and she
02:04:47
told me, "You can't do that. You have to be true to yourself and you have to be
02:04:52
true to our son." Set a good example for him. And so what happened was that I got
02:04:58
a job as a high school teacher. And then I started to make these YouTube videos and then it blew up online. And this was
02:05:07
not something that we expected. It's not something that we planned for. It just
02:05:10
happened organically. So it was my wife just just by saying I love you to me and I knew it to be
02:05:19
true because we had a child together we started a family together by loving me unconditionally by being kind to me it
02:05:24
changed me forever and that's what empowered me to want to share myself with other people as well and so I don't
02:05:32
know how I will ever thank my wife I'm I'm forever grateful for her and I don't
02:05:38
I don't before I didn't really mind leaving this world But I don't want to
02:05:42
leave this world anymore because I don't want to separate from her. >> Could you have expected that you'd have
02:05:48
the success you've had online? You've got what almost two and a half million
02:05:51
subscribers on YouTube alone. Um getting millions and millions and millions of views on your videos. I mean, some of
02:05:58
your videos have almost 10 million views on on various channels that you've been
02:06:01
on. You've only made 146 of these videos and your your channel has grown immensely. Could could you have imagined
02:06:12
I did. >> You did imagine? >> Yes. >> You thought it would go like this.
02:06:15
>> Um, not this big, but I imagine, you know, I I would find people who believe
02:06:22
in what I was doing and would be inspired by what I was doing. And I knew this because when I met my wife and I
02:06:30
fell in love for the first time and we loved each other uh unconditionally, my imagination started to open up. I
02:06:39
could see and feel things that were not available to me before and it was as though I became much more connected to
02:06:48
the source. I became much more connected to the universe and the universe was giving me insights as to how to proceed.
02:06:56
And so I had one day an inspiration. Let me start a YouTube channel and let me make
02:07:02
stupid predictions and see where where it goes. Because if I'm right then then
02:07:07
I would be pretty famous. If I'm wrong then I'm an idiot. But what gave me the
02:07:14
courage to imagine all this was again the love of my wife. So that's why I say
02:07:22
kindness and love. So I did imagine this but not to the extent that um you know my YouTube
02:07:31
channel has blown up. You've only been doing it about a year. I don't think
02:07:36
I've ever seen someone get two two and a half million subscribers in a year,
02:07:39
especially making a geop geopolitics and uh it's mainly geopolitics, isn't it? And
02:07:46
history videos in a year. That's crazy. But I will tell you this, it has not
02:07:52
changed me because being with my wife, having a family, I know my mission is to share myself with others.
02:08:03
So, I could easily um create a media education company like Jordan Peterson um and start my own
02:08:12
university. I don't want to do that. I want to share myself with others. I want
02:08:18
to constantly learn. I want to constantly ask questions. I want to be open-minded. I want to be brave for my
02:08:25
wife and my family. And so, yes, I did succeed. And I think I thank the universe for letting me succeed. And I
02:08:33
and I thank most of all the fact that I succeeded at an age and at a time when I
02:08:40
can focus on the mission and ignore the fame, the wealth, the status. Are you happy? I'm very happy with my family
02:08:50
because it's my wife and my children who bring me tremendous happiness in the
02:08:55
world. the the YouTube channel if they close it down tomorrow and they might I wouldn't be at all uh unhappy because I
02:09:05
could just go and create more videos. Uh what matters is a source of my creativity which is my the love I have
02:09:14
for my family. >> That is beautiful. Really beautiful. I mean, it's it's really self-evident the
02:09:19
value you're giving to people because the amount of people that showed up in
02:09:23
my comment section and demanded that you come here was staggering. In fact, that's actually how I I learned about
02:09:29
you was I just saw your name so much in the comment section. So, I was like, who's this guy? And I went on YouTube
02:09:34
and looked around and then I found these videos and then I got served them because I'd clicked on them and then I
02:09:38
got went down the rabbit hole like everything. >> Just to warn you, I am a polarizing
02:09:42
figure. Oh, I don't care. Some people really love me, but some people also really really
02:09:48
>> It doesn't matter. Listen, I have I sit here with people really regardless of uh
02:09:52
of of that stuff and I think that's important and quite rare. So, you know, I've sat with Kamal Harris or Ivanka
02:09:59
Trump or Gavin Newsome or Michelle Obama, you know, and for me it's really about the pursuit of truth rather than
02:10:04
being captured too much by, you know, right, >> all the blocks that we have on the
02:10:09
table. So, um, thank you for doing what you do because you're demystifying and
02:10:12
you're you're giving a perspective to the world. And I think one of the things
02:10:15
you you do that really has compelled people is you you're able to, um, break
02:10:20
things down in visual ways that allow people like me who aren't the best um,
02:10:26
when it comes to books and textbooks and weren't necessarily very good in school
02:10:31
to understand concepts in a simpler way and really to bring them to life in ways
02:10:34
that make them actionable and relevant to our lives. And so long may you carry on doing that.
02:10:39
>> And that's a central message that I hope people understand like everyone has
02:10:43
capacity to learn the truth for himself or herself. It's only a question of desire and will.
02:10:50
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