00:00:00
In 2024, you made three predictions that
00:00:03
have come perfectly true, like Trump
00:00:05
would start a war with Iran. And you've
00:00:07
made a series of new predictions.
00:00:09
>> Yes. And I'll explain each prediction
00:00:10
one by one. Okay. So, first I predict
00:00:13
that Trump will get a third term.
00:00:14
>> But isn't this constitutionally illegal?
00:00:16
>> It's not. The president now has
00:00:18
emergency war powers and so he could
00:00:20
actually delay the election. My second
00:00:21
prediction is Iran is under a forever
00:00:23
war and the United States will institute
00:00:25
a national draft. Meaning that if you're
00:00:26
between 18 to 24 in America and you're
00:00:28
male, you'll be automatically put into
00:00:30
the draft system and they just pass a
00:00:32
law that says that starting in December,
00:00:34
you will be automatically registered,
00:00:36
which means you're obliged to go and
00:00:38
fight. Exactly. Next, the world will
00:00:40
move towards an AI civilian state. So
00:00:42
everything you do online is being
00:00:44
recorded to figure out and how to
00:00:46
control you. And then this is the most
00:00:47
controversial prediction. This is pretty
00:00:49
bad and I'll explain why. And also I
00:00:52
will tell you why this war can only lead
00:00:53
to World War II. why there's a very
00:00:55
strong possibility that the American
00:00:56
Empire will collapse and also I'll show
00:00:58
you what the Russians will do and how
00:01:01
the private bankers are controlling it.
00:01:03
I'm not owned by anybody. That's what
00:01:04
you think. So, let's talk about that.
00:01:09
This is super interesting to me. My team
00:01:11
given me this report to show me how many
00:01:12
of you that watch this show subscribe.
00:01:14
And some of you have told us according
00:01:15
to this that you are unsubscribed from
00:01:17
the channel randomly. So, favor to ask
00:01:19
all of you. Please could you check right
00:01:21
now if you've hit the subscribe button
00:01:22
if you are a regular viewer of the show
00:01:24
and you like what we do here. We're
00:01:25
approaching quite a significant landmark
00:01:27
on this show in terms of a subscriber
00:01:29
number. So if there was one simple free
00:01:31
thing that you could do to help us, my
00:01:33
team, everyone here to keep this show
00:01:35
free, to keep it improving year over
00:01:37
year and week over week, it is just to
00:01:39
hit that subscribe button and to double
00:01:40
check if you've hit it. Only thing I'll
00:01:41
ever ask of you, do we have a deal? If
00:01:44
you do it, I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:01:45
I'll make sure every single week, every
00:01:47
single month, we fight harder and harder
00:01:49
and harder and harder to bring you the
00:01:50
guests and conversations that you want
00:01:51
to hear. I've stayed true to that
00:01:53
promise since the very beginning of the
00:01:54
D of Sio and I will not let you down.
00:01:57
Please help us. Really appreciate it.
00:01:58
Let's get on with the show.
00:02:07
Professor Dian,
00:02:09
there's so much going on in the world at
00:02:11
the moment that it's quite confusing for
00:02:13
an ordinary person like me. And you've
00:02:15
blown up across the internet because
00:02:16
you've been able to demystify all of all
00:02:19
of this craziness, but also because in
00:02:22
2024,
00:02:24
you made three predictions that have
00:02:26
come perfectly true.
00:02:29
Some might say unfortunately.
00:02:31
>> Unfortunately, yes. What were those
00:02:33
three predictions?
00:02:34
>> My first prediction was that Trump would
00:02:36
win in November 2024. Second prediction
00:02:40
is that he would start a war against
00:02:43
Iran. And the third prediction is that
00:02:46
the United States would lose this war
00:02:48
and in losing this war, this would
00:02:50
radically reshape the geopolitical
00:02:52
landscape.
00:02:54
>> How did you know that Trump would start
00:02:56
a war with Iran?
00:02:57
>> The simple answer is this. The the
00:03:00
United States having invaded Iran
00:03:03
because it has no choice in the matter.
00:03:06
If it were not to invade Iran, it would
00:03:08
lose its empire. Its empire is based
00:03:12
purely on the US dollar, the petro
00:03:14
dollar, which is a Ponzi scheme. If it
00:03:17
did not invade Iran, then people would
00:03:20
choose not to trade with it anymore.
00:03:23
People would choose to not buy US
00:03:25
treasuries.
00:03:26
>> Why? For the longest time, this system
00:03:29
worked fine.
00:03:31
But then in February 2022,
00:03:36
Russia invaded Ukraine.
00:03:38
>> Yeah.
00:03:38
>> Okay. That was not the issue. The issue
00:03:40
was the American response. The American
00:03:43
response was to sanction Russia and
00:03:47
remove Russia from the swift global
00:03:50
payment system. It also ordered the
00:03:53
Europeans to freeze over $200 billion
00:03:58
in Russian assets. And there's a problem
00:04:01
because the very basis for having the US
00:04:04
dollar as the global reserve currency is
00:04:07
that it would remain politically
00:04:09
neutral.
00:04:11
It it the Americans guaranteed seamless
00:04:16
politically neutral
00:04:18
international exchange.
00:04:20
So if this trend continues, right, if
00:04:24
you don't do anything about Russia,
00:04:26
Russia would take over Ukraine and
00:04:28
Russia then would build an alliance with
00:04:32
China and Iran. If you look at these
00:04:35
three countries on the map, Russia,
00:04:37
China and Iran, this is the entire Asian
00:04:41
continent. And then what they can do is
00:04:44
this. They can say, okay, the United
00:04:47
States is a bully.
00:04:49
They force us to play by the rules. They
00:04:52
get very angry if we don't play by the
00:04:54
rules. So, let's not play with the
00:04:56
United States anymore. Let's just trade
00:04:59
amongst ourselves.
00:05:01
And then what they can do is they can
00:05:03
build a Eurasian railway system
00:05:07
connecting Russia, Iran, and China
00:05:09
together. And then what this would do is
00:05:13
negate American sea power because it's
00:05:16
American ships that patrol and protect
00:05:19
the oceans.
00:05:22
And then what would happen is the world,
00:05:25
Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East
00:05:29
Asia would look at the trading block and
00:05:32
think to themselves, "Wow, these guys,
00:05:34
the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese,
00:05:38
they use gold
00:05:41
as their medium of exchange.
00:05:44
Gold is valuable. The Americans on the
00:05:47
other hand use US dollars
00:05:50
as the medium of exchange which is not
00:05:53
valuable. So am I better off with the
00:05:56
American system with this new brick
00:05:59
system?
00:06:00
>> What's bricks?
00:06:01
>> It's an acronym. It stands for Brazil,
00:06:04
Russia, India,
00:06:06
uh South Africa, China. So am I right in
00:06:09
thinking because Iran, Russia and China
00:06:11
were colluding, it threatened US
00:06:14
dominance which is driven by the world
00:06:16
using the dollar as the primary currency
00:06:20
for trading.
00:06:21
>> That's correct. Okay.
00:06:22
>> Okay. So they felt they needed to invade
00:06:23
because then they can control more of
00:06:25
the Middle East.
00:06:26
>> Right. So by attacking Iran, certain
00:06:29
things happen. Okay. The first thing
00:06:31
that happened is that China is now cut
00:06:36
off from Middle East energy.
00:06:40
China receives anywhere between 50 to
00:06:43
60% of its energy needs from the Middle
00:06:47
East. Not just Iran, but also Qatar and
00:06:49
Saudi Arabia.
00:06:51
A lot of people say that China today
00:06:53
it's reliant on renewables, solar, wind,
00:06:57
and that's true to a certain extent. But
00:06:59
remember that China it is an industrial
00:07:01
powerhouse. So it needs energy from
00:07:03
everywhere and everyone. So the fact
00:07:08
that China is losing all this energy
00:07:11
from the Middle East presents China with
00:07:13
a long-term strategic vulnerability.
00:07:16
That's the first thing that happens.
00:07:19
Second thing that happens is that Europe
00:07:22
is in a lot of trouble because remember
00:07:24
because of the Russia's invasion of
00:07:26
Ukraine, Russian energy was sanctioned
00:07:29
and so Europe relied more on middle on
00:07:33
the Middle East for its energy needs
00:07:35
especially Qatar
00:07:37
and now Europe has lost all of this oil.
00:07:41
So you and then you have Japan and South
00:07:43
Korea. These two powerful East Asian
00:07:46
economies are also reliant on the Middle
00:07:49
East for its uh energy. So another
00:07:52
question is if you're not getting your
00:07:54
energy from the Middle East, where can
00:07:56
you get your energy from? And there's
00:07:58
only two answers, either Russia
00:08:01
or the United States.
00:08:04
Russia is at war. And what's happening
00:08:06
is the Ukrainian drones are attacking
00:08:08
Russian oil refineries and export hubs.
00:08:12
So the world in the short term have has
00:08:17
no choice but to look to America for its
00:08:20
energy needs. And what did Trump do
00:08:24
recently? He took over he took over
00:08:25
Venezuela which has the world's greatest
00:08:29
oil reserves.
00:08:31
He's threatening Canada. is threatening
00:08:33
Greenland, Mexico, Colombia. If Trump
00:08:37
controls the entire Western Hemisphere,
00:08:42
the entire world has to beg Trump for
00:08:45
energy and resources and it saves both
00:08:48
the US dollar as well as the American
00:08:52
empire.
00:08:53
>> So, as part of your prediction in in
00:08:56
2024, I believe it was, you said that
00:08:58
the US would lose this war,
00:09:00
>> right?
00:09:00
Why did you predict that the US will
00:09:03
lose this war with Iran?
00:09:05
>> Because the the American society does
00:09:08
not does not have the political will,
00:09:11
does not have the manu manufacturing
00:09:13
capacity,
00:09:14
does not have the risk tolerance to
00:09:17
fight this war in Iran. Basically,
00:09:21
America wants to fight this war as
00:09:23
cheaply, as easily, and as quickly as
00:09:26
possible. Right? So Trump it Trump
00:09:30
really thought that you know if I sent
00:09:31
my airplanes to strike Tran and kill the
00:09:35
Aatollah they would just surrender. That
00:09:38
was like literally his plan going into
00:09:41
this war. He paid no attention to the
00:09:44
culture. He paid no attention to the
00:09:47
history of the Iranian people. He had
00:09:49
absolutely no respect for
00:09:52
for the nation. And when you do that,
00:09:54
when you disrespect your opponent, when
00:09:56
you underestimate your opponent, when
00:09:57
you yourself are not willing to commit
00:09:59
to the fight, you're going to lose.
00:10:02
>> So, is Iran's game just to draw this out
00:10:05
as long as they possibly can? H how are
00:10:08
they, you know, cuz he's taken out the
00:10:10
leaders? And do you also think that
00:10:11
Trump thought that just if I just bomb
00:10:13
the leader, then everything will sort of
00:10:15
regenerate itself and we'll be fine.
00:10:18
What was the sort of fundamental
00:10:19
misunderstanding? There's a lot of
00:10:21
confusion as to how this war started.
00:10:24
Even today, no one actually knows how
00:10:26
this war started.
00:10:29
But I think that Trump, given his
00:10:31
personality, he was convinced that if he
00:10:36
killed the leadership of Iran, then they
00:10:40
would have no choice but to surrender.
00:10:43
And his proof of concept was of course
00:10:46
on January 3rd of this year, Delta Force
00:10:49
went into Venezuela, kidnapped Maduro
00:10:53
and they completely surrendered. So in
00:10:55
Trump's mind, he wanted to replay
00:10:58
this the Venezuela scenario.
00:11:01
>> And he
00:11:02
didn't realize that Iran is
00:11:04
fundamentally different from Venezuela.
00:11:06
>> The short answer is he is a reality TV
00:11:10
star. He thinks in terms of optics. He
00:11:12
doesn't think think in terms of like
00:11:13
geopolitical strategy. The long answer
00:11:16
is that the American military has become
00:11:19
very corrupt and insular institution
00:11:23
that is trying to generate as much
00:11:26
congressional funding as possible in
00:11:28
order to fund the military-industrial
00:11:31
complex.
00:11:31
>> Did he think that he was going to bomb
00:11:33
Iran, the people would rise up, they
00:11:36
would elect a new government and that
00:11:38
would be that and then he could control
00:11:40
Iran? That's exactly what he thought.
00:11:43
So, what I want to do now is go to the
00:11:46
map.
00:11:46
>> Okay.
00:11:47
>> All right. And show you what he got
00:11:48
wrong.
00:11:48
>> Okay.
00:11:49
>> All right. So, this is a map of the
00:11:52
Middle East. And the first thing to
00:11:57
notice about this map is the topography.
00:12:01
>> What does that mean?
00:12:02
>> How many mountains you have? So this is
00:12:05
what's really interesting is that the
00:12:08
topography between Iraq and Iran are
00:12:13
completely different.
00:12:15
And this is important because two in
00:12:17
2003
00:12:18
the Americans invaded Iraq and they won
00:12:21
the war in about two weeks. And the
00:12:24
reason why they won the war is the
00:12:26
Americans practiced something called
00:12:29
shock and all.
00:12:33
The idea of shock and all is that it is
00:12:38
a military strategy that believes that
00:12:42
if you cut off the head of the snake,
00:12:44
the snake will die. The decapation
00:12:46
strike. And so what they did was they
00:12:51
went into Baghdad,
00:12:53
seized Baghdad and the
00:12:57
regime collapsed and the war was over.
00:13:03
And they were able to do this because of
00:13:06
the topography. If you look at the map
00:13:08
of Iraq, it's all flat. It's all desert.
00:13:13
Meaning that you can just fly in your
00:13:16
planes,
00:13:19
cut off the head of a snake, and the war
00:13:21
is over. There's absolutely no way you
00:13:24
can defend against air strikes because
00:13:28
you're entirely a desert.
00:13:32
Now let's go to let's look at topography
00:13:35
of I of Iran and Iran. It's all
00:13:40
mountainous. In fact, you can make the
00:13:43
argument that Iran is a fortress.
00:13:47
Okay.
00:13:50
And so
00:13:52
the first thing is that
00:13:55
Iran can choose to fight a war of
00:13:59
attrition. What's a war of attrition?
00:14:02
>> A war of attrition is a game of uncle.
00:14:05
>> What's that?
00:14:06
>> Right. A game of uncle is where uh we
00:14:09
don't have enough power to destroy each
00:14:11
other. So what we try to do is we try to
00:14:14
create pain points, leverage points
00:14:18
to force you to submit to cry uncle,
00:14:22
right? So because Iran is too large
00:14:27
and that's 92 million people, it's
00:14:29
impossible for the Americans and
00:14:31
Israelis to destroy Iran. So what
00:14:34
they're trying to do instead is
00:14:37
bomb enough targets so that they
00:14:40
recognize that resistance resistance is
00:14:42
futile and surrender. Okay, that's the
00:14:45
extent of the strategy. But again, the
00:14:47
problem with this is that one, Iran is
00:14:52
much too big. Number two is that it is a
00:14:55
mountain fortress, which means that you
00:14:58
can hide your weapons and your military
00:15:01
inside mountains, right? Which allows
00:15:05
you to conduct a guerilla warfare
00:15:07
strategy against your opponent. And this
00:15:11
is exactly what Iran is doing right now
00:15:14
where their underground missile bases
00:15:15
are hidden inside the mountains and then
00:15:19
they're able to strike targets
00:15:21
throughout the Middle East primarily
00:15:25
American bases but also energy
00:15:28
installations that are key to the
00:15:30
American petro dollar system. And so
00:15:32
it's a game of uncle where the Americans
00:15:34
are trying to create as much damage as
00:15:37
possible in the Iranian nation and Iran
00:15:40
in response is trying to destroy as much
00:15:44
of of the global economy as possible to
00:15:46
force the world to pressure America to
00:15:49
call the war off. So that's a situation
00:15:51
we are facing right now. Second thing
00:15:54
that Trump got got wrong is how
00:15:56
vulnerable the global economy is.
00:15:59
Because the Iranians control something
00:16:02
called a shum moose. Okay. And as you
00:16:04
can see on this map,
00:16:07
it's a very
00:16:10
very narrow piece of land. It's only
00:16:14
about 33 kilometers across. You can
00:16:16
actually swim across the straight of
00:16:19
Humus. Okay. And why this is important
00:16:22
is the GCC
00:16:25
exports 20%
00:16:28
of the world's energy. The G the G what?
00:16:31
>> The Gulf cooperative council. Okay. So
00:16:34
the Gulf cooperative council are certain
00:16:36
nations in the mil middle east that
00:16:39
align politically. So they include
00:16:41
Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
00:16:44
uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait. They
00:16:48
they've been exporting
00:16:51
energy but not just energy but also a
00:16:54
lot of byproducts of of energy
00:16:56
production including fertilizer
00:16:58
to the world primarily East Asia and
00:17:02
India. In return they've been getting um
00:17:08
food back. So most people don't don't
00:17:11
appreciate this but the GCC actually
00:17:13
imports 80 to 90% of its food needs. And
00:17:17
the reason why is that they become so
00:17:19
rich these past few decades that the
00:17:22
populations have um blown up and as a
00:17:27
result they have to feed their
00:17:29
population but they don't have
00:17:32
agricultural resources. They also don't
00:17:34
have water resources and so they have
00:17:37
two major vulnerabilities which is food
00:17:39
and water and they have a lot of
00:17:41
desalination plants around the area and
00:17:45
so
00:17:46
>> it's a desalination plant.
00:17:47
>> Okay. So a desalination plant takes salt
00:17:51
water from the seas and then through an
00:17:54
electrochemical process turns it into
00:17:56
portable water that people can use uh
00:18:00
for drinking purposes and for
00:18:03
agricultural purposes.
00:18:04
>> Okay. Right. So as you can see the
00:18:07
entire area it is extremely vulnerable
00:18:11
to drone and missile attacks from Iran.
00:18:15
So that's the second thing that Iran has
00:18:16
done which Trump did not expect. He did
00:18:18
not expect that the Iranians would close
00:18:21
off the strait of Hammoose. And how the
00:18:25
Iranians were able to close of the shoo
00:18:28
was just by threatening to attack any
00:18:30
ships that wanted to cross it. The
00:18:34
reason why is that these ships depend on
00:18:37
maritime insurance in order to operate.
00:18:40
But if there's a risk, a very high risk
00:18:42
of being destroyed, then um you will not
00:18:46
need to get insurance.
00:18:47
>> Okay.
00:18:48
>> So, it's not that the Iranians have said
00:18:49
to these ships you can't cross. It's
00:18:51
just that the insurers refuse to allow
00:18:54
these ships to cross because it's too
00:18:55
dangerous. And Trump didn't you think
00:18:58
they'd consider this before they started
00:18:59
bombing Iran that Iran would have some
00:19:02
leverage in shutting down such a
00:19:05
critical piece of uh water for you know
00:19:09
shipping fertilizer energy etc. You
00:19:11
think that they would have known this
00:19:13
>> right? So, that's what a lot of people
00:19:15
say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is
00:19:19
hotheaded, that he was misled by the
00:19:21
Israelis.
00:19:23
And there's good evidence to support
00:19:25
this, but I want to show you something,
00:19:28
okay? It's it's called the
00:19:30
National Defense Strategy. All right?
00:19:33
And so, this is a document that was
00:19:36
published by the Department of War. And
00:19:39
in it, it explains what the American
00:19:43
strategy to maintain global dominance
00:19:47
is. And in the introduction, what it
00:19:50
says is that for too long, America has
00:19:55
been bullied by the world world. America
00:19:58
is a nation that protects the world. Yet
00:20:03
Europe, East Asia takes advantage of
00:20:07
American generosity. The Europeans don't
00:20:10
pay for their defense and so they put
00:20:13
all this money into welfare into their
00:20:15
pension system. The Chinese
00:20:19
have been giving America a bad trade
00:20:22
deal. The Chinese steal American
00:20:24
technology and then use it to make
00:20:27
products that they sell back to the
00:20:28
Americans. So the Americans have been
00:20:32
have been getting a really bad deal for
00:20:36
decades. And President Donald Trump,
00:20:38
he's going to change that by doing four
00:20:41
things, right? The National Defense
00:20:43
Strategy calls for a fourpoint program
00:20:48
to put America first. The first thing
00:20:51
that
00:20:53
um America is going to do is going to
00:20:55
secure the Western Hemisphere. Why?
00:20:59
Because the Western Hemisphere belongs
00:21:02
to the United States.
00:21:03
>> When you say the Western Hemisphere,
00:21:05
what do you mean? What what region is
00:21:06
that? Is that Canada as well? And
00:21:08
>> so if you look at the map, we can divide
00:21:10
we can divide the map into the eastern
00:21:13
hemisphere.
00:21:14
>> Okay. And the western hemisphere.
00:21:15
>> Okay. So everything over here,
00:21:17
>> everything including Greenland,
00:21:20
including Canada, including Mexico,
00:21:22
every part of this area belongs to
00:21:26
United States. Therefore, you cannot
00:21:29
trade with any of these countries
00:21:32
without American permission, without
00:21:35
paying a tribute to the Americans. And
00:21:38
that this is why that the Americans have
00:21:42
parked onethird of their naval assets in
00:21:45
the Caribbean today.
00:21:48
It's to it's to tell the Chinese and the
00:21:50
Russians, back off. If you want to come
00:21:53
here, you either pay a tribute or you'll
00:21:57
be attacked.
00:21:59
Okay, that's the first point of the
00:22:02
strategy. The Western Hemisphere belongs
00:22:05
to America. Something that they call the
00:22:07
Donro doctrine. Okay, which is Trump's
00:22:10
corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And so
00:22:13
that's point one.
00:22:15
Point two is that America wants to
00:22:19
re-imagine its relationship with its
00:22:22
allies.
00:22:23
Basically, NATO needs to pay for its own
00:22:28
defense. NATO needs to go fight Russia
00:22:32
in Ukraine. America will provide
00:22:34
support. It'll provide weapons and
00:22:36
financing,
00:22:38
but NATO needs to do more work. And in
00:22:42
East Asia, South Korea and Japan need to
00:22:46
do better job of keeping China in check.
00:22:51
Okay, that's point two. Point three is
00:22:54
specific to China. And the idea is the
00:22:58
United States does not want to destroy
00:23:00
China. The United States does not want
00:23:02
to humiliate China, but China needs to
00:23:05
be put in its place. China needs to
00:23:08
respect the power and the reach of the
00:23:12
United States. And how the United States
00:23:15
is going to do this is by strangling
00:23:19
China economically. Right? So you look
00:23:22
at at a map of China,
00:23:25
most of its trade goes to something
00:23:28
called the sh of Malaa. And the sh of
00:23:30
Malaca is the most important maritime
00:23:32
choke point in the world. All America
00:23:35
has to do is park naval carriers inside
00:23:39
the Jamaala and China will lose 90% of
00:23:43
its energy exports. But if they parked
00:23:45
them there, China would still go
00:23:47
through. No.
00:23:48
>> No. Because you have to go for the
00:23:49
straight Maka. So America has something
00:23:52
called the first island chain. Okay. The
00:23:54
first island chain prevents China from
00:23:57
reaching the Pacific Ocean. The first
00:23:59
island chain includes South Korea,
00:24:01
Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and
00:24:04
Malaysia. That blocks China from
00:24:06
reaching out into into the Pacific.
00:24:09
>> So in order for it to access trade, it
00:24:12
has to go through the SH of Malaca. And
00:24:14
for the Malaka, it can access uh India,
00:24:17
Africa, and the uh Middle East.
00:24:21
>> Okay.
00:24:22
>> Right. And so by positioning naval
00:24:25
carriers
00:24:27
inside the Shalaka, it creates a
00:24:30
blockade and China would have to pay a
00:24:33
toll in order to access um the Shalaka.
00:24:37
>> And the fourth one
00:24:38
>> and the fourth one is to
00:24:42
um rejuvenate reinvigorate
00:24:46
America's defense manufacturing sector.
00:24:49
>> So supercharge the US defense industrial
00:24:51
base. That's exactly correct. Yes. All
00:24:53
right. So, what this means is that the
00:24:56
Pentagon a few weeks ago went to Detroit
00:24:59
and talked to Ford and General Motors
00:25:01
and said, "You know what? Because of
00:25:03
this war in Iran, we might need you to
00:25:05
stop making cars and start making more
00:25:08
munitions."
00:25:10
>> How do you know they said that?
00:25:11
>> It's
00:25:12
>> They published it.
00:25:12
>> They published it. Yes.
00:25:13
>> Really?
00:25:14
>> Yes.
00:25:14
>> So, the United States went to Forbes and
00:25:16
GM and said, "We might need you to start
00:25:18
making weapons with your factories."
00:25:19
>> Yes. And they're happy doing this
00:25:21
because the profit margins are much
00:25:22
greater for weapons than for for cars.
00:25:25
This is a Pentagon. So you can charge as
00:25:26
you can charge them as much as you want
00:25:28
and they'll pay for it. Whereas you make
00:25:30
cars, it's for the consumer market and
00:25:32
they may not buy your cars.
00:25:34
>> Mhm.
00:25:34
>> Right. So So you're like Ford or General
00:25:36
Motors, the best deal in the world is to
00:25:40
go make weapons for the Pentagon to
00:25:43
fight these wars in the Middle East that
00:25:45
can go on for forever. So, so, so we
00:25:47
have the situation where, okay, look, if
00:25:50
you read the news, if you talk to a lot
00:25:52
of people, Trump's an idiot, and this
00:25:54
war in Iran makes no sense at all. But
00:25:59
then, if you just read the National
00:26:00
Defense Strategy that is on the
00:26:03
Department of War website, and anyone
00:26:05
can go there and download it for free
00:26:06
and read it themselves, it's a very
00:26:08
clear road map of what America needs to
00:26:11
do in order to maintain imperial
00:26:14
hijgemony. And so let let's let let's
00:26:16
just summarize the major points. The
00:26:18
first major point is to maintain control
00:26:22
over the western hemisphere and create a
00:26:24
fortress America.
00:26:26
>> Which is why he invaded Venezuela and he
00:26:28
says he's going to invade Cuba.
00:26:30
>> Exactly.
00:26:30
>> And also Greenland.
00:26:32
>> Look at all the countries that he's
00:26:33
named over the past year. Greenland,
00:26:36
Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba,
00:26:40
Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras. It's all
00:26:45
the Western Hemisphere, right? And
00:26:47
they're all together. Second point is to
00:26:50
create divide and rule all around the
00:26:52
world. So imagine a situation where in
00:26:55
Europe, NATO fights Russia in Ukraine.
00:27:00
In East Asia, China fights South Korea
00:27:03
and Japan. In the Middle East, Iran
00:27:07
fights the GCC allied with Israel. What
00:27:11
does America do? America can now sell
00:27:13
sell sell everyone weapons and resources
00:27:16
and finance it. This would be back to
00:27:20
World War II.
00:27:21
>> But it makes them weaker as well
00:27:22
generally.
00:27:23
>> That's the point.
00:27:24
>> Yeah.
00:27:24
>> Right. And then what would happen is
00:27:27
that $40 trillion that America has in
00:27:30
debt, it would disappear because it
00:27:32
would be absorbed by the world. Right.
00:27:34
So you can say look Trump's an idiot.
00:27:38
But if you actually look at a map and
00:27:40
how America wants this map, this world
00:27:43
map to play out, it makes perfect sense.
00:27:46
>> H So the war is going well for Trump.
00:27:51
>> The war is going very well for Trump.
00:27:53
>> Really?
00:27:53
>> Yes.
00:27:54
>> But you said in your prediction that he
00:27:56
would lose the war,
00:27:57
>> right?
00:27:58
>> What's your definition of lose the war?
00:28:00
>> Losing the war means that America would
00:28:03
send ground troops. Iran would survive
00:28:06
this invasion
00:28:08
and this would be so politically
00:28:12
damaging that chaos breaks out the
00:28:15
United States and the US guard invasion
00:28:19
is forced to retreat and the United
00:28:21
States is forced to retreat from the
00:28:24
Middle East.
00:28:24
>> And you still think that's going to
00:28:25
happen?
00:28:26
>> I still think that's going to happen.
00:28:27
>> So you think the United States are going
00:28:28
to put ground troops in, Iran are going
00:28:30
to resist and then chaos is going to
00:28:31
break out in the United States?
00:28:33
>> Yes. Okay. So, let me explain to you why
00:28:36
ground troops has to be sent. Okay.
00:28:37
>> All right. Okay. So, in phase one of
00:28:42
this war which started February 28th
00:28:44
which lasted for about 6 weeks, the
00:28:46
intention was to decapitate the regime.
00:28:50
And you do that by striking Tran and you
00:28:53
do that by striking the military bases
00:28:55
in installations throughout Iran. It's
00:28:58
it's what the Americans call sharp and
00:29:00
all. And the point is to force the
00:29:04
Iranians to call uncle. But that's not
00:29:06
what happened.
00:29:07
>> To give up
00:29:08
>> to give up basically because what the
00:29:10
Iranians did was they responded by
00:29:13
attacking US bases throughout the GCC.
00:29:18
They closed off a straight of
00:29:23
Humus
00:29:24
and they rallied their people. Okay. So
00:29:28
rather than surrender, the Iranians
00:29:31
basically double down. Okay, that's
00:29:33
phase two of the war. Now we've gone to
00:29:36
phase three of the war where Trump has
00:29:39
basically decided that decapation does
00:29:41
not work. And so what Trump's going to
00:29:45
do is he's going to impose a naval
00:29:48
blockade
00:29:50
on Iran's naval blockade. Right? And so
00:29:54
the question then is if Trump
00:29:57
understands that decapitation does not
00:29:59
work then using game theory.
00:30:02
>> What's game theory?
00:30:03
>> Game theory is the belief that
00:30:08
all the world is governed by rules and
00:30:11
incentives. And once you understand the
00:30:13
rules and incentives, you can predict
00:30:17
how people behave because people will
00:30:19
always behave according to their best
00:30:22
interest. So in geopolitics,
00:30:26
the nation states are individual players
00:30:30
and each nation state is trying to use
00:30:33
its resources
00:30:35
and um its advantages in order to
00:30:39
pressure other nation states to obey it.
00:30:42
Okay, so Trump recognizes that the
00:30:46
Iranians have closed off the circle of
00:30:48
moves, but not only that, but the
00:30:50
Iranians have also used the circle of
00:30:52
moves to finance the war, meaning that
00:30:55
now they're forcing ships to pay a toll
00:30:58
of $2 million in order to cross it. And
00:31:02
so this is a huge advantage for the
00:31:03
Iranians. And so Trump has said, "No,
00:31:06
I'm going to blockade your blockade,
00:31:09
negating Iran's advantage over the
00:31:12
certical moves." So we think about it
00:31:14
again using game theory. I want to
00:31:16
discuss what the Americans will do in
00:31:18
order to force uh the Iranians to
00:31:21
capitulate.
00:31:23
Okay. So I would say there's a three
00:31:26
point strategy. The first strategy is
00:31:30
economic strangulation. you basically
00:31:33
destroy the state's capacity to finance
00:31:35
the war. And there are two ways that
00:31:37
Iran is financing the war so far. The
00:31:40
first is using oil exports, right? 90%
00:31:44
of Iran's oil goes to China
00:31:49
and um this is Car Island. Okay, this
00:31:52
this little spot here is Car Island. And
00:31:54
this is where Iran will export 90% of
00:31:58
its oil overseas. That's the first
00:32:01
mechanism. Second mechanis mechanism is
00:32:03
sit who moves where the RA now can
00:32:06
collect tolls
00:32:08
right. So what you have to do is you
00:32:10
have to eliminate both of these finance
00:32:13
mechanisms. You can close off both with
00:32:17
a name of locket. Okay. So that's
00:32:19
strategy one. strategy two is you need
00:32:26
to create as much chaos within Iran as
00:32:31
possible. You want to turn this fortress
00:32:34
into a prison. And the way you do that
00:32:36
is by stirring up ethnic tensions in the
00:32:40
country. So if you look at a map, ethnic
00:32:44
map of Iran, what you'll discover is
00:32:48
that the Persian people are primarily in
00:32:51
this area in the middle of the country.
00:32:54
But if you go to the borderlands, okay,
00:32:58
the border areas, it's primarily ethnic
00:33:00
minorities. And there are two ethnic
00:33:02
minorities
00:33:04
in the country that have always been
00:33:06
problematic for the government. The
00:33:09
first problematic people are of color
00:33:12
bullocks here
00:33:15
uh in south east uh Iran by the
00:33:21
Pakistani border. They have a history of
00:33:23
insurgency against the government. Okay.
00:33:27
Second people that have been problematic
00:33:29
are the Kurds who are primarily in the
00:33:34
uh northwest of the country.
00:33:38
So if you are the US government, if you
00:33:41
are the military, your strategy is to
00:33:44
establish foreign operating bases in
00:33:49
these areas. A foreign operating base is
00:33:53
uh a spearhead of the military where you
00:33:56
insert ground troops to hold an area.
00:34:00
>> Okay. So
00:34:00
>> in order to resupply in in order to push
00:34:03
further into the territory.
00:34:05
>> Okay. So a forward operating base would
00:34:07
be the US putting troops into the the
00:34:11
northwest and the southeast and then
00:34:15
using that as a way to move forward into
00:34:17
Iran.
00:34:18
>> No, you don't want to move forward into
00:34:20
Iran because it's too large. You don't
00:34:22
have enough forces to move into Iran.
00:34:26
What you want to do is this. You want to
00:34:27
establish port operating bases in these
00:34:29
areas in order to arm and train
00:34:35
ethnic insurgents.
00:34:36
>> Okay,
00:34:36
>> that you can also finance as well. And
00:34:41
you do this because you want to turn
00:34:42
them into cannon fodder. You for you
00:34:45
have to force a response from the
00:34:46
Iranian military, right? So if they come
00:34:49
in with the army in order to quell these
00:34:54
rebellions, that's great because now you
00:34:56
can use your air power to decimate the
00:34:59
Iranian military. Your problem right now
00:35:01
is Iranian military is hiding inside
00:35:04
mountains.
00:35:06
And so you want to force them out in the
00:35:07
open. And so you want to create as many
00:35:10
points of tension in the country as
00:35:12
possible to force the Iranian military
00:35:14
to respond.
00:35:16
Right? Does that make sense? Okay. And
00:35:20
now your third strategy is to strangle
00:35:24
the capital Tran because that's the
00:35:27
that's where the political elite are a
00:35:30
city of 10 million people. And the way
00:35:32
you strangle Tran is you deny them three
00:35:36
things. You deny them water,
00:35:39
electricity, and food.
00:35:43
So you attack power plants. you attack
00:35:46
reservoirs, you attack railways that
00:35:49
bring um food into the capital. And when
00:35:54
you do that, these n these 10 million
00:35:56
people in Iran
00:35:59
will now oppose the government and
00:36:01
demand a political settlement because
00:36:03
they need food, uh water, electricity to
00:36:06
survive, right?
00:36:08
>> Is there a government?
00:36:10
Right now, there's a debate as to the
00:36:14
true extent of leadership in Iran.
00:36:17
>> Because Trump's recent interviews, he's
00:36:19
saying he's he's claiming that the the
00:36:22
leadership in Iran are fighting
00:36:23
themselves, but then he's also saying in
00:36:24
other interviews that there's they don't
00:36:27
even know who they're dealing with.
00:36:28
>> Exactly. Iran has a very unusual
00:36:32
political system in that um it's a
00:36:35
theocracy. It's a religious government.
00:36:36
It's run by clerics call them moolas. in
00:36:39
theory and then there's a parallel
00:36:42
system the state apparatus that actually
00:36:44
takes care of day-to-day bureaucracy and
00:36:47
that's secular. Uh the mas control the
00:36:51
morality of the country they also
00:36:52
control foreign affairs. So basically um
00:36:56
this is important because Iran has two
00:36:59
parallel military structures. You have
00:37:02
the military but you also have the IRGC.
00:37:08
The IRGC are only loyal to the mullas
00:37:11
>> which is the religious part.
00:37:13
>> Exactly. All right. So you have this
00:37:15
divide in the in the country where the
00:37:18
IRGC see this as a religious war as a
00:37:22
crusade to kill the great Satan and they
00:37:24
want to fight to the death
00:37:25
>> and the great Satan is
00:37:26
>> the great Satan is the American Empire.
00:37:29
>> Okay.
00:37:29
>> Uh which is a source of the misery that
00:37:32
I has been suffering for the past few
00:37:34
decades. And they already see not only
00:37:37
do they see America as great Satan, but
00:37:40
they also see this as a global conflict
00:37:43
because they have proxies that support
00:37:45
their beliefs, including here in
00:37:48
Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in
00:37:51
Yemen, the Huies, and of course in
00:37:54
Palestine, Hamas. Okay. and and before
00:37:57
Syria was also part of their axis of
00:38:00
resistance but Syria has been toppled by
00:38:03
the Americans and and Israelis. So the
00:38:06
IRGC see this as a religious crusade
00:38:08
that is global in nature. The political
00:38:11
leadership in Tran sees it completely
00:38:13
different. They see this as a conflict
00:38:16
primarily between America and Iran and
00:38:19
they want to reach a political
00:38:20
settlement as soon as possible. And so
00:38:23
in other words, these ceasefire
00:38:27
negotiations, it's really all for show
00:38:30
because at the end of the day, even if
00:38:32
the Americans gave the Iranians
00:38:34
everything they wanted, the RTC still
00:38:38
controls
00:38:40
um the battlefield and they would not um
00:38:43
surrender or or seek peace terms
00:38:46
lightly. Another problem in this
00:38:48
situation is the RTC practice something
00:38:51
called the Mosiaak strategy. Mosiaak.
00:38:55
The idea of the Moak strategy is okay
00:38:58
you know the Americans the most
00:39:00
effective military ever in human
00:39:02
history. You know that they practice
00:39:04
shock and all decapitation.
00:39:06
So how do you respond to that? You
00:39:08
respond to that using decentralization.
00:39:11
31 provinces in the country with their
00:39:14
own command and control that is
00:39:16
localized.
00:39:17
>> So basically they have 31 different
00:39:19
armies that have their own leadership.
00:39:21
>> That's correct. Okay. And when you do
00:39:23
this it's a fight to the finish.
00:39:24
>> Why did they do that?
00:39:26
>> They did it because the Americans
00:39:28
possess the most sophisticated
00:39:31
surveillance technology in the world.
00:39:33
meaning they can easily identify the
00:39:36
leadership and they can easily track you
00:39:39
down and kill you. So the only way
00:39:41
around that is to decentralize the
00:39:43
leadership and spread around the country
00:39:46
so that the Americans cannot kill the
00:39:48
everyone. How does the central
00:39:50
government orchestrate 31 different
00:39:52
armies in Iran? How does it get a
00:39:54
message out to them? I heard Peter Hexf
00:39:57
make a a comment in one of the
00:39:58
interviews saying that it takes some
00:40:00
time for the pigeons to get out to the
00:40:03
armies. And what he was saying basically
00:40:05
is that um when the ceasefire was called
00:40:07
and there was still some um missiles
00:40:09
flying, he was basically saying that's
00:40:11
just because it takes a long time to
00:40:12
tell the 31 different armies to stop.
00:40:14
>> The reality is that given a MOS
00:40:17
strategy, there's actually no way to
00:40:19
coordinate these 31 different military
00:40:23
operations.
00:40:25
Because the Musk strategy was meant to
00:40:29
was meant to fight to the bird of air.
00:40:31
You do not stop until you completely
00:40:33
control the Middle East and the
00:40:35
Americans have been forced out of the
00:40:37
Middle East and Israel has been humbled.
00:40:42
>> Okay,
00:40:42
>> so let's go into the specifics of what
00:40:45
the Mosak strategy is. The idea is that
00:40:48
they have an esquetology.
00:40:51
Okay. So, esquetology is an
00:40:53
understanding of how the world should be
00:40:56
and how we move towards this world. And
00:41:02
for the Iranians,
00:41:04
their esquetology is that Iran in order
00:41:07
to reach its true potential needs to be
00:41:10
master of the Muslim world. It needs to
00:41:14
displace Saudi Arabia because Saudi
00:41:16
Arabia it's too aligned with the United
00:41:19
States which is the great Satan. Mecca
00:41:21
and Medina are under the influence of
00:41:24
the great Satan because why are there US
00:41:28
military bases in Saudi Arabia?
00:41:33
So this war from their perspective, it's
00:41:35
a great opportunity to overthrow the
00:41:38
corrupt leadership of Saudi Arabia, but
00:41:40
not only Saudi Arabia, but the entire
00:41:41
GCC. Overthrow the corrupt governments
00:41:44
of the entire Muslim world and install
00:41:48
governments that put God Allah first.
00:41:54
>> So they're they're not going to quit
00:41:56
Iran. This war once it starts
00:42:00
can only lead to World War II.
00:42:03
>> That's a strong statement to make. As a
00:42:05
probability,
00:42:06
>> okay,
00:42:07
>> what probability would you assign to
00:42:08
that claim?
00:42:09
>> I would put it pretty high. Anywhere
00:42:12
between 80 to 90% probability.
00:42:14
>> So that's certainty.
00:42:16
>> Basically certainty. Yes.
00:42:17
>> Explain to me how that happens.
00:42:19
>> Okay. So we need to step back and
00:42:21
appreciate
00:42:23
um that there's a global dynamic going
00:42:27
on.
00:42:28
>> Okay. And we need to appreciate the
00:42:31
grand strategy of the different players
00:42:33
involved.
00:42:34
>> Right? So what what I'm going to do is
00:42:35
this.
00:42:37
I'm going to explain
00:42:41
to you how each nation
00:42:44
sees itself in the world.
00:42:47
>> Okay? And to do that, I'm going to use a
00:42:49
chess set. Okay.
00:42:50
>> Okay.
00:42:50
>> All right. This is the king.
00:42:53
This is the political system of the
00:42:56
United States, which is democracy.
00:42:58
And there are certain strengths and
00:43:00
weaknesses to a democracy. Democracy is
00:43:03
vibrant. It's creative. It's flexible.
00:43:06
But its ultimate weakness is
00:43:08
polarization
00:43:10
where today
00:43:12
um the different political factions
00:43:14
refuse to get along. And this may break
00:43:16
out the civil war. Okay.
00:43:17
>> Mhm.
00:43:17
>> So, the way you defeat the United States
00:43:19
is not to conquer it. You can never call
00:43:22
the United States. The way to defeat the
00:43:24
United States is to force it into a
00:43:27
civil war, which then kills the king
00:43:30
>> to get its people to rise up against the
00:43:32
leadership.
00:43:33
>> No, you want the Democrats and the
00:43:35
Republicans to form different factions
00:43:37
and fight a civil war.
00:43:38
>> Okay?
00:43:39
>> You you want to create so much political
00:43:40
polarization the different elite
00:43:42
factions take up arms against each
00:43:44
other. Okay? So, this is the political
00:43:46
system. Okay, but democracy. Now let's
00:43:49
look at the queen. What is the queen?
00:43:51
The queen is what I refer to as the
00:43:53
grand strategy
00:43:55
of the United States. How the United
00:43:58
States can maintain its control over the
00:44:00
entire world. And the grand strategy,
00:44:02
it's already outlined in the national
00:44:03
defense strategy,
00:44:05
>> right? Let's create Fortress America and
00:44:08
then create chaos throughout the entire
00:44:11
world so that we can sell everyone
00:44:14
weapons and resources. Okay, that's a
00:44:16
grand strategy. All right. All right.
00:44:18
Now, once you have a grand strategy, you
00:44:20
need you need to implement this grand
00:44:21
strategy. So, you need attack vectors.
00:44:24
All right. The attack vectors
00:44:26
are the rook, the bishop, and the
00:44:30
knight. All right. So, let's go over the
00:44:32
three major attack vectors of the United
00:44:34
States. They are first of all, America's
00:44:37
technological supremacy.
00:44:39
>> So, these are the basically the tools
00:44:40
that they use to attack others.
00:44:42
>> Exactly. In order to achieve their grand
00:44:44
strategy, right? All right. So, aeros
00:44:45
supremacy, right?
00:44:46
>> Which is the planes and the stuff like
00:44:48
that.
00:44:49
>> Then you have the US dollar,
00:44:53
right? Because the US dollar allows you
00:44:57
to finance everything and everyone wants
00:45:00
the um uh US dollar. Okay.
00:45:02
>> Mhm.
00:45:03
>> So, that is the second attack vector.
00:45:06
The third attack vector is propaganda.
00:45:09
mean United States controls the world's
00:45:11
most powerful media including New York
00:45:13
Times, CNN and as such they can control
00:45:15
the narrative of the world. Okay, so
00:45:18
these are the three major attack
00:45:19
vectors.
00:45:20
Now they use the pawns. The pawns are
00:45:25
weapons that they can sacrifice in order
00:45:27
to achieve the grand strategy. And in
00:45:30
the case of United States,
00:45:32
the pawn are the allies.
00:45:36
meaning I had to say this but the UK
00:45:41
um Europe,
00:45:44
South Korea
00:45:47
and Japan.
00:45:49
Okay. And also the entire Western
00:45:53
Hemisphere. This is the
00:45:56
America the Americans. Okay. The people
00:45:58
who are most opposed to this grand
00:46:01
strategy of Americans are the Russians.
00:46:03
So let's go over the the Russian system.
00:46:06
In the Russian system,
00:46:09
the king, the political system is an
00:46:11
autocracy.
00:46:12
And an autocracy, it's good because it
00:46:14
allows for coronation. It allows for
00:46:17
decisiveness. It allows for um resolve,
00:46:22
>> long-term thinking.
00:46:23
>> Exactly. Right. That's Putin.
00:46:26
What's bad is
00:46:28
if this guy dies, there's a secession
00:46:31
crisis, right? So basically once you
00:46:34
topple the autocrat, then the system
00:46:38
itself breaks down. Okay? So that's the
00:46:41
Russian system, right? For the Russians,
00:46:44
a great strategy is something called the
00:46:46
third Rome strategy.
00:46:48
>> The third Rome strategy.
00:46:49
>> Yes. Okay. So the people in Russia
00:46:52
believe that they are the true
00:46:54
successors to the Roman Empire and
00:46:56
previously there are two Romes. It was
00:46:58
the first Rome then it moved to
00:47:01
Kalanapole
00:47:03
and Moscow is destined to the to be the
00:47:06
third Rome. And what makes Moscow
00:47:10
interesting is that it wants to unite
00:47:13
the entire
00:47:15
Christian world under its leadership. Um
00:47:18
the main philosopher for the third Rome
00:47:20
strategy is Aern Dugan who in 1997 wrote
00:47:23
a wrote a book called foundation of
00:47:25
geopolitics. And what he said was this.
00:47:27
What he said that if Russia is to defeat
00:47:29
the Americans, it needs to build
00:47:31
alliances throughout Eurasia in order to
00:47:34
negate American sea power and aerosy.
00:47:37
All right. So what are the attack
00:47:40
vectors
00:47:42
for Russia? Okay. The first attack that
00:47:45
door, the size of the country makes it
00:47:48
almost invincible. So think about World
00:47:50
War II, Operation Bar Rosa. The Germans
00:47:52
went into Russia with 67 million men and
00:47:56
it didn't get very far. Okay? So the
00:47:58
Trin is very important. The geography is
00:48:01
very important. Then you have the
00:48:03
Orthodox religion
00:48:05
which is meant to galvanize believers
00:48:09
into supporting Russia. The third attack
00:48:13
vector is artillery. So Russia has the
00:48:17
best land army in the world and we we're
00:48:20
seeing that play out in Ukraine where um
00:48:22
a combination of Russian artillery and
00:48:25
drones it's devastating Ukrainian
00:48:27
military in Ukraine. The pause for
00:48:30
Russia are are its soldiers. So Russia
00:48:34
is able to sustain
00:48:37
many many casualties in its military. If
00:48:42
you actually go and interview Russian
00:48:44
soldiers, they are probably the bravest
00:48:47
soldiers in the world. They are
00:48:48
literally not afraid to die for what
00:48:50
they believe in. Okay. So, this is the
00:48:53
um Russian third Rome strategy. You can
00:48:55
see how it conflicts with the Americans.
00:48:59
>> Mhm. Okay. Now, we go to the Israelis.
00:49:03
Jerusalem, the capital, it's a mixed
00:49:05
system, meaning it's both democracy as
00:49:08
well as a theocracy.
00:49:10
And it's good in that the Israelis are
00:49:14
very creative. But the fundamental
00:49:16
weakness is the division within the
00:49:18
society where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
00:49:21
don't get along. Okay. So that is the
00:49:25
belief system of Israel.
00:49:28
The grand strategy of Israel is called
00:49:30
the greater Israel project. So the
00:49:33
Israelis believe that the entire Middle
00:49:34
East belongs to them from the Nile to
00:49:38
the Euphrates because that's what it
00:49:40
says in the Bible. This is what God
00:49:42
Yahweh promised Abraham. So their
00:49:46
intention is to conquer the entire
00:49:49
Middle East including Egypt, Saudi
00:49:52
Arabia, Lebanon, even parts of Turkey.
00:49:56
Okay.
00:49:58
Now let's look at the attack vectors for
00:50:01
the the the the um Israelis. The first
00:50:04
attack vector
00:50:06
is
00:50:08
Mossad. Mossad is the most powerful
00:50:12
intelligence agency in the world in that
00:50:15
it is able to infiltrate
00:50:18
and undermine different political
00:50:20
systems.
00:50:21
>> And the Assad for anyone that doesn't
00:50:22
know is their secret service
00:50:24
>> basically. Yes.
00:50:25
>> Their spy system. Second attack vector
00:50:29
for the Israelis is the Jewish diaspora
00:50:33
because the Jews do business everywhere
00:50:35
around the world and Jewish businessmen
00:50:38
work very closely with Mossad
00:50:42
and as such they have influence in a lot
00:50:44
of places that they shouldn't have. And
00:50:47
the um third um attack vector is the
00:50:52
Bible.
00:50:53
Why? Because if you're a Christian, and
00:50:56
there are many Christians who believe
00:50:57
this, you believe that the Jews are
00:51:00
God's chosen people. So if you look at
00:51:02
what's happening in uh the Middle East,
00:51:06
um all this conflict between Israel and
00:51:07
Palestine, a lot of this conflict is
00:51:10
being supported politically in the
00:51:12
United States by a group of people
00:51:14
called Christian Zionists. And these are
00:51:16
Christians. They're not Jews. Christians
00:51:18
who believe that Israel should treat
00:51:22
achieve the greater Israel project
00:51:24
because this is part of God's plan and
00:51:26
the pawns
00:51:28
for the Israelis are basically
00:51:32
everyone else. Okay.
00:51:35
So, a lot of the hardware underpinning
00:51:38
the global IT infrastructure um is being
00:51:42
controlled by the Israelis.
00:51:45
So now we go to the fourth player in
00:51:47
this great game and that's Iran. So
00:51:49
Iran, it is a theocracy. People are not
00:51:53
afraid to die for what they believe in
00:51:54
in Iran. But the weakness is that it can
00:51:58
alienate the majority of the population
00:52:00
because only a minority are religious
00:52:02
zealots in Iran. Most people just want
00:52:06
to live to live a decent life. So if
00:52:09
they feel that these mas the IRGC are a
00:52:13
threat to their peace and prosperity
00:52:16
then they might rise up against the mas
00:52:18
>> which is what we've seen over the years.
00:52:19
Right.
00:52:20
>> Exactly. So so this political system of
00:52:23
the um Iranians their grand strategy is
00:52:26
to unite the Muslim world under
00:52:28
leadership. They have three attack
00:52:31
vectors. Okay. The first attack vector
00:52:34
are their proxies.
00:52:36
Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthies.
00:52:40
Another attack vector
00:52:43
um is their asymmetrical warfare,
00:52:44
meaning using drones and missiles to
00:52:47
create as much economic damage as
00:52:48
possible. Okay. And the third attack
00:52:52
vector is their geography or their top
00:52:55
topography. They are a fortress. So it's
00:52:57
almost impossible to um in invade them.
00:53:01
Right? So that's their Shia militi.
00:53:04
these religious zealots who are not
00:53:06
afraid to die. Um, essentially they're
00:53:08
all many of them could be suicide
00:53:10
bombers. Okay? And and so for them, this
00:53:13
is a religious war. Okay? So now we're
00:53:16
seeing how this entire battlefield
00:53:19
unfolds across the world. All right? So
00:53:23
I've mapped out the grand strategy of
00:53:25
these different nation states who will
00:53:27
be involved in World War II. Let's look
00:53:30
at our present situation. Okay? So what
00:53:32
we have so far is that the Russians are
00:53:36
occupied with their army in Ukraine.
00:53:40
Okay, this is where their infantry,
00:53:42
their artillery is based. At the same
00:53:45
time, Russia has something called the
00:53:47
shuttle fleet. And these are about a
00:53:49
thousand
00:53:50
um tankers that evade sanctions around
00:53:53
the world. Okay? And this is essentially
00:53:56
their navy. America
00:54:00
is the most powerful military in the
00:54:01
world. They have the most sophisticated
00:54:04
aerial supremacy as well as a control
00:54:07
over the sea lanes and it tries not to
00:54:09
use infantry uh because that creates
00:54:12
civilian casualties and that pisses
00:54:13
everyone off in America. Okay. The
00:54:16
Israelis
00:54:18
are essentially a mercenary army aligned
00:54:22
with American Empire doing the bidding
00:54:24
of the American Empire. It's fighting in
00:54:27
against Lebanon as well as Iran. The
00:54:32
Iranians, they don't have much of an air
00:54:34
force, but they use a lot of drones to
00:54:37
threaten. So, this is where we are so
00:54:40
far. According to the grand strategy, we
00:54:43
can predict how they will make their
00:54:46
moves over the next few months, or next
00:54:48
few years. America
00:54:50
doesn't really care about this war in
00:54:53
Iran because what America wants to do is
00:54:57
force entire world to become dependent
00:54:59
on American weapons and resources and
00:55:04
you do that in two ways. The first is
00:55:06
you control
00:55:08
the strategic choke points of the world
00:55:12
and they include the sh of kumus but you
00:55:15
also want to control the sh of mala
00:55:18
right over here because that blocks off
00:55:20
east Asia. You also want to control the
00:55:22
panama canal. You also want to control
00:55:24
Greenland. You also want to control the
00:55:25
sh of uh Jibralar. You can see the
00:55:28
American Navy expanding outwards and
00:55:30
occupying all these maritime choke
00:55:32
points. At the same time, you want to
00:55:35
use your technological supremacy, your
00:55:37
aerial supremacy, your drones to destroy
00:55:40
the world's critical energy
00:55:43
infrastructure. Already, we're seeing
00:55:45
oil refineries being destroyed
00:55:47
throughout the world.
00:55:48
>> Oil refineries.
00:55:49
>> Oil refineries. Yes. So, you as as
00:55:52
America, you're trying to deplete the
00:55:55
world's energy in inventory. So, they're
00:55:57
forced to beg you
00:56:00
for to supply energy, right? And once
00:56:03
this market is created, then you can
00:56:06
build infrastructure for Venezuela. You
00:56:08
can take over Canada. You can control
00:56:09
Mexico. You can take take over
00:56:11
Greenland. Okay? The Russians have no
00:56:14
choice but to respond because if the
00:56:19
Americans are controlling the shooting
00:56:21
control points, your shuttle fleet is
00:56:25
rendered redundant, useless.
00:56:29
So, how do you ship your oil
00:56:33
around the world? Well, you have two
00:56:35
options. I'm just going to build
00:56:37
railways to unite the Eurasian
00:56:39
continent, okay? And I'm I'll transport
00:56:41
my oil using pipelines and railways. The
00:56:44
problem with that is not is now that
00:56:46
you're vulnerable to American aerosy
00:56:50
drone attacks. So, you have no choice
00:56:52
but to arm your shuttle fleet. And now
00:56:56
what's gonna happen is this conflict in
00:56:59
the oceans between Russian shuttle
00:57:04
fleet tankers that are trying to
00:57:06
transport oil around the world and these
00:57:08
American destroyers who are trying to
00:57:11
capture or destroy these shadow tankers.
00:57:14
Now the advantage that Russia has is
00:57:18
that America doesn't have that much
00:57:21
naval assets anymore. It used to but not
00:57:23
anymore. The other thing is that the
00:57:25
world really needs energy. So you can
00:57:28
imagine China financing the
00:57:31
militarization of the Russian shuttle
00:57:33
fleet.
00:57:34
>> Why would sir why would the US try and
00:57:36
stop Russian boats?
00:57:39
>> Because um in this global outlook
00:57:44
there are two nations that could provide
00:57:47
weapons and resources to the rest of the
00:57:49
world.
00:57:50
>> They are Russia and they are America. So
00:57:52
if America has become dominant, it needs
00:57:54
to blockade Russia. The way you do that
00:57:56
is by seizing their shuttle fleet.
00:58:00
>> But but if that happened, that would be
00:58:01
an act of war.
00:58:02
>> But it's already happening.
00:58:03
>> What? Really?
00:58:04
>> Yes, it's already happening.
00:58:05
>> Where?
00:58:06
>> Iranian tankers have been seized by the
00:58:09
Americans and tankers are being seized
00:58:13
in the Caribbean as well by the American
00:58:15
Navy.
00:58:16
>> Whose tankers?
00:58:18
>> I believe they are Russian tankers.
00:58:21
>> Yes. The United States has indeed been
00:58:23
seizing tankers linked to Russia. A
00:58:25
major escalation occurred earlier this
00:58:26
year on January the 7th, 2026 when the
00:58:28
US military and Coast Guard intercepted
00:58:31
two sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers.
00:58:34
While one was seized directly in the
00:58:36
Caribbean, the other involved a dramatic
00:58:37
chase that started in the Caribbean and
00:58:39
ended in the North Atlantic.
00:58:43
US forces captured this sanctioned
00:58:45
tanker during a pre-dawn raid directly
00:58:47
in the Caribbean Sea. The US military
00:58:49
described it as stateless sanctioned
00:58:52
dark fleet vessel which was engaged in
00:58:55
illicit activities. These seizures are
00:58:58
part of operation southern spear, a
00:59:00
strict enforcement of the US embargo on
00:59:03
Venezuelan oil exports. Both vessels
00:59:05
were targeted for violating US sanctions
00:59:07
by transporting illicit crude oil linked
00:59:10
to Venezuela as well as Iran and
00:59:13
Hezbollah.
00:59:14
>> And as you point out, this is an act of
00:59:15
war. So those were ships that didn't
00:59:18
have a country linked to them directly.
00:59:21
>> That's why they're called shuttle fleet
00:59:22
tankers.
00:59:22
>> Okay.
00:59:23
>> Yes. But they essentially Russian,
00:59:25
>> but they were essentially shipping oil
00:59:27
outside of the United States that the
00:59:29
United States wouldn't control. Is that
00:59:31
kind of
00:59:31
>> that? That is correct. Yes. Okay. Yes.
00:59:33
So
00:59:34
>> So the US said, "Listen, this is our
00:59:35
oil. Get lost."
00:59:36
>> That is correct. Yes. Right. So what the
00:59:38
United States is doing is slowly
00:59:40
expanding its global reach. The way it's
00:59:42
doing that is by setting treaties with
00:59:44
nations that are part of these choke
00:59:46
points. So the Malaa recently United
00:59:49
States has signed a military cooperation
00:59:50
agreement with Indonesia and with the
00:59:53
Jialter uh the Americans have signed an
00:59:55
agreement now with Morocco right so they
00:59:57
are looking for the legal framework
01:00:00
justification to control the world's
01:00:02
choke points which would bring them
01:00:04
directly in conflict with the Russian
01:00:05
shuttle fleet. So at some point you
01:00:07
think the way that the war starts is the
01:00:10
US Navy attacks a Russian boat. So I
01:00:17
personally believe that this will be a
01:00:19
drawn out process that and there's no
01:00:22
real concrete flash point because not
01:00:24
only are Russian shuttle flanker shuttle
01:00:28
um fleet tankers being seized but
01:00:30
remember Russian or foundaries are being
01:00:32
destroyed by Ukrainian drones. The
01:00:34
Russians believe that it is NATO that is
01:00:36
responsible for the sabotage.
01:00:38
>> So what when what do you think the
01:00:40
catalyst moment is when this all kicks
01:00:42
off?
01:00:43
>> I think we're already in the catalyst
01:00:44
moment. I think we're already in World
01:00:46
War II because um this conflict it's
01:00:49
going to expand outwards
01:00:51
uh into a global conflict and there's
01:00:53
nothing anyone can do to stop this,
01:00:55
right? Because again you have these
01:00:56
different competing visions of how the
01:00:58
world should work and the Russians and
01:01:00
Americans are already at conflict with
01:01:02
each other. So the next step will be the
01:01:06
Russians come into this war on the side
01:01:09
of the Iranians.
01:01:10
>> Do you think that's going to happen?
01:01:11
>> I think that's going to happen because
01:01:12
according to Russian grand strategy, you
01:01:14
have no choice but to save the Iranians
01:01:16
because you're trying to promote this
01:01:18
view that the world is split between the
01:01:21
spiritual and the material. The
01:01:23
Americans are the antichrist. The
01:01:25
Americans support individual hedenism.
01:01:28
Whereas we Russians, we believe in
01:01:31
humanity. We believe in goodness. We
01:01:33
believe in community. Right? So if you
01:01:35
believe if you if that is your argument,
01:01:37
if that's your grand strategy, then you
01:01:38
have a moral ob obligation, a moral
01:01:40
imperative to help the Iranians in their
01:01:42
time of need. And in fact, prime prime
01:01:44
minister uh Arachi of of Iran has
01:01:47
recently visited Putin in Moscow. Putin
01:01:50
Putin personally received him and said
01:01:53
to Rachi, "We the Russian people admire
01:01:57
your determination, your resolve um
01:02:00
against the Americans." And I think that
01:02:02
is a sign that Putin has entered the
01:02:06
chat and that the Russians will start to
01:02:10
help the Iranians as this war
01:02:12
progresses. So let's go back to this
01:02:13
map. Okay. Okay. And the Americans have
01:02:16
a threeprong strategy to
01:02:21
strangle
01:02:23
um Iran. The first is use ground forces
01:02:27
to establish sport operating bases to
01:02:30
incite ethnic violence in the country.
01:02:32
The second is to block officer of Humus
01:02:35
and cut off Iranian financing. The third
01:02:38
is to strangle pan and cause the people
01:02:41
to rise up against the government. Okay.
01:02:43
If the Russians, so if things stay the
01:02:46
same as they are now, America wins
01:02:50
easily.
01:02:52
But if Russia were to enter the war on
01:02:55
behalf of the Iranians, the first thing
01:02:56
that Russia would do is provide Tran
01:03:00
with reinforcement from the Caspian Sea,
01:03:03
right? Because the Americans want to
01:03:05
knock out Tran's capacity to provide
01:03:08
food, water, and electricity to its
01:03:10
people. But uh through the fastman sea,
01:03:12
the Russians can support the uh
01:03:15
Iranians. But not only that, and this is
01:03:17
much more important, if the Russians
01:03:18
were to come in, they could also bring
01:03:20
the Chinese into the war on behalf of
01:03:22
the Iranians. And the Chinese could use
01:03:25
the belt and rolling initiative,
01:03:26
basically the railway system to
01:03:27
reinforce Tran from
01:03:31
uh the east. So now you can no longer
01:03:34
strangle Tran because the Russians and
01:03:36
the Chinese are reinforcing Tran. Then
01:03:39
what the Russians could do is provide
01:03:42
financing to Iranians. Basically the
01:03:45
Iranian the Chinese sorry the Chinese
01:03:47
and the Russians can say to Iranians
01:03:49
don't worry about financing. We will
01:03:52
give you enough uh financing for you to
01:03:54
continue this war for as long as you
01:03:56
want and we'll use our resources as
01:03:58
collateral for this financing.
01:04:01
Right? And the third thing, and this is
01:04:03
actually the most important, is that
01:04:06
Russia could put Iran under its nuclear
01:04:10
umbrella. And this would negate the use
01:04:12
of tactical nuclear weapons. The
01:04:15
Israelis and the Americans, if they
01:04:17
really felt under pressure, if they
01:04:20
really put in a corner, they could
01:04:22
always choose to use tactical nuclear
01:04:23
weapons. If the Russians were involved,
01:04:26
that negates that option, right? So if
01:04:30
the Russians get involved in this war,
01:04:31
they bring the Chinese, they provide,
01:04:33
they provide the resources and the
01:04:35
financing to continue this war for as
01:04:36
long as it takes. Mhm.
01:04:40
Right. And now the Americans need to
01:04:43
expand this war on the world to try now
01:04:47
to topple the government in Russia
01:04:50
because the Russians are the main
01:04:53
backers of the Iranians. And you're
01:04:56
predicting that Russia will get involved
01:04:58
here.
01:04:59
>> According to the grand strategy of
01:05:02
Russia, the Russians have no choice but
01:05:04
to get involved because what will happen
01:05:06
is that if you look at this map, if Iran
01:05:10
were to be conquered by the Americans or
01:05:12
the Israelis, the entire southern flank
01:05:15
of the Russians are now exposed
01:05:19
to possible attack. And that's that's
01:05:22
something that the Russians would never
01:05:23
allow to happen. the sovereign fact. So
01:05:26
what this from underneath
01:05:28
>> basically right right but not only that
01:05:30
but the Americans already have close
01:05:33
relations with Azan
01:05:36
and they already have bases in Tbkasan
01:05:38
as well as Ubekistan right so you can
01:05:39
see how once the Americans consolidate
01:05:42
this area they can now attack Russia
01:05:44
from the south but what's most important
01:05:46
is the issue of global trade where like
01:05:50
a counter to America's n blockade is by
01:05:54
creating a uranian Ian trade block that
01:05:57
involves Iran, Russia and China. You
01:06:00
look at Russia's north south corridor,
01:06:03
right? You look at China's you look at
01:06:06
Russia's north south corner, it runs
01:06:08
through Iran. If Russia wants to access
01:06:10
the Middle East as well as Africa, it
01:06:11
has to go for Iran. You look at China's
01:06:13
battle road initiative, it goes through
01:06:15
Iran as well. So by taking out Iran,
01:06:18
you've blockaded both Russia and China.
01:06:23
70% of people who add something to their
01:06:25
online cart never actually buy it. And
01:06:27
that number is based on over 10 years of
01:06:29
research. But what I think is even more
01:06:30
interesting is what the Bayard Institute
01:06:32
discovered. They're a private research
01:06:34
company that ran a study which found the
01:06:36
average e-commerce store can increase
01:06:38
its conversion rate by 35% just by
01:06:41
making its checkout easier. Not better
01:06:43
marketing or better products, but by
01:06:44
delivering a smoother checkout
01:06:46
experience. So, if you're looking for an
01:06:48
easy way to make your checkout process
01:06:50
smoother, I want you to think about
01:06:51
moving your business onto Shopify. It's
01:06:53
the platform we use to sell the 1%
01:06:55
diaries and the conversation cards
01:06:56
because it's so simple and smart to use.
01:06:59
It puts all of our inventory, payments,
01:07:01
and analytics in one place and has so
01:07:03
many AI tools to help us get up and
01:07:05
running straight away. Not to mention
01:07:07
that it grows with you regardless of the
01:07:09
stage that your business is at. So, if
01:07:10
you're ready to fix your checkout
01:07:12
process, sign up for your $1 per month
01:07:15
trial at shopify.com/bartlet.
01:07:19
That's shopify.com/bartlet.
01:07:20
And don't tell anybody. I run multiple
01:07:23
companies that have multiple sales
01:07:25
teams. And one of the things as a
01:07:26
founder of a company that's often
01:07:27
confusing is you find it hard to figure
01:07:29
out where sales are. So, about 10 years
01:07:31
ago, I started using Pipe Drive in my
01:07:33
former company. And it's also the reason
01:07:35
why I switched over all of my commercial
01:07:37
teams in my current media company called
01:07:38
Steven.com to use Pipe Drive as well.
01:07:40
Not only do they sponsor this show, but
01:07:41
they've been an incredibly effective way
01:07:43
of scaling our sales engine over the
01:07:44
years. Pipe Drive is an easy to use
01:07:47
intelligent CRM. And at its very core,
01:07:49
it makes your sales process visible
01:07:52
through one dashboard, a visual pipeline
01:07:55
showing every deal, what stage it's in,
01:07:57
what needs to happen next, and it's all
01:07:59
in real time with no delay. It doesn't
01:08:01
magically close the deal for you, of
01:08:03
course, but it does replace complexity
01:08:05
with clarity. If you want to join over a
01:08:07
100,000 companies already using
01:08:09
Piperive, you can use my link for a
01:08:11
30-day free trial with no credit card
01:08:13
payment needed. Head to
01:08:14
piperive.com/ceeo
01:08:17
to get started. That's
01:08:18
piperive.com/ceeo.
01:08:21
I'll see you over there. So, when do you
01:08:24
think this was going to happen? If you
01:08:25
get were to give me a timeline of events
01:08:27
you think are going to occur, what
01:08:29
timeline do you think you're operating
01:08:30
under? I guess one of the factors here
01:08:31
is that Trump only has what, three years
01:08:34
left in power. So,
01:08:38
you know, he's presumably going to leave
01:08:40
power at some point soon. So, if you're
01:08:42
Iran, you might just want to play it out
01:08:44
and hope that there's a different
01:08:45
leadership in place by by 20 what be
01:08:48
2030.
01:08:50
>> The political leadership in Iran believe
01:08:52
that they can wait Trump out. So they're
01:08:54
waiting for the midterms because they
01:08:56
believe that in November the Democrats
01:08:58
will win the midterms and then they will
01:09:00
impeach Trump and basically constrain
01:09:03
his capacity to fight wars.
01:09:06
And worst case scenario,
01:09:08
Trump will be gone in 2028. As you point
01:09:11
out, there are certain problems with
01:09:14
this. The first major problem is the
01:09:16
national defense strategy, which we
01:09:18
looked at previously. the national
01:09:19
defense strategy. It is a long-term
01:09:22
strategic
01:09:24
framework for how America can control
01:09:26
the world. And so one possibility is
01:09:30
that Trump is just creating enough chaos
01:09:33
for America to trans to transition. When
01:09:35
the Democrats come to power, if they
01:09:38
come to power, they will
01:09:39
institutionalize the strategy. And we
01:09:41
know this as a possibility because in
01:09:44
Trump's first term, he changed America's
01:09:48
strategy around the world. And then when
01:09:51
Biden came into power, he then
01:09:53
institutionalized the strategy
01:09:56
uh via v China, right? So it was Trump
01:09:59
who launched these this tariff war
01:10:02
against China and then finally comes in
01:10:03
power institutionalizes it. Right? So, I
01:10:06
think World War II, it's a much more
01:10:09
long-term
01:10:11
uh war of attrition, and I don't think
01:10:14
that this war
01:10:17
um will end anytime soon.
01:10:20
>> You've made a series of new predictions.
01:10:23
You've made eight new predictions.
01:10:24
>> Okay.
01:10:25
>> And I have them in this box here.
01:10:26
>> Okay.
01:10:28
>> I'll let you reveal what those
01:10:30
predictions are.
01:10:31
>> Okay.
01:10:33
Um this is one prediction. Okay.
01:10:41
Okay. So, this is the most controversial
01:10:43
prediction. Okay. I predict that there
01:10:45
will be a US civil war and Trump will
01:10:47
get a third term.
01:10:48
>> You think Trump will get a third term?
01:10:51
Isn't that constitutionally illegal?
01:10:53
>> There are things that are unconventional
01:10:56
and immoral
01:10:59
and wrong and evil and dangerous and
01:11:02
there are certain things that are
01:11:04
illegal.
01:11:06
Trump getting a third term is not
01:11:09
illegal. So, let me explain the
01:11:12
loophole.
01:11:14
What Trump could do is this. Okay, there
01:11:17
there are two possibilities. The first
01:11:18
possibility is in 2028 he has his son
01:11:22
Don Jr. run as a president and he runs
01:11:26
as the vice president. And then when Don
01:11:29
Jr. wins, if he wins, then Don Jr. could
01:11:33
abdicate
01:11:34
and Trump would be the president. And in
01:11:38
the constitution, if you read the
01:11:39
constitution very carefully, it doesn't
01:11:41
actually prohibit people from doing
01:11:44
that. It's not been done in the past.
01:11:47
And like no sane person with any
01:11:50
morality would do this.
01:11:53
But that doesn't stop Trump from from
01:11:55
doing this. Okay, that's one
01:11:56
possibility. Another possibility is that
01:11:59
by 2028, America
01:12:02
is at war with everyone. There's a
01:12:05
national draft. The president now has
01:12:08
emergency war powers and so he can
01:12:11
actually suspend the constitution and
01:12:13
delay the election, which is what
01:12:15
Zilinski did in Ukraine. So these are
01:12:17
two different possibilities.
01:12:20
But I think that given Trump's track
01:12:24
record, given his personality, I think
01:12:28
he very much um wants a third term. And
01:12:32
I think that he will do everything
01:12:34
possible to get a third term.
01:12:38
He would turn 83 years old in the same
01:12:42
year that he finishes his second term.
01:12:45
>> This is a man who eats McDonald's
01:12:48
hamburgers.
01:12:51
every day.
01:12:53
He doesn't really work out. Yet on the
01:12:57
campaign trail, he's able to go to two
01:13:00
rallies a day.
01:13:02
And in each rally, there's 50,000
01:13:04
people, and he will talk on and on and
01:13:08
on.
01:13:09
Then at night when he he should be
01:13:12
sleeping, he's either on truth social
01:13:16
tweeting about the world or he's calling
01:13:18
up reporters and telling him or her some
01:13:21
confidential information that he really
01:13:22
shouldn't be discussing with the media.
01:13:26
This is a man who is addicted to
01:13:30
attention.
01:13:32
This is a man who loves the spotlight.
01:13:35
He's lived all his life in the
01:13:36
spotlight. For him, death is to be
01:13:42
ignored.
01:13:43
So given his personality, he would
01:13:46
rather die in office than live uh
01:13:50
peacefully somewhere else.
01:13:52
>> And of those two strategies that you
01:13:54
named where he puts his son in and then
01:13:55
becomes president that way or you know
01:13:58
there's a war breaks out so he has he
01:14:00
says he has to stay in office. Of those
01:14:02
two strategies, which one do you think
01:14:04
he's more likely to deploy? I actually
01:14:05
think that given his narcissism,
01:14:08
he would prefer the first strategy,
01:14:11
>> his putting his son in
01:14:12
>> because because that shows himself in
01:14:14
the world that America loves him.
01:14:18
>> Okay? And it could also be JD Vance or
01:14:20
someone else, right? It doesn't have to
01:14:21
be his son necessarily.
01:14:22
>> Trump does not trust anyone. Trump has
01:14:25
never had a part on Jay. In fact,
01:14:27
everyone that's really worked for Trump
01:14:29
has been kind of screwed over by him. Do
01:14:31
you not think that if his son decided to
01:14:34
run and then announced that the vice
01:14:36
president was his dad, do you not think
01:14:39
that there would be such a huge backlash
01:14:43
in the United States that his son
01:14:44
wouldn't win?
01:14:46
>> Well, I think there's a possibility that
01:14:49
they figure out how to cheat in 2028.
01:14:52
>> Oh, as in actually cheat at the
01:14:54
election,
01:14:55
>> right? So,
01:14:56
>> at the poll booth,
01:14:57
>> right? So, let's go into Trump's mind.
01:14:59
All right. his his psychology. In his
01:15:02
mind, he won in 2020.
01:15:06
The people voted for him, but the
01:15:09
Democrats
01:15:10
stole the election with mail and ballots
01:15:13
and by rigging the election machines.
01:15:17
Okay? He in his mind, he literally
01:15:19
believes that. So in his mind he
01:15:21
believes that this is actually his third
01:15:23
term and the people and the government
01:15:27
they owe him a second term which is what
01:15:30
he wants now. He wants uh compensation
01:15:34
for having the election stolen from him
01:15:36
in 2020.
01:15:38
>> I find it really um really implausible
01:15:41
to think that Trump would run would run
01:15:43
for a third term.
01:15:46
>> So again this is a prediction.
01:15:47
>> Yeah. and it is a test of the validity
01:15:51
of my theorical framework.
01:15:54
>> I was looking at some of the the
01:15:56
constitutions and the laws and it says
01:15:58
that this 22nd amendment explicitly
01:16:01
states no person shall be elected to the
01:16:03
office of the president more than twice.
01:16:05
Some theorists have tried to argue that
01:16:07
since the amendment says elected, a
01:16:09
person might be able to serve a third
01:16:11
term if they were appointed to succeed
01:16:13
to the role.
01:16:14
>> Exactly. if they were appointed or
01:16:16
succeeded to the role, eg by being vice
01:16:19
president first. Legal scholars and the
01:16:22
judicial committee almost universally
01:16:25
reject this. The 12th amendment requires
01:16:27
that anyone serving as vice president
01:16:29
must be eligible to be president since a
01:16:32
two-term president is ineligible to be
01:16:34
elected again. They illegally barred
01:16:36
from being vice president. So the point
01:16:39
is the there's nothing explicit in the
01:16:42
constitution that bars someone from
01:16:45
having a third term
01:16:47
>> and there's debate in the legal
01:16:49
community about the spirit of the 22nd
01:16:53
amendment.
01:16:53
>> It would go to the Supreme Court, right?
01:16:55
>> And the Supreme Court is controlled
01:16:56
right now by the conservatives. Trump
01:16:59
appointed three of the nine justices and
01:17:02
there's a possibility he gets a fourth
01:17:04
later in the year. So it's entirely up
01:17:06
to the Supreme Court whether or not he
01:17:08
can run. And again, there's something
01:17:11
explicit in the constitution that
01:17:13
forbids him from running as a vice
01:17:15
president.
01:17:16
>> Okay. What's your next prediction?
01:17:19
>> The my second prediction is there will
01:17:20
be a grand bargain between United States
01:17:23
and China.
01:17:23
>> What does that mean?
01:17:25
>> It means that people expect that United
01:17:29
States and China will go to war at some
01:17:31
point over Taiwan.
01:17:34
It mean a lot of people expect that
01:17:36
China wants to challenge American
01:17:38
hijgemony and replace America as the
01:17:41
global superpower. But China does not
01:17:44
want to do that. China's perfectly happy
01:17:48
with America being the world's hegeimon
01:17:51
because you have to invest so much of
01:17:53
your resources into fighting these wars
01:17:56
that bank up your nation. China doesn't
01:17:58
want to fight these wars.
01:18:01
So what China is going to do is try to
01:18:04
triangulate between Russia and the
01:18:07
United States. This is what happened
01:18:09
during the cold war when China was not
01:18:11
actually on the side of the Soviet
01:18:12
Union. China was part of the nonaligned
01:18:16
community
01:18:18
and that's what China is going to strive
01:18:19
for in World War II where China may help
01:18:23
out Iran, may provide financing for
01:18:25
Russia, but it's also going to strike
01:18:26
deals with the United States as well.
01:18:29
>> Okay. So I think that Trump and
01:18:33
President C are supposed to meet at
01:18:35
least three times, possibly four times
01:18:38
this year, only this year. The first
01:18:40
will be uh in midMay in Beijing. And I
01:18:44
think that they will start a process in
01:18:46
which China and America come to an
01:18:49
enragment that benefits both
01:18:52
economically. What does America want?
01:18:54
America wants China to continue to buy
01:18:58
US treasuries in order to finance the
01:19:00
American debt. What does China want?
01:19:02
China wants energy resources from the
01:19:06
Western Hemisphere
01:19:08
and it wants to access the American
01:19:09
market.
01:19:11
>> So there's no reason why China and
01:19:14
America cannot come to a an arrangement
01:19:17
that benefits both. And Trump is very
01:19:19
much a transactional character. And
01:19:22
>> what will that mean for the world?
01:19:24
It means that China is not really part
01:19:26
of World War II in a meaningful way.
01:19:30
>> Okay. So, they're going to do a deal.
01:19:31
They'll continue to work together as
01:19:32
friends.
01:19:33
>> China will be friends with both Russia
01:19:35
and the United States as Russia and
01:19:37
United States fight each other.
01:19:38
>> Okay. What's your next prediction?
01:19:43
>> Iran is another forever war and the
01:19:45
United States will institute a national
01:19:47
draft.
01:19:48
>> Iran is another forever war and the
01:19:49
United States will institute a national
01:19:51
draft. So you think Iran is going to
01:19:54
Iran as a war is going to tumble on them
01:19:56
for decades and that the US are going to
01:19:58
draft people which means you're obliged
01:20:02
to go and fight. Exactly. Okay. So the
01:20:06
logic is this. America doesn't really
01:20:08
care
01:20:10
if Iran is a theater or not. That's not
01:20:13
really part of the American grand
01:20:14
strategy. Iran right now is a perfect
01:20:18
pretext for America to expand outwards
01:20:21
and establish maritime choke points
01:20:23
around the world and to force the world
01:20:27
to buy American energy. So this war in
01:20:31
Iran benefits America tremendously. So
01:20:34
why not have it go on for a long long
01:20:35
time?
01:20:37
In order to make sure this war goes on
01:20:39
for a long time, you need ground troops.
01:20:44
And you need a lot of ground troops. And
01:20:46
that's why you need a national draft.
01:20:48
>> So what would a national draft look like
01:20:50
in the United States? Everyone between
01:20:51
the age of 18 and 25 has to sign up to
01:20:54
the army,
01:20:54
>> right? So most people don't appreciate
01:20:56
this, but America has always had a
01:20:57
draft. But for the longest time, it
01:21:00
didn't really care whether or not you
01:21:02
actually signed for the draft. And
01:21:04
starting in December, participation in
01:21:06
the draft will be automatic. Meaning
01:21:08
that if you are between 18 to 24
01:21:11
in America and you're male, you'll be
01:21:13
automatically put into the draft system
01:21:15
>> from when?
01:21:16
>> I mean from December
01:21:17
>> this year.
01:21:18
>> Yes, that that is correct. Yes.
01:21:19
>> So between the age of 18 and 25, you
01:21:21
think? But what does that what does that
01:21:22
really mean? I've not really experienced
01:21:23
that in my lifetime. So it means that if
01:21:25
you're between the age of 18 and 24,
01:21:27
either gender,
01:21:28
>> no, male.
01:21:29
>> Male, then you have to sign up for the
01:21:31
army. No, you already put into a draft.
01:21:35
>> Oh, you already Okay, but you might be
01:21:37
called upon.
01:21:38
>> That's right. It's a lottery system.
01:21:39
>> Okay.
01:21:40
>> Right. And uh this created a lot of
01:21:42
backlash during the Vietnam era. And so
01:21:45
they sort of tone it down. But starting
01:21:48
in December, they just passed a law that
01:21:50
says that starting December um you will
01:21:52
be automatically registered for
01:21:55
>> They've passed a law.
01:21:56
>> Yes, they have.
01:21:58
>> Well, in theory, Congress first needs to
01:22:00
declare war.
01:22:01
>> Okay, fine. Right. That's a first step.
01:22:03
And Takawa has not actually decided war
01:22:05
yet.
01:22:06
>> Okay. So you think there'll be a draft
01:22:07
and you think this will this war in
01:22:09
Iran's going to trickle on for
01:22:11
>> a long time.
01:22:12
>> How long? 10 20 years like Afghanistan
01:22:14
or
01:22:14
>> I don't see it stopping.
01:22:17
>> Okay.
01:22:17
>> Yeah.
01:22:18
>> What's next in your prediction box?
01:22:20
>> Okay.
01:22:23
>> Okay. This is pretty bad. The world will
01:22:25
move towards an AI civilian state.
01:22:27
>> I feel like that's already happening.
01:22:29
>> I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah. What
01:22:31
does that mean in reality for the
01:22:32
average person? Because, you know, we're
01:22:34
seeing some of these big companies like
01:22:36
Open AI and anthropical sort of signing
01:22:38
up to government um military
01:22:41
surveillance projects. What does that
01:22:43
mean for the average person?
01:22:44
>> Right? So, for the average person, it
01:22:46
means two things. It means digital ID
01:22:48
and digital currency.
01:22:49
>> Okay.
01:22:50
>> So, what that what that will allow is
01:22:51
for the government to basically monitor
01:22:53
everything you do online and control all
01:22:55
financial transactions. it it can
01:22:57
basically program
01:22:59
your bank account so like you can't buy
01:23:02
cigarettes or you can't buy drugs. Um
01:23:06
and this will allow the government to
01:23:08
basically um categorize everyone and put
01:23:11
everyone into a certain database to
01:23:13
monitor that person. And once you have
01:23:16
once you're able to categorize everyone
01:23:18
you're allow then you are you are able
01:23:21
to use AI to predict their behavior.
01:23:23
>> Isn't this what goes on in some parts of
01:23:25
the world? This is what goes on in
01:23:26
China. And that's how I know about this.
01:23:29
>> How does it work in China?
01:23:31
>> Well, in China, we all have digital ID.
01:23:34
If you want to access anything in China,
01:23:37
you need your digital ID. So, if you
01:23:39
want to open a bank account, you have to
01:23:41
you have to use um a digital ID. If you
01:23:43
want to use any uh e payments, you have
01:23:46
to use digital ID. If you want to use a
01:23:48
phone, you have to use digital ID. Okay?
01:23:51
So, everyone's part of this national
01:23:53
database. And then this what this allows
01:23:56
government to do is basically monitor
01:23:59
everything if you do because basically
01:24:02
depending on how you buy things I can
01:24:04
then extrapolate to figure out your
01:24:07
behavior and then I can figure out your
01:24:10
thinking. Right? And then I can create
01:24:14
incentives in order to guide and control
01:24:18
your behavior.
01:24:19
>> So in China, can they see everything
01:24:21
that you do?
01:24:22
>> Yes, they can. messages you send,
01:24:25
>> everything,
01:24:25
>> payments you make,
01:24:26
>> everything, everything. Everything you
01:24:29
do online is being recorded and it's
01:24:33
being inputed into the database
01:24:36
to figure out who you are, what you
01:24:40
want, and how to control you. And they
01:24:43
think this is progress, by the way. This
01:24:46
is progress because I'm making you a
01:24:49
better person, right? I'm helping you
01:24:51
achieve your dream. I'm helping you lose
01:24:54
weight. I'm helping you avoid drugs. I'm
01:24:57
helping you work harder.
01:24:59
>> Won't you be in trouble if you talk
01:25:00
against this system?
01:25:03
>> Well, me personally. Okay. So, I operate
01:25:07
in a gray area where I do not interact
01:25:09
with the Chinese internet. So,
01:25:11
everything I do is in English. It's
01:25:13
meant for consumption in the Western
01:25:16
world. And um I I don't talk to Chinese
01:25:19
reporters. I don't talk to Chinese
01:25:21
social media. I have no Chinese media
01:25:23
presence and I am not at all influential
01:25:27
in China and I prefer that way because
01:25:30
if I ever became famous in China then
01:25:33
they would obviously want to control me
01:25:37
in order to better influence other
01:25:39
people.
01:25:41
>> What's your next prediction?
01:25:44
Israel will achieve the greater Israel
01:25:46
project. So you think Israel are going
01:25:48
to conquer the Middle East?
01:25:51
Israel has essentially already conquered
01:25:53
the Middle East. The only force in their
01:25:56
way right now is America. So once
01:25:58
America leaves the Middle East, which I
01:26:01
expect to happen, then Israel will
01:26:04
absorb SANCOM, which is the um central
01:26:07
command, the American military bases in
01:26:10
the Middle East, and they'll achieve the
01:26:12
greater Israel project. There's no other
01:26:14
power in the Middle East that can
01:26:16
withstand the might and power of Israel.
01:26:20
>> And do you have a timeline for this?
01:26:22
>> The moment America quits this war
01:26:24
against Iran, the moment that America
01:26:27
leaves the Middle East, Israel will
01:26:30
achieve the Greater Israel Project. And
01:26:32
what's really interesting right now is
01:26:34
that Israel is trying to drag this war
01:26:36
out for as long as possible because they
01:26:38
see this war as a way to destroy all its
01:26:42
major enemies in the um Middle East. You
01:26:46
know the Israelis have already said this
01:26:49
after Iran Turkey is next.
01:26:50
>> Turkey
01:26:52
>> Turkey is next. This war is already
01:26:54
destroying Saudi Arabia and the GCC,
01:26:56
right? So the last opponent is Turkey.
01:27:00
Once Turkey is brought into this war,
01:27:04
then
01:27:06
Israel will achieve the Greater Israel
01:27:07
Project.
01:27:08
>> And the Greater Israel Project covers
01:27:10
all of this region here from Turkey,
01:27:12
Egypt, Yemen, Aman.
01:27:14
>> So the Greater Israel Project is like
01:27:17
this. Okay, so it goes from the Nile in
01:27:20
Egypt to the Euphrates and Iraq. and it
01:27:23
covers part of Turkey, of Syria, of
01:27:27
Lebanon, of Jordan and parts of Saudi
01:27:29
Arabia, which also includes Mecca
01:27:31
Medina.
01:27:32
>> What is your next prediction?
01:27:35
>> NATO and Russia will fight for Odessa.
01:27:38
>> Adessa. What's Adessa?
01:27:39
>> Okay,
01:27:40
so if you look at the uh Ukraine front
01:27:43
lines right now, Russia is preoccupied
01:27:47
in trying to control
01:27:49
uh the Dawnbass, which is basically
01:27:51
eastern Ukraine. Why Russia is doing
01:27:53
this is that eastern Ukraine has
01:27:56
historically been part of Russia.
01:27:58
Therefore, most people there speak
01:27:59
Russian or are are ethnically Russian.
01:28:03
The Donas is also the agricultural and
01:28:05
industrial heartland of Ukraine. So if
01:28:09
Russia were to control east eastern
01:28:12
Ukraine doesn't really need western
01:28:14
Ukraine and western Ukraine would
01:28:16
basically become a rum state. It'd be
01:28:18
useless, right? So the last piece to
01:28:20
this puzzle would be Odessa which sits
01:28:23
on the black sea. The reason why you
01:28:25
want Odessa is that is the major port
01:28:31
and once you control Odessa you
01:28:33
basically block off Ukraine from the
01:28:36
Black Sea. You have complete control
01:28:37
over the Black Sea.
01:28:38
>> The Black Sea is that the Black Sea?
01:28:40
>> This is the Black Sea and this is Odessa
01:28:41
right here. Yes.
01:28:42
>> Okay. So you're saying that you Russia
01:28:43
will take take Adessa.
01:28:46
>> That's correct.
01:28:47
>> Okay. Okay. So, they'll control the
01:28:48
Black Sea.
01:28:49
>> That's right. But NATO recognizes that
01:28:52
if Odessa falls, the Russians, the war
01:28:54
is over and Russia will have achieved
01:28:57
all its major strategic objectives.
01:28:59
>> Why is the war over?
01:29:00
>> Because Russia doesn't want to continue
01:29:02
on after Odessa. It doesn't need of of
01:29:06
Ukraine.
01:29:07
>> Why what does it get from taking Odessa?
01:29:09
>> Once it takes Odessa, control of
01:29:13
onethird of the world's carbohydrates.
01:29:16
If Russia wield it, Africa would starve
01:29:20
to death.
01:29:22
The Middle East would starve.
01:29:24
>> Why?
01:29:25
>> Because Russia and Ukraine export a lot
01:29:28
of grain to these places. These places
01:29:30
are not food independent. They rely on
01:29:33
fertilizer. They rely on food imports.
01:29:37
>> Okay. And Russia's using the the Black
01:29:39
Sea here to export.
01:29:41
>> Exactly.
01:29:41
>> Okay. What is your next prediction?
01:29:43
>> This is the last one.
01:29:47
Please be good. Okay. I was hoping for
01:29:50
an optimistic one, but East Asia breaks
01:29:52
out into conflict.
01:29:54
>> Okay. What do you mean by that?
01:29:55
>> Okay. So, we've talked a lot about the
01:29:58
Middle East and we've talked briefly
01:30:00
about Europe. Okay. So, now let's go
01:30:02
into East Asia and I think there are
01:30:06
three major sources of friction
01:30:11
and conflict in East Asia. And these
01:30:13
could be potentially major flash points.
01:30:16
The first flash point is of course over
01:30:20
Taiwan because China believes that
01:30:23
Taiwan
01:30:24
is part of its territory and so it wants
01:30:30
to take over uh Taiwan. Now the problem
01:30:33
with this is the problem with this is
01:30:35
that the recently Prime Minister
01:30:37
Takayachi of Japan has said that Taiwan
01:30:42
is core to Japanese strategic interest
01:30:45
and what she means by this is that Japan
01:30:50
has no resources. It's a manufacturing
01:30:52
power that depends on resources from
01:30:54
overseas.
01:30:56
If China were to take over Taiwan, it
01:30:59
can now block Japan from accessing the
01:31:02
street of Malaca. And that is a
01:31:04
possibility Japan cannot permit. So
01:31:07
Japan would fight to ensure that Taiwan
01:31:12
and China were never to unify,
01:31:17
>> would they? Actually, because China is
01:31:19
so strong, right? Can they just knock
01:31:21
Japan straight out? Japan has no choice
01:31:24
but to fight because again if China and
01:31:28
Taiwan were to unify peacefully, Japan
01:31:31
be cut off from the entirety of
01:31:34
Southeast Asia and Japan relies on
01:31:38
Southeast Asia historically for
01:31:40
resources.
01:31:42
>> Why would it be cut off from Southeast
01:31:43
Asia? Can't it just go go down here
01:31:47
through the Philippines?
01:31:48
>> There's a lot of resources around the
01:31:50
South China Sea. Okay.
01:31:52
>> Right. Oil, minerals, all that. Yeah.
01:31:55
>> Um, so if China and Taiwan were to uh
01:32:02
unify, basically, uh, Japan would feel a
01:32:06
bit threatened
01:32:08
>> and your prediction is that there will
01:32:09
be some kind of conflict in this region.
01:32:11
>> Yes. So, so that's the first flash
01:32:12
point. Okay. Taiwan.
01:32:14
>> There's another flash point which is sh
01:32:16
Malaka, right? Because again, America
01:32:18
wants to control the sh of Malaka, but
01:32:20
China recognizes that the sh of Malaa is
01:32:22
key to its economic survival and so
01:32:26
there's a lot of conflict over the
01:32:28
street of Mala. Okay, that's flash point
01:32:30
number two. The third flash point which
01:32:32
I think will be the most surprising but
01:32:34
actually will be the most uh pressing is
01:32:38
North Korea. Okay, so let's just use
01:32:40
game theory. We are the leader, supreme
01:32:44
leader of North Korea.
01:32:47
It is a dictatorship. Everyone worships
01:32:49
me. It's it's it's a cult personality.
01:32:51
But we're poor
01:32:54
and the rest of the world is in
01:32:55
conflict, right? Europe is fighting with
01:32:58
Russia. The Middle East is in flames.
01:33:01
America's distracted trying to control
01:33:03
the world to the best of its ability.
01:33:05
Japan and China are fighting over the
01:33:07
South China Sea. If you are in North
01:33:10
Korea, now is the best opportunity to
01:33:15
create as much havoc in the world as
01:33:17
possible. There's absolutely nothing
01:33:20
anyone can do to stop you.
01:33:23
You are the brawler in high school that
01:33:27
no one pays attention to, but because
01:33:29
all the big boys are fighting each
01:33:30
other, you can come in and dominate the
01:33:32
school. Now,
01:33:33
>> who would they be dominating? they could
01:33:35
dominate South Korea because if you just
01:33:38
look at uh a population map of South
01:33:41
Korea, most of the South Korean
01:33:44
population is located in Seoul and Seoul
01:33:46
is about about 20 minutes artillery from
01:33:50
North Korea. So in 20 minutes
01:33:53
North Korea could rain artillery onto
01:33:55
Seoul and like basically a day flatten
01:33:57
the entire city.
01:33:59
Why wouldn't you extort the South
01:34:01
Koreans? Because the South Koreans are
01:34:02
going to shoot back
01:34:04
>> with what?
01:34:04
>> Do they not have military?
01:34:06
>> They're being protected by the Americans
01:34:07
right now. And the Americans are busy
01:34:09
transporting artillery and weapon
01:34:11
systems, including a fat system, over to
01:34:14
the Middle East. It's called FAD. T H A
01:34:18
D. It used to be in South Korea to
01:34:21
protect against North Korea, and now
01:34:22
it's over in the Middle East.
01:34:27
So, Americans are cannibalizing both
01:34:29
South Korea and Japan in order to
01:34:31
maintain this war in the Middle East.
01:34:35
Now's the time. Why not? It's free
01:34:37
money. It's like taking candy from a
01:34:39
baby.
01:34:40
>> But South Korea have their own military.
01:34:42
No. How do you fan against artillery
01:34:45
strikes?
01:34:47
>> Uh, I don't know.
01:34:48
>> You don't. But but they they they would
01:34:51
fire back, right? You'd get they'd get
01:34:52
themselves into a pretty ugly war. South
01:34:54
Korea have a have a big military.
01:34:56
>> Well, my people are poor. They're not
01:34:58
afraid to die. In fact, I've sent
01:35:00
thousands of them to go to Ukraine to
01:35:03
fight for the Russians. And they fight
01:35:06
to the death because they're poor and
01:35:08
they don't fight to the death and
01:35:10
they're allowed to be taken prisoner.
01:35:11
I'll kill their families back at home.
01:35:14
South Koreans are rich.
01:35:18
They are used democracy. They're used to
01:35:20
individual rights. So, if I threaten to
01:35:23
blow your city up, you're telling me you
01:35:25
won't bribe me not to do so. Isn't Isn't
01:35:28
the fastest, quickest way is to bribe me
01:35:31
not to cause trouble for you?
01:35:32
>> Okay. So, you think they're going to
01:35:34
bribe them?
01:35:34
>> Extortion. This is extortion. I don't
01:35:37
need to destroy South Korea. All I need
01:35:39
to do is is basically threaten the South
01:35:42
Koreans and they'll just bribe me not to
01:35:45
do anything.
01:35:46
>> So, what does all of this stuff mean for
01:35:48
the average person? You know, people
01:35:50
listening right now, they're just normal
01:35:51
people. A lot of them, not all of them,
01:35:53
but a lot of them are just normal people
01:35:54
getting on with their lives and they
01:35:56
care about their families, their their
01:35:57
jobs, their futures. What does what what
01:36:00
message have you got for them in this
01:36:02
new world? We will need leaders. We will
01:36:07
need average people
01:36:09
who are able to bring hope to people
01:36:14
around them, who are able to tell their
01:36:17
neighbors, their friends, we have to
01:36:20
come together as a community and become
01:36:23
a family if we are to survive.
01:36:28
That's what the world needs in the
01:36:30
future. It will need um entrepreneurial
01:36:34
leaders. It will need visionaries. It
01:36:36
will need prophets. Those who will most
01:36:39
thrive are those who make an effort to
01:36:42
reach out,
01:36:44
knock on the door of your neighbors and
01:36:46
say, "Listen, there's a blackout. And
01:36:51
there's probably no water. But don't
01:36:54
fear because if we come together as
01:36:57
community, if we go and knock on
01:36:59
everyone's doors, then everyone in this
01:37:01
apartment building, there might be 100
01:37:03
of us. If we just sit down and have a
01:37:06
meeting and just discuss
01:37:09
what's happening, one of us will come up
01:37:12
a solution and one of us will help
01:37:15
everyone else figure out how to find
01:37:19
water or how to build a better society.
01:37:22
And we know this because historically
01:37:23
this has always been true. When empires
01:37:25
collapse, infrastructure collapses.
01:37:28
>> Which empire do you think is collapsing?
01:37:30
The United States empire. Uh the United
01:37:32
States empire is collapsing. Yes.
01:37:36
>> Uh and who is taking its place?
01:37:38
>> No one can take the place of the
01:37:39
American empire. So we live in a
01:37:41
unipolar moment. And the closest
01:37:43
historical analogy to today is something
01:37:46
called the Bronze Age collapse.
01:37:48
>> The bronze bronze age.
01:37:49
>> The bronze age collapse. This happened
01:37:52
um about over 3,000 years ago. And what
01:37:56
happened during the bronze age collapse
01:37:58
is that you have these established
01:38:01
kingdoms throughout the Middle East and
01:38:05
Europe. You have Mician uh Greece. You
01:38:07
had the highite uh empire in Anatolia
01:38:10
which is present day Turkey. You had uh
01:38:13
the Mesopotian Empire. You had the
01:38:15
Egyptians.
01:38:16
Um and one by one they collapsed. The
01:38:20
reason why was that a perfect storm of
01:38:23
calamities came at the same time. There
01:38:24
were earthquakes, there were famines,
01:38:26
there was a climate crisis, there were
01:38:28
wars, there were civil wars, there were
01:38:29
revolutions. And so you have this
01:38:30
massive surge of refugees called the sea
01:38:33
peoples flowing from north and uh west
01:38:37
Europe and sweeping the entire
01:38:41
shipping food to the entire entire
01:38:43
Middle East. And the reason why is they
01:38:46
were hungry. They didn't have any food
01:38:48
to eat. So they organized into um you
01:38:51
know these large pirate armies and they
01:38:53
overwhelmed
01:38:55
uh entire civilizations. And so we're
01:38:58
see we will see a very similar dynamic
01:39:00
play out in the world where in the
01:39:04
future our concern won't be wars. Our
01:39:09
concern will be these millions of
01:39:11
refugees who want to flood into our
01:39:13
societies because they're hungry
01:39:17
and they're going to come from Africa.
01:39:19
They're going to come from the Middle
01:39:21
East. They'll probably come from South
01:39:23
America as well.
01:39:26
So, I saw your show with Steve King, by
01:39:28
the way. Uh Steve Keen. Yeah.
01:39:30
>> It was a great show, right? and he
01:39:31
talked about this where look the world
01:39:34
depends on fertilizer.
01:39:35
>> Mhm.
01:39:36
>> And there's 8 billion people in the
01:39:38
world and without fertilizers the world
01:39:40
could only sustain at most two billion
01:39:42
people. Well, what what are the six bill
01:39:46
people going to do? Just starve to
01:39:47
death? No. They're going to migrate and
01:39:50
they're going to want food and this
01:39:52
going to create a huge global crisis
01:39:55
throughout the world.
01:39:57
I mean, one might argue that with the
01:39:58
rise of things like AI and robotics, the
01:40:00
cost of production is going to drop and
01:40:02
there's going to be more. You know, Elon
01:40:04
talks about the age of abundance and all
01:40:06
these kinds of things,
01:40:07
>> but you have to grow food out of the
01:40:09
ground and you are using fertilizer to
01:40:13
maximize the land's capacity to grow
01:40:16
food. So, you know, fertilizer, you can
01:40:18
have as many robots as you want. They
01:40:20
don't have to eat food. We have to eat
01:40:21
food.
01:40:22
So what is your um you talked about
01:40:24
hopefulness,
01:40:26
>> right?
01:40:26
>> Are you hopeful?
01:40:28
>> I'm very hopeful.
01:40:28
>> What are you hopeful for?
01:40:32
>> I believe that humans are first and
01:40:35
foremost creative and resilient
01:40:38
and our abilities have become dormant
01:40:40
because we've become too complacent.
01:40:43
Western lifestyle have made us um
01:40:47
extremely lazy and fat
01:40:51
and but the moment we're presented with
01:40:53
a crisis, the moment that we find our
01:40:57
families in danger, we're able to come
01:41:00
together as a people and come up with
01:41:02
all this tremendous imagination in order
01:41:05
to make a better society.
01:41:08
Make sure you keep what I'm about to say
01:41:09
to yourself. I'm inviting 10,000 of you
01:41:12
to come even deeper into the D of a CEO.
01:41:14
Welcome to my inner circle. This is a
01:41:17
brand new private community that I'm
01:41:19
launching to the world. We have so many
01:41:21
incredible things that happen that you
01:41:22
are never shown. We have the briefs that
01:41:25
are on my iPad when I'm recording the
01:41:26
conversation. We have clips we've never
01:41:28
released. We have behindthe-scenes
01:41:30
conversations with the guests and also
01:41:31
the episodes that we've never ever
01:41:34
released. And so much more. In the
01:41:37
circle, you'll have direct access to me.
01:41:39
You can tell us what you want this show
01:41:40
to be, who you want us to interview, and
01:41:42
the types of conversations you would
01:41:44
love us to have. But remember, for now,
01:41:46
we're only inviting the first 10,000
01:41:48
people that join before it closes. So,
01:41:50
if you want to join our private closed
01:41:52
community, head to the link in the
01:41:53
description below or go to
01:41:54
daccircle.com.
01:41:58
I will speak to you then.
01:42:01
Professor, what's the most important
01:42:02
thing we haven't talked about that we
01:42:03
should have talked about?
01:42:06
So let's talk about the nature of
01:42:07
reality. To explain the nature of
01:42:09
reality,
01:42:11
um I'm going to explain Plato's allego
01:42:14
the cave, which he talked about in his
01:42:16
book, The Republic. Right. Exactly.
01:42:19
>> This book.
01:42:19
>> Yes. The Republic. Okay. One of the
01:42:21
masterpieces of Greek civilization as
01:42:23
well as Western civilization. All right.
01:42:25
So this is how Plato explains the nature
01:42:28
of reality. And so he uses a metaphor
01:42:32
called the cave. So, I want you to
01:42:34
imagine a dark
01:42:37
cavern that is huge. And in this cavern,
01:42:42
there are hundreds of people
01:42:45
lined up together.
01:42:49
And they're all sitting in a row. And
01:42:51
this goes on for, you know, miles and
01:42:54
miles, just thousands of people. And
01:42:57
they are chained to the ground. Their
01:43:01
necks are shackled, so they can't
01:43:03
actually move. And all they can do is
01:43:05
stare in front of them at a giant wall
01:43:08
that's empty.
01:43:11
Okay. Now,
01:43:13
behind these people, and again, they
01:43:16
they can't see behind them, right? It's
01:43:19
a great fire. Along the alongside this
01:43:23
fire are people, okay, we don't know who
01:43:25
they are. Never explains who these
01:43:27
people are. They take puppets and they
01:43:30
project these puppets off the fire onto
01:43:34
the wall.
01:43:38
And
01:43:41
when people see these shadows, they
01:43:45
think that this is reality.
01:43:48
And as such, they begin to create
01:43:51
narratives
01:43:52
to explain this reality. They create
01:43:55
language. They give shadows names. They
01:43:58
explain where these shadows come from.
01:43:59
They create religion. Then these people
01:44:02
decide to specialize. So some people who
01:44:05
are priests who explain this new
01:44:08
religion. There's some people who are
01:44:09
poets that talk about the beauty of the
01:44:12
shadows.
01:44:13
And then you have teachers who teach
01:44:16
about the shadows to children.
01:44:20
And then over time what happens is that
01:44:24
these people
01:44:26
fall in love
01:44:29
with this reality so that they are
01:44:32
addicted to it. So if anyone comes on
01:44:35
and says hey guys why don't you look
01:44:37
behind you and see it's all just a
01:44:40
farce. These people will be so angry
01:44:43
that they kill this person.
01:44:46
Right? So I'm not sure if you've ever
01:44:47
watched a Korean drama. Have you watched
01:44:49
a Korean TV drama?
01:44:51
>> Not really. No.
01:44:52
>> All right. So, unfortunately, I have.
01:44:54
And this thing is going on for like
01:44:56
thousands of hours.
01:44:58
>> And for the first 10 hours, you're
01:45:01
disgusted by the plot
01:45:04
and because it makes no sense. But by
01:45:07
sometime by the 20th hour, you can't
01:45:10
stop watching it.
01:45:11
>> Mhm.
01:45:12
>> Right. The same situation here where
01:45:13
it's a it's a silly television drama.
01:45:16
It's all fake. But once people watch too
01:45:19
much of it, they want it to be true.
01:45:23
Okay? And that's the nature of reality
01:45:25
that we live in. All right? So certain
01:45:27
things to remember is
01:45:29
that what creates this reality are not
01:45:34
the people in charge. What creates this
01:45:36
reality is our imagination.
01:45:39
Okay. So the first thing to appreciate
01:45:42
is that everything is a hallucination.
01:45:46
And this is something that nor
01:45:47
scientists have confirmed. So what we're
01:45:49
going to do is we're going to take
01:45:50
Plato's algorithm of the cave the
01:45:52
framework and then apply it to our
01:45:54
reality to understand how it's created.
01:45:57
>> Okay. So
01:46:00
in the first layer you need a power a
01:46:03
force to put people in change right and
01:46:08
this is what we call the
01:46:10
military-industrial complex of America
01:46:12
as well as the empire. So going back to
01:46:14
this example, it's the layer that puts
01:46:17
the people into change. But now the
01:46:20
second step is you need people to create
01:46:22
the reality to direct people's attention
01:46:25
to create the game. And this these
01:46:28
people are the financial elite, the bank
01:46:31
of international settlements based in
01:46:33
Basil.
01:46:34
So what do they do? These people are the
01:46:37
ones who set the the exchange currency
01:46:39
rates
01:46:40
>> and they also allow for seamless
01:46:44
financial transactions, the swift system
01:46:46
basically. Then Wall Street and the city
01:46:50
of London were the financiers
01:46:54
and then you have the Federal Reserve
01:46:56
Federal Reserve system because the
01:46:57
Federal Reserve are the people who print
01:46:59
money.
01:47:01
Okay.
01:47:03
Now once you create the rules of the
01:47:06
game, you need to create the game itself
01:47:08
which is the global economy right global
01:47:12
economy and obviously this is a pretty
01:47:15
vast system that encompasses everything.
01:47:18
Okay.
01:47:20
Now you have to explain to people how
01:47:22
the global economy works and you cannot
01:47:24
tell people oh really there are these
01:47:26
secret people working behind the scenes
01:47:29
that are projecting shadows onto a wall.
01:47:31
So what you do is you create
01:47:33
multilateral organizations that pretend
01:47:36
to control the global economy and they
01:47:39
are the World Bank, the United Nations,
01:47:41
WTO. You make them believe that this is
01:47:45
all being controlled impartially for our
01:47:49
benefit.
01:47:52
Now you have to convince people that
01:47:54
this system is legitimate. That when
01:47:58
you're actually seeing the shadows on
01:47:59
the wall, they're real. That's why you
01:48:01
need the media. That's why you need
01:48:06
culture such as Hollywood movies
01:48:07
basically and you need education school
01:48:11
system. Okay, these are the people who
01:48:14
are all prisoners who have become
01:48:16
leaders of the prisoners and who are
01:48:19
helping them understand the shadows on
01:48:21
the wall.
01:48:22
>> So am I in the media?
01:48:24
>> Yes, you are.
01:48:24
>> Am I?
01:48:25
>> Yes.
01:48:25
>> So am I what am I doing? Am I one of the
01:48:27
people in the fire controlling the
01:48:29
narrative? Is that what?
01:48:30
>> Yes. Yes.
01:48:31
>> But but I'm not owned by anybody.
01:48:34
>> That's what you think.
01:48:35
>> Oh, really? Who who am I owned by?
01:48:38
>> Ultimately, it's the people who control
01:48:40
the fire that are in charge, right? So,
01:48:43
ultimately, it's these people, the
01:48:44
second layer.
01:48:45
>> Okay.
01:48:45
>> The game masters, the financial elite
01:48:47
that control everything.
01:48:49
>> And the financial elite again are like
01:48:50
the World Bank, you said.
01:48:52
>> No. No. The financial elite are these
01:48:54
private bankers.
01:48:56
>> Okay. So, are the private bankers
01:48:57
controlling me? Cuz you said I was in
01:48:59
the media.
01:49:00
>> Do you want to make money?
01:49:01
>> Yeah.
01:49:02
>> Then they're controlling you.
01:49:03
>> Okay.
01:49:03
>> Right.
01:49:04
>> How are they controlling me?
01:49:06
>> Because they control the creation of
01:49:08
money. And so
01:49:11
now that you have the media, the schools
01:49:15
and the cultural systems helping people
01:49:18
understand the shadows on the wall.
01:49:20
These shadows now become internalized
01:49:24
and they dictate the values and norms of
01:49:27
people, what they believe to be good and
01:49:29
bad. They dictate habits and customs,
01:49:32
how you live your life, and they dictate
01:49:35
the legal system, who's punished for
01:49:38
what. Okay? And this becomes a top
01:49:41
edifice. And what's amazing about the
01:49:43
system is that in our minds, okay, in
01:49:47
our minds, we believe that the system is
01:49:50
first of all the complete opposite where
01:49:53
un where the foundation is actually the
01:49:57
laws, the habits and the values when in
01:50:00
fact in reality these are just figments
01:50:03
of our imagination. Okay, that's point
01:50:05
one. Point two is that this is a very
01:50:09
very delicate structure. So if anyone
01:50:12
doesn't cooperate okay then this is this
01:50:14
NFS collapses because it's a very very
01:50:17
delicate system okay and the third thing
01:50:20
and this is most important to understand
01:50:21
the world that we live in as the system
01:50:23
becomes much more wobbly meaning that
01:50:25
young people don't really believe in the
01:50:28
shadows anymore. Young people grow up
01:50:30
and says hm are these shadows really
01:50:32
real? They don't feel real to me. The
01:50:35
system needs to become much more
01:50:37
authoritarian.
01:50:39
It needs to force people to believe what
01:50:41
they refuse to believe because everyone
01:50:45
in a system is incentivized to ensure
01:50:48
this edifice is stable.
01:50:50
>> Do you think this is somewhat linked to
01:50:52
what's going on with independent media?
01:50:54
>> Exactly.
01:50:55
>> Because independent media are asking a
01:50:56
lot of questions about the way society
01:50:58
functions.
01:50:59
>> Exactly. And that's why we're seeing
01:51:02
governments becoming very worried about
01:51:04
independent media because if you have
01:51:07
people on the population saying these
01:51:09
these shadows are fake, this creates a
01:51:11
ripple effect. It causes uh people to
01:51:14
start questioning the shadows on the
01:51:16
wall. You can't have that. So that's why
01:51:18
it's important to have censorship.
01:51:20
That's why it's important to deplatform
01:51:21
people. That's why you have woke
01:51:23
politics, DEI, because it's an
01:51:25
enforcement mechanism.
01:51:28
>> Yeah. I mean, it is pretty hard. You
01:51:29
know, it's pretty it's not easy being a
01:51:31
uh an independent podcaster if you have
01:51:33
a big platform cuz you're not always the
01:51:36
most loved by the mainstream media
01:51:38
>> and they'll figure out how to eventually
01:51:40
>> But I think that's I think that's very
01:51:41
human actually. I think I think the
01:51:43
incentives are quite understandable from
01:51:45
a human perspective.
01:51:47
>> Look, if you look at the system, no
01:51:49
one's really in charge and no one's a
01:51:51
villain.
01:51:53
They just grow up in the system
01:51:55
>> and everyone's protecting their
01:51:56
incentives.
01:51:56
>> Exactly. That's kind of what I mean. I'm
01:51:58
like, yeah, human nature is to protect
01:52:00
one's incentives. And you know, the
01:52:02
media didn't like Mark Zuckerberg and
01:52:03
Facebook because 80% of 70 80% of ad
01:52:06
revenue went to Google and Facebook. So,
01:52:08
they had a bit of a war. So, I kind of
01:52:10
get it. People are trying to protect
01:52:11
what's theirs and disruption causes
01:52:14
people to, I guess, panic a little bit.
01:52:15
But, makes sense.
01:52:17
>> But the problem is that over time more
01:52:22
and more young people are going to grow
01:52:23
up and say, "I don't see shadows. I'm
01:52:27
pretty sure we're being lied to. In
01:52:30
which case, this presents an opportunity
01:52:33
to overthrow the system and create a new
01:52:36
system.
01:52:37
And this is why AI is important.
01:52:42
But we we we currently believe this one.
01:52:44
We currently believe in this structure.
01:52:45
It's almost it's really difficult I
01:52:47
think for the average person listening
01:52:48
now to accept the fact that they have
01:52:50
believed a bunch of fundamental ideas
01:52:53
and stories that everything they care
01:52:56
about is sat upon. But I mean you only
01:52:58
if you read the book sapiens and
01:52:59
understood that humans got here because
01:53:00
we had a remarkable ability to believe
01:53:02
in stories that maybe the orangutang
01:53:05
could not believe. It couldn't believe
01:53:06
in money and governments and religions
01:53:08
and all these kinds of things. It makes
01:53:10
perfect sense that yeah, there's really
01:53:12
foundational stories we are accepting
01:53:14
and that's what's brought us here today.
01:53:16
That's what keeps me from running out on
01:53:17
the street without my clothes on or
01:53:19
doing other illicit activities is I'm
01:53:21
held in place by a set of stories um
01:53:24
that I've accepted and they are stacked
01:53:26
one upon the other to make me believe
01:53:28
that everything I'm seeing and accepting
01:53:30
is valid. But
01:53:33
>> you know, I guess the question becomes,
01:53:34
am I okay with this reality?
01:53:37
And what's stopping us from creating our
01:53:39
own reality that benefits everyone?
01:53:41
>> Is that possible?
01:53:43
>> Well, in theory, it's possible, but as
01:53:45
you point out, there are certain people
01:53:48
who are happy with the system and want
01:53:51
to maintain the system. And that's why
01:53:53
we're going to wars around the world
01:53:55
because it's not just a war between
01:53:58
different nation states. It's also a war
01:54:01
for the fundamental nature of reality.
01:54:04
You have the bankers versus the tech
01:54:07
broles, right? That's what we're seeing
01:54:09
in the world right now
01:54:11
where for the longest time, Wall Street
01:54:14
has controlled America. But now with the
01:54:16
with the Trump revolution, you have
01:54:18
Palunteer, you have people like Larry
01:54:21
Ellison, Peter Theo, uh Sen Alman who
01:54:25
want to create Operation Stargate, which
01:54:27
gives them complete control over
01:54:30
people's imagination. You can knock it
01:54:33
over now.
01:54:34
>> Okay.
01:54:36
And everything will come down eventually
01:54:40
because that is just the fundamental
01:54:43
fact of human history. Everything no
01:54:46
matter how stable it seems in the
01:54:48
beginning, it all comes crashing down
01:54:50
eventually.
01:54:51
>> Eventually.
01:54:52
>> Eventually.
01:54:52
>> Cyclic. Cycllically.
01:54:55
>> Yes.
01:54:56
Ray Dalio talks about the cycles through
01:54:58
history and how sort of predictable they
01:55:01
are and how frequent they are. Is there
01:55:03
a frequency to the rise and fall of
01:55:05
these I guess perceived realities or
01:55:08
empires as he calls it?
01:55:10
>> Yeah. So they say empires last around
01:55:12
200 years. And so we are now in the
01:55:16
twilight of the American empire. And
01:55:18
what we know is that when empires
01:55:20
decline, it's always for the same
01:55:22
reasons.
01:55:24
And um it's always because of too much
01:55:28
debt, too much corruption, too much
01:55:31
inequality. And we're seeing that in
01:55:32
America today. And the other thing that
01:55:35
we know is you can't actually stop the
01:55:37
decline of empires. So Oswwell Spangler
01:55:41
uh who is a German uh theoretician, he
01:55:44
argues that we are human beings and we
01:55:48
have natural life cycles because we're
01:55:49
organisms. Well, societies are the same
01:55:52
way where empires they will be born,
01:55:56
they'll rise, they'll die. And it's and
01:55:59
it's a good thing because that's what
01:56:01
allows for constant human innovation.
01:56:04
>> Do you think that will happen in my
01:56:05
lifetime? I'm 30 years old, 33 years
01:56:07
old. It may happen in everyone's
01:56:09
lifetime. It may happen in the next 5 to
01:56:11
10 years. We are we are seeing.
01:56:13
>> Do you think that's going to happen in
01:56:14
the next 5 or 10 years?
01:56:15
>> I think there's a very strong
01:56:16
possibility that the American empire
01:56:18
will collapse in the next 5 to 10 years
01:56:20
because it is overstretched. It's in too
01:56:23
much debt and it is really angering the
01:56:26
entire world. It's basically unifying
01:56:27
the entire world against it right now.
01:56:29
>> And if that is to be the case, what
01:56:31
would you give me as advice as a
01:56:33
33-year-old? what what actions should I
01:56:35
be thinking about taking now based on
01:56:37
what you know about history to make sure
01:56:39
that you know it's not too bad for
01:56:41
myself. I guess I'm asking this question
01:56:43
in light of you predicting that there
01:56:45
might be a collapse of the sort of
01:56:47
western or the American empire
01:56:51
and in such a scenario I was wondering
01:56:52
what what what it would look like to be
01:56:54
an American and is there a a solution or
01:56:58
a course of behavior one should take in
01:56:59
such a scenario but what I guess that's
01:57:01
the key question which is if the US
01:57:03
empire does collapse how does American
01:57:05
life change or western life change
01:57:07
>> okay so one theory that's very important
01:57:10
to understand is something called
01:57:13
hermetic philosophy and heretic
01:57:14
philosophy is what underpins
01:57:17
um Plato's eye of the cave.
01:57:19
>> Mhm.
01:57:20
>> And heretic philosophy comes from Egypt
01:57:23
and it has certain principles but his
01:57:25
main principle is that reality is
01:57:28
energy. It's vibrations. Okay. So we
01:57:31
think of it as material when material is
01:57:34
a consequence of energy.
01:57:37
>> Right? So what this means is that
01:57:40
reality is consciousness itself.
01:57:44
>> So our thoughts are what's real. Our
01:57:48
bodies are just vehicles to to
01:57:52
experience the world around us. But
01:57:54
they're not real. When we die, our souls
01:57:56
return to the source and we come back
01:57:59
again. And we are here permanently in
01:58:01
order to experience things we cannot
01:58:03
experience in the spiritual world
01:58:04
because in the spiritual world it's not
01:58:06
material.
01:58:08
So what's really important is to
01:58:11
appreciate that
01:58:14
every one of us is part of the source.
01:58:16
And so if we think about the totality of
01:58:20
things, we can only become despondent,
01:58:22
we can only give up hope. But if we
01:58:25
think about how individually
01:58:28
we can become a better person and how we
01:58:31
can impact the people around us, then
01:58:34
that becomes reflected
01:58:37
onto the reality itself because we're
01:58:40
just part of God itself. Right? So the
01:58:42
idea is as above so below.
01:58:46
As below so above meaning that we are
01:58:48
each and every one of us fractals of
01:58:51
God. So if we choose to be a good
01:58:53
person,
01:58:55
this makes the world a better place. If
01:58:57
we choose to be a bad person, it also
01:58:59
makes the world a worse place. So it's
01:59:01
not really about how can I stop these
01:59:03
wars from happening because you cannot.
01:59:05
It's not really about where can I put my
01:59:07
money to make generate more income
01:59:08
because that because that's not going to
01:59:10
happen. It's really about how do I
01:59:14
live my life to the fullest? How do I
01:59:18
become a much more creative individual
01:59:20
that brings goodness to the people
01:59:22
around me? If you do that, you're
01:59:25
changing the world every day for the
01:59:28
better.
01:59:32
That's a nice message.
01:59:35
That's a very nice message. And I agree.
01:59:37
And I It's really interesting. I've
01:59:38
spoken to a couple of physicists now who
01:59:40
say similar things regarding um about
01:59:43
consciousness and it really has stuck
01:59:44
with me. A lot of things people say, you
01:59:46
know, sometimes because I I learn so
01:59:48
much doing this that I forget them. But
01:59:50
this idea that um that we're all part of
01:59:52
the same consciousness and that I think
01:59:54
someone said to me, a physicist said to
01:59:56
me that um it's almost like
01:59:58
consciousness divided into lots of
02:00:00
little pieces so that
02:00:00
>> that's right. Fractals.
02:00:01
>> Fractals. So that it could it could
02:00:03
experience the world or view the world.
02:00:05
>> Exactly.
02:00:05
>> And I found that to be a really
02:00:06
compelling idea. Weirdly, I was thinking
02:00:08
about this the other I was in a European
02:00:10
country and I was I was driving in a
02:00:12
taxi and I looked out the window and you
02:00:14
had all of these like tourists just
02:00:16
stood at the edge of the water all just
02:00:17
like looking up and looking around and I
02:00:19
just for a second thought of it thought
02:00:21
of them as like little p pieces of
02:00:22
consciousness exploring the world cuz
02:00:24
they were like looking up and looking
02:00:25
around and looking at mountains and
02:00:26
looking at the ocean and looking at the
02:00:27
floor and it it dawned on me for a
02:00:29
second that that might just be
02:00:30
consciousness is manifestation um for
02:00:34
sort of I guess exploration
02:00:37
which is a really interesting idea. I
02:00:38
don't necessarily know what it means,
02:00:39
but it does create a little lot of
02:00:40
empathy.
02:00:41
>> So, so one one area that you might want
02:00:43
to explore is the cabala.
02:00:44
>> So, what how's this what what's this
02:00:46
cabala thing,
02:00:47
>> right? It's what they call the tree of
02:00:48
life. And in the tree of life, it's it's
02:00:51
what I'm trying to say is that it's
02:00:52
certain dynamic in the world that
02:00:54
governs all human affairs. And this
02:00:56
dynamic is thesis, antithesis,
02:00:59
synthesis. So, God is the will to bestow
02:01:03
creates Adam Canmon who is the will to
02:01:06
receive. And then Kmon has to abandon
02:01:08
God. That's thus destroying the world.
02:01:11
But eventually because the world is
02:01:12
destroyed and Enmlan and his and his
02:01:14
descendants us recognize the father of
02:01:16
our ways and beg God for forgiveness.
02:01:19
And this will redeem the world, repair
02:01:22
the world. And if you think about it,
02:01:25
okay, this is what underpins a lot of
02:01:29
actions that is happening in the Middle
02:01:32
East where the Israelis are doing what
02:01:34
they're doing because they're trying to
02:01:37
force the hand of God. Meaning that,
02:01:40
okay, if Israel is committing all these
02:01:43
atrocities in the Middle East, it's
02:01:45
committing all these wars, eventually
02:01:48
the world will have to punish the
02:01:50
Israel, the Israelites, right? There'll
02:01:52
be war between the world and Israel and
02:01:55
Israel will be humbled. But once Israel
02:01:58
is humbled,
02:01:59
everyone in Israel recognize the folly
02:02:04
of his or her arrogance, hubris, and
02:02:08
then will beg God for forgiveness. And
02:02:11
once that that moment happens, when all
02:02:14
people in Israel at the same time beg
02:02:17
God for deliverance and for forgiveness,
02:02:20
the world will end.
02:02:22
and will return to paradise. That's
02:02:25
literally what they believe.
02:02:30
Fascinating.
02:02:32
>> We're going to have to stop there,
02:02:34
professor. Okay. Um, we have a closing
02:02:35
tradition where the last guest leaves a
02:02:36
question for the next guest, not knowing
02:02:37
who they're leaving it for. And the
02:02:39
question left for you is, who will you
02:02:41
miss the most and why?
02:02:44
Well, I will miss my wife the most
02:02:49
because I met my wife about 10 years ago
02:02:52
and this was a time in my life when I
02:02:54
had and when I had I had hit rock
02:02:56
bottom. Um I went to Yale and so I have
02:03:00
a very um elevated sense of myself and
02:03:04
my abilities. And so I went into the
02:03:06
world thinking that I would conquer it.
02:03:09
And after decades of failure,
02:03:12
um I
02:03:14
basically became very depressed.
02:03:16
>> Failure?
02:03:17
>> Yes. I meaning I didn't have a job,
02:03:19
meaning I didn't have much income,
02:03:22
meaning I didn't have much hope in my
02:03:24
life. And so I was working as a teacher
02:03:27
and then for a mutual acquaintance I met
02:03:29
my wife and
02:03:32
I think that it was because I became so
02:03:36
depressed that my heart I begged for
02:03:41
relief. I begged God even though I don't
02:03:44
believe in God for salvation and
02:03:46
redemption. And my wife came as an
02:03:50
angel. And what she did that no one else
02:03:52
did before was she loved me
02:03:56
unconditionally.
02:03:57
She was kind to me. She told me to
02:04:02
believe in myself.
02:04:04
And she proved it by making the ultimate
02:04:07
sacrifice and having a child with me.
02:04:10
Right? It's one thing to for someone to
02:04:12
say, "I believe in you. I love you." But
02:04:14
it's another thing to have a child with
02:04:17
that person. And so that changed me
02:04:21
totally and I and I said to myself, I
02:04:24
can't despair anymore. I have to work
02:04:26
hard. I have to provide for my family.
02:04:31
And at this time I was thinking that
02:04:33
maybe I could help students go to Yale.
02:04:38
Like you know in China trying to um
02:04:40
consulting is a huge business where if
02:04:42
you help package a kid and you get to
02:04:44
Yale, you get about a million dollars.
02:04:45
That's a lot of money, right? and she
02:04:47
told me, "You can't do that. You have to
02:04:49
be true to yourself and you have to be
02:04:52
true to our son." Set a good example for
02:04:55
him. And so what happened was that I got
02:04:58
a job as a high school teacher. And then
02:05:01
I started to make these YouTube videos
02:05:04
and then it blew up online. And this was
02:05:07
not something that we expected. It's not
02:05:09
something that we planned for. It just
02:05:10
happened organically.
02:05:12
So it was my wife just just by saying
02:05:17
I love you to me and I knew it to be
02:05:19
true because we had a child together we
02:05:21
started a family together by loving me
02:05:22
unconditionally by being kind to me it
02:05:24
changed me forever and that's what
02:05:27
empowered me to want to share myself
02:05:29
with other people as well and so I don't
02:05:32
know how I will ever thank my wife I'm
02:05:35
I'm forever grateful for her and I don't
02:05:38
I don't before I didn't really mind
02:05:40
leaving this world But I don't want to
02:05:42
leave this world anymore because I don't
02:05:44
want to separate from her.
02:05:46
>> Could you have expected that you'd have
02:05:48
the success you've had online? You've
02:05:50
got what almost two and a half million
02:05:51
subscribers on YouTube alone. Um getting
02:05:55
millions and millions and millions of
02:05:56
views on your videos. I mean, some of
02:05:58
your videos have almost 10 million views
02:06:00
on on various channels that you've been
02:06:01
on. You've only made 146 of these videos
02:06:05
and your your channel has grown
02:06:07
immensely. Could could you have imagined
02:06:12
I did.
02:06:12
>> You did imagine?
02:06:13
>> Yes.
02:06:13
>> You thought it would go like this.
02:06:15
>> Um, not this big, but I imagine, you
02:06:18
know, I I would find people who believe
02:06:22
in what I was doing and would be
02:06:23
inspired by what I was doing. And I knew
02:06:26
this because when I met my wife and I
02:06:30
fell in love for the first time and we
02:06:32
loved each other uh unconditionally,
02:06:35
my imagination started to open up. I
02:06:39
could see and feel things that were not
02:06:41
available to me before and it was as
02:06:45
though I became much more connected to
02:06:48
the source. I became much more connected
02:06:50
to the universe and the universe was
02:06:52
giving me insights as to how to proceed.
02:06:56
And so
02:06:58
I had one day an inspiration. Let me
02:07:00
start a YouTube channel and let me make
02:07:02
stupid predictions and see where where
02:07:04
it goes. Because if I'm right then then
02:07:07
I would be pretty famous. If I'm wrong
02:07:11
then I'm an idiot. But what gave me the
02:07:14
courage to imagine all this was again
02:07:17
the love of my wife. So that's why I say
02:07:22
kindness and love.
02:07:25
So I did imagine this but not to the
02:07:28
extent that um you know my YouTube
02:07:31
channel has blown up. You've only been
02:07:33
doing it about a year. I don't think
02:07:36
I've ever seen someone get two two and a
02:07:37
half million subscribers in a year,
02:07:39
especially making a geop geopolitics and
02:07:42
uh
02:07:44
it's mainly geopolitics, isn't it? And
02:07:46
history videos in a year. That's crazy.
02:07:49
But I will tell you this, it has not
02:07:52
changed me because being with my wife,
02:07:57
having a family, I know my mission is to
02:08:01
share myself with others.
02:08:03
So,
02:08:04
I could easily
02:08:07
um create a media education company like
02:08:09
Jordan Peterson um and start my own
02:08:12
university. I don't want to do that. I
02:08:14
want to share myself with others. I want
02:08:18
to constantly learn. I want to
02:08:20
constantly ask questions. I want to be
02:08:22
open-minded. I want to be brave for my
02:08:25
wife and my family. And so, yes, I did
02:08:30
succeed. And I think I thank the
02:08:32
universe for letting me succeed. And I
02:08:33
and I thank most of all the fact that I
02:08:36
succeeded at an age and at a time when I
02:08:40
can focus on the mission and ignore the
02:08:43
fame, the wealth, the status. Are you
02:08:48
happy? I'm very happy with my family
02:08:50
because it's my wife and my children who
02:08:53
bring me tremendous happiness in the
02:08:55
world. the the YouTube channel if they
02:08:58
close it down tomorrow and they might I
02:09:02
wouldn't be at all uh unhappy because I
02:09:05
could just go and create more videos. Uh
02:09:09
what matters is a source of my
02:09:11
creativity which is my the love I have
02:09:14
for my family.
02:09:15
>> That is beautiful. Really beautiful. I
02:09:18
mean, it's it's really self-evident the
02:09:19
value you're giving to people because
02:09:21
the amount of people that showed up in
02:09:23
my comment section and demanded that you
02:09:25
come here was staggering. In fact,
02:09:27
that's actually how I I learned about
02:09:29
you was I just saw your name so much in
02:09:31
the comment section. So, I was like,
02:09:33
who's this guy? And I went on YouTube
02:09:34
and looked around and then I found these
02:09:36
videos and then I got served them
02:09:37
because I'd clicked on them and then I
02:09:38
got went down the rabbit hole like
02:09:40
everything.
02:09:40
>> Just to warn you, I am a polarizing
02:09:42
figure. Oh, I don't care. Some people
02:09:45
really love me, but some people also
02:09:47
really really
02:09:48
>> It doesn't matter. Listen, I have I sit
02:09:50
here with people really regardless of uh
02:09:52
of of that stuff and I think that's
02:09:55
important and quite rare. So, you know,
02:09:56
I've sat with Kamal Harris or Ivanka
02:09:59
Trump or Gavin Newsome or Michelle
02:10:00
Obama, you know, and for me it's really
02:10:02
about the pursuit of truth rather than
02:10:04
being captured too much by, you know,
02:10:07
right,
02:10:07
>> all the blocks that we have on the
02:10:09
table. So, um, thank you for doing what
02:10:11
you do because you're demystifying and
02:10:12
you're you're giving a perspective to
02:10:14
the world. And I think one of the things
02:10:15
you you do that really has compelled
02:10:17
people is you you're able to, um, break
02:10:20
things down in visual ways that allow
02:10:23
people like me who aren't the best um,
02:10:26
when it comes to books and textbooks and
02:10:29
weren't necessarily very good in school
02:10:31
to understand concepts in a simpler way
02:10:33
and really to bring them to life in ways
02:10:34
that make them actionable and relevant
02:10:36
to our lives. And so long may you carry
02:10:38
on doing that.
02:10:39
>> And that's a central message that I hope
02:10:41
people understand like everyone has
02:10:43
capacity to learn the truth for himself
02:10:47
or herself. It's only a question of
02:10:49
desire and will.
02:10:50
>> Thank you.
02:10:51
>> Thank you.
02:10:52
>> YouTube have this new crazy algorithm
02:10:53
where they know exactly what video you
02:10:55
would like to watch next based on AI and
02:10:58
all of your viewing behavior. And the
02:10:59
algorithm says that this video is the
02:11:03
perfect video for you. It's different
02:11:04
for everybody looking right now. Check
02:11:06
this video out and I bet you you might
02:11:08
love
