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0:00In 2024, you made three predictions that
0:03have come perfectly true. Like Trump
0:05would start a war with Iran. And you've
0:07made a series of new predictions. Yes,
0:09and I'll explain each prediction one by
0:11one. Okay, so first, I predict that
0:13Trump will get a third term. But isn't
0:14this constitutionally illegal? It's not.
0:16The president now has emergency war
0:18powers. And so he can actually delay the
0:20election. My second prediction is Iran
0:22is now up for a war, and the United
0:24States will institute a national draft.
0:26Meaning that if you're between 18 and 24
0:28in America and you're male, you'll be
0:29automatically put into the draft system.
0:31And they just passed a law that says
0:33that starting in December, you'll be
0:34automatically registered. Which means
0:36you're obliged to go and fight. Exactly.
0:39Next, the world will move towards an AI
0:41civilian state. So, everything you do
0:43online is being recorded to figure out
0:46how to control you. And then, this is
0:47the most controversial prediction. This
0:48is pretty bad. And I'll explain why. And
0:51also, I will tell you why this war can
0:53only lead to World War III. Why? There's
0:54a very strong possibility that the
0:56American empire will collapse. And also,
0:58I'll show you what the Russians will do,
1:00and how the private bankers are
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2:07Professor Dieng.
2:09There's so much going on in the world at
2:11the moment that it's quite confusing for
2:13an ordinary person like me, and you've
2:15blown up across the internet because
2:16you've been able to demystify all of all
2:19of this craziness, but also because in
2:222024,
2:24you made three predictions that have
2:26come
2:27perfectly true.
2:29Some might say unfortunately.
2:31Unfortunately, yes. What were those
2:32three predictions? My first prediction
2:35was that Trump would win in November
2:372024.
2:39Second prediction is that he would start
2:42a war against Iran.
2:44And the third prediction is that the
2:46United States would lose this war, and
2:48in losing this war, this would radically
2:51reshape the geopolitical landscape. How
2:54did you know that Trump would start a
2:56war with Iran? The simple answer is
2:59this. The The United States have to
3:01invaded Iran because it has no choice in
3:05the matter. If it were not to invade
3:07Iran, it would lose its empire. Its
3:10empire is based purely on US dollar, the
3:14petrodollar, which is a Ponzi scheme.
3:17If it did not invade Iran, then people
3:19would choose not to trade with it
3:22anymore. People would choose to not buy
3:25US Treasuries. Why? For the longest
3:27time, this system worked fine.
3:31But then, in February 2022,
3:36Russia invaded Ukraine. Yeah. That
3:38wasn't the issue. The issue was the
3:41American response.
3:42The American response was to sanction
3:45Russia, and we moved Russia from the
3:48Swift global payment system. It also
3:52ordered the Europeans to freeze over 200
3:56billion dollars
3:58in Russian assets. And this is a problem
4:01because the very basis for having the US
4:03dollar
4:05as the global reserve currency is that
4:07it would remain politically neutral.
4:11It It The Americans guaranteed seamless
4:15and politically neutral
4:18international exchange.
4:20So, if this trend continues,
4:23right? If you don't do anything about
4:25Russia, Russia will take over Ukraine.
4:28And Russia then would build an alliance
4:31with China and Iran. If you look at
4:35these three countries on a map, Russia,
4:37China, and Iran, this is the entire
4:40Asian continent. And then what they can
4:43do is this. They can say, "Okay,
4:47the United States is a bully.
4:49They force us to play by their rules.
4:51They get very angry if we don't play by
4:54their rules. So, let's not play with the
4:56United States anymore. Let's just trade
4:58amongst ourselves."
5:00And then what they can do is they can
5:02build a
5:04Eurasian railway system connecting
5:07Russia, Iran, and China together.
5:10And then what this would do is negate
5:14American sea power because it's American
5:17ships that patrol and protect
5:19the oceans.
5:22And then what happen is the world,
5:25Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East
5:29Asia would look at this trading block
5:31and think to themselves, "Wow, these
5:34guys, the Russians, and Iranians, and
5:37Chinese, they use gold
5:40as their medium of exchange.
5:44Gold is valuable.
5:46The Americans, on the other hand, use US
5:49dollars
5:50as the medium of exchange, which is not
5:53valuable. So, am am I better off with
5:56the American system or this new BRICS
5:59system?
6:00What's BRICS? It's an acronym. It stands
6:02for Brazil,
6:04Russia, India,
6:06uh South Africa, China. So, am I right
6:09in thinking because Iran, Russia, and
6:11China were colluding, it threatened US
6:14dominance, which is driven by the world
6:16using the dollar as the primary currency
6:20for trading? That's correct. Okay. So,
6:22they felt they needed to invade because
6:24then they can control more of the Middle
6:25East. Right. So, by attacking Iran,
6:28certain things happened. Okay? The first
6:30thing that happened is that
6:34China is now cut off
6:37from Middle East energy.
6:40China
6:41receives anywhere between 50 to 60% of
6:44its energy needs
6:46from the Middle East. Not just Iran, but
6:48also Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
6:51A lot of people say that China today,
6:53it's reliant on renewables, solar,
6:56wind. And that's true to a certain
6:58extent. Remember that China, it is an
7:00industrial powerhouse. So, it needs
7:02energy from everywhere and
7:05everyone.
7:06So,
7:08the fact that China is losing all this
7:11energy from the Middle East presents
7:13China with a long-term strategic
7:15vulnerability.
7:16Okay, that's the first thing that
7:18happens.
7:19Second thing that happens is that Europe
7:22is now in trouble because remember,
7:24because of the of Russia's invasion of
7:26Ukraine,
7:27Russian energy was sanctioned.
7:29And so, Europe relied more on
7:33Middle E- on the Middle East for its
7:34energy needs, especially Qatar.
7:37And now, Europe has lost all of this
7:40oil. So, you and then you have Japan and
7:43South Korea, these two powerful East
7:46Asia economies are also reliant on the
7:49Middle East for its
7:50energy. So, now question is
7:53if you're not getting your energy from
7:55the Middle East, where can you get your
7:57energy from? And there's only two
7:58answers.
7:59Either Russia
8:01or the United States.
8:04Russia is at war. And what's happening
8:06is the Ukrainian drones are attacking
8:08Russian oil refineries and export hubs.
8:12So, the world in the short-term have has
8:17no choice but to look to America for its
8:20energy needs.
8:22And what did Trump do recently? He took
8:24over He took over Venezuela.
8:26Which has the world's
8:27greatest
8:29oil reserves.
8:31He's threatening Canada. He's
8:33threatening Greenland, Mexico, Columbia.
8:36If Trump controls the entire
8:39Western Hemisphere,
8:42the entire world has to beg Trump for
8:45energy and resources. And this saves
8:48both the US dollar
8:50as well as American empire. So, as part
8:54of your prediction in in 2024, I believe
8:57it was, you said that the US would lose
8:59this war, right?
9:00Why did you predict that the US will
9:03lose this war with Iran?
9:05Because
9:06the the American society does not does
9:08not have the political will.
9:11Does not have the manufac- manufacturing
9:13capacity.
9:14Does not have the risk tolerance to
9:17fight this war in
9:19Iran.
9:20Basically, America wants to fight this
9:22war as cheaply as easily and as quickly
9:26as possible.
9:27Right? So, Trump Trump really thought
9:30that, you know, if I sent my airplanes
9:33to strike Iran and kill the Ayatollah,
9:36they would just surrender. That was like
9:38literally his plan going into this war.
9:42He paid no attention to the culture. He
9:45paid no attention to the history of the
9:48Iranian people. He had absolutely no
9:49respect for
9:52for the nation. And when you do that,
9:54when you disrespect your opponent, when
9:56you underestimate your opponent, when
9:57you yourself are not willing to commit
9:59to the fight, you're going to lose.
10:02So, is Iran's game just a tool to stall
10:05as long as they possibly can?
10:07How they, you know, cuz he's taking out
10:10the leaders. And then do you also think
10:11that Trump thought that just if I just
10:12bomb the leader, then everything will
10:15sort of regenerate itself and we'll be
10:16fine?
10:18What was the sort of fundamental
10:19misunderstanding? There's a lot of
10:21confusion as to how this war started.
10:24Even today, no one actually knows how
10:26this war started.
10:29But, I think that Trump, given his
10:31personality,
10:32he was convinced
10:34that if he killed the leadership of
10:38Iran,
10:40then they would have no choice but to
10:42surrender. And his proof of concept was,
10:44of course, on January 3rd of this year,
10:48Delta Force went into Venezuela,
10:51kidnapped Maduro,
10:52and they just completely surrendered.
10:54So, in Trump's mind, he wanted to replay
10:58this the Venezuela scenario.
11:00And he
11:02didn't realize that Iran is
11:03fundamentally different from Venezuela.
11:06The short answer is
11:09he is a reality TV star. He thinks in
11:11terms of optics. He doesn't think in
11:12terms of like geopolitical strategy. The
11:14long answer is that the American
11:18military has become a very corrupt and
11:21insular institution
11:23that is trying to generate as much
11:25commercial funding as possible in order
11:28to fund the military-industrial complex.
11:31Did he think that he was going to bomb
11:33Iran, the people would rise up, they
11:36would elect a new government, and that
11:38would
11:39be that, and then he could control Iran?
11:41That's exactly what he thought. So, what
11:44I want to do now is go to the map.
11:46>> Okay. All right? And I'll show you what
11:48he got wrong.
11:48>> Okay. All right. So, this is a map of
11:52the Middle East.
11:54And the first thing to notice about this
11:58map
11:59is the topography.
12:01What does that mean? How many mountains
12:03you have. So, this is What's really
12:06interesting is that the topography
12:09between Iraq and Iran are completely
12:13different.
12:15And this is important because to In
12:172003,
12:18the Americans invaded Iraq, and they won
12:21the war in about 2 weeks. And the reason
12:25why they won the war is Americans
12:27practiced something called shock and
12:29awe.
12:33The idea of shock and awe
12:35is that
12:37it is a military strategy that believes
12:41that if you cut off the head of the
12:43snake, the snake will die. The
12:45decapitation strike.
12:47And so, what they did was they went into
12:52Baghdad,
12:53seized Baghdad, and the
12:57regime collapsed, and the war was over.
13:03And they were able to do this because of
13:06the topography.
13:07If you look at a map of Iraq, it's all
13:10flat, it's all desert.
13:13Meaning that you can just fly in your
13:16planes,
13:19cut off the head of the snake, and the
13:21war is over. There's absolutely no way
13:24you can defend against air strikes
13:27because you're entirely a desert.
13:32Now, let's go to let's look at the
13:35topography of I of Iran. And Iran is all
13:39mountainous.
13:41In fact, you can make the argument that
13:44Iran is a fortress.
13:47Okay?
13:49And so
13:51the first thing is
13:54that
13:55Iran can choose to fight a war of
13:59attrition. What's a war of attrition? A
14:02war of attrition is a game of uncle.
14:05What's that? Right. A game of uncle is
14:07where
14:08uh we don't have enough power to destroy
14:11each other. So we what we try to do is
14:13we try to create pain points, leverage
14:16points
14:18to force you to submit, to cry uncle.
14:22Right? So because Iran is too large
14:27and has 92 million people, it's
14:29impossible
14:30for the Americans and Israelis to
14:32destroy Iran. So what they try to do
14:34instead is
14:36bomb enough targets so that they
14:40recognize that resistance resistance is
14:42futile and they surrender.
14:44Okay? That's the extent of the strategy.
14:47But again, the problem with this is that
14:50one, Iran is much too big. Number two is
14:54that it is a mountain fortress, which
14:57means that you can hide your weapons and
15:00your military
15:01inside mountains.
15:04Right? Which allows you to conduct a
15:06guerrilla warfare strategy against your
15:09opponent.
15:11And this is exactly what Iran is doing
15:13right now, where their underground
15:14missile bases are hidden inside
15:17the mountains and then they're able to
15:20strike targets throughout
15:23the Middle East. Primarily American
15:25bases, but also energy installations
15:29that are key to the American petrodollar
15:30system.
15:32And so, it's a game of uncle where the
15:34Americans are trying to create as much
15:36damage as possible in every nation and
15:39Iran's response is trying to destroy as
15:43much of of the global economy as
15:45possible to force the world to pressure
15:48America to call the war off. So, that's
15:51the situation we are facing right now.
15:53Second thing that Trump got got wrong
15:56is how vulnerable the global economy is.
15:59Because
16:01the Iranians can control something
16:02called the Strait of Hormuz.
16:03Okay? And as you can see
16:05on this map, the Strait of Hormuz is a
16:08very
16:09very narrow
16:12piece
16:13of land. It's only about 33 km across.
16:16You can actually swim
16:18across the Strait of Hormuz.
16:20Okay? And what's important is
16:23that the GCC
16:25export 20%
16:28of the world's energy. The GCC The Gulf
16:32Cooperative Council. Okay? So, the Gulf
16:34Cooperative Council are certain nations
16:37in the Middle Middle East that align
16:39politically. So, they include Qatar,
16:42Saudi Arabia,
16:43uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait.
16:48They've been exporting
16:51energy.
16:52But not just energy, but also a lot of
16:54byproducts of of energy production
16:56including fertilizer
16:58to the world, primarily
17:01East Asia
17:02and India.
17:03In return, they've been getting
17:06um
17:08food
17:09back. So, most people don't don't don't
17:11appreciate this, but the GCC actually
17:13imports 89% of its
17:16food needs. The the reason why is that
17:19they become so rich these past few
17:20decades
17:22that the populations have um blown up.
17:26And as a result,
17:28they have to feed the population, but
17:31they don't have agricultural resources.
17:33They also don't have water resources.
17:36And so, they have two major
17:37vulnerabilities, which is food and
17:40water. And they have a lot of these
17:41other these desalination plants around
17:43the area.
17:45And so,
17:46>> What's a desalination plant?
17:47>> Okay.
17:48So, a desalination plant takes salt
17:51water from the seas, and then through an
17:53electrochemical process, turns it into
17:56portable water that people can use uh
18:00for drinking purposes and for
18:03agricultural purposes.
18:04>> Okay.
18:05Right? So, as you can see, the entire
18:07area
18:09it is extremely vulnerable
18:11to drone and missile attacks from Iran.
18:15So, that's the second thing that Iran
18:16has done, which Trump did not expect. He
18:18didn't expect that the Iranians would
18:20close off the Strait of
18:24Hormuz. And how the Iranians were able
18:25to close off the Strait of Hormuz was
18:28just by threatening to attack any ships
18:31that wanted to cross it. The reason why
18:34is that the ships depend on maritime
18:38insurance in order to operate.
18:40But if there's a risk, a very high risk
18:42of being destroyed, then um
18:45you will not be able to get insurance.
18:47Okay. So, it's not that the Iranians
18:49have said to these ships, "You can't
18:50cross." It's just that the insurers
18:52refused to allow these ships to cross
18:55because it's too dangerous.
18:56And Trump didn't Do you think they'd
18:58consider this before they started
18:59bombing Iran? That Iran would have some
19:02leverage in shutting down such a
19:04critical
19:06piece of uh water for, you know,
19:08shipping fertilizer, energy, etc. You
19:11think that they would have known this.
19:13Right, so that's what a lot of people
19:15say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is
19:19hot-headed, that he was misled by the
19:21Israelis.
19:23And there's good evidence to support
19:25this.
19:26But I want to show you something. Okay,
19:28it's it's called the
19:30National Defense Strategy. All right?
19:33And so this is
19:35a document that was published by the
19:37Department Department of War.
19:39And in it,
19:40it explains
19:42what the American strategy to maintain
19:46global dominance is.
19:48And in the introduction, what it says is
19:51that
19:52for too long, America has been bullied
19:55by the war world. America is a nation
20:00that protects the world.
20:02Yet Europe,
20:04East Asia, takes advantage
20:07of American generosity.
20:08The Europeans don't pay for their
20:11defense.
20:12And so they put all this money into
20:14welfare, into a pension system.
20:16The Chinese
20:18have been giving America a bad trade
20:22deal. The Chinese steal American
20:24technology and then use it to make
20:27products that they sell back to the
20:28Americans.
20:29So,
20:31the Americans have been have been
20:33getting a really bad deal
20:35for decades. And President Donald Trump,
20:38he's going to change that by doing four
20:41things.
20:42All right? The National Defense Strategy
20:43calls for a four-point
20:46program
20:48to put America first.
20:50The first thing that
20:53um America's going to do, it's going to
20:55secure
20:57the Western Hemisphere.
20:58Why? Because the Western Hemisphere
21:00belongs to the United States. When you
21:03say the Western Hemisphere, what do you
21:05mean? What What region is that? Is that
21:07Canada there as well and So if you look
21:08at a map, we can divide we can divide
21:11the map into the Eastern Hemisphere,
21:14okay, and the Western Hemisphere. Okay,
21:16so everything over here. Everything,
21:18including Greenland, including Canada,
21:21including Mexico. Every part of this
21:24area belongs to United States.
21:27Therefore, you cannot trade with any of
21:30these countries
21:32without American permission or paying a
21:35tribute to the Americans.
21:38And that this is why
21:40that the Americans have parked 1/3 of
21:43their naval assets in the Caribbean
21:46today.
21:48It's to It's to tell the Chinese and the
21:50Russians
21:51back off.
21:53You want to come here,
21:54you either pay a tribute
21:56or you'll be attacked.
21:59Okay, so that's the first
22:01point of this strategy. The Western
22:03Hemisphere belongs to America. Something
22:06that they call the Don Monroe Doctrine.
22:09Okay, which is Trump's corollary to the
22:10Monroe Doctrine.
22:12Okay, so that's point one.
22:15Point two is that America wants to
22:19reimagine its relationship with its
22:21allies.
22:23Basically, NATO needs to pay for its own
22:27defense.
22:29NATO needs to go fight Russia in
22:32Ukraine. America will provide support.
22:35It'll provide weapons and financing,
22:38but NATO needs to do more work.
22:42And in these Asia, South Korea and Japan
22:45need to do better job of keeping China
22:49in check.
22:51Okay, that's point two.
22:53Point three is specific to China.
22:56And the idea is United States does not
22:59want to destroy China.
23:01The States does not want to humiliate
23:02China,
23:03but China needs to be put in its place.
23:07China needs to respect the power
23:10and the reach of the United States. And
23:14how
23:15the United States is going to do this
23:17is by strangling China economically.
23:21Right? So, you look at at a map of
23:23China,
23:25most of its trade goes through something
23:27called the Strait of Malacca.
23:30And the Strait of Malacca is most
23:31important maritime choke point in the
23:34world. All America has to do is park
23:37naval carriers inside the Strait of
23:39Malacca, and China will lose 90% of its
23:43energy exports. But if they park them
23:45there, China could still go through, no?
23:48No, because you have to go for the
23:49Strait of Strait of Malacca. So, America
23:51has something called the First Island
23:52Chain.
23:54Okay? And the First Island Chain
23:56prevents China from reaching the Pacific
23:58Ocean. The First Island Chain includes
24:00South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the
24:03Philippines, and Malaysia. That blocks
24:05China from reaching out into into
24:07Pacific. Mhm. So, in order for it to
24:10access trade, it has to go through the
24:12Strait of Malacca.
24:13And for the Strait of Malacca, it can
24:15access
24:16uh India,
24:17Africa,
24:18and the
24:20um Middle East. Okay. Right?
24:23And so, by positioning naval carriers
24:27inside the Strait of Malacca, it creates
24:29a blockade, and China would have to pay
24:33a toll in order to access
24:35um the Strait of Malacca.
24:37And the fourth one? And the fourth one
24:39is to
24:41um rejuvenate, reinvigorate
24:45Am- America's defense manufacturing
24:48sector. So, supercharge the US defense
24:50industrial base. That's exactly correct.
24:52Yes. All right? So, what this means is
24:55that the Pentagon, a few weeks ago went
24:58to Detroit and talked to Ford and
25:01General Motors and said, "You know what?
25:03Because of this war in Iran, we might
25:04need you to stop making cars and start
25:07making more munitions and drones." How
25:10do you know they said that? It's They
25:12published it. They published it, yes.
25:13Really? Yes.
25:14So, the United States went to Forbes and
25:16GM and said, "We might need you to start
25:18making weapons with your factories."
25:19Yes, and they're happy doing this
25:20because profit margins are much greater
25:22for weapons than for for cars. This is
25:25the Pentagon, so you can charge them as
25:27you can charge them as much as you want
25:29and they'll pay for it. Whereas, you
25:30make cars, it's for the consumer market
25:32and they may not buy your cars. Mhm.
25:34Right? So, so you're like Ford or
25:36General Motors, the best
25:38deal in the world is to go make weapons
25:42for the Pentagon to fight these wars in
25:44the East that could go on for forever.
25:46So, so so we're in a situation where
25:48okay, look, if you read the news, if you
25:50talk to a lot of people, Trump's an
25:53idiot and this war in Iran makes no
25:57sense at all.
25:58But, then if you just read the National
26:00Defense Strategy that is on the
26:03Department of War website and anyone can
26:05go there and download for free and read
26:06themselves, it's a very clear road map
26:10of what America needs to do in order to
26:13maintain imperial hegemony. And so,
26:15let's let's let's just summarize the
26:17major points. The first major point is
26:19to maintain control over the Western
26:23Hemisphere and create a fortress
26:25America. Which is why he invaded
26:27Venezuela and he said he's going to
26:28invade Cuba. Exactly. And also
26:31Greenland. Look at all the countries
26:33that he's named over the past year.
26:35Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela,
26:39Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras.
26:43It's all
26:45the Western Hemisphere.
26:47Right? And they're all together. Second
26:49point is to create divide and rule
26:52around the world. So, imagine a
26:53situation where in Europe, NATO fight
26:57Russia in Ukraine.
27:00In East Asia, China fight South Korea
27:03and Japan.
27:04In the Middle East, Iran fights
27:08the GCC allied with Israel.
27:11What does America do? America can now
27:13sell sell everyone weapons and resources
27:16and finance it. This would be back to
27:20World War II. But it makes them weaker
27:22as well, generally. That's the point.
27:24Yeah. Right? And then what happened is
27:27that $42
27:28that
27:29that America has in debt, it would
27:30disappear. Because it would be absorbed
27:32by the world.
27:34Right? So, you can say
27:36look, Trump's an idiot, but if you
27:38actually look at a map and how America
27:41wants this map this world map to play
27:43out, it makes perfect sense.
27:46Hm.
27:47So,
27:49the war is going well for Trump.
27:51The war is going very well for Trump.
27:52Really? Yes.
27:54But you said in your prediction that he
27:55would lose the war.
27:57What is
27:57>> What's your definition of lose the war?
28:00Losing a war means that America would
28:03send ground troops, Iran would survive
28:06the ground invasion,
28:08and this would be so politically
28:11damaging that
28:14chaos breaks out in the United States,
28:16and the US ground invasion is forced to
28:20retreat, and the United States is forced
28:22to retreat from the Middle East. And you
28:25still think that's going to happen?
28:26>> I still think that's going to happen.
28:27So, you think the United States is going
28:28to put ground troops in,
28:29Iran are going to resist, and then chaos
28:31is going to break out in the United
28:32States? Yes.
28:34Okay. So, let me explain to you why
28:35ground troops have to be sent. I mean,
28:37all right. Okay.
28:39So,
28:40in phase one of this war, which started
28:43February 28th, and which lasted for
28:45about 6 weeks, the intention was to
28:48decapitate the regime. And you do that
28:50by striking Tehran, and you do that by
28:53striking the military bases and
28:55installations throughout
28:58Iran. It's It's what the Americans call
28:59shock and awe.
29:01And the point is to force Iranians to
29:04call uncle.
29:06But that's not what happened. To To give
29:07up. To give up, basically.
29:09Because what the Iranians did was they
29:11responded by attacking US bases
29:15throughout the GCC. They closed off
29:20the Strait of
29:23Hormuz,
29:24and they rallied their people, okay?
29:28So, rather than surrender, the Iranians
29:31basically doubled down. Okay, that's
29:33phase two of the war.
29:35Now we've gone to phase three of the
29:37war, where Trump
29:39has basically decided that decapitation
29:41does not work.
29:43And so, what Trump's going to do is he's
29:46going to impose a naval blockade
29:49on Iran's naval blockade.
29:52Right?
29:54And so, the question then is
29:57if Trump understands that decapitation
29:58does not work,
30:00then using game theory, What's game
30:02theory? Game theory is the belief that
30:07all the world is governed by rules and
30:11incentives.
30:12And when you understand the rules and
30:13incentives, you can predict how people
30:17behave. These people will always behave
30:20according to their best interests.
30:24So, in geopolitics,
30:26the nation-states are individual
30:28players.
30:29And each nation-state is trying to use
30:33its resources
30:35and um its advantages in order to
30:39pressure other nation-states
30:41to obey it.
30:42Okay? So,
30:44Trump recognizes that the Iranians can
30:47close off the Strait of Hormuz, but not
30:49only that, but the Iranians can also use
30:51the Strait of Hormuz to finance the war.
30:54Meaning that now they're forcing ships
30:57to pay a toll, about $2 million, in
30:58order to cross in order to cross it.
31:01And so, this is a huge advantage for the
31:03Iranians. And so, Trump has said, "No,
31:06I'm going to blockade your blockade,
31:09negating Iran's advantage of the Strait
31:12of Hormuz." So, if you think about it,
31:14again using game theory, I want to
31:15discuss what the Americans will do in
31:18order to force
31:20uh the Iranians to capitulate.
31:23Okay? So, I would say there's a three-
31:26point strategy.
31:27The first strategy is economic
31:30strangulation.
31:32You basically destroy the state's
31:34capacity to finance the war.
31:36And there are two ways that Iran is
31:38financing the war so far.
31:40The first is using oil exports, right?
31:4390% of Iran's oil goes to China.
31:49And um this is Kharg Island.
31:52Okay? This this little spot here is
31:53Kharg Island. This is where
31:55Iran will export 90% of its oil
31:58overseas. That's the first
32:01mechanism. Second mechanism mechanism is
32:03the Strait of Hormuz, where the Iranians
32:05now can collect tolls.
32:08Right? So, what you have to do is you
32:10have to eliminate both of these finance
32:13mechanisms.
32:15You can close off both
32:17with an oil blockade, okay?
32:18So, that's strategy one.
32:20Strategy two
32:23is
32:24you need
32:26to create as much chaos within Iran as
32:30possible.
32:32You want to turn this fortress
32:34into a prison. And the way you do that
32:36is by storing up ethnic tensions in the
32:40country. So, if you look at a map
32:44uh ethnic map of Iran, what you will
32:46discover is that the Persian people
32:50are primarily in this area, in the
32:52middle of the country.
32:54But, you go to the borderlands, okay?
32:58The border areas, it's primarily ethnic
33:00minorities. And there are two ethnic
33:02minorities
33:04in the country that have always been
33:06problematic for the government.
33:08The first
33:10problematic people are the called
33:11Baluchis,
33:13here.
33:14Uh in
33:16south
33:17east
33:19uh Iran, by the Pakistani border. They
33:22have a history of insurgency against the
33:25government, okay?
33:27Second people that have been problematic
33:29are the Kurds,
33:31who are primarily in the
33:34uh northwest of the country.
33:38So, if you are the US government, if you
33:41are the military,
33:42your strategy is to establish
33:46forward operating bases
33:48in these areas.
33:50A forward operating base
33:52is
33:53uh a spearhead of the military,
33:56where you insert ground troops to hold
33:58an area Okay, so you
34:00>> in order to resupply, in or- in order to
34:03push further into the territory. Okay,
34:05so a forward operating base would be the
34:07US putting troops into the the northwest
34:11and the southeast,
34:14and then using that as a way to uh move
34:16forward into Iran? No, you don't want to
34:19move forward into Iran because it's too
34:21large. You don't have enough forces to
34:23move into Iraq. What you want to do is
34:26this. You want to establish forward
34:28operating bases in these areas in order
34:30to arm
34:33and train
34:35ethnic insurgents. Okay. That you can
34:37also finance as well.
34:40And you do this because you want to turn
34:42them into cannon fodder.
34:44You force You have to force a response
34:46from the Iranian military. Right? So, if
34:48they come in with the army in order to
34:51quell
34:53these rebellions, that's great because
34:56now you can use your air power to
34:58decimate the Iranian military. Your plan
35:01right now is the Iranian Iranian
35:02military is hiding inside mountains.
35:06And so, you want to force them out in
35:07the open.
35:08And so, you want to create as many
35:10points of tension in the country as
35:12possible to force the Iranian military
35:14to respond.
35:16Right?
35:17Does that make sense? Uh-huh. Okay.
35:19And now, your third strategy
35:22is to strangle the capital, Tehran.
35:26Because that's the That's where the
35:28political elite are. It's a city of 10
35:30million people.
35:32And the way you strangle Tehran is you
35:35deny them three things. You deny them
35:37water,
35:39electricity, and food.
35:43So, you attack power plants. You attack
35:46reservoirs.
35:47You attack railways that bring
35:50um food into the capital.
35:54And when you do that, these nine These
35:5610 million people in Iran
35:59will now oppose the government and
36:01demand a political settlement.
36:03Because if they need food, uh water,
36:06electricity to survive.
36:07Right? Is there a government?
36:10Right now, there's a debate as to the
36:13true extent
36:15of leadership in Iran. Cuz Trump's
36:18recent interviews, he's saying he's he's
36:20claiming that the the leadership in Iran
36:22are fighting themselves, but then he's
36:24also saying in other interviews that
36:25there's They don't even know who they're
36:27dealing with. Exactly. Iran has a very
36:30unusual political system in that it's a
36:34theocracy. It's a religious government,
36:36it's run by clerics, called the mullahs,
36:38in theory.
36:40And then there's a parallel system, the
36:42state apparatus, that actually takes
36:44care of day-to-day bureaucracy. Okay,
36:47and that's secular.
36:49Uh the mullahs control the morality of
36:51the country, they also control foreign
36:53affairs. So, basically, uh this is
36:56important because Iran has two parallel
37:00military structures. You have the
37:03military, but you also have
37:05the IRGC.
37:08The IRGC are only loyal to the mullahs,
37:11which is the religious part.
37:12>> Exactly. All right? So, you have this
37:15divide in the in the country where the
37:18IRGC see this as a religious war, as a
37:21crusade to kill the Great Satan, and
37:24they want to fight to the death. And the
37:25Great Satan is The Great Satan is the
37:28American Empire. Okay. Uh which is the
37:29source of the misery that Iranians have
37:32been suffering for the past few decades.
37:35And the IRGC, not only do they see
37:39America as the Great Satan, but they
37:41also see this as a global conflict
37:43because they have proxies that support
37:45their beliefs, including here in
37:48Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in
37:51Yemen, the Houthis, and of course in
37:54Palestine, Hamas. Okay, and and before
37:57Syria was also part of their axis of
38:00resistance. But Syria has been toppled
38:03by the Americans and and Israelis. So,
38:06the IRGC see this as a religious crusade
38:09that is global in nature. The political
38:11leadership in Tehran
38:13sees it completely different. They see
38:14this as a classic primary between
38:17America and Iran, and they want to reach
38:20a political settlement as soon as
38:21possible.
38:23And so, in other words,
38:25these
38:26ceasefire negotiations, it's really all
38:28for show.
38:30Because, at the end of the day, even if
38:32the Americans gave the Iranians
38:34everything they wanted,
38:36the IRGC still controls
38:39um the battlefield, and they would not
38:42um surrender or or seek peace terms
38:46lightly. Another problem in this
38:48situation is the IRGC practices only
38:51called the Mosaic strategy. Mosaic.
38:55The idea of the Mosaic strategy is,
38:57okay,
38:59you know the Americans the most
39:00effective military ever in human
39:02history. You know that they practice
39:04shock and awe, decapitation.
39:06So, how do you respond to that? You
39:08respond to that using decentralization.
39:1131 provinces
39:13in the country with where own command
39:15and control that is localized. So,
39:17basically, they have 31 different armies
39:19that have their own leadership.
39:21>> That's correct, okay? And when you do
39:23this, it's a fight to the finish. Why
39:24did they do that? They did it because
39:27the Americans possess the most
39:30sophisticated surveillance technology in
39:32the world, meaning they can
39:34easily identify the leadership, and they
39:37can easily track you down and kill you.
39:41So, the only way around that is to
39:42decentralize the leadership and spread
39:45it around the country so that the
39:47Americans cannot kill the everyone. How
39:49does the central government orchestrate
39:5131 different armies in Iran? How does it
39:54get a message out to them? I heard Peter
39:55Hegseth make a a comment in one of the
39:58interviews saying that it takes some
40:00time for the pigeons to get out to the
40:03armies. And what he was saying,
40:04basically, is that
40:06um when the ceasefire was called and
40:07there were still some um missiles
40:09flying, he was basically saying that's
40:10just because it takes a long time to
40:12tell the 31 different armies to stop.
40:14The reality is that, given the Mosaic
40:16strategy, there's actually no way to
40:19coordinate these 31 different military
40:23operations.
40:25Because
40:26the Mojahedin was meant to the was meant
40:30to fight to the bitter end. You do not
40:31stop until you completely control the
40:34Middle East and the Americans have been
40:36forced out of the Middle East
40:39and Israel has been humbled.
40:42Okay. So, let's go into the specifics of
40:45what the Mojahedin is. The idea is that
40:48they have an eschatology.
40:51Okay? So, eschatology is an
40:53understanding of how the world should be
40:56and how we move towards this world.
41:01And for the Iranians,
41:04their eschatology is that Iran, in order
41:07to reach its true potential, needs to be
41:10master
41:11of the Muslim world.
41:13It needs to displace Saudi Arabia.
41:16Because Saudi Arabia is too aligned with
41:18the United States, which is the Great
41:20Satan. Mecca and Medina are under the
41:23influence of the Great Satan.
41:26Because why are there US military bases
41:29in Saudi Arabia?
41:32So, this war, from their perspective, is
41:35a great opportunity to overthrow the
41:38corrupt leadership of Saudi Arabia, but
41:40not only Saudi Arabia, but the entire
41:41GCC.
41:42Overthrow the corrupt governments of the
41:44entire Muslim world.
41:46And install governments that
41:50put
41:52God, Allah, first.
41:54So, they're they're not going to quit.
41:56Iran.
41:57This war, once it starts,
42:00can only to World War III.
42:03That's a strong statement to make. As a
42:05probability, Okay. what probability
42:07would you assign to that claim?
42:09I would put it pretty high, anywhere
42:11between 80 to 90% probability.
42:14>> So that's certainty.
42:16Basically certainty, yes. Explain to me
42:18how that happens. Okay. So, we need to
42:20step back and appreciate
42:23um
42:25that there's a global dynamic going on.
42:27Mhm. Okay?
42:29And we need to appreciate
42:31the grand strategy of the different
42:32players involved. Mhm. Right? So, what I
42:34what I'm going to do is this.
42:37I'm going to explain
42:41to you how each nation
42:44sees itself in the world. Mhm. Okay? And
42:47to you and to that, I'm going to use a
42:49chess set, okay? Okay. All right. This
42:51is the king.
42:53This is the political system
42:55of the United States, which is a
42:57democracy.
42:58And there are certain strengths and
43:00weaknesses to a democracy. Democracy is
43:02vibrant. It's creative. It's flexible.
43:06But its ultimate weakness is
43:08polarization,
43:10where today
43:12um the different political factions
43:14refuse to get along, and this may bring
43:16up the civil war, okay? Mhm. So, the way
43:18you defeat the United States is not to
43:21conquer it. You can never conquer the
43:22United States. The way to defeat the
43:24United States is to force it into a
43:27civil war,
43:28which then kills the king. To get its
43:30people to rise up against the
43:32leadership. No, you want the Democrats
43:34and Republicans to form different
43:36factions and fight a civil war. Okay.
43:39You you want to create some political
43:40polarization and different elite
43:42factions to take up arms against each
43:44other, okay? Okay. So, this is the
43:45political system, okay?
43:47A democracy.
43:49Now, let's look at the queen. What's the
43:50queen?
43:51The queen is what I refer to as the
43:53grand strategy
43:55of the United States. How the United
43:58States can maintain its control over the
44:00entire world. And the grand strategy
44:02it's already outlined in the national
44:03defense strategy, right? Let's create
44:06fortress America
44:08and then
44:09create chaos throughout the entire world
44:12so that we can sell everyone weapons and
44:15resources. Okay, that's a grand
44:16strategy, all right?
44:18All right. Now, what is a grand
44:19strategy? You need You need to implement
44:21this grand strategy. So, you need attack
44:23vectors.
44:24All right, the attack vectors
44:26are the rook,
44:29the bishop, and the knight. All right,
44:30so let's go over the three major attack
44:33vectors of the United States. They are,
44:35first of all,
44:37America's technological supremacy. So,
44:39these are the basically the tools that
44:40they use to attack others. Exactly. In
44:42order to achieve the grand strategy. All
44:44right, so air supremacy, right?
44:46Which is the planes and the stuff like
44:48that. Then you have
44:50the
44:51US dollar.
44:53Right? Because the US dollar
44:55allows you to finance everything. And
44:58everyone wants the um
45:01uh US dollar, okay? Mhm. So, that is the
45:04second attack vector. Now, the third
45:06attack vector is propaganda.
45:09Meaning the United States controls the
45:11world's most powerful media, including
45:13New York Times, CNN. And as such, they
45:15can control the narrative of the world.
45:18Okay? So, these are the three major
45:19attack vectors.
45:20Now, they use the pawns. Now, pawns are
45:25weapons that they can sacrifice in order
45:27to achieve the grand strategy.
45:29And in the case of the United States,
45:32the pawn are the allies.
45:35Mhm. Meaning
45:37I hate to say this,
45:38but the UK,
45:41um Europe,
45:44South Korea,
45:47and Japan.
45:49Okay? And also, the entire
45:52Western Hemisphere.
45:54This is the
45:56Ameri- the Americans, okay? The people
45:58who are most opposed to this grand
46:01strategy of Americans are the Russians.
46:03So, let's go over to the Russian system.
46:06In the Russian system,
46:09the king of the political system is an
46:10autocracy.
46:12And an autocracy is good because it
46:14allows for coordination. It allows for
46:17decisiveness. It allows for
46:20um resolve. Long-term thinking. Exactly,
46:24right? That's Putin.
46:25What's bad is
46:28if this guy dies,
46:31there's a succession crisis.
46:32Right? So, basically, once you topple
46:35the
46:37autocrat, then the system itself
46:40breaks down. Okay, so that's the Russian
46:42system, right?
46:44For the Russians, the grand strategy is
46:45something called the Third Rome
46:47strategy. The Third Rome strategy?
46:49>> Yes. Okay. So, the people in Russia
46:52believe that they are the true
46:54successors to the Roman Empire. And
46:56previously, there were two Romes. There
46:58was the First Rome,
47:00then it moved to Constantinople,
47:03and Moscow is destined to the to be the
47:06Third Rome. And what makes Moscow
47:09interesting is that it wants to unite
47:13the entire
47:15Christian world under its leadership. Um
47:18the main philosopher for the Third Rome
47:20strategy is Alexander Dugin, who in 1997
47:23wrote a wrote a book called Foundation
47:25of Geopolitics. And what he said was
47:26this. What he said that if Russia is to
47:28defeat the Americans, it needs to build
47:30alliances throughout Eurasia
47:33in order to negate American sea power
47:36and air supremacy.
47:37All right?
47:38So, what are the attack vectors
47:42for Russia? Okay.
47:44The first attack vector, the size of the
47:46country makes it almost invincible. So,
47:49think about the World War II, Operation
47:51Barbarossa, the Germans went into
47:53Russia with 6 7 million men,
47:55and it didn't get very far, okay? So,
47:58the terrain is very important. The
48:00geography is very important.
48:02Then you have the Orthodox religion.
48:05Which is meant to galvanize believers
48:09into supporting Russia.
48:12The third attack vector is artillery.
48:15So, Russia has the best land army in the
48:18world.
48:19And we we're seeing that play out in
48:21Ukraine where a combination of Russian
48:24artillery and drones it's devastating
48:27Ukrainian military in Ukraine. The pawns
48:30for Russia are are its soldiers. So,
48:33Russia is able to sustain
48:37many, many
48:39casualties in its military.
48:41If you actually go and interview Russian
48:44soldiers, they are probably the bravest
48:46soldiers in the world. They are
48:48literally not afraid to die
48:50for what they believe in. Okay? So, this
48:52is the um
48:53Russian third world strategy. You can
48:55see how it conflicts with the Americans.
48:59Mhm. Okay?
49:00Now, we go to the Israelis.
49:03Jerusalem, the capital. It's a mixed
49:05system, meaning it's both democracy as
49:07well as a theocracy.
49:10And
49:11it's good in that the Israelis are very
49:14creative.
49:15But, the fundamental weakness is the
49:17division within society.
49:19Where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem don't get
49:21along.
49:22Okay? So, that is
49:25the political system of Israel.
49:28The grand strategy of Israel is called
49:31the Greater Israel Project.
49:32So, the Israelis believe that the entire
49:34Middle East belongs to them from the
49:36Nile
49:38to the Euphrates because that's what it
49:40says in the Bible. This is what God,
49:42Yahweh,
49:43promised Abraham.
49:45So, their intention is to conquer the
49:48entire Middle East, including Egypt,
49:52Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, even parts of
49:54Turkey.
49:57Now, let's look at the attack vectors
50:00for the the the the Israelis.
50:04The first attack vector
50:06is
50:08Mossad.
50:09Mossad is the most powerful intelligence
50:12agency in the world in that it is able
50:16to infiltrate
50:18and undermine
50:20given political systems.
50:21And Mossad for anyone that doesn't know
50:22is the secret service. Basically, yes.
50:25Best spy system. Second
50:27attack vector
50:29for the Israelis
50:31is the Jewish diaspora.
50:33Because Jews do business everywhere
50:35around the world.
50:37And Jewish businessmen work very closely
50:40with Mossad.
50:42And as such, they have influence in a
50:44lot of places that they shouldn't have.
50:47And the um
50:49third
50:50um attack vector
50:52is the Bible.
50:53Why? Because if you're Christian
50:56and there are many Christians who
50:56believe this, you believe that the Jews
50:59are God's chosen people.
51:02So, if you look at what's happening in
51:04uh the Middle East,
51:05um all this conflict between Israel and
51:07Palestine, a lot of this conflict is
51:10being supported
51:12politically in the United States by a
51:14group of people called Christian
51:15Zionists.
51:16And these are Christians. They're not
51:17Jews, they're Christians who believe
51:20that Israel should achieve achieve the
51:22greater Israel project because this is
51:25part of God's plan. And the pawns
51:28for the Israelis
51:30are basically
51:32everyone else, okay?
51:35So, a lot of the hardware underpinning
51:38the global
51:39IT infrastructure
51:41um is being controlled by the Israelis.
51:45So, now we go to the fourth player in
51:47this great game, and that's Iran. So,
51:49Iran
51:50it is a theocracy. People are not afraid
51:53to die for what they believe in in Iran.
51:56But, the weakness is that it can
51:58alienate the majority of the population.
52:00It is only a minority are religious
52:02zealots in Iran.
52:04Most people just want to live to live a
52:07decent life. So, they feel that these
52:10mullahs, the IRGC are a threat
52:14to their peace and prosperity, then they
52:16might rise up against the mullahs. Which
52:18is what we've seen over the years,
52:19right? Exactly. So, so this is a
52:21political system of the Iranians.
52:24Their grand strategy is to unite the
52:27Muslim world under leadership. They have
52:30three attack vectors, okay? The first
52:33attack vector are their proxies.
52:36Hezbollah,
52:37Hamas,
52:39the Houthis.
52:40Another attack vector
52:42um is their asymmetrical warfare,
52:44meaning using drones and missiles to
52:47create as much economic damage as
52:48possible. Mhm. Okay. And the third
52:51attack vector
52:53is their geography or the topog-
52:55topography. They are a fortress, so it's
52:57almost impossible to um in- invade them.
53:01All right? So, that's their Shia
53:03militiamen. These religious zealots who
53:05are not afraid to die. Um essentially,
53:08they're all Many of them could be
53:10suicide bombers, okay? And and so, for
53:12them, this is a religious war. Okay. So,
53:15now we're seeing how this entire
53:18battlefield unfolds across the world.
53:22All right? So, I've mapped out the grand
53:24strategy
53:25of these different nation-states who
53:27will be involved in World War III.
53:29Let's look at our present situation,
53:31okay? So, what we have so far is that
53:35the Russians are occupied with their
53:37army in Ukraine.
53:40Okay? This is where their infantry,
53:42their artillery is based.
53:44At the same time, Russia has something
53:46called the shadow fleet.
53:48And these are about a thousand
53:50um tankers that evade sanctions around
53:53the world. Okay? And this is essentially
53:56their navy.
53:59America is the most powerful military in
54:01the world. They have the most
54:03sophisticated air supremacy, as well as
54:06control over the sea lanes. And it tries
54:09not to use infantry
54:11uh because that creates civilian
54:12casualties and that pisses everyone off
54:14in America. Okay?
54:15These releases
54:17are essentially
54:20a mercenary army aligned with American
54:23Empire, doing the bidding of American
54:24Empire. It's fighting
54:26in against Lebanon as well as Iraq.
54:32The Iranians, they don't have much of an
54:33air force,
54:35but they use a lot of drones to
54:37threaten. So, this is where we are so
54:40far. According to the grand strategy,
54:43we can predict how they will make their
54:46moves over next few months, over next
54:48few years. America
54:50doesn't really care about this war
54:53in Iraq.
54:54Because what America wants to do
54:57is force entire world to become
54:59dependent on American weapons
55:01and
55:02resources.
55:04And you do that in two ways. The first
55:06is you control
55:08the strategic choke points of the world.
55:12And they include the Strait of Hormuz,
55:14but you also want to control the Strait
55:16of Malacca,
55:17over here. Because that blocks off East
55:20Asia. You also want to control the
55:22Panama Canal.
55:23You also want to control Greenland. You
55:24also want to control the Strait of uh
55:26Gibraltar. You can see the American Navy
55:29extending outward and occupying all
55:31these maritime choke points.
55:33At the same time, you You to use your
55:35technological supremacy, your air
55:37supremacy, your drones
55:39to destroy the world's critical energy
55:42infrastructure.
55:44Already we're seeing oil refineries
55:46being destroyed throughout the world.
55:48Oil refineries? Oil refineries, yes. So,
55:50you as as America, you're trying to
55:53deplete the world's energy inventory, so
55:57they're forced to beg you
56:00for to supply energy.
56:02Right? And once this market is created,
56:04then you can
56:06build infrastructure for Venezuela.
56:08You can take over Canada. You can
56:09control Mexico. You can take over take
56:11take over Greenland, okay?
56:13The Russians have no choice but to
56:15respond.
56:17Because
56:18if the Americans are controlling the
56:21strategic choke points,
56:22your shadow fleet
56:24is rendered redundant, useless.
56:29So, how do you ship your oil
56:33around the world? We have two options.
56:36I'm just going to build railways to
56:38unite the Eurasian continent, okay? And
56:40I'm I'm I'll transport my oil using
56:43pipelines and railways. The problem with
56:44that is now is now that you're
56:46vulnerable to American air supremacy,
56:50drone attacks.
56:51So, you have no choice but to arm your
56:54shadow fleet. And now, what's going to
56:57happen is this
56:59continent of oceans between Russian
57:02shadow
57:04fleet tankers that are trying to
57:06transport oil around the world, and
57:07these American
57:09destroyers were trying to capture or
57:12destroy the shadow tankers.
57:14Now, the advantage that
57:16Russia has is that America doesn't have
57:20that much naval assets anymore. It used
57:22to, but not anymore.
57:24The other thing is that the world really
57:26needs energy, so you can imagine China
57:29financing
57:31the militarization of the Russian shadow
57:33fleet. Why would sir, why to the US try
57:35and stop Russian boats?
57:39Because um in this
57:42global outlook
57:44there are two nations that could provide
57:47weapons
57:48and resources to the rest of the world.
57:50They are Russia and they are America.
57:52So, if America is to become dominant, it
57:54needs to blockade Russia. And what you
57:56do that is by seizing
57:59their shadow fleet. That could if this
58:00were to happen, that would be an act of
58:01war.
58:02But it's already happening. What?
58:04Really? Yes, it's already happening.
58:05Where? Iranian
58:07tankers have been seized by the
58:09Americans.
58:10And
58:11tankers are being seized in the
58:13Caribbean as well by the American Navy.
58:16Whose tankers?
58:18I believe they are Russian tankers.
58:20Yes, the United States has indeed been
58:23seizing tankers linked to Russia. A
58:25major escalation occurred earlier this
58:26year on January the 7th, 2026 when the
58:28US military and Coast Guard intercepted
58:30two sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers.
58:34While one was seized directly in the
58:35Caribbean, the other involved a dramatic
58:37chase that started in the Caribbean and
58:39ended in the North Atlantic.
58:43US forces captured the sanctioned tanker
58:45during a pre-dawn raid directly in the
58:47Caribbean Sea. The US military described
58:49it as stateless sanctioned dark fleet
58:53vessel which was engaged in illicit
58:55activities.
58:57These seizures are part of operation
58:59Southern Spear, a strict enforcement of
59:01the US embargo on Venezuelan oil
59:04exports. Both vessels were targeted for
59:06violating US sanctions by transporting
59:08illicit crude oil linked to Venezuela
59:11as well as Iran and Hezbollah.
59:14And as you point out, this is an act of
59:15war.
59:16So, those were ships that didn't have a
59:19country linked to them directly. That's
59:21why they call shadow fleet tankers.
59:22Okay. Yes, but they're essentially
59:24Russian. But they were essentially
59:26shipping oil outside of the United
59:28States the United States wouldn't
59:30control. Is that kind of
59:31>> That is correct, yes. Okay.
59:32>> Yes. So
59:34>> So if the US said, "Listen, this is our
59:35oil get lost." That is correct, yes.
59:37Right? So what the US is doing is slowly
59:39expanding its global reach. And what
59:42it's doing that is by signing treaties
59:44with nations that are part of these
59:46choke points. So the Strait of Malacca,
59:48which the United States has signed a
59:49military cooperation agreement with
59:51Indonesia.
59:52And with the Strait of Gibraltar, uh the
59:54Americans have signed an agreement now
59:55with Morocco.
59:57Right? So they are looking for the legal
59:58framework and certification to control
1:00:01the world's choke points, which would
1:00:03bring them directly in conflict with the
1:00:05Russian shadow fleet. So at some point
1:00:07you think the way that the war starts is
1:00:10the US Navy
1:00:11attacks a Russian boat.
1:00:16So I personally believe that this will
1:00:18be a drawn-out process
1:00:20that and there's no real concrete flash
1:00:23point. Because not only
1:00:25are Russian shadow flanker shadow
1:00:28fleet tankers being seized, but remember
1:00:31Russian oil farmers are being destroyed
1:00:33by Ukrainian drones. And the Russians
1:00:34believe that it is NATO that is
1:00:36responsible for the sabotage. So what
1:00:39what what do you think the catalyst
1:00:40moment is
1:00:41when this all kicks off? I think we're
1:00:43already in the catalyst moment. I think
1:00:45we're we're already in World War III
1:00:47because
1:00:48this conflict it's going to expand
1:00:50outwards
1:00:51uh into a global conflict and there's
1:00:53nothing anyone can do to stop this,
1:00:55right? Because again, you have these
1:00:56different competing visions of how the
1:00:58world should work and the Russians and
1:01:00Americans are already at conflict with
1:01:02each other.
1:01:03So the next step will be the Russians
1:01:06come into this war on the side of the
1:01:09Iranians. You think that's going to
1:01:10happen? I think that's going to happen
1:01:11because according to Russian grand
1:01:13strategy, you have no choice but to save
1:01:15the Iranians.
1:01:16Because you're trying to promote this
1:01:18view that the world is split between the
1:01:20spiritual and the material. The
1:01:22Americans are the Antichrist. The
1:01:25Americans support individual hedonism,
1:01:28whereas we Russians, we believe in
1:01:31humanity. We believe in goodness. We
1:01:33believe in community. Right? So, if you
1:01:35believe if you that is your argument, if
1:01:37that's your grand strategy, you have a
1:01:38more obligation, a more imperative to
1:01:40help the Iranians in their time of need.
1:01:42And in fact, Prime Prime Minister
1:01:45Araghchi of of Iran has recently visited
1:01:48Putin in Moscow. Putin Putin personally
1:01:51received him
1:01:53and said to Araghchi, "We, the Russian
1:01:55people, admire your determination, your
1:01:58resolve um against the Americans." And I
1:02:01think that is a
1:02:03sign that Putin has entered the chat and
1:02:07that the Russians will start to help the
1:02:10Iranians as this war progresses. So,
1:02:13let's go back to this map, okay?
1:02:14>> Okay. And the Americans have a
1:02:16three-pronged strategy
1:02:19to
1:02:21strangle
1:02:22um Iran.
1:02:24The first is to use ground forces to
1:02:27establish forward operating bases to
1:02:29incite ethnic violence in the country.
1:02:32The second is to block all the shipping
1:02:34moves and cut off Iranian financing. The
1:02:37third is to strangle Iran and cause the
1:02:40people to rise up like against the
1:02:42government, okay?
1:02:43And the Russians So, if things stay the
1:02:46stay as they are now,
1:02:49America wins. Easily.
1:02:51But, if Russia were to enter the war on
1:02:54behalf of the Iranians, the first thing
1:02:56that Russia would do is provide
1:02:59Iran with reinforcement from the Caspian
1:03:02Sea. Right? Because the Americans want
1:03:05to knock out Iran's capacity to provide
1:03:08food, water, and electricity to its
1:03:10people. But, uh through the Caspian Sea,
1:03:12the Russians can support the uh
1:03:15Iranians. But, not only that, and this
1:03:17is much more important, if the Russians
1:03:18were to come in, they could also bring
1:03:20the Chinese into the war on behalf of
1:03:22the Iranians. And the Chinese could use
1:03:25the Belt and Road Initiative, basically
1:03:26the railway system, to reinforce Tehran
1:03:29from
1:03:31uh the
1:03:33east. So now you can no longer strangle
1:03:35Tehran because the Russians and the
1:03:36Chinese are reinforcing Tehran. Then
1:03:39what the Russians could do is provide
1:03:41financing to the Iranians. Basically the
1:03:45Iranian the Chi- sorry, the Chinese and
1:03:47the Russians can say to Iranians, "Don't
1:03:49worry about financing. We will give you
1:03:52enough uh financing for you to continue
1:03:54this war for as long as you want, and
1:03:56we'll use our resources as collateral
1:03:59for this financing."
1:04:01Right? And the third thing, and this is
1:04:03actually the most important, is that
1:04:06Russia could put Iran
1:04:08under its nuclear umbrella.
1:04:10And this would negate the use of
1:04:12tactical nuclear weapons.
1:04:15Israelis and Americans, if they really
1:04:18felt under pressure,
1:04:20if they were really put in a corner,
1:04:21they could always choose to use tactical
1:04:23nuclear weapons. If the Russians were
1:04:25involved, that negates
1:04:27that option.
1:04:28Right? So if the Russians get involved
1:04:31in this war, they bring in the Chinese,
1:04:32they provide they provide the resources
1:04:34and the financing to continue this war
1:04:36for as long as it takes.
1:04:38Mhm.
1:04:40Right?
1:04:41And now the Americans need to expand
1:04:43this war around the world to try now to
1:04:47topple the government in Russia.
1:04:50Because the Russians are the main
1:04:53backers of the Iranians.
1:04:56And you're predicting that Russia will
1:04:57get involved here. According to the
1:05:00grand strategy of Russia, the Russians
1:05:03have no choice but to get involved
1:05:05because what will happen is that if you
1:05:07look at this map, if Iran were to be
1:05:10conquered by the Americans or the
1:05:12Israelis, the entire southern flank of
1:05:16the Russians were now exposed
1:05:19to possible attack. And that's that's
1:05:21something that the Russians would never
1:05:23allow to happen.
1:05:24The sovereign flank, so what this from
1:05:27underneath?
1:05:28>> Basically, right?
1:05:29Right? But not only that, but the
1:05:31Americans already have close relations
1:05:33with Azerbaijan.
1:05:36And they already have bases in
1:05:37Turkmenistan as well as Uzbekistan,
1:05:38right? So, you can see how once the
1:05:41Americans control this area, they can
1:05:43now attack Russia from the south. But,
1:05:45what's most important is
1:05:48the issue of global trade, where like a
1:05:50counter
1:05:51to America's naval blockade is by
1:05:54creating a Eurasian trade block that
1:05:57involves Iran, Russia, and China. You
1:05:59look at Russia's north-south corridor,
1:06:03right?
1:06:04You look at China's If you look at
1:06:06Russia's north-south corridor, it runs
1:06:08through Iran. If Russia wants to have
1:06:10access to the Middle East as well as
1:06:11Africa, it has to go through Iran. Look
1:06:13at China's Belt and Road Initiative, it
1:06:14goes through Iran as well.
1:06:16So, by taking out Iran, you've blockaded
1:06:19both Russia and China.
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1:08:23So, when do you think this was going to
1:08:25happen? If you get it where to give me a
1:08:26timeline of events you think are going
1:08:27to occur.
1:08:28What timeline do you think you're
1:08:30operating under? I guess one of the
1:08:30factors here is that
1:08:32Trump only has what, 3 years left in
1:08:35power.
1:08:36So,
1:08:38you know, he's presumably going to leave
1:08:40power at some point soon. So, if you
1:08:42were around, you might just want to play
1:08:43it out and hope that there's a different
1:08:45leadership in place by
1:08:47by 20, what, be 2030?
1:08:50The political leadership in Iran believe
1:08:52that they can wait Trump out. So,
1:08:54they're waiting for the midterms,
1:08:55because they believe that in November,
1:08:57the Democrats will win in the midterms,
1:08:59and then they'll impeach Trump.
1:09:01And basically constrain his capacity to
1:09:03fight wars.
1:09:05And worst case scenario
1:09:08Trump will be gone
1:09:10in 2020 as you point out.
1:09:12There's some problems with this. The
1:09:14first major problem is the national
1:09:16defense strategy which we looked at
1:09:18previously.
1:09:19The national defense strategy, it is a
1:09:21long-term strategic
1:09:24framework for how America can control
1:09:26the world.
1:09:28And so one possibility is that Trump is
1:09:31just creating enough chaos for America
1:09:33to
1:09:34to transition. When the Democrats come
1:09:36to power, if they come to power, they
1:09:38will institutionalize the strategy. And
1:09:41we know this
1:09:42as a possibility because in Trump's
1:09:45first term he changed America's strategy
1:09:49around the world.
1:09:50And then when Biden came into power he
1:09:53then institutionalized the strategy
1:09:56uh via V China. Right? So it was Trump
1:09:59who launched these
1:10:01this terror war against China. And then
1:10:03Biden comes in power, he
1:10:04institutionalizes it.
1:10:06Right? So I think World War III, it's a
1:10:07much more
1:10:09long-term
1:10:10uh war of attrition. And I don't think
1:10:14that this war
1:10:16um will end anytime soon.
1:10:20You've made a series of new predictions.
1:10:23You've made eight new predictions.
1:10:24>> Okay.
1:10:25And I have them in this box here. Okay.
1:10:28I'll let you review what those
1:10:30predictions are. Okay.
1:10:33Um this is one prediction.
1:10:36Okay.
1:10:41Okay. So this is my most controversial
1:10:43prediction, okay? I predict that there
1:10:45will be a use of war and Trump will get
1:10:47a third term.
1:10:48You think Trump will get a third term?
1:10:50Isn't that constitutionally illegal?
1:10:53There are things that are unconventional
1:10:56and immoral
1:10:59and wrong and evil and dangerous.
1:11:02And there's certain things that are
1:11:04illegal.
1:11:06Trump getting a third term
1:11:08is not illegal.
1:11:11So, let me explain the loophole.
1:11:14What Trump could do is this, okay? There
1:11:17There two possibilities. The first
1:11:18possibility is in 2028, he has his son,
1:11:22Don Jr., run as a president
1:11:25and he runs as the vice president.
1:11:28And then when Don Jr. wins, if he wins,
1:11:31then Don Jr. could abdicate
1:11:34and Trump would be the president.
1:11:37And in the Constitution, if you read the
1:11:39Constitution very carefully, it doesn't
1:11:41actually prohibit people from doing
1:11:44that. It's not been done in the past.
1:11:47And like no sane person
1:11:49with any morality would do this.
1:11:53But that doesn't stop Trump from from
1:11:55doing this, okay? That's one
1:11:56possibility. Another possibility is that
1:11:59by 2028, America
1:12:02is at war with everyone. There's a
1:12:05national draft.
1:12:07The president now has emergency war
1:12:09powers. And so, he can actually suspend
1:12:12the Constitution
1:12:13and delay the election, which is what
1:12:15Zelenskyy did in Ukraine.
1:12:17So, these are two different
1:12:18possibilities.
1:12:20But I think that given
1:12:23Trump's track record,
1:12:26given his personality,
1:12:28I think he very much
1:12:30um wants a third term.
1:12:32And I think that he will do everything
1:12:34possible to get a third term.
1:12:38He would turn 83 years old
1:12:41in the same year that he finishes his
1:12:43second term.
1:12:44This is the man
1:12:46who eats McDonald's hamburgers
1:12:51every day.
1:12:53He doesn't really work out.
1:12:55Yet,
1:12:57on the campaign trail,
1:12:58he's able to go to two rallies a day.
1:13:02And in each rally, there's 50,000
1:13:04people. And he will talk on and on and
1:13:08on.
1:13:09Then,
1:13:10at night, when he should he should be
1:13:12sleeping, he's either on Truth Social
1:13:16tweeting about the world, or he's
1:13:18calling up reporters and telling him or
1:13:20her some confidential that he really
1:13:22shouldn't be discussing with the media.
1:13:26This is a man who is addicted to
1:13:30attention.
1:13:32This is a man who loves the spotlight.
1:13:35He's lived all his life in the
1:13:36spotlight.
1:13:37For him, death
1:13:40is
1:13:41to be ignored.
1:13:43So, given his personality,
1:13:45he would rather die in office
1:13:48than live
1:13:50uh peacefully
1:13:52somewhere else. And of those two
1:13:53strategies that you named, where he puts
1:13:54his son in and then becomes president
1:13:56that way, or you know, there's a war
1:13:58breaks out, so he has he says he has to
1:14:01stay in office. Of those two strategies,
1:14:03which one do you think he's more likely
1:14:04to deploy? I actually think that, given
1:14:06his narcissism,
1:14:08he would prefer the first strategy. His
1:14:11putting his son in? Because because that
1:14:13shows himself and the world
1:14:15that America loves him.
1:14:18Okay. And it could also be Jared Kushner
1:14:20or someone else, right? It doesn't have
1:14:21to be his son necessarily. Trump does
1:14:23not trust anyone. Trump has never had a
1:14:25polit- polit In fact, everyone that's
1:14:28really worked for Trump has been kind of
1:14:29screwed over by him. Do you not think
1:14:31that if his son decided to run and then
1:14:35announced that the vice president was
1:14:36his dad,
1:14:38do you not think that there would be
1:14:41such a huge backlash in the United
1:14:43States that his son wouldn't win?
1:14:46Well, I think there's a possibility that
1:14:49they figure out how to cheat in 2028.
1:14:52Oh, as in actually cheat the election.
1:14:55Right. So, At the poll booth.
1:14:56>> Right. So, let's go into Trump's mind,
1:14:59all right? His
1:15:00his psychology.
1:15:01In his mind,
1:15:03he won in 2020.
1:15:06The people voted for him.
1:15:09But the Democrats
1:15:10stole the election with mail-in ballots
1:15:13and by rigging the election machines.
1:15:17Okay? He In his mind, he literally
1:15:18believes that.
1:15:20So, in his mind, he believes that this
1:15:22is actually his third term, and the
1:15:25people
1:15:26and the government, they owe him a
1:15:29second term, which is what he wants now.
1:15:31He wants
1:15:33uh compensation for having the election
1:15:35stolen from him in 2020.
1:15:38I find it really um really
1:15:40implausible to think that Trump would
1:15:42run and would run for a third time.
1:15:45So, again, this is a prediction.
1:15:47>> Yeah. And it is a test of the validity
1:15:51of my theoretical framework.
1:15:54I was looking at some of the
1:15:55the constitutions and the laws, and it
1:15:58says that the 22nd Amendment explicitly
1:16:01states, "No person shall be elected to
1:16:03the office of the president more than
1:16:04twice."
1:16:05Some theorists have tried to argue that
1:16:07since the amendment says elected, a
1:16:09person might be able to serve a third
1:16:11time if they were appointed to succeed
1:16:13to the role.
1:16:14He's not
1:16:15>> If they were appointed or succeeded to
1:16:16the role, e.g., by being vice president
1:16:19first.
1:16:20Legal scholars and the judicial
1:16:22community
1:16:24almost universally reject this. The 12th
1:16:26Amendment requires that anyone serving
1:16:28as vice president must be eligible to be
1:16:30president. Since a two-term president is
1:16:33ineligible to be elected again, they're
1:16:35legally barred from being vice
1:16:37president. So, the point is there's
1:16:40nothing explicit in the constitution
1:16:43that bars someone
1:16:45from having a third term. Mhm. And
1:16:47there's debate in the legal community
1:16:50about the spirit
1:16:52of the 22nd Amendment. It would go to
1:16:54the Supreme Court, right?
1:16:55>> And the Supreme Court's controlled right
1:16:57now by the conservatives. Trump Trump
1:16:59appointed three of the nine justices,
1:17:02and there's a possibility he gets a
1:17:03fourth later in the year.
1:17:06So, it's entirely up to the Supreme
1:17:07Court whether or not he can run. And
1:17:09again, there's nothing explicit in the
1:17:11constitution that forbids him from
1:17:13running
1:17:14as vice president. Okay.
1:17:17What's your next prediction?
1:17:19The My second prediction is there'll be
1:17:20a grand bargain between the United
1:17:22States and China. What does that mean?
1:17:25It means that people expect that the
1:17:28United States and China will go to war
1:17:31at some point over Taiwan.
1:17:34It means A lot of people expect that
1:17:36China wants to challenge American
1:17:38hegemony and replace America as the
1:17:41global superpower.
1:17:43But China does not want to do that.
1:17:46China's probably happy
1:17:48with America being the world's hegemon,
1:17:51because you have to invest so much of
1:17:53your resources into fighting these wars
1:17:56that bankrupt your nation. China China
1:17:58China doesn't want to fight these wars.
1:18:01So, what China's going to do is try to
1:18:04triangulate between Russia
1:18:06and the United States. This is what
1:18:08happened during the Cold War, when China
1:18:11was not actually on the side of the
1:18:12Soviet Union. China was part of the
1:18:14non-aligned community.
1:18:18And that's what China's going to strive
1:18:19for in World War III, where China may
1:18:22help out Iran, may provide financing for
1:18:25Russia, but it's also going to strike
1:18:26deals with the United States as well.
1:18:28Mhm. Okay.
1:18:29So, I think that Trump and President Xi
1:18:34are supposed to meet at least three
1:18:36times, possibly four times
1:18:38this year. Only this year. The first
1:18:40will be
1:18:41in mid-May in Beijing.
1:18:43And I think that they will start a
1:18:45process
1:18:46in which China and America come to an
1:18:49arrangement that benefits both
1:18:52economically.
1:18:53What does America want? America wants
1:18:55China to continue to buy US Treasuries
1:18:59in order to finance the American debt.
1:19:01What does China want? China wants energy
1:19:04resources from the Western Hemisphere
1:19:08and it wants to access the American
1:19:09market. Mhm. So, there's no reason why
1:19:13China and America cannot come to an
1:19:16arrangement that benefits both. And
1:19:18Trump is very much a transactional
1:19:20character. And what will that mean for
1:19:22the world?
1:19:24It means that China is not really part
1:19:27of World War in a meaningful way.
1:19:29Okay. So, they're going to do a deal.
1:19:31They'll continue to work together as
1:19:32friends.
1:19:33But China or will be friends of both
1:19:35Russia and the United States as Russia
1:19:37and the United States fight each other.
1:19:38Okay.
1:19:39What's your next prediction?
1:19:43Iran is another forever war and the
1:19:45United States will institute a national
1:19:47draft.
1:19:48Iran is another forever war and the
1:19:49United States will institute a national
1:19:51draft. So, you think Iran is going to
1:19:54Iran as a war is going to tumble on for
1:19:56decades and that the US are going to
1:19:58draft people which means you're
1:20:01obliged to go and fight. Exactly. Okay.
1:20:04So,
1:20:05the logic is this.
1:20:07America doesn't really care
1:20:10if Iran
1:20:12is defeated or not. That's not really
1:20:13part of the American grand strategy.
1:20:15Iran right now is a perfect pretext for
1:20:19America to expand outwards and establish
1:20:22maritime choke points around the world.
1:20:24And to force the world to buy American
1:20:28energy.
1:20:29So, this war in Iran benefits America
1:20:32tremendously. So, why not have it go on
1:20:34for a long, long time?
1:20:37In order to make sure this war goes on
1:20:39for a long time, you need ground troops.
1:20:44And you need a lot of ground troops.
1:20:46And that's why you need a national
1:20:47draft.
1:20:48So, what would a national draft look
1:20:50like in the United States? Everyone
1:20:51between the age of 18 and 25 has to sign
1:20:53up to the army. Right. So, most people
1:20:55don't appreciate this, but America has
1:20:57always had a draft. But, for the longest
1:20:59time, it didn't really care
1:21:02whether or not you actually signed for
1:21:03the draft. And starting in December,
1:21:05participation in the draft will be
1:21:07automatic. Meaning that if you're
1:21:08between 18 and 24
1:21:10in America and you're male, you'll be
1:21:13automatically put into the draft system.
1:21:15From when? I mean, from December. This
1:21:17year? Yes, that that is correct. Yes.
1:21:19So, between the age of 18 and 25, you
1:21:21think? And what does that What does that
1:21:22really mean? Well, I've never not really
1:21:23experienced that in my lifetime. So, it
1:21:25means that if you're between the age of
1:21:2618 and 24, either gender? No, male.
1:21:29Male, then you have to sign up for the
1:21:31army.
1:21:32No, you're already put into a draft.
1:21:35>> Oh, you're already Okay, but you might
1:21:37be called upon. That's right. It's a
1:21:38lottery system. Okay. Right.
1:21:41And uh this created a lot of backlash
1:21:43during the Vietnam era.
1:21:45And so, they sort of toned it down.
1:21:47But, starting in December, they just
1:21:49passed a law that says that starting in
1:21:50December, um you will be automatically
1:21:53registered
1:21:54for for the They've passed them all.
1:21:56Yes, they have.
1:21:58Well, in theory, Congress first needs to
1:21:59declare war. Okay, fine.
1:22:01>> Right? That's the first step. And
1:22:03Congress has not actually declared war
1:22:05yet. Okay. So, you think there'll be a
1:22:07draft and you think this will This war
1:22:09in Iran is going to trickle on for
1:22:11a long time. How long? 10, 20 years?
1:22:13Like Afghanistan or I don't see it
1:22:15stopping. Okay. Yeah.
1:22:18What's next in your prediction box?
1:22:20Okay.
1:22:22Okay, this is pretty bad. The world will
1:22:25move towards an AI surveillance state.
1:22:27I feel like that's already happening.
1:22:29I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah. What
1:22:31does that mean in reality for the
1:22:32average person? Because you know, we're
1:22:33seeing some of these big companies like
1:22:36OpenAI and Anthropic all sort of signing
1:22:38up to government um military
1:22:41surveillance projects.
1:22:43What does that mean for the average
1:22:44person? Right. So, for the average
1:22:45person, it means two things. It means
1:22:47digital ID and digital currency.
1:22:49Okay. So, what that what that will allow
1:22:51is for the government to basically
1:22:52monitor everything you do online and
1:22:54control all financial transactions. It
1:22:57it can basically program
1:22:59your bank account. So, like, you can't
1:23:01buy cigarettes
1:23:03or you can't buy drugs. Um and this will
1:23:06allow the government to basically
1:23:09um categorize everyone and put everyone
1:23:11into a certain database
1:23:13to monitor that person. And once you
1:23:15have once you're able to categorize
1:23:17everyone, you're allowed then you're you
1:23:20are able to use AI to predict their
1:23:22behavior. Isn't this what goes on in
1:23:24some parts of the This is what goes on
1:23:26in China.
1:23:27And that's how I know about this.
1:23:29How does it work in China?
1:23:31Well, in China, we all have digital ID.
1:23:34If you want to access anything in China,
1:23:37you need your digital ID. So, you want
1:23:39to open a bank account, you have to you
1:23:41have to use um a digital ID. If you want
1:23:43to use any uh e-payments, you have to
1:23:47use digital ID. If you want to use a
1:23:48phone,
1:23:49you have to use digital ID, okay? So,
1:23:52everyone's part of this national
1:23:53database.
1:23:54And this this allows government to do is
1:23:57basically monitor everything you do.
1:24:00Because basically, depending on how you
1:24:03buy things, I can then extrapolate to
1:24:05figure out your behavior.
1:24:09And then I can figure out your thinking.
1:24:11Right? And then I can create incentives
1:24:15in order to guide
1:24:17and control your behavior. So, in China,
1:24:20can they see everything that you do?
1:24:22Yes, they can.
1:24:23Messages you send? Everything. Payments
1:24:25you make?
1:24:26>> Everything.
1:24:27Everything.
1:24:29Everything you do online is being
1:24:31recorded
1:24:32and is being
1:24:34inputted into the database
1:24:36to
1:24:37figure out who you are,
1:24:40what you want,
1:24:41and how to control you.
1:24:43And they think this is progress, by the
1:24:45way.
1:24:46This is progress because I'm making you
1:24:48a better person, right?
1:24:50I'm helping you achieve your dream. I'm
1:24:52I'm helping you lose weight. I'm helping
1:24:55you avoid drugs. I'm helping you work
1:24:57harder.
1:24:58Wouldn't you be in trouble if you talk
1:25:00against this system?
1:25:03Well,
1:25:04me personally, okay. So, I operate in a
1:25:07gray area where I do not interact with
1:25:09the Chinese internet.
1:25:11So, everything I do is in English. It's
1:25:13meant for consumption in the Western
1:25:16world.
1:25:17And um I I don't talk to Chinese
1:25:19reporters. I don't talk to Chinese
1:25:21social media. I've no Chinese media
1:25:23presence.
1:25:25And I am not at all influential in
1:25:28China. And I prefer it that way because
1:25:30if I be ever became famous in China,
1:25:33then they would obviously want to
1:25:35control
1:25:37me in order to better influence other
1:25:39people.
1:25:40Huh.
1:25:41What's your next prediction?
1:25:44Israel will achieve the greater Israel
1:25:46project. So, you think Israel are going
1:25:48to conquer the Middle East?
1:25:51Israel has essentially already conquered
1:25:53the Middle East. The only force in their
1:25:56way right now is America.
1:25:58So, once America leaves the Middle East,
1:26:01which I expect to happen, then Israel
1:26:04will absorb CENTCOM, which is the um
1:26:07Central Command, the American military
1:26:08bases in the Middle East, and they will
1:26:11achieve the greater Israel project.
1:26:13There's no other power in in Middle East
1:26:15that can withstand the might and power
1:26:18of Israel.
1:26:20And do you have a timeline for this?
1:26:22The moment America quits this war
1:26:24against Iran, the moment that America
1:26:26leaves
1:26:28the Middle East,
1:26:29Israel will achieve the greater Israel
1:26:31project. And what's really interesting
1:26:33right now is that Israel's trying to
1:26:35drag this war out for as long as
1:26:37possible because they see this war as a
1:26:40way to destroy all its major enemies in
1:26:43the um Middle East. You know,
1:26:47they It's really It's already said this.
1:26:49After Iran, Turkey is next.
1:26:51>> Turkey, hm.
1:26:52Turkey is next. This war is already
1:26:54destroying Saudi Arabia and the GCC,
1:26:56right? So, the last opponent is Turkey.
1:27:00Once Turkey is brought into this war,
1:27:04then
1:27:06Israel will achieve the greater Israel
1:27:07project.
1:27:08And the greater Israel project covers
1:27:10all of this region here from Turkey,
1:27:12Egypt, Yemen, Oman. Is so the greater
1:27:15Israel project is like this, okay? So,
1:27:18it goes from the Nile in Egypt to the
1:27:21Euphrates in Iraq. And it covers part of
1:27:25Turkey, all Syria, all Lebanon, all
1:27:27Jordan, and parts of Saudi Arabia, which
1:27:30also includes Mecca and Medina.
1:27:32What is your next prediction?
1:27:35NATO and Russia will fight for Odessa.
1:27:38Odessa? What's Odessa?
1:27:40So, if you look at the uh Ukraine front
1:27:43lines, right now Russia is preoccupied
1:27:47in trying to control
1:27:49uh the Donbas, which is basically
1:27:51eastern Ukraine.
1:27:52Why Russia is doing this is that eastern
1:27:55Ukraine has historically been part of
1:27:57Russia, therefore most people there
1:27:59speak Russian and are are ethnically
1:28:01Russian.
1:28:03The Donbas is also the agricultural and
1:28:05industrial heartland
1:28:07of Ukraine. So, if Russia were to
1:28:11control east eastern in Ukraine, it
1:28:13doesn't really need Western Ukraine.
1:28:15And then Western Ukraine would basically
1:28:16become a rump state. It'd be useless,
1:28:18right? So, the last piece to this puzzle
1:28:21would be Odessa, which sits on the Black
1:28:24Sea. The reason why you want Odessa
1:28:27is that it is the major port.
1:28:31And once you control Odessa, you
1:28:33basically block off Ukraine from the
1:28:36Black Sea. You have complete control
1:28:37over the Black Sea. The Black Sea is
1:28:39that the Black Sea? This is the Black
1:28:40Sea and this is Odessa right here. Yes.
1:28:42Okay, so you're saying that you Russia
1:28:43will take take Odessa. That's correct.
1:28:47Okay, so they'll control the Black Sea.
1:28:49That's right. But NATO recognizes that
1:28:52if Odessa falls to the Russians, the war
1:28:54is over.
1:28:55And Russia will have achieved all its
1:28:57major strategic objectives. Why is the
1:28:59war over?
1:29:00Because Russia doesn't want to continue
1:29:02on after Odessa. It doesn't need that
1:29:06of of Ukraine.
1:29:07>> Like what does it get from taking
1:29:08Odessa?
1:29:09Once they take Odessa, control of
1:29:131/3
1:29:14of the world's carbohydrates.
1:29:16If Russia willed it,
1:29:18Africa
1:29:20would starve to death.
1:29:22The Middle East would starve. Why?
1:29:25Because Russia and Ukraine export a lot
1:29:27of grain to these places. These places
1:29:30are not food independent. They rely on
1:29:33fertilizer. They rely on food imports.
1:29:36Okay. And Russia's using the the Black
1:29:39Sea here to export. Exactly. Okay.
1:29:42What is your next prediction? This is
1:29:43the last one.
1:29:47Please be good.
1:29:48Okay. I was hoping for an optimistic
1:29:50one. But East Asia breaks out into
1:29:52conflict.
1:29:54Okay, what do you mean by that? Okay.
1:29:56So, we've talked a lot about the Middle
1:29:58East and we've talked briefly about
1:30:00Europe, okay? So, now let's go into
1:30:03East Asia.
1:30:04And I think there are three major
1:30:07sources of friction
1:30:11and conflict in East Asia and these
1:30:13could be potentially major flash points.
1:30:16The first flash point is of course over
1:30:20Taiwan.
1:30:21Cuz China believes that Taiwan
1:30:24is part
1:30:27of its territory and so it wants to take
1:30:31over
1:30:32uh Taiwan. The problem with this is The
1:30:34problem with this is that
1:30:35the recently Prime Minister Sanae
1:30:37Takaichi of Japan has said
1:30:40that Taiwan is core to Japanese
1:30:44strategic interests. What she means
1:30:46by this is that
1:30:48Japan
1:30:50has no resources. It's a manufacturing
1:30:52power
1:30:53that depends on resources from overseas.
1:30:56If China were to take over Taiwan, it
1:30:59can now block Japan from accessing the
1:31:02Strait of Malacca.
1:31:03And that's a policy that Japan cannot
1:31:06permit. So Japan would fight
1:31:10to ensure that Taiwan and China were
1:31:13never to unify.
1:31:17Would they actually? Because China is so
1:31:19strong, right? Can they just knock Japan
1:31:21straight out? Japan has no choice but to
1:31:24fight because again if China and Taiwan
1:31:28were to unify peacefully Japan would be
1:31:31cut off from the entirety of Southeast
1:31:35Asia. And Japan relies on Southeast Asia
1:31:39historically for resources.
1:31:42Why would it be cut off from Southeast
1:31:43Asia? Can't it just
1:31:45go go down here to through the
1:31:47Philippines?
1:31:48There's a lot of resources around the
1:31:50South China Sea. Okay. Right. Oil,
1:31:53minerals, all of that. Yeah.
1:31:55>> Um
1:31:56so
1:31:58if China and Taiwan were to uh unify
1:32:03basically uh Japan would feel a bit
1:32:06threatened.
1:32:08And your prediction is that there will
1:32:09be some kind of conflict in this region.
1:32:11Yeah, so so that's the first flashpoint,
1:32:13okay? Taiwan. There's another
1:32:14flashpoint, which is Strait of Malacca,
1:32:17right? Because again, America wants to
1:32:18control the Strait of Malacca, but China
1:32:20recognizes that the Strait of Malacca is
1:32:22key to its economic survival. And so
1:32:26there's a lot conflict over the Strait
1:32:28of Malacca, okay? That's flashpoint
1:32:29number two.
1:32:30The third flashpoint, which I think
1:32:32would be the most surprising
1:32:34but actually will be the most
1:32:36uh pressing
1:32:37is North Korea.
1:32:39Okay? So, let's just use game theory.
1:32:41We are
1:32:43the leader, supreme leader of North
1:32:44Korea.
1:32:46It is a dictatorship. Everyone worships
1:32:49me. It is is a cult personality.
1:32:51But we're poor.
1:32:53And the rest of the world is in
1:32:55conflict, right? Europe is fighting with
1:32:58Russia, the Middle East is in flames,
1:33:01America's distracted trying to control
1:33:03the world to the best of its ability,
1:33:05Japan and China are fighting over the
1:33:07South China Sea.
1:33:09If you are North Korea
1:33:11now
1:33:12is the best opportunity to create as
1:33:15much havoc in the world as possible.
1:33:18There's absolutely nothing they and I
1:33:20can do to stop you.
1:33:23You are the brawler in high school that
1:33:27no one pays attention to because all the
1:33:29big boys are fighting each other. You
1:33:30can come in and dominate the school now.
1:33:33Who would they be dominating? They could
1:33:35dominate South Korea.
1:33:36Because if you just look at uh a
1:33:40population map of South Korea
1:33:42most of South Korean population is
1:33:44located in Seoul, and Seoul is about
1:33:47about 20 minutes artillery
1:33:49from North Korea. So, in 20 minutes
1:33:52uh North Korea could rain artillery onto
1:33:54Seoul and like basically they flatten
1:33:57their whole city.
1:33:59Why wouldn't you extort the South
1:34:00Koreans? Because the South Koreans are
1:34:02going to shoot back.
1:34:04With what? Do they not have military?
1:34:06They're being protected by the Americans
1:34:07right now, and Americans are busy
1:34:08transporting artillery and weapon
1:34:11systems, including the THAAD system,
1:34:13over to the Middle East.
1:34:15It's called THAAD. T H A A D
1:34:19It used to be in South Korea to protect
1:34:21against North Korea, and now it's over
1:34:23in the Middle East.
1:34:27So, Americans are cannibalizing both
1:34:29South Korea and Japan in order to
1:34:31maintain this war in the Middle East.
1:34:35Now's the time.
1:34:36Why not? It's free money. It's like
1:34:38taking candy from a baby.
1:34:40But South Korea have their own military,
1:34:42though.
1:34:43How do you defend against artillery
1:34:45strikes?
1:34:47Uh I don't know. You don't.
1:34:50But but they they they they would fire
1:34:51back, right? You'd get they'd get
1:34:52themselves into a pretty ugly war. South
1:34:54Korea have a have a big military. Well,
1:34:56my people are poor. They're not afraid
1:34:58to die. In fact, I've sent thousands of
1:35:01them to go to Ukraine to fight for the
1:35:03Russians, and
1:35:05they fight to the death.
1:35:07Because they're poor, and if they don't
1:35:08fight to the death, if they're allowed
1:35:10to be taken prisoner, I'll kill their
1:35:11families back at home.
1:35:14South Koreans are rich.
1:35:17They are used to democracy. They use
1:35:19individual rights.
1:35:21So, if I threaten to blow your city up,
1:35:24you're telling me you won't bribe me not
1:35:26to do so?
1:35:28Isn't Isn't the fastest, quickest way is
1:35:30to bribe me not to cause trouble for
1:35:32you? Okay, so you think they're going to
1:35:34bribe them? Extortion. This is
1:35:35extortion. I don't need to destroy South
1:35:38Korea. All I need to do is is basically
1:35:40threaten the South Koreans,
1:35:43and they'll just like
1:35:44bribe me not to do anything.
1:35:46So, what does all of this stuff mean for
1:35:47the average person?
1:35:49You know, people listening right now,
1:35:50they're just normal people. A lot of
1:35:52them. Not all of them, but a lot of them
1:35:54are just normal people getting on with
1:35:55their lives and they care about their
1:35:56families, their their jobs, their
1:35:57futures. What does
1:35:59What what message have you got for them?
1:36:01In this new world,
1:36:03we will need leaders.
1:36:06We will need average people
1:36:09who are able to bring hope
1:36:13to the to people around them.
1:36:15Who are able to tell their neighbors,
1:36:18their friends,
1:36:19we have to come together
1:36:21as a community
1:36:23and become a family if we are to
1:36:24survive.
1:36:28That's what the world needs
1:36:30in the future.
1:36:31It will need
1:36:33um entrepreneurial leaders.
1:36:35It will need visionaries. It will need
1:36:37prophets. Those who will most thrive are
1:36:40those who make an effort
1:36:42to reach out,
1:36:44knock on the door
1:36:46of your neighbors and say, "Listen,
1:36:48there's a blackout.
1:36:49And
1:36:51there's probably no water.
1:36:53But,
1:36:54don't fear because if we come together
1:36:57as a community,
1:36:58if we go and knock on everyone's doors,
1:37:00then everyone in this apartment
1:37:02building, and there will be 100 of us,
1:37:03we just sit down
1:37:05and have a meeting and just discuss
1:37:09what's happening, one of us
1:37:12will come up with a solution.
1:37:14And one of us will help everyone else
1:37:16figure out how
1:37:18to find water or how to
1:37:21build a better society. And we know this
1:37:23because historically this has always
1:37:24been true. When empires collapse,
1:37:27infrastructure collapses. Which empire
1:37:29do you think is collapsing? The United
1:37:30States empire?
1:37:32Uh the United States empire is
1:37:33collapsing, yes.
1:37:36And who is taking its place? No one can
1:37:38take the place of American empire. So,
1:37:40we live in a unipolar moment. And the
1:37:42closest historical analogy to today is
1:37:46something called the Bronze Age
1:37:47collapse. The Bronze Bronze Age.
1:37:49>> The Bronze Age collapse. This happened
1:37:52um about over 3,000 years ago.
1:37:55And what happened during the Bronze Age
1:37:57collapse is that
1:37:59you have these established kingdoms
1:38:02throughout the Middle East and Europe.
1:38:05You have Mycenaean uh Greece. You had
1:38:08the Hittite uh Empire in Anatolia, which
1:38:10is present-day Turkey. You had uh the
1:38:13Mesopotamian
1:38:14Empire and the Egyptians.
1:38:16Um and one by one
1:38:19they collapsed. The reason why was that
1:38:21a perfect storm of calamities came at
1:38:24the same time. There were earthquakes.
1:38:25There were famines. There was a climate
1:38:27crisis. There were wars. There were
1:38:28civil wars. There were revolutions. And
1:38:30so you have this massive surge of
1:38:32refugees, called the Sea Peoples,
1:38:34flowing from north and
1:38:37uh West Europe and sweeping the entire
1:38:40sweeping food to the entire entire
1:38:43Middle East. And the reason why is they
1:38:46were hungry. They didn't have any food
1:38:48to eat. So they organized into
1:38:51um you know, these large pirate armies
1:38:53and they overwhelmed
1:38:55uh entire civilizations.
1:38:57And so we're see we will see a version
1:38:59of this dynamic play out in the world
1:39:02where in the future
1:39:05our concern won't be
1:39:08wars. Our concern will be these millions
1:39:10of refugees who want to flood into our
1:39:13societies because they're hungry.
1:39:17And they're going to come from Africa.
1:39:19They're going to come from the Middle
1:39:21East. They'll probably come from South
1:39:23America as well.
1:39:26So I saw your show with Steve Keen, by
1:39:27the way.
1:39:28Steve Keen? Yeah. It was a great show,
1:39:30right? He talked about this where look
1:39:34the world depends on fertilizer. Mhm.
1:39:36And there's 8 billion people in the
1:39:37world. Without fertilizers, the world
1:39:40can only sustain
1:39:41at most two billion people.
1:39:44Well, what what are the six billion
1:39:46people going to do? Just starve to
1:39:47death? No, they're they're going to
1:39:49migrate.
1:39:50And they're going to want food. And it's
1:39:52going to create a huge
1:39:54global crisis throughout the world.
1:39:57I mean, one might argue that with the
1:39:58rise of things like AI and robotics, the
1:40:00cost of production is going to drop and
1:40:02there's going to be more, you know, Elon
1:40:04talks about the age of abundance
1:40:06and all these kinds of things. But you
1:40:07have to grow food out of the ground.
1:40:10And you are using fertilizer to maximize
1:40:14the land's capacity to grow food. So you
1:40:16don't have fertilizer, you can have as
1:40:18many robots as you want. They don't have
1:40:20to eat food, we have to eat food.
1:40:23So what is your um you talked about
1:40:24hopefulness?
1:40:26Right. Are you hopeful?
1:40:28I'm very hopeful. What are you hopeful
1:40:29for?
1:40:32I believe that humans are first and
1:40:35foremost creative and resilient.
1:40:38And our abilities have become dormant
1:40:41because we've become too complacent.
1:40:43Western lifestyle have made us um
1:40:47extremely lazy and fat.
1:40:51And but the moment we're presented with
1:40:53crisis,
1:40:54the moment that we find our families in
1:40:57danger,
1:40:59we're able to come together as a people
1:41:02and come up with all this tremendous
1:41:03imagination in order to make a better
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1:42:01Professor, what's the most important
1:42:02thing we haven't talked about that we
1:42:03should have talked about?
1:42:06So, let's talk about the nature of
1:42:07reality.
1:42:08To explain the nature of reality,
1:42:10um I'm going to explain Plato's allegory
1:42:14of the cave,
1:42:15which he talked about in his book, The
1:42:16Republic.
1:42:18Right, exactly. This book. Yes, The
1:42:19Republic, okay? One of the masterpieces
1:42:21of Greek civilization as well as Western
1:42:23civilization. All right. So, this is how
1:42:25Plato
1:42:27explains the nature of reality.
1:42:30And so, he uses a metaphor called the
1:42:32cave. So, I want you to imagine a dark
1:42:37cavern
1:42:39that is huge. Mhm. And in this cavern,
1:42:42there are
1:42:43hundreds of people
1:42:45lined up together.
1:42:48And
1:42:50they're all sitting in a row,
1:42:51and this goes on for, you know, miles
1:42:54and miles, just thousands of people.
1:42:57And they are chained
1:42:59to the ground.
1:43:01And they're next or shackled, so they
1:43:02can't actually move.
1:43:04And all they can do is stare in front of
1:43:06them at a giant wall that's empty.
1:43:11Okay?
1:43:12Now,
1:43:13behind these people, and again, they
1:43:16can't they can't see behind them, right?
1:43:19Is a great fire.
1:43:21Along the alongside this fire are
1:43:24people, okay? We don't know who they
1:43:25are. They they'll never explain who
1:43:27these people are. They take puppets,
1:43:30and they project these puppets off the
1:43:32fire onto
1:43:34the wall.
1:43:38And
1:43:41when people see
1:43:43the shadows,
1:43:44they think that this is reality.
1:43:48And as such, they begin to create
1:43:51narratives
1:43:52to explain this reality. They create
1:43:55language. They give shadows names.
1:43:57They explain where these shadows come
1:43:58from. They create religion.
1:44:00Then these people decide to specialize.
1:44:04So some people who are priests who
1:44:06explain this new religion. There are
1:44:08some people who are poets that talk
1:44:10about the beauty of the shadows.
1:44:13And then you have teachers who teach
1:44:16about the shadows to children.
1:44:20And then over time, what happens is that
1:44:24these people
1:44:26fall in love
1:44:28with this reality.
1:44:31So that they are addicted to it.
1:44:33So if anyone comes along and says, "Hey
1:44:36guys, why don't you look behind you and
1:44:39see it's all just a farce?"
1:44:41These people will be so angry that they
1:44:43kill this person.
1:44:46All right? So I'm not sure if you've
1:44:47ever watched a Korean drama. Have you
1:44:49Have you watched a Korean TV drama? Not
1:44:51really, no.
1:44:52>> All right. So unfortunately, I have. And
1:44:54these things go on for like thousands of
1:44:57hours. Mhm.
1:44:58And the first first 10 hours, you're
1:45:00disgusted
1:45:02by the plot.
1:45:04Uh because it makes no sense. But by
1:45:07sometime by by the 20th hour, you can't
1:45:09stop watching it.
1:45:11>> Mhm. All right? The same situation here
1:45:13where it's a it's a silly television
1:45:15drama. It's all fake. But once people
1:45:18watch too much of it,
1:45:20they want it to be true.
1:45:23Okay? And that's the nature of reality
1:45:25that we live in. All right? So, certain
1:45:26things to remember is
1:45:29that what creates this reality
1:45:32are not
1:45:34the people in charge. What creates this
1:45:36reality is our imagination.
1:45:39Okay.
1:45:40So, the first thing to appreciate is
1:45:42that
1:45:43everything is a hallucination.
1:45:46And this is something that
1:45:46neuroscientists have confirmed. So, what
1:45:49we're going to do is we're going to take
1:45:50Plato's allegory of the cave, the
1:45:52framework,
1:45:53and then apply it to our reality to
1:45:55understand how it's created. Okay? So,
1:46:00in the first layer, you need a power, a
1:46:03force, to put people in chains, right?
1:46:08And this is what we call the
1:46:10military-industrial complex of America
1:46:12as well as the empire.
1:46:13So, going back to this example, it's the
1:46:16layer that puts the people into chains.
1:46:19But now, the second step is you need
1:46:21people to create the reality, to direct
1:46:24people's attention, to create the game.
1:46:26And this
1:46:28these people are the financial elite,
1:46:30the Bank of International Settlements
1:46:32based in Basel.
1:46:34So, what do they do?
1:46:36These people are the ones who set the
1:46:38the exchange currency rates. And they
1:46:40also allow for seamless
1:46:44financial transactions, the Swift
1:46:46system, basically.
1:46:47Then, Wall Street
1:46:50and the City of London were the
1:46:51financiers.
1:46:54And then you have the Federal Reserve.
1:46:55The Federal Reserve system. Because the
1:46:57Federal Reserve are the people who print
1:46:59money.
1:47:01Okay.
1:47:02Now,
1:47:03once you create the rules of the game,
1:47:06you need to create the game itself,
1:47:08which is the global economy.
1:47:09Right?
1:47:11Global economy.
1:47:13And obviously, this is a pretty vast
1:47:16system that encompasses everything,
1:47:18okay?
1:47:20Now, you have to explain to people how
1:47:22the global economy works.
1:47:23You cannot tell people, "Oh, really,
1:47:26there are these secret people working on
1:47:28the scenes that are projecting shadows
1:47:30onto a wall."
1:47:31So, what you do is you create
1:47:33multilateral organizations that pretend
1:47:36to
1:47:37control the global economy, and they are
1:47:39the World Bank, United Nations,
1:47:41WTO.
1:47:43You make people believe that this is all
1:47:45being controlled impartially for our
1:47:49benefit.
1:47:52Now, you have to convince people that
1:47:54the system
1:47:55is legitimate.
1:47:57That what you're actually seeing the
1:47:58shadows on the wall, they're real. And
1:48:00that's why you need
1:48:02the media.
1:48:03That's why you need
1:48:05culture such as Hollywood, movies
1:48:07basically. And you need
1:48:10education, school system.
1:48:12Okay? These are the people who who are
1:48:14all prisoners who have become leaders of
1:48:17the prisoners and who are
1:48:19helping them understand the shadows on
1:48:21the wall.
1:48:22So, am I in the media?
1:48:24Yes, you are. Am I? Yes. So, am I What
1:48:26am I doing? What Am I one of the people
1:48:27in the fire controlling the narrative?
1:48:29Is that what Yes. Yes. But how But I I'm
1:48:32not owned by anybody.
1:48:34That's what you think. Oh, really? Yes.
1:48:36And who who am I owned by?
1:48:38Ultimately, it's the people who control
1:48:40the fire that are in charge, right? So,
1:48:43ultimately, it's these people, the
1:48:44second layer. Okay.
1:48:45>> The game masters, the financial elite
1:48:47that control everything. And the
1:48:49financial elite then are like the World
1:48:50Bank, you said. No. No. The financial
1:48:53elite are these private bankers. Okay,
1:48:56so are the private bankers controlling
1:48:57me?
1:48:58Cuz you said I was in the media. Do you
1:49:00want to make money?
1:49:01Yeah. Then they're controlling you.
1:49:03Okay. Right?
1:49:04How are they controlling me? Because
1:49:06they control the creation of money.
1:49:09And so,
1:49:10now that you have the media,
1:49:13the schools, and the cultural systems
1:49:17helping people understand the shadows on
1:49:19the wall,
1:49:20these shadows now
1:49:22become internalized. And they dictate
1:49:25the
1:49:26values and norms of people, what they
1:49:28believe to be good and bad.
1:49:30They dictate habits and customs, how you
1:49:33live your life.
1:49:34And they dictate the legal system, who's
1:49:36punished
1:49:37for what. Okay? And this becomes a top
1:49:41edifice.
1:49:42And what's amazing about the system
1:49:44is that in our minds, okay? In our
1:49:47minds, we believe that the system is,
1:49:50first of all, the complete opposite.
1:49:53Where where the foundation is actually
1:49:57the laws, the habits, and the values.
1:50:00When in fact, in reality,
1:50:02these are just figments of our
1:50:03imagination. Okay? That's point one.
1:50:06Point two is that this is a very very
1:50:09delicate structure. So, if anyone
1:50:12doesn't cooperate, okay?
1:50:14Then this is this edifice collapses.
1:50:16It's because it's a very very delicate
1:50:17system, okay?
1:50:19And the third thing, and this is the
1:50:20most important to understand the world
1:50:21that we live in,
1:50:22as this system becomes much more wobbly,
1:50:25meaning that young people don't really
1:50:27believe in the shadows anymore. Young
1:50:29people grow up and says, "Hmm, are these
1:50:31shadows really real? They don't feel
1:50:33real to me."
1:50:35The system needs to become much more
1:50:37authoritarian.
1:50:39It needs to force people to believe what
1:50:41they refuse to believe.
1:50:43Because
1:50:44everyone in the system is incentivized
1:50:47to ensure this edifice is stable. Do you
1:50:50think this is somewhat linked to what's
1:50:52going on with independent media?
1:50:54Exactly. Because independent media are
1:50:56asking a lot of questions about the way
1:50:57society functions. Exactly. And that's
1:51:00why we're seeing governments becoming
1:51:03very worried about independent media.
1:51:05Because if you have people in the
1:51:07population saying, "These These shadows
1:51:09are fake."
1:51:10This creates a ripple effect. It causes
1:51:13uh people to start questioning the
1:51:15shadows on the wall. You can't have
1:51:16that. So, that's why it's important to
1:51:19have censorship. That's why it's
1:51:20important to deplatform people. That's
1:51:22why you have woke politics, DEI. This is
1:51:25a enforcement mechanism.
1:51:28Yeah, I mean, it is pretty hard, you
1:51:29know, it's pretty It's not easy being a
1:51:31uh an independent podcaster if you have
1:51:33a big platform cuz
1:51:35you're not always the most loved by the
1:51:37mainstream media. And they'll figure out
1:51:38how to eventually But, I think that's I
1:51:41think that's very human, actually. I
1:51:42think I think the incentives are quite
1:51:45understandable from a human perspective.
1:51:47Look, if you look at the system, no
1:51:49one's really in charge,
1:51:50and no one's a villain.
1:51:53They just grow up in the system.
1:51:55>> And everyone's protecting their
1:51:55incentives. Exactly. That's kind of what
1:51:57I mean. I'm like, yeah, I have human
1:51:59nature is to protect one's incentives,
1:52:01and you know, the media didn't like Mark
1:52:03Zuckerberg and Facebook because 80% of
1:52:0570, 80% of ad revenue went to Google and
1:52:07Facebook. So, they had a bit of a war.
1:52:09So, I kind of get it. People are trying
1:52:10to protect what's theirs.
1:52:12And disruption causes people to, I
1:52:14guess, panic a little bit, but makes
1:52:16sense.
1:52:17But, the problem is
1:52:20that
1:52:21over time, more and more young people
1:52:23are going to grow up and say, "I don't
1:52:25see shadows.
1:52:26I'm pretty sure we're being lied to."
1:52:30In which case, this presents an
1:52:31opportunity to overthrow the system and
1:52:35create a new system.
1:52:37And this is why AI is important.
1:52:42But, we we we currently believe this
1:52:44one. We currently believe in this
1:52:45structure. It's almost It's really
1:52:46difficult, I think, for the average
1:52:47person listening now to accept the fact
1:52:49that they have believed a bunch of
1:52:51fundamental ideas and stories that
1:52:55everything they care about is sat upon.
1:52:57But, I mean, you only if you read the
1:52:58book Sapiens and understood that humans
1:53:00got here because we had a remarkable
1:53:01ability to believe in stories that maybe
1:53:03the orangutan could not believe. It
1:53:05couldn't believe in money and
1:53:07governments, and religions, and all
1:53:09these kinds of things. It makes perfect
1:53:10sense that yeah, there's really
1:53:12foundational stories we are accepting,
1:53:14and that's what's brought us here today.
1:53:16That's what keeps me from running out on
1:53:17the street without our clothes on, or
1:53:19doing other illicit activities, is I'm
1:53:21held in place by a set of stories um
1:53:24that I've accepted, and they are stacked
1:53:26one upon the other to make me believe
1:53:28that everything I'm saying and accepting
1:53:30is
1:53:31valid.
1:53:32But
1:53:33you know, I guess the question becomes,
1:53:34am I okay with this reality?
1:53:37And what's stopping us from creating our
1:53:38own reality that benefits everyone? Is
1:53:41that possible?
1:53:42Well, in theory, it's possible, but as
1:53:45you point out, there's certain people
1:53:47who are happy with the system and want
1:53:51to maintain the system. And that's why
1:53:53we're going to war around the world,
1:53:55because it's not just a war between
1:53:58different nation-states. It's also a war
1:54:01for the fundamental nature of reality.
1:54:04You have the bankers
1:54:05versus the tech bros, right? That's what
1:54:09we're seeing in the world right now.
1:54:11Where for the longest time, Wall Street
1:54:14has controlled America, but now with the
1:54:16with the Trump revolution, you have
1:54:18Palantir.
1:54:19You have people like Larry Ellison,
1:54:21Peter Thiel,
1:54:23uh Sam Altman, who want to create
1:54:25Operation Stargate,
1:54:27which gives them complete control over
1:54:30people's imagination.
1:54:32You cannot get over that. Okay.
1:54:36And
1:54:37that thing will come down eventually,
1:54:39because that is just
1:54:42the fundamental fact of human history.
1:54:45Everything, no matter how stable it
1:54:47seems in the beginning, it all comes
1:54:49crashing down eventually. Eventually.
1:54:52Eventually.
1:54:52>> Cyclically. Cyclically.
1:54:54Yes.
1:54:56Um Ray Dalio talks about the cycles
1:54:58through history, and how so or they are,
1:55:01and how frequent they are. Is there a
1:55:03frequency to the rise and fall of these
1:55:06I guess perceived realities or empires
1:55:08as he as he calls it. Yeah, so they say
1:55:10empires last about 20 years.
1:55:13And so we are now in the twilight of the
1:55:16American empire.
1:55:18And what we know is that when empires
1:55:20decline,
1:55:21it's always for the same reasons.
1:55:23And
1:55:25um
1:55:26it's always because of too much debt,
1:55:29too much corruption,
1:55:30too much inequality. And we're seeing
1:55:32that in America today. And the other
1:55:34thing that we know is you can't actually
1:55:36stop the decline of empires. So Oswald
1:55:40Spengler, who is a German theoretician,
1:55:44he argues that
1:55:46we are human beings and we have natural
1:55:48life cycles because we're organisms.
1:55:51Well, societies are the same way where
1:55:54empires, they will be born, they'll
1:55:56rise, and they'll die. And it's And it's
1:55:59a good thing because that's what allows
1:56:01for constant human innovation. Do you
1:56:04think that will happen in my lifetime?
1:56:05I'm 30 years old, 33 years old.
1:56:07It may happen in everyone's lifetime. It
1:56:10may happen next 5 to 10 years. We are We
1:56:12are seeing
1:56:13>> Do you think that's going to happen in
1:56:14the next 5 to 10 years? I think there's
1:56:15a very strong possibility that the
1:56:17American empire will collapse in the
1:56:19next 5 to 10 years because it is
1:56:21overstretched, it's in too much debt,
1:56:24and it is really angering the entire
1:56:26world. It's basically unifying the
1:56:27entire world against it right now. And
1:56:29if
1:56:29>> that is to be the case, what would you
1:56:31give me as advice as a 33-year-old? What
1:56:34What action should I be thinking about
1:56:35taking now based on what you know about
1:56:37history to make sure that, you know,
1:56:40it's not too bad for my myself? I guess
1:56:42I'm asking this question in light of you
1:56:44predicting that there might be a
1:56:46collapse of the sort of Western or the
1:56:48American empire.
1:56:51And in such a scenario, I was wondering
1:56:52what what what it would look like to be
1:56:54an American.
1:56:55And is there a a solution or course of
1:56:58behavior one should take in such a
1:56:59scenario? But what I guess that's the
1:57:01key question which is if the US empire
1:57:04does collapse, how does American life
1:57:06change or Western life change? Okay. So,
1:57:08one theory that's very important to
1:57:10understand
1:57:12is something called hermetic philosophy.
1:57:14And hermetic philosophy is what
1:57:15underpins
1:57:17um Plato's allegory of the cave. Mhm.
1:57:20And hermetic philosophy comes from
1:57:21Egypt.
1:57:23And it has certain principles, but its
1:57:25main principle is that reality is
1:57:28energy, is vibrations. Okay, so we think
1:57:31of it as material, but material is a
1:57:34consequence of energy. Mhm. Right? So,
1:57:38what this means is that
1:57:40reality is consciousness itself. Mhm.
1:57:44So,
1:57:45our thoughts are what's real.
1:57:48Our bodies
1:57:49are just vehicles to expre- to
1:57:52experience the world around us, but
1:57:54they're not real. When we die, our souls
1:57:56return to the source, and we come back
1:57:59again. And we're here primarily in order
1:58:01to experience things we cannot
1:58:02experience in the spiritual world,
1:58:04because in the spiritual world it's not
1:58:06material. Mhm.
1:58:07So,
1:58:09what's really important is to appreciate
1:58:12that
1:58:13every one of us is part of the source.
1:58:16And so, if we think about the totality
1:58:19of things, we can only become
1:58:22despondent. We can only give up hope.
1:58:24But if we think about how individually
1:58:28we can become a better person,
1:58:31and how we can impact the people around
1:58:33us,
1:58:34then that becomes reflected
1:58:37onto the reality itself.
1:58:39Because we're just part of God itself.
1:58:42Right? So, the idea is as above, so
1:58:44below.
1:58:46As below, so above. Meaning that we are
1:58:48each and every one of us fractals of
1:58:50God. Mhm. So, we choose to be a good
1:58:53person,
1:58:54this
1:58:56makes the world a better place. We
1:58:57choose to be a bad person, it also makes
1:58:59the world a worse place. So, it's not
1:59:01really about how can I stop these wars
1:59:03from happening, because you cannot. It's
1:59:05not really about where can I put my
1:59:07money to make generate more income,
1:59:08because that because that's not going to
1:59:09happen. It's really about
1:59:12how do I
1:59:14live my life
1:59:15to the fullest.
1:59:17How do I become a much more creative
1:59:19individual that brings goodness to the
1:59:22people around me?
1:59:23If you do that, you're changing the
1:59:25world
1:59:26everyday for the better.
1:59:32That's a nice message.
1:59:35That's a very nice message.
1:59:37And I agree. And I It's really
1:59:38interesting. I've spoken to a couple of
1:59:39physicists now who say similar things
1:59:41regarding
1:59:42about consciousness, and it really has
1:59:44stuck with me. A lot of things people
1:59:45say, you know, sometimes because I I
1:59:47learn so much doing this that I forget
1:59:49them. But this idea that um
1:59:52that we're all part of the same
1:59:53consciousness, and that I think someone
1:59:54said to me, a physicist said to me that
1:59:56um
1:59:57it's almost like consciousness divided
1:59:59into lots of little pieces so that
2:00:00>> That's right. Fractals. Fractals. So,
2:00:02that it yeah, it could it could
2:00:03experience the world or view the world.
2:00:05>> Exactly. And I found that to be a really
2:00:06compelling idea. Weirdly, I was thinking
2:00:08about this the other day. I was in a
2:00:09European country, and I was I was
2:00:11driving in a taxi, and I looked out the
2:00:13window, and you had all of these like
2:00:14tourists
2:00:15just stood at the edge of the water, all
2:00:17just like looking up and looking around.
2:00:19And I just for a second thought of it
2:00:20thought of them as like little peach
2:00:22pieces of consciousness exploring the
2:00:23world, cuz they were like looking up and
2:00:25looking around and looking at mountains
2:00:26and looking at the ocean and looking at
2:00:27the floor. And it it dawned on me for a
2:00:29second that that might just be
2:00:30consciousness
2:00:32is manifestation for sort of I guess
2:00:35exploration.
2:00:36It's which is a really interesting idea.
2:00:38I don't necessarily know what it means,
2:00:39but it does create a little lot of
2:00:40empathy.
2:00:41>> So, so one one area that you might want
2:00:43to explore is the Kabbalah. So, what
2:00:45How's this What What's this Kabbalah
2:00:46thing? Right. It's called It's what they
2:00:48call the Tree of Life. And in the Tree
2:00:49of Life, it's it's It's what I'm trying
2:00:52to say is that it's a certain dynamic in
2:00:53the world that governs all human
2:00:55affairs. And this dynamic is
2:00:57thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
2:01:00So, God is the will to bestow, creates
2:01:04Adam Kadmon, who is the will to receive.
2:01:07Adam Kadmon has to abandon God. This
2:01:09This destroys the world, but eventually,
2:01:11because the world is destroyed, Adam
2:01:13Kadmon and his and his descendants, us,
2:01:15recognize the folly of our ways and beg
2:01:18God for forgiveness, and this will
2:01:20redeem the world, repair the world.
2:01:23And if you think about it, okay? This is
2:01:26what underpins a lot of actions
2:01:30that is happening in the Middle East.
2:01:33Where Israelis are doing what they're
2:01:34doing because they're trying to force
2:01:37the hand of God.
2:01:39Meaning that, okay,
2:01:41if Israel is committing all these
2:01:43atrocities in the Middle East, it's
2:01:45creating all these wars, eventually the
2:01:48world will have to punish Israel the the
2:01:50Israelis.
2:01:52Right? There'll be war between the world
2:01:53and Israel.
2:01:55And Israel will be humbled. But once
2:01:57Israel is humbled,
2:01:59everyone
2:02:00in Israel recognize the folly
2:02:03of his or her arrogance,
2:02:06hubris,
2:02:08and then will beg God for forgiveness.
2:02:11And once that phenomenon happens, when
2:02:13all people in Israel, at the same time,
2:02:16beg God for deliverance and for
2:02:18forgiveness,
2:02:20the world will end.
2:02:22And will return to paradise.
2:02:24That's literally what they believe.
2:02:33We're going to have to stop there,
2:02:33Professor. Um we have a closing
2:02:35tradition where the last guest leaves a
2:02:36question for the next guest, not knowing
2:02:37who they're leaving it for.
2:02:39And the question left for you is, who
2:02:41will you miss the most and why?
2:02:44Well,
2:02:45I will miss my wife the most
2:02:49because I met my wife about 10 years ago
2:02:52and this was a time in my life when I
2:02:54had and when I had I had hit rock
2:02:56bottom.
2:02:58Um I went to Yale and so I have a very
2:03:01um elevated sense of myself and my
2:03:04abilities. And so I went into the world
2:03:06thinking that I would conquer it.
2:03:08And after decades of failure,
2:03:11um I
2:03:14basically became very depressed.
2:03:16Failure?
2:03:17Yes, I meaning I didn't have a job,
2:03:19meaning I didn't have much income,
2:03:22meaning I didn't have much hope in my
2:03:24life. And so I was working as a teacher
2:03:27and in formal acquaintance, I met my
2:03:29wife.
2:03:30And
2:03:32I think that it was because
2:03:35I became so depressed that my heart
2:03:38I begged for relief. I begged God, even
2:03:43though I don't believe in God,
2:03:45for salvation and redemption.
2:03:47And my wife
2:03:49came as an angel.
2:03:50And what she did that no one else did
2:03:53before was she loved me unconditionally.
2:03:57She was kind to me.
2:03:59She
2:04:01told me
2:04:02to believe in myself.
2:04:04And she proved it
2:04:06by making the ultimate sacrifice and
2:04:08having a child with me.
2:04:10Right? It's one thing to for someone to
2:04:12say, "I believe in you. I love you." But
2:04:14it's another thing to have a child with
2:04:17that person. And so that changed me
2:04:21totally. And I I said to myself, "I
2:04:24can't despair anymore. I have to work
2:04:26hard. I have to provide for my family."
2:04:31And at this time I was thinking that
2:04:33maybe I could help Chinese students
2:04:36go
2:04:37to Yale. Like, you know, in China uh
2:04:40consulting is a huge business where if
2:04:41you help package your kid and you get
2:04:44into Yale, you get about a million
2:04:45dollars. That's a lot of money, right?
2:04:47And she told me, "You can't do that. You
2:04:49have to be true to yourself and you have
2:04:51to be true to our son.
2:04:54Set a good example for him." And so,
2:04:56what happened was that I got a job as a
2:04:59high school teacher.
2:05:01And then I started to make these YouTube
2:05:02videos.
2:05:04And then it blew up online.
2:05:06And this was not something that we
2:05:07expected. This is not something that we
2:05:09planned for. It just happened
2:05:11organically.
2:05:12So,
2:05:14it was my wife just just by saying,
2:05:17"I love you" to me and I knew it to be
2:05:19true because we had a child together, we
2:05:21started a family together. By loving me
2:05:22unconditionally, by being kind to me, it
2:05:24changed me forever.
2:05:25And that's what empowered me to want to
2:05:29share myself with other people as well.
2:05:31And so, I don't know how I will ever
2:05:33thank my wife. I'm I'm forever grateful
2:05:36for her. And I don't I don't Before I
2:05:39didn't really mind leaving this world,
2:05:41but I don't want to leave this world
2:05:42anymore because I don't want to separate
2:05:44from her.
2:05:46Could you have expected that you'd have
2:05:48the success you've had online? You've
2:05:50got to what to almost 2.5 million
2:05:51subscribers on YouTube alone.
2:05:54Um getting millions and millions and
2:05:55millions of views on your videos.
2:05:57I mean, some of your videos have almost
2:05:5910 million views on on various channels
2:06:00that you've been on.
2:06:02You've only made 146 of these videos.
2:06:05And your your channel has grown
2:06:07immensely. Could could you have
2:06:08imagined?
2:06:11I did. You did imagine? Yes. You thought
2:06:14it would go like this?
2:06:15Um not this big, but I imagined, you
2:06:18know, I I would find people who believe
2:06:22in what I was doing and would be
2:06:23inspired by what I was doing. And I knew
2:06:26this because
2:06:28when I met my wife and I fell in love
2:06:30for the first time. We love each other
2:06:33uh
2:06:33unconditionally.
2:06:35My imagination start to open up. I could
2:06:39see and feel things that were not
2:06:41available to me before.
2:06:44And it was as though I became much more
2:06:47connected to the source. I became much
2:06:49more connected to the universe. The
2:06:51universe was giving me insights
2:06:54as to how to proceed.
2:06:56And so
2:06:58I had one day an inspiration. Let me
2:07:00start our YouTube channel. Let me make
2:07:02stupid predictions and see where where
2:07:03it goes.
2:07:04Because if I'm right, then then
2:07:07I would be
2:07:09pretty famous. If I'm wrong, then I'm an
2:07:11idiot.
2:07:12But what gave me the courage to imagine
2:07:16all this was again the love of my wife.
2:07:20So that's why I say kindness and love.
2:07:25So I did imagine this, but not to the
2:07:28extent that um
2:07:31you know, my YouTube channel has blown
2:07:32up.
2:07:33You've only been doing it about a year.
2:07:35I I don't think I've ever seen someone
2:07:37get two two and a half million
2:07:37subscribers in a year.
2:07:39Especially making a geo- geopolitics and
2:07:42uh
2:07:44It's mainly geopolitics, isn't it? And
2:07:46history videos. In a year, that's crazy.
2:07:49But I will tell you this.
2:07:51It has not changed me.
2:07:53Because
2:07:55being with my wife,
2:07:57having a family,
2:07:58I know my mission is to share myself
2:08:01with others.
2:08:03So
2:08:04I could easily
2:08:06um create a media education company like
2:08:09Jordan Peterson um and start my own
2:08:12university. I don't want to do that. I
2:08:14want to share myself with others. I want
2:08:18to constantly learn. I want to
2:08:19constantly ask questions. I want to be
2:08:22open-minded. I want to be brave
2:08:24for my wife and my family.
2:08:27And so yes, I did succeed. And I think I
2:08:31thank the universe for letting me
2:08:32succeed. And I thank most of all the
2:08:35fact that I succeeded at age and at time
2:08:39when I can focus on a mission and ignore
2:08:43the fame,
2:08:44the wealth, the status.
2:08:47Are you happy?
2:08:49I'm very happy with my family because
2:08:51it's my wife and my children who bring
2:08:53me tremendous happiness
2:08:55in the world. The The YouTube channel,
2:08:58if they close it down tomorrow,
2:09:00and they might,
2:09:01I wouldn't be at all
2:09:04uh unhappy because I can just go and
2:09:07create more videos. Uh what matters is
2:09:10the source of my creativity, which is my
2:09:12the love I have for my family.
2:09:15That is beautiful.
2:09:17Really beautiful. I mean, it's it's
2:09:18really self-evident the value you're
2:09:20giving to people because the amount of
2:09:22people that showed up in my comment
2:09:24section and and demanded that you come
2:09:25here was staggering. In fact, that's
2:09:27actually how I I learned about you was I
2:09:29just saw your name so much in the
2:09:31comment section. So I was like, "Who's
2:09:33this guy?" And I went on YouTube and
2:09:34looked around and then I found these
2:09:35videos and then I got served them
2:09:37because I clicked on them and then I got
2:09:39went down the rabbit hole like everyone
2:09:40>> Did they just want you? Yeah. I am a
2:09:41polarizing figure. Oh, it's probably
2:09:44because
2:09:44>> some people really love me, but some
2:09:46people also really really hate me.
2:09:48>> It Listen, I have I sit here with people
2:09:50really regardless of
2:09:52of of that stuff and I think that's
2:09:55important and quite rare. So I you know,
2:09:56I've sat with Kamala Harris or Ivanka
2:09:58Trump or Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama,
2:10:01you know, and for me it's really about
2:10:02the pursuit of truth rather than being
2:10:04captured too much by
2:10:06you know, Right.
2:10:07>> all the blocks that we have on the
2:10:08table. So um
2:10:10thank you for doing what you do because
2:10:11you're demystifying and you're you're
2:10:13giving a perspective to the world. And I
2:10:14think one of the things you you do that
2:10:16really has compelled people is you
2:10:18you're able to um
2:10:20break things down in visual ways that
2:10:22allow people like me who aren't the best
2:10:26when it comes to
2:10:27books and textbooks and weren't
2:10:29necessarily very good in school to
2:10:31understand concepts in a simpler way and
2:10:33really to bring them to life in ways
2:10:34that make them actionable and relevant
2:10:36to our lives. And so long may you carry
2:10:38on doing that. And that's the essential
2:10:40message that I hope people understand
2:10:41like everyone has the capacity to learn
2:10:45the truth for himself or herself. It's
2:10:48only a question of desire and will.
2:10:50Thank you. Thank you. YouTube have this
2:10:52new crazy algorithm where they know
2:10:53exactly what video you would like to
2:10:56watch next based on AI and all of your
2:10:58viewing behavior. And the algorithm says
2:11:00that this video is the perfect video for
2:11:03you. It's different for everybody
2:11:05looking right now. Check this video out
2:11:07and I bet you you might love it.

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