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