So, are you wondering how this whole Iran war debacle is going to end?
What is the end game for this war?
And what is the exit ramp?
Well, don't ask me, what do I know?
Ask the person who's making all the decisions, the commander-in-chief of the United States
military.
The president told me he thinks the war is, quote, very complete.
He went on to say Iran has no navy, no communications, no air force.
What is your day off to plan for Iran?
Well, we have a lot.
Look, if we left right now, it would take 10 years for them to rebuild.
But we're not ready to leave yet.
We are getting very close, he says, to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down
our great military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime
of Iran.
And we have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks.
But we have capability to go far longer than that.
We'll do it.
Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really
quickly.
After that, he'll get bored.
I don't get bored.
Was the president in the process of winding down this war or escalating the conflict?
Again, they're not mutually exclusive.
Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.
And when Steve called up and he said that to me, I said, well, here we go.
Let's do it the hard way.
But the hard way, I think, is probably the easy way.
Wait, let me get this straight.
The US has already won, but not won enough.
So they'll wind down soon.
But they could go four to five weeks, but maybe longer because you got to escalate
to de-escalate by doing things the hard way, which is also the easy way.
Yes, if you want that hodgepodge of nonsense, then you can listen to
Donald J. Trump, but as my very astute listeners know by now,
he is not the one calling the shots on any of this.
So who really is calling the shots and what do they want out of this conflict?
Those are the answers that matter, and you're not going to find them in the
mainstream press.
So let's roll up our sleeves and dig in.
That is exactly what we're going to cover on today's edition of the Corbett Report.
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Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to another edition of the Corbett Report.
I'm your host, James Corbett of CorbettReport.com, coming to you as always
from the sunny climes of Western Japan here in late March of two thousand twenty
six with episode four hundred ninety five of the Corbett Report podcast.
This is the real endgame in Iran.
Yes, so for those who are wondering about the endgame in Iran, of course,
we have to start with the first order question, which is how and why
did this war even start?
And although hopefully I would imagine most of my audience is beyond this point,
perhaps it needs to be stated that the on the record official reasons
that have been proffered in the establishment press and by establishment
mouthpieces is not the reality.
So yes, let's put it on record.
No, this is not about spreading freedom and democracy for the poor oppressed
Iranian people by raiding love bombs down on their country and completely
obliterating their infrastructure, nor is this about stopping any perceived
nuclear threat. And we know this from a number of different sources.
But if you really do need it spelled out for you, boy, have I got a resource for you.
It is the latest edition of my editorial that appeared in this weekend's
subscriber newsletter, which, of course, as with all of my subscriber
newsletters is available right now on Corbett Report.com.
It is called Why Did US Real Attack Iran?
And it purports to answer that very question.
So you can either get it directly from Corbett Report.com or, of course,
the editorial of my weekly subscriber newsletter is also posted to my substack.
So here it is. Why did US real attack Iran?
And I start by talking about the very interesting phenomenon that we all know
and that you have seen documented on Corbett Report for many, many years now,
which is that there is always some perceived jindup war threat in order
to corral the public into sending their sons and daughters off to die
in some foreign land once again.
So I go through some of those examples.
The Spanish-American War had remember the main.
World War One had babies on bayonets.
World War Two had Pearl Harbor.
Vietnam had the Gulf of Tonkin.
Gulf War One had babies thrown from incubators.
Gulf War Two had weapons of mass destruction.
Libya had a spontaneous people's uprising against Gaddafi's Viagra-fueled rape squads.
Syria had madman Assad gassing his own people.
But of course, every single one of these Casas and Belai was a deception.
A false flag or a provoked incident or a completely fictitious non-event
designed to whip up the masses lust for blood and desire for revenge.
But in each and every one of these cases, the puppeteers of the American
Empire had to at least try to deceive the public in order to win their support
for war in some faraway land.
But what's the justification for the Iran War?
Oh, right. We're we're we're freeing the Iranian people or something.
Oh, wait. No, maybe there's a more obvious question.
And as I go on to talk about in this article, of course,
the official story is bunk.
So what is the real story?
We can take it from people like
U.K. National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who was at the U.S.
Iran talks in Geneva in February and who reported that he was surprised
what the Iranians were putting down on the table or US Director of National
Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who testified at the Senate Intelligence
Committee hearing that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated last year.
Remember that whole 12 day war thing where the White House
literally put out a press release saying they obliterated Iran's nuclear program
so that no no threat there.
And of course, we've all seen Joe Kent, the former Director of National
Counterterrorism Center, resign his post complaining that there was no imminent
threat from Iran.
So what was this really about?
Well, we can take it from people like Joe Kent or Jonathan Powell,
who have both testified that obviously there were Israeli pressures
that were putting being put on the White House in order for this to take place.
But we don't have to take it from that.
Or even from Stephen McIntyre, who people will remember, hopefully,
if they've been following the climate story as I have as climate audit,
one of the people who completely deconstructed and eviscerated the
Michael Mann hockey stick lie.
Well, he's also eviscerating other lies.
And he points out that the most definitive White House statement
purporting to justify the Israel-U.S. war on Iran was its
March 2nd, 2026 statement titled the Iranian regime's decades of terrorism
against American citizens.
And if you follow that link to that post, you can see all of these examples
of Iranian dastardly terrorism against U.S.
forces and sources over the course of the past few decades.
But as it turns out, that entire document was plagiarized almost
word for word from a June 19th, 2025 post by Zvi Khan,
who works for a, well, was former APAC employee who works for a think tank,
the FDD, which was founded, quote, to provide education to enhance
Israel's image in North America.
So there's a pro-war Zionist funded think tank that was literally
word for word behind that post.
Again, you can take it from many different sources, but why don't
we take it from the horse's mouth, mouth himself?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Yes, the same Marco Rubio, who has, again, corporate
reporters will be well positioned to know, was personally vetted
by Larry Ellison during his 2015 presidential selection run.
Well, that Marco Rubio came out and kind of said the quiet part
out loud about who's really directing America's foreign policy.
And so the president made the very wise decision.
We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them
before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties
and perhaps even higher those killed.
And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act.
Wait, OK, so let me get this straight.
So Israel was going to attack Iran, and therefore Iran would
have obviously retaliate against those attacks.
And that retaliation would undoubtedly hit U.S. forces in the region.
So the U.S. had to preemptively attack Iran's to stop them
from preemptively responding to the preemptive attack that hadn't taken place yet.
Anyway, once you follow that unbelievable pretzel knot back to its
it's a underlying thesis, you will discover as many in the mainstream
establishment world soon did. Hey, wait, he's basically saying Israel
basically started this war.
They were the ones who were going to attack.
And so the U.S. had to attack in order to defend the attacks
against the defense against the attacks that hadn't taken place yet.
And as you may or may not have seen and as I document in this editorial,
yes, there was quite a lot of diplomatic bruja about that and some walking back.
And well, we don't mean to say that Israel is the one behind all of anyway.
That is exactly what Marco Rubio was indicating there.
And of course, that comes as a surprise to precisely no one
who has two brain cells to rub together or who has their head screwed on straight.
And that is precisely because, again, as I document at length in this editorial,
this is not the first time Israel has floated the idea of regime change
in Iran or fighting Iran to the last American,
which has been a key theme of war mongers
like unconvicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu for decades.
In 1992, as a member of parliament, Netanyahu addresses the Knesset.
He says, within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become
autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.
Three years later in his book, Fighting Terrorism,
he repeats the same time frame, three to five years.
This is a fragment of a 2009 US State Department cable released by WikiLeaks.
Netanyahu tells members of Congress that Iran is one or two years away
from being capable of developing nuclear weapons.
It's 2012 and Netanyahu is holding up his infamous cartoon bomb
at the UN General Assembly by next spring.
At most by next summer at current enrichment rates,
they will be finished, the medium enrichment
and move on to the final stage.
From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks
before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.
And now, 33 years after Netanyahu's first so-called imminent warning,
Israel attacks Iran.
And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time.
It could be a year.
It could be within a few months, less than a year.
Right. So if we listen to Bebe,
well, the world has been on the threat of nuclear,
under threat of nuclear annihilation by the Iranians for decades now.
They are always and have always been just weeks or months away
from their building their nuclear device,
that they're definitely going to rain down on your head.
So you better go in and bond them.
So, yes, it isn't going out on a huge limb to say that Israel
obviously wanted this war, has been lusting after this war for decades,
has been working concertedly to make this war happen
and to put all of the domino pieces together
that would allow this war to take place.
You don't go after Iran first, of course.
You have to destabilize the entire region.
You have to take out Iraq and splinter that into sectarian violence.
You have to destabilize all of Iran's regional proxies
and allies in Syria, in Lebanon and elsewhere.
And then you go for Iran, right?
Seven countries in five years.
Well, 25 years and counting.
But anyway, better late than never, right?
So again, as I document in this,
why did US real attack Iran article?
You can go back and see the development of Israel's foreign policy
and geopolitical position on Iran over the decades from the time
when they were best buddies and allies in the era of the Pallavi dynasty
that lasted from 1925 to 1979 with, for example,
Iran being the second state in the Middle East
to acknowledge the state of Israel after its foundation in 1948.
And you had good relations between them.
You even had Mossad literally training the Shah's
Savak secret police slash torture goon squad back in the 1970s.
That is all documented on the record.
I go through the links and talk about all of that.
And then, of course, we had the Revolution of 1979,
which made them the Iranians into mortal enemies and a big threat.
And then everything changed.
And then you had the Iran Contra deal
through which Israel was actually providing weapons to Iran
for on behalf of America.
And why were they doing that to establish contacts
with the Iranian militaries that they could use to overthrow?
Committee, I mean, it gets crazy.
And I go through all of those twists and turns.
But long story short, yes, Israel has been
lusting after Iran for decades now.
It is a regional rival that has to at least be taken down a peg or two.
If greater Israel is to be constructed as Odid Yanon, another well-known
Israeli foreign policy planning documents, have have put on record for decades.
But I don't think that that fully explains everything that's going on here.
Yes, of course, Israel is interested in what is happening in Iran right now.
But that also begs the question of why they have not accomplished this
in the decades and decades that Netanyahu in particular,
and of course, the Likudniks and Israel crazies, Zionist crazies in general,
have been lusting after for decades.
Why now? Why is it in 2026 that suddenly this thing
that's been talked about and prepared for for literal decades is now
suddenly coming to a head?
Well, as I have stated before and I will state here again,
I do not think that massive world historical events like these take place
because a singular group with a singular agenda has suddenly decided
to write the script that everyone else will now slavishly follow.
I think that these types of massive world
historical events take place because there are a number of players
at the table with an interest, a vested interest,
or sometimes a very explicit interest in these events taking place.
So the real question becomes, and this is where I ended that editorial,
what's the 3D reality as in 3D chess, not the cartoon
memified version of Lord Emperor Trump playing his 17 dimensional chess,
whatever garbage that is now rightfully seen for the absolute
garbage that it always was, although it was vociferously defended
by some people in this quasi supposed alternative media for years there.
I think no one can think that this Iran war as part of Trump's super
planned undermine the deep state and judo flip.
No, no, it is not because he is just a puppet
that is performing what his puppeteers are telling him to perform.
But who are those puppeteers and what are they doing that's for?
What is the 3D reality to this 2D chess
war that we see taking place on the two dimensional chess board?
Well, we can get a hint of that from one of the strangest aspects
of the war that we've seen so far.
And I take my cue here from Kit Knightley at Off Guardian,
who wrote a very interesting and in depth piece that people should check out
about the bizarre Strait of Hormuz back and forth that has taken place.
I'll just read from this part of my editorial as Kit Knightley points out
over at Off Guardian, perhaps the most telling part of this stage managed war
narrative is the very strange tug of war over the Strait of Hormuz
as Knightley correctly observes the clearly manipulated stage play
of the closing of the Strait with the Iranians closing the Strait
before denying they closed the Strait before the insurance companies
actually closed the Strait and the clearly manipulated stage play
of the mining of the Strait with anonymous trust me, bro,
sources telling Rothschild Reuters that the Strait had been mined
before Iran officially denied mining the Strait before Trump demanded
Iran remove the mines from the Strait before US Secretary of War
Pete Hegseth confirmed that there was no evidence of mines in the Strait
shortly after the US Navy abruptly decommissioned
four mine sweepers in the region after 40 years of service
has led to the next narrative being propounded by the establishment press.
The squabble over the Strait will lead to a never ending
state of perma war between the West and whoever is in control of Iran.
Now, I highly suggest if you are interested at all,
please go to the editorial and follow every single one of these links.
Every single one of these statements is, of course, hyperlinked with back to its source,
showing this strange shadow play taking place where suddenly there's this story.
They're mining the Strait. No, we're not mining the Strait.
Now, I'm going to blow you up if you don't demine the Strait.
We never mind the Strait.
Actually, there's no evidence they mined the Strait.
Oh, by the way, we just decommissioned our mine sweepers
after 40 years of service, just bizarre, bizarre, bizarre, bizarre.
But it ends up in this narrative and nightly links,
rightly, I think, to this Financial Times article, why Hormuz will haunt us
long after this war ends, which notes, quote,
it is not in Trump's power to reopen this vital sea passage
by declaring victory and walking away.
Instead, his war with Iran and this particular issue of the Strait
of Hormuz will define the rest of his presidency and may haunt his successors.
That is because the straits closure creates both an immediate crisis
and a long term strategic quandary.
The current problem is that the longer it is closed,
the greater the threat of a global recession.
The future dilemma is that Iran now knows that control of the Strait
of Hormuz gives it a stranglehold over the world economy,
even if it relaxes its grip in the short term,
it can tighten it again in future.
Oh, no.
So there, coming again, straight from the horse's mouth of the Financial Times,
Gideon Rackman, that's a name that people should be familiar with.
But anyway, coming straight from the horse's mouth,
it doesn't matter what Trump does or doesn't do at this point.
He can walk away completely.
He can obliterate Iran's navy as he already says he's done,
but he's going to do it even harder now.
There's more back and forth that's developing as I am recording this episode
with an ultimatum.
You have 48 hours to clear the Strait of Hormuz,
or we're going to obliterate your power plants, says Trump, et cetera, et cetera.
People have seen this taking place.
But as the establishment, mouthpieces and gatekeepers are saying
right there in the open, it doesn't matter what happens at this point
and how this is resolved or not resolved.
The point is the threat is now established.
And it is there.
It is always there and will be the thing that can be ginned up
at a moment's notice by anonymous sources telling Reuters,
oh, yeah, they totally mined the Strait again.
Where the where the hell did that report come from?
Who were these anonymous sources?
Reuters really truly just says anonymous sources in a position to know
that could be literally anyone from anywhere, right?
But they don't have to tell us
because they're protecting their sources.
OK, great.
So we have this completely total, totally fabricated information
from nowhere by no one that just appears in the press
and then dominates the headlines that then completely reconfigures
the entire calculus about the war and what's happening
and what the strategic choke point is and brings the world
to the state of warfare.
Because, of course, what happens with the Strait of Hormuz is
and has been the choke point that makes this not just
some regional squabble for dominance between Israel and Iran,
but a global threat.
And that is the thing that can be, again, drawn out of the hat
at any time by anonymous sources speaking off the record
to whatever establishment pieces want to publish it
whenever they want to publish it.
This is the real ultimatum that is taking place right now.
It is not an ultimatum from Trump to Iran.
You better clear the Strait.
It's an ultimatum from the deep state, the people who are really
handling this to Trump and whoever else succeeds him
in the Oval Office, that you are going to be beholden
to whatever narrative we create about the Strait of Hormuz
at any time we create it.
So I think there's a deeper level of what's going on here
that is not being managed by Trump.
It is not even being managed by Netanyahu.
There are forces above these players.
And that brings with it some of the strange parts
of this story that, again, some of them obvious,
some of them much less obvious as to who is really benefiting
from what is happening with Iran war.
Of course, the base level of this analysis
would be the obvious one, the follow the money, who benefits.
Well, obviously, as always when it comes to warfare,
the military industrial complex benefits.
They cash in, they laugh all the way to the banks that they own.
And here we go.
So, for example, we saw this float through the news wires
a few days ago from antiwar.com.
Department of War seeks two hundred billion dollars more
to fund Iran war, because, yes, on top of expanding
and ballooning the U.S. military budget
to its largest ever in history, the Trump administration,
the peace prize of administration, right, is now asking
for even more money for this war that they've already won,
but not won enough, and two hundred billion dollars.
But don't worry, guys, they have to seek two hundred billion
dollars. They're asking, please, Congress,
will you approve this?
Oh, wait, they don't have to ask anything.
U.S. removes sanction, oh, sorry, that's the wrong one.
U.S. fast-tracks billions in emergency arms sales
to Gulf bypassing Congress.
Yeah, of course, they can fast-track the money
that they need when they need it, because, of course,
this is an emergency wartime situation,
which, as always, lets the floodgates open
and ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
And if you want a really detailed, deep-dive report
on this, I will point people to this recent report
from the Democracy Defender, Iran war,
we follow the money to Mar-a-Lago.
And this is a step-by-step deconstruction
of the entire Trump administration
and everyone who's literally invested in this war,
who also happens to be in positions of power,
in the administration.
So, again, person by person, Steven Feinberg,
the co-founder of the Cerberus Capital Management,
a private equity firm with approximately $70 billion
in assets, who serves as the deputy secretary of defense?
I thought it was a secretary of war.
Howard Lutnick, of course, commerce secretary
who has made appearances here on the Corbett Report
in recent weeks.
Scott Besant and his conflicts of interests
in various investments that he's totally gonna divest
from in 90 days or something like that.
Oh, wait, he failed to do that.
Energy secretary Chris Wright,
and then going through the board of profits,
the shadow contractors, the golden grift, et cetera.
It's, again, a very, very detailed report.
So please do explore that if you're interested
in how exactly the military-industrial complex
is benefiting from what's going on.
But it's not just the US military-industrial complex
that is benefiting from this,
although they demonstrably are,
and obviously there are people who are making bank
on this bloodshed and carnage.
But weirdly enough, it's also people who have been
in the USS State Department's crosshairs
who are also benefiting from what's going on,
sometimes quite literally and quite financially.
For example, this recent report from The Daily Collar,
Russian oil poised to flood world markets
as Trump admin lifts sanctions.
In fact, they've even listed sanctions on Iranian oil,
which has been stranded at sea,
to boost the overall supply because, well, what can we do?
You see the oil price going up,
so we have to unsanction Iranian oil.
So the very people that we are bombing,
we're gonna unsanction their oil
so that we can bring down global oil prices.
And there's even more interesting parts of this.
I want you to put a pin in this particular article
because I think it tells us actually
where this is really going
and what the end game may really be about.
But anyway, this little story
floated through the news wires last week
and probably most people didn't see it at all.
Iran mulls allowing tankers through Strait of Hormuz
if trade conducted in Yuan.
That, my friends, is a significant part of the narrative.
But the real question, okay, so yes,
there are definitely financial interests on all sides
that are taking place right now
and that there are people
who are literally invested in this war.
But as always, it's important to stress
it is not the average person
who is going to benefit from this in any way,
financially or otherwise.
It's not that because the US is making bank,
US military contractors
and well-connected insider administration cronies,
they're making lots of money.
Therefore, yay, no, because of course,
the average person is just going to see higher gas prices
and higher prices of everything
as the world economy comes to a grinding halt.
And that's true not just in America,
it's true in every country.
Of course, Iran as well.
It's not like the unsanctioned oil, oh yay,
now the Iranian people are going to benefit
from the oil that their country owns.
Oh wait, they don't own it?
No, the government claims control over it
and they will reap any possible benefits
from whatever funds might come through
that unsanctioned oil.
Meanwhile, in reality, dot, dot, dot,
this latest article,
Iran issues 10 million real bank note
amid soaring inflation.
Yes, they have just released their largest ever,
their highest denominated ever bank note
to the 10 million real note
because inflation is going through the roof over there.
Of course, as it would as their currency collapses
as their access to world markets
already highly sanctioned and highly controlled
begins to completely collapse,
the average Iranian is sitting there
in an internet blackout
with inflation going through the roof,
watching, oh well, good,
now I have a 10 million real note, yay.
Hopefully it will buy me a block of butter
at the end of the day.
So this is the state of things for the average person
and wait, it gets worse.
And I think this points us to where things
may be really going here.
Does anyone remember the dark days of the lockdown
during the, the scandemic?
Because it turns out warfare is a good way
of reconditioning the populace to, of course, comply
with whatever wartime rationing and demands
that the state may make.
For example, we get this from the telegraph,
people urged to work from home in global oil crisis.
Yes, work from home mandates
and rationing of various sorts
because of course there is a global oil crisis
going on guys.
You see what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz.
We're all gonna have to tighten our belts,
but don't worry, it's for the good of the Iranian people
or it's to keep us safe from their nukes.
Well, I don't know, I don't know exactly why
this is happening, but anyway,
we're all gonna make the sacrifices.
If I didn't know better, and I do,
but if I didn't know better, I'd say, hmm,
I think there's something more going on here.
There's some sort of, I don't know, great reset agenda,
build back better agenda, a new world order,
a newer, friendlier world order
that is being erected from the ashes
of this smoking crater hole left by the Iran War.
But again, don't take it from James Corbett.
What does he know?
No, no, let's take it from one of the new rising stars
of the alternative media.
If you were the commander-in-chief of the United States,
what would you do at this point as of today?
Commander-in-chief, meaning Donald Trump?
Yeah, you get to make the decisions.
What does America do next?
If it's acting in its own interest,
if it's trying to preserve its power and wealth
at this point, what does it do?
Well, first of all, I would acknowledge
that all these events are interconnected, right?
So the struggle of China, this war in Ukraine,
this war in the Middle East, it's all interconnected
because the American Empire, it's too overstretched
and it has its fingers on everything.
And so it allows its enemies to provoke it
into these never-ending wars.
So what I would do is basically sit down everyone, okay?
Including Russia, China, Iran, and say,
it's time for a new world order
where we are partners in this relationship, right?
Before America was a hegemon,
before the U.S. dollar was a world reserve currency.
But now what we want to do is open a dialogue
where everyone is respected,
where America is no longer the bully,
but a willing partner in creating a new economic order
that benefits everyone and not just a few.
I think that's the wisest possible advice
and probably the only path that preserves civilization.
Are you buying this?
I mean, really?
Are you buying this?
And who's selling it?
Well, for those not in the know,
that was Professor Zhang Xueqin
who has rocketed through the ranks of absolutely nowhere
to become one of the most revered Nostradamus's
so-called of the mainstream alternative media
and is now being hosted by the likes
of Tucker Carlson himself.
Interesting and interesting for a number of reasons.
Not only because this proposed solution
is evidently a shinier, happier, multilateral
New World Order with China and Russia.
And where have I heard this before?
Where have I heard this narrative being propounded before?
But also because who is this Professor Zhang?
Anyway, and how did he suddenly become so popular
and amazing and millions of people watching him on YouTube?
Despite the fact that I have yet to hear him say
literally anything, make any analysis
that is not available in a thousand other places
and with better documented sources.
I just, I don't, it's almost like something's going on here.
And yeah, when you start to dig into it,
Canadian journalists deported from China
from the Globe and Mail back in 2002
noting how Zhang Xueqin, who was a Canadian freelance
journalist born, who was born in China
was working for our good friends at PBS back in that time
making a documentary about labor unrest in China
which caused him to be deported from the country.
And thus a crusader for human rights or something?
I don't know, anyway, he's a freelance journalist
working with the US PBS to undermine China
and gets deported.
Then the next year, he gets back into China
and decides to give up journalism to focus on education.
Well, anyway, that's what we can get from his own op-eds
that he wrote for CNN back in 2017.
China's media enables tyranny and corruption
unlike the US, I guess, and PBS.
China let me back into the country a year later in 2003
and today I've switched from being a rebellious journalist
into a public educator,
tasked with helping China adopt Western creativity.
And now he's literally a high school teacher in China.
Mr. Zhang, not Professor Zhang
because that's just a title he's just given himself.
He is not a professor, he is a Mr. Zhang
who is teaching high school in China.
He has a BA in literature.
I am literally more academically qualified
than Professor Zhang if we wanted to go degree for degree,
which I don't, but anyway, make of all that what you will.
But along comes these truth tellers
in the mainstream alternative media
to tell you that the real answer here is for America
to just give in to the multilateral world order that,
huh, now that I think about it,
is the exact same thing
that the US deep state and the globalists
of all stripes have been advocating for openly for years now.
As one of the top military people said to me
in a secure meeting the other day,
60 million people died between 1900 and 1946.
And since then we established a liberal world order
and that hadn't happened in a long while.
A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos.
And now is the time when things are shifting.
We're gonna, there can be a new world order out there.
And we've got to lead it.
We've got to unite the rest of the free world and doing it.
The idea is that the international rules based order
has a moral imperative, which stands in opposition
to something that you've discussed before.
The joint statement between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin
who suggested a different model
based on what they were calling a multipolar rules-based system,
but they very much focused on it
being an international law-based system,
focused more around the G20
than the international rules-based order,
which is the one that we're encouraged to support,
which is based around the G7
and what we might call a unipolar world order.
And it was actually Patrick Stewart
who was writing in the Washington Quarterly
for the Council of Foreign,
well, not for the Council of Foreign Relations
in this instance,
but he's a member of the Council of Foreign Relations
who described what the international rules-based order
is currently the Western model.
I should interject that you mean Stewart Patrick,
not Patrick Stewart, not Captain Picard.
Yeah, no, not Captain Picard, no.
But he described it as follows,
what sets the post 1945 Western order apart
is that it was shaped overwhelmingly by a single power,
the United States,
operating in the broader contest of strategic bipolarity.
It constructed, managed and defended the regimes
of the capitalist world economy.
So this idea, you know,
which is framed in fluffy rhetoric of democracy
and all that kind of thing.
And it is fluffy rhetoric.
I think that's the point to make
because there is,
if we look at what's happening now,
there is no commitment to democratic principles.
There are none at all.
So the idea is that the U.S. as a unipolar power,
which certainly they were after the end
and the sort of disillusion of the Soviet Union,
they became that in reality.
They became a, we had a unipolar world.
There was only one superpower.
That situation is rapidly changing.
And that situation is changing very quickly,
given what's happening in Ukraine at the moment.
But nonetheless,
that was the idea of the international rules-based order
as presented by the West,
which stands opposed to the new model,
which is being advocated by China and Russia at the moment.
In case you missed it at the time,
that was a clip from my 2022 interview
with researcher Ian Davis,
frequent Corbett report guest friend of the show.
You will recognize from his many previous appearances
on the Corbett report,
that one specifically was entitled
Ian Davis on the New World Order and How to Oppose It,
in which we were talking about
what was very au courant in diplomatic circles
at that time,
which are various statements by Biden
and other deep state stooges
about the need for the creation
of a new multipolar world order
and how this international rules-based order
has been advocated on both sides
of the phony, jindup, West versus Bricks conflict
for years and years now.
And there's plenty of evidence in that conversation,
in the article that Ian Davis penned
that we were talking about in the various sources.
He was citing Stuart Patrick
and others, not Patrick Stewart, et cetera.
So there's a lot of information there
for people who are just getting caught up on reality.
So there you go, Professor Davis
or maybe Professor Corbett,
because, you know, reportage,
essays on the New World Order,
how did Nostradamus Corbett possibly predict
that this is where things were heading?
Anyway, yes, let's yes,
and this information that's coming now
from the mainstream alternative media
that yes, the end game for an Iran war conflict
is the creation of a new international rules-based order.
Yes, that's true.
I don't think that's a good thing
because of everything that it entails.
And we start to see that when we start to see the oil prices,
skyrocketing is going to create
these rationing measures, et cetera.
And one does not have to have a great deal of imagination
to understand how these financial pressures
are going to be used as leverage
to advance every single one of the agenda items
that we know is on board for digital ID
and biometrics and all of the other apparatus
of the biosecurity state
that is now being transitioned into the war security state.
You know that narrative is coming,
but let's look at a very specific example,
something we can put our finger on
of who is behind what is happening
and why they are so interested in it
and specifically what will eventuate from this.
Let's put our necks out there
and make some specific predictions
about what is coming as a result of this
because there is enough information now
that we can start to get a sense of that.
We've already looked at some of the people
who are financially benefiting from this.
Surprise, surprise, guess what?
The Iran War is also a Bankster War,
like every war is,
because their financial and monetary incentives are there,
but very specifically when we're following the money
on the Iran War Trail,
let's not just end at the usual
military industrial complex grifters
making bank from their blood money.
No, no, no, it doesn't end there.
In fact, what we are looking at
is following the money all the way
into a new monetary order
because that is on the table.
And let's look at in more detail
at that article that I read the headline of earlier,
Iran mulls allowing tankers through Strait of Hormuz
if trade conducted in Yuan.
What on earth is this about?
Iran is considering allowing a limited number
of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz
on the condition that the oil cargo
is traded in Chinese Yuan.
A senior Iranian official told CNN
that Tehran is working on a new plan
to manage tanker traffic through the strategic waterway
on Iran's southern coast.
Now, of course, this article is a weak old.
Things have moved on since then.
We now have this new ultimatum that's happening
as I'm recording this podcast, et cetera.
So the ongoing brew ha ha in the Strait
is not settled yet,
but as we see it is the open festering wound
that can be, the bandaid can be ripped off at any time
no matter how they cover it over.
And the floating of the idea
that only Yuan-denominated oil will pass through
is extremely important
because as people know,
maybe you've heard about it before,
the Petro Yuan is a thing,
or a thing that China has been trying
to bring into reality for years
and has had some limited success on that.
If you do not know about that,
just type Petro Yuan into the corporate report search engine
and you will find articles that I've had
on that very subject over the years.
Talking about that,
but if you don't know what the Petro Yuan is,
well, how about we start at basics?
The Petro Dollar,
again, this is something that I've talked about before,
but the long story short is that in the 1970s,
as Nixon was closing the gold window
and people around the world were discovering
that the US dollar was no longer backed up by gold,
well, what's it backed up by?
Of course, Kissinger,
acting as a proxy for Rockefeller behind the scenes,
was scrambling to put together
a diplomatic coup,
monetary slash military coup of sorts in the Middle East,
specifically the construction of the Petro Dollar.
And for people who don't know,
this is an informal agreement.
It was not a formal agreement.
It did not suddenly end
because it expired as was fake news,
false news reported a couple of years ago,
something that I covered in the fake news awards recently.
No, it wasn't a formal agreement.
It was an informal agreement,
primarily with Saudi Arabia,
but also with other Gulf States,
to price oil in dollars,
to sell oil in dollars,
and for those dollars that were collected
to then be recycled back through the US banking system
by investing in treasuries or in the US markets,
through US banks, that was the deal.
And that was what made the US dollar
still the world reserve currency,
still the thing that everybody had to have
because if the lifeblood of the world economy
is literally priced in dollars,
it means you need dollars in order to buy that lifeblood.
And that's exactly the game
that has been played for decades and decades now,
but you know what?
That's starting to change.
And that changeover has been excellently summarized
and encapsulated in this very important article
from the Golden Geopolitics Substack.
I will of course include this in the show notes
along with everything else that I talk about today.
So please go and read through it in its entirety.
It's called the bread and whoops,
how 50 years of dollar supremacy are dying with a bang,
not a whimper.
And as I say, you should read through this whole article.
It's got a lot of good detail in here
talking about the situation we're in
and how we've arrived at it,
at least over the last several years,
talking about Venezuela's attempts
to get their gold out of the vaults in London, et cetera,
and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, et cetera.
But here's where we get to the money part
where he describes the Petrodollar.
The Petrodollar was a simple deal.
The Gulf states price their oil in dollars,
recycle the surplus into US treasuries,
and in exchange get American military protection.
Clean, elegant, and for 50 years, it actually worked.
The US got permanent demand for its currency and its debt.
The Gulf got security guarantees
backed by the most powerful military on earth.
Five decades of procurement scandals
and DEI hires later, someone called the bluff.
US bases across the Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait,
the UAE were always sold as the physical expression
of this guarantee, the muscle that backed the paper.
They were protection,
except now those bases are targets.
The countries hosting them are getting hit
precisely because they host them.
What once was US military presence as shield
has collapsed and become US military presence as a bullseye.
Medvedev put it with the particular relish
of someone who has been waiting years to say it,
and here he quotes the Medvedev tweet,
the Gulf Arab countries let American bases
onto their territory.
Naively, they expected protection from them.
Like hell, the US just uses them
while protecting only one country.
Think long and hard about whether you really need
US bases, they're not protection, they're a threat.
So you are starting to see what is happening here.
What is truly unfolding in this situation?
Yes, war and all of the things that come along with it,
but very specifically, the people who are being retaliated
against Bahrain right now are the people
who are hosting the US military bases,
which threatens to undermine the entire basis
of the petrodollar system.
The entire guarantee was a security guarantee,
which has now just become a security liability.
So why are we pricing our oil in dollars again?
Hmm, I wonder if there's another way to do it.
Oh, if we price it and you want,
maybe we can stale straight through the straight of form.
Interesting, what an interesting trap
that has been set and sprung.
And later on in this sub-stack, he goes on to write,
about $9.2 trillion in US treasuries rolled over
in fiscal 2025, roughly a third
of all outstanding federal debt.
And the 2026 refinancing wave is already building.
Annual interest payments on the federal debt
have crossed $1 trillion for the first time.
The treasury is buying back its own debt
in tranches to keep the market from seizing up,
but the 10-year yield keeps moving higher regardless.
The petrodollar recycling loop
was one of the structural forces
keeping treasury auctions clearing.
When Gulf sovereigns stop buying or start selling,
somebody else has to absorb that supply at higher rates,
which makes the interest burden worse,
which makes the deficit worse,
which requires more issuance.
The spiral is not complicated.
And underneath all of this sits a deeper shift
that doesn't get enough attention.
The world is migrating from a currency-based monetary order
to a collateral-based one.
For decades, treasuries were the global safe asset,
the thing you held when you didn't know what else to hold.
That status is eroding.
What's replacing it are commodities, physical stuff,
things you can actually use,
which is, not coincidentally,
exactly what the GCC is sitting on
and exactly what the US has just demonstrated,
it cannot protect.
It goes on to make the point, for example,
of course, this is what we've seen
as investors are selling off stocks
as private credit fears mount.
We're also seeing, of course, gold skyrocketing
as one of the safe haven assets
or that has shown that it is, again,
the thing that people will eventually turn to
when they realize that the paper promises of US treasuries
are not worth the paper they're printed on.
And then finally, he wraps up by saying,
the entire purpose of US power projection in the Middle East,
the bases, the carrier groups, the security guarantees
was always to protect the dollar system,
to keep the oil flowing in dollars,
the recycling loop turning.
Not out of the goodness of its heart,
it allowed the US to run deficits indefinitely,
export inflation to the rest of the world
and borrow at rates no other debtor could ever dream of.
Whether Washington chose this war in Iran
or simply couldn't say no
when Israel saw its chance and leapt,
that's still an open question.
What isn't open is the result.
The Gulf States are under attack
because they host US bases, end quote.
So again, please do go read through this entire article.
It is important, but it shows
something very important that is developing here.
This is the intertwined concept
that in times of great warfare,
geopolitical instability, world warfare,
we see monetary paradigm shifts
from the gold standard that was being propped up
by the UK banking system,
the British banking system in the early 1900s,
shifting over after World War I
through the period of great instability
of the Depression and everything that came along
with that to the founding
of the new monetary economic order in bread and woods
and towards the tail end of World War II
that has propped up the system as we know it
and has made the US unipower, at this point,
empire into the greatest world empire
that has ever existed on the face of the planet.
That has been done specifically on the back
of a number of monetary inventions,
including most recently the petrodollar system,
which we are seeing starting to crumble
before our very eyes.
This is significant.
And this is how the people who are really controlling this,
pulling the strings, not just of Trump,
but of Netanyahu as well
and all of the players at the table,
Iran and Russia and China, all of them
are pulled on the monetary level.
And if you can affect a changeover
in the monetary paradigm itself,
there's your new world order.
It falls out as a result of a new monetary order
that is coming into view
and a monetary order that may be commodity-based
for some time, as needed,
at least to secure the reserves
as the handover and changeover occurs.
Will it be a Petro-Jewan World Reserve?
Well, that's certainly much up in the air,
but you can better believe, bet your bottom dollar,
that it is going to be some form of digital currency
tied to digital ID
and everything else that we know is part of this agenda.
And whether that's through some stablecoin issuance,
which is going to be the new replacement
for the Petro-dollar or something else entirely,
remains to be seen.
But this is what the bottom line is.
This is what the end game is.
It is about a changeover in world monetary paradigm
that is going to have an effect
on the entire global geopolitical calculus.
We are watching it happen in real time
and data is coming in every single minute of every day.
It's more than any one person, even myself, can handle.
So I need your help in keeping track of this data
and finding out all of the little pieces
of the cookie-crumb trail that is leading us
into this new world order
that some people seem to be so excited about.
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