WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.560 So, are you wondering how this whole Iran war debacle is going to end? 00:04.900 --> 00:07.300 What is the end game for this war? 00:07.640 --> 00:09.520 And what is the exit ramp? 00:10.080 --> 00:11.800 Well, don't ask me, what do I know? 00:12.200 --> 00:18.720 Ask the person who's making all the decisions, the commander-in-chief of the United States 00:18.720 --> 00:19.260 military. 00:20.000 --> 00:23.480 The president told me he thinks the war is, quote, very complete. 00:23.640 --> 00:28.180 He went on to say Iran has no navy, no communications, no air force. 00:28.180 --> 00:30.320 What is your day off to plan for Iran? 00:30.480 --> 00:31.280 Well, we have a lot. 00:31.460 --> 00:37.100 Look, if we left right now, it would take 10 years for them to rebuild. 00:37.900 --> 00:39.760 But we're not ready to leave yet. 00:40.120 --> 00:45.500 We are getting very close, he says, to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down 00:45.500 --> 00:50.080 our great military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime 00:50.080 --> 00:51.060 of Iran. 00:51.660 --> 00:55.980 And we have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks. 00:56.960 --> 01:01.040 But we have capability to go far longer than that. 01:01.180 --> 01:01.580 We'll do it. 01:01.640 --> 01:06.540 Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really 01:06.540 --> 01:06.960 quickly. 01:07.120 --> 01:08.140 After that, he'll get bored. 01:08.260 --> 01:08.900 I don't get bored. 01:09.400 --> 01:13.000 Was the president in the process of winding down this war or escalating the conflict? 01:13.400 --> 01:15.160 Again, they're not mutually exclusive. 01:15.840 --> 01:18.320 Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate. 01:18.700 --> 01:23.180 And when Steve called up and he said that to me, I said, well, here we go. 01:23.820 --> 01:24.880 Let's do it the hard way. 01:24.880 --> 01:27.620 But the hard way, I think, is probably the easy way. 01:29.160 --> 01:31.320 Wait, let me get this straight. 01:32.240 --> 01:34.800 The US has already won, but not won enough. 01:35.260 --> 01:36.960 So they'll wind down soon. 01:37.480 --> 01:41.700 But they could go four to five weeks, but maybe longer because you got to escalate 01:41.700 --> 01:45.500 to de-escalate by doing things the hard way, which is also the easy way. 01:47.200 --> 01:52.540 Yes, if you want that hodgepodge of nonsense, then you can listen to 01:52.540 --> 01:56.620 Donald J. Trump, but as my very astute listeners know by now, 01:56.880 --> 01:59.740 he is not the one calling the shots on any of this. 02:00.120 --> 02:05.440 So who really is calling the shots and what do they want out of this conflict? 02:05.920 --> 02:09.120 Those are the answers that matter, and you're not going to find them in the 02:09.120 --> 02:09.820 mainstream press. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.620 So let's roll up our sleeves and dig in. 02:13.120 --> 02:17.260 That is exactly what we're going to cover on today's edition of the Corbett Report. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.360 You're listening to the Corbett Report. 02:37.060 --> 02:40.220 Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to another edition of the Corbett Report. 02:40.520 --> 02:43.620 I'm your host, James Corbett of CorbettReport.com, coming to you as always 02:43.620 --> 02:47.100 from the sunny climes of Western Japan here in late March of two thousand twenty 02:47.100 --> 02:50.640 six with episode four hundred ninety five of the Corbett Report podcast. 02:51.320 --> 02:53.660 This is the real endgame in Iran. 02:54.480 --> 02:59.600 Yes, so for those who are wondering about the endgame in Iran, of course, 02:59.680 --> 03:03.600 we have to start with the first order question, which is how and why 03:03.600 --> 03:05.360 did this war even start? 03:06.100 --> 03:10.620 And although hopefully I would imagine most of my audience is beyond this point, 03:10.700 --> 03:14.740 perhaps it needs to be stated that the on the record official reasons 03:14.740 --> 03:18.980 that have been proffered in the establishment press and by establishment 03:18.980 --> 03:21.840 mouthpieces is not the reality. 03:22.120 --> 03:23.880 So yes, let's put it on record. 03:24.140 --> 03:28.080 No, this is not about spreading freedom and democracy for the poor oppressed 03:28.080 --> 03:31.480 Iranian people by raiding love bombs down on their country and completely 03:31.480 --> 03:37.660 obliterating their infrastructure, nor is this about stopping any perceived 03:37.660 --> 03:41.600 nuclear threat. And we know this from a number of different sources. 03:41.600 --> 03:46.160 But if you really do need it spelled out for you, boy, have I got a resource for you. 03:46.540 --> 03:51.380 It is the latest edition of my editorial that appeared in this weekend's 03:51.380 --> 03:54.740 subscriber newsletter, which, of course, as with all of my subscriber 03:54.740 --> 03:58.040 newsletters is available right now on Corbett Report.com. 03:58.040 --> 04:00.900 It is called Why Did US Real Attack Iran? 04:01.500 --> 04:03.560 And it purports to answer that very question. 04:03.700 --> 04:07.160 So you can either get it directly from Corbett Report.com or, of course, 04:07.480 --> 04:11.860 the editorial of my weekly subscriber newsletter is also posted to my substack. 04:12.440 --> 04:14.600 So here it is. Why did US real attack Iran? 04:14.700 --> 04:18.900 And I start by talking about the very interesting phenomenon that we all know 04:18.900 --> 04:22.660 and that you have seen documented on Corbett Report for many, many years now, 04:22.660 --> 04:29.280 which is that there is always some perceived jindup war threat in order 04:29.280 --> 04:33.200 to corral the public into sending their sons and daughters off to die 04:33.200 --> 04:34.960 in some foreign land once again. 04:35.160 --> 04:36.900 So I go through some of those examples. 04:37.120 --> 04:39.060 The Spanish-American War had remember the main. 04:39.680 --> 04:41.480 World War One had babies on bayonets. 04:41.940 --> 04:43.120 World War Two had Pearl Harbor. 04:43.460 --> 04:44.860 Vietnam had the Gulf of Tonkin. 04:45.020 --> 04:47.140 Gulf War One had babies thrown from incubators. 04:47.360 --> 04:49.380 Gulf War Two had weapons of mass destruction. 04:49.380 --> 04:54.500 Libya had a spontaneous people's uprising against Gaddafi's Viagra-fueled rape squads. 04:54.920 --> 04:58.360 Syria had madman Assad gassing his own people. 04:59.080 --> 05:02.220 But of course, every single one of these Casas and Belai was a deception. 05:02.780 --> 05:07.080 A false flag or a provoked incident or a completely fictitious non-event 05:07.080 --> 05:10.480 designed to whip up the masses lust for blood and desire for revenge. 05:11.200 --> 05:14.680 But in each and every one of these cases, the puppeteers of the American 05:14.680 --> 05:19.420 Empire had to at least try to deceive the public in order to win their support 05:19.420 --> 05:21.520 for war in some faraway land. 05:21.780 --> 05:24.240 But what's the justification for the Iran War? 05:24.560 --> 05:28.100 Oh, right. We're we're we're freeing the Iranian people or something. 05:28.240 --> 05:31.560 Oh, wait. No, maybe there's a more obvious question. 05:31.840 --> 05:35.440 And as I go on to talk about in this article, of course, 05:35.540 --> 05:37.980 the official story is bunk. 05:38.280 --> 05:39.320 So what is the real story? 05:39.460 --> 05:40.980 We can take it from people like 05:41.680 --> 05:45.620 U.K. National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who was at the U.S. 05:45.640 --> 05:49.260 Iran talks in Geneva in February and who reported that he was surprised 05:49.260 --> 05:53.560 what the Iranians were putting down on the table or US Director of National 05:53.560 --> 05:56.320 Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who testified at the Senate Intelligence 05:56.320 --> 06:00.720 Committee hearing that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated last year. 06:00.820 --> 06:03.440 Remember that whole 12 day war thing where the White House 06:03.440 --> 06:07.700 literally put out a press release saying they obliterated Iran's nuclear program 06:07.700 --> 06:09.240 so that no no threat there. 06:09.380 --> 06:13.180 And of course, we've all seen Joe Kent, the former Director of National 06:13.180 --> 06:17.860 Counterterrorism Center, resign his post complaining that there was no imminent 06:17.860 --> 06:19.380 threat from Iran. 06:19.560 --> 06:20.780 So what was this really about? 06:20.980 --> 06:25.360 Well, we can take it from people like Joe Kent or Jonathan Powell, 06:25.480 --> 06:29.260 who have both testified that obviously there were Israeli pressures 06:29.750 --> 06:34.060 that were putting being put on the White House in order for this to take place. 06:34.060 --> 06:35.440 But we don't have to take it from that. 06:35.440 --> 06:39.500 Or even from Stephen McIntyre, who people will remember, hopefully, 06:39.740 --> 06:43.280 if they've been following the climate story as I have as climate audit, 06:43.800 --> 06:46.740 one of the people who completely deconstructed and eviscerated the 06:46.740 --> 06:48.440 Michael Mann hockey stick lie. 06:48.940 --> 06:51.560 Well, he's also eviscerating other lies. 06:51.700 --> 06:54.020 And he points out that the most definitive White House statement 06:54.020 --> 06:57.420 purporting to justify the Israel-U.S. war on Iran was its 06:57.420 --> 07:01.980 March 2nd, 2026 statement titled the Iranian regime's decades of terrorism 07:01.980 --> 07:03.060 against American citizens. 07:03.440 --> 07:06.780 And if you follow that link to that post, you can see all of these examples 07:06.780 --> 07:09.780 of Iranian dastardly terrorism against U.S. 07:10.180 --> 07:13.400 forces and sources over the course of the past few decades. 07:13.720 --> 07:18.220 But as it turns out, that entire document was plagiarized almost 07:18.220 --> 07:24.760 word for word from a June 19th, 2025 post by Zvi Khan, 07:25.220 --> 07:29.620 who works for a, well, was former APAC employee who works for a think tank, 07:30.140 --> 07:34.780 the FDD, which was founded, quote, to provide education to enhance 07:34.780 --> 07:37.300 Israel's image in North America. 07:37.840 --> 07:42.900 So there's a pro-war Zionist funded think tank that was literally 07:42.900 --> 07:44.540 word for word behind that post. 07:45.140 --> 07:47.580 Again, you can take it from many different sources, but why don't 07:47.580 --> 07:50.080 we take it from the horse's mouth, mouth himself? 07:50.660 --> 07:52.980 Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 07:53.160 --> 07:56.000 Yes, the same Marco Rubio, who has, again, corporate 07:56.000 --> 07:59.980 reporters will be well positioned to know, was personally vetted 07:59.980 --> 08:03.800 by Larry Ellison during his 2015 presidential selection run. 08:04.480 --> 08:08.800 Well, that Marco Rubio came out and kind of said the quiet part 08:08.800 --> 08:12.500 out loud about who's really directing America's foreign policy. 08:13.520 --> 08:16.060 And so the president made the very wise decision. 08:16.520 --> 08:18.720 We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. 08:18.980 --> 08:21.920 We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. 08:22.280 --> 08:24.660 And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them 08:24.660 --> 08:27.940 before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties 08:27.940 --> 08:30.440 and perhaps even higher those killed. 08:30.660 --> 08:33.740 And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. 08:35.980 --> 08:38.720 Wait, OK, so let me get this straight. 08:38.880 --> 08:44.300 So Israel was going to attack Iran, and therefore Iran would 08:44.300 --> 08:46.980 have obviously retaliate against those attacks. 08:47.120 --> 08:50.220 And that retaliation would undoubtedly hit U.S. forces in the region. 08:50.220 --> 08:54.740 So the U.S. had to preemptively attack Iran's to stop them 08:54.740 --> 08:59.000 from preemptively responding to the preemptive attack that hadn't taken place yet. 09:00.500 --> 09:05.220 Anyway, once you follow that unbelievable pretzel knot back to its 09:05.220 --> 09:10.440 it's a underlying thesis, you will discover as many in the mainstream 09:10.440 --> 09:13.840 establishment world soon did. Hey, wait, he's basically saying Israel 09:14.500 --> 09:15.640 basically started this war. 09:15.700 --> 09:17.440 They were the ones who were going to attack. 09:17.440 --> 09:21.140 And so the U.S. had to attack in order to defend the attacks 09:21.140 --> 09:24.260 against the defense against the attacks that hadn't taken place yet. 09:24.940 --> 09:28.560 And as you may or may not have seen and as I document in this editorial, 09:28.560 --> 09:32.660 yes, there was quite a lot of diplomatic bruja about that and some walking back. 09:32.840 --> 09:36.380 And well, we don't mean to say that Israel is the one behind all of anyway. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.560 That is exactly what Marco Rubio was indicating there. 09:39.660 --> 09:42.720 And of course, that comes as a surprise to precisely no one 09:42.720 --> 09:46.360 who has two brain cells to rub together or who has their head screwed on straight. 09:46.880 --> 09:52.280 And that is precisely because, again, as I document at length in this editorial, 09:52.920 --> 09:57.080 this is not the first time Israel has floated the idea of regime change 09:57.080 --> 10:00.780 in Iran or fighting Iran to the last American, 10:01.140 --> 10:04.600 which has been a key theme of war mongers 10:04.600 --> 10:09.200 like unconvicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu for decades. 10:10.500 --> 10:15.660 In 1992, as a member of parliament, Netanyahu addresses the Knesset. 10:15.660 --> 10:20.720 He says, within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become 10:20.720 --> 10:24.540 autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb. 10:25.480 --> 10:28.920 Three years later in his book, Fighting Terrorism, 10:29.240 --> 10:33.140 he repeats the same time frame, three to five years. 10:33.720 --> 10:39.340 This is a fragment of a 2009 US State Department cable released by WikiLeaks. 10:39.780 --> 10:44.820 Netanyahu tells members of Congress that Iran is one or two years away 10:44.820 --> 10:47.960 from being capable of developing nuclear weapons. 10:49.220 --> 10:53.820 It's 2012 and Netanyahu is holding up his infamous cartoon bomb 10:53.820 --> 10:57.680 at the UN General Assembly by next spring. 10:58.100 --> 11:01.300 At most by next summer at current enrichment rates, 11:02.000 --> 11:05.060 they will be finished, the medium enrichment 11:06.560 --> 11:08.240 and move on to the final stage. 11:09.340 --> 11:12.200 From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks 11:13.260 --> 11:17.860 before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb. 11:19.560 --> 11:25.060 And now, 33 years after Netanyahu's first so-called imminent warning, 11:25.580 --> 11:27.000 Israel attacks Iran. 11:27.560 --> 11:32.540 And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. 11:32.800 --> 11:33.560 It could be a year. 11:33.860 --> 11:36.260 It could be within a few months, less than a year. 11:37.640 --> 11:39.700 Right. So if we listen to Bebe, 11:39.700 --> 11:42.620 well, the world has been on the threat of nuclear, 11:42.760 --> 11:46.960 under threat of nuclear annihilation by the Iranians for decades now. 11:47.080 --> 11:51.900 They are always and have always been just weeks or months away 11:51.900 --> 11:54.200 from their building their nuclear device, 11:54.340 --> 11:56.900 that they're definitely going to rain down on your head. 11:57.160 --> 11:58.880 So you better go in and bond them. 11:59.080 --> 12:03.280 So, yes, it isn't going out on a huge limb to say that Israel 12:03.900 --> 12:08.200 obviously wanted this war, has been lusting after this war for decades, 12:08.760 --> 12:12.360 has been working concertedly to make this war happen 12:12.360 --> 12:14.680 and to put all of the domino pieces together 12:14.680 --> 12:16.760 that would allow this war to take place. 12:16.780 --> 12:18.760 You don't go after Iran first, of course. 12:18.900 --> 12:20.780 You have to destabilize the entire region. 12:20.920 --> 12:24.100 You have to take out Iraq and splinter that into sectarian violence. 12:24.260 --> 12:27.580 You have to destabilize all of Iran's regional proxies 12:27.580 --> 12:31.120 and allies in Syria, in Lebanon and elsewhere. 12:31.420 --> 12:33.700 And then you go for Iran, right? 12:33.940 --> 12:35.500 Seven countries in five years. 12:35.700 --> 12:37.220 Well, 25 years and counting. 12:37.220 --> 12:39.440 But anyway, better late than never, right? 12:39.860 --> 12:41.720 So again, as I document in this, 12:41.760 --> 12:44.080 why did US real attack Iran article? 12:44.720 --> 12:48.320 You can go back and see the development of Israel's foreign policy 12:48.320 --> 12:51.600 and geopolitical position on Iran over the decades from the time 12:51.600 --> 12:56.080 when they were best buddies and allies in the era of the Pallavi dynasty 12:56.080 --> 13:01.240 that lasted from 1925 to 1979 with, for example, 13:01.320 --> 13:04.460 Iran being the second state in the Middle East 13:04.460 --> 13:08.280 to acknowledge the state of Israel after its foundation in 1948. 13:09.060 --> 13:10.580 And you had good relations between them. 13:10.640 --> 13:14.300 You even had Mossad literally training the Shah's 13:14.300 --> 13:20.220 Savak secret police slash torture goon squad back in the 1970s. 13:20.480 --> 13:22.120 That is all documented on the record. 13:22.260 --> 13:24.260 I go through the links and talk about all of that. 13:24.480 --> 13:27.820 And then, of course, we had the Revolution of 1979, 13:28.060 --> 13:32.520 which made them the Iranians into mortal enemies and a big threat. 13:32.520 --> 13:34.220 And then everything changed. 13:34.520 --> 13:38.180 And then you had the Iran Contra deal 13:38.820 --> 13:42.160 through which Israel was actually providing weapons to Iran 13:43.520 --> 13:45.320 for on behalf of America. 13:45.320 --> 13:47.500 And why were they doing that to establish contacts 13:47.500 --> 13:50.280 with the Iranian militaries that they could use to overthrow? 13:50.500 --> 13:53.140 Committee, I mean, it gets crazy. 13:53.140 --> 13:55.100 And I go through all of those twists and turns. 13:55.280 --> 13:57.320 But long story short, yes, Israel has been 13:57.320 --> 14:00.080 lusting after Iran for decades now. 14:00.080 --> 14:05.460 It is a regional rival that has to at least be taken down a peg or two. 14:05.720 --> 14:10.240 If greater Israel is to be constructed as Odid Yanon, another well-known 14:10.240 --> 14:16.300 Israeli foreign policy planning documents, have have put on record for decades. 14:16.800 --> 14:22.180 But I don't think that that fully explains everything that's going on here. 14:22.280 --> 14:26.140 Yes, of course, Israel is interested in what is happening in Iran right now. 14:26.880 --> 14:30.880 But that also begs the question of why they have not accomplished this 14:30.880 --> 14:34.520 in the decades and decades that Netanyahu in particular, 14:34.560 --> 14:40.240 and of course, the Likudniks and Israel crazies, Zionist crazies in general, 14:40.440 --> 14:41.760 have been lusting after for decades. 14:41.900 --> 14:46.540 Why now? Why is it in 2026 that suddenly this thing 14:46.540 --> 14:50.260 that's been talked about and prepared for for literal decades is now 14:50.260 --> 14:52.080 suddenly coming to a head? 14:52.300 --> 14:56.020 Well, as I have stated before and I will state here again, 14:56.140 --> 15:00.620 I do not think that massive world historical events like these take place 15:00.620 --> 15:06.240 because a singular group with a singular agenda has suddenly decided 15:06.240 --> 15:09.940 to write the script that everyone else will now slavishly follow. 15:10.480 --> 15:12.800 I think that these types of massive world 15:12.800 --> 15:16.300 historical events take place because there are a number of players 15:16.300 --> 15:19.520 at the table with an interest, a vested interest, 15:19.640 --> 15:23.660 or sometimes a very explicit interest in these events taking place. 15:23.660 --> 15:28.380 So the real question becomes, and this is where I ended that editorial, 15:28.780 --> 15:34.280 what's the 3D reality as in 3D chess, not the cartoon 15:34.280 --> 15:39.520 memified version of Lord Emperor Trump playing his 17 dimensional chess, 15:39.640 --> 15:44.620 whatever garbage that is now rightfully seen for the absolute 15:44.620 --> 15:48.540 garbage that it always was, although it was vociferously defended 15:48.540 --> 15:53.400 by some people in this quasi supposed alternative media for years there. 15:53.660 --> 15:57.500 I think no one can think that this Iran war as part of Trump's super 15:57.500 --> 16:00.340 planned undermine the deep state and judo flip. 16:00.540 --> 16:04.340 No, no, it is not because he is just a puppet 16:04.340 --> 16:08.800 that is performing what his puppeteers are telling him to perform. 16:08.920 --> 16:11.660 But who are those puppeteers and what are they doing that's for? 16:11.780 --> 16:15.160 What is the 3D reality to this 2D chess 16:15.160 --> 16:18.720 war that we see taking place on the two dimensional chess board? 16:19.100 --> 16:22.900 Well, we can get a hint of that from one of the strangest aspects 16:22.900 --> 16:24.920 of the war that we've seen so far. 16:25.160 --> 16:27.980 And I take my cue here from Kit Knightley at Off Guardian, 16:28.220 --> 16:32.900 who wrote a very interesting and in depth piece that people should check out 16:32.900 --> 16:38.080 about the bizarre Strait of Hormuz back and forth that has taken place. 16:38.180 --> 16:41.980 I'll just read from this part of my editorial as Kit Knightley points out 16:41.980 --> 16:46.320 over at Off Guardian, perhaps the most telling part of this stage managed war 16:46.320 --> 16:50.880 narrative is the very strange tug of war over the Strait of Hormuz 16:50.880 --> 16:55.840 as Knightley correctly observes the clearly manipulated stage play 16:55.840 --> 16:59.720 of the closing of the Strait with the Iranians closing the Strait 16:59.720 --> 17:03.560 before denying they closed the Strait before the insurance companies 17:03.560 --> 17:07.420 actually closed the Strait and the clearly manipulated stage play 17:07.420 --> 17:10.800 of the mining of the Strait with anonymous trust me, bro, 17:11.220 --> 17:14.540 sources telling Rothschild Reuters that the Strait had been mined 17:14.540 --> 17:18.240 before Iran officially denied mining the Strait before Trump demanded 17:18.240 --> 17:22.020 Iran remove the mines from the Strait before US Secretary of War 17:22.020 --> 17:25.260 Pete Hegseth confirmed that there was no evidence of mines in the Strait 17:25.260 --> 17:28.800 shortly after the US Navy abruptly decommissioned 17:28.800 --> 17:32.340 four mine sweepers in the region after 40 years of service 17:32.860 --> 17:36.860 has led to the next narrative being propounded by the establishment press. 17:37.280 --> 17:41.340 The squabble over the Strait will lead to a never ending 17:41.340 --> 17:45.740 state of perma war between the West and whoever is in control of Iran. 17:46.740 --> 17:49.860 Now, I highly suggest if you are interested at all, 17:49.880 --> 17:52.900 please go to the editorial and follow every single one of these links. 17:53.060 --> 17:56.900 Every single one of these statements is, of course, hyperlinked with back to its source, 17:57.120 --> 18:02.720 showing this strange shadow play taking place where suddenly there's this story. 18:02.880 --> 18:05.040 They're mining the Strait. No, we're not mining the Strait. 18:05.280 --> 18:08.120 Now, I'm going to blow you up if you don't demine the Strait. 18:08.240 --> 18:09.080 We never mind the Strait. 18:09.700 --> 18:11.540 Actually, there's no evidence they mined the Strait. 18:11.700 --> 18:13.920 Oh, by the way, we just decommissioned our mine sweepers 18:13.920 --> 18:17.820 after 40 years of service, just bizarre, bizarre, bizarre, bizarre. 18:18.480 --> 18:23.820 But it ends up in this narrative and nightly links, 18:23.980 --> 18:28.460 rightly, I think, to this Financial Times article, why Hormuz will haunt us 18:28.460 --> 18:31.760 long after this war ends, which notes, quote, 18:31.940 --> 18:35.440 it is not in Trump's power to reopen this vital sea passage 18:35.440 --> 18:37.660 by declaring victory and walking away. 18:38.120 --> 18:42.620 Instead, his war with Iran and this particular issue of the Strait 18:42.620 --> 18:47.620 of Hormuz will define the rest of his presidency and may haunt his successors. 18:48.260 --> 18:51.500 That is because the straits closure creates both an immediate crisis 18:52.100 --> 18:54.300 and a long term strategic quandary. 18:54.800 --> 18:56.920 The current problem is that the longer it is closed, 18:57.500 --> 18:59.460 the greater the threat of a global recession. 19:00.200 --> 19:03.560 The future dilemma is that Iran now knows that control of the Strait 19:03.560 --> 19:06.500 of Hormuz gives it a stranglehold over the world economy, 19:06.800 --> 19:09.420 even if it relaxes its grip in the short term, 19:09.880 --> 19:11.780 it can tighten it again in future. 19:13.120 --> 19:14.160 Oh, no. 19:14.800 --> 19:19.100 So there, coming again, straight from the horse's mouth of the Financial Times, 19:19.320 --> 19:22.140 Gideon Rackman, that's a name that people should be familiar with. 19:22.540 --> 19:25.660 But anyway, coming straight from the horse's mouth, 19:26.280 --> 19:28.840 it doesn't matter what Trump does or doesn't do at this point. 19:29.140 --> 19:30.700 He can walk away completely. 19:31.040 --> 19:34.740 He can obliterate Iran's navy as he already says he's done, 19:34.840 --> 19:36.220 but he's going to do it even harder now. 19:36.220 --> 19:40.480 There's more back and forth that's developing as I am recording this episode 19:40.480 --> 19:41.620 with an ultimatum. 19:41.680 --> 19:44.360 You have 48 hours to clear the Strait of Hormuz, 19:44.500 --> 19:49.060 or we're going to obliterate your power plants, says Trump, et cetera, et cetera. 19:49.220 --> 19:51.000 People have seen this taking place. 19:51.340 --> 19:55.900 But as the establishment, mouthpieces and gatekeepers are saying 19:55.900 --> 20:00.040 right there in the open, it doesn't matter what happens at this point 20:00.040 --> 20:02.880 and how this is resolved or not resolved. 20:03.140 --> 20:06.040 The point is the threat is now established. 20:06.040 --> 20:07.000 And it is there. 20:07.280 --> 20:12.320 It is always there and will be the thing that can be ginned up 20:12.320 --> 20:16.800 at a moment's notice by anonymous sources telling Reuters, 20:17.080 --> 20:19.880 oh, yeah, they totally mined the Strait again. 20:19.940 --> 20:23.080 Where the where the hell did that report come from? 20:23.360 --> 20:24.800 Who were these anonymous sources? 20:25.360 --> 20:29.300 Reuters really truly just says anonymous sources in a position to know 20:29.920 --> 20:32.880 that could be literally anyone from anywhere, right? 20:33.400 --> 20:34.920 But they don't have to tell us 20:34.920 --> 20:36.020 because they're protecting their sources. 20:36.260 --> 20:36.780 OK, great. 20:36.960 --> 20:40.940 So we have this completely total, totally fabricated information 20:40.940 --> 20:44.060 from nowhere by no one that just appears in the press 20:44.060 --> 20:48.280 and then dominates the headlines that then completely reconfigures 20:48.280 --> 20:51.060 the entire calculus about the war and what's happening 20:51.060 --> 20:55.760 and what the strategic choke point is and brings the world 20:55.760 --> 20:56.920 to the state of warfare. 20:56.920 --> 21:00.580 Because, of course, what happens with the Strait of Hormuz is 21:00.580 --> 21:04.240 and has been the choke point that makes this not just 21:04.240 --> 21:07.820 some regional squabble for dominance between Israel and Iran, 21:08.040 --> 21:09.840 but a global threat. 21:10.060 --> 21:13.420 And that is the thing that can be, again, drawn out of the hat 21:13.420 --> 21:17.020 at any time by anonymous sources speaking off the record 21:17.020 --> 21:20.540 to whatever establishment pieces want to publish it 21:20.540 --> 21:21.680 whenever they want to publish it. 21:21.780 --> 21:24.960 This is the real ultimatum that is taking place right now. 21:25.020 --> 21:26.900 It is not an ultimatum from Trump to Iran. 21:27.000 --> 21:27.840 You better clear the Strait. 21:28.160 --> 21:30.840 It's an ultimatum from the deep state, the people who are really 21:30.840 --> 21:34.800 handling this to Trump and whoever else succeeds him 21:34.800 --> 21:37.420 in the Oval Office, that you are going to be beholden 21:37.420 --> 21:40.640 to whatever narrative we create about the Strait of Hormuz 21:40.640 --> 21:42.820 at any time we create it. 21:43.760 --> 21:47.500 So I think there's a deeper level of what's going on here 21:47.500 --> 21:50.420 that is not being managed by Trump. 21:50.740 --> 21:53.240 It is not even being managed by Netanyahu. 21:53.480 --> 21:55.640 There are forces above these players. 21:55.960 --> 21:59.960 And that brings with it some of the strange parts 21:59.960 --> 22:04.640 of this story that, again, some of them obvious, 22:04.960 --> 22:08.620 some of them much less obvious as to who is really benefiting 22:09.080 --> 22:11.120 from what is happening with Iran war. 22:11.440 --> 22:14.380 Of course, the base level of this analysis 22:14.380 --> 22:17.600 would be the obvious one, the follow the money, who benefits. 22:17.920 --> 22:20.920 Well, obviously, as always when it comes to warfare, 22:21.140 --> 22:23.580 the military industrial complex benefits. 22:23.940 --> 22:27.800 They cash in, they laugh all the way to the banks that they own. 22:28.400 --> 22:29.980 And here we go. 22:30.180 --> 22:33.000 So, for example, we saw this float through the news wires 22:33.000 --> 22:34.960 a few days ago from antiwar.com. 22:35.100 --> 22:38.300 Department of War seeks two hundred billion dollars more 22:38.300 --> 22:41.780 to fund Iran war, because, yes, on top of expanding 22:41.780 --> 22:44.280 and ballooning the U.S. military budget 22:44.280 --> 22:48.460 to its largest ever in history, the Trump administration, 22:48.640 --> 22:52.960 the peace prize of administration, right, is now asking 22:52.960 --> 22:56.720 for even more money for this war that they've already won, 22:57.300 --> 23:00.400 but not won enough, and two hundred billion dollars. 23:00.620 --> 23:03.640 But don't worry, guys, they have to seek two hundred billion 23:03.640 --> 23:05.860 dollars. They're asking, please, Congress, 23:06.040 --> 23:07.140 will you approve this? 23:07.260 --> 23:08.700 Oh, wait, they don't have to ask anything. 23:09.220 --> 23:11.700 U.S. removes sanction, oh, sorry, that's the wrong one. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.700 U.S. fast-tracks billions in emergency arms sales 23:15.700 --> 23:18.100 to Gulf bypassing Congress. 23:18.440 --> 23:20.860 Yeah, of course, they can fast-track the money 23:20.860 --> 23:22.820 that they need when they need it, because, of course, 23:22.940 --> 23:25.140 this is an emergency wartime situation, 23:25.140 --> 23:29.820 which, as always, lets the floodgates open 23:29.820 --> 23:31.780 and ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. 23:32.100 --> 23:35.960 And if you want a really detailed, deep-dive report 23:35.960 --> 23:39.080 on this, I will point people to this recent report 23:39.080 --> 23:40.820 from the Democracy Defender, Iran war, 23:41.340 --> 23:43.540 we follow the money to Mar-a-Lago. 23:43.800 --> 23:46.780 And this is a step-by-step deconstruction 23:46.780 --> 23:48.220 of the entire Trump administration 23:48.220 --> 23:51.920 and everyone who's literally invested in this war, 23:51.980 --> 23:54.020 who also happens to be in positions of power, 23:55.160 --> 23:56.300 in the administration. 23:56.840 --> 23:59.600 So, again, person by person, Steven Feinberg, 23:59.780 --> 24:02.160 the co-founder of the Cerberus Capital Management, 24:02.380 --> 24:04.700 a private equity firm with approximately $70 billion 24:04.700 --> 24:08.780 in assets, who serves as the deputy secretary of defense? 24:09.000 --> 24:10.200 I thought it was a secretary of war. 24:11.280 --> 24:13.180 Howard Lutnick, of course, commerce secretary 24:13.180 --> 24:15.780 who has made appearances here on the Corbett Report 24:15.780 --> 24:16.500 in recent weeks. 24:17.040 --> 24:19.900 Scott Besant and his conflicts of interests 24:20.640 --> 24:23.440 in various investments that he's totally gonna divest 24:23.440 --> 24:26.040 from in 90 days or something like that. 24:26.040 --> 24:27.280 Oh, wait, he failed to do that. 24:27.740 --> 24:29.340 Energy secretary Chris Wright, 24:29.920 --> 24:31.440 and then going through the board of profits, 24:31.740 --> 24:34.580 the shadow contractors, the golden grift, et cetera. 24:35.100 --> 24:37.280 It's, again, a very, very detailed report. 24:37.500 --> 24:39.400 So please do explore that if you're interested 24:39.400 --> 24:42.520 in how exactly the military-industrial complex 24:42.520 --> 24:44.780 is benefiting from what's going on. 24:44.900 --> 24:48.780 But it's not just the US military-industrial complex 24:48.780 --> 24:50.060 that is benefiting from this, 24:50.220 --> 24:51.640 although they demonstrably are, 24:51.640 --> 24:53.920 and obviously there are people who are making bank 24:54.310 --> 24:56.300 on this bloodshed and carnage. 24:56.720 --> 25:00.600 But weirdly enough, it's also people who have been 25:00.600 --> 25:02.800 in the USS State Department's crosshairs 25:02.800 --> 25:05.540 who are also benefiting from what's going on, 25:05.720 --> 25:07.480 sometimes quite literally and quite financially. 25:07.760 --> 25:10.200 For example, this recent report from The Daily Collar, 25:10.520 --> 25:13.060 Russian oil poised to flood world markets 25:13.490 --> 25:16.100 as Trump admin lifts sanctions. 25:16.320 --> 25:19.760 In fact, they've even listed sanctions on Iranian oil, 25:19.760 --> 25:21.440 which has been stranded at sea, 25:21.620 --> 25:24.500 to boost the overall supply because, well, what can we do? 25:24.660 --> 25:26.160 You see the oil price going up, 25:26.220 --> 25:29.300 so we have to unsanction Iranian oil. 25:29.480 --> 25:31.100 So the very people that we are bombing, 25:31.580 --> 25:33.080 we're gonna unsanction their oil 25:33.080 --> 25:35.600 so that we can bring down global oil prices. 25:38.100 --> 25:40.620 And there's even more interesting parts of this. 25:40.740 --> 25:42.760 I want you to put a pin in this particular article 25:42.760 --> 25:44.740 because I think it tells us actually 25:44.740 --> 25:45.940 where this is really going 25:45.940 --> 25:47.720 and what the end game may really be about. 25:47.720 --> 25:49.800 But anyway, this little story 25:49.800 --> 25:51.300 floated through the news wires last week 25:51.300 --> 25:53.780 and probably most people didn't see it at all. 25:54.280 --> 25:57.480 Iran mulls allowing tankers through Strait of Hormuz 25:58.240 --> 26:00.840 if trade conducted in Yuan. 26:01.980 --> 26:06.080 That, my friends, is a significant part of the narrative. 26:06.960 --> 26:09.940 But the real question, okay, so yes, 26:10.080 --> 26:12.740 there are definitely financial interests on all sides 26:12.740 --> 26:15.160 that are taking place right now 26:15.160 --> 26:16.140 and that there are people 26:16.140 --> 26:17.940 who are literally invested in this war. 26:18.540 --> 26:20.540 But as always, it's important to stress 26:20.540 --> 26:22.820 it is not the average person 26:22.820 --> 26:24.940 who is going to benefit from this in any way, 26:24.980 --> 26:26.420 financially or otherwise. 26:26.700 --> 26:29.640 It's not that because the US is making bank, 26:30.100 --> 26:31.420 US military contractors 26:31.420 --> 26:34.360 and well-connected insider administration cronies, 26:34.580 --> 26:35.680 they're making lots of money. 26:35.880 --> 26:38.420 Therefore, yay, no, because of course, 26:38.740 --> 26:41.620 the average person is just going to see higher gas prices 26:41.620 --> 26:43.180 and higher prices of everything 26:43.180 --> 26:45.720 as the world economy comes to a grinding halt. 26:45.720 --> 26:49.620 And that's true not just in America, 26:49.760 --> 26:51.820 it's true in every country. 26:51.860 --> 26:53.260 Of course, Iran as well. 26:53.280 --> 26:55.520 It's not like the unsanctioned oil, oh yay, 26:55.620 --> 26:57.260 now the Iranian people are going to benefit 26:57.260 --> 26:59.700 from the oil that their country owns. 26:59.800 --> 27:00.760 Oh wait, they don't own it? 27:01.040 --> 27:03.720 No, the government claims control over it 27:03.720 --> 27:05.920 and they will reap any possible benefits 27:05.920 --> 27:07.780 from whatever funds might come through 27:07.780 --> 27:08.740 that unsanctioned oil. 27:09.080 --> 27:11.080 Meanwhile, in reality, dot, dot, dot, 27:11.160 --> 27:12.560 this latest article, 27:12.560 --> 27:16.400 Iran issues 10 million real bank note 27:16.400 --> 27:18.000 amid soaring inflation. 27:18.140 --> 27:20.740 Yes, they have just released their largest ever, 27:20.900 --> 27:23.440 their highest denominated ever bank note 27:23.440 --> 27:26.260 to the 10 million real note 27:26.720 --> 27:29.320 because inflation is going through the roof over there. 27:29.340 --> 27:32.220 Of course, as it would as their currency collapses 27:32.220 --> 27:34.620 as their access to world markets 27:34.620 --> 27:37.740 already highly sanctioned and highly controlled 27:38.500 --> 27:40.120 begins to completely collapse, 27:40.120 --> 27:42.380 the average Iranian is sitting there 27:42.380 --> 27:43.900 in an internet blackout 27:43.900 --> 27:45.540 with inflation going through the roof, 27:45.540 --> 27:47.080 watching, oh well, good, 27:47.360 --> 27:50.040 now I have a 10 million real note, yay. 27:50.780 --> 27:53.820 Hopefully it will buy me a block of butter 27:53.820 --> 27:54.860 at the end of the day. 27:55.000 --> 27:59.400 So this is the state of things for the average person 27:59.400 --> 28:00.840 and wait, it gets worse. 28:01.140 --> 28:03.020 And I think this points us to where things 28:03.410 --> 28:04.820 may be really going here. 28:05.980 --> 28:08.380 Does anyone remember the dark days of the lockdown 28:08.380 --> 28:09.720 during the, the scandemic? 28:10.100 --> 28:12.980 Because it turns out warfare is a good way 28:12.980 --> 28:16.520 of reconditioning the populace to, of course, comply 28:16.520 --> 28:18.820 with whatever wartime rationing and demands 28:18.820 --> 28:20.700 that the state may make. 28:21.080 --> 28:23.520 For example, we get this from the telegraph, 28:23.700 --> 28:27.540 people urged to work from home in global oil crisis. 28:27.800 --> 28:29.700 Yes, work from home mandates 28:29.700 --> 28:31.640 and rationing of various sorts 28:31.640 --> 28:33.680 because of course there is a global oil crisis 28:33.680 --> 28:34.340 going on guys. 28:34.780 --> 28:36.640 You see what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. 28:37.140 --> 28:39.300 We're all gonna have to tighten our belts, 28:39.380 --> 28:42.600 but don't worry, it's for the good of the Iranian people 28:42.600 --> 28:45.240 or it's to keep us safe from their nukes. 28:45.300 --> 28:46.900 Well, I don't know, I don't know exactly why 28:46.900 --> 28:48.040 this is happening, but anyway, 28:48.140 --> 28:50.020 we're all gonna make the sacrifices. 28:50.760 --> 28:53.240 If I didn't know better, and I do, 28:53.420 --> 28:55.180 but if I didn't know better, I'd say, hmm, 28:56.160 --> 28:58.380 I think there's something more going on here. 28:58.460 --> 29:01.360 There's some sort of, I don't know, great reset agenda, 29:01.640 --> 29:04.780 build back better agenda, a new world order, 29:04.780 --> 29:06.840 a newer, friendlier world order 29:06.840 --> 29:08.900 that is being erected from the ashes 29:08.900 --> 29:13.060 of this smoking crater hole left by the Iran War. 29:13.860 --> 29:17.040 But again, don't take it from James Corbett. 29:17.120 --> 29:18.120 What does he know? 29:18.320 --> 29:21.920 No, no, let's take it from one of the new rising stars 29:21.920 --> 29:24.180 of the alternative media. 29:25.160 --> 29:28.180 If you were the commander-in-chief of the United States, 29:28.520 --> 29:30.980 what would you do at this point as of today? 29:34.820 --> 29:36.200 Commander-in-chief, meaning Donald Trump? 29:36.700 --> 29:38.340 Yeah, you get to make the decisions. 29:38.500 --> 29:40.180 What does America do next? 29:40.580 --> 29:42.280 If it's acting in its own interest, 29:42.360 --> 29:44.780 if it's trying to preserve its power and wealth 29:44.780 --> 29:46.140 at this point, what does it do? 29:49.080 --> 29:51.000 Well, first of all, I would acknowledge 29:51.000 --> 29:52.920 that all these events are interconnected, right? 29:53.060 --> 29:55.460 So the struggle of China, this war in Ukraine, 29:55.940 --> 29:57.700 this war in the Middle East, it's all interconnected 29:58.300 --> 30:02.160 because the American Empire, it's too overstretched 30:02.840 --> 30:05.940 and it has its fingers on everything. 30:06.400 --> 30:09.060 And so it allows its enemies to provoke it 30:09.060 --> 30:11.700 into these never-ending wars. 30:12.280 --> 30:16.260 So what I would do is basically sit down everyone, okay? 30:16.340 --> 30:19.400 Including Russia, China, Iran, and say, 30:19.920 --> 30:22.180 it's time for a new world order 30:22.680 --> 30:26.340 where we are partners in this relationship, right? 30:26.520 --> 30:27.600 Before America was a hegemon, 30:27.840 --> 30:30.040 before the U.S. dollar was a world reserve currency. 30:30.870 --> 30:34.480 But now what we want to do is open a dialogue 30:34.480 --> 30:36.360 where everyone is respected, 30:36.680 --> 30:39.540 where America is no longer the bully, 30:39.860 --> 30:44.160 but a willing partner in creating a new economic order 30:44.160 --> 30:47.320 that benefits everyone and not just a few. 30:48.980 --> 30:51.800 I think that's the wisest possible advice 30:51.800 --> 30:55.200 and probably the only path that preserves civilization. 30:56.870 --> 30:57.880 Are you buying this? 30:58.360 --> 30:59.500 I mean, really? 31:00.060 --> 31:00.820 Are you buying this? 31:01.020 --> 31:01.940 And who's selling it? 31:02.060 --> 31:03.180 Well, for those not in the know, 31:03.260 --> 31:05.200 that was Professor Zhang Xueqin 31:05.680 --> 31:09.200 who has rocketed through the ranks of absolutely nowhere 31:09.200 --> 31:13.060 to become one of the most revered Nostradamus's 31:13.680 --> 31:16.620 so-called of the mainstream alternative media 31:16.620 --> 31:18.740 and is now being hosted by the likes 31:18.740 --> 31:20.140 of Tucker Carlson himself. 31:21.360 --> 31:23.640 Interesting and interesting for a number of reasons. 31:23.660 --> 31:25.320 Not only because this proposed solution 31:25.320 --> 31:28.580 is evidently a shinier, happier, multilateral 31:28.580 --> 31:30.980 New World Order with China and Russia. 31:31.280 --> 31:32.360 And where have I heard this before? 31:32.900 --> 31:35.260 Where have I heard this narrative being propounded before? 31:36.160 --> 31:38.900 But also because who is this Professor Zhang? 31:39.440 --> 31:42.240 Anyway, and how did he suddenly become so popular 31:42.240 --> 31:45.680 and amazing and millions of people watching him on YouTube? 31:46.800 --> 31:49.000 Despite the fact that I have yet to hear him say 31:49.000 --> 31:51.420 literally anything, make any analysis 31:51.420 --> 31:53.660 that is not available in a thousand other places 31:53.660 --> 31:55.520 and with better documented sources. 31:55.940 --> 31:59.260 I just, I don't, it's almost like something's going on here. 31:59.340 --> 32:01.080 And yeah, when you start to dig into it, 32:01.220 --> 32:03.140 Canadian journalists deported from China 32:03.140 --> 32:05.060 from the Globe and Mail back in 2002 32:05.060 --> 32:09.860 noting how Zhang Xueqin, who was a Canadian freelance 32:09.860 --> 32:12.240 journalist born, who was born in China 32:12.240 --> 32:16.220 was working for our good friends at PBS back in that time 32:16.220 --> 32:18.860 making a documentary about labor unrest in China 32:18.860 --> 32:21.020 which caused him to be deported from the country. 32:21.380 --> 32:24.500 And thus a crusader for human rights or something? 32:24.780 --> 32:26.380 I don't know, anyway, he's a freelance journalist 32:26.380 --> 32:31.740 working with the US PBS to undermine China 32:31.740 --> 32:32.620 and gets deported. 32:32.740 --> 32:36.620 Then the next year, he gets back into China 32:36.620 --> 32:41.160 and decides to give up journalism to focus on education. 32:41.680 --> 32:43.800 Well, anyway, that's what we can get from his own op-eds 32:43.800 --> 32:46.120 that he wrote for CNN back in 2017. 32:46.360 --> 32:48.300 China's media enables tyranny and corruption 32:48.300 --> 32:50.320 unlike the US, I guess, and PBS. 32:51.560 --> 32:54.820 China let me back into the country a year later in 2003 32:54.820 --> 32:57.200 and today I've switched from being a rebellious journalist 32:57.200 --> 32:58.280 into a public educator, 32:58.520 --> 33:01.360 tasked with helping China adopt Western creativity. 33:02.320 --> 33:05.580 And now he's literally a high school teacher in China. 33:06.880 --> 33:08.960 Mr. Zhang, not Professor Zhang 33:08.960 --> 33:11.740 because that's just a title he's just given himself. 33:12.000 --> 33:13.880 He is not a professor, he is a Mr. Zhang 33:13.880 --> 33:15.560 who is teaching high school in China. 33:15.560 --> 33:17.680 He has a BA in literature. 33:17.680 --> 33:20.800 I am literally more academically qualified 33:20.800 --> 33:25.060 than Professor Zhang if we wanted to go degree for degree, 33:25.200 --> 33:28.820 which I don't, but anyway, make of all that what you will. 33:29.000 --> 33:31.680 But along comes these truth tellers 33:31.680 --> 33:33.280 in the mainstream alternative media 33:33.280 --> 33:35.560 to tell you that the real answer here is for America 33:35.560 --> 33:38.680 to just give in to the multilateral world order that, 33:39.320 --> 33:41.260 huh, now that I think about it, 33:41.420 --> 33:43.360 is the exact same thing 33:43.360 --> 33:46.060 that the US deep state and the globalists 33:46.060 --> 33:50.000 of all stripes have been advocating for openly for years now. 33:50.800 --> 33:54.960 As one of the top military people said to me 33:54.960 --> 33:56.620 in a secure meeting the other day, 33:57.620 --> 34:02.140 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946. 34:03.300 --> 34:06.620 And since then we established a liberal world order 34:06.620 --> 34:08.900 and that hadn't happened in a long while. 34:09.060 --> 34:11.280 A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos. 34:11.960 --> 34:13.980 And now is the time when things are shifting. 34:13.980 --> 34:16.660 We're gonna, there can be a new world order out there. 34:17.020 --> 34:18.280 And we've got to lead it. 34:18.480 --> 34:21.080 We've got to unite the rest of the free world and doing it. 34:21.660 --> 34:25.440 The idea is that the international rules based order 34:25.440 --> 34:30.660 has a moral imperative, which stands in opposition 34:31.420 --> 34:35.060 to something that you've discussed before. 34:35.620 --> 34:40.820 The joint statement between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin 34:40.820 --> 34:43.980 who suggested a different model 34:45.760 --> 34:52.160 based on what they were calling a multipolar rules-based system, 34:52.220 --> 34:53.820 but they very much focused on it 34:53.820 --> 34:57.000 being an international law-based system, 34:57.540 --> 35:00.700 focused more around the G20 35:01.060 --> 35:04.000 than the international rules-based order, 35:04.100 --> 35:08.960 which is the one that we're encouraged to support, 35:09.410 --> 35:11.580 which is based around the G7 35:11.580 --> 35:15.260 and what we might call a unipolar world order. 35:15.920 --> 35:18.060 And it was actually Patrick Stewart 35:18.060 --> 35:21.700 who was writing in the Washington Quarterly 35:21.700 --> 35:23.780 for the Council of Foreign, 35:23.840 --> 35:25.680 well, not for the Council of Foreign Relations 35:25.680 --> 35:27.140 in this instance, 35:27.140 --> 35:29.580 but he's a member of the Council of Foreign Relations 35:30.050 --> 35:35.320 who described what the international rules-based order 35:35.320 --> 35:38.480 is currently the Western model. 35:38.480 --> 35:40.820 I should interject that you mean Stewart Patrick, 35:41.020 --> 35:43.860 not Patrick Stewart, not Captain Picard. 35:44.480 --> 35:47.780 Yeah, no, not Captain Picard, no. 35:48.440 --> 35:51.720 But he described it as follows, 35:52.020 --> 35:55.200 what sets the post 1945 Western order apart 35:55.200 --> 35:58.920 is that it was shaped overwhelmingly by a single power, 35:59.420 --> 36:00.500 the United States, 36:00.860 --> 36:04.620 operating in the broader contest of strategic bipolarity. 36:05.160 --> 36:08.320 It constructed, managed and defended the regimes 36:08.320 --> 36:10.620 of the capitalist world economy. 36:11.320 --> 36:14.100 So this idea, you know, 36:14.140 --> 36:17.340 which is framed in fluffy rhetoric of democracy 36:17.340 --> 36:18.580 and all that kind of thing. 36:19.240 --> 36:21.160 And it is fluffy rhetoric. 36:21.340 --> 36:22.460 I think that's the point to make 36:22.460 --> 36:23.120 because there is, 36:23.360 --> 36:24.820 if we look at what's happening now, 36:24.820 --> 36:27.300 there is no commitment to democratic principles. 36:27.740 --> 36:28.960 There are none at all. 36:29.620 --> 36:36.600 So the idea is that the U.S. as a unipolar power, 36:36.940 --> 36:40.160 which certainly they were after the end 36:40.160 --> 36:42.520 and the sort of disillusion of the Soviet Union, 36:42.640 --> 36:44.140 they became that in reality. 36:44.460 --> 36:47.240 They became a, we had a unipolar world. 36:47.360 --> 36:48.820 There was only one superpower. 36:50.340 --> 36:53.700 That situation is rapidly changing. 36:54.180 --> 36:57.560 And that situation is changing very quickly, 36:57.560 --> 36:59.540 given what's happening in Ukraine at the moment. 37:00.920 --> 37:01.940 But nonetheless, 37:02.140 --> 37:04.980 that was the idea of the international rules-based order 37:04.980 --> 37:06.440 as presented by the West, 37:06.560 --> 37:09.800 which stands opposed to the new model, 37:10.100 --> 37:14.280 which is being advocated by China and Russia at the moment. 37:15.560 --> 37:17.440 In case you missed it at the time, 37:17.520 --> 37:21.100 that was a clip from my 2022 interview 37:21.100 --> 37:22.900 with researcher Ian Davis, 37:23.340 --> 37:25.380 frequent Corbett report guest friend of the show. 37:25.380 --> 37:28.560 You will recognize from his many previous appearances 37:28.560 --> 37:29.600 on the Corbett report, 37:29.760 --> 37:31.740 that one specifically was entitled 37:31.740 --> 37:34.740 Ian Davis on the New World Order and How to Oppose It, 37:34.840 --> 37:36.340 in which we were talking about 37:36.880 --> 37:39.920 what was very au courant in diplomatic circles 37:39.920 --> 37:40.860 at that time, 37:40.900 --> 37:42.640 which are various statements by Biden 37:42.640 --> 37:44.100 and other deep state stooges 37:44.100 --> 37:45.320 about the need for the creation 37:45.320 --> 37:47.940 of a new multipolar world order 37:47.940 --> 37:50.540 and how this international rules-based order 37:50.540 --> 37:52.940 has been advocated on both sides 37:52.940 --> 37:56.100 of the phony, jindup, West versus Bricks conflict 37:56.100 --> 37:57.900 for years and years now. 37:58.360 --> 38:01.360 And there's plenty of evidence in that conversation, 38:01.640 --> 38:03.400 in the article that Ian Davis penned 38:03.400 --> 38:05.280 that we were talking about in the various sources. 38:05.500 --> 38:07.820 He was citing Stuart Patrick 38:08.340 --> 38:11.160 and others, not Patrick Stewart, et cetera. 38:11.320 --> 38:12.740 So there's a lot of information there 38:12.740 --> 38:15.080 for people who are just getting caught up on reality. 38:15.260 --> 38:17.280 So there you go, Professor Davis 38:18.000 --> 38:20.160 or maybe Professor Corbett, 38:20.160 --> 38:22.040 because, you know, reportage, 38:22.160 --> 38:23.420 essays on the New World Order, 38:23.640 --> 38:26.420 how did Nostradamus Corbett possibly predict 38:26.420 --> 38:27.700 that this is where things were heading? 38:29.300 --> 38:31.140 Anyway, yes, let's yes, 38:31.500 --> 38:34.160 and this information that's coming now 38:34.160 --> 38:35.640 from the mainstream alternative media 38:35.640 --> 38:39.020 that yes, the end game for an Iran war conflict 38:39.020 --> 38:42.480 is the creation of a new international rules-based order. 38:42.640 --> 38:44.080 Yes, that's true. 38:44.240 --> 38:45.480 I don't think that's a good thing 38:45.480 --> 38:48.080 because of everything that it entails. 38:48.080 --> 38:52.980 And we start to see that when we start to see the oil prices, 38:53.720 --> 38:54.820 skyrocketing is going to create 38:54.820 --> 38:56.640 these rationing measures, et cetera. 38:56.820 --> 38:59.780 And one does not have to have a great deal of imagination 38:59.780 --> 39:01.800 to understand how these financial pressures 39:01.800 --> 39:03.740 are going to be used as leverage 39:04.380 --> 39:07.820 to advance every single one of the agenda items 39:07.820 --> 39:11.260 that we know is on board for digital ID 39:11.260 --> 39:14.780 and biometrics and all of the other apparatus 39:14.780 --> 39:16.800 of the biosecurity state 39:16.800 --> 39:19.400 that is now being transitioned into the war security state. 39:19.640 --> 39:21.360 You know that narrative is coming, 39:21.660 --> 39:24.380 but let's look at a very specific example, 39:24.520 --> 39:26.020 something we can put our finger on 39:26.020 --> 39:28.780 of who is behind what is happening 39:28.780 --> 39:31.360 and why they are so interested in it 39:31.360 --> 39:34.220 and specifically what will eventuate from this. 39:34.380 --> 39:35.480 Let's put our necks out there 39:35.480 --> 39:37.860 and make some specific predictions 39:37.860 --> 39:39.860 about what is coming as a result of this 39:39.860 --> 39:42.120 because there is enough information now 39:42.120 --> 39:43.480 that we can start to get a sense of that. 39:43.600 --> 39:45.080 We've already looked at some of the people 39:45.080 --> 39:47.260 who are financially benefiting from this. 39:47.800 --> 39:49.140 Surprise, surprise, guess what? 39:49.320 --> 39:51.380 The Iran War is also a Bankster War, 39:51.700 --> 39:52.820 like every war is, 39:52.840 --> 39:55.920 because their financial and monetary incentives are there, 39:56.220 --> 39:59.060 but very specifically when we're following the money 39:59.060 --> 40:00.220 on the Iran War Trail, 40:00.480 --> 40:02.140 let's not just end at the usual 40:02.140 --> 40:04.440 military industrial complex grifters 40:04.440 --> 40:07.240 making bank from their blood money. 40:07.780 --> 40:08.940 No, no, no, it doesn't end there. 40:09.040 --> 40:10.840 In fact, what we are looking at 40:10.840 --> 40:13.480 is following the money all the way 40:13.480 --> 40:15.100 into a new monetary order 40:15.100 --> 40:17.280 because that is on the table. 40:17.540 --> 40:19.700 And let's look at in more detail 40:19.700 --> 40:22.400 at that article that I read the headline of earlier, 40:22.860 --> 40:25.660 Iran mulls allowing tankers through Strait of Hormuz 40:26.340 --> 40:28.200 if trade conducted in Yuan. 40:28.980 --> 40:30.520 What on earth is this about? 40:30.840 --> 40:32.780 Iran is considering allowing a limited number 40:32.780 --> 40:34.620 of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz 40:34.620 --> 40:36.280 on the condition that the oil cargo 40:36.280 --> 40:38.420 is traded in Chinese Yuan. 40:39.020 --> 40:41.400 A senior Iranian official told CNN 40:41.400 --> 40:43.320 that Tehran is working on a new plan 40:43.320 --> 40:46.080 to manage tanker traffic through the strategic waterway 40:46.080 --> 40:48.020 on Iran's southern coast. 40:48.540 --> 40:50.760 Now, of course, this article is a weak old. 40:51.280 --> 40:52.500 Things have moved on since then. 40:52.620 --> 40:54.420 We now have this new ultimatum that's happening 40:54.420 --> 40:56.700 as I'm recording this podcast, et cetera. 40:56.880 --> 41:00.020 So the ongoing brew ha ha in the Strait 41:00.020 --> 41:01.660 is not settled yet, 41:01.900 --> 41:04.800 but as we see it is the open festering wound 41:04.800 --> 41:07.940 that can be, the bandaid can be ripped off at any time 41:07.940 --> 41:09.640 no matter how they cover it over. 41:09.640 --> 41:12.620 And the floating of the idea 41:12.620 --> 41:16.320 that only Yuan-denominated oil will pass through 41:16.320 --> 41:18.340 is extremely important 41:18.340 --> 41:20.840 because as people know, 41:21.200 --> 41:22.740 maybe you've heard about it before, 41:23.180 --> 41:24.960 the Petro Yuan is a thing, 41:25.140 --> 41:26.920 or a thing that China has been trying 41:26.920 --> 41:28.560 to bring into reality for years 41:28.560 --> 41:30.620 and has had some limited success on that. 41:30.860 --> 41:32.240 If you do not know about that, 41:32.300 --> 41:35.180 just type Petro Yuan into the corporate report search engine 41:35.180 --> 41:37.300 and you will find articles that I've had 41:37.300 --> 41:39.060 on that very subject over the years. 41:39.660 --> 41:40.420 Talking about that, 41:40.420 --> 41:43.000 but if you don't know what the Petro Yuan is, 41:43.060 --> 41:45.100 well, how about we start at basics? 41:45.580 --> 41:46.320 The Petro Dollar, 41:46.620 --> 41:48.660 again, this is something that I've talked about before, 41:49.020 --> 41:52.720 but the long story short is that in the 1970s, 41:52.720 --> 41:54.660 as Nixon was closing the gold window 41:54.660 --> 41:56.340 and people around the world were discovering 41:56.340 --> 41:59.120 that the US dollar was no longer backed up by gold, 41:59.380 --> 42:00.680 well, what's it backed up by? 42:01.160 --> 42:01.840 Of course, Kissinger, 42:02.080 --> 42:04.880 acting as a proxy for Rockefeller behind the scenes, 42:05.260 --> 42:06.660 was scrambling to put together 42:06.660 --> 42:08.920 a diplomatic coup, 42:10.080 --> 42:13.640 monetary slash military coup of sorts in the Middle East, 42:13.720 --> 42:16.160 specifically the construction of the Petro Dollar. 42:16.440 --> 42:17.260 And for people who don't know, 42:17.380 --> 42:19.100 this is an informal agreement. 42:19.220 --> 42:20.420 It was not a formal agreement. 42:20.580 --> 42:22.120 It did not suddenly end 42:22.120 --> 42:24.740 because it expired as was fake news, 42:24.900 --> 42:27.080 false news reported a couple of years ago, 42:27.120 --> 42:30.000 something that I covered in the fake news awards recently. 42:30.700 --> 42:32.780 No, it wasn't a formal agreement. 42:32.900 --> 42:34.060 It was an informal agreement, 42:34.660 --> 42:36.080 primarily with Saudi Arabia, 42:36.080 --> 42:37.520 but also with other Gulf States, 42:38.040 --> 42:40.920 to price oil in dollars, 42:41.140 --> 42:43.340 to sell oil in dollars, 42:43.560 --> 42:45.200 and for those dollars that were collected 42:45.200 --> 42:48.060 to then be recycled back through the US banking system 42:48.060 --> 42:50.880 by investing in treasuries or in the US markets, 42:51.240 --> 42:53.360 through US banks, that was the deal. 42:53.500 --> 42:56.380 And that was what made the US dollar 42:56.380 --> 42:58.720 still the world reserve currency, 42:58.720 --> 43:01.360 still the thing that everybody had to have 43:01.360 --> 43:04.260 because if the lifeblood of the world economy 43:04.260 --> 43:05.900 is literally priced in dollars, 43:06.120 --> 43:09.680 it means you need dollars in order to buy that lifeblood. 43:09.940 --> 43:11.520 And that's exactly the game 43:11.520 --> 43:13.480 that has been played for decades and decades now, 43:13.500 --> 43:15.000 but you know what? 43:15.140 --> 43:16.420 That's starting to change. 43:16.800 --> 43:21.160 And that changeover has been excellently summarized 43:21.160 --> 43:23.380 and encapsulated in this very important article 43:23.380 --> 43:25.100 from the Golden Geopolitics Substack. 43:25.320 --> 43:27.400 I will of course include this in the show notes 43:27.400 --> 43:29.720 along with everything else that I talk about today. 43:30.100 --> 43:32.120 So please go and read through it in its entirety. 43:32.120 --> 43:34.100 It's called the bread and whoops, 43:34.100 --> 43:37.620 how 50 years of dollar supremacy are dying with a bang, 43:37.680 --> 43:38.740 not a whimper. 43:39.160 --> 43:41.620 And as I say, you should read through this whole article. 43:41.740 --> 43:43.400 It's got a lot of good detail in here 43:43.400 --> 43:45.140 talking about the situation we're in 43:45.140 --> 43:46.440 and how we've arrived at it, 43:46.440 --> 43:48.460 at least over the last several years, 43:49.120 --> 43:51.160 talking about Venezuela's attempts 43:51.160 --> 43:53.780 to get their gold out of the vaults in London, et cetera, 43:53.940 --> 43:56.040 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, et cetera. 43:56.100 --> 43:57.540 But here's where we get to the money part 43:58.080 --> 44:00.040 where he describes the Petrodollar. 44:00.160 --> 44:01.920 The Petrodollar was a simple deal. 44:01.920 --> 44:04.140 The Gulf states price their oil in dollars, 44:04.540 --> 44:06.800 recycle the surplus into US treasuries, 44:07.260 --> 44:09.440 and in exchange get American military protection. 44:10.020 --> 44:13.460 Clean, elegant, and for 50 years, it actually worked. 44:13.840 --> 44:16.880 The US got permanent demand for its currency and its debt. 44:17.300 --> 44:18.840 The Gulf got security guarantees 44:18.840 --> 44:22.200 backed by the most powerful military on earth. 44:22.760 --> 44:24.680 Five decades of procurement scandals 44:24.680 --> 44:27.940 and DEI hires later, someone called the bluff. 44:28.380 --> 44:32.680 US bases across the Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, 44:32.900 --> 44:36.100 the UAE were always sold as the physical expression 44:36.100 --> 44:39.600 of this guarantee, the muscle that backed the paper. 44:40.120 --> 44:41.020 They were protection, 44:41.560 --> 44:44.000 except now those bases are targets. 44:44.560 --> 44:46.420 The countries hosting them are getting hit 44:46.420 --> 44:48.540 precisely because they host them. 44:48.800 --> 44:51.560 What once was US military presence as shield 44:51.820 --> 44:56.000 has collapsed and become US military presence as a bullseye. 44:56.000 --> 44:58.140 Medvedev put it with the particular relish 44:58.140 --> 45:00.420 of someone who has been waiting years to say it, 45:00.500 --> 45:02.700 and here he quotes the Medvedev tweet, 45:03.240 --> 45:05.120 the Gulf Arab countries let American bases 45:05.120 --> 45:06.140 onto their territory. 45:06.580 --> 45:08.900 Naively, they expected protection from them. 45:09.300 --> 45:11.780 Like hell, the US just uses them 45:11.780 --> 45:14.160 while protecting only one country. 45:14.500 --> 45:16.760 Think long and hard about whether you really need 45:16.760 --> 45:19.760 US bases, they're not protection, they're a threat. 45:20.620 --> 45:24.080 So you are starting to see what is happening here. 45:24.080 --> 45:26.480 What is truly unfolding in this situation? 45:26.880 --> 45:29.940 Yes, war and all of the things that come along with it, 45:29.940 --> 45:33.020 but very specifically, the people who are being retaliated 45:33.020 --> 45:34.840 against Bahrain right now are the people 45:34.840 --> 45:37.160 who are hosting the US military bases, 45:37.320 --> 45:40.480 which threatens to undermine the entire basis 45:40.480 --> 45:41.940 of the petrodollar system. 45:42.160 --> 45:44.540 The entire guarantee was a security guarantee, 45:44.700 --> 45:47.380 which has now just become a security liability. 45:48.220 --> 45:50.780 So why are we pricing our oil in dollars again? 45:51.480 --> 45:53.080 Hmm, I wonder if there's another way to do it. 45:53.080 --> 45:54.520 Oh, if we price it and you want, 45:54.640 --> 45:57.060 maybe we can stale straight through the straight of form. 45:57.600 --> 45:59.800 Interesting, what an interesting trap 45:59.800 --> 46:01.360 that has been set and sprung. 46:02.920 --> 46:05.640 And later on in this sub-stack, he goes on to write, 46:06.000 --> 46:09.520 about $9.2 trillion in US treasuries rolled over 46:09.520 --> 46:11.900 in fiscal 2025, roughly a third 46:11.900 --> 46:13.580 of all outstanding federal debt. 46:13.860 --> 46:17.460 And the 2026 refinancing wave is already building. 46:17.940 --> 46:19.860 Annual interest payments on the federal debt 46:19.860 --> 46:22.300 have crossed $1 trillion for the first time. 46:22.300 --> 46:24.420 The treasury is buying back its own debt 46:24.420 --> 46:26.660 in tranches to keep the market from seizing up, 46:26.720 --> 46:29.700 but the 10-year yield keeps moving higher regardless. 46:30.320 --> 46:31.840 The petrodollar recycling loop 46:31.840 --> 46:33.580 was one of the structural forces 46:33.580 --> 46:35.400 keeping treasury auctions clearing. 46:36.000 --> 46:38.780 When Gulf sovereigns stop buying or start selling, 46:39.160 --> 46:42.600 somebody else has to absorb that supply at higher rates, 46:42.840 --> 46:44.560 which makes the interest burden worse, 46:44.880 --> 46:46.400 which makes the deficit worse, 46:46.800 --> 46:48.160 which requires more issuance. 46:48.580 --> 46:50.360 The spiral is not complicated. 46:50.820 --> 46:53.740 And underneath all of this sits a deeper shift 46:53.740 --> 46:54.860 that doesn't get enough attention. 46:55.300 --> 46:58.300 The world is migrating from a currency-based monetary order 46:58.300 --> 46:59.680 to a collateral-based one. 47:00.180 --> 47:03.220 For decades, treasuries were the global safe asset, 47:03.620 --> 47:05.540 the thing you held when you didn't know what else to hold. 47:06.060 --> 47:07.260 That status is eroding. 47:07.720 --> 47:10.500 What's replacing it are commodities, physical stuff, 47:10.820 --> 47:12.480 things you can actually use, 47:12.860 --> 47:14.680 which is, not coincidentally, 47:15.060 --> 47:17.220 exactly what the GCC is sitting on 47:17.220 --> 47:19.900 and exactly what the US has just demonstrated, 47:20.280 --> 47:21.480 it cannot protect. 47:22.340 --> 47:23.940 It goes on to make the point, for example, 47:24.100 --> 47:25.400 of course, this is what we've seen 47:25.940 --> 47:27.640 as investors are selling off stocks 47:27.640 --> 47:29.300 as private credit fears mount. 47:29.560 --> 47:32.380 We're also seeing, of course, gold skyrocketing 47:32.380 --> 47:34.480 as one of the safe haven assets 47:34.480 --> 47:39.080 or that has shown that it is, again, 47:39.440 --> 47:41.360 the thing that people will eventually turn to 47:41.360 --> 47:44.060 when they realize that the paper promises of US treasuries 47:44.060 --> 47:45.480 are not worth the paper they're printed on. 47:45.960 --> 47:47.660 And then finally, he wraps up by saying, 47:47.820 --> 47:50.460 the entire purpose of US power projection in the Middle East, 47:50.860 --> 47:53.300 the bases, the carrier groups, the security guarantees 47:53.300 --> 47:56.380 was always to protect the dollar system, 47:56.620 --> 47:58.220 to keep the oil flowing in dollars, 47:58.640 --> 47:59.860 the recycling loop turning. 48:00.260 --> 48:01.820 Not out of the goodness of its heart, 48:02.100 --> 48:04.740 it allowed the US to run deficits indefinitely, 48:05.100 --> 48:06.820 export inflation to the rest of the world 48:06.820 --> 48:11.140 and borrow at rates no other debtor could ever dream of. 48:11.480 --> 48:14.100 Whether Washington chose this war in Iran 48:14.100 --> 48:15.540 or simply couldn't say no 48:15.540 --> 48:17.580 when Israel saw its chance and leapt, 48:17.860 --> 48:19.140 that's still an open question. 48:19.600 --> 48:21.740 What isn't open is the result. 48:22.160 --> 48:23.680 The Gulf States are under attack 48:23.680 --> 48:28.440 because they host US bases, end quote. 48:29.220 --> 48:31.760 So again, please do go read through this entire article. 48:31.940 --> 48:33.440 It is important, but it shows 48:34.100 --> 48:36.580 something very important that is developing here. 48:37.040 --> 48:39.680 This is the intertwined concept 48:39.680 --> 48:42.400 that in times of great warfare, 48:42.400 --> 48:46.040 geopolitical instability, world warfare, 48:46.420 --> 48:49.460 we see monetary paradigm shifts 48:49.460 --> 48:53.100 from the gold standard that was being propped up 48:53.100 --> 48:54.740 by the UK banking system, 48:55.020 --> 48:58.820 the British banking system in the early 1900s, 48:58.820 --> 49:01.280 shifting over after World War I 49:01.280 --> 49:03.340 through the period of great instability 49:03.340 --> 49:05.520 of the Depression and everything that came along 49:05.520 --> 49:06.980 with that to the founding 49:06.980 --> 49:09.660 of the new monetary economic order in bread and woods 49:09.660 --> 49:12.060 and towards the tail end of World War II 49:12.060 --> 49:14.580 that has propped up the system as we know it 49:14.580 --> 49:18.420 and has made the US unipower, at this point, 49:18.800 --> 49:20.960 empire into the greatest world empire 49:20.960 --> 49:23.460 that has ever existed on the face of the planet. 49:23.760 --> 49:26.880 That has been done specifically on the back 49:26.880 --> 49:29.120 of a number of monetary inventions, 49:29.120 --> 49:32.240 including most recently the petrodollar system, 49:32.240 --> 49:35.260 which we are seeing starting to crumble 49:35.260 --> 49:37.080 before our very eyes. 49:37.840 --> 49:39.280 This is significant. 49:39.860 --> 49:43.140 And this is how the people who are really controlling this, 49:43.260 --> 49:45.080 pulling the strings, not just of Trump, 49:45.200 --> 49:46.460 but of Netanyahu as well 49:46.460 --> 49:47.980 and all of the players at the table, 49:48.300 --> 49:50.620 Iran and Russia and China, all of them 49:50.620 --> 49:52.700 are pulled on the monetary level. 49:53.200 --> 49:55.660 And if you can affect a changeover 49:55.660 --> 49:57.360 in the monetary paradigm itself, 49:58.280 --> 49:59.740 there's your new world order. 49:59.920 --> 50:03.320 It falls out as a result of a new monetary order 50:03.320 --> 50:04.440 that is coming into view 50:04.440 --> 50:07.040 and a monetary order that may be commodity-based 50:07.040 --> 50:09.020 for some time, as needed, 50:09.200 --> 50:11.520 at least to secure the reserves 50:11.960 --> 50:14.100 as the handover and changeover occurs. 50:14.360 --> 50:16.780 Will it be a Petro-Jewan World Reserve? 50:17.480 --> 50:19.300 Well, that's certainly much up in the air, 50:19.400 --> 50:22.360 but you can better believe, bet your bottom dollar, 50:22.460 --> 50:26.060 that it is going to be some form of digital currency 50:26.060 --> 50:27.520 tied to digital ID 50:27.520 --> 50:30.600 and everything else that we know is part of this agenda. 50:31.000 --> 50:33.680 And whether that's through some stablecoin issuance, 50:33.680 --> 50:35.700 which is going to be the new replacement 50:35.700 --> 50:38.560 for the Petro-dollar or something else entirely, 50:38.840 --> 50:39.920 remains to be seen. 50:40.200 --> 50:43.700 But this is what the bottom line is. 50:43.880 --> 50:45.460 This is what the end game is. 50:45.600 --> 50:49.520 It is about a changeover in world monetary paradigm 50:49.520 --> 50:52.060 that is going to have an effect 50:52.060 --> 50:55.500 on the entire global geopolitical calculus. 50:55.780 --> 50:58.220 We are watching it happen in real time 50:58.220 --> 51:01.920 and data is coming in every single minute of every day. 51:02.530 --> 51:05.320 It's more than any one person, even myself, can handle. 51:05.500 --> 51:08.860 So I need your help in keeping track of this data 51:08.860 --> 51:12.020 and finding out all of the little pieces 51:12.020 --> 51:14.420 of the cookie-crumb trail that is leading us 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