Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain!

In 2024, you made three predictions that

have come perfectly true. Like Trump

would start a war with Iran. And you've

made a series of new predictions. Yes,

and I'll explain each prediction one by

one. Okay, so first, I predict that

Trump will get a third term. But isn't

this constitutionally illegal? It's not.

The president now has emergency war

powers. And so he can actually delay the

election. My second prediction is Iran

is now up for a war, and the United

States will institute a national draft.

Meaning that if you're between 18 and 24

in America and you're male, you'll be

automatically put into the draft system.

And they just passed a law that says

that starting in December, you'll be

automatically registered. Which means

you're obliged to go and fight. Exactly.

Next, the world will move towards an AI

civilian state. So, everything you do

online is being recorded to figure out

how to control you. And then, this is

the most controversial prediction. This

is pretty bad. And I'll explain why. And

also, I will tell you why this war can

only lead to World War III. Why? There's

a very strong possibility that the

American empire will collapse. And also,

I'll show you what the Russians will do,

and how the private bankers are

controlling you.

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Professor Dieng.

There's so much going on in the world at

the moment that it's quite confusing for

an ordinary person like me, and you've

blown up across the internet because

you've been able to demystify all of all

of this craziness, but also because in

2024,

you made three predictions that have

come

perfectly true.

Some might say unfortunately.

Unfortunately, yes. What were those

three predictions? My first prediction

was that Trump would win in November

2024.

Second prediction is that he would start

a war against Iran.

And the third prediction is that the

United States would lose this war, and

in losing this war, this would radically

reshape the geopolitical landscape. How

did you know that Trump would start a

war with Iran? The simple answer is

this. The The United States have to

invaded Iran because it has no choice in

the matter. If it were not to invade

Iran, it would lose its empire. Its

empire is based purely on US dollar, the

petrodollar, which is a Ponzi scheme.

If it did not invade Iran, then people

would choose not to trade with it

anymore. People would choose to not buy

US Treasuries. Why? For the longest

time, this system worked fine.

But then, in February 2022,

Russia invaded Ukraine. Yeah. That

wasn't the issue. The issue was the

American response.

The American response was to sanction

Russia, and we moved Russia from the

Swift global payment system. It also

ordered the Europeans to freeze over 200

billion dollars

in Russian assets. And this is a problem

because the very basis for having the US

dollar

as the global reserve currency is that

it would remain politically neutral.

It It The Americans guaranteed seamless

and politically neutral

international exchange.

So, if this trend continues,

right? If you don't do anything about

Russia, Russia will take over Ukraine.

And Russia then would build an alliance

with China and Iran. If you look at

these three countries on a map, Russia,

China, and Iran, this is the entire

Asian continent. And then what they can

do is this. They can say, "Okay,

the United States is a bully.

They force us to play by their rules.

They get very angry if we don't play by

their rules. So, let's not play with the

United States anymore. Let's just trade

amongst ourselves."

And then what they can do is they can

build a

Eurasian railway system connecting

Russia, Iran, and China together.

And then what this would do is negate

American sea power because it's American

ships that patrol and protect

the oceans.

And then what happen is the world,

Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East

Asia would look at this trading block

and think to themselves, "Wow, these

guys, the Russians, and Iranians, and

Chinese, they use gold

as their medium of exchange.

Gold is valuable.

The Americans, on the other hand, use US

dollars

as the medium of exchange, which is not

valuable. So, am am I better off with

the American system or this new BRICS

system?

What's BRICS? It's an acronym. It stands

for Brazil,

Russia, India,

uh South Africa, China. So, am I right

in thinking because Iran, Russia, and

China were colluding, it threatened US

dominance, which is driven by the world

using the dollar as the primary currency

for trading? That's correct. Okay. So,

they felt they needed to invade because

then they can control more of the Middle

East. Right. So, by attacking Iran,

certain things happened. Okay? The first

thing that happened is that

China is now cut off

from Middle East energy.

China

receives anywhere between 50 to 60% of

its energy needs

from the Middle East. Not just Iran, but

also Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

A lot of people say that China today,

it's reliant on renewables, solar,

wind. And that's true to a certain

extent. Remember that China, it is an

industrial powerhouse. So, it needs

energy from everywhere and

everyone.

So,

the fact that China is losing all this

energy from the Middle East presents

China with a long-term strategic

vulnerability.

Okay, that's the first thing that

happens.

Second thing that happens is that Europe

is now in trouble because remember,

because of the of Russia's invasion of

Ukraine,

Russian energy was sanctioned.

And so, Europe relied more on

Middle E- on the Middle East for its

energy needs, especially Qatar.

And now, Europe has lost all of this

oil. So, you and then you have Japan and

South Korea, these two powerful East

Asia economies are also reliant on the

Middle East for its

energy. So, now question is

if you're not getting your energy from

the Middle East, where can you get your

energy from? And there's only two

answers.

Either Russia

or the United States.

Russia is at war. And what's happening

is the Ukrainian drones are attacking

Russian oil refineries and export hubs.

So, the world in the short-term have has

no choice but to look to America for its

energy needs.

And what did Trump do recently? He took

over He took over Venezuela.

Which has the world's

greatest

oil reserves.

He's threatening Canada. He's

threatening Greenland, Mexico, Columbia.

If Trump controls the entire

Western Hemisphere,

the entire world has to beg Trump for

energy and resources. And this saves

both the US dollar

as well as American empire. So, as part

of your prediction in in 2024, I believe

it was, you said that the US would lose

this war, right?

Why did you predict that the US will

lose this war with Iran?

Because

the the American society does not does

not have the political will.

Does not have the manufac- manufacturing

capacity.

Does not have the risk tolerance to

fight this war in

Iran.

Basically, America wants to fight this

war as cheaply as easily and as quickly

as possible.

Right? So, Trump Trump really thought

that, you know, if I sent my airplanes

to strike Iran and kill the Ayatollah,

they would just surrender. That was like

literally his plan going into this war.

He paid no attention to the culture. He

paid no attention to the history of the

Iranian people. He had absolutely no

respect for

for the nation. And when you do that,

when you disrespect your opponent, when

you underestimate your opponent, when

you yourself are not willing to commit

to the fight, you're going to lose.

So, is Iran's game just a tool to stall

as long as they possibly can?

How they, you know, cuz he's taking out

the leaders. And then do you also think

that Trump thought that just if I just

bomb the leader, then everything will

sort of regenerate itself and we'll be

fine?

What was the sort of fundamental

misunderstanding? There's a lot of

confusion as to how this war started.

Even today, no one actually knows how

this war started.

But, I think that Trump, given his

personality,

he was convinced

that if he killed the leadership of

Iran,

then they would have no choice but to

surrender. And his proof of concept was,

of course, on January 3rd of this year,

Delta Force went into Venezuela,

kidnapped Maduro,

and they just completely surrendered.

So, in Trump's mind, he wanted to replay

this the Venezuela scenario.

And he

didn't realize that Iran is

fundamentally different from Venezuela.

The short answer is

he is a reality TV star. He thinks in

terms of optics. He doesn't think in

terms of like geopolitical strategy. The

long answer is that the American

military has become a very corrupt and

insular institution

that is trying to generate as much

commercial funding as possible in order

to fund the military-industrial complex.

Did he think that he was going to bomb

Iran, the people would rise up, they

would elect a new government, and that

would

be that, and then he could control Iran?

That's exactly what he thought. So, what

I want to do now is go to the map.

>> Okay. All right? And I'll show you what

he got wrong.

>> Okay. All right. So, this is a map of

the Middle East.

And the first thing to notice about this

map

is the topography.

What does that mean? How many mountains

you have. So, this is What's really

interesting is that the topography

between Iraq and Iran are completely

different.

And this is important because to In

2003,

the Americans invaded Iraq, and they won

the war in about 2 weeks. And the reason

why they won the war is Americans

practiced something called shock and

awe.

The idea of shock and awe

is that

it is a military strategy that believes

that if you cut off the head of the

snake, the snake will die. The

decapitation strike.

And so, what they did was they went into

Baghdad,

seized Baghdad, and the

regime collapsed, and the war was over.

And they were able to do this because of

the topography.

If you look at a map of Iraq, it's all

flat, it's all desert.

Meaning that you can just fly in your

planes,

cut off the head of the snake, and the

war is over. There's absolutely no way

you can defend against air strikes

because you're entirely a desert.

Now, let's go to let's look at the

topography of I of Iran. And Iran is all

mountainous.

In fact, you can make the argument that

Iran is a fortress.

Okay?

And so

the first thing is

that

Iran can choose to fight a war of

attrition. What's a war of attrition? A

war of attrition is a game of uncle.

What's that? Right. A game of uncle is

where

uh we don't have enough power to destroy

each other. So we what we try to do is

we try to create pain points, leverage

points

to force you to submit, to cry uncle.

Right? So because Iran is too large

and has 92 million people, it's

impossible

for the Americans and Israelis to

destroy Iran. So what they try to do

instead is

bomb enough targets so that they

recognize that resistance resistance is

futile and they surrender.

Okay? That's the extent of the strategy.

But again, the problem with this is that

one, Iran is much too big. Number two is

that it is a mountain fortress, which

means that you can hide your weapons and

your military

inside mountains.

Right? Which allows you to conduct a

guerrilla warfare strategy against your

opponent.

And this is exactly what Iran is doing

right now, where their underground

missile bases are hidden inside

the mountains and then they're able to

strike targets throughout

the Middle East. Primarily American

bases, but also energy installations

that are key to the American petrodollar

system.

And so, it's a game of uncle where the

Americans are trying to create as much

damage as possible in every nation and

Iran's response is trying to destroy as

much of of the global economy as

possible to force the world to pressure

America to call the war off. So, that's

the situation we are facing right now.

Second thing that Trump got got wrong

is how vulnerable the global economy is.

Because

the Iranians can control something

called the Strait of Hormuz.

Okay? And as you can see

on this map, the Strait of Hormuz is a

very

very narrow

piece

of land. It's only about 33 km across.

You can actually swim

across the Strait of Hormuz.

Okay? And what's important is

that the GCC

export 20%

of the world's energy. The GCC The Gulf

Cooperative Council. Okay? So, the Gulf

Cooperative Council are certain nations

in the Middle Middle East that align

politically. So, they include Qatar,

Saudi Arabia,

uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait.

They've been exporting

energy.

But not just energy, but also a lot of

byproducts of of energy production

including fertilizer

to the world, primarily

East Asia

and India.

In return, they've been getting

um

food

back. So, most people don't don't don't

appreciate this, but the GCC actually

imports 89% of its

food needs. The the reason why is that

they become so rich these past few

decades

that the populations have um blown up.

And as a result,

they have to feed the population, but

they don't have agricultural resources.

They also don't have water resources.

And so, they have two major

vulnerabilities, which is food and

water. And they have a lot of these

other these desalination plants around

the area.

And so,

>> What's a desalination plant?

>> Okay.

So, a desalination plant takes salt

water from the seas, and then through an

electrochemical process, turns it into

portable water that people can use uh

for drinking purposes and for

agricultural purposes.

>> Okay.

Right? So, as you can see, the entire

area

it is extremely vulnerable

to drone and missile attacks from Iran.

So, that's the second thing that Iran

has done, which Trump did not expect. He

didn't expect that the Iranians would

close off the Strait of

Hormuz. And how the Iranians were able

to close off the Strait of Hormuz was

just by threatening to attack any ships

that wanted to cross it. The reason why

is that the ships depend on maritime

insurance in order to operate.

But if there's a risk, a very high risk

of being destroyed, then um

you will not be able to get insurance.

Okay. So, it's not that the Iranians

have said to these ships, "You can't

cross." It's just that the insurers

refused to allow these ships to cross

because it's too dangerous.

And Trump didn't Do you think they'd

consider this before they started

bombing Iran? That Iran would have some

leverage in shutting down such a

critical

piece of uh water for, you know,

shipping fertilizer, energy, etc. You

think that they would have known this.

Right, so that's what a lot of people

say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is

hot-headed, that he was misled by the

Israelis.

And there's good evidence to support

this.

But I want to show you something. Okay,

it's it's called the

National Defense Strategy. All right?

And so this is

a document that was published by the

Department Department of War.

And in it,

it explains

what the American strategy to maintain

global dominance is.

And in the introduction, what it says is

that

for too long, America has been bullied

by the war world. America is a nation

that protects the world.

Yet Europe,

East Asia, takes advantage

of American generosity.

The Europeans don't pay for their

defense.

And so they put all this money into

welfare, into a pension system.

The Chinese

have been giving America a bad trade

deal. The Chinese steal American

technology and then use it to make

products that they sell back to the

Americans.

So,

the Americans have been have been

getting a really bad deal

for decades. And President Donald Trump,

he's going to change that by doing four

things.

All right? The National Defense Strategy

calls for a four-point

program

to put America first.

The first thing that

um America's going to do, it's going to

secure

the Western Hemisphere.

Why? Because the Western Hemisphere

belongs to the United States. When you

say the Western Hemisphere, what do you

mean? What What region is that? Is that

Canada there as well and So if you look

at a map, we can divide we can divide

the map into the Eastern Hemisphere,

okay, and the Western Hemisphere. Okay,

so everything over here. Everything,

including Greenland, including Canada,

including Mexico. Every part of this

area belongs to United States.

Therefore, you cannot trade with any of

these countries

without American permission or paying a

tribute to the Americans.

And that this is why

that the Americans have parked 1/3 of

their naval assets in the Caribbean

today.

It's to It's to tell the Chinese and the

Russians

back off.

You want to come here,

you either pay a tribute

or you'll be attacked.

Okay, so that's the first

point of this strategy. The Western

Hemisphere belongs to America. Something

that they call the Don Monroe Doctrine.

Okay, which is Trump's corollary to the

Monroe Doctrine.

Okay, so that's point one.

Point two is that America wants to

reimagine its relationship with its

allies.

Basically, NATO needs to pay for its own

defense.

NATO needs to go fight Russia in

Ukraine. America will provide support.

It'll provide weapons and financing,

but NATO needs to do more work.

And in these Asia, South Korea and Japan

need to do better job of keeping China

in check.

Okay, that's point two.

Point three is specific to China.

And the idea is United States does not

want to destroy China.

The States does not want to humiliate

China,

but China needs to be put in its place.

China needs to respect the power

and the reach of the United States. And

how

the United States is going to do this

is by strangling China economically.

Right? So, you look at at a map of

China,

most of its trade goes through something

called the Strait of Malacca.

And the Strait of Malacca is most

important maritime choke point in the

world. All America has to do is park

naval carriers inside the Strait of

Malacca, and China will lose 90% of its

energy exports. But if they park them

there, China could still go through, no?

No, because you have to go for the

Strait of Strait of Malacca. So, America

has something called the First Island

Chain.

Okay? And the First Island Chain

prevents China from reaching the Pacific

Ocean. The First Island Chain includes

South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the

Philippines, and Malaysia. That blocks

China from reaching out into into

Pacific. Mhm. So, in order for it to

access trade, it has to go through the

Strait of Malacca.

And for the Strait of Malacca, it can

access

uh India,

Africa,

and the

um Middle East. Okay. Right?

And so, by positioning naval carriers

inside the Strait of Malacca, it creates

a blockade, and China would have to pay

a toll in order to access

um the Strait of Malacca.

And the fourth one? And the fourth one

is to

um rejuvenate, reinvigorate

Am- America's defense manufacturing

sector. So, supercharge the US defense

industrial base. That's exactly correct.

Yes. All right? So, what this means is

that the Pentagon, a few weeks ago went

to Detroit and talked to Ford and

General Motors and said, "You know what?

Because of this war in Iran, we might

need you to stop making cars and start

making more munitions and drones." How

do you know they said that? It's They

published it. They published it, yes.

Really? Yes.

So, the United States went to Forbes and

GM and said, "We might need you to start

making weapons with your factories."

Yes, and they're happy doing this

because profit margins are much greater

for weapons than for for cars. This is

the Pentagon, so you can charge them as

you can charge them as much as you want

and they'll pay for it. Whereas, you

make cars, it's for the consumer market

and they may not buy your cars. Mhm.

Right? So, so you're like Ford or

General Motors, the best

deal in the world is to go make weapons

for the Pentagon to fight these wars in

the East that could go on for forever.

So, so so we're in a situation where

okay, look, if you read the news, if you

talk to a lot of people, Trump's an

idiot and this war in Iran makes no

sense at all.

But, then if you just read the National

Defense Strategy that is on the

Department of War website and anyone can

go there and download for free and read

themselves, it's a very clear road map

of what America needs to do in order to

maintain imperial hegemony. And so,

let's let's let's just summarize the

major points. The first major point is

to maintain control over the Western

Hemisphere and create a fortress

America. Which is why he invaded

Venezuela and he said he's going to

invade Cuba. Exactly. And also

Greenland. Look at all the countries

that he's named over the past year.

Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela,

Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras.

It's all

the Western Hemisphere.

Right? And they're all together. Second

point is to create divide and rule

around the world. So, imagine a

situation where in Europe, NATO fight

Russia in Ukraine.

In East Asia, China fight South Korea

and Japan.

In the Middle East, Iran fights

the GCC allied with Israel.

What does America do? America can now

sell sell everyone weapons and resources

and finance it. This would be back to

World War II. But it makes them weaker

as well, generally. That's the point.

Yeah. Right? And then what happened is

that $42

that

that America has in debt, it would

disappear. Because it would be absorbed

by the world.

Right? So, you can say

look, Trump's an idiot, but if you

actually look at a map and how America

wants this map this world map to play

out, it makes perfect sense.

Hm.

So,

the war is going well for Trump.

The war is going very well for Trump.

Really? Yes.

But you said in your prediction that he

would lose the war.

What is

>> What's your definition of lose the war?

Losing a war means that America would

send ground troops, Iran would survive

the ground invasion,

and this would be so politically

damaging that

chaos breaks out in the United States,

and the US ground invasion is forced to

retreat, and the United States is forced

to retreat from the Middle East. And you

still think that's going to happen?

>> I still think that's going to happen.

So, you think the United States is going

to put ground troops in,

Iran are going to resist, and then chaos

is going to break out in the United

States? Yes.

Okay. So, let me explain to you why

ground troops have to be sent. I mean,

all right. Okay.

So,

in phase one of this war, which started

February 28th, and which lasted for

about 6 weeks, the intention was to

decapitate the regime. And you do that

by striking Tehran, and you do that by

striking the military bases and

installations throughout

Iran. It's It's what the Americans call

shock and awe.

And the point is to force Iranians to

call uncle.

But that's not what happened. To To give

up. To give up, basically.

Because what the Iranians did was they

responded by attacking US bases

throughout the GCC. They closed off

the Strait of

Hormuz,

and they rallied their people, okay?

So, rather than surrender, the Iranians

basically doubled down. Okay, that's

phase two of the war.

Now we've gone to phase three of the

war, where Trump

has basically decided that decapitation

does not work.

And so, what Trump's going to do is he's

going to impose a naval blockade

on Iran's naval blockade.

Right?

And so, the question then is

if Trump understands that decapitation

does not work,

then using game theory, What's game

theory? Game theory is the belief that

all the world is governed by rules and

incentives.

And when you understand the rules and

incentives, you can predict how people

behave. These people will always behave

according to their best interests.

So, in geopolitics,

the nation-states are individual

players.

And each nation-state is trying to use

its resources

and um its advantages in order to

pressure other nation-states

to obey it.

Okay? So,

Trump recognizes that the Iranians can

close off the Strait of Hormuz, but not

only that, but the Iranians can also use

the Strait of Hormuz to finance the war.

Meaning that now they're forcing ships

to pay a toll, about $2 million, in

order to cross in order to cross it.

And so, this is a huge advantage for the

Iranians. And so, Trump has said, "No,

I'm going to blockade your blockade,

negating Iran's advantage of the Strait

of Hormuz." So, if you think about it,

again using game theory, I want to

discuss what the Americans will do in

order to force

uh the Iranians to capitulate.

Okay? So, I would say there's a three-

point strategy.

The first strategy is economic

strangulation.

You basically destroy the state's

capacity to finance the war.

And there are two ways that Iran is

financing the war so far.

The first is using oil exports, right?

90% of Iran's oil goes to China.

And um this is Kharg Island.

Okay? This this little spot here is

Kharg Island. This is where

Iran will export 90% of its oil

overseas. That's the first

mechanism. Second mechanism mechanism is

the Strait of Hormuz, where the Iranians

now can collect tolls.

Right? So, what you have to do is you

have to eliminate both of these finance

mechanisms.

You can close off both

with an oil blockade, okay?

So, that's strategy one.

Strategy two

is

you need

to create as much chaos within Iran as

possible.

You want to turn this fortress

into a prison. And the way you do that

is by storing up ethnic tensions in the

country. So, if you look at a map

uh ethnic map of Iran, what you will

discover is that the Persian people

are primarily in this area, in the

middle of the country.

But, you go to the borderlands, okay?

The border areas, it's primarily ethnic

minorities. And there are two ethnic

minorities

in the country that have always been

problematic for the government.

The first

problematic people are the called

Baluchis,

here.

Uh in

south

east

uh Iran, by the Pakistani border. They

have a history of insurgency against the

government, okay?

Second people that have been problematic

are the Kurds,

who are primarily in the

uh northwest of the country.

So, if you are the US government, if you

are the military,

your strategy is to establish

forward operating bases

in these areas.

A forward operating base

is

uh a spearhead of the military,

where you insert ground troops to hold

an area Okay, so you

>> in order to resupply, in or- in order to

push further into the territory. Okay,

so a forward operating base would be the

US putting troops into the the northwest

and the southeast,

and then using that as a way to uh move

forward into Iran? No, you don't want to

move forward into Iran because it's too

large. You don't have enough forces to

move into Iraq. What you want to do is

this. You want to establish forward

operating bases in these areas in order

to arm

and train

ethnic insurgents. Okay. That you can

also finance as well.

And you do this because you want to turn

them into cannon fodder.

You force You have to force a response

from the Iranian military. Right? So, if

they come in with the army in order to

quell

these rebellions, that's great because

now you can use your air power to

decimate the Iranian military. Your plan

right now is the Iranian Iranian

military is hiding inside mountains.

And so, you want to force them out in

the open.

And so, you want to create as many

points of tension in the country as

possible to force the Iranian military

to respond.

Right?

Does that make sense? Uh-huh. Okay.

And now, your third strategy

is to strangle the capital, Tehran.

Because that's the That's where the

political elite are. It's a city of 10

million people.

And the way you strangle Tehran is you

deny them three things. You deny them

water,

electricity, and food.

So, you attack power plants. You attack

reservoirs.

You attack railways that bring

um food into the capital.

And when you do that, these nine These

10 million people in Iran

will now oppose the government and

demand a political settlement.

Because if they need food, uh water,

electricity to survive.

Right? Is there a government?

Right now, there's a debate as to the

true extent

of leadership in Iran. Cuz Trump's

recent interviews, he's saying he's he's

claiming that the the leadership in Iran

are fighting themselves, but then he's

also saying in other interviews that

there's They don't even know who they're

dealing with. Exactly. Iran has a very

unusual political system in that it's a

theocracy. It's a religious government,

it's run by clerics, called the mullahs,

in theory.

And then there's a parallel system, the

state apparatus, that actually takes

care of day-to-day bureaucracy. Okay,

and that's secular.

Uh the mullahs control the morality of

the country, they also control foreign

affairs. So, basically, uh this is

important because Iran has two parallel

military structures. You have the

military, but you also have

the IRGC.

The IRGC are only loyal to the mullahs,

which is the religious part.

>> Exactly. All right? So, you have this

divide in the in the country where the

IRGC see this as a religious war, as a

crusade to kill the Great Satan, and

they want to fight to the death. And the

Great Satan is The Great Satan is the

American Empire. Okay. Uh which is the

source of the misery that Iranians have

been suffering for the past few decades.

And the IRGC, not only do they see

America as the Great Satan, but they

also see this as a global conflict

because they have proxies that support

their beliefs, including here in

Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in

Yemen, the Houthis, and of course in

Palestine, Hamas. Okay, and and before

Syria was also part of their axis of

resistance. But Syria has been toppled

by the Americans and and Israelis. So,

the IRGC see this as a religious crusade

that is global in nature. The political

leadership in Tehran

sees it completely different. They see

this as a classic primary between

America and Iran, and they want to reach

a political settlement as soon as

possible.

And so, in other words,

these

ceasefire negotiations, it's really all

for show.

Because, at the end of the day, even if

the Americans gave the Iranians

everything they wanted,

the IRGC still controls

um the battlefield, and they would not

um surrender or or seek peace terms

lightly. Another problem in this

situation is the IRGC practices only

called the Mosaic strategy. Mosaic.

The idea of the Mosaic strategy is,

okay,

you know the Americans the most

effective military ever in human

history. You know that they practice

shock and awe, decapitation.

So, how do you respond to that? You

respond to that using decentralization.

31 provinces

in the country with where own command

and control that is localized. So,

basically, they have 31 different armies

that have their own leadership.

>> That's correct, okay? And when you do

this, it's a fight to the finish. Why

did they do that? They did it because

the Americans possess the most

sophisticated surveillance technology in

the world, meaning they can

easily identify the leadership, and they

can easily track you down and kill you.

So, the only way around that is to

decentralize the leadership and spread

it around the country so that the

Americans cannot kill the everyone. How

does the central government orchestrate

31 different armies in Iran? How does it

get a message out to them? I heard Peter

Hegseth make a a comment in one of the

interviews saying that it takes some

time for the pigeons to get out to the

armies. And what he was saying,

basically, is that

um when the ceasefire was called and

there were still some um missiles

flying, he was basically saying that's

just because it takes a long time to

tell the 31 different armies to stop.

The reality is that, given the Mosaic

strategy, there's actually no way to

coordinate these 31 different military

operations.

Because

the Mojahedin was meant to the was meant

to fight to the bitter end. You do not

stop until you completely control the

Middle East and the Americans have been

forced out of the Middle East

and Israel has been humbled.

Okay. So, let's go into the specifics of

what the Mojahedin is. The idea is that

they have an eschatology.

Okay? So, eschatology is an

understanding of how the world should be

and how we move towards this world.

And for the Iranians,

their eschatology is that Iran, in order

to reach its true potential, needs to be

master

of the Muslim world.

It needs to displace Saudi Arabia.

Because Saudi Arabia is too aligned with

the United States, which is the Great

Satan. Mecca and Medina are under the

influence of the Great Satan.

Because why are there US military bases

in Saudi Arabia?

So, this war, from their perspective, is

a great opportunity to overthrow the

corrupt leadership of Saudi Arabia, but

not only Saudi Arabia, but the entire

GCC.

Overthrow the corrupt governments of the

entire Muslim world.

And install governments that

put

God, Allah, first.

So, they're they're not going to quit.

Iran.

This war, once it starts,

can only to World War III.

That's a strong statement to make. As a

probability, Okay. what probability

would you assign to that claim?

I would put it pretty high, anywhere

between 80 to 90% probability.

>> So that's certainty.

Basically certainty, yes. Explain to me

how that happens. Okay. So, we need to

step back and appreciate

um

that there's a global dynamic going on.

Mhm. Okay?

And we need to appreciate

the grand strategy of the different

players involved. Mhm. Right? So, what I

what I'm going to do is this.

I'm going to explain

to you how each nation

sees itself in the world. Mhm. Okay? And

to you and to that, I'm going to use a

chess set, okay? Okay. All right. This

is the king.

This is the political system

of the United States, which is a

democracy.

And there are certain strengths and

weaknesses to a democracy. Democracy is

vibrant. It's creative. It's flexible.

But its ultimate weakness is

polarization,

where today

um the different political factions

refuse to get along, and this may bring

up the civil war, okay? Mhm. So, the way

you defeat the United States is not to

conquer it. You can never conquer the

United States. The way to defeat the

United States is to force it into a

civil war,

which then kills the king. To get its

people to rise up against the

leadership. No, you want the Democrats

and Republicans to form different

factions and fight a civil war. Okay.

You you want to create some political

polarization and different elite

factions to take up arms against each

other, okay? Okay. So, this is the

political system, okay?

A democracy.

Now, let's look at the queen. What's the

queen?

The queen is what I refer to as the

grand strategy

of the United States. How the United

States can maintain its control over the

entire world. And the grand strategy

it's already outlined in the national

defense strategy, right? Let's create

fortress America

and then

create chaos throughout the entire world

so that we can sell everyone weapons and

resources. Okay, that's a grand

strategy, all right?

All right. Now, what is a grand

strategy? You need You need to implement

this grand strategy. So, you need attack

vectors.

All right, the attack vectors

are the rook,

the bishop, and the knight. All right,

so let's go over the three major attack

vectors of the United States. They are,

first of all,

America's technological supremacy. So,

these are the basically the tools that

they use to attack others. Exactly. In

order to achieve the grand strategy. All

right, so air supremacy, right?

Which is the planes and the stuff like

that. Then you have

the

US dollar.

Right? Because the US dollar

allows you to finance everything. And

everyone wants the um

uh US dollar, okay? Mhm. So, that is the

second attack vector. Now, the third

attack vector is propaganda.

Meaning the United States controls the

world's most powerful media, including

New York Times, CNN. And as such, they

can control the narrative of the world.

Okay? So, these are the three major

attack vectors.

Now, they use the pawns. Now, pawns are

weapons that they can sacrifice in order

to achieve the grand strategy.

And in the case of the United States,

the pawn are the allies.

Mhm. Meaning

I hate to say this,

but the UK,

um Europe,

South Korea,

and Japan.

Okay? And also, the entire

Western Hemisphere.

This is the

Ameri- the Americans, okay? The people

who are most opposed to this grand

strategy of Americans are the Russians.

So, let's go over to the Russian system.

In the Russian system,

the king of the political system is an

autocracy.

And an autocracy is good because it

allows for coordination. It allows for

decisiveness. It allows for

um resolve. Long-term thinking. Exactly,

right? That's Putin.

What's bad is

if this guy dies,

there's a succession crisis.

Right? So, basically, once you topple

the

autocrat, then the system itself

breaks down. Okay, so that's the Russian

system, right?

For the Russians, the grand strategy is

something called the Third Rome

strategy. The Third Rome strategy?

>> Yes. Okay. So, the people in Russia

believe that they are the true

successors to the Roman Empire. And

previously, there were two Romes. There

was the First Rome,

then it moved to Constantinople,

and Moscow is destined to the to be the

Third Rome. And what makes Moscow

interesting is that it wants to unite

the entire

Christian world under its leadership. Um

the main philosopher for the Third Rome

strategy is Alexander Dugin, who in 1997

wrote a wrote a book called Foundation

of Geopolitics. And what he said was

this. What he said that if Russia is to

defeat the Americans, it needs to build

alliances throughout Eurasia

in order to negate American sea power

and air supremacy.

All right?

So, what are the attack vectors

for Russia? Okay.

The first attack vector, the size of the

country makes it almost invincible. So,

think about the World War II, Operation

Barbarossa, the Germans went into

Russia with 6 7 million men,

and it didn't get very far, okay? So,

the terrain is very important. The

geography is very important.

Then you have the Orthodox religion.

Which is meant to galvanize believers

into supporting Russia.

The third attack vector is artillery.

So, Russia has the best land army in the

world.

And we we're seeing that play out in

Ukraine where a combination of Russian

artillery and drones it's devastating

Ukrainian military in Ukraine. The pawns

for Russia are are its soldiers. So,

Russia is able to sustain

many, many

casualties in its military.

If you actually go and interview Russian

soldiers, they are probably the bravest

soldiers in the world. They are

literally not afraid to die

for what they believe in. Okay? So, this

is the um

Russian third world strategy. You can

see how it conflicts with the Americans.

Mhm. Okay?

Now, we go to the Israelis.

Jerusalem, the capital. It's a mixed

system, meaning it's both democracy as

well as a theocracy.

And

it's good in that the Israelis are very

creative.

But, the fundamental weakness is the

division within society.

Where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem don't get

along.

Okay? So, that is

the political system of Israel.

The grand strategy of Israel is called

the Greater Israel Project.

So, the Israelis believe that the entire

Middle East belongs to them from the

Nile

to the Euphrates because that's what it

says in the Bible. This is what God,

Yahweh,

promised Abraham.

So, their intention is to conquer the

entire Middle East, including Egypt,

Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, even parts of

Turkey.

Now, let's look at the attack vectors

for the the the the Israelis.

The first attack vector

is

Mossad.

Mossad is the most powerful intelligence

agency in the world in that it is able

to infiltrate

and undermine

given political systems.

And Mossad for anyone that doesn't know

is the secret service. Basically, yes.

Best spy system. Second

attack vector

for the Israelis

is the Jewish diaspora.

Because Jews do business everywhere

around the world.

And Jewish businessmen work very closely

with Mossad.

And as such, they have influence in a

lot of places that they shouldn't have.

And the um

third

um attack vector

is the Bible.

Why? Because if you're Christian

and there are many Christians who

believe this, you believe that the Jews

are God's chosen people.

So, if you look at what's happening in

uh the Middle East,

um all this conflict between Israel and

Palestine, a lot of this conflict is

being supported

politically in the United States by a

group of people called Christian

Zionists.

And these are Christians. They're not

Jews, they're Christians who believe

that Israel should achieve achieve the

greater Israel project because this is

part of God's plan. And the pawns

for the Israelis

are basically

everyone else, okay?

So, a lot of the hardware underpinning

the global

IT infrastructure

um is being controlled by the Israelis.

So, now we go to the fourth player in

this great game, and that's Iran. So,

Iran

it is a theocracy. People are not afraid

to die for what they believe in in Iran.

But, the weakness is that it can

alienate the majority of the population.

It is only a minority are religious

zealots in Iran.

Most people just want to live to live a

decent life. So, they feel that these

mullahs, the IRGC are a threat

to their peace and prosperity, then they

might rise up against the mullahs. Which

is what we've seen over the years,

right? Exactly. So, so this is a

political system of the Iranians.

Their grand strategy is to unite the

Muslim world under leadership. They have

three attack vectors, okay? The first

attack vector are their proxies.

Hezbollah,

Hamas,

the Houthis.

Another attack vector

um is their asymmetrical warfare,

meaning using drones and missiles to

create as much economic damage as

possible. Mhm. Okay. And the third

attack vector

is their geography or the topog-

topography. They are a fortress, so it's

almost impossible to um in- invade them.

All right? So, that's their Shia

militiamen. These religious zealots who

are not afraid to die. Um essentially,

they're all Many of them could be

suicide bombers, okay? And and so, for

them, this is a religious war. Okay. So,

now we're seeing how this entire

battlefield unfolds across the world.

All right? So, I've mapped out the grand

strategy

of these different nation-states who

will be involved in World War III.

Let's look at our present situation,

okay? So, what we have so far is that

the Russians are occupied with their

army in Ukraine.

Okay? This is where their infantry,

their artillery is based.

At the same time, Russia has something

called the shadow fleet.

And these are about a thousand

um tankers that evade sanctions around

the world. Okay? And this is essentially

their navy.

America is the most powerful military in

the world. They have the most

sophisticated air supremacy, as well as

control over the sea lanes. And it tries

not to use infantry

uh because that creates civilian

casualties and that pisses everyone off

in America. Okay?

These releases

are essentially

a mercenary army aligned with American

Empire, doing the bidding of American

Empire. It's fighting

in against Lebanon as well as Iraq.

The Iranians, they don't have much of an

air force,

but they use a lot of drones to

threaten. So, this is where we are so

far. According to the grand strategy,

we can predict how they will make their

moves over next few months, over next

few years. America

doesn't really care about this war

in Iraq.

Because what America wants to do

is force entire world to become

dependent on American weapons

and

resources.

And you do that in two ways. The first

is you control

the strategic choke points of the world.

And they include the Strait of Hormuz,

but you also want to control the Strait

of Malacca,

over here. Because that blocks off East

Asia. You also want to control the

Panama Canal.

You also want to control Greenland. You

also want to control the Strait of uh

Gibraltar. You can see the American Navy

extending outward and occupying all

these maritime choke points.

At the same time, you You to use your

technological supremacy, your air

supremacy, your drones

to destroy the world's critical energy

infrastructure.

Already we're seeing oil refineries

being destroyed throughout the world.

Oil refineries? Oil refineries, yes. So,

you as as America, you're trying to

deplete the world's energy inventory, so

they're forced to beg you

for to supply energy.

Right? And once this market is created,

then you can

build infrastructure for Venezuela.

You can take over Canada. You can

control Mexico. You can take over take

take over Greenland, okay?

The Russians have no choice but to

respond.

Because

if the Americans are controlling the

strategic choke points,

your shadow fleet

is rendered redundant, useless.

So, how do you ship your oil

around the world? We have two options.

I'm just going to build railways to

unite the Eurasian continent, okay? And

I'm I'm I'll transport my oil using

pipelines and railways. The problem with

that is now is now that you're

vulnerable to American air supremacy,

drone attacks.

So, you have no choice but to arm your

shadow fleet. And now, what's going to

happen is this

continent of oceans between Russian

shadow

fleet tankers that are trying to

transport oil around the world, and

these American

destroyers were trying to capture or

destroy the shadow tankers.

Now, the advantage that

Russia has is that America doesn't have

that much naval assets anymore. It used

to, but not anymore.

The other thing is that the world really

needs energy, so you can imagine China

financing

the militarization of the Russian shadow

fleet. Why would sir, why to the US try

and stop Russian boats?

Because um in this

global outlook

there are two nations that could provide

weapons

and resources to the rest of the world.

They are Russia and they are America.

So, if America is to become dominant, it

needs to blockade Russia. And what you

do that is by seizing

their shadow fleet. That could if this

were to happen, that would be an act of

war.

But it's already happening. What?

Really? Yes, it's already happening.

Where? Iranian

tankers have been seized by the

Americans.

And

tankers are being seized in the

Caribbean as well by the American Navy.

Whose tankers?

I believe they are Russian tankers.

Yes, the United States has indeed been

seizing tankers linked to Russia. A

major escalation occurred earlier this

year on January the 7th, 2026 when the

US military and Coast Guard intercepted

two sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers.

While one was seized directly in the

Caribbean, the other involved a dramatic

chase that started in the Caribbean and

ended in the North Atlantic.

US forces captured the sanctioned tanker

during a pre-dawn raid directly in the

Caribbean Sea. The US military described

it as stateless sanctioned dark fleet

vessel which was engaged in illicit

activities.

These seizures are part of operation

Southern Spear, a strict enforcement of

the US embargo on Venezuelan oil

exports. Both vessels were targeted for

violating US sanctions by transporting

illicit crude oil linked to Venezuela

as well as Iran and Hezbollah.

And as you point out, this is an act of

war.

So, those were ships that didn't have a

country linked to them directly. That's

why they call shadow fleet tankers.

Okay. Yes, but they're essentially

Russian. But they were essentially

shipping oil outside of the United

States the United States wouldn't

control. Is that kind of

>> That is correct, yes. Okay.

>> Yes. So

>> So if the US said, "Listen, this is our

oil get lost." That is correct, yes.

Right? So what the US is doing is slowly

expanding its global reach. And what

it's doing that is by signing treaties

with nations that are part of these

choke points. So the Strait of Malacca,

which the United States has signed a

military cooperation agreement with

Indonesia.

And with the Strait of Gibraltar, uh the

Americans have signed an agreement now

with Morocco.

Right? So they are looking for the legal

framework and certification to control

the world's choke points, which would

bring them directly in conflict with the

Russian shadow fleet. So at some point

you think the way that the war starts is

the US Navy

attacks a Russian boat.

So I personally believe that this will

be a drawn-out process

that and there's no real concrete flash

point. Because not only

are Russian shadow flanker shadow

fleet tankers being seized, but remember

Russian oil farmers are being destroyed

by Ukrainian drones. And the Russians

believe that it is NATO that is

responsible for the sabotage. So what

what what do you think the catalyst

moment is

when this all kicks off? I think we're

already in the catalyst moment. I think

we're we're already in World War III

because

this conflict it's going to expand

outwards

uh into a global conflict and there's

nothing anyone can do to stop this,

right? Because again, you have these

different competing visions of how the

world should work and the Russians and

Americans are already at conflict with

each other.

So the next step will be the Russians

come into this war on the side of the

Iranians. You think that's going to

happen? I think that's going to happen

because according to Russian grand

strategy, you have no choice but to save

the Iranians.

Because you're trying to promote this

view that the world is split between the

spiritual and the material. The

Americans are the Antichrist. The

Americans support individual hedonism,

whereas we Russians, we believe in

humanity. We believe in goodness. We

believe in community. Right? So, if you

believe if you that is your argument, if

that's your grand strategy, you have a

more obligation, a more imperative to

help the Iranians in their time of need.

And in fact, Prime Prime Minister

Araghchi of of Iran has recently visited

Putin in Moscow. Putin Putin personally

received him

and said to Araghchi, "We, the Russian

people, admire your determination, your

resolve um against the Americans." And I

think that is a

sign that Putin has entered the chat and

that the Russians will start to help the

Iranians as this war progresses. So,

let's go back to this map, okay?

>> Okay. And the Americans have a

three-pronged strategy

to

strangle

um Iran.

The first is to use ground forces to

establish forward operating bases to

incite ethnic violence in the country.

The second is to block all the shipping

moves and cut off Iranian financing. The

third is to strangle Iran and cause the

people to rise up like against the

government, okay?

And the Russians So, if things stay the

stay as they are now,

America wins. Easily.

But, if Russia were to enter the war on

behalf of the Iranians, the first thing

that Russia would do is provide

Iran with reinforcement from the Caspian

Sea. Right? Because the Americans want

to knock out Iran's capacity to provide

food, water, and electricity to its

people. But, uh through the Caspian Sea,

the Russians can support the uh

Iranians. But, not only that, and this

is much more important, if the Russians

were to come in, they could also bring

the Chinese into the war on behalf of

the Iranians. And the Chinese could use

the Belt and Road Initiative, basically

the railway system, to reinforce Tehran

from

uh the

east. So now you can no longer strangle

Tehran because the Russians and the

Chinese are reinforcing Tehran. Then

what the Russians could do is provide

financing to the Iranians. Basically the

Iranian the Chi- sorry, the Chinese and

the Russians can say to Iranians, "Don't

worry about financing. We will give you

enough uh financing for you to continue

this war for as long as you want, and

we'll use our resources as collateral

for this financing."

Right? And the third thing, and this is

actually the most important, is that

Russia could put Iran

under its nuclear umbrella.

And this would negate the use of

tactical nuclear weapons.

Israelis and Americans, if they really

felt under pressure,

if they were really put in a corner,

they could always choose to use tactical

nuclear weapons. If the Russians were

involved, that negates

that option.

Right? So if the Russians get involved

in this war, they bring in the Chinese,

they provide they provide the resources

and the financing to continue this war

for as long as it takes.

Mhm.

Right?

And now the Americans need to expand

this war around the world to try now to

topple the government in Russia.

Because the Russians are the main

backers of the Iranians.

And you're predicting that Russia will

get involved here. According to the

grand strategy of Russia, the Russians

have no choice but to get involved

because what will happen is that if you

look at this map, if Iran were to be

conquered by the Americans or the

Israelis, the entire southern flank of

the Russians were now exposed

to possible attack. And that's that's

something that the Russians would never

allow to happen.

The sovereign flank, so what this from

underneath?

>> Basically, right?

Right? But not only that, but the

Americans already have close relations

with Azerbaijan.

And they already have bases in

Turkmenistan as well as Uzbekistan,

right? So, you can see how once the

Americans control this area, they can

now attack Russia from the south. But,

what's most important is

the issue of global trade, where like a

counter

to America's naval blockade is by

creating a Eurasian trade block that

involves Iran, Russia, and China. You

look at Russia's north-south corridor,

right?

You look at China's If you look at

Russia's north-south corridor, it runs

through Iran. If Russia wants to have

access to the Middle East as well as

Africa, it has to go through Iran. Look

at China's Belt and Road Initiative, it

goes through Iran as well.

So, by taking out Iran, you've blockaded

both Russia and China.

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So, when do you think this was going to

happen? If you get it where to give me a

timeline of events you think are going

to occur.

What timeline do you think you're

operating under? I guess one of the

factors here is that

Trump only has what, 3 years left in

power.

So,

you know, he's presumably going to leave

power at some point soon. So, if you

were around, you might just want to play

it out and hope that there's a different

leadership in place by

by 20, what, be 2030?

The political leadership in Iran believe

that they can wait Trump out. So,

they're waiting for the midterms,

because they believe that in November,

the Democrats will win in the midterms,

and then they'll impeach Trump.

And basically constrain his capacity to

fight wars.

And worst case scenario

Trump will be gone

in 2020 as you point out.

There's some problems with this. The

first major problem is the national

defense strategy which we looked at

previously.

The national defense strategy, it is a

long-term strategic

framework for how America can control

the world.

And so one possibility is that Trump is

just creating enough chaos for America

to

to transition. When the Democrats come

to power, if they come to power, they

will institutionalize the strategy. And

we know this

as a possibility because in Trump's

first term he changed America's strategy

around the world.

And then when Biden came into power he

then institutionalized the strategy

uh via V China. Right? So it was Trump

who launched these

this terror war against China. And then

Biden comes in power, he

institutionalizes it.

Right? So I think World War III, it's a

much more

long-term

uh war of attrition. And I don't think

that this war

um will end anytime soon.

You've made a series of new predictions.

You've made eight new predictions.

>> Okay.

And I have them in this box here. Okay.

I'll let you review what those

predictions are. Okay.

Um this is one prediction.

Okay.

Okay. So this is my most controversial

prediction, okay? I predict that there

will be a use of war and Trump will get

a third term.

You think Trump will get a third term?

Isn't that constitutionally illegal?

There are things that are unconventional

and immoral

and wrong and evil and dangerous.

And there's certain things that are

illegal.

Trump getting a third term

is not illegal.

So, let me explain the loophole.

What Trump could do is this, okay? There

There two possibilities. The first

possibility is in 2028, he has his son,

Don Jr., run as a president

and he runs as the vice president.

And then when Don Jr. wins, if he wins,

then Don Jr. could abdicate

and Trump would be the president.

And in the Constitution, if you read the

Constitution very carefully, it doesn't

actually prohibit people from doing

that. It's not been done in the past.

And like no sane person

with any morality would do this.

But that doesn't stop Trump from from

doing this, okay? That's one

possibility. Another possibility is that

by 2028, America

is at war with everyone. There's a

national draft.

The president now has emergency war

powers. And so, he can actually suspend

the Constitution

and delay the election, which is what

Zelenskyy did in Ukraine.

So, these are two different

possibilities.

But I think that given

Trump's track record,

given his personality,

I think he very much

um wants a third term.

And I think that he will do everything

possible to get a third term.

He would turn 83 years old

in the same year that he finishes his

second term.

This is the man

who eats McDonald's hamburgers

every day.

He doesn't really work out.

Yet,

on the campaign trail,

he's able to go to two rallies a day.

And in each rally, there's 50,000

people. And he will talk on and on and

on.

Then,

at night, when he should he should be

sleeping, he's either on Truth Social

tweeting about the world, or he's

calling up reporters and telling him or

her some confidential that he really

shouldn't be discussing with the media.

This is a man who is addicted to

attention.

This is a man who loves the spotlight.

He's lived all his life in the

spotlight.

For him, death

is

to be ignored.

So, given his personality,

he would rather die in office

than live

uh peacefully

somewhere else. And of those two

strategies that you named, where he puts

his son in and then becomes president

that way, or you know, there's a war

breaks out, so he has he says he has to

stay in office. Of those two strategies,

which one do you think he's more likely

to deploy? I actually think that, given

his narcissism,

he would prefer the first strategy. His

putting his son in? Because because that

shows himself and the world

that America loves him.

Okay. And it could also be Jared Kushner

or someone else, right? It doesn't have

to be his son necessarily. Trump does

not trust anyone. Trump has never had a

polit- polit In fact, everyone that's

really worked for Trump has been kind of

screwed over by him. Do you not think

that if his son decided to run and then

announced that the vice president was

his dad,

do you not think that there would be

such a huge backlash in the United

States that his son wouldn't win?

Well, I think there's a possibility that

they figure out how to cheat in 2028.

Oh, as in actually cheat the election.

Right. So, At the poll booth.

>> Right. So, let's go into Trump's mind,

all right? His

his psychology.

In his mind,

he won in 2020.

The people voted for him.

But the Democrats

stole the election with mail-in ballots

and by rigging the election machines.

Okay? He In his mind, he literally

believes that.

So, in his mind, he believes that this

is actually his third term, and the

people

and the government, they owe him a

second term, which is what he wants now.

He wants

uh compensation for having the election

stolen from him in 2020.

I find it really um really

implausible to think that Trump would

run and would run for a third time.

So, again, this is a prediction.

>> Yeah. And it is a test of the validity

of my theoretical framework.

I was looking at some of the

the constitutions and the laws, and it

says that the 22nd Amendment explicitly

states, "No person shall be elected to

the office of the president more than

twice."

Some theorists have tried to argue that

since the amendment says elected, a

person might be able to serve a third

time if they were appointed to succeed

to the role.

He's not

>> If they were appointed or succeeded to

the role, e.g., by being vice president

first.

Legal scholars and the judicial

community

almost universally reject this. The 12th

Amendment requires that anyone serving

as vice president must be eligible to be

president. Since a two-term president is

ineligible to be elected again, they're

legally barred from being vice

president. So, the point is there's

nothing explicit in the constitution

that bars someone

from having a third term. Mhm. And

there's debate in the legal community

about the spirit

of the 22nd Amendment. It would go to

the Supreme Court, right?

>> And the Supreme Court's controlled right

now by the conservatives. Trump Trump

appointed three of the nine justices,

and there's a possibility he gets a

fourth later in the year.

So, it's entirely up to the Supreme

Court whether or not he can run. And

again, there's nothing explicit in the

constitution that forbids him from

running

as vice president. Okay.

What's your next prediction?

The My second prediction is there'll be

a grand bargain between the United

States and China. What does that mean?

It means that people expect that the

United States and China will go to war

at some point over Taiwan.

It means A lot of people expect that

China wants to challenge American

hegemony and replace America as the

global superpower.

But China does not want to do that.

China's probably happy

with America being the world's hegemon,

because you have to invest so much of

your resources into fighting these wars

that bankrupt your nation. China China

China doesn't want to fight these wars.

So, what China's going to do is try to

triangulate between Russia

and the United States. This is what

happened during the Cold War, when China

was not actually on the side of the

Soviet Union. China was part of the

non-aligned community.

And that's what China's going to strive

for in World War III, where China may

help out Iran, may provide financing for

Russia, but it's also going to strike

deals with the United States as well.

Mhm. Okay.

So, I think that Trump and President Xi

are supposed to meet at least three

times, possibly four times

this year. Only this year. The first

will be

in mid-May in Beijing.

And I think that they will start a

process

in which China and America come to an

arrangement that benefits both

economically.

What does America want? America wants

China to continue to buy US Treasuries

in order to finance the American debt.

What does China want? China wants energy

resources from the Western Hemisphere

and it wants to access the American

market. Mhm. So, there's no reason why

China and America cannot come to an

arrangement that benefits both. And

Trump is very much a transactional

character. And what will that mean for

the world?

It means that China is not really part

of World War in a meaningful way.

Okay. So, they're going to do a deal.

They'll continue to work together as

friends.

But China or will be friends of both

Russia and the United States as Russia

and the United States fight each other.

Okay.

What's your next prediction?

Iran is another forever war and the

United States will institute a national

draft.

Iran is another forever war and the

United States will institute a national

draft. So, you think Iran is going to

Iran as a war is going to tumble on for

decades and that the US are going to

draft people which means you're

obliged to go and fight. Exactly. Okay.

So,

the logic is this.

America doesn't really care

if Iran

is defeated or not. That's not really

part of the American grand strategy.

Iran right now is a perfect pretext for

America to expand outwards and establish

maritime choke points around the world.

And to force the world to buy American

energy.

So, this war in Iran benefits America

tremendously. So, why not have it go on

for a long, long time?

In order to make sure this war goes on

for a long time, you need ground troops.

And you need a lot of ground troops.

And that's why you need a national

draft.

So, what would a national draft look

like in the United States? Everyone

between the age of 18 and 25 has to sign

up to the army. Right. So, most people

don't appreciate this, but America has

always had a draft. But, for the longest

time, it didn't really care

whether or not you actually signed for

the draft. And starting in December,

participation in the draft will be

automatic. Meaning that if you're

between 18 and 24

in America and you're male, you'll be

automatically put into the draft system.

From when? I mean, from December. This

year? Yes, that that is correct. Yes.

So, between the age of 18 and 25, you

think? And what does that What does that

really mean? Well, I've never not really

experienced that in my lifetime. So, it

means that if you're between the age of

18 and 24, either gender? No, male.

Male, then you have to sign up for the

army.

No, you're already put into a draft.

>> Oh, you're already Okay, but you might

be called upon. That's right. It's a

lottery system. Okay. Right.

And uh this created a lot of backlash

during the Vietnam era.

And so, they sort of toned it down.

But, starting in December, they just

passed a law that says that starting in

December, um you will be automatically

registered

for for the They've passed them all.

Yes, they have.

Well, in theory, Congress first needs to

declare war. Okay, fine.

>> Right? That's the first step. And

Congress has not actually declared war

yet. Okay. So, you think there'll be a

draft and you think this will This war

in Iran is going to trickle on for

a long time. How long? 10, 20 years?

Like Afghanistan or I don't see it

stopping. Okay. Yeah.

What's next in your prediction box?

Okay.

Okay, this is pretty bad. The world will

move towards an AI surveillance state.

I feel like that's already happening.

I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah. What

does that mean in reality for the

average person? Because you know, we're

seeing some of these big companies like

OpenAI and Anthropic all sort of signing

up to government um military

surveillance projects.

What does that mean for the average

person? Right. So, for the average

person, it means two things. It means

digital ID and digital currency.

Okay. So, what that what that will allow

is for the government to basically

monitor everything you do online and

control all financial transactions. It

it can basically program

your bank account. So, like, you can't

buy cigarettes

or you can't buy drugs. Um and this will

allow the government to basically

um categorize everyone and put everyone

into a certain database

to monitor that person. And once you

have once you're able to categorize

everyone, you're allowed then you're you

are able to use AI to predict their

behavior. Isn't this what goes on in

some parts of the This is what goes on

in China.

And that's how I know about this.

How does it work in China?

Well, in China, we all have digital ID.

If you want to access anything in China,

you need your digital ID. So, you want

to open a bank account, you have to you

have to use um a digital ID. If you want

to use any uh e-payments, you have to

use digital ID. If you want to use a

phone,

you have to use digital ID, okay? So,

everyone's part of this national

database.

And this this allows government to do is

basically monitor everything you do.

Because basically, depending on how you

buy things, I can then extrapolate to

figure out your behavior.

And then I can figure out your thinking.

Right? And then I can create incentives

in order to guide

and control your behavior. So, in China,

can they see everything that you do?

Yes, they can.

Messages you send? Everything. Payments

you make?

>> Everything.

Everything.

Everything you do online is being

recorded

and is being

inputted into the database

to

figure out who you are,

what you want,

and how to control you.

And they think this is progress, by the

way.

This is progress because I'm making you

a better person, right?

I'm helping you achieve your dream. I'm

I'm helping you lose weight. I'm helping

you avoid drugs. I'm helping you work

harder.

Wouldn't you be in trouble if you talk

against this system?

Well,

me personally, okay. So, I operate in a

gray area where I do not interact with

the Chinese internet.

So, everything I do is in English. It's

meant for consumption in the Western

world.

And um I I don't talk to Chinese

reporters. I don't talk to Chinese

social media. I've no Chinese media

presence.

And I am not at all influential in

China. And I prefer it that way because

if I be ever became famous in China,

then they would obviously want to

control

me in order to better influence other

people.

Huh.

What's your next prediction?

Israel will achieve the greater Israel

project. So, you think Israel are going

to conquer the Middle East?

Israel has essentially already conquered

the Middle East. The only force in their

way right now is America.

So, once America leaves the Middle East,

which I expect to happen, then Israel

will absorb CENTCOM, which is the um

Central Command, the American military

bases in the Middle East, and they will

achieve the greater Israel project.

There's no other power in in Middle East

that can withstand the might and power

of Israel.

And do you have a timeline for this?

The moment America quits this war

against Iran, the moment that America

leaves

the Middle East,

Israel will achieve the greater Israel

project. And what's really interesting

right now is that Israel's trying to

drag this war out for as long as

possible because they see this war as a

way to destroy all its major enemies in

the um Middle East. You know,

they It's really It's already said this.

After Iran, Turkey is next.

>> Turkey, hm.

Turkey is next. This war is already

destroying Saudi Arabia and the GCC,

right? So, the last opponent is Turkey.

Once Turkey is brought into this war,

then

Israel will achieve the greater Israel

project.

And the greater Israel project covers

all of this region here from Turkey,

Egypt, Yemen, Oman. Is so the greater

Israel project is like this, okay? So,

it goes from the Nile in Egypt to the

Euphrates in Iraq. And it covers part of

Turkey, all Syria, all Lebanon, all

Jordan, and parts of Saudi Arabia, which

also includes Mecca and Medina.

What is your next prediction?

NATO and Russia will fight for Odessa.

Odessa? What's Odessa?

So, if you look at the uh Ukraine front

lines, right now Russia is preoccupied

in trying to control

uh the Donbas, which is basically

eastern Ukraine.

Why Russia is doing this is that eastern

Ukraine has historically been part of

Russia, therefore most people there

speak Russian and are are ethnically

Russian.

The Donbas is also the agricultural and

industrial heartland

of Ukraine. So, if Russia were to

control east eastern in Ukraine, it

doesn't really need Western Ukraine.

And then Western Ukraine would basically

become a rump state. It'd be useless,

right? So, the last piece to this puzzle

would be Odessa, which sits on the Black

Sea. The reason why you want Odessa

is that it is the major port.

And once you control Odessa, you

basically block off Ukraine from the

Black Sea. You have complete control

over the Black Sea. The Black Sea is

that the Black Sea? This is the Black

Sea and this is Odessa right here. Yes.

Okay, so you're saying that you Russia

will take take Odessa. That's correct.

Okay, so they'll control the Black Sea.

That's right. But NATO recognizes that

if Odessa falls to the Russians, the war

is over.

And Russia will have achieved all its

major strategic objectives. Why is the

war over?

Because Russia doesn't want to continue

on after Odessa. It doesn't need that

of of Ukraine.

>> Like what does it get from taking

Odessa?

Once they take Odessa, control of

1/3

of the world's carbohydrates.

If Russia willed it,

Africa

would starve to death.

The Middle East would starve. Why?

Because Russia and Ukraine export a lot

of grain to these places. These places

are not food independent. They rely on

fertilizer. They rely on food imports.

Okay. And Russia's using the the Black

Sea here to export. Exactly. Okay.

What is your next prediction? This is

the last one.

Please be good.

Okay. I was hoping for an optimistic

one. But East Asia breaks out into

conflict.

Okay, what do you mean by that? Okay.

So, we've talked a lot about the Middle

East and we've talked briefly about

Europe, okay? So, now let's go into

East Asia.

And I think there are three major

sources of friction

and conflict in East Asia and these

could be potentially major flash points.

The first flash point is of course over

Taiwan.

Cuz China believes that Taiwan

is part

of its territory and so it wants to take

over

uh Taiwan. The problem with this is The

problem with this is that

the recently Prime Minister Sanae

Takaichi of Japan has said

that Taiwan is core to Japanese

strategic interests. What she means

by this is that

Japan

has no resources. It's a manufacturing

power

that depends on resources from overseas.

If China were to take over Taiwan, it

can now block Japan from accessing the

Strait of Malacca.

And that's a policy that Japan cannot

permit. So Japan would fight

to ensure that Taiwan and China were

never to unify.

Would they actually? Because China is so

strong, right? Can they just knock Japan

straight out? Japan has no choice but to

fight because again if China and Taiwan

were to unify peacefully Japan would be

cut off from the entirety of Southeast

Asia. And Japan relies on Southeast Asia

historically for resources.

Why would it be cut off from Southeast

Asia? Can't it just

go go down here to through the

Philippines?

There's a lot of resources around the

South China Sea. Okay. Right. Oil,

minerals, all of that. Yeah.

>> Um

so

if China and Taiwan were to uh unify

basically uh Japan would feel a bit

threatened.

And your prediction is that there will

be some kind of conflict in this region.

Yeah, so so that's the first flashpoint,

okay? Taiwan. There's another

flashpoint, which is Strait of Malacca,

right? Because again, America wants to

control the Strait of Malacca, but China

recognizes that the Strait of Malacca is

key to its economic survival. And so

there's a lot conflict over the Strait

of Malacca, okay? That's flashpoint

number two.

The third flashpoint, which I think

would be the most surprising

but actually will be the most

uh pressing

is North Korea.

Okay? So, let's just use game theory.

We are

the leader, supreme leader of North

Korea.

It is a dictatorship. Everyone worships

me. It is is a cult personality.

But we're poor.

And the rest of the world is in

conflict, right? Europe is fighting with

Russia, the Middle East is in flames,

America's distracted trying to control

the world to the best of its ability,

Japan and China are fighting over the

South China Sea.

If you are North Korea

now

is the best opportunity to create as

much havoc in the world as possible.

There's absolutely nothing they and I

can do to stop you.

You are the brawler in high school that

no one pays attention to because all the

big boys are fighting each other. You

can come in and dominate the school now.

Who would they be dominating? They could

dominate South Korea.

Because if you just look at uh a

population map of South Korea

most of South Korean population is

located in Seoul, and Seoul is about

about 20 minutes artillery

from North Korea. So, in 20 minutes

uh North Korea could rain artillery onto

Seoul and like basically they flatten

their whole city.

Why wouldn't you extort the South

Koreans? Because the South Koreans are

going to shoot back.

With what? Do they not have military?

They're being protected by the Americans

right now, and Americans are busy

transporting artillery and weapon

systems, including the THAAD system,

over to the Middle East.

It's called THAAD. T H A A D

It used to be in South Korea to protect

against North Korea, and now it's over

in the Middle East.

So, Americans are cannibalizing both

South Korea and Japan in order to

maintain this war in the Middle East.

Now's the time.

Why not? It's free money. It's like

taking candy from a baby.

But South Korea have their own military,

though.

How do you defend against artillery

strikes?

Uh I don't know. You don't.

But but they they they they would fire

back, right? You'd get they'd get

themselves into a pretty ugly war. South

Korea have a have a big military. Well,

my people are poor. They're not afraid

to die. In fact, I've sent thousands of

them to go to Ukraine to fight for the

Russians, and

they fight to the death.

Because they're poor, and if they don't

fight to the death, if they're allowed

to be taken prisoner, I'll kill their

families back at home.

South Koreans are rich.

They are used to democracy. They use

individual rights.

So, if I threaten to blow your city up,

you're telling me you won't bribe me not

to do so?

Isn't Isn't the fastest, quickest way is

to bribe me not to cause trouble for

you? Okay, so you think they're going to

bribe them? Extortion. This is

extortion. I don't need to destroy South

Korea. All I need to do is is basically

threaten the South Koreans,

and they'll just like

bribe me not to do anything.

So, what does all of this stuff mean for

the average person?

You know, people listening right now,

they're just normal people. A lot of

them. Not all of them, but a lot of them

are just normal people getting on with

their lives and they care about their

families, their their jobs, their

futures. What does

What what message have you got for them?

In this new world,

we will need leaders.

We will need average people

who are able to bring hope

to the to people around them.

Who are able to tell their neighbors,

their friends,

we have to come together

as a community

and become a family if we are to

survive.

That's what the world needs

in the future.

It will need

um entrepreneurial leaders.

It will need visionaries. It will need

prophets. Those who will most thrive are

those who make an effort

to reach out,

knock on the door

of your neighbors and say, "Listen,

there's a blackout.

And

there's probably no water.

But,

don't fear because if we come together

as a community,

if we go and knock on everyone's doors,

then everyone in this apartment

building, and there will be 100 of us,

we just sit down

and have a meeting and just discuss

what's happening, one of us

will come up with a solution.

And one of us will help everyone else

figure out how

to find water or how to

build a better society. And we know this

because historically this has always

been true. When empires collapse,

infrastructure collapses. Which empire

do you think is collapsing? The United

States empire?

Uh the United States empire is

collapsing, yes.

And who is taking its place? No one can

take the place of American empire. So,

we live in a unipolar moment. And the

closest historical analogy to today is

something called the Bronze Age

collapse. The Bronze Bronze Age.

>> The Bronze Age collapse. This happened

um about over 3,000 years ago.

And what happened during the Bronze Age

collapse is that

you have these established kingdoms

throughout the Middle East and Europe.

You have Mycenaean uh Greece. You had

the Hittite uh Empire in Anatolia, which

is present-day Turkey. You had uh the

Mesopotamian

Empire and the Egyptians.

Um and one by one

they collapsed. The reason why was that

a perfect storm of calamities came at

the same time. There were earthquakes.

There were famines. There was a climate

crisis. There were wars. There were

civil wars. There were revolutions. And

so you have this massive surge of

refugees, called the Sea Peoples,

flowing from north and

uh West Europe and sweeping the entire

sweeping food to the entire entire

Middle East. And the reason why is they

were hungry. They didn't have any food

to eat. So they organized into

um you know, these large pirate armies

and they overwhelmed

uh entire civilizations.

And so we're see we will see a version

of this dynamic play out in the world

where in the future