00:00:00.000The deal with the Gulf countries was, you know, we'll use the petrodollar, you'll buy our weapons, you'll invest in American treasuries, we'll be tied together, but we'll protect you.
00:00:12.500And, you know, part of that is you'll buy weapons platforms that are wildly oversold, like the Patriot Missile System and the F-35.
00:00:22.560You'll spend billions and billions, which Americans, well, some Americans will see some
00:00:27.220of that workers at Raytheon and Lockheed and Martin, but for the most part, that money
00:00:32.440is staying right in a silo of the military-industrial complex.
00:00:37.280But the promise was, don't worry, because you'll have the best weapons in the world
00:00:50.380So they set up bases for their jets fairly close to Yemen, and the Yemenis just hit the bases with missiles and drones.0.96
00:01:01.680And that forces their F-15s in an attack roll.
00:01:06.880That forces them so far back that they can't reach Yemen without refueling.0.84
00:01:11.480And the refuelers are coming from Cyprus, and they're not piloted by Saudis.
00:01:16.800You know, the refuelers are British or American, all the way from Cyprus.0.66
00:01:22.120So the democratization of warfare means that even second-tier countries like Iran and third-tier countries like the Houthis can push these first-tier countries way far away.
00:01:36.020America is pushed all the way back to Jordan.
00:01:38.740And I see today people are saying, well, after the midterms, maybe we'll have another big air attack.
00:01:43.860We're not going to have another big air attack.
00:06:09.920Yeah, we're on the cusp of big events like the post-World War I era.
00:06:16.780Where where several empires just collapsed, you know, the Russian Empire, Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, these covered a huge part of of, you know, the Middle East and Europe and and Eurasia, the Russian Empire.
00:06:32.900And you just cut to it again. You just cut to it again. That looks like because the EU has the worst demographics, worst finances, even worse than China.
00:06:39.600This looks like Trump positioning for the collapse of the EU.
00:06:41.940the eu is collapsing there if anything they're more delusional than than trump is you know they're
00:06:49.720they're they're talking as if uh you know sikorsky who's married to ann applebaum the cia mouthpiece
00:06:57.380for from uh the atlantic and others uh washington post he was he was congratulating the u.s for
00:07:04.620blowing up the nordstrom pipeline when that happened right and he's saying that um that if
00:07:11.100If Poland goes to war with Russia, Poland can defeat Russia in a matter of, you know, days or weeks.
00:07:24.740I also saw the Atlantic announcing yesterday that it's the end of the American empire.
00:07:28.220I'm not even for the empire, but if we're going to have one, it should be ours, at least for the finances up front, so we can decouple.
00:07:34.020If any empire is collapsing, it's the globalist Rothschild control.0.88
00:07:38.300Well, what do you make of the Atlantic saying we're done?
00:07:41.100well i we're definitely done in west asia and and i'm i'm for the empire collapsing if it means
00:07:49.340you know american lives and treasure are going to be uh put on the board as like you know poker
00:07:56.020chips um to to um be played and maybe lost to to protect uh not only the gulf states which we've
00:08:04.900shown we can't yeah we're definitely evacuating from the middle east let's just do it this way
00:08:08.880You describe it like a risk board, South Korea, Taiwan, describe it like a risk board.
00:08:13.920What's the current place in the global domination game?
00:08:17.780Our smart move is to withdraw and retrench.
00:08:21.380And if it's the global risk board to, you know, lock down North America and and exert our influence over Central and South America, where we can actually we can actually defend this territory.
00:08:36.100But we're so we're so far dispersed. You know, if on the risk board, you know, you can occupy a country with one little piece, you know, meanwhile, next door, somebody's got, you know, building up huge armies at any point, they can just sweep your little piece off the board.
00:08:52.920So, you know, I think that the Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, even the Filipinos, they have to be recognizing right now that that U.S. power is a paper tiger.0.82
00:10:49.920It's demographic, you know, it's imported population.1.00
00:10:53.680It's demographic time bomb is ticking.1.00
00:10:56.720They went so far out on the green delusion that they not only, you know, destroyed their power plants and coal mines,
00:11:06.340they basically dismantled them so that they could never be built again.0.88
00:11:10.140They didn't even hold them in reserve the way that Russians have always held old machinery and old war material in reserve.
00:11:20.420The Europeans were so devoted to this green ideology that they not only shut down their coal mines, they dismantled them, made them so that they could never be rebuilt, and went in on wind power and solar power, which in Europe are fallacies.
00:11:37.320You know, solar might work in Arizona and wind might work in some places, even though they've got their own big issues.
00:11:44.080But they're not going to work in Europe where where it can have, you know, no sun and no wind for weeks at a time.
00:11:54.240Them talking about rearming is is, you know, like, you know, like a 90 year old man saying he's going to get back in the ring and go for the heavy white title again.
00:12:06.160I totally agree. What do you make of the EU move into Canada? Then I want to shift gears. What you really sent me your incredible gravitas on the Middle East, Yemen, Iran and the retreat of the United States sitcom having to say, no, we're not retreating when we are not helping Saudi Arabia, even though it's Israel's war.
00:12:24.580You've called it perfectly what's happening so far. I know you want to recap the current developments, but then give us what's coming next.
00:12:30.080Well, Trump Trump is such a loose cannon. I think that he's he's just driven by his own ego and kind of a madness. He goes to Ireland. This might have been glossed over in the States, but he went to Ireland and promoted the reunification of Ireland for for, you know, people in the United Kingdom and especially in Northern Ireland.
00:12:52.360This is like, you know, waving a red cape full of sparklers in front of a bull.
00:12:59.540Talking about the reunification of Ireland positively is telling the Unionists, let's start the troubles again.
00:13:06.080Let's go back to 1970 and, you know, let's bring back the troubles.
00:13:10.840Except in 1970, they didn't have, you know, a quarter of their population, foreign-born, other religions, you know, no cultural attachment.0.68
00:13:18.100And he tells he tells the British also, I think that we'll just let Argentina take the Falklands.
00:13:25.220You know, in 1983, the British were able to send an actual Navy to the Falklands.
00:13:32.840So so Trump is doing what he can to sabotage the British.
00:13:37.040Some people who like see things through the whole royal family and city of London prism think that he's actively sabotaging the British as, you know, the royal family and MI5 and MI6 are like the secret hand.
00:13:54.740They definitely punch above their weight in intelligence matters, you know, in the Middle East and elsewhere.
00:13:59.780But, you know, I just think that it's Trump being Trump and being a loose cannon, just like a drunken cowboy walking into a saloon, you know, shooting off a six-shooter.0.93
00:14:09.380Yeah, like when he said, oh, we're going to take Canada, 51st state, screw your hockey team.
00:14:13.280It got Carney elected when it was super unpopular.
00:14:15.280He's just doing it as just a stunt, as a troll, because the media, like I said, not looking at the unintended consequences of it.
00:14:22.140And he's a man going into dementia that won maybe three hours of sleep a day, right?
00:14:27.840So if you're on three hours of sleep and then you're getting medicated, maybe they're like pumping them up with modafinil.
00:14:34.960Well, not the good stuff, the methylene blue from the Infowars store.
00:14:41.540But if they're pumping them up with things like modafinil, that's fine if you're getting six or eight hours of sleep.
00:14:49.160But if he's like having disturbed sleep and they're just medicating him, we can almost be in like Rasputin territory.0.62
00:14:56.580He was the mad advisor behind the czars during the revolution phase.0.68
00:15:03.700And we could have like a President Rasputin right now.
00:15:07.220So the drunken cowboy goes into the saloon and starts firing wild shots.
00:15:11.140And people are saying, well, that one hit the painting of the naked lady over the bar.
00:15:55.960Talk about the current case and then where this is going.
00:15:58.680It's going to be a lot of interesting stuff about Yemen's terrorist forming and how that ties into all this.0.87
00:16:04.060Yeah, I really think this is a classic example of we're moving into a new warfare paradigm, and we're stuck with the old one.0.58
00:16:17.640You know, there was a time when kings ruled feudal systems and their power extended from the castles that they built.
00:16:27.940They could dragoon labor, build a giant castle.
00:16:31.540None of the peasants had anything but a pitchfork, right?
00:16:34.880If you had 100 knights that could camp inside your castle and they had armor on, they could leave.
00:16:41.720You know, if some village somewhere, like in the movie Braveheart, if some village somewhere, you know, was getting restless or uppity, you know, you just sent a hundred of your armored troops out there and just slaughtered them.
00:20:25.060Well, the Saudis are finding out the same thing about 20th century warfare.
00:20:30.840They, as, you know, Dowd and others have been talking about, the deal with the Gulf countries was, you know, we'll use the petrodollar, you'll buy our weapons, you'll invest in American treasuries, we'll be tied together, but we'll protect you.
00:20:48.200And, you know, part of that is you'll buy weapons platforms that are wildly oversold,
00:20:53.880like the Patriot missile system and the F-35.
00:20:57.440You'll spend billions and billions, which Americans, well, some Americans will see some
00:21:02.320of that workers at Raytheon and Lockheed and Martin.
00:21:05.200But for the most part, that money is staying right in a silo of the military industrial
00:23:00.380to keep the refueling capability but keep it on our continent don't try to like project power from0.57
00:23:06.460from uh kuwait because the kuwaiti bases are destroyed the uae bases are destroyed uh the
00:23:13.900only bases left are in jordan and they're in range so we need to pull back on the risk board analogy
00:23:20.100we need to pull back to north america and then contest china for south america i agree with the
00:23:24.760Problem is, Iran knows it holds the cards, is going to press this for even further surrender, not just tacit withdrawal, but saying, no, don't worry, we're staying, even though they're leaving, at least pulling back.
00:23:36.440And then Trump is going to be enticed to try to double down with futile air campaigns.
00:23:42.700What are the different scenarios you see, Matt Bragan?
00:23:46.700I don't think that we're going to try another futile air campaign.
00:23:49.760The only thing that could really make a difference now is we already did Midnight Hammer.
00:23:55.100So the idea of B-2 bombers dropping, you know, penetrating weapons is a joke.
00:24:01.620Whether you say, oh, it's Pickaxe Mountain, then you can, like, queue up Top Gun Maverick.
00:24:08.060It's nothing but face-saving to say, oh, look, we blew something up again.
00:24:11.240And if Trump does that as an exit strategy, I'm all for it.1.00
00:24:13.660But I don't think the Iranians will stop, to my point.0.61
00:28:59.420Matt is super smart. I want big picture what's coming next. I know he has it. So I'm interrogating
00:29:05.840him, squeezing out the new information because we're not here about here's great stories that
00:29:11.600are wonderful that the Pentagon knows. I know most of, you know, we're here to get the next thing.
00:29:16.380So I'm going to shut up now. Please give us the different avenues where you see this going,
00:29:21.040the energy, everything you predicted, because you already gave us tomorrow's news today before.
00:29:24.420Now we want the new thing. And I'm not being mean here. I know I'm the villain here interrupting your great stories. But isn't this Death Star attack analogy, is it that apropos?
00:29:34.640yes it is and and it's not just it's not just ukraine you can say that russia is also part
00:29:42.260of the anti-empire because you know after 1990 when we when james baker said we're not going
00:29:48.100to move nato one inch east you know we're ukraine is like a dagger at their heart it's if you look
00:29:53.980at a map ukraine is like just hundreds of miles from from moscow so these are really two wars
00:29:59.500I've been calling it the Great Energy World War or World War E, you know, and so this is absolutely going to be a sea war.
00:30:08.260It already is. We blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
00:30:11.680Ships are being commandeered by our side, calling them illegal, according to us, ghost fleets.
00:30:27.080the bases are nothing but but missile targets now so we we have nothing to gain and much more to
00:30:33.720lose you know we're going to have to lose our face we're going to have to lose pride the problem is
00:30:39.080that trump is part of this equation and you know he's now just surrounded by sycophants and yes
00:30:44.280men and and there's no way to talk him out of anything he thinks that that uh we're winning
00:30:50.520you know he he thinks we control the strait of hormuz so when you have somebody that delusional
00:30:55.880The Russians, Lavrov, Putin, they know they've just got to wait him out. We're deal incapable. We can't make a deal. There's nothing we can say other than a Senate passed treaty that they would give a second of credence to. Same thing with the Iranians. Several times we've used negotiations as a trick, as a ploy for a sneak attack.
00:31:23.240So who would trust us? Who would believe us? But bigger picture, way bigger picture.
00:31:29.280I think going into this fall, we're going into a perfect storm scenario. And just today,
00:31:35.720I rewatched a show on YouTube called 11 CC, which is about or excuse me, 1177 BC. That's the
00:31:45.420civilization that had existed before then collapsed for all across the Mediterranean,
00:31:51.540Turkey to Egypt. In 100 years, all these great civilizations interconnected in those days,
00:31:59.780global trade, all collapsed. They forgot how to do writing for centuries. They were developing
00:32:07.960alphabets. It was all lost. And there was a dark age. So sometimes these collapses can be beyond
00:32:15.420just, oh, we're going to have another depression. You can get into a perfect storm. And that's what
00:32:20.840the video made the point, it wasn't just a drought or a volcano. You know, there were a series of
00:32:28.360events. Well, right now we've got a super El Nino going on, the one of the worst recorded. And
00:32:35.220you can get to a tipping point where major ocean currents, their directions just change or stop or
00:32:43.340collapse. You can have, you know, you could have Northern Europe this winter could be buried under
00:32:49.020blizzards the whole winter at the same time that there's no diesel fuel right
00:32:54.060that that that global trade collapses there's no food coming in and I'm just
00:32:59.520not meaning to pick on northern Europe but this can go completely global it
00:33:04.920can be way beyond just a bad a bump a bumpy couple of years before we all get
00:33:11.220back on the big path you know another for YouTube video fans look up and
00:33:17.820and there's many videos on these topics. Look up 536 A.D., the worst year in history.
00:33:23.900You know, this is just like a giant Krakatoa volcano, a level of volcano in the northern
00:33:30.140hemisphere that just blotted out the sun for a whole summer. Famine, pestilence leads to,
00:33:38.680you know, collapse of any kind of local authority, civilizational collapse, warlords,
00:33:44.100a dark age. So 1177 BC, a collapse, a dark age, centuries before the Greeks reinvent0.91
00:33:55.280civilization. Same thing 536 AD. It's like the Roman Empire, it didn't just collapse in a certain1.00
00:34:05.900year like 470 or whatever it didn't just collapse it's like a it's it's a process a long process
00:34:13.900and then this super volcano which they can record from tree rings and other things and then from
00:34:19.660china europe everywhere they can say those years there was like no sun the sun didn't come out all
00:34:25.420the plants died so that put like the you know the the coup de the coup de gras on the collapsing
00:34:32.460Roman Empire, and you go into a dark age. So it just seems to me like it's very optimistic to
00:34:39.360think, well, we're just going to have $6 diesel for a while, but we'll figure it out. It'll be
00:34:46.380fine. Things will get back on an even keel. That's like macro normalcy bias. And I think that
00:34:54.000we should be thinking in terms of at the personal level, Mike Adams is saying, I'm buying pallets
00:35:00.800solar panels i didn't used to believe in them you know but but that's the only thing i can rely on
00:35:06.240at this point can't rely on diesel even though he's got a lot of that stockpile too it the longest
00:35:11.600stockpile runs out so so you've got to think you know locally your own situation but in in in a
00:35:19.600macro national sense now is the time to be thinking about a north america defense you know we do have
00:35:26.240oil in venezuela no matter how we obtained it you know kind of the imperialist model we're just
00:35:31.760going down and taking it put in the put in the uh the governor that we choose take out the last guy
00:35:38.720put him in prison but we at least have these resources so does russia a lot of the world is0.67
00:35:45.120going to really suffer japan korea without global trade they're going to be uh you know totally in
00:35:53.120starvation. You know, if I predict that this war is going to go to a general sea war, you know,
00:36:00.080people commandeering ships is going to lead to ships being torpedoed. You know, we torpedoed an
00:36:06.320Iranian ship, unarmed Iranian ship, a newly commissioned little frigate leaving a diplomatic0.87
00:36:13.680kind of a ceremonial event in India. You know, we torpedoed that. We blew that out of the water,0.93
00:36:19.680killed all those sailors they don't forget that kind of thing absolutely so i'm a good boy and
00:36:24.920you've been giving us your incredible gravitas of history i know a ton of history no more than i
00:36:29.380we're very impressed i interrupted the first 30 because you were kind of going over old ground
00:36:33.120which you're totally right about which the pentagon knew and told trump so he didn't listen
00:36:36.840israel wants to keep us protracted for their greater israel that's all falling apart now look
00:36:42.020forward what what are the off-ramps the iranians know every time they make a deal that isn't real
00:36:46.800they're belligerent they are got a stranglehold now i'm concerned that if they over play and don't
00:36:55.140make some deal with trump that's even in their favor that then trump will go crazy and try ground
00:37:00.140invasion which i know we don't have the troops for but he's been calling for it trying to get
00:37:03.580the battle plans for he's called up nuke attacks they wouldn't even show him that i'm really
00:37:08.180concerned about because he does have the frontal lobe dementia that so looking at that how do we
00:37:13.580get the iranians to make some deal to shut this down and give trump uh at least the you know
00:37:19.440visual victory he needs to play here for domestic audiences i'm sorry i just i just don't see it
00:37:25.800i don't either i believe it's really bad so let's just move past that then since we're going to be
00:37:31.180negative and i agree with you blackpilled here then what are the horrible scenarios moving forward
00:37:36.220with the energy and the eight dollar gas you know diesel and the six dollar gas and just all of this
00:37:41.840hell and then the pentagon telling him two weeks ago this is going to go until 2029 it's not just
00:37:46.180the midterms trump saying no it's over the midterms that's obviously not going to happen0.54
00:37:49.260the iranians have us by the balls they're in control of the narrative they're in control of
00:37:52.540the war now so so so then please tell us matt what the scenarios are we're looking at the iranians0.73
00:37:57.820the iranians have a have a strong leader now this guy moshan razai who was the 27 year old leader of
00:38:04.920the IRGC during the 1980s war. So they brought him back and he's, he's, he's has declared that
00:38:11.500he's the advisor to the new Supreme leader who may or may not be alive, who may or may not be
00:38:16.980in a coma. So essentially he's, he's speaking as the unitary leader of Iran. He's a leader and
00:38:23.240he's a military guy. They don't, they're not going to let, they're like a pit bull right now
00:38:28.260with us in there, you know, and we're in his jaws. They're going to shake us by the neck
00:38:33.300until the next president says we will never, ever go back to West Asia.0.99
00:38:39.440They understand very well the Israeli mow-the-grass paradigm.0.94
00:38:44.460You know, just every year or two, do another bombing campaign.0.99
00:41:44.520I don't know if they'll make good on that.0.58
00:41:45.600But you think Israel's a pariah now. Is that just talk out of Israel?
00:41:49.680Even without even without nukes, you know, the whole the whole nuke paradigm of mutual assured destruction that lasted from, you know, the 60s when everybody had ICBMs until recently into the century was that the accuracy of a nuke could take out, you know, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York, Washington.0.81
00:42:08.640but just a conventional warhead on a missile, who cares? Their accuracy was so limited that
00:42:18.740there'd be no point in firing a ballistic missile at a city that might just randomly
00:42:24.360drop anywhere in Washington, D.C. But if you can put, if you have a, you know, 2,000 kilogram
00:42:32.280conventional warhead, hypersonic, which doubles its impact power, and you can put it straight
00:42:38.700into the White House, and we don't have a defense against it, because they could fire
00:42:42.44010, or take not the White House, but more practically and realistically, right into
00:42:48.340Tel Aviv, that they could fire, you know, 400 of these missiles at Tel Aviv and level
00:42:55.380it, and they wouldn't need, and also their power plants, their desalinization plants,0.99
00:42:59.960Yeah, let's not forget, let's not forget, the Iranians said three months ago, they said, we've shot our old missiles, we're starting to use our medium, you're about to see our good ones0.82
00:43:08.920They said, oh, you're out, that's a lie, they showed they have a lot more advanced, now they're saying we have even better ready here0.83
00:43:14.900And for those that don't know, they shot them into half billion dollar radars, right perfectly in the top
00:43:18.920They hit the Mossad base without a warhead during Midnight Hammer, just to show them
00:43:24.500So, yeah, that's right. I mean, they don't need nukes because they can pinpoint all the strategic equipment.
00:43:31.020Right. The combination of mass plus accuracy has changed the equation right now.
00:43:38.160You blow a whole city up just to get the command base in the city. You don't need to.
00:43:42.500Now you can just blow the Pentagon up or you can NATO headquarters in Brussels or, you know, EU, the EU building, whatever you want.
00:43:51.960You can just take out that exact building and we can see that unfold at a sub nuclear threshold.
00:43:58.640So. So Trump is still delusional about this. Yes.
00:44:03.040And he's just going to continue in the stalemate. He thinks that's not a stalemate.
00:44:07.580They're built to hold on. What is he going to do as the compounding energy crisis intensifies?
00:44:15.180I think that he may lash out. You know, he gets he's he's sort of like not that, you know, not to stretch an analogy.
00:44:21.960because it's kind of cliched, but Hitler in the bunker, you know,
00:44:25.060where he's commanding armies that have already surrendered or been overrun by
00:44:29.060the Russians, right? That from that film.
00:44:32.640Well, no, no. Downfall is super accurate from his own age.
00:44:35.840He was like, where's Steiner? Where's the third army?
00:44:38.000They go, sir, it surrendered three days ago. He's like, you are fired. No.
00:44:41.000And the Russians are a hundred yards away and he still doesn't get it.0.92
00:44:45.540Right. And, and he might be commanding, you know,
00:44:48.200carriers that have already left. But at a certain point,
00:44:51.180I think that the, you know, the joint chiefs of staff or one level below them are going to have some kind of a private meeting.
00:45:01.580I'm told they've already told him this.
00:45:03.880They told him this the week before, Matt.
00:45:06.960I mean, he was told this week before it started, 202 days ago.
00:45:10.600but at the time he was hearing other very rosy and optimistic views about how we can just take
00:45:18.540out all their infrastructure and the military will surrender they totally don't read us it's
00:45:23.460the sun tzu thing about you know if you don't know yourself or your enemy we don't we just we don't
00:45:30.260the iranians under the and i'm sorry i i always get criticized for saying iran instead of iran
00:45:36.760Um, you know, I'm a, I'm an old boomer American and I stay Spain, not España, you know, and I say, I say, um, Turkey, not Turquia. But anyway, Iran, Iran, they understand us way better. Um, Ghaliboff, um, who's like a spokesman. He, he's, he's trolling us on Twitter. He posted the old, um, old, uh, uh, what is it? Um, cartoon.
00:46:01.280No, I've got to give it to the Iranians.1.00
00:46:03.220They do satire as good as we do or better, and people think these are idiots.1.00
00:46:07.620They understand us at a level we do not understand them at all.0.99
00:46:10.680So you still have people on Fox News saying, finish the job.
00:49:21.480But if you put that on top of this grand El Nino cycle in a winter where suddenly my friend in Ireland, diesel is over $10 a gallon per liter price.
00:49:33.500So what's that going to do in the midterms?
00:49:35.300How bad is the energy crisis going to get?