The Culture War - Tim Pool - November 12, 2026


We've Been INFILTRATED Chinese Spies SINK Nvidia, Russia SURRENDERS Currency War

Trump Admin GOES INTO HIDING, Iran Brings WW3 HERE ＂Today The World Ends＂ Doomsday Friday The 13th 2026, The Population Bomb & WW3

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00:00:00 June 3rd, 2025, Detroit. Two Chinese researchers are charged with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into a University of Michigan lab.
00:00:11 The Justice Department calls it a potential agro-terrorism weapon.
00:00:16 Days later, a third researcher is arrested at the same university, and then a fourth, this time, bacteria.
00:00:23 August 17th, 2026, Washington. The FBI files are declassified. A suspected Chinese operative
00:00:33 called Fang Fang spent years working her way through California politics. She placed interns 1.00
00:00:39 inside a congressman's office. She routed illegal money into his campaign. Eric Swalwell told the 1.00
00:00:46 agents he even slept with her. October 4th, Los Angeles International Airport. The FBI arrests
00:00:53 a woman boarding a flight to Shanghai. She is a realtor, a mother. She lived in a $5 million
00:00:59 home in Orange County. Prosecutors say she was working for Beijing. Her mission? To secretly
00:01:06 film the family of Taiwan's president outside of Seattle. October 29th. The New York Times
00:01:13 reports that the CEO of NVIDIA has been close to a Chinese government agent. NVIDIA makes the chips
00:01:19 that power the entire AI race. Her company is suspected of funneling those chips to mainland
00:01:25 China. And inside the White House, Treasury Secretary Besant confronts the Commerce Secretary.
00:01:32 For years, his department let it slide. November 12th, Jensen Wang, CEO of NVIDIA, resigns.
00:01:41 Over the past several years, a scandal brewing in the United States. As it was revealed to the
00:01:46 American public. Chinese buyers hold a quarter of a million acres of American farmland. One plot
00:01:53 sits 12 miles from an Air Force drone base. 26 states have since passed laws to stop it.
00:02:01 Biolabs, members of Congress, the boardroom of our largest companies, and the land beside
00:02:07 military bases. The United States has been infiltrated. The question is, what is the 0.96
00:02:14 conflict, and why is this fight brewing? For 50 years, the world has bought its oil in American
00:02:22 dollars, not because of a contract, because of a handshake. Saudi oil for American protection.
00:02:30 Every country on earth needs oil, so every country on earth needs U.S. dollars. That is why America
00:02:37 can borrow without limit. That is why U.S. sanctions can crush a nation without firing a
00:02:44 shot. And China has spent a generation trying to break it. In 2009, China's central bank called 0.83
00:02:54 for a new global reserve currency to replace the U.S. dollar. The BRICS alliance is born.
00:03:00 In 2018, Shanghai begins trading oil in yuan.
00:03:06 Beijing becomes the buyer of more than 80% of Iran's oil paid for outside the U.S. dollar.
00:03:13 And this spring, a war begins.
00:03:16 The Strait of Hormuz shuttered.
00:03:19 The reason? 0.90
00:03:20 Nuclear weapons claims the United States.
00:03:22 Detractors claim Israel.
00:03:24 But the result?
00:03:26 Iran begins charging ships tolls in Chinese yuan.
00:03:30 Its diplomats say it out loud, it is time for the PetroJuan.
00:03:36 This is the next Great War.
00:03:39 January, American forces seize the President of Venezuela.
00:03:43 By August, President Donald Trump announces control of 65 billion barrels of its oil.
00:03:49 He calls it the biggest oil deal in world history.
00:03:53 February, Panama takes the canal ports away from a Hong Kong company.
00:03:58 By September, they belong to an American firm.
00:04:02 On February 28th, the United States strikes Iran.
00:04:06 The Strait of Hormuz becomes a war zone.
00:04:08 Half of the crude oil China imports sails through that water.
00:04:13 In six weeks, gasoline in China jumps 39 percent.
00:04:17 Beijing sets its lowest growth target in 35 years.
00:04:22 April, American oil exports at 13.6 million barrels per day, the highest in U.S. history.
00:04:30 The world needs oil, and America is now the one selling it.
00:04:35 By September, Trump signs a deal for Greenland and the Arctic, and this week, the final domino.
00:04:42 Russia is China's biggest partner.
00:04:45 It was the proof the yuan could replace the dollar.
00:04:48 This year, Russia cut its trade in yuan in half.
00:04:51 the Chinese currency has fallen to fifth in the world. Venezuela, Panama, Hormuz, Greenland,
00:04:59 one by one, the road that China's oil travels on now runs through American hands. They told you 0.81
00:05:06 this war was about nuclear weapons. But look at the bigger picture. This war is about global
00:05:13 control of oil. And China is losing. Soon, Xi Jinping will host Vladimir Putin in Shenzhen.
00:05:21 Donald Trump may even be in the room.
00:05:24 China is losing.
00:05:26 It cannot break the barricade. 0.87
00:05:28 But it still has pieces on the board.
00:05:32 And the major political swing in the United States could shake everything up. 0.73
00:05:37 And now the fear is, will a desperate China choose to escalate? 0.90
00:05:41 And if they do, do we face Thucydides' trap, World War III? 0.79
00:05:48 Let's break it down.
00:05:48 The United States has effectively won one of the most important conflicts of our generation, and no one understands it, and no one is talking about it.
00:05:59 Quite possibly the biggest story that we have gotten in foreign policy dropped yesterday, and for some reason, well, I can't say I'm surprised, it is being overlooked.
00:06:09 That is, Russia's effort to deal in oil with Chinese yuan over the U.S. dollar has collapsed. 0.65
00:06:18 The war has worked.
00:06:19 Donald Trump has succeeded in this regard.
00:06:22 Now I'm going to say a few things.
00:06:23 There's a bigger picture at play, and the end result is not all doom and gloom because
00:06:28 this may either ignite Thucydides' trap or put an end to it.
00:06:33 For those that are not familiar, Thucydides' trap is the idea that when there's a dominant
00:06:37 academic power and is about to be displaced by a rising academic power, there's a tendency
00:06:42 for war to erupt.
00:06:44 In 12 of the last 16 historical events, we have tracked major wars breaking out.
00:06:50 In fact, Xi Jinping himself of China warned the United States that we must avoid Thucydides' trap.
00:06:59 You need to understand what that means as it pertains to the NVIDIA story and to the Chinese spies, the farmland, and what we have seen in the United States.
00:07:09 Xi Jinping saying this, I'll expand on the mean.
00:07:13 He said, we are ascendant. China is taking over. The U.S. will fall. Do not fight it.
00:07:22 In fact, it was just about a year or two ago, China's ambassador told the United States under
00:07:27 this is actually a couple of years more than that. It was under Biden. They said, you are not
00:07:31 negotiating from a position of strength. Now, why under Joe Biden was that the case?
00:07:38 Why can I show you so many stories about infiltration of Chinese spies in the United States?
00:07:46 Why is one of the biggest stories breaking right now that the CEO of one of the most important companies in the United States and the world is being rocked by a Chinese spy relationship? 0.60
00:08:00 Because, my friends, China has been ascendant, but the story breaking right now may be the end of their efforts to launch the BRICS currency and trade in what they've called the Petro-Wan.
00:08:15 But I'll give you the simple version, and then I'm going to break down all of the facts and details outlining exactly what just happened, quite possibly the biggest story.
00:08:24 Now, of course, there is the argument that we in the United States are infiltrated and we are.
00:08:31 These spy stories are terrifying because if China chooses desperation and refuses to back down, my friends, it might get particularly spicy.
00:08:42 But many people are arguing that the point of the war with Iran was simply a nuclear weapon, says the right, or Israel, says the anti-Israel and many on the left. 0.67
00:08:52 The reality is, I have maintained this, and I will maintain this now.
00:08:57 It is and has always been an effort to control global oil.
00:09:04 Now, right now, we are in an AI race, which will dramatically shift how power operates.
00:09:10 The United States is hindered because of our intellectual property law,
00:09:14 limiting how each one of these AI companies can utilize online data sets.
00:09:19 Now, Google, of course, has access to YouTube and Google Search to power Gemini.
00:09:24 Elon Musk bought Twitter to power XAI.
00:09:28 Claude, good luck.
00:09:30 They don't have access to a giant data set the same way as everybody else.
00:09:33 Meta, of course, is Facebook and Instagram.
00:09:35 Now, each one of these companies is constrained because they can't take from each other. 0.56
00:09:40 China, they can do whatever they want, and they are stealing intellectual property,
00:09:45 and no one can do anything about it. 0.81
00:09:47 This has ignited a fear that while the United States is actively involved in a new Cold War against the BRICS nations with China as a centerpiece and additionally Russia, AI can change the name of the game.
00:10:00 So let me start by saying this. This is good news, my friends, on the surface. Russia sanctioned into oblivion will stop trying to use the one. This means the US dollar will strengthen and life will get better for most Americans. If your worldview is the United States should be the dominant unipolar hegemonic power, congratulations, a major, major expanse of American power. 0.72
00:10:27 But certainly there are many people who argue we should not be.
00:10:30 And if that's the case, we run a real risk of World War III.
00:10:34 But the options are this.
00:10:37 America, you can choose to be an isolated.
00:10:40 I'm not saying completely, and I'm not saying isolation is what I'm saying.
00:10:43 Secure your borders, reshore manufacturing, and be strong. 0.79
00:10:46 And watch China become ascendant and become the dominant unipolar power of the world, 0.92
00:10:51 in which the United States will live under a global hegemony of Chinese authority. 0.85
00:10:56 Or. You can accept this. The thing you need to understand about the petrodollar, and then I'm going to get into all of these beats to break down why this war happened and why we may be seeing an actual victory in this capacity. 0.99
00:11:10 The petrodollar means the United States, anybody who wants to buy oil has to come to us and negotiate. We print and control U.S. dollars.
00:11:19 So if China wants oil, they can certainly buy in yuan, and they've been buying from Iran, indeed. 0.70
00:11:27 But if they want to buy on the international market, they have to adhere to U.S. hegemonic power.
00:11:32 So China says, we want U.S. dollars to buy oil to expand our economy, and they don't like it.
00:11:38 Because the U.S. doesn't produce anything.
00:11:41 In fact, because we control the reserve currency, we can print money and then just sell it.
00:11:47 When we buy Chinese yuan, we can use that to pay Chinese laborers for merchandise, pennies on the dollar from China, which is what we've done for generations, maybe two or three. 0.63
00:11:59 China wants the same power. 0.87
00:12:02 All oil must be purchased with their currency, and they control everything. 0.97
00:12:07 This was leading us on a path potentially of World War III. 0.99
00:12:10 The BRICS nations, which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are apparently
00:12:16 now capitulating to everything Donald Trump has set up.
00:12:20 So I want to preface all of that right now so you understand.
00:12:25 If you want a laptop likely made in China, if we did not have the petrodollar and needed
00:12:31 to produce in the United States to trade with China, the price would probably be somewhere
00:12:36 closer to $5,000 to $10,000 for a laptop you can buy right now for $1,000.
00:12:40 Again, tell me you like or don't like it. I'm not suggesting you should be in favor of this
00:12:45 worldview. I'm breaking down for you what they want to have happened. Russia's push to replace
00:12:50 the dollar with the one has collapsed. Now, this is the real victory. But let me give you all the 0.96
00:12:56 details. Let me show you this. Chinese spies, Jensen Huang, one of the most important companies
00:13:03 rock now. We'll see what happens. Chinese spies smuggling biological pathogens in and out of the
00:13:10 United States. Declassified documents, this is just in August, revealing Fang Fang, the Chinese
00:13:17 spy, it is reported, infiltrating congressional campaigns. The million-dollar mansions of an
00:13:25 alleged Chinese agent. The purchasing of farmland. Now, Trump has defended this, but this was China
00:13:33 seeking to conquer these United States. And now a story from just the other day. 0.75
00:13:39 Besant confronts Lutnik in Situation Room over China in action. Let's go back in time. I'm now
00:13:46 going to break down for you everything that we have just seen. Donald Trump enters, wins, I should
00:13:51 say, wins in 2016. Michael Flynn expresses to various Democrats that he fears Russia is not
00:13:58 our greatest adversary, but China is. Immediately, they seek to prosecute. They find that he lied to
00:14:05 some FBI agents while he wasn't even being interviewed for any criminal activity. They said
00:14:09 he lied. They ran him over the coals. He fought back. This is crazy. Strange indeed. Why were
00:14:17 these Democrats being deferential to China? The theory states that if you go back around 30 years,
00:14:23 Democrats wanted China to succeed in order to avoid World War Three. The liberal economic order,
00:14:29 as it is called, decided a managed decline of the United States. Thus, China is ascendant. 0.98
00:14:36 China will be the new way forward. Why? In China, when the government wants to build something, 0.99
00:14:41 there are no human rights. They can bulldoze an entire city block and build a highway and
00:14:47 displace all of those people, and they can't do anything about it for the greater good,
00:14:51 they say. For the betterment of the system, that means you as an individual will be trampled.
00:14:57 The theory goes that there were many prominent U.S. individuals, corporatists, CEOs, etc.,
00:15:01 including Democrats, who believed this was probably the best way forward. Thus,
00:15:05 we began exporting our manufacturing base to China. Democrats began shifting their
00:15:11 wealth base and those aligned with them to China. And thus, China would be the new global hegemonic 0.81
00:15:18 power. And for this, when Michael Flynn said China is a threat, they said we cannot allow this man
00:15:25 to stop China's growth. The liberal economic order was created after World War Two to prevent World
00:15:30 War Three. They believe that through economic ties, you would prevent war. And thus, you got
00:15:34 the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the SWIFT payment system, and you created an
00:15:40 international marketplace. The Western powers would go to countries and offer them loans and
00:15:46 say, you are now beholden to us and capture their leaders through debt. As China was ascendant, 0.66
00:15:51 many of these individuals sought to break down the United States. Thus, our manufacturing base,
00:15:57 the foundation of the country given to China. What do we see next? China buying up our farmland 0.85
00:16:02 near our military bases. China's infiltration with spies. And now this story from Axios.
00:16:08 Besant confronts Lutnik in Situation Room over China in action. Treasurer Secretary Scott Besant
00:16:14 confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over a failure to place NVIDIA customer Megaspeed
00:16:19 on a list of companies that pose national security concerns, sources familiar told Axios.
00:16:25 The Commerce Department oversees the export of sensitive U.S. technologies, and Lutnick's
00:16:29 actions, or lack thereof, are increasingly under scrutiny following revelations that
00:16:34 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang had an affair with Megaspeed employee and suspected Chinese spy
00:16:38 Alice Huang.
00:16:40 Indeed, here we go.
00:16:43 Let's go to the war, my friends.
00:16:44 I'm going to break down exactly where we are so far.
00:16:47 You don't have to agree with the war.
00:16:48 I'm not suggesting it was a good thing.
00:16:50 I'm not suggesting it was successful.
00:16:51 I am just laying out for you all of the puzzle pieces as we see them, what is actually going
00:16:55 on, and what no one is really saying.
00:16:58 And I'm going to say this with all due respect.
00:17:00 I was listening to the Trigonometry podcast the other day.
00:17:03 I think Constantine and Francis, I think they're very smart guys.
00:17:05 They had on Sam Harris.
00:17:07 And I say this with all due respect.
00:17:12 It was surface level, first order thinking.
00:17:15 Sam Harris saying, you know, Iran, you know, they're terrorists and they have a nuclear weapon.
00:17:20 OK, there are many countries that have terrorists and nuclear weapons.
00:17:24 We don't go and invade all of them.
00:17:25 So when I place this nation against other nations, I ask the question of what is what is the purpose beyond this war?
00:17:33 Constantine and Francis did not persist and did not ask any questions, which to me was frustrating.
00:17:37 And I'm not trying to be derisive.
00:17:39 It's frustrating to me when someone says, Iran is a nuclear weapon, so we have to invade.
00:17:43 My response is, or they're trying to get a nuclear weapon.
00:17:46 My response is, why?
00:17:49 Like, okay, so I understand the premise.
00:17:52 They might not have a nuclear weapon.
00:17:54 We must invade to stop them from doing so.
00:17:56 What do you think they will do with a nuclear weapon?
00:17:59 Honest question.
00:17:59 Serious question. 1.00
00:18:01 Well, they'll nuke the region. 1.00
00:18:02 They'll nuke Israel. 1.00
00:18:03 They'll threaten people. 0.96
00:18:04 Okay, the next question then is, will it affect the United States?
00:18:08 directly? No. But our ally, Israel, could be negatively impacted. So Iran may get a nuclear
00:18:17 weapon for which they may attack Israel. So we must preemptively strike them. Yes, that's the 0.97
00:18:22 argument. Okay. I'm going to go and say, I don't think these pieces line up. I actually think
00:18:27 you're looking at a minority proposition. I think that typically the actions we take are usually
00:18:32 going to be as an act of last resort, like something must be done because we are currently
00:18:37 facing a serious threat. In which case, if you take a look at the bigger picture, reporting from
00:18:42 Al Jazeera and Strait of Hormuz, Iran and China take aim at U.S. dollar hegemony. Tehran and
00:18:46 Beijing both stand to gain from boosting the status of the Chinese one. When you take a look 0.99
00:18:51 at this story, everything actually makes more sense. But I'm repeatedly told I'm wrong because
00:18:56 I'm either told Israel did it. And when I ask why Israel did it, they don't give me an answer.
00:19:01 they say something like ideology. Certainly that is a potential, but it doesn't explain 0.97
00:19:07 qui bono, who benefits. Certainly there are ideological factions that seek to go to war
00:19:12 over ideology, but typically that's not largely the case. Even when it comes to jihad, there's a
00:19:18 political component behind it, which often has to do with expansion of US and Western powers in the
00:19:23 Middle East, particularly around the establishment of Israel as a state. There is going to be some
00:19:28 political component. So I will say it like this. In the immediate, the war in Iran did one thing.
00:19:36 It cut China off from estimates of 40 to 50 percent of its oil. Gas in the country spiked
00:19:41 nearly 40 percent in cost. This sliced the timeline by which China was set to become the 0.97
00:19:49 dominant global power, all because of our war with Iran. Russia is now saying they won't trade
00:19:55 won anymore, they'll stick to the dollar. They've been beaten down. China is breaking down and no
00:20:04 one talks about it. I wonder if there really is an elite civil war between the Republicans and
00:20:09 Democrats at stance right now, because the Democratic Party and the neocons wanted China
00:20:13 to be ascendant to avoid potentially World War Three. Hey, China's taken over. Their command
00:20:19 economy system is more efficient in the long run, even at the expense, yes, of civil rights,
00:20:25 because it's authoritarian. And Trump came in and said, we will not oversee the managed decline
00:20:31 of the United States. So what has Trump done? International tariffs to affect reshoring of
00:20:37 U.S. manufacturing. He's been doing it. It makes things more expensive. Let's take a look at the
00:20:43 actually, let's let's get to the globe in a second. I want to show you where we're currently
00:20:46 at. First post. What was the U.S. Saudi petrodollar that lapsed after 50 years? There's no formal
00:20:54 contract. When we say there was a contract agreement, you get politifectives being like,
00:20:59 there is actually no treaty or contract. We get it. The deal was that in 1974, the U.S. said,
00:21:05 look, we're going to build a bunch of oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, and we're
00:21:08 going to have this deal where we basically run things and we want to sell oil in U.S. dollars.
00:21:12 It was a handshake agreement, not a hard contract. Recently, it's broken. The Saudis expect U.S.
00:21:19 protection of the global oil trade so they can be rich forever. The U.S. is faltering as the
00:21:24 BRICS nations are ascendant. Iran has been funding Houthi rebels, militia groups. They've
00:21:28 been bombing ships in the Red Sea. And Saudi Arabia is basically like, guys, you are not
00:21:33 protecting us. China is buying some of like 80 percent of Iran's oil in one. Iran is outside
00:21:41 this system, and they're using that money to wage war in the Middle East. Do we really care about 0.96
00:21:46 terrorists? If we did, we'd be at war in Africa with Boko Haram. We'd be in Nigeria, but we don't
00:21:51 care about that. We care about trade routes, and this is where we are. Amid high gas prices,
00:21:59 Trump says U.S. take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves. Panama
00:22:05 rests control of canal ports from Hong Kong Group. Indeed, a U.S. firm has taken it. U.S. energy
00:22:11 exports hit record high as the Strait of Hormuz conflict persists. Here we are, my friends.
00:22:18 The impact of Chinese energy and infrastructure, they're falling apart. 1.00
00:22:22 So let's roll, baby.
00:22:24 Let me give you the timeline of the Trump administration and why I am telling you right now. 0.80
00:22:30 Yes, there are forces that have infiltrated the United States on the behalf of China. 0.90
00:22:33 And I lead with that to lay out one argument. 0.97
00:22:36 The conflict has always been with China. 0.98
00:22:40 That's why they go after our members of Congress.
00:22:42 That's why they went after the CEO of NVIDIA.
00:22:44 They are the principal adversary of the United States, not Iran, not Russia.
00:22:48 And Russia is faltering and Iran is hanging on by a thread.
00:22:52 I don't think Trump's going to get exactly what he wants with Iran, but I don't believe
00:22:55 the goal with the war in Iran was boots on the ground, total inversion.
00:23:01 I believe the war with Iran's intention was the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to slice 0.78
00:23:05 China's economy in half. 0.96
00:23:06 Since the war began, the timeline by which China will take over as the dominant economy
00:23:11 in the world moved from 2028. Well, actually, it faltered from 2028 years ago. This is projected
00:23:18 something like 10, 15 years ago. 2032, 2037, and now 2040 beyond. Why? Because their energy
00:23:25 infrastructure has collapsed amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. So let's take a look at the
00:23:29 Trump administration. He comes in. Can you please get out of here, Google Earth? He comes in and he
00:23:34 begins pacification of the Caribbean. What is that? He's bombing drug traffickers. Why? They run 0.72
00:23:41 they are great threats to lower yield oil trade. He isolates Cuba, surrounding it and cutting them
00:23:48 off. Why? An additional terror threat from Cuba to U.S. oil exchange in the region. He renames 1.00
00:23:55 the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The port of Texas now becomes one of the largest oil
00:24:01 exporters in the world. And the United States is now a net oil exporter and the largest,
00:24:06 exporting the most it has since World War II.
00:24:09 He captures Venezuela and seizes back U.S. oil infrastructure.
00:24:12 The entire region pacified and the Panama Canal now under U.S. control.
00:24:18 All of this is oil.
00:24:21 He secures a Greenland deal for the Northwest Passage,
00:24:25 which allows ships to pass through the Arctic, through the Bering Strait.
00:24:30 Once again, a trade route that secures U.S. energy infrastructure.
00:24:34 And now I bring you over to the Gulf region. The Houthi rebels in Yemen that Donald Trump had been
00:24:41 assisting the Saudis on dealing with had been bombing ships in the Red Sea. This is the Suez 0.86
00:24:47 Canal, a major exchange route, a trade route for oil in the Mediterranean. Even Russia uses it.
00:24:53 Russia is at war in Ukraine over the Donbass region, which connects mainland Russia with
00:25:00 Crimea, the only warm water port that Russia has. Their fleet, their flagship for the Black Sea
00:25:07 is headquartered in Sevastopol, in Crimea. If they were to lose access, it would cut them off.
00:25:13 Now, many people said, yeah, but Sochi is right here. They could certainly rebuild. They're not
00:25:17 going to spend billions of dollars and give up massive oil infrastructure and the home of their
00:25:23 flagship and fleet just because Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, is trying to declare independence. 0.50
00:25:29 Indeed, they're going to take it. This is how Russia transports oil and energy for sale
00:25:34 through to Eastern European nations, through the Bosphorus, into the Mediterranean, to North
00:25:39 Africa, through the Suez and beyond. Russia is not giving that up. And now I bring you to Iran.
00:25:45 I heard this on the Trigonometry podcast, and this is where I think they were engaging in 0.99
00:25:49 first order thinking, lower order thinking. They did not ask the questions beyond. Sam Harris said
00:25:56 They knew that if they started a war with Iran, Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz,
00:26:00 which is right here.
00:26:02 20% of global oil flows through here.
00:26:06 Yes, everyone knows this.
00:26:08 It has been publicly stated.
00:26:10 Everyone in the military knows this.
00:26:11 And the question then was, if they knew this, why did they go to war?
00:26:15 I don't get it. 1.00
00:26:16 And Sam Harris says, because they're idiots. 1.00
00:26:19 That is silly. 1.00
00:26:20 Do you actually believe the military industrial complex, every major war manufacturing corporation, and our allies in the region were like, oh, heavens me, we knew it was going to happen and we had no plan for it. 0.89
00:26:37 Indeed, when you're looking at war with Iran, this is the first trigger.
00:26:42 In which case, I do not believe nuclear weapons were a primary component of this war.
00:26:48 I think that's silly to say.
00:26:49 Why?
00:26:50 We had the 12-day war.
00:26:51 Trump said we won, but it just keeps happening, right?
00:26:54 Famously, the meme goes,
00:26:55 Iran has been 20 days from a nuclear weapon for thousands of years.
00:27:01 There's a meme that shows Egyptian papyrus paper and stone carvings.
00:27:04 And it's like translation.
00:27:06 Iran is one month away from acquiring a nuclear weapon. 0.87
00:27:09 Indeed, maybe they often are. 0.86
00:27:10 But we used the Stuxnet cyber attack 15 or so years ago to blow up their nuclear centrifuges.
00:27:17 And then Trump did bomb their nuclear facilities and sites.
00:27:23 But I believe the action in the Gulf region was specifically to disrupt Gulf oil trade, isolating China from about 40% of its energy imports, causing serious, serious catastrophe to their economic growth and displacing the one as the global reserve currency.
00:27:41 So what does this ultimately mean?
00:27:43 I'm going to lay it out for you, my friends.
00:27:45 I do not for the it is, you know, I think it's third grade reading level to be like they have
00:27:51 a nuclear weapon because that's actually what I mostly hear is they got a nuclear weapon is a
00:27:57 nuclear nuclear. It's a common mistake. I get it. Iran is a mountainous nation with 90 plus
00:28:04 million people. The argument that Tehran will topple because activists will take over is
00:28:09 ridiculous. It has been speculated by people smarter than me. And I said the same thing when 0.86
00:28:13 the war started. You are not getting regime change without boots on the ground. Don't you think
00:28:17 Hegseth and Trump and the rest of our generals and officers know all of this? Indeed. Which could be
00:28:24 that they genuinely thought they could topple the regime, which would be bad for China if they did.
00:28:29 But I'm going to go ahead and say, I do believe it is entirely possible the United States keeps
00:28:34 the Strait of Hormuz open. They have the rocketry and the ballistic capability to do so if they
00:28:40 really wanted to, but they're not. It's kind of open. Why is that Trump comes out and says that
00:28:45 we have a peace deal? We don't have a peace deal. We have a peace deal. I believe that the intended
00:28:49 condition or at least an ancillary benefit would be the closure of the strait, which will cause
00:28:53 diesel prices around the world. And I have argued this since the beginning.
00:28:57 This is a shock to the global system and Trump knew it was coming.
00:29:01 That's why many of these people were like, yeah, you know, Democrats won.
00:29:04 I do think Trump is coming out now being like, oh, they cheated or whatever. I don't think he
00:29:08 actually cares. I don't. I don't think they could have left this war. They could have backed off.
00:29:13 And people said, oh, but it doesn't want to leave with his tail between his legs. He did it with
00:29:17 the 12 day war, bombed their facilities and said, war's over, we're done and we're leaving.
00:29:21 He certainly could have done it here unless there was another motive to this war. That is
00:29:26 cutting off the strait so that China was isolated and couldn't get energy. And now with Russia 0.58
00:29:33 is sanctioned. Russia says we will use U.S. dollars. China, their academic output is collapsing
00:29:40 and they are trying to hold fast. The question then becomes we have been infiltrated by Chinese 1.00
00:29:47 spies. That's what I was showing you in the beginning. That's what's terrifying.
00:29:50 Will China in desperation say we would rather go down with a fight than let you stop us?
00:29:56 or will they bend the knee and say, just leave us be? We've had enough. I don't know. I really 0.76
00:30:04 don't. The whole point of this is the question of what comes next with this war, with Russia bowing
00:30:10 down and saying no Chinese won. I'm actually fairly optimistic that the war with Iran 0.99
00:30:15 may weaken. But it's a question of what China will do firmly. I believe that the war with
00:30:21 Iran is to hurt China and that Trump wants the strait closed. And it's going to cause gas prices
00:30:27 to go up and a global diesel shortage, which is going to hurt everyone on the planet. And Trump
00:30:32 is basically saying, we will give the world a fever. The weakest will struggle and the strongest
00:30:38 will manage. And China is getting hurt the most. The question is, what comes next? The question I
00:30:46 have for you? Do you believe that China will escalate? I don't know. I don't know, my friends,
00:30:53 but the news is big. The news is big, big, big that Russia finally backed off. We've now toppled
00:30:58 one of the biggest adversaries of the United States. I wonder how this will affect social
00:31:02 media. Nick Fuentes came out and said that this anti-Israel stuff was obviously a foreign op and
00:31:07 pushed by the left. I think so. I agree. I've been saying it the whole time. It makes no sense that 0.97
00:31:13 overnight, the American people were like, I'm just going to spam blast, retweet anything anti-Israel
00:31:17 sentiment against Israeli sentiment. The United States is like 50, 50. I'm ambivalent. I don't
00:31:22 care. I'm not going to join or oppose whatever. I don't know. I don't think we should be funding
00:31:25 them that that's fine. But you take a look at the polling, you take a look at the data and most
00:31:29 people are ambivalent. So why all of a sudden are people getting a thousand likes just randomly
00:31:33 posting about how they hate Israel? Psychological operations. Why? Probably from China, probably
00:31:40 because the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the war with Iran has screwed them over royally. 0.99
00:31:45 Now that Russia's basically said we're out and this meeting is coming up, I've got some optimism
00:31:51 for you. I don't know exactly how it will play out. It could go south. But with Russia and China
00:31:56 meeting and Trump going, it sounds like he's going to say you're all going to use the U.S. dollar.
00:32:01 That's it. You can be rich. You can be successful. There will not be World War III,
00:32:06 but you're using the U.S. dollar. 0.76
00:32:08 And I think China might just say, fine. 0.61
00:32:11 At least I hope so. 0.99
00:32:12 I'm going to leave it there, my friends.
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