In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and podcaster Tucker Tucker to discuss the current events in the Middle East, including the ongoing conflict between Iran and the United States over Iran's nuclear program, and the potential consequences for the global economy.
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00:00:30.000professor thank you very much for doing this we've we've never met i don't know a great deal
00:00:39.460about you but i have seen a number uh of your videos in which you make remarkably accurate
00:00:44.280predictions um so that's what i know about you and i'm impressed by that by your ability to call
00:00:51.120events before they happen so with that in mind let me ask you where do you think this war in
00:00:56.880Iran is going? How will it be resolved? And what are the consequences likely to be?
00:01:03.400Well, thanks so much for inviting me, Tucker. I'm a huge fan. I've been, I'm out of your work
00:01:07.800for a number of years now. Thank you. So I think that this war in Iran will be very similar to the
00:01:14.600war in Ukraine, meaning that this will be drawn out, be a war of attrition. Neither side will
00:01:22.280concede defeat even though it is in the best interest to reach a ceasefire and this will
00:01:28.640have dramatic consequences on the global economy and this war could drag on for years and years
00:01:38.060already we're seeing major repercussions on the global economy in that flights are being canceled
00:01:43.580in southeast asia they ran out of fuel so they're asking people to stay at home and in a few more
00:01:50.580And today there's a major escalation in that the Israelis struck the largest gas field in Iran and Iran retaliated by attacking energy infrastructure of the GCC and Iran has stated that its purpose, its goal, its strategy is to move oil to $200 a barrel, which will have, you know,
00:02:20.580a really significant impact on the global economy
00:07:28.980And it doesn't really have a framework for how to resolve armed conflict.
00:07:35.380And so Chinese policemakers are really stuck.
00:07:38.480And in fact, Chinese policemakers have come out publicly saying that they would like the carnage,
00:07:44.840the violence in the Middle East to stop as soon as possible and for the Strait of Hormuz to open
00:07:49.780up. But unfortunately, as I pointed out previously, when a war starts, it achieves a momentum and a
00:07:57.260logic of its own. And it's very hard to stop a war once it starts. So if your prediction is
00:08:05.180correct, and I pray that it's not, and I'm sure you do too, hope that you're wrong. But if you're
00:08:11.020not wrong. Yes. And this continues to grind in the way that it is now, destroying energy
00:08:17.520infrastructure, just really destroying the civilizations of the region and Iran and the GCC.
00:08:23.400What does that look like in, say, two years globally? What's the effect on the global economy?
00:08:30.520Right. So this war, it will accelerate three major trends. And nations will have to adapt
00:08:37.900to a new reality in which energy is longer cheap and accessible.
00:08:42.260The first major trend is de-industrialization,
00:08:46.660meaning that right now you just have too many people living in cities.
00:08:51.580And you can do that as long as you can import cheap energy and cheap food.
00:08:56.080But when cheap energy and cheap food are gone,
00:08:59.080then you need people to work the fields, to grow food for your economy.
00:09:03.640So you have to de-industrialize and reduce your energy dependence.
00:09:07.360That's one major trend that we should see very soon.
00:09:10.540Second major trend we should see is re-militarization in that before we had Pax Americana, where America basically guaranteed global peace.
00:09:20.780And America basically prevented nations from going to war against each other.
00:09:24.700So, for example, Trump brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan because these two nations have much hostilities against each other.
00:09:34.640But now that America no longer has the aura of invincibility and inability, now that the American military does not come across as almighty, then America doesn't have the power to stop kids from attacking each other on the playground anymore.
00:09:51.240So nations have to re-militarize, especially nations like Japan, which before relied too heavily on American military protection.
00:10:01.240Okay, so that's number two, the re-militarization of the world.
00:10:04.640And the third major trend we should see is mercantilism, meaning that now that global trade is disrupted, nations, especially advanced industrial nations such as Japan and Germany, they need to create their own independent, self-sufficient supply chains.
00:10:21.160Fortunately, America doesn't have this issue because the Western Hemisphere is extremely wealthy and abundant in natural resources.
00:10:29.240is. But if you are Japan and Germany, then you have to reach out and expand your borders if you
00:10:36.280are to maintain your industrial might. So these are the three major trends we should be seeing
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00:13:43.000calm. I mean, we've, of course, seen this exact dynamic very famously in the last century.
00:13:49.660And I do think Japan is the big question mark because traditionally, you know, a rising power,
00:13:56.640a great power like China just kind of intuitively demands hegemony in its own region. Like China
00:14:04.340controls the East. I would imagine that's the Chinese perspective. But in the way of that are
00:14:08.820Japan, the historic enemy, and South Korea, but particularly Japan. And I know that people in
00:14:15.080your country are very focused on Japan. So is it plausible that China allows Japan to become,
00:14:21.180say, a nuclear armed power at this point? Right. So from the surface, it seems as though
00:14:29.920Japan has a lot of structural weaknesses. So for example, it has an aging population. It has the
00:14:36.620oldest population in the world. That's a huge constraint on the future growth potential of
00:14:42.720Japan. Another problem for Japan is that it is resource dependent. It relies on imports for its
00:14:49.460resources. And Taiwan blocks off the Strait of Malacca, right? Because Japan requires most of
00:14:57.920its energy from the GCC for the Strait of Malacca and Taiwan will be a barrier. So if Taiwan were
00:15:03.860to reunify with china then basically japan can be blockaded and um they could be starved um and
00:15:12.240the other major issue with japan is its economy where for the past 30 years it's in a deflationary
00:15:18.560spiral because of its um excessive debt debt burden so there are fundamental weaknesses to
00:15:25.120japan but um i'm a historian and i study historical patterns and what i've seen is that the japanese
00:15:32.700people are incredibly resilient you go back to the 13th century and the mongols admitted not once
00:15:39.180but twice and at this time japan was very much a feudal nation divided into different fiefdoms
00:15:45.420and they came together as a people to defeat the greatest empire in in the world at that time not
00:15:51.740once but twice and you go to the middle of the 19th century when uh china was being carved up
00:15:58.700by these western industrial powers and it seemed as though japan was what to be carved up as well
00:16:04.540but the japanese engaged something called the meiji restoration and in 20 to 30 years time
00:16:10.540they went from a feudal backward nation into an industrial power that ultimately defeated russia
00:16:16.460in the russian japanese war of 1905 right and then you go to world war ii when american devastated
00:16:25.100japan uh not just nuclear strikes but also the fire bombings yes so at the end of world war ii
00:16:29.980japan was completely devastated but in like 20 years time in a generation they became the world's
00:16:34.940greatest manufacturing power so i would not cut the japanese out there's something about their
00:16:39.180culture that is extremely resilient um extremely entrepreneurial and i think that given crises
00:16:45.300they will come together as a people and adapt to these challenges um and so um i if i were to bet
00:16:52.920If you give me like a billion dollars and said in East Asia, you can invest your money either in China or Japan, or you could invest half and half.
00:17:02.140Well, Tucker, I'll be honest with you.
00:20:41.760So when you have a monopoly, what you do is you create a hierarchy, right?
00:20:45.000Because everyone's trying to get into these companies
00:20:47.880because these companies are the most prestigious in South Korea.
00:20:51.720And South Korea is very much a Confucian culture where faith is everything.
00:20:55.660So the problem, though, is how do you get into these companies?
00:21:00.760It's a very prestigious position where everyone's trying to get in, right?
00:21:04.760And so you usually get in through the college entrance examination, which allows you to get into prestigious university, right?
00:21:13.140So if you are a South Korean couple, your strategy is either not to have children because you cannot afford to play this game because you need to send your kid to cram schools, get the best tutors.
00:21:27.160Basically, force all your resources on ensuring the child does well on the college examination so that he or she can get into Samsung.
00:21:36.360Or you can choose not to have any children because it's too expensive for you.
00:21:41.060But if you choose to have children, you can only choose to have one kid because it's much more strategic for you to put all your resources into one kid than to spread it over three or four kids.
00:21:50.760So that's why economic monopoly would naturally lead to a low birth rate.
00:21:57.020So what you're saying is intense competition for resources, scarce resources, produces an incentive that results in low birth rate.
00:22:06.600exactly because everyone sees themselves as competitors against each other and you lose
00:22:12.960a sense of community right because you have a lot of children um because you want to contribute to
00:22:18.220the community and grow as a nation but when you see your neighbor as your enemy then um that
00:22:23.900reduces your incentive to have children interesting so what will be the economic
00:22:29.200effects on china and and also on the on the rest of asia and southeast asia you know philippines
00:22:35.260vietnam um if this energy crunch continues in the middle east the reality is that this war in the
00:22:44.800middle east is having a severe impact already on uh the entire southeast asian economy so uh india
00:22:51.220imports about 60 percent of its oil from the gcc pakistan also imports a majority of its oil
00:22:57.140japan imports about 75 percent of its oil from uh the gcc china imports about 40 okay so all
00:23:03.760these economies are being impacted and already thailand vietnam are running out of fuel um and
00:23:09.960you go to a gas station there's just more fuel for your for your motorbike and now people are
00:23:14.780being forced to work from from home there's there's fuel rationing um there's no jet fuel so this is
00:23:20.740impacting all of southeast asia so the question isn't like who will be impacted because everyone's
00:23:25.600impacted the question is who will be most resilient and the most willing to innovate and adapt to this
00:23:31.460new reality because we're not talking about short-term war. We're talking about a long-term
00:23:35.540change to the global economy. And I think that China will actually be the least resilient and
00:23:42.760the least ready to adapt to this new reality because for the past 30, 40 years, China has
00:23:48.860gotten very wealthy because of the global economy where it imports cheap energy and exports
00:23:56.500manufactured goods. And the entire Chinese economy is currently based on this model.
00:24:00.720Now, for the past 20 years, China has been moving towards a consumer-based economy and more of an innovation-based economy, AI.
00:24:09.440But unfortunately, AI itself is dependent on cheap energy.
00:24:12.960And Chinese consumers are refusing to spend money for a variety of reasons, primarily because they are not that optimistic about China's growth in the future.
00:24:24.480So Chinese household savings is about 4%.
00:24:27.460And unless the government is able to get Chinese to spend more money, then it'll be very hard for the Chinese economy to move towards a consumer-based economy.
00:24:36.380So all of Southeast Asia will be impacted, and I think China will be impacted the most in the long term.
00:24:42.340Maybe not in the short term, because China still has access to Iranian oil.
00:24:45.580Scott Besson announced today that they will lift sanctions on Iranian oil in order to make sure the global economy is not too impacted by this war.
00:24:53.240But in the long term, the Chinese economy, it is now much too focused on export and manufacturing in order to shift to a much more diversified economy.
00:27:53.620So with this war in Ukraine and with this war in the GCC, experts are saying that in the worst case scenario, you could have famine in Africa.
00:28:06.440because so much of food and energy sustains the African economy.
00:28:35.780Even if Americans were to win, the biggest loser is the GCC because for the past 30, 40 years, the GCC is basically built on a mirage because it's essentially a desert with very little access to fresh water and very little agriculture.
00:28:53.600And so it couldn't really sustain a large population.
00:28:56.360But with the petrodollar and with American military protection, then the GCC nations felt free to invest in technology that allowed them to grow the population, right?
00:29:08.740So these desalination plants, modern infrastructure.
00:29:12.780So you sort of saw this massive growth in Dubai, in Qatar, in Riyadh.
00:29:17.740And what this war has done is shattered this mirage and revealed the limitations of the GCC.
00:31:29.320So its agriculture was heavily impacted.
00:31:31.300They were actually talking about moving terrain, like moving these millions of people out of the city of Tehran because their capital can no longer sustain this large population.
00:31:42.220So this war will only exaggerate these environmental issues, especially with the attacks on critical civil infrastructure, for example, dams, reservoirs, desailation plants.
00:31:55.900And it's going to take years and years for Iran to recover from this war as a nation.
00:32:04.240You have basically the storing of ethnic sentiments.
00:32:09.000You have the destruction of a state's capacity to deliver basic services.
00:32:13.040But the good news for Iran is that it seems as though they will be able to maintain control over the Shri of Hormuz.
00:32:19.860And that is critical because now they're able to charge a toll on anyone who uses the Strait of Hormuz.
00:32:26.380And they talk about 10%, which should generate about $800 billion a year annually for Iran.
00:32:32.280So the nation will be destroyed in this war.
00:32:36.300But if it's able to harness the pride of the Persian people, if it's able to unify the Persian people,
00:32:45.040and it's able to leverage the resources
00:33:34.140well, it's convenient in that the GCC is being destroyed.
00:33:37.880Saudi Arabia will probably be drawn into this war.
00:33:39.500It is possible Turkey will be drawn into this war
00:33:42.720as well. And this war allows Israel to remake the Middle East in its own image. Also, if you think
00:33:52.740about it, according to game theory, the main constraint to Israel achieving the greater Israel
00:33:58.700project is actually not Iran, but America, because America guarantees the military safety and
00:34:05.940protection of the GCC, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Buran, UAE, these nations. And so if
00:34:13.820Israel has become dominant, it's become the hegemon of the Middle East, it needs to figure
00:34:18.900out how to remove America from the equation. And quite honestly, this war has shown the limitations
00:34:25.900of American power. It's really annoyed the American people. The American people do not
00:34:31.620want this war. American people don't even understand why America is in the Middle East.
00:34:35.940And so it's very possible that regardless of what happens in this war, America is forced to withdraw from the Middle East, in which case Israel is able to achieve its greater Israel project.
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00:35:45.120It was clear to me that that was part of the motive, that Israel understood this and roped the United States into this war in order to get the United States out,
00:35:57.620in order to hurt the United States and get the United States out of the Middle East.
00:36:31.620let the americans invade they can't possibly invade because if they destroy us that would make
00:36:37.240iran uh which has hostilities against america the regional power so why would america do this
00:36:44.100it is self-defeating it is not logical it is not rational so i'm not worried about them um
00:36:50.380attacking me and he was surprised when they did attack because it was not logical it's not rational
00:36:55.860But they did attack. It was a cakewalk. It took about two weeks. America achieved air supremacy very quickly. And they rolled into Baghdad very quickly and toppled the regime. So that was a very quick and easy war that fit the American military doctrine of shock and awe.
00:37:18.860And the American military does not want to fight this war because they've wargamed this countless times.
00:37:25.340And each war game, they discover that they lose because the American military, it's too bulky.
00:37:32.480It's not as nimble and resilient as the Iranian military.
00:37:36.440And we're seeing that play out right now where you have these devastating carriers,
00:37:40.620Abraham Lincoln and Gerald Ford threatening Iran, but not actually doing anything because they're afraid of getting too close to the coast of Iran because then they become susceptible to drone strikes as well as hypersonics.
00:37:54.320So the Iranians have been preparing this for 20 plus years.
00:37:58.100They know the entire American playbook and they have the perfect strategy to counter the American playbook.
00:38:06.200So America will have a really tough time winning this war.
00:38:09.660The great problem, okay, the big question now is, will America send in ground troops?
00:38:15.940Because once America sends in ground troops, then it becomes part committed.
00:38:20.000It's mission creep, some cause fallacy, it'll be like Vietnam over.
00:38:24.240So right now there's talk of 2,500 Marines who've coming in from Okinawa.
00:38:31.180They'll be in the Middle East in about seven days time.
00:38:33.360um and the talk is the rumor is and i don't know but the rumor is the intention is for for them to
00:38:40.520karg island which is the main oil depot for iran so iran exports nine percent of its oil from that
00:38:47.460facility the island and if the marines were to take it it would be great optics you know trump
00:38:53.700would look good on tv it would be a great boost for the for american morale the problem is that
00:39:00.880You can take it, but you can't hold it because it's too close to the Iranian coast,
00:39:05.240and the Iranians can attack with artillery, with drones, okay?
00:39:08.460Which means that you now have to take on the coast.
00:39:10.760You have to occupy the coast and create a foreign operating base.
00:39:14.580But then you're exposed to the Dagoros Mountains, right?
00:39:17.240Which means that you're now forced to occupy the mountains as well.
00:39:58.140What does America do next if it's acting in its own interest, if it's trying to preserve its power and wealth at this point, what does it do?
00:40:08.800Well, first of all, I would acknowledge that all these events are interconnected, right?
00:40:12.800So the strict war of China, this war in Ukraine, this war in the Middle East, it's all interconnected because American empire, it's too overstretched and it has its fingers on everything.
00:40:25.800And so it allows its enemies to provoke it into these never ending wars.
00:40:31.860So what I would do is basically sit down everyone, including Russia, China, Iran, and say, it's time for a new world order where we are partners in this relationship.
00:40:46.060Before America was a hegemon, before the US dollar was a world reserve currency.
00:40:49.840But now what we want to do is open a dialogue where everyone is respected, where America is no longer the bully, but a willing partner in creating a new economic order that benefits everyone and not just a few.
00:41:07.180i i think that's the the wisest possible advice and probably the only path that preserves
00:41:13.980civilization um and but they're the one country standing in the way of that is israel which
00:41:19.260is the only beneficiary of this war as you just said i think that's true can you think of another
00:41:24.100beneficiary other than israel of this war well russia benefits right because russia is trying
00:41:29.860to win this war in ukraine that's correct and um and america is forced to lift oil sanctions and so
00:41:35.300So now Russia is now able to take all these war profits, right, and then help the Iranians, finance the Iranians in the struggle against the Americans and the Israelis.
00:41:43.440So the Russians also benefit tremendously from this war.
00:41:45.500But fair point. Israel has to be constrained by the United States in order to do what you just recommended it do.
00:41:54.220Is that possible? Does the American president have the authority to control its client state?
00:42:00.760um so if you look at the domestic situation in israel um israel no longer behaves rationally
00:42:11.560it is sort of overtaken by eschatological fever right so if you look at uh videos coming out of
00:42:18.600israel there are rabbis going around saying that this war in the middle east even though it's
00:42:23.520destroying Tel Aviv, it's good for us because this will lead to the coming of our Messiah.
00:42:32.420So they believe that it is when Israel is under the most strain, when the very existence
00:42:41.320of Israel is threatened, then God will intervene because the Jewish people will come together
00:42:48.540as a nation again and commit themselves, renew their faith in God. And once God sees the
00:42:56.180blind, trusting, absolute faith of the Jewish people, then he will save his people by sending
00:43:02.020his Messiah, who will then redeem the Jewish people. So another thing this is secular,
00:43:10.920temporal matters don't really matter. This war in the Middle East, not an issue. What matters is
00:43:16.660divinity. What matters is our relationship with God. So what matters is faith. If nuclear bombs
00:43:23.000go flying, it doesn't really matter. What's so interesting is that 25 years ago at 9-11,
00:43:31.800whatever you think of how that happened and why, there was, I saw it personally,
00:43:38.200a political Islam. There were Wahhabists. There were a lot of Islamic radicals around the world.
00:43:45.380And for a bunch of reasons over 25 years, that hasn't disappeared.
00:43:49.260There still exist Islamic radicals, but it's not an important political force anymore.
00:43:55.680At the same time, as Islam in general has become much more moderate, and the GCC is the most obvious example of this, there has been a rise of Jewish Wahhabism and evangelical Christian Wahhabism, so to speak.
00:44:12.220I mean, you've seen this eschatological extremism among some American Protestants, Christians, and some Israeli and American Jews.
00:45:06.000And these are the people who are financing a lot of the conflict in the Middle East, in Israel, because they're the ones who are funding West Bank settlements.
00:45:16.800And so Christian Zionism, it is an extremely powerful political force in America.
00:45:24.320So your question is, how did this happen?
00:45:27.940And the issue is that this is a plan that has been in motion for centuries.
00:45:36.920And it's a very complicated history, but it involves different religious groups among the Jews.
00:45:46.200Subtinent Frankis, Shabbat Lubavitch, which you've talked about.
00:45:49.260But it also involves the Freemasons, the Knights Templars, the Rosicrucians.
00:45:54.400So you have these different secret societies, different religious organizations working together for the centuries to achieve this plan for the end of the world, which heralds the Messianic Age, okay?
00:46:09.520And there are different components of this plan, but the basic components are, one is the creation of the nation state of Israel, which happened in 1948.
00:46:19.540And then you need to have the building of the Third Temple, which requires the destruction of the Al-Aqsaq Mosque, which could happen during this war, given what we've seen so far.
00:46:34.120So the Israelis have closed off the Al-Aqsaq Mosque, as well as other religious sites like the Church of Holy Sepulchre to tourists these past few days.
00:46:46.780There's rumors that for the past two years, the Israelis have been conducting these archaeological digs under the Isaac mosque to basically destroy the foundations of the mosque so that they can conduct a controlled demolition of the mosque and blame it on a missile strike from the Iranians.
00:47:05.100And there's actually talk among the Israelis of using this plan to ignite a war between the Arabs and the Persians.
00:47:13.340So the Aleksic Mosque needs to be destroyed for the third temple.
00:47:16.180They also talk about this war of Gog and Magog between Israel and the entire world.
00:47:22.740Then the coming of the Jewish Messiah, the creation of the greater Israel project, the return of all Jews from the diaspora.
00:47:32.480So there are different components to this plan.
00:47:35.980If you just observe geopolitical events, we're seeing these events converge together today.
00:47:42.240I mean, all these events are playing out.
00:47:44.560So it seems as though there are these very powerful shadow forces working behind the scenes.
00:47:49.500We don't know who they are, but it seems as though they're able to control geopolitics in a certain manner as to fulfill their eschatological script.
00:48:01.560What role do you think Donald Trump plays in this?
00:48:04.940um that's a really hard question to um answer so so let's look at different possibilities okay
00:48:14.860the first possibility is that he's been employed as an actor and he's just following a script
00:48:22.020he doesn't really know where this movie is going he's just doing his part but he's been he's
00:48:27.780manipulated behind the scenes by people around him and you know um when reporters asked him like
00:48:34.560why is this war in iran happening he did say that his advisors which includes sivikov jared
00:48:41.320kushner peter heksev marco rubio told him that the iranians were so close to getting a nuclear
00:48:47.900weapon and that the iranians were attacked first and so i was basically um misled and i think i
00:48:54.080think that's probably true in that uh trump surrounds himself with certain people that have
00:48:58.540a certain political eschatological agenda um so that's one possibility that he's just he's just
00:49:04.600an actor another possibility is that he himself has a mezzanine calling okay and what i mean by
00:49:13.900that is if you go back to 20 uh during 2021 he was politically dead right because during six
00:49:23.620riots happened. He was impeached twice. And then after he left office, there was lawfare
00:49:30.700conducted against him and he went bankrupt. So the entire world went against him. But now he's
00:49:39.540president of the United States. And so how would he personally understand this? I think a lot of it
00:49:43.960is God has asked him to serve. There's a call to serve and he has to fulfill a mission. What this
00:49:50.880mission is okay what this mission is whether it's to save israel whether to save america
00:49:55.860whether it's a part of a grander scheme only he in his heart knows and i think no one except him
00:50:03.020knows okay so i think that's another uh possibility and the third possibility is that this is all
00:50:09.000israel is doing nanayahu is the one who's forced him into um this sort of situation because it's
00:50:43.920on him there's um and he has actually no choice but to do what he says because um he's compromised
00:50:51.280in a certain way and maybe his family is under threat so all four are possibilities and quite
00:50:56.000honestly i have no idea which possibility is the most correct yeah i don't i don't think i don't
00:51:01.300think anybody does and i've really tried to keep you know speculation to a minimum you always want
00:51:06.580to believe that people's motives are transparent that they state why they're doing what they're
00:51:09.740doing. But of course you can never know what's inside a man, right? Even in yourself, it's hard
00:51:14.980to know your own motives very often. So I think that's a, that's a wise take. What happens to
00:51:20.960North America, United States, and I do want to include Mexico and Canada. We don't think a lot
00:51:25.820about those countries, but they're both massive land masses and they have big populations and
00:51:30.380they're our neighbors. And so if the world is reorienting, I think you need to think in terms
00:51:34.660of continents rather than just nation states. What, what does that look like in three or four
00:51:39.060years right so um from a geopolitical perspective if america is forced to retreat back into the
00:51:46.360western hemisphere it needs to worry about um resources and so it is in the best interest of
00:51:53.200america to eventually uh take over and colonize both canada and mexico yes mexico for its labor
00:52:00.780supply canada for um its resources you know canada's probably the worst country in the world
00:52:05.940And so from a geopolitical perspective, if the world is retreating into self-sufficiency, if there's mercantilism, if there's trade barriers, then America has absolutely no choice but to ensure its own supply networks.
00:52:22.960And that means eventually taking over Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Cuba, Venezuela.
00:52:32.000So America doesn't really have much choice in this matter.
00:52:36.340At the same time, what we're seeing is that this war, as well as other events, are causing political fissures in America, especially between left and right.
00:52:45.080So witness what happened in Minneapolis in January, right?
00:52:48.340And so we can expect that as this war continues, and there's a strong possibility that Donald Trump will call up a national draft in order to ensure the manpower to fight this war, then you will have rioting on the streets.
00:53:04.140You have massive violence, in which case the National Guard is deployed.
00:53:07.200There's a plan to deploy the National Guard to all major American cities by April.
00:53:11.020And so, unfortunately, America is probably going to suffer a long, many years of sectarian violence.
00:59:48.480Why is it that these different nations, whether they're European, whether they're Canadian or Australian, why are they adopting the same policies?
00:59:55.400Not just in terms of COVID, right, but also in terms of like immigration.
01:00:00.120And so that's one of the great questions that we have to ask about the world we live in today.
01:00:06.420It seems as though it's almost a controlled demolition of Western civilization, right?
01:04:06.700You know, I went to Yale, and so I know a lot of these Ivy League people.
01:04:12.900Unfortunately, we've been indoctrinated to believe certain values, and these values are not questionable.
01:04:19.480So, for example, there was a court case that went to the Supreme Court about affirmative action at the University of Michigan.
01:04:28.120And affirmative action is clearly against American values, against the idea of American meritocracy, right?
01:04:35.720But the Supreme Court said that affirmative action was good because diversity is an inherent good, okay?
01:04:43.260And it's interesting because if you go to a place like Yale or Harvard or any of these Ivy League schools, there's actually very little diversity.
01:04:51.100I'm talking about intellectual diversity.
01:04:53.100Yeah, I mean, there's different skin color.
01:04:55.280But if you actually look at the ideas that they engage with in a classroom, it's a very conformist setting.
01:05:01.020So it's one of these great ironies where affirmative action is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom.
01:05:07.660But if you go to any classroom in an elite setting, it's extremely conformist.
01:05:12.440You're not allowed to bring up these issues about population replacement, immigration, because then you'd be called a racist.
01:05:20.520And that's the worst thing to be called, right?
01:05:22.700I mean, you're better off being called a pedophile, right?
01:05:25.920Pedophiles have more rights now than racists.
01:05:28.700um so um unfortunately it's not just what's happening um in current events it's also what's
01:05:37.300happening in the classroom where and in the popular culture where people are not even allowed
01:05:43.060to ask questions that are like blindly obvious if you just walk the streets of any you know western
01:05:48.900city you've lived around the world i think you're now in china um does the rest of the world see
01:05:56.200this more clearly yeah i mean if you're not in the west and if you're not if you're not subjected
01:06:04.460to this brainwashing indoctrination that they feed you uh in in the schools it's i mean it's
01:06:10.740obvious again it's planning obvious to anyone if you just walk the streets of any major city in
01:06:18.620the west so there's a joke in china and and so popular so chinese don't actually like to go to
01:06:25.440canada for tourism and um someone asked why don't what does why doesn't anyone recommend
01:06:32.700chinese going to canada and the response was well would you recommend someone going to india
01:06:39.480right so so it's a bit racist it's very racist okay but i mean i mean you know it's obvious to
01:06:46.880people it's just interesting because like i'm not defending the whites i am white of course but you
01:06:53.440White people have done a lot of bad things, just like people do a lot of bad things.
01:06:57.620But in general, people like to go on, as you just noted, vacation in white countries because they're pretty nice.
01:07:02.900So I think you'd have to say, if you took the emotion out of it and just looked at it, net, net,
01:07:09.280whites have been a pretty big addition to the world, invented a lot of stuff, created a lot of beauty,
01:07:15.800created places people like to go on vacation, which really is a good test.
01:07:19.200So, like, why would you destroy all that?
01:07:23.440look so in my school i teach a great books i teach western civilization i teach homer
01:07:31.560the iliad the odyssey i teach plato the republic i teach daunted the divine comedy i teach the bible
01:07:36.500and my students love it um because western civilization it's it's it's not about people
01:07:42.980being white it's really about what it means to be human right and what it means to be spiritual
01:07:50.260and to have connections with the divine.
01:07:53.800So it's unfortunate that just when the world
01:08:22.960And it's because there is eternal truth embedded in their words.
01:08:28.860And so universities, Western universities, ought to be the places, the fortresses, that are the greatest defenders of Western civilization.
01:08:38.740But if you go again to these elite universities, Yale, Harvard, they are the most critical of Western civilization.
01:08:46.260They don't want to teach Homer and Don, Tim Plato.
01:08:49.900And it's like, if you don't teach these classics, what's the purpose of university?
01:08:56.400I always thought the university was the heart and center of civilization, right?
01:09:01.600It's like what monasteries were in the medieval age.
01:09:06.700And I thought these professors, they would dedicate their lives to promoting the classics.
01:09:13.700But instead, they now promote complete nonsense like DEI and, yeah.
01:09:21.980Of all the—and this is my last question.
01:09:34.260Since you've traveled so much and lived so many places and speak multiple languages,
01:09:38.140Where would you say the part of the world that's most hostile to Western civilization, as you just described it, is?
01:09:45.920Trying to understand where this hostility is coming from.
01:09:49.220Well, I would say Canada, Britain, Western Europe.
01:09:55.760I would say these places are the most hostile towards Western civilization.
01:10:02.600Chinese people have tremendous respect for Western civilization.
01:10:05.820In fact, China's in the process of promoting the classics, Plato, Homer, Shakespeare, in China because Chinese recognize the tremendous cultural value and immense eternal truths embedded in these classics.
01:10:24.600So we're in a very weird situation where the West is destroying itself by abandoning what makes it great, which is these classics.
01:10:36.540I think if we talk longer, I'm going to start to cry on camera.
01:10:39.140So I'm going to take an emotional break here, Professor.