Valuetainment - April 07, 2026


“Civil War In America” - Jiang PREDICTS Iran War Sparks U.S. Collapse

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Elizabeth Warren JD Vance Trump Tulsi Howard Lutnick Jared Kushner Steve Wyckoff Pete Hegseth Marco Rubio Mamdani Mario
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Summary

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On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and long-time colleague, Dr. Shams Chaudhuri, to discuss the latest in the Iran crisis. We discuss the best case scenario, worst case scenario and what the chances are that the U.S. goes to war with Iran.

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00:00:00.000 what's the best case worst case okay on what could happen here the best case scenario is that the
00:00:07.600 americans and iranians reach a compromise where they agree to share the share of humus so there
00:00:14.400 will be toast collected uh because the iranians want reparations for the damage that uh israelis
00:00:20.800 and americans cause these uh this past month uh but they agree to share with americans and they
00:00:26.240 they agreed to collect the tolls in U.S. dollars. And all sanctions are lifted and peace comes to
00:00:34.160 the Middle East. And there is a possibility. I'm not saying this is impossible, but it is a very 1.00
00:00:40.140 low probability. And this would be the best case scenario. Best case scenario. Give me the worst
00:00:45.280 case scenario. The worst case scenario is that Trump follows through and bombs all of Iran's 0.73
00:00:55.500 power plants and the reason why this is the worst case scenario is that there are certain individuals
00:01:01.100 who are now trying to protect the power plants with their bodies so the iranian government has
00:01:08.700 called on for the young people of iran to make the ultimate sacrifice and make the human chain 0.97
00:01:14.460 around all power plants in iran and so the americans go in to blow up all the power plants 0.58
00:01:19.820 and kill a lot of young people well in this case the iranians are obligated now to destroy the 0.74
00:01:24.380 entire economy of the GCC. This would include all oil fields. This would include all the 0.96
00:01:29.540 desalination plants. This would include all data centers. And this would be the absolute
00:01:33.840 worst case scenario. What's your likelihood of that happening? Give a percentage. Like
00:01:38.700 if you're going to do a Cal-She type of, I think that's a 1%, 2%. If you were a betting 0.81
00:01:43.360 man, what would you say it is? So I would say best case scenario is 1%. I would say
00:01:48.560 worst case scenario is 10 percent and i would say a limited ground uh incursion would be about 40
00:01:55.320 okay so you have a higher likelihood of us hitting the power plants than the best case scenario
00:02:00.940 happening 10 times more likely the worst case than the best case how does trump because your
00:02:06.300 prediction was trump wins trump goes to war with iran and america loses define losing because some
00:02:14.020 people could say afghanistan was a loss right the way biden left you know we left uh whatever
00:02:18.420 We have $83 billion that cost us.
00:02:20.060 We left $7 billion of equipment there, whatever the numbers are.
00:02:23.740 Define loss.
00:02:24.820 What does loss mean to you?
00:02:27.080 Right.
00:02:27.680 So loss means that America is forced to retreat from the Middle East.
00:02:32.620 And this will enable Iran to control the GCC countries. 0.94
00:02:38.440 Because remember, the GCC is very important for the petrodollar system, where the GCC
00:02:43.320 sells its oil in U.S. dollars and then recycles its back into the American economy.
00:02:47.720 primarily by investing in AI.
00:02:51.180 So a lot of these AI data centers are financed by investment from these GCC sovereign wealth funds.
00:02:57.080 And so if America were to retreat from the Middle East, they would lose the petrodollar,
00:03:01.780 the American economy would collapse, and you would have a civil war emerge in America.
00:03:08.460 A civil war emerge in America.
00:03:11.460 Okay.
00:03:13.120 Interesting.
00:03:14.540 Do you think the president has a team of rivals right now
00:03:21.280 that are trying to prevent that from happening?
00:03:24.280 Because I think you and I both know the president is a
00:03:28.820 what-do-you-think asking everybody.
00:03:31.600 What are your thoughts?
00:03:32.340 What do you think?
00:03:32.920 What do you think, including his enemies?
00:03:34.860 I mean, this guy called Elizabeth Warren and said,
00:03:36.580 hey, what do you think about us doing this to the credit card companies?
00:03:39.360 And Elizabeth Warren's like, I was confused when he called me.
00:03:42.720 You know, President Trump will bring Mamdani in and say, hey, don't worry about it.
00:03:46.360 Be critical. Say whatever you want to say about me. I'm OK with that.
00:03:48.660 You don't need to explain yourself. So he talks to everybody.
00:03:52.100 Do you think he is fully aware of the risks of what could happen if he goes aggressive here?
00:04:00.280 Do you think he's fully aware of it?
00:04:02.920 I think, unfortunately, he's starting himself with psychophones, right?
00:04:06.000 So President Trump said about a couple weeks ago when people asked him, why are we in this war?
00:04:12.220 because he has never really articulated a reason or an objective for this war.
00:04:15.700 And he basically said that, well, Jared Kushner, Steve Wyckoff, Peter Hexiv, Marco Robio talked me into it.
00:04:24.040 So what he's done is he's basically elevated the hawkish elements of his administration
00:04:29.600 and basically ostracized or put on the sidelines the more cautionary conservative elements of his administration,
00:04:41.480 who include J.D. Vance and Tulsi Gabbard.
00:04:44.580 So I believe that J.D. Vance has been very vocal
00:04:47.760 in trying to negotiate a peace treaty as soon as possible,
00:04:50.820 and now he's in Hungary, far away from the action.
00:04:54.800 And there's rumors of Tulsi Gabbard being removed
00:04:57.400 from the administration at some point.
00:04:59.860 Yeah, Tulsi, I think there was another name as well.
00:05:02.220 Tulsi and Howard Lutnick were the two names that were brought up yesterday
00:05:05.080 that may be next on the chopping blocks that he may move on from.
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