Valuetainment - Forget Oil — Iran May Have Found the World’s Biggest Weakness

00:00:00.000 The IRGC just made a request on a topic that nobody was thinking about in the Strait of Hormuz

00:00:04.500 because everybody's Strait of Hormuz, all they're thinking about is ships coming through.

00:00:07.900 Two million dollars is what they want, but here's what they asked.

00:00:10.660 97 plus percent of the internet you and I use is from underwater cables, not satellites.

00:00:16.860 We think it's satellites or we think these cables are outside.

00:00:19.200 It's 97 percent submarine cables.

00:00:22.340 And guess how much cables are underwater?

00:00:24.860 750,000 miles.

00:00:26.320 And by the way, do you know how much each mile costs to put down there?

00:00:28.640 four hundred thousand upwards of one and a half million dollars this is trillion trillion plus

00:00:34.020 to build all these cables and the reason why iran figured his part out is the following

00:00:38.500 they're sitting here saying wait a minute these cables are not only going through straight of

00:00:42.580 hormuz a couple of the points are in iran so if you want to come through and build something in

00:00:48.240 straight of hormuz you got to come through us because if you don't we could potentially do what

00:00:53.760 anything we're going to get into that and watch this you know what country started shivering when

00:00:57.580 this announcement was made? This country called India with 1.4 billion people. Why? Because 60%

00:01:02.860 of all the power for cables that India gets, it goes through Mumbai. Do you know what would

00:01:09.640 happen if these guys all of a sudden said, no problem. We're going to drop mines on these

00:01:13.540 cables and destroy the cables. Some countries could lose internet for weeks to months. And

00:01:20.760 the world finally realized maybe Iranians are not asking about terrorists and stuff like that. 0.90

00:01:25.840 they actually are starting to realize they want control and influence. 0.99

00:01:30.080 We're going to talk about all these topics today.

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00:01:50.780 Having said that, let's get right into it.

00:01:52.080 So, 750,000 of undersea cables across the world's ocean, 750,000, yes.

00:01:59.920 Each mile costs 400,000 to a million and a half, yes.

00:02:02.900 A single trans-oceanic cable system can cost between $300 million to a billion dollars to deploy.

00:02:07.880 This is what they look like, just so you know.

00:02:09.980 The cable looks like this, so you're looking at it and saying, okay, how big is it?

00:02:14.620 This is what they do when they go underwater.

00:02:17.060 You may think this is just one cable.

00:02:18.700 It's not.

00:02:19.100 It's multiple cables that are within it that they're building.

00:02:22.680 Then on top of that, they go on these ships that look like this in the middle.

00:02:25.700 They just drop the cable.

00:02:26.920 So think about in Dubai, just cable keeps dropping and dropping and dropping.

00:02:30.620 But as we get deeper, you'll realize $10 trillion every day.

00:02:35.200 Financial transactions happen due to what?

00:02:37.620 Due to these submarine cables that we have.

00:02:39.380 $10 trillion of transactions that happen because of these.

00:02:42.380 And these cables have historically been built, maintained by state-owned telecom companies or international consortia.

00:02:49.380 consortia. So it's kind of like, hey, let's work together. You need us. We need you. We're

00:02:53.740 capitalists. You're the state. You're the government. Can we figure out if you need

00:02:57.000 internet? We'll give it to you. But let's do business together. No problem. So modern shift

00:03:00.720 to hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, developing their own cable networks have learned

00:03:05.520 they need to work with different countries. But for the most part, most countries are reasonable.

00:03:09.120 Yeah, we want to work with you. So then when you look at cables versus satellites, satellite

00:03:13.420 internet like Starlink can connect remote areas, but cannot match the high bandwidth and the low

00:03:18.640 latency of undersea fiber optics undersea cables are immune to weather satellites are susceptible

00:03:24.840 to solar damage and weather interference you will hear when we talk about different events that's

00:03:28.720 happened before have people attacked it have people stolen cables have people found ways with

00:03:32.820 anchors to destroy this how does china do it how does russia do it because they actually know how

00:03:36.780 it's a very interesting way china attacks these things now vulnerabilities cables are designed to

00:03:41.240 be durable but they are still soft targets in international waters that they could be affected

00:03:46.600 about. In areas like the Strait of Hormuz, water is shallow and cables are open to accidental

00:03:51.780 damaged anchors. So, hey, you know what? What am I doing? Hey, drop all the anchor. What do you

00:03:56.580 want to do with the anchor? I just hit a cable, pull it up. Boom! You just tore one. Oh, shoot.

00:04:00.920 Two weeks of outage for internet. And it's happened before, right? Seven cables require

00:04:05.140 specialized repair ships and the process can take weeks. So, this isn't like you're calling

00:04:09.060 AAA for a car to come in and change your tire. That's not what this is. This is a longer process

00:04:13.380 So this is nearly impossible in an active war zone like the one we are currently in.

00:04:19.920 Now, let's look at a completely different area. 0.98

00:04:21.460 Iran's new threat, which is what I was talking about. 0.98

00:04:23.500 Three requests they're making. 0.97

00:04:25.440 Before going into the request, the straight-of-home was a choke point for more than just oil.

00:04:30.340 21% of global petroleum, that's one of the things we know about, 25% of LNG, liquid natural

00:04:35.760 gas, and 20% to 30% is global data traffic via undersea cables.

00:04:41.560 This is the part that they have figured out to say, hey, we are learning that the world

00:04:46.660 needs this and it's scaring these other countries, right?

00:04:49.640 When it comes down to cable, let's take more control because this is a control game here,

00:04:53.440 right?

00:04:54.300 So cables running through the straight include the AAE1, Southeast Asia, Egypt, Europe, think

00:04:59.440 about the countries, stops in UAE, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Falcon Network, India, Sri

00:05:04.940 Lanka, Gulf countries, Sudan, and Egypt.

00:05:06.960 Then you have the Gulf Bridge International Cable System, all Gulf countries.

00:05:11.000 So this is what you're looking at. Here's the Strait of Hormuz. They're coming through here.

00:05:14.360 This is Iran. I believe that's also Iran. And then you have the other countries here. So they're

00:05:18.560 saying, hey, you're coming through us. You got to pay up. If you don't pay up, we're capable of

00:05:24.000 doing things that maybe other countries that are allies of yours are not. We're willing to make

00:05:27.780 your life a living kill. Here's our demands, right? We want, not only do we want control of 0.99

00:05:32.640 the ships coming through and we want you to pay us 2 million per, 60 boats a day, 2 million,

00:05:37.500 that's 120 million a day is what they want but we also want to control the cable why this becomes

00:05:42.860 like the panama canal to the complete opposite side of the world but it scares the crowd do you

00:05:48.060 really want irgc to have the control over the cables do you the world doesn't want irgc to have

00:05:53.240 because they're not honest players you can't really negotiate and play with them right so iran could

00:05:58.560 completely destroy the cables within mines aquatic drones and mini submarines total destruction would

00:06:04.540 crush the international market slow down internet speed around the world and cripple ai data centers

00:06:10.200 in the middle east internet traffic would reroute but billions of dollars would be lost in the first

00:06:17.280 72 hours but there's a big but iran wants control not destruction they want to be able to say hey

00:06:23.880 we want to control this like i said earlier to you licensing and data tolls hey licensing and

00:06:30.720 data tolls. All cable operators will be required to pay licensing fee and annual renewal tolls

00:06:36.840 to operate in the strait. What? Yes. Think about for you to be technical enough to say this cable

00:06:43.020 thing is bigger than we thought about, right? Jurisdiction over tech companies, global technology,

00:06:48.420 giants, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta will have to operate under Iranian law. We dictate the law,

00:06:56.020 Not U.S., not anybody else. 0.97

00:06:58.340 We dictate the law and cooperate with Iranian companies. 0.96

00:07:02.120 Are you kidding?

00:07:02.540 Like, they are now responding to Iranian companies. 0.97

00:07:05.620 And last but not least, monopoly on maintenance.

00:07:07.940 Foreign operators will need to use Iranian firms for cable maintenance, which helps develop Iranian infrastructure and keeps the cable as a bargaining chip. 0.60

00:07:20.700 Tell me this isn't brilliant. 0.84

00:07:22.240 Now, it doesn't mean they're going to get away with this, but tell me this isn't brilliant.

00:07:24.980 and I think about your U.S., and they tell you this.

00:07:27.920 Do you want IRGC to have control of the cables?

00:07:30.060 That's a question you got to ask.

00:07:31.200 You may be like, I don't care. 0.68

00:07:32.200 Let them have nuclear.

00:07:33.020 Let them have cables. 0.97

00:07:33.800 Let them have $2 million a day.

00:07:35.440 They're their own sovereign country.

00:07:36.500 Shouldn't they be able to do this?

00:07:37.820 Maybe that's your position.

00:07:38.900 Some of you guys may be like, what are you talking about?

00:07:41.640 I don't want IRGC that's going on saying death upon America

00:07:44.500 to control the cables to the world.

00:07:45.860 So you mean to tell me if somebody really pisses them off,

00:07:48.580 they can turn off the cable like this for everybody?

00:07:50.440 Yeah, they could.

00:07:51.700 No, I don't want them to have that kind of control.

00:07:53.200 Okay, great.

00:07:53.640 So that's kind of how you make a decision where you're at.

00:07:56.540 Let me continue. 1.00

00:07:57.140 So the risk to India.

00:07:58.840 India's sitting here, a little worried. 0.99

00:08:01.140 Wait a minute.

00:08:02.360 What is this all about?

00:08:03.680 Why?

00:08:04.360 While many nations are connected to the Hormuz cables, India is uniquely vulnerable because

00:08:08.300 if they are throttled or cut off, 60% of India's total internet traffic travels from Mumbai

00:08:16.740 towards Europe and the USDA Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, Indian internet connections

00:08:22.220 are bottlenecking Mumbai. 15 out of 17 international submarine cables land in a single area in Mumbai

00:08:29.120 like we were talking about earlier. And we know India needs, they are relying on their biggest 0.91

00:08:34.360 customers that they're dealing with be in the West. So they cannot have this taking place.

00:08:38.300 What if something were to happen? Watch this. India's $250 billion IT sector relies on seamless

00:08:43.400 connectivity. Okay. So if latency jumps from 80 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, the cloud-based

00:08:50.120 tools and real-time coding environments used by millions of indian engineers becomes unusable 0.90

00:08:56.020 like this that would be a challenge for them and then on top of that cable interference would

00:09:00.240 disrupt the swift and banking communication needed to process these billions of dollars in the event

00:09:06.020 of a cutoff india would lose 10 to 20 times more than the u.s if this were to happen so do you not

00:09:13.440 thing. Iran is sitting there saying, hey, India, allies with U.S., if we come and talk to Russia

00:09:20.860 and China and India knows we can make their life a living kill, what is India going to do? They're 0.76

00:09:26.460 right in the middle. Hey, U.S., hey, please don't push too hard, Trump. Hey, we don't have any

00:09:31.700 problems with Iran. Hey, let's kind of figure it out. By the way, Pakistan's in it as well. And 0.77

00:09:35.300 guess what Pakistan is doing? Pakistan's also tied to this. Pakistan, you ever notice why is 0.68

00:09:40.100 everybody going to Pakistan, Islamabad, to bring Iran, IRGC, and U.S. to negotiate,

00:09:46.380 they kind of aren't tied to this. If India is Pakistani, so let me wrap it up for you to kind 0.57

00:09:50.760 of see what this is going on. Again, another talk, you're going to bring this up to your 0.99

00:09:53.680 friends after you watch this video, and they're going to be like, oh my, what are you talking

00:09:56.100 about? Yeah, of course, 750,000 miles. Most people are not even thinking about this or talking about

00:10:02.180 this, except for Iran, because they know another thing for Achilles heel to the world, especially 0.99

00:10:06.960 countries like India. So now, what has happened in the world before? Because what if somebody 0.99

00:10:11.000 comes and attacks? Recently, in the past, we have had situations where people have stolen cable.

00:10:18.980 One time, 16 people got arrested in Indonesia. They went down there. They stole a bunch of cable.

00:10:23.680 They took it like, wait a minute. What is this all about? Bunch of them got arrested. It was

00:10:27.040 documented. But I'll tell you some more things for us to be thinking about. Undersea cables are

00:10:31.100 high value and low protection. What's the protection? Are there security guards by

00:10:34.980 underwater can you imagine you go there to take the cable and rip it apart they're like seven

00:10:38.300 people waiting there like that's not how it works right so if somebody really wanted to do something

00:10:42.340 they could targets that allow an aggressor to paralyze what a word an adversary's economy

00:10:48.440 without firing a single shot can you imagine the influence and the power and leverage you have

00:10:54.360 cables are at risk from direct sabotage as well as gray zone warfare like deliberate anchor 0.88

00:10:59.200 drags this is china china plays this game they know it's like oh that was just an accident we're 0.67

00:11:04.320 just fishing we threw the anchor and it cut off the cable we're so sorry we're so sorry but the

00:11:09.120 timing of it's a little bit suspect you sure that was not intentional we would never we would never

00:11:13.500 do something to impact the world economy like we it's not like we would ever accidentally release

00:11:19.160 a virus that we've known for three weeks is in one of our cities in wuhan we would shut down all

00:11:24.540 our airports we would not let anybody go to other countries and stop the world economy and shut it

00:11:28.900 down and lose seven trillion dollars we would never drop a coronavirus like that to the world

00:11:33.300 because we love the world we're peaceful you know we want this thing to continue you don't think

00:11:38.640 they would do it you don't think they would for a second want to destroy this if it got really

00:11:42.580 nasty quietly blame somebody else like a proxy war example russia specialized in submarine capable

00:11:47.880 of deep sea operations and cable sabotage what are they learning it for what do they want to go do

00:11:51.760 down there what are they doing do they want to go find gold do they want to go find the titanic

00:11:55.260 and find that diamond is that what they're trying to do they're learning this because they know if

00:11:58.920 they go down they're scaring the crap out of who it's another method of attacking the enemy right

00:12:03.140 So suspicious cable damage on Baltic Sea might be Russia testing Europe's limits.

00:12:08.320 Another example, China has made itself into a regional hub for specific data networks

00:12:13.060 and given its strategic leverage, Taiwan has reported.

00:12:16.260 Why would Taiwan be reporting this?

00:12:18.000 Why would China want to attack Taiwan?

00:12:20.020 What percentage of all these semiconductor chips comes from Taiwan?

00:12:23.560 What's the number, 80%, 85%?

00:12:26.100 And you know, they think that's their country anyways, like it's Russia and Ukraine.

00:12:29.860 China thinks about Taiwan the same way.

00:12:31.340 So Taiwan has reported 30 subsea cable incidents in recent years,

00:12:35.000 including one in which Chinese vessels severed cables and cut communication for months.

00:12:40.740 Cut communications for months? Yeah.

00:12:42.420 Huh.

00:12:42.740 30 of them? Yeah. 30 cases? Yeah.

00:12:44.360 It's pretty interesting.

00:12:45.940 Satellites are not a viable alternative right now.

00:12:49.760 They're not. Only 3%.

00:12:50.840 Some are even saying less than 3%.

00:12:52.380 Let's say 1% is satellites, right?

00:12:54.540 In April, the Bipartisan Strategic Subsea Cables Act was introduced to Congress

00:12:58.800 to strengthen cable infrastructure,

00:13:01.380 but how are you going to do it?

00:13:02.320 Just defensive?

00:13:03.400 It's the only true way to do it is defensive.

00:13:05.880 No alternatives.

00:13:07.040 You mean to tell me right now,

00:13:08.540 America has no alternatives

00:13:10.040 on how to protect the cables?

00:13:13.020 We don't have, no.

00:13:14.280 So what's defensive?

00:13:15.580 You ever hear the saying,

00:13:16.620 94% of the ocean has not been,

00:13:18.880 you know, looked at

00:13:19.980 and we have not searched all of it.

00:13:21.660 If 94% of the ocean has not been searched,

00:13:24.780 how much security do you think we have?

00:13:26.200 How capable?

00:13:26.920 Even the most robust military in the world,

00:13:29.420 what kind of security can you have?

00:13:31.000 To protect the oceans and all the cables we have below.

00:13:33.360 Even we're not capable fully of doing that, right?

00:13:36.060 So now when you go to the next one,

00:13:37.420 here's some stories for you.

00:13:38.320 Past major cable disruptions included.

00:13:41.060 2008 Mediterranean cable cuts.

00:13:42.800 Within a single week,

00:13:43.580 three major submarine cables were severed

00:13:45.600 near the coast of Alexandria, Egypt.

00:13:47.500 Internet capacity ready in Egypt plummeted.

00:13:49.740 How much?

00:13:51.040 70%.

00:13:51.520 So imagine internet stops today in America.

00:13:53.400 What happens?

00:13:54.520 India lost over 50% of its bandwidth to Europe and the U.S.

00:13:59.420 So let me get this straight.

00:14:00.620 Mediterranean, cable, three incidents.

00:14:02.840 Egypt has impacted 70%, and India lost 50% of its bandwidth.

00:14:06.520 It did.

00:14:07.420 2011, this was tied to an earthquake.

00:14:09.200 So earthquake could happen, and that can also mess up the cables.

00:14:11.820 A 9.0 earthquake in 2011 off the coast of Japan simultaneously snapped multiple Trans-Pacific

00:14:16.400 cable systems.

00:14:17.860 Repairs took months and a whole fleet of ships.

00:14:21.120 Months, about three months.

00:14:23.120 How long?

00:14:23.880 three months. Can you wait three months? Can most economies wait three months?

00:14:27.920 2022 volcanic eruption, eruption of the Honga. Honga volcano triggered an underwater landslide,

00:14:33.080 severed the sole subsea link to Tonga, causing a total internet blackout four weeks, total blackout

00:14:39.200 four weeks. And in 2024, Red Sea anchor drag, commercial vessel Rubimar abandoned after attack

00:14:45.780 by Houthis. So they just kind of left it. Like, what are you guys doing? They left it. Houthis

00:14:49.460 attacked. Dragon anchor severed three major cables so that ship stays out there. The anchor's just

00:14:55.400 dragging, dragging, dragging. Boom. Approximately 25% of all data traffic moving between Asia

00:15:01.440 and the Middle East and Europe was disrupted. Repairs took weeks because of active conflict

00:15:07.220 zones. All right. How are you feeling right now? I actually want you to ask, what's your feeling?

00:15:11.200 What are you thinking about right now? Are you saying, well, that's not a big deal? Are you saying,

00:15:15.000 holy mo this is bad how is our america gonna and so how do we negotiate so here's how negotiation

00:15:23.120 works whenever you go and suddenly you're trying to sell your company and somebody's buying your

00:15:27.040 company okay depending on who the buyer is both parties have a leverage this company that's

00:15:33.440 selling they have these three things that are their leverage that this company wants

00:15:36.840 this company that's selling has these two leverage that this company wants it could be money is cheap

00:15:41.700 right now, but they have other options and you're kind of desperate to sell. They know. But you know

00:15:47.000 that this company that's trying to buy you is trying to get into Tennessee, Texas and Florida

00:15:51.120 and they're not right now and you are the biggest in Texas, Tennessee and Florida. So you have the

00:15:55.440 leverage. So how is this leverage going to be used? Then the other part is, what if this player is a

00:16:00.660 reckless player? What if he's okay if he loses the entire company? What if this player doesn't really

00:16:05.180 want to sell the company? What's your leverage here? What if Iran is a reckless player and is

00:16:10.380 willing to do anything to harm anybody as long as it gets its own control. Then what are you doing? 0.99

00:16:14.520 How do you negotiate with them? So then do you sit there and say, let's try to do a ceasefire and

00:16:19.620 let's do a deal with them because this is an honest player long-term. How do you handle that?

00:16:24.520 How would you handle that? Knowing all this intel that you have here. This is what's going on behind

00:16:28.800 closed doors where both parties are lobbying. Some people are saying, this is the exact reason

00:16:33.820 why we have to get rid of IRGC. This is the exact reason why that country needs to be like some of 1.00

00:16:39.580 Gulf states that Saudi's at least working with us. Qatar is at least working with us. Some of

00:16:44.460 these other countries are willing to work with us. UAE, they're kind of working with us. How about

00:16:49.300 Iran? Well, these guys are not. These guys are saying death upon America. These guys are bombing 0.98

00:16:53.120 UAE. These guys are hitting Qatar. These guys are hitting other places. So folks are saying, look, 1.00

00:16:57.580 if this is the case and they want to play like this, we got to move fast and get rid of these

00:17:02.100 guys and definitely not give control to them. So your thoughts when you're seeing something like

00:17:05.400 this, you know, I'm curious. And I know you guys are going to comment below and you guys are going

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00:17:24.020 if you enjoyed this video and you're thinking i've never heard anybody talk about this there's 0.97

00:17:27.960 another choke point in the world that nobody is talking about specifically china doesn't want

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Valuetainment - May 20, 2026

Forget Oil — Iran May Have Found the World’s Biggest Weakness

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