Valuetainment - May 02, 2026


UAE exits OPEC - Is US Exit from NATO next？


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Is the US next in line to leave Opec and NATO? What does this mean for the Middle East and the global economy? What will happen to oil prices if the US leaves Opec, NATO and the EU?

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00:00:00.480 Massive news. UAE just announced they are leaving OPEC and everybody's wondering, wait a minute,
00:00:04.540 if they're leaving OPEC, who could leave next? Because UAE was number four on the list. Number
00:00:08.940 one was Saudi, number two is Iraq and Iran, and then number four is UAE. You mean to tell me
00:00:13.360 they're now leaving? Yes. They were producing more than Venezuela recently. They were, but
00:00:17.380 they're leaving. Why are they leaving? They want independence. They want to be able to scale a
00:00:20.680 little bit more. They no longer want to be tied to OPEC. Who has left in the past? Because they
00:00:24.140 got 13 members today. Didn't Qatar leave in 2019? They did. Didn't Ecuador live in 2022? They did.
00:00:30.480 Didn't Angola leave in 24? 0.99
00:00:31.960 They did. 1.00
00:00:32.600 Didn't Indonesia leave in 09? 0.59
00:00:35.280 And then they came back in 16 and then they suspended again.
00:00:37.960 So Indonesia left as well.
00:00:38.940 Yeah, so what's left?
00:00:39.880 So now conversation becomes about, could a U.S. leave NATO?
00:00:44.900 Does anybody need to be part of NATO or OPAT?
00:00:47.580 These two stories, parallels.
00:00:49.820 A lot of people in NATO are worried.
00:00:52.300 Is U.S. going to make them?
00:00:53.720 Because back in 2016, when the president first started talking about nobody in these NATO countries
00:00:58.320 are not putting their proper amount of money into the 2% that they need to. And then slowly you have
00:01:03.060 to see how much pressure you put in to see who is above 2% and below 2% today and U.S. after seeing
00:01:10.460 how they're handling and supporting the war. And they're like, hey, we don't want to help. We're
00:01:14.240 not going to side with you on the war. So the president says, no problem. You want to put me
00:01:18.200 in this kind of a situation? I got options. So a lot of people are worried U.S. could be next
00:01:22.320 leaving NATO. We're going to be talking about that today.
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00:01:39.480 said that let's get right into it okay so nato and opec nato got started on 49 the north atlantic
00:01:44.900 treaty collective defense pact versus the soviet union back then everybody was afraid these
00:01:50.460 communists now some of you were saying maybe there's no need for it right go lock western
00:01:55.600 europe into u.s protection so moscow cannot peel off the weak states architecture shared planning
00:02:00.540 shared basis one umbrella american leadership at the center now it's one umbrella shared basis and
00:02:07.540 then all of a sudden the president's talking to the president of spain and it's like no no no you
00:02:11.320 can't land you can't come over here wait a minute what are you you're not even doing two percent
00:02:15.360 you progressive socialist leader of spain who are you to even be talking nope you can't land here
00:02:20.640 oh really no problem by the way do you know in nato and the history of nato since they got started
00:02:24.900 in 1949. You know how many countries have left NATO? Only one, and they came back. You know who
00:02:29.400 that was? France left, but France came back. But if U.S. leaves, and U.S. is 68, 70, 75 percent of
00:02:38.580 all of the military spending budget, like how much they invest into their military, if they leave,
00:02:43.860 it's a massive, massive shakeup in NATO. Now let's look at OPEC got started in 60. Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,
00:02:50.120 Saudi Venezuela from OPEC producers coordinate policy pushback on western oil majors sovereignty
00:02:56.600 through cartel power not the kind of cartel you think about but still it's cartel like UAE is a
00:03:00.980 family that owns a lot of that oil so it's form of form of a cartel not taking whatever price the
00:03:06.100 market gives so UAE leaves saying look one you are limiting me for how much I can produce I leave you
00:03:11.500 I'm not limited to only three and a half or five million a day I can maybe go to seven and a half
00:03:15.520 10 11 million a day make more money and i dictate my prices and i don't need to abide by opec so
00:03:21.560 that's one of the reasons why they're doing that so both start as power multipliers join the club
00:03:25.900 punch above your weight and then when designs turn into dependence europe leans on u.s for
00:03:31.840 strategic lift isr missile defense and nuclear deterrent we know only three countries in nato
00:03:37.180 have nuclear powers u.s uk and france it's the only three that do out of the 30 something members
00:03:42.720 that they have. Don't worry about it. We don't need to put that much money into it. U.S. is
00:03:46.380 going to take care of it. This is the chart that everybody sees with NATO. This is the budget. Look
00:03:50.060 at Spain and look at U.S. U.S. puts in $935 billion per year. Spain's like, why would we spend that
00:03:57.380 kind of money? U.S. is here. No one's going to mess with us. Let them spend the money. We'll
00:04:01.600 freeload and we'll get protection with them, right? We don't need to. Let this crazy rich guy pay for
00:04:06.220 the bill. You know how you go to dinner with somebody and you make the money? Everybody waits 0.98
00:04:09.420 for you to obey the bill. Spain is the one that when you go to dinner, they're like, oh, he's the
00:04:14.080 guy that gets up and goes to the bathroom because he can't find his wallet. And it's like, and the
00:04:17.560 U.S. has got like, all right, you're going to do this again to me. Boom. You put the card down.
00:04:20.820 That's Spain. That's U.S. So let's take a look at this promise versus reality. NATO's promise was 0.89
00:04:25.480 what? Attack one of us. You fight all of us. Uh, wait a minute. How about this recent award that 0.94
00:04:33.120 No, no. You started it. Not now, but anytime else. Like U.S., you better take care of Ukraine.
00:04:40.080 Ukraine's not a NATO member. Yes, but they're allies and they're neighbors. And if we don't
00:04:44.620 protect Ukraine, Russia. So you want me to give you $160 billion? Yes, but that's the right noble 0.57
00:04:50.280 thing to do. And let's make sure we put all our pins on our jackets when we go places to show
00:04:55.180 that we're globalists and we're all about this. But wait a minute, America, we've been defending
00:04:59.160 you all this time. You don't. No, no, no, no, no, no. We can't. We can't. We can't do that.
00:05:02.740 that's too much. That's not, you got the money, you can afford it. You don't need us. We're
00:05:06.240 smaller than countries like Spain. You don't need it. You don't need us. You're so powerful.
00:05:10.600 You got this under control by yourself. Oh, really? Yeah. Can I show you guys a chart? Yeah,
00:05:16.720 yeah, for sure. Phil, what chart do you want to show us? Let me show you guys a chart. So here's
00:05:19.880 a NATO member defense spending as percentage of GDP. You ready? Spain, 1.43%. Your target needs
00:05:28.320 to be two. Luxembourg. This is 2024. Numbers have changed. I'll show you today's numbers.
00:05:34.040 Luxembourg, 1.19. Look at all these guys. Slovenia, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Albania,
00:05:38.200 Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Belgium. None of them hit the 2%.
00:05:43.840 Wait a minute. What are you talking about? Yes. Netherlands is like exactly 2% and 28 cents.
00:05:50.740 Netherlands meets the guidelines. You see it right there. Right at 2%. Then you got Romania,
00:05:55.640 Czech, Turkey, Hungary, Germany, everybody else is covering it. And Poland gives the most. Poland 0.83
00:06:01.420 has the lowest crime, lowest rape, lowest unemployment. They have the lowest amount
00:06:05.840 of rapes. Everything about Poland, they take care of themselves in a massive way, but they have the 1.00
00:06:11.060 lowest. And the president keeps saying, no, no, no, guys, this is not going to work out that way.
00:06:13.780 So let me show you a chart that's not even on this part. How many NATO members met the 2% target
00:06:18.020 from 2014 to 2025, year over year over year? In 2014, it was only three. They're like,
00:06:23.500 2013-14 who was president this guy named barack hussein obama you don't need to pay for it he's
00:06:30.480 not going to do nothing he's with us he's a globalist he's one of the boys we're going to 0.99
00:06:35.680 be okay how about 15 don't sweat it we're fine don't pay for it 16 oh shit this guy showed up 0.99
00:06:42.760 and he's talking about nato who the hell is this guy could you could silence the guy tell the people 0.99
00:06:48.360 russia's taking care of him and he's got you know russia influence spread some rumors propaganda
00:06:52.440 let's get this guy out he needs to be out 17 five members are not paying the two percent 18 is like
00:06:57.780 hey we better listen seven percent he keeps getting louder 2019 nine of them are paying their
00:07:03.760 two percent NATO 2020 11 of them guys we got to get rid of this guy always succeeded he's out
00:07:10.280 one of the members stopped paying this guy I'm not paying the two percent what's Biden gonna do
00:07:15.400 nothing. He's chill. He's one of us. He's a globalist. Then it goes to 10. Then it goes to
00:07:22.240 11. Then guess who shows up again? Boom. Trump goes from 11 to 23. And look where it's at now.
00:07:29.360 Why? Everybody sat there and said, this guy's crazy. You better pay your bills. You ever have 0.98
00:07:34.360 a company that is ran by a sloppy CEO, CFO, and no one's collecting their bills? And then it shows
00:07:40.160 up and it's like, hey, you haven't paid us for three years. If you don't pay me the whole thing
00:07:44.500 for the last three years. Contract is cut. And I'm going to tell everybody you don't pay anybody.
00:07:48.780 No, no, no, no, no. Payment's coming. You have 24 hours to wire the money to our account. I'm
00:07:53.260 waiting. A guy like that shows up. You better pay up. And that's exactly what happened. So now
00:07:57.800 let's go back to this. While we're talking about all these things, promise versus reality. Attack
00:08:02.380 one of us. Fight all of us. That's not happening. Attack one of us. Do you trigger an automatic 1.00
00:08:07.900 response or debate in DC first? Right? OPEC. We decide what a barrel costs. It's our promise.
00:08:13.160 we decide the price point, right? Reality question, we nudge the price unless shale and demand say
00:08:19.780 otherwise. So now, this leads us to this, okay, which is the last part of the conversation that
00:08:24.300 we're having. Do OPEC and NATO still need to exist? Certain powerful nations say what? No,
00:08:30.000 you know what that certain powerful nation is? Us. Maybe America's like, look, I don't know if
00:08:34.200 we need NATO. You guys deal with your OPEC stuff because we're out, you know, America's indirectly
00:08:38.840 in opec too you may say how is that even power we're not in opec we are why because venezuela
00:08:43.600 is you know what i'm saying oh no way yes wow that's so you mean to tell me if he really wanted
00:08:54.080 to he could tell the vp that took over under maduro that you have that's scary it is so you
00:09:01.660 mean to tell me there could be that massive of a disruption possibly because he's got the leverage
00:09:06.000 and if we're the one that's providing all the military protection and everyone's acting tough
00:09:10.980 because they know we have their back and all of a sudden when we need you you don't show up
00:09:13.840 you just made a big mistake nato so now let's go through this the 2026 stress test congress
00:09:20.840 passes law making it harder for a president to pull out and they just did this you know when in
00:09:25.040 2023 you know under who biden you know why they why do you think they did under biden to say you
00:09:29.360 need two-thirds of senate i think that's the number right you need two-thirds of senate to
00:09:34.180 leave. Do you know why they did that in 2023? Because the globalists in NATO said, hey, Biden,
00:09:39.480 please, you got to do this. So Biden's like, hey, as if Biden really did, it's probably other people
00:09:44.360 that did it. Let's pass it. Why? Because they expected to lose that Trump comes in. He's going
00:09:49.000 to leave NATO. Look how smart they were thinking. They knew they were going to lose. They knew they
00:09:53.200 were going to lose. They knew Trump was coming in. So like, no, no, no. Listen, guys, that 50%
00:09:59.900 chance that he shows back up please put it in law that you can never leave nato the globalists
00:10:05.700 forced u.s president to make it a law that he needs two-thirds to leave and he can't do without
00:10:13.380 that you know how hard it is to get two-thirds very hard in our kind of an environment still
00:10:18.360 running the world or just marking time where they still matter nato core european security
00:10:24.320 still flows through nato planning and basing europe cannot quickly replace u.s high-end
00:10:28.480 capabilities opec announcements and decisions still move futures markets and headlines coordinated
00:10:33.980 cuts to shape short-term price expectations to notice poland's like no no listen guys we'll pay
00:10:39.800 four percent we're a small little country please we love america we want them we're a conservative
00:10:45.980 nation we're willing hey mr president we're good please don't leave nato spain's like what are you
00:10:52.340 going to do we're spain do you know what spain has we have incredible food we have flamenco we
00:10:59.080 know how to do all this other stuff you're going to leave not be beautiful women good looking people
00:11:03.220 you're going to leave us you're at it they'll never do it so the president is in a weird situation
00:11:10.040 but knowing him he's super creative he knows what these guys did with section 1258 2024 defense he
00:11:17.460 knows. Slick. These guys knew they were going to lose. And if Biden didn't know they were going to
00:11:23.600 lose, you know who knew they were going to lose? NATO knew they were going to lose. Think about
00:11:27.880 NATO knew. Trump's coming back. Can you imagine that, that they knew? Oh my God, please put it
00:11:34.200 in there. So what are you doing? You're a leader. What do you do? You're funding most of these guys
00:11:38.840 out of the 1.3 trillion dollar budget that we're talking about. 68 to 70 percent of the spending
00:11:43.880 comes from UK, US. 1.3. You're paying 68 to 70 percent to protect the nation that needs your
00:11:50.720 help. You don't need to protect, you don't need their help. France has a couple nukes. UK has a
00:11:56.500 couple nukes. We got 10,000. I don't know what the number is. It's a little over, it's between
00:12:00.320 8,500 to 12,000 is what we have. Why are we part of NATO? Why? Why are we doing this? This, this is
00:12:08.560 kind of weird to be in a situation like this. What would you do as a president? Do you not think you
00:12:13.460 as a president want this leverage? Do you not kind of get upset that the previous president
00:12:18.700 made it tough that we can't leave? Why create such a difficult non-compete for me to leave?
00:12:24.280 Do you want that kind of a non-compete? Who the hell wants that kind of a non-compete?
00:12:28.380 Aren't the liberals that negotiate for non-competes to be gone, so why are you adding your non-compete
00:12:32.740 for a president to not be able to remove two-thirds? Kind of weird when you think about it.
00:12:37.760 So having said that, this is the issue that's being faced.
00:12:42.080 NATO's almost made it impossible for U.S. to be able to leave NATO with the help of a U.S. president.
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00:13:12.260 And last but not least, two years ago, I did a video called NATO Exposed.
00:13:14.820 This is way before all this stuff was happening.
00:13:16.960 If you've never seen this video, go watch this video, NATO Exposed, of what we talked about a little over two years ago on NATO.
00:13:24.400 Take care, everybody.
00:13:25.100 Bye-bye, bye-bye.