Live with Predictive History #2: US-Iran War, World Cup

Hello, everyone. Good morning from Beijing, China. This is the second of our monthly live streams. And what I'm going to do in this morning's live stream is give you an overview of current events from this past week. So I'm going to share my screen with everyone and what I'm going to do is. Sorry, let me. So, a lot Bear is just getting in. We have 125 so far on the live stream. So thank you everyone for making the time to join me today. Okay, so I'm going to share the screen. Okay, so. We're going to go and look at the. Okay, so the first major news item today is on Sunday, the World cup right, between Argentina and Spain. And I want to argue to you today that this is actually a major geopolitical event. And what happens in the game is going to tell us a lot about the current state of the world. So right now on Poly Market, Spain is favored to win because if you just looked at the performance this World cup, clearly Spain has a superior team to Argentina. In fact, Polymarket has Spain winning at the odds of Spain winning are about 59%, which is very, very high. Considering this is the World cup final. I think that there's a lot of people who are upset at how unfair this World cup has been. So if you compared Argentina's matches in 2022 versus this year, it's not in day. So to get to the finals, they had to defeat the Netherlands and Croatia, and in this year's matchup they had to defeat Egypt and Switzerland and England and whereas Spain had to defeat Portugal, Belgium and France. So it seems Argentina has the much easier bracket. Also, a lot of people felt that the officials were siding with Argentina on many important decisions. So the big question for us is why would this matter geocolitically? Well, one important, one important thing to remember is that Spain has been one of the most persistent critics of Israel these past two years and Argentina has been one of the most persistent advocates and supporters of Israel these past two years. The Spanish government famously has a bad relationship with Israel. The Argentina government under Javier Milei famously has a very strong relationship with the government of Israel. Being Netanyahu seven hours ago threatened Spain and he said that, well, they might experience certain power outages and train accidents could happen. And this is a direct threat to the fact that Spain has been a very vocal critic of Israel these past two years. Messi is, has. Is very, very close with the Israeli government. So this is him in the Western Wall. And this is actually a very good article by Min Press News. Alan McLeod is the journalist. This was published a couple days ago. But basically he shows us that Messi has had a very long and very strong relationship with Israel. So he writes that Lena Messi, he of course is the, the most famous football in the world. And therefore you would think that he'd be very careful as to who he associates with. But that is why many were surprised when in 2020 he announced a partnership with Orcam, a relatively small Israeli AI firm that makes wearable artificial devices similar to Google Gas. Orcam markets itself as helping visually impaired people live more fulfilling lives. Messi became its global brand ambassador in the face of the company. So this is a huge coup d' etat for this very small company. How were they able to afford such a prestigious brand ambassador as Meze? Well, it turns out this company is an outgrowth of the Israeli national security state. Like many, like many of these tech companies, it's called unit 828 sorry 882 00. The article goes on and says that Messi has, has always had a very strong relationship with Israel. In fact, what we know is that in his 2017 wedding, and this is when he was 30 years old, the Israelis provide security for the wedding and now his security is handled by elite force of former Israeli agents who plans every move, especially internationally. Okay, so Messi is very, very close with Argentina. And this is important because. A month and a Half ago on May 30, I wrote about how Peter Thiel was making moves on, on Argentina. And Argentina may become a resource colony of Israel in the future. And so it is very important to, for Israel to control the political landscape of Argentina. So if I'm Israel and the thing about the Israelis is they think very long term, I want someone like Messi to become president of Argentina, in which case whatever he does, the Argentine people will agree with. So I think that's what's happening. I think like Messi is being set up to be the next president of Argentina after Melee retires in maybe five years time. And Messi will probably be there for the next 20 to 40 years doing the bidding of the Zionist as well as transnational capital. So this is a very important World cup because if in fact Argino wins and Mesa wins the mvp, the Golden Boot award and if it is won in dramatic fashion, meaning Messi scores a winning goal and he is essentially a all conquering champion, he's like Achilles in football, then the people Argentina will feel tremendous pride and they will feel a tremendous sense of gratitude to him. And this they will essentially vote to make him king of Argentina. So this is a very, very important match to watch. My intuition, I'm actually, I actually think Spain may win. So do not, please do not take this as betting advice. Don't listen to my presentation. Think, oh, well, well, Argentina is going to win for sure. Let me bet on Argentina, on Polymarket, because there are 41% to win, so it's good money. No, I actually don't know who win. My intuition is that Spain is a stronger team and that Spain may win. And my argument is that, okay, FIFA is essentially about making money. So I, I can understand that they would wig a lot of games in order to ensure the top final four are France, England, Spain and Argentina, because these are the four teams with the most market appeal. So FIFA is trying to expand so soccer into America because it is really the largest market. And so it would make sense for FIFA to conjure up as much controversy, as much marketing and as much allure as possible. And you do that by placing the top four teams into the semifinals. Right? You don't want Algeria and Egypt and Morocco in there because they, they don't have as much market appeal as France and England, Argentina and Spain. So I can understand why they would cheat to get to the semifinals. But I thought. But I think that if they were to cheat in the finals when the entire world is watching, that may be a bridge too far for them. And I think that Spain, because it has faced so many tough opponents, it is probably much more practice, much more confident than Argentina. That said, Argentina is the world champion. They have experience playing in the finals. And Messi, he isn't a tremendous player. I mean, it's magic what he does on football field. I saw his game against France in LA in the 2022 World cup and his performance was just outstanding. He's so strategic, he's so patient, and he's a killer. I mean, when he sees this opportunity, he. He's a clincher. So I'm torn as to who will win. I'll watch the game like everyone else. But I will say that if it's clear that FIFA is rigging the game in favor of Argentina, if for the reason Messi wins, if Messi scores a winning goal in the game, then I think that is clear. Transnational capital and Zionism wants Messi to be president of Argentina. And honestly, I think he'd be a very good president of Argentina. Whether or not he would completely do the bidding of Zionism in transnational capital, we'll have to see a Lot of these people, people like Messi, they, the mentality is very different from our mentality and sometimes their behavior can be unpredictable. Okay, so that is the World cup and why it's important for geopolitics. I have a moderator, Cassie, who is looking at the live stream. So if there's any questions or comments about anything I've say during this live stream, she will forward to me on WhatsApp and I will respond in real time. So I want to hope, I hope to make this as interactive as possible. Okay, so that is the World Cup. Let's move on. Okay, so another big news item coming from this week is that. Sorry, Cassie just said send me a, a couple of questions. So curious, curious cat asked. Number one, Canada mentioned major investments in defense and says they need to support Ukraine war since alignment of European countries, Ukraine and France. What do you think this result in Canada? Balakistan declared independence from Pakistan. What is happening in South Asia? Politics, not in opinion. Where is this leaning? Okay, these are great points. Exactly. Yeah. So point number one is that Canada is going to support the war in Ukraine. And so I think this Ukraine war will become a forever war for NATO and for the five eyes. So basically Canada is moving towards a war economy and it makes a lot of sense because the Canadian com is not doing well and Canada's a lot of resources. So it makes sense for Canada to participate in this war against Ukraine. Also Canada's a resource colony for Great Britain. And the current Prime Minister, Mark Carney, he's clearly an agent of, of England, an agent of transnational capital. So yes, Canada will involve itself in the war. Expect a shift towards wartime manufacturing capacity. Also expect possibly a national draft at some point. Number two, Balochistan declare independence from Pakistan. This is really important because if I'm the United States and I need to launch a ground nation of Iran, I recognize that this is going to be a pain in the ass. It's going to take many, many years. And I need to attack Iran from multiple vectors basically as for as many vectors as possible. So one vector is of course a Kurdistan incursion from Iraq. And we're already seeing that take hold where the Americans are now arming the Kurds and financing Kurds. And so they will attack Iran from the northwest. Balochan is very important because that has always been a region of tremendous tension between Iran and the locals. And so Pakistan declaring independence from Pakistan, it basically absolves Pakistan from any responsibility in what will happen next, which is basically the Americans want certain special forces to rally the tribes people and cause as much ethnic conflict as possible in the southeast of Iran. And why the Americans are doing this is basically trying to force out the irgc, trying to force them into a ground offensive in order to stabilize both the south, east and northwest. That's the intention. I don't think it'll work because the IRGC recognizes that the key to victory is control over certain Hormuz and its ability to threaten the gcc. So what's happening in Balakistan? What's happening in the Kurdish Iran? Not really significant in. In the grand scheme of things Iran is a huge country. But we'll talk more about this as time progresses. Another question is from an Argentina who says that I'm from Argentina and we're following these moves closely. Melee is giving our lands for nothing and Theo has already bought a lot. That's exactly right. Right, right. So the entire intention is to turn Argentina into a resource colony for transnational capital. And so both Israel and the are working hard to make this happen. This Argentina is the last great investment opportunity in the world. So think about it where Argentina, it's pristine land. It's not really developed. It is protected from world conflict because it is so far away from everyone and it's surrounded by. I mean Argentina doesn't really have any enemies. Right. Brazil will not declare war of Argentina soon. So if I'm interested in capital, I'm thinking like where in the world could I develop a country to be the next global superpower of the world? It would be Argentina. I think Argentina is really the best investment. Another possibility is Australia. But the thing about Australia is that it's a really developed economy and it's going to cost me a lot of money to try to take over Australia. Where. Where's where? It's going to cost me nothing to take over Argentina. Argentina has a bankrupt economy. So. So I think that this World cup, if Messi wins and if he becomes president of the United States of. Sorry, if he becomes president of Argentina, then I think that transnational capital and Zionism will gain a very strong foothold in Argentina. They can remake Argentina into their image, which is basically to make it into the new. The new United States. A in a country with tremendous energy and as the world fights, then Argentina will provide the weapons resource and financing and Argentina, through mass immigration will slowly expand outwards to encompass its neighbors and take over the entire South American hemisphere. And that I think is. Is. Is the intention here. Okay, let's look at some more questions. Choke point of freedom asked Did Morocco for the game to France. I didn't watch that game. But I will say that the World cup seems a bit rigged to me. It seems FIFA has some intentions and either. And it's possible some of the players and some of the officials know of this intention and they're just playing along. Right? Because ultimately these soccer players, they make more money in the long term by cooperating than by resisting. Victor says, is Argentina considered a proxy for US and Israel? Not now. Israel. Argentina is not considered a proxy for US and Israel. If I'm Israel and I'm. And I'm transferring capital, my play is this. My play is the first turn Argentina into a resource colony for Israel. Right. Because as Israel conducts its wars in the Middle east as establish the Greater Israel Project, it will need a lot of resources. And the Western hemisphere can become very chaotic as the United States breaks down into the civil war. And as the United States attempts to control the entire Western Hemisphere, Argentina seems like a safe bet because it's cheap to invest in and it has a lot of resources. But over time, what you want to turn, what, what you want to do is we is basically remake Argentina into the new United States and become the new superpower of the world. That, I think, is the intention here. Okay, let's look at this from Fred. With Peter Thiel. Continue the network state auditioning in Argentina. Should we expect to see some attempts to increase cooperation with the Vatican and Peter Thiel since Argentina's population is 67% Catholic? I always, I think there's already a lot of cooperation between Peter Thiel and the Vatican. Okay, so yes, I understand that the Pope has issued, has said that AI is a new Tower of Babel, and Peter Thiel basically says that the Pope is an agent of China. Guys, this is all theater. Think about this, where Peter Thiel is a major sponsor of Peter J.D. vance. J.D. vance recently converted to Catholicism and J.D. vance visited Pope Francis and then a few days later, Pope Francis died and then you had American become Pope. So there's a lot of shenanigans going behind the scene. But basically the Vatican, Peter, Theo have a lot more in common than they have in difference. And I, I see the two as very strong allies. And you're absolutely right in that Peter Field appreciates that Argentina is 67 Catholic and the Vatican is very strong in Argentina and throughout South America. So if Peter, Peter Thiel promotes a network state, he's probably going to promote a network Catholic state in Argentina. So thanks for that, Fred. Aaron says historically war economy is like 40% of GDP, 5% is hardly war company. Are you talking about future trend? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. I'm saying that in Canada and other places the economy is going to shit. No one's working, no one's. The economy is not doing very well. So the easy solution is to shift it to wartime production. So it's basically state mandated manufacturing. And this is, this is what we saw in lead up to World War II and during World War II. It's great for the economy. Okay, so, so this is something about Canada is heading towards. So thanks for that. Aaron Ugs. Oh yes, the propaganda battle between Argentina and England regarding the Falkland Islands. Yes, yes, this is a great point. Thank you so much for pointing this out. So the United States wants to enforce the ROLE doctrine and one area of contention will, will of course be the Falkland Islands, because what the manual doctrine says is that no European power shall inter. Interfere in the internal fears of the Western hemisphere. And now you have England controlling the Falkland Islands. So I think what's going to happen is that eventually Argentina is going to reclaim the Falkland Islands and there's very little England can do about it. And again, this is the idea of making Argentina into, into, into resource colony of Israel. And if you remember during the World cup, the Argentinians, the Argentinian team unfurled a banner saying basically the Falkland Islands. But they didn't call the Falkland Islands, of course, that's the English name. But they say the Falkland Islands belongs to Argentina. And so, and already there's already disputes between Argentina and England. So I think that after this World cup, after a lot of Argentina, nationalist energy is galvanized. And I think the next move is to reclaim the Falkland Islands and again with American support. And it's really the Americans who are pushing this. There's very little that England can do about this. All right, so thanks for that. That's a great point. Yes, the Falkland Islands will be a source of contention over the next couple years. Who is behind FIFA? Who are the individuals that are FIFA? That's a great question. So I imagine the people behind FIFA are also the people behind the IOC and other major sporting organizations. These are very powerful families that have links to organized crime and who are really the most powerful families in, in Europe. So think of the NFL, right? Who, who are these sports team owners? Well, I would imagine they're basically like the godfather of their region. These are billionaires who control organized crime, who control a lot of things, who control politics. These are among the most powerful people in the World. And they recognize that football is, really, has become a substitute for war. And it is the best mechanism to control the psychology of the masses. And so you can imagine a lot of football, a lot of soccer, it's rigged for political purposes. So that's what I imagine who FIFA is. The people you see, by the way, the people you see up front, people you see on stage, they're just actors. Right. Also think about how FIFA gave President Trump the FIFA Peace Prize. If you are just a sporting organization, why would you do that? So I, I think you're. You're right, Joyce. I think that FIFA is heavily infiltrated by Zionism and transnational capital. And we can tell just by the way that Iran was treated during the World cup, by the way that Argentina is, is basically being given a red carpet treatment and being shown the direct path to the finals. And the fact that a lot of these games seem to be heavily biased. So they introduce var not to create a more objective, sportsmanlike environment, they introduce VAR in order to dictate the outcomes that they want. Okay. And a lot of these outcomes are political. Earl Gray asked Earl, if you haven't yet, have you thought about Argentina, World War II Nazi elites relocating there? Oh yeah, this is pretty well known. I mean, it's not a conspiracy at all. Yes, there are lots of Nazis in Argentina and Brazil. In fact, Argentina made a point of welcoming Nazis. Argentina was very supportive of knots of the Nazis during World War II and as well as the Vatican. And they, they were very welcoming of the Nazis. In fact, Argentina went out of its way to smuggle Nazis into the country. And you can argue that a lot of the business elite, a lot of the political elite come from a Nazi influence background. The Nazis are very powerful, have been become a tremendous influence in Argentina. But that doesn't mean that the Nazis and the Zionists have any conflict. The Nazis are committed to the ideology, the Zionists are committed to their ideology. And both want to see Argentina as a superpower in the world. Okay. Curse, curse. Cat. Do you suspect any major events will coincide with a World cup final? Events of so much attention on one event? Would that be too much obvious a move? Yeah, I mean, I originally thought there might be a force leg attack during the World cup, but given that Argentina will probably win the World cup, then they won't do that. They basically want to get arcana to feel good about itself. So. So like they can promote the next phase of the, of the agenda. So again, I don't know who's going to win the World Cup. My logic tells me it's Argentina. My intuition tells me it's Spain. I can't tell you. But what I will tell you that is if Argentina wins and if it's clear that the game is rigged in favor of Argentina and. And it is Messi who becomes the hero of the game, then I think that it's all scripted, it's all rigged, and Messi will become the next president of Argentina and do the bidding of Zionism and transnational capital. Okay, so thanks for all these great questions. The Falkland island piece is really, really key. I expect that after the World cup, very shortly, the Falkland Islands will become a huge issue in Argentina. Okay, so let's continue. So another big news item from this week is President Trump. Thursday evening, he gives a address saying that he's uncovered evidence that China tried to interfere with the 2020 election. He also said that there were a lot of illegal immigrants who voted or who registered to vote. It was vote flipping. So a lot of people say that this is basically. He's basically trying to promote his Save America act, which gives the government more control over who is registered to vote and to monitor the electoral process. Okay. They're also saying that President Trump is going to use this in order to have more federal control over state elections, which will determine the midterms. This, I think, is all true. This is the way he behaves, Right. If you can't win honestly, just cheat. And he thinks that 2020, he was cheated. So it is his right, it is his duty in order to ensure cheating never happens again. And you do that by cheating better than everyone else. Okay, so Thomas Massie, who is really now like the folk hero of American politics, he says it's absurd. Every piece of voted data Trump mentions here are available in Kentucky for a small fee. Yeah, right. So, yeah, maybe China wanted to access both of files, but you just pay some money and you can have that. Also, I'm not convinced that China is at all interested in interfering in US electoral politics. Now, that said, I do believe in 2020, China was really rooting for Biden just because they thought that Trump could not be negotiated with. And Trump was a loose cannon. And Trump was doing a lot of things that discriminated against China, but I don't know what they did specifically in order to interfere in the elections. Also, it's also one of capacity. You. Yes, China does have the capacity to interfere in Taiwan elections. Yes, China does have the capacity to interfere in Japanese elections. And we'll talk more about it later on. But I Don't think China has the capacity to interfere in US Elections, especially at the national level. Maybe, maybe at the local level, but definitely not at the national level. Okay. Kim Iverson says the same thing. Okay. It cost you nothing. You actually look up how people are registered to vote. Okay. Mel Nal says the same thing. She points out that the, the, the non citizen registrations. The White House says 20 50,000, but better sources put it at only 28,000. That's still a lot. And remember, like I said, think in 2020 Trump lost to Biden by only about 10,000 votes. Right? So if you could flip 10,000 votes strategically throughout the country, then that would have given Trump the victory. All right, now Trump, as part of his announcement, he did release a lot of that side documents. These classified documents aren't secret, by the way. They're just bureaucratic memos that tell you nothing whatsoever. What they tell you is the bureaucracy is divided politically and they're always fighting against each other. But otherwise are they revealing any secrets? No, not really. Okay, so this is from the National Intelligence Council, which is an assessment of how countries are affecting the US Political landscape, their intentions, their capacity to influence the U. S. Political landscape. As you can see, China does not have the capacity to really interfere in U S Elections. They don't have, they don't have the capacity, they don't have the interest, but Russia does. In fact, Iran probably has more interest in interfering in U S elections than China. Okay, this again, this comes from one of the declassified documents. Now you can also find documents where the bureaucrats say that China does have interest and capacity to interfere. But, but that's just how bureaucracy works. You've got different political factions saying different things and it will take you forever to sort out all the documents. And another interesting thing from the National Intelligence Council is they suspect that in 2020 Russia tried to shape the narrative to help Trump win the election. Right. They saw Trump as more pliable, as more friendly to Russian interests than Biden. And so they tried to accuse Biden of corruption. Right. It says here orchestrate a high profile corruption scandal, implicating former president, former Vice President Biden. Okay, so here it's clear that there is election interference, but it goes both ways. There are some people trying to help Biden, but there also some people trying to help Trump as well. Trump doesn't really care. Trump's point is that there is election interference and, and so the federal government should have all the power necessary in order to prevent this from happening. So Trump is not interested in who's interfering or what they're interfering. Trump is just trying to amass more power for himself. Okay. And this already happening. Right. So after Trump made his press conference, Homeland Security Secretary Mullen threatened state election officials with possible prison time if they don't comply with the Trump administration methods to determine whether sponsors are on voter rolls. Okay, so expanding on President Trump's election speech a night earlier, Mullen said that State Department. Oh, sorry. The Department of Homeland Security had preliminary determined there were more than 2050,000 non citizens on voting list in at least four states. California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania. And three of these are heavily Democratic states. Right. Pennsylvania, you can say is also Democratic. So clearly they're trying to influence the midterms. And it's possible that the midterms will be very controversial. And it's possible some midterms don't even happen. So the idea that the Democrats sweep the midterms and then impeach Trump, I don't think Trump will just let that happen. Okay? So that is what's happening there. Another thing I will point out is Trump has announced sending 3,000 technicians to Venezuela. So basically, Max Blumenthal hit, hit the nail on the head. In other words, a US Military invasion of Venezuela. Yes, that is next step where the United States starts to colonize Latin America in order to pursue its imperial interest. This is stupid, because all that's going to happen is basically dumpster fire where the local population conducts gorilla warfare against the occupation, but the empire doesn't care. This is how empire decline behaves. Right. So you cannibalize our allies, forcing Europe and Japan to pay tax, pay terrorists, as well as to finance wars against imaginary enemies. But also you sent, you sent out your allies to occupy Latin America in order to steal as much as possible. Right? And that way there are more people who support your imperial presidency. So this is what an emperor does. Right. Trump wants to cross a Rubicon. He wants to become king of America. The way you do that is by making sure that people are loyal to you can steal as much money as possible. The best way to do that is by taking over Latin America and having your allies steal the resources. Okay? So that is what Trump has planned. Okay. So having finished that, let's go over to your questions. Okay. All right. Hosnian says, what do you feel? Bangladesh, China, politics while online quarter via Myanmar. So I, I don't want to get into that right now because that is really a very complicated issue. Ron Fritz asks, do you think the US will respond to the availability of inexpensive AI providers from AI that are now just as powerful as Emphatic and OpenAI, but as a fraction of the cost. Also, any comments on Xi Jinping's opening remarks at the Global AI Conference? Okay, so Xi Jinping said that he hopes that AI is used to further the interests of humanity as opposed to degrading humanity. Right. So the United States is building all these data centers not to promote anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic and OpenAI don't really have viable business models. The point is to create a surveillance state. So if you're going to war, if you're creating an imperial presidency, if you're dealing with civil unrest throughout the country, then you need a surveillance state. And that's why these data centers are being built. United states is building four more, far more data centers than China and FIC and OpenAI. I don't know what the business model is. In fact, you have a guy at Zitron who's a journalist, who's very good, but he's been looking around saying that these are not viable business models. And you have a lot of institutions, for example, the bank of International Sentiments, saying that this AI bubble will pop at some point. If this is happening, I guarantee you they are planning to pop the AI bubble not to destroy the AI industry, but to destroy wealth, to consolidate power and to bring in the U.S. government. Right. So they, they want U.S. government to take a share in on topic and open AI, and basically they want to nationalize these data centers. So the government is responsible for their upkeep, which is very expensive, also for the protection. Because there's growing discontent. There's going fear that people will start to attack these data centers. There's this tremendous public backlash against these data centers. So the next step is to basically pop the bubble, bring in the government and nationalize a lot of AI data centers. So that is the intention. And again, it's to move towards an AI surveillance state. And Anthropic and OpenAI will be part of this surveillance state. But the current business model will not work out. Okay. The current. These will become basically public utilities as opposed to private companies. Russell says. Is Trump going to cancel the midterms? I don't think Trump's going to cancel the midterms, but I think that there'll be a lot of disruption during the midterms. ICE will be deployed throughout the midterms to ensure, to suppress lower voter turnout. That's very important. I, I think it's, I think it's, it's Very hard for Trump to cancel the midterms because they happen at a state level. And I don't think he has actually the authority to cancel the midterms, but he can disrupt the midterms in many different ways, Right? Sending ice everywhere to suppress voter turnout, to accuse states of basically cheating and creating as much havoc as possible. You can also imagine a lot of these midterm races will not be. Will go to court. And in this court case, it could drag on for months, possibly years. Right? So I think it's. It'll be very hard to put together the next Congress. And quite honestly, this is like, this is really strange. The Democrats prefer it this way, right? Because if the Democrats. Let's imagine the Democrats were to sweep the midterms, they come into office, their voter base is impeach Trump. Okay, sure. But also stop the war in Iran, go after Israel. Right? So now they have to deal with their voter base, and the Democrats don't want to do that. The Democrats would just rather, you know, sit back, collect all the donations, get all the favorable news coverage, and let Trump be the scapegoat. That's literally what they would prefer to happen. We know, because of. Between. Because of 2016, 2016, 2020, when the Democrats were out of power, they were just, I mean, like. I mean, donations. Donations were just raining on their heads. They were making, like, a shitload of money during those four years when their liberal base was galvanized and they were willing to spend as much money as possible to get rid of Trump. So it's weird, but the Democrats have more to gain from Trump in office than for them to remove Trump. Okay? It's really weird. And also remember, a lot of these Democrats, especially people like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer there, are Zionists and they're beholding to aipac. So they don't want to come in and impeach Trump and try to stop this war in Iran. If the midterms are total dumpster fire, it's total clutch of fuck, and they cannot convene the next Congress, then Congress is longer functioning, so Trump can do whatever he wants. And so Trump just launched a ground incursion into Iran. The Democrats think this is the best optimal outcome for them because it allows them to achieve a lot of political objectives. It makes Trump the scapegoat, and it sets up 2028 for a Democratic landslide. And by 2028, you have to imagine a lot of things that Trump was brought in for. For example, this war in Iran have concluded by that. Okay, so that's how the Democrats are thinking right now. So I wouldn't be surprised if the Democrats are really happy to not win the midterms fies. Ask, how does Russia see the Middle east war? Yeah, Russia sees the Middle east war as the end of the American empire. I'll talk more about this later on. Okay. Ron Fritz asks, any comments on the rapidly escalating AI war between the US and China? Yeah, I think it's complete. I think that this conflict between US and China, it's all just theater. The United States and China are not really in conflict. Both want to create a surveillance state, and they benefit more from working together to create the surveillance state than they do for fighting each other. So think of like maybe during a cold war, the KGB versus CIA. Believe it or not, the KGB and the CIA were actually working together to further their own institutional interests. Right, because if you're the kgb, how do you justify your power and your budget? The fact that the CIA exists, your CIA, it's the same situation. Right. So what do you do? Well, you can. You, you basically conspire together. You work together to create all artificial conflict in order to get more financing, more power from your own respective nation state. You become parasites on the nation state. Right. So these AI industry in America and in China, they benefit more from working together to hype up the AI threat than they do from actually competing against each other. Okay. So I know it's weird, but the nation state model doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. The US and China are not really in conflict with each other. The people who are in conflict with each, with each other, often elites that are domestic. Right. So rather than see the United States and China conflict with. With each other, it's better to see different elites in con with each other with in China and in United States. So in China, you have different global factions fighting for power. In America, you have Democrats versus Republicans, have the tech oligarchs versus Wall street, basically. Okay, okay. Imy says, seems like Trump is upset at China at not pushing Iran to agree to concessions to mou. Doesn't seem like it's anything to do with US elections. I, I disagree. I think Trump doesn't really care about Iran and the MoU because the MoU is just a smokescreen. Right. Trump is intent on a ground invasion because it allows him to harvest more power. And you know, Trump did meet with President Xi in Beijing in mid May and we, we don't know. We will never know what they actually agreed on. But I, I would not be surprised if the two agreed to work together to further their own domestic political power. Right. So I can see China trying to help Donald Trump gain a third term and China providing evidence, secret evidence, that China did interfere in the elections when China didn't do so. Right. And this gives Trump a lot of credence, a lot of credibility as he tries to federalize state elections. Right. So again, I don't think China, United States are enemies. I don't think Trump is. Cares about China. Trump cares about the Democrats. Trump hates the Democrats. Trump wants to be king. And that is all. Everything he's doing, if you appreciate all that, everything he's doing revolves around that one goal. How does he get a third term? Because if he doesn't get a third term, the Democrats come in, they are going to go after him and his family. Right. And there's a lot of crimes they've committed these past two years. I mean, it's kind of blatant how corrupt they've become. But, and, but, but that just tells you Trump has actually no intention of ever leaving office. Okay, all right, so let's continue. All right, so I'm going to keep on reading. Okay. Victor asks, why is the US Blocking Cuba? Well, the US Is blocking Cuba because it's part of the Don rule doctrine. Right. So the intention of Trump is to create the imperial presidency. And the entire idea of the imperial presidency is that America will control the entire North American continent as well as parts of South America. This is something called, they call it technate. And so the countries that are part of the technate include Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba. And so Cuba is just the next domino to fall. Right? And right now, the Americans are imposing a naval blockade. And the then the goal is to create as much discontent as possible to make a ground, to make a marine incursion. Pretty simple. Okay, Aaron asks, Aaron asks, what will China take over Taiwan? China will not engage a military conflict against Taiwan. It is suicide for the Communist Party to, to, to do so. Okay. Selfish. Noan says Venezuela wants to normalize relationships with Israel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes sense, right, For Venezuela to, to normalize relations with Israel because Venezuela needs transnational capital come in, develop its oil industry. So that makes sense. But basically, I mean, the best way to understand what's happening in Venezuela is that it's become a de facto colony of the United States. And so the next step is for Trump descending colonial administrators. And therefore, that's why I refer to this Max Blue and fall tweet. And then what's going to happen is a domestic insurgency, agrile warfare. And that's good for these colonial administrators because it gives them access to more power into more financing. Right. So this is how an empire's decline, where the people in charge, the elite, really care about how to further America's long term national security interest. All they care about is stealing as much, as much as possible for themselves in the short term. Right. And creating as much conflict in the world does that. Right. So you can imagine these colonial ministers go into Venezuela and they promote domestic insurgencies in order to justify a power grab. This power grab allows them to steal the resource of Venezuela, which then inflames more insurgencies. Okay, but they don't care because their goal is to steal as much money as possible and then run away. They're carpet baggers. Okay, so this will be a thumper fire. All right, Sam asks, is Van Sing up to act as Brutus to to Trump Caesar? And is Vance setting himself up to act as Brutus to Trump Caesar? No, Vance is not that smart and Trump is not that stupid. Vance will be discarded before, well before 2028. Wang Iguru asked, what's the importance of art and creativity? Does America need a new mythology? What was its old mythology? Yeah, that's a great question. America found itself as two possibilities. The first possibility is a Christian utopia. Right. The Puritans wanted to create a Christian utopia in America. And then the other possibility was a project of a Freemason, which was, which was create an Enlightenment state. And the Enlightenment state idea has won out. But I think that America is survived. It needs to become Christian nationalists. That, I think is America's best hope. And I think this, this is what's going to happen in America. I think America will become a Christian nation and they will focus on Christian nationalism. All right, so thanks for the questions, but I, I, I need to move on. Oh, wait, wait. Ron Fritz asked a question. Do you think the DSA faction within the Democratic Party will continue to grow in power following Mandy's success? Both Democrats and Republicans seem to fear this. The D. The DSA faction. Yeah, this is a really interesting idea. Right, so the Republicans have the mega faction. The mega faction basically conducted in revolution led by Trump, and now they control the Republican Party. The great fear is a DSA party, the Democratic Socialist of America, represented by Mandani and also Hassan Piker, who I talked to a couple weeks ago. They are heavy proponents of the dsa. Now the DSA is a psyop. It's complete. The dsa, it's made basically meant to channel grassroots anger in a way that allows it to be co opted by the elite at some point. Basically the Democratic Party is controlled by an incestuous elite that wants to stand up power and they're very good at doing so. Right. So whatever sort of like grassroots movement you see among Democrats, it's fake. It's a psyop. Don't, don't believe this crap. That's what my intuition tells me. The Democrats have been co opted. There's absolutely no hope for them. All right, so let's go to the next news item, which of course is the war and Iran. Now what's really important to appreciate is the Americans have gone into this war with a new strategy. The previous strategy was decapitation, right? Let's take out the Alatola, let's take out their main leadership, let's take out their main bases and then Iran will capitulate. Iran will fall. That doesn't happen. So now they've moved on to phase two of the war. And phase two of the war, something, something notice is the Americans are much more strategic about where to attack. So before, in the first phase of the one, the first month, say in March, the attacks were everywhere throughout the country, especially in Tehran. Now it's concentrated heavily in the south. Right. And the reason why is because the south is where they would want to launch their ground incursion. Right. So Balakistan is where they would see as a possible Ford operating base. Right here. Right. Also they wanted to sl the IRC from the SH moves basically destroy Iran's capacity to export oil. And that's why they attack the islands. Okay, so moving forward, okay, in this next phase of the war, and this war is a forever war, by the way, I mean, expect this war to last 10, 20 years. But in this next phase, the strategy is threefold. First of all, sending ground forces from Iraq and Balakistan to force the IRGC onto the battlefield. Okay, that's phase, that's point one. Point two is disrupt the Iranian economy. And the way you do that is you target critical civilian infrastructure and you destroy Iran's capacity to export oil. And this already what's happening. All right, so Middle East, I say says that a children's cancer hospital was forced to evacuate after US strikes hit nearby. Okay, I hate to say this, but over the next few months, what's going to happen in Iran is going to be very similar to what happened in Gaza. Remember after October 7th when the Israelis went into Gaza, they were much more restrained than in the beginning. And the reason why was they were afraid of public pressure. And there was a lot of public pressure built up against Israel in the first phase of the war. But then Israel basically scaled down its operations and laid low for a couple months. Basically had a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. Did not respect their ceasefire, but that ceasefire basically allowed the majority of the people in the world to turn away, to turn a blind eye, basically that allowed Israel to basically start engaging in genocide against the people of Gaza. And we're going to see a similar situation in Iran where in the first phase of the war there was just so much attention on the war. And so that basically limited the capacity of America to fight the war to its full capacity, basically destroying critical civilian infrastructure. Towards, towards the end of March, there was talk that America would target power plants. And as you remember, Iran created human chains around these power plants. Basically Iranian civilians went to these power plants and became human chains so that if America bombed these power plants, these civilians would be killed in the process. You could do that in the first phase of the war because entire world was focus on the war. You can't do this in the second phase of the war because no one's really paying much attention to the war now. And if you do send civilians to protect these power plants, the Americans will make sure to kill everyone. Okay, so as you can see right now, the Americans are targeting critical civilian infrastructure such as bridges. The reason why you do that is it's the best bang for your buck. It does you no good to target mountains. Does you no good to target military bases. You need to think about the economics of war. Right? If you're going to spend a million dollars on blowing something up, make sure that what you blow up cost more than a million dollars. And it's. And, and, and, and so you target critical civilian infrastructure. The Americans are now enforcing the blockade against Iranian ships. Okay? So they're trying to strangle the Iranian economy. And in response, the Iranians are attacking US military infrastructure in Kuwait. And a lot of people are like, that's so silly. The Americans are attacking critical civil infrastructure in Iran. Iran now needs to go after the energy fields of the gcc. Make the GCC feel pain. They may still want to do that. Okay. And that's actually strategic not to do that for a variety of reasons. Okay, I know militarily, yes. If they are attacking your critical civil infrastructure, you should go attack their critical civil infrastructure. The problem is that the world is going to feel a lot of pain. And hurt because Iran has closed Hormuz. So Iran already is pissing off a lot of the world. And so Iran cannot afford to continue to aggravate the world. And so it needs to create sympathy, right? So basically let the Americans come and destroy your critical civilian infrastructure, and this will create a lot of global sympathy. Second thing you don't want to do that is you want to create sympathy and unity among your people. Right now, the Amer, the Iranians are really pissed off at America 1, because of what happened in the World cup, where the Iranians were just treated very badly by the Americans. Now, it's part of Iranian culture to believe that hospitality, it's a grand virtue, right? So regardless if you hate this person, if this person comes to your. Into your house, you have to treat this guest with respect and courtesy. And. And that's. And that's what virtue is. And the fact that the Iranian team goes to America to play the World cup and they were not allowed to stay in America overnight, right? They were. They were forced to fly in early morning at dawn to the match, and then after the match, they had to fly out back to Tijuana, Mexico, which is where they had their camp. A lot of sports staff, her Iranian team were not even allowed into the country. So that pissed off a lot of Iranians. And I. I don't think we can truly appreciate how pissed off the people of Iran are. Also. The people of Iran believe that the game, the. That. That the World cup was rigged against Iran and it was a tremendous injustice. And a lot of. There are a lot of Iranians who want to avenge this injustice. That's. That's the first point. Second point is there was a recent funeral for the Ayatollah where millions and millions came out across Iran and they cried for vengeance. Okay? And the third thing is, of course, what's happening today where the Americans are attacking critical civilian infrastructure affecting the lives of Iranians. The Americans are targeting power plants, so Iranians will not have access to air conditioning in this intense summer heat. And so all you're doing is you're pissing off the Iranian people and you're making the Iranian people more willing to fight. So if I'm the irgc, I let the Americans continue to do this because I want to galvanize this anger into action. Right? And the third thing, the third reason why the IRGC will probably be very restrained in its response is this war is not decided right now. The war is decided once America sends in ground forces. Okay? The ground invasion is what will Decide who wins and who loses this war. So you basically want to force Americans into a ground invasion because then the temple of the war, the trajectory of the war shifts in favor of the Iranians. Now the Iranians can determine the tempo and trajectory of this war. Now the Iranians can be more proactive. Okay, so you basically play posm and you make the Americans think you're weak and then they send in ground forces. The, the intention right now is sull up Iran up for ground incursion. And if the Iranians are not striking back forcefully against the gcc, American military planners will believe it's because the Iranian offensive capacities have been fully degraded, which will allow for a full scale ground invasion. Okay, that's the intention here. All right. Another very important development is how this war, it is expanding outward to include the entire Middle East. So this is, this is Al Jelani who has changed his name to Al Shara. He of course is now president of Syria. And he wrestling recently met with Donald Trump in Ankara for the NATO summit. And Alshara committed to helping the Americans in Lebanon basically against Hezbollah. And Trump promised to lift sanctions against Syria. Now Syria has said very explicitly, we will not invade Lebanon. We will not fight Hezbollah. But already they're creating conditions where conflict between Hezbollah and Syria, it's almost inevitable at this point. Right, because it's because Iran smokes a lot of weapons and missiles into Lebanon from, from, from Syria. And if Syria is disrupting Hezbollah supplies, then Hezbollah is forced to respond in a certain way. Okay? So it is very likely that Syria will enter this war at some point. And the intention is to have Syria attack from the north issue from the south to outflank Hezbollah. Also Lebanese government will also attack Hezbollah. Okay? So basically Hezbollah is in a lot of trouble. You also have to hoof these. So what's, what's, what's been happening is that the Iranians have been trying to create an air bridge, flying supplies into Yemen and so attack the airport. And now basically the hoofies and ser are about to go to war. I mean, they're basically at war. Okay. They've been at de facto war for the past few years. Anyway. This is important because the hoofies, what they're going to do is close off the Red Sea the back L mendak straight. Right? So already is closed. Then if they close off the back Almana straight, then basically the entire GCC is now no longer capable of exporting oil. And this is going to be a huge problem for the entire GCC will basically force Saudi Arabia to enter this war against the. The Houthis, Iraq. Okay. So Iraq is committed to disarming the Shia militias in Iraq. And the reason why is that the Americans want to use Iraq as a Ford operating base for operations against Iran in the future. So already we're seeing this war expand outwards. And so my prediction is the next phase of this war, maybe like a year from now, this war will have. Will have to expand to the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus. The reason why is that as the south of Iran is under American attack, then Russia needs to reinforce Tehran from through the Caspian Sea. And so Azerbaijan and Armenia could be a source of conflict. Right. And Azerbaijan is a very close American ally. So they would think about how to use conflict in the Caucasus, in the Caspian Sea in order to disrupt the supply network to Tehran. Also, if we go and look at Central Asia, there seems to be a great game happening between Russia and the United States. And we can think that this could go kinetic at any point. Well, this is important is that if this goes kinetic, if this region go, goes kinetic, then China will not be able to reinforce Iran through the Belt and Road Initiative. Right, so basically you're trying to cut off supplies to Iran. If there's conflict in Azerbaijan between Aran and Armenia, and there's conflict throughout Central Asia, then Iran will be cut off from its two major allies, China and Russia. And this, I think, will be the next phase. Okay, all right, so having said that, let me look at some questions and see if there are any questions about this. Okay. Khashral says, why would the west seek to destroy Iran? Would it make more sense to make economic deals where we ran integrated into the global economy and transnational system? Yeah, you're absolutely right. So that's why it's hard to understand things from a purely economic and materialist perspective. Because if that were the case, then you didn't have to invade Iraq in 2003. You, you could just make economic deals with them. They're perfectly happy to sell oil to you at a major discount. Right. Iran, Iran is in the same situation. So the only way to appreciate this is that this war is eschatology, eschatological. Okay. Israel wants to achieve the Greater Israel Project, so therefore it needs to knock out Iran from the equation. And America wants to prevent Iran from form alliance with Russia and China. So unfortunately, this is just US Imperial policy. So rather than try to settle disputes peacefully through economic cooperation, America is intent on enforcing its will militarily. And right now, the greatest threat to American power is a possible alliance between Iran, China and Russia. The reason why you don't trade with Iran is if you trade with Iran, well, Iran can also trade with Russia and China. And this over time would allow all three to build a strong alliance, but also become strong over time. So yeah, you could trade with Iran now, but the great fear is in 20 years time, Iran will be too powerful to possibly stop and to invade. Okay, so you have to do it now. So there's the imperial interest, there are also the eschatological interest. Okay, this is a great question. India has been a friend of Iran for years now, recently with Israel too. What does India stand in larger scheme of things with regard to this war? Okay, this is a really interesting question. A question because India sees Israel as its best ally in the future. Okay, so there's only four countries where Israel has a net favorability rating and one, one of these countries is actually India. I think 33% of Indians support Israel and maybe 31% oppose Israel. That's pretty impressive because everywhere else it's pretty skewed against Israel. So I think what's happening is a growing alliance between Zionism and Hindutva. Hindutva is basically the Indian version of Zionism where India wants to control most of South Asia, including Pakistan, including Afghanistan. They believe that historically the these areas belong to them. Another way to understand this is, okay, China got rich by exporting its young population and making cheap products to sell to the West. Now India wants to become the next China. The problem is that India doesn't have the state apparatus that China does. China is an authoritarian nation that can force people from the countryside to the urban centers to work in factories. And then China can invest a lot of money in building critical infrastructure, a great logistic network to transport goods from Chinese factories to American and European supermarkets. So that's what China can do. India can't do that because India is a democracy. So what you do instead, and this is really clever, is you export the young people around the world in order to create an Indian diaspora which you can manipulate in order to further your Greater India project, your Hindutva project. Okay? And what, what Indians have recognized is the best natural ally to do that is with Zionist capital or transnational capital, right? So think of Argentina and Australia where, and Canada, where transnational capital controls these places. But. And you bring in Indian labor, Indian energy, in order to people these places. Okay, so India sees its best hope, its best ally in Israel. Right? So India is always going to support Israel, but obviously India does not want to go to War with anyone else. Right. So, but, but India and Israel is a growing alliance. Vesna, ask how may the war in the Middle east impact small countries such as Armenia and Georgia? And the answer is, I mean, like I, I, I, I, I would explain this war is going to expand and expand until it engulfs most of the world. Right. So if you are in Georgia, if you are in Armenia, well, you'll be brought into this war at some point. Point. Okay. This war is a configuration that's going to spread, spread to encompass everyone. Okay. Bdg, bdg ask how can the US Invade Venezuela and Cuba while losing in Iran? Well, first of all, who says United States is losing in Iran? Second of all, it's the American empire and they have different theaters. Right. So Venezuela and Cuba. Yeah, I mean, the American empire can do a lot of stuff that's crazy and nonsensical and dangerous, but they can pull it off. Right. So it's possible because right now the United States is fighting war on multiple fronts. It's fighting war in Ukraine, it's fighting a war in the Caribbean. It's fighting a war in Iran applies like applying another front, which is the Asia Pacific. North Korea will open up pretty soon as well. So the empire can do a lot of things. Okay. It shouldn't do these things, but it can. Victor asks the Iranian population is seeking vengeance. What do you think Iran could do to against the US to revenge Khamenei's death? The best thing is to wait for the ground invasion. You know, the American trigger are going to come at some point. Just wait for them. Prepare your forces, rally your people and wait for the American sending their ground forces. That's what I would do. Be patient. Salat Jones says, given that America has begin, has begun to attack infrastructure, at what point do you think Iran will take the gloves off and destroy desalination plants and oil facilities in the GCC as they're threatened to? That's a really good question. And so my first point is Iran does not see the GCC as completely unified. Okay. It particularly hates the uae, Dubai, and it really hates Bahrain and Kuwait, these three places. So expect the Iranians to target these three places strategically. Also expect that the Iranians will be very restrained in their response because they know, like, if you target this desalination plant in one of these regions, it's basically like using a nuclear weapon. Right? You, you're basically causing the people to suffer tremendously. Right. So I think the Iranians need to be strategic in how they calibrate their response. I think the idea of targeting desalination plans, that's a good option. You burn off. You better off targeting old oil fields, right? Like basically applying economic pain. Because if you. If you target desalination plans, you're going to piss off the entire gcc, right? So it's not in the. Even in best interest to talk to basically piss off the entire gcc. You basically want to divide and conquer the gcc. So basically focus your energies on Kuwait, UAE and Buran, because these three places are the most adamant about regime change in Iran and then. And then hold back against Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It's not in your. It's not in your best interest to piss everyone off. Okay. All right. Anymore. Okay, so, guys, I'm really tired. I want to thank everyone for these great questions, but let me. We'll sit in five more minutes. Okay, so I was recently in Japan. I want to thank the Nokiman show for sponsoring my trip to Japan. I've never been to Japan in my life. It's my first time, believe it or not. But I'm almost 50 and I've never been to Japan. And it was a wonderful trip. I spent four days in Tokyo and. And I did a fabulous podcast with the Nokiman Show. It's a Japanese language podcast and they're very popular in Japan. They have like 2.5 million subscribers and a lot of their videos get millions of views. It's a very fun conversation and I'm looking forward to it when it comes out in Japan. I also did a meetup for the first time and it's on YouTube, but I want to thank everyone of my paid subscribers who showed up for the meetup. We spent three hours together in conversation, and it was just a lot of fun. So I want to thank this man, Hito Uchi, who organized the event at Lakeland University. And I'm hoping to do more meetups in the future. Okay, so I'll be in la, in New York in August. I'm hoping to do some meetups there at as. As well. So, yeah, so thanks so much, guys. I hope. I hope that today was interesting for you. And then let me. Let me look at if there are any more questions and then we will end the stream. Okay, so three more questions. Okay, guys. All right, so Chrisman asks, how are oil prices not moving despite Hormuz being closed? US Stockpiles are almost depleted. How much further can the US Manipulate prices? This is a really good point. So, yes, clearly the United States is manipulating prices. Clearly, there's some cooperation going on between China and the United States because the main reason why prices have not skyrocketed is China has reduced demand. But as you point out, this is not really sustainable in the long term. Eventually, sky oil prices will skyrocket, so expect that to happen soon. Earl Gray asked regarding this Central Asia map, what would be an instance of kinetic, as you said, would it be protest kind of start? Yeah. So the. So expect a lot of terrorist attacks in these regions against critical civil infrastructure. Okay, so think of Australia, where a drone attacked the Jilon refinery. And basically, the goal is to basically kick the hornet's nest, right? To create as much conflict as possible, which could possibly lead to. To conflict. But Central Asia, that map, it's about two years away, so it's not a major concern at this point, but it will happen at some point as this war escalates. So the last question is from Insy. Do you think it's a better strategy for Iran to attempt to hit Israel hard rather than getting into a ground war with the United States? If the Greater Israel Project, the goal, would hit them where it hurts? Yeah. Okay. I know this is like, really strange. Okay, okay. Because we know the root of the problem is Israel. Okay. So, yeah, you, in theory, yes, you want to hit Israel the hardest, and this would be the most emotionally satisfying, but from a military perspective, it doesn't work. Okay. All right. And here's some reasons why. First of all, Israel is a lot more unified, a lot more resilient than the gcc. So let's imagine you barrage. You do a missile barrage on Israel every day for the next two, three years. Three, three months. Well, all you would do is make them really pissed off at you and you would make Netanyahu really popular. And Israel will go all in against you. And you can't hit them too hard because remember, Israel has nuclear weapons. Right? So, so basically, you don't want to do anything about against Israel because if you do nothing against Israel, then the nation will fracture. So there are elections coming up in Israel in the fall, and Netanyahu will probably lose. And this will create a lot of civil disruption, a lot of political strife in Israel. And that's, that's the best way to deal with Israel. Israel is a nation that will fight to the death. Israel is a nation that will galvanize and unify together really quickly if it feels threatened. So there's no point in dealing with Israel. There's absolutely no point. You're better off dealing with the gcc. It's Better bang for your buck, right? So I know it's weird, but there's really no point in attacking Israel. You do it now and then for symbolic reasons and to show that you can and to rally public support. But from a military perspective, you don't really gain that much from attacking issue. Plus, it's too far away. You're just better off attacking the uae, Kuwait and Buran. Right. And ultimately, this war will not be decided in the air. It will be decided on the ground. That's why you wait for the American ground innovation. You want to save your resources, you want to angle your population. You want to lure the Americans into Iran and that's how you beat them. You want to create another Vietnam, basically. Okay, all right. So guys, thank you so much. This was a lot of fun. So we will do this again next month, but I will be back in North America next month. So I will change the time to accommodate more people. And also I expect that over the next few months there will be some major breaking news, especially with regard to this war in Iran, especially regard to President Xi's visit to United States scheduled for September. The Israeli elections are very important. The midterms are very important. So what I will do is whenever there's breaking news, I will organize a, a live stream. But it will not be on substack. It'll be on Zoom and be. And the reason why is it will allow us to interact more directly. Okay? So please watch out for these emergency live streams in response to breaking news. Once again, thank you so much for your support over these past few months. It's because that you are paid subscribers that I am now able to finance my trips to visit places all around the world so I can better, better develop my geopolitical analysis. And you know, this trip to Japan was wonderful. It made me think much more deeply about geopolitics. And I'm hoping to visit more places in the future to bring you better and more insightful analysis. My final point is I understand that right now there's a transition happening. A lot of you are used to me in the classroom using the blackboard and lecturing to directly. And now I left the school and I'm developing new platforms, new modes of communication, and I know there's been a lot of hiccups. I know the video I posted about Japan yesterday, the auto quality was terrible. I apologize for that. But it was done very rapidly and we didn't have time to set up properly. Okay? So I apologize for that. I also appreciate that these Zoom discussions may not be as aesthetically appealing as my classroom lectures. I promise you, this is transition phase. I'm taking your feedback into consideration. I'm making a lot of changes as we go along. I promise you the experience will be a lot better for you as we move along. But I. I also ask for your patience in this process. Okay, so thanks so much, guys, and look forward to our next discussion. Okay, bye. Bye. And oh, and by the way, thanks so much to Cassie for being a great moderator. Okay? She was able to send questions real time, and I was able to respond to them in real time. And so thanks so much, Cassie, for being a great moderator. And I will see everyone next month.