In 2024, you made three predictions that

have come perfectly true, like Trump

would start a war with Iran. And you've

made a series of new predictions.

>> Yes. And I'll explain each prediction

one by one. Okay. So, first I predict

that Trump will get a third term.

>> But isn't this constitutionally illegal?

>> It's not. The president now has

emergency war powers and so he could

actually delay the election. My second

prediction is Iran is under a forever

war and the United States will institute

a national draft. Meaning that if you're

between 18 to 24 in America and you're

male, you'll be automatically put into

the draft system and they just pass a

law that says that starting in December,

you will be automatically registered,

which means you're obliged to go and

fight. Exactly. Next, the world will

move towards an AI civilian state. So

everything you do online is being

recorded to figure out and how to

control you. And then this is the most

controversial prediction. This is pretty

bad and I'll explain why. And also I

will tell you why this war can only lead

to World War II. why there's a very

strong possibility that the American

Empire will collapse and also I'll show

you what the Russians will do and how

the private bankers are controlling it.

I'm not owned by anybody. That's what

you think. So, let's talk about that.

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Professor Dian,

there's so much going on in the world at

the moment that it's quite confusing for

an ordinary person like me. And you've

blown up across the internet because

you've been able to demystify all of all

of this craziness, but also because in

2024,

you made three predictions that have

come perfectly true.

Some might say unfortunately.

>> Unfortunately, yes. What were those

three predictions?

>> My first prediction was that Trump would

win in November 2024. Second prediction

is that he would start a war against

Iran. And the third prediction is that

the United States would lose this war

and in losing this war, this would

radically reshape the geopolitical

landscape.

>> How did you know that Trump would start

a war with Iran?

>> The simple answer is this. The the

United States having invaded Iran

because it has no choice in the matter.

If it were not to invade Iran, it would

lose its empire. Its empire is based

purely on the US dollar, the petro

dollar, which is a Ponzi scheme. If it

did not invade Iran, then people would

choose not to trade with it anymore.

People would choose to not buy US

treasuries.

>> Why? For the longest time, this system

worked fine.

But then in February 2022,

Russia invaded Ukraine.

>> Yeah.

>> Okay. That was not the issue. The issue

was the American response. The American

response was to sanction Russia and

remove Russia from the swift global

payment system. It also ordered the

Europeans to freeze over $200 billion

in Russian assets. And there's a problem

because the very basis for having the US

dollar as the global reserve currency is

that it would remain politically

neutral.

It it the Americans guaranteed seamless

politically neutral

international exchange.

So if this trend continues, right, if

you don't do anything about Russia,

Russia would take over Ukraine and

Russia then would build an alliance with

China and Iran. If you look at these

three countries on the map, Russia,

China and Iran, this is the entire Asian

continent. And then what they can do is

this. They can say, okay, the United

States is a bully.

They force us to play by the rules. They

get very angry if we don't play by the

rules. So, let's not play with the

United States anymore. Let's just trade

amongst ourselves.

And then what they can do is they can

build a Eurasian railway system

connecting Russia, Iran, and China

together. And then what this would do is

negate American sea power because it's

American ships that patrol and protect

the oceans.

And then what would happen is the world,

Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East

Asia would look at the trading block and

think to themselves, "Wow, these guys,

the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese,

they use gold

as their medium of exchange.

Gold is valuable. The Americans on the

other hand use US dollars

as the medium of exchange which is not

valuable. So am I better off with the

American system with this new brick

system?

>> What's bricks?

>> It's an acronym. It stands for Brazil,

Russia, India,

uh South Africa, China. So am I right in

thinking because Iran, Russia and China

were colluding, it threatened US

dominance which is driven by the world

using the dollar as the primary currency

for trading.

>> That's correct. Okay.

>> Okay. So they felt they needed to invade

because then they can control more of

the Middle East.

>> Right. So by attacking Iran, certain

things happen. Okay. The first thing

that happened is that China is now cut

off from Middle East energy.

China receives anywhere between 50 to

60% of its energy needs from the Middle

East. Not just Iran, but also Qatar and

Saudi Arabia.

A lot of people say that China today

it's reliant on renewables, solar, wind,

and that's true to a certain extent. But

remember that China it is an industrial

powerhouse. So it needs energy from

everywhere and everyone. So the fact

that China is losing all this energy

from the Middle East presents China with

a long-term strategic vulnerability.

That's the first thing that happens.

Second thing that happens is that Europe

is in a lot of trouble because remember

because of the Russia's invasion of

Ukraine, Russian energy was sanctioned

and so Europe relied more on middle on

the Middle East for its energy needs

especially Qatar

and now Europe has lost all of this oil.

So you and then you have Japan and South

Korea. These two powerful East Asian

economies are also reliant on the Middle

East for its uh energy. So another

question is if you're not getting your

energy from the Middle East, where can

you get your energy from? And there's

only two answers, either Russia

or the United States.

Russia is at war. And what's happening

is the Ukrainian drones are attacking

Russian oil refineries and export hubs.

So the world in the short term have has

no choice but to look to America for its

energy needs. And what did Trump do

recently? He took over he took over

Venezuela which has the world's greatest

oil reserves.

He's threatening Canada. is threatening

Greenland, Mexico, Colombia. If Trump

controls the entire Western Hemisphere,

the entire world has to beg Trump for

energy and resources and it saves both

the US dollar as well as the American

empire.

>> So, as part of your prediction in in

2024, I believe it was, you said that

the US would lose this war,

>> right?

Why did you predict that the US will

lose this war with Iran?

>> Because the the American society does

not does not have the political will,

does not have the manu manufacturing

capacity,

does not have the risk tolerance to

fight this war in Iran. Basically,

America wants to fight this war as

cheaply, as easily, and as quickly as

possible. Right? So Trump it Trump

really thought that you know if I sent

my airplanes to strike Tran and kill the

Aatollah they would just surrender. That

was like literally his plan going into

this war. He paid no attention to the

culture. He paid no attention to the

history of the Iranian people. He had

absolutely no respect for

for the nation. And when you do that,

when you disrespect your opponent, when

you underestimate your opponent, when

you yourself are not willing to commit

to the fight, you're going to lose.

>> So, is Iran's game just to draw this out

as long as they possibly can? H how are

they, you know, cuz he's taken out the

leaders? And do you also think that

Trump thought that just if I just bomb

the leader, then everything will sort of

regenerate itself and we'll be fine.

What was the sort of fundamental

misunderstanding? There's a lot of

confusion as to how this war started.

Even today, no one actually knows how

this war started.

But I think that Trump, given his

personality, he was convinced that if he

killed the leadership of Iran, then they

would have no choice but to surrender.

And his proof of concept was of course

on January 3rd of this year, Delta Force

went into Venezuela, kidnapped Maduro

and they completely surrendered. So in

Trump's mind, he wanted to replay

this the Venezuela scenario.

>> And he

didn't realize that Iran is

fundamentally different from Venezuela.

>> The short answer is he is a reality TV

star. He thinks in terms of optics. He

doesn't think think in terms of like

geopolitical strategy. The long answer

is that the American military has become

very corrupt and insular institution

that is trying to generate as much

congressional funding as possible in

order to fund the military-industrial

complex.

>> Did he think that he was going to bomb

Iran, the people would rise up, they

would elect a new government and that

would be that and then he could control

Iran? That's exactly what he thought.

So, what I want to do now is go to the

map.

>> Okay.

>> All right. And show you what he got

wrong.

>> Okay.

>> All right. So, this is a map of the

Middle East. And the first thing to

notice about this map is the topography.

>> What does that mean?

>> How many mountains you have? So this is

what's really interesting is that the

topography between Iraq and Iran are

completely different.

And this is important because two in

2003

the Americans invaded Iraq and they won

the war in about two weeks. And the

reason why they won the war is the

Americans practiced something called

shock and all.

The idea of shock and all is that it is

a military strategy that believes that

if you cut off the head of the snake,

the snake will die. The decapation

strike. And so what they did was they

went into Baghdad,

seized Baghdad and the

regime collapsed and the war was over.

And they were able to do this because of

the topography. If you look at the map

of Iraq, it's all flat. It's all desert.

Meaning that you can just fly in your

planes,

cut off the head of a snake, and the war

is over. There's absolutely no way you

can defend against air strikes because

you're entirely a desert.

Now let's go to let's look at topography

of I of Iran and Iran. It's all

mountainous. In fact, you can make the

argument that Iran is a fortress.

Okay.

And so

the first thing is that

Iran can choose to fight a war of

attrition. What's a war of attrition?

>> A war of attrition is a game of uncle.

>> What's that?

>> Right. A game of uncle is where uh we

don't have enough power to destroy each

other. So what we try to do is we try to

create pain points, leverage points

to force you to submit to cry uncle,

right? So because Iran is too large

and that's 92 million people, it's

impossible for the Americans and

Israelis to destroy Iran. So what

they're trying to do instead is

bomb enough targets so that they

recognize that resistance resistance is

futile and surrender. Okay, that's the

extent of the strategy. But again, the

problem with this is that one, Iran is

much too big. Number two is that it is a

mountain fortress, which means that you

can hide your weapons and your military

inside mountains, right? Which allows

you to conduct a guerilla warfare

strategy against your opponent. And this

is exactly what Iran is doing right now

where their underground missile bases

are hidden inside the mountains and then

they're able to strike targets

throughout the Middle East primarily

American bases but also energy

installations that are key to the

American petro dollar system. And so

it's a game of uncle where the Americans

are trying to create as much damage as

possible in the Iranian nation and Iran

in response is trying to destroy as much

of of the global economy as possible to

force the world to pressure America to

call the war off. So that's a situation

we are facing right now. Second thing

that Trump got got wrong is how

vulnerable the global economy is.

Because the Iranians control something

called a shum moose. Okay. And as you

can see on this map,

it's a very

very narrow piece of land. It's only

about 33 kilometers across. You can

actually swim across the straight of

Humus. Okay. And why this is important

is the GCC

exports 20%

of the world's energy. The G the G what?

>> The Gulf cooperative council. Okay. So

the Gulf cooperative council are certain

nations in the mil middle east that

align politically. So they include

Qatar, Saudi Arabia,

uh the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait. They

they've been exporting

energy but not just energy but also a

lot of byproducts of of energy

production including fertilizer

to the world primarily East Asia and

India. In return they've been getting um

food back. So most people don't don't

appreciate this but the GCC actually

imports 80 to 90% of its food needs. And

the reason why is that they become so

rich these past few decades that the

populations have um blown up and as a

result they have to feed their

population but they don't have

agricultural resources. They also don't

have water resources and so they have

two major vulnerabilities which is food

and water and they have a lot of

desalination plants around the area and

so

>> it's a desalination plant.

>> Okay. So a desalination plant takes salt

water from the seas and then through an

electrochemical process turns it into

portable water that people can use uh

for drinking purposes and for

agricultural purposes.

>> Okay. Right. So as you can see the

entire area it is extremely vulnerable

to drone and missile attacks from Iran.

So that's the second thing that Iran has

done which Trump did not expect. He did

not expect that the Iranians would close

off the strait of Hammoose. And how the

Iranians were able to close of the shoo

was just by threatening to attack any

ships that wanted to cross it. The

reason why is that these ships depend on

maritime insurance in order to operate.

But if there's a risk, a very high risk

of being destroyed, then um you will not

need to get insurance.

>> Okay.

>> So, it's not that the Iranians have said

to these ships you can't cross. It's

just that the insurers refuse to allow

these ships to cross because it's too

dangerous. And Trump didn't you think

they'd consider this before they started

bombing Iran that Iran would have some

leverage in shutting down such a

critical piece of uh water for you know

shipping fertilizer energy etc. You

think that they would have known this

>> right? So, that's what a lot of people

say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is

hotheaded, that he was misled by the

Israelis.

And there's good evidence to support

this, but I want to show you something,

okay? It's it's called the

National Defense Strategy. All right?

And so, this is a document that was

published by the Department of War. And

in it, it explains what the American

strategy to maintain global dominance

is. And in the introduction, what it

says is that for too long, America has

been bullied by the world world. America

is a nation that protects the world. Yet

Europe, East Asia takes advantage of

American generosity. The Europeans don't

pay for their defense and so they put

all this money into welfare into their

pension system. The Chinese

have been giving America a bad trade

deal. The Chinese steal American

technology and then use it to make

products that they sell back to the

Americans. So the Americans have been

have been getting a really bad deal for

decades. And President Donald Trump,

he's going to change that by doing four

things, right? The National Defense

Strategy calls for a fourpoint program

to put America first. The first thing

that

um America is going to do is going to

secure the Western Hemisphere. Why?

Because the Western Hemisphere belongs

to the United States.

>> When you say the Western Hemisphere,

what do you mean? What what region is

that? Is that Canada as well? And

>> so if you look at the map, we can divide

we can divide the map into the eastern

hemisphere.

>> Okay. And the western hemisphere.

>> Okay. So everything over here,

>> everything including Greenland,

including Canada, including Mexico,

every part of this area belongs to

United States. Therefore, you cannot

trade with any of these countries

without American permission, without

paying a tribute to the Americans. And

that this is why that the Americans have

parked onethird of their naval assets in

the Caribbean today.

It's to it's to tell the Chinese and the

Russians, back off. If you want to come

here, you either pay a tribute or you'll

be attacked.

Okay, that's the first point of the

strategy. The Western Hemisphere belongs

to America. Something that they call the

Donro doctrine. Okay, which is Trump's

corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And so

that's point one.

Point two is that America wants to

re-imagine its relationship with its

allies.

Basically, NATO needs to pay for its own

defense. NATO needs to go fight Russia

in Ukraine. America will provide

support. It'll provide weapons and

financing,

but NATO needs to do more work. And in

East Asia, South Korea and Japan need to

do better job of keeping China in check.

Okay, that's point two. Point three is

specific to China. And the idea is the

United States does not want to destroy

China. The United States does not want

to humiliate China, but China needs to

be put in its place. China needs to

respect the power and the reach of the

United States. And how the United States

is going to do this is by strangling

China economically. Right? So you look

at at a map of China,

most of its trade goes to something

called the sh of Malaa. And the sh of

Malaca is the most important maritime

choke point in the world. All America

has to do is park naval carriers inside

the Jamaala and China will lose 90% of

its energy exports. But if they parked

them there, China would still go

through. No.

>> No. Because you have to go for the

straight Maka. So America has something

called the first island chain. Okay. The

first island chain prevents China from

reaching the Pacific Ocean. The first

island chain includes South Korea,

Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and

Malaysia. That blocks China from

reaching out into into the Pacific.

>> So in order for it to access trade, it

has to go through the SH of Malaca. And

for the Malaka, it can access uh India,

Africa, and the uh Middle East.

>> Okay.

>> Right. And so by positioning naval

carriers

inside the Shalaka, it creates a

blockade and China would have to pay a

toll in order to access um the Shalaka.

>> And the fourth one

>> and the fourth one is to

um rejuvenate reinvigorate

America's defense manufacturing sector.

>> So supercharge the US defense industrial

base. That's exactly correct. Yes. All

right. So, what this means is that the

Pentagon a few weeks ago went to Detroit

and talked to Ford and General Motors

and said, "You know what? Because of

this war in Iran, we might need you to

stop making cars and start making more

munitions."

>> How do you know they said that?

>> It's

>> They published it.

>> They published it. Yes.

>> Really?

>> Yes.

>> So, the United States went to Forbes and

GM and said, "We might need you to start

making weapons with your factories."

>> Yes. And they're happy doing this

because the profit margins are much

greater for weapons than for for cars.

This is a Pentagon. So you can charge as

you can charge them as much as you want

and they'll pay for it. Whereas you make

cars, it's for the consumer market and

they may not buy your cars.

>> Mhm.

>> Right. So So you're like Ford or General

Motors, the best deal in the world is to

go make weapons for the Pentagon to

fight these wars in the Middle East that

can go on for forever. So, so, so we

have the situation where, okay, look, if

you read the news, if you talk to a lot

of people, Trump's an idiot, and this

war in Iran makes no sense at all. But

then, if you just read the National

Defense Strategy that is on the

Department of War website, and anyone

can go there and download it for free

and read it themselves, it's a very

clear road map of what America needs to

do in order to maintain imperial

hijgemony. And so let let's let let's

just summarize the major points. The

first major point is to maintain control

over the western hemisphere and create a

fortress America.

>> Which is why he invaded Venezuela and he

says he's going to invade Cuba.

>> Exactly.

>> And also Greenland.

>> Look at all the countries that he's

named over the past year. Greenland,

Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba,

Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras. It's all

the Western Hemisphere, right? And

they're all together. Second point is to

create divide and rule all around the

world. So imagine a situation where in

Europe, NATO fights Russia in Ukraine.

In East Asia, China fights South Korea

and Japan. In the Middle East, Iran

fights the GCC allied with Israel. What

does America do? America can now sell

sell sell everyone weapons and resources

and finance it. This would be back to

World War II.

>> But it makes them weaker as well

generally.

>> That's the point.

>> Yeah.

>> Right. And then what would happen is

that $40 trillion that America has in

debt, it would disappear because it

would be absorbed by the world. Right.

So you can say look Trump's an idiot.

But if you actually look at a map and

how America wants this map, this world

map to play out, it makes perfect sense.

>> H So the war is going well for Trump.

>> The war is going very well for Trump.

>> Really?

>> Yes.

>> But you said in your prediction that he

would lose the war,

>> right?

>> What's your definition of lose the war?

>> Losing the war means that America would

send ground troops. Iran would survive

this invasion

and this would be so politically

damaging that chaos breaks out the

United States and the US guard invasion

is forced to retreat and the United

States is forced to retreat from the

Middle East.

>> And you still think that's going to

happen?

>> I still think that's going to happen.

>> So you think the United States are going

to put ground troops in, Iran are going

to resist and then chaos is going to

break out in the United States?

>> Yes. Okay. So, let me explain to you why

ground troops has to be sent. Okay.

>> All right. Okay. So, in phase one of

this war which started February 28th

which lasted for about 6 weeks, the

intention was to decapitate the regime.

And you do that by striking Tran and you

do that by striking the military bases

in installations throughout Iran. It's

it's what the Americans call sharp and

all. And the point is to force the

Iranians to call uncle. But that's not

what happened.

>> To give up

>> to give up basically because what the

Iranians did was they responded by

attacking US bases throughout the GCC.

They closed off a straight of

Humus

and they rallied their people. Okay. So

rather than surrender, the Iranians

basically double down. Okay, that's

phase two of the war. Now we've gone to

phase three of the war where Trump has

basically decided that decapation does

not work. And so what Trump's going to

do is he's going to impose a naval

blockade

on Iran's naval blockade. Right? And so

the question then is if Trump

understands that decapitation does not

work then using game theory.

>> What's game theory?

>> Game theory is the belief that

all the world is governed by rules and

incentives. And once you understand the

rules and incentives, you can predict

how people behave because people will

always behave according to their best

interest. So in geopolitics,

the nation states are individual players

and each nation state is trying to use

its resources

and um its advantages in order to

pressure other nation states to obey it.

Okay, so Trump recognizes that the

Iranians have closed off the circle of

moves, but not only that, but the

Iranians have also used the circle of

moves to finance the war, meaning that

now they're forcing ships to pay a toll

of $2 million in order to cross it. And

so this is a huge advantage for the

Iranians. And so Trump has said, "No,

I'm going to blockade your blockade,

negating Iran's advantage over the

certical moves." So we think about it

again using game theory. I want to

discuss what the Americans will do in

order to force uh the Iranians to

capitulate.

Okay. So I would say there's a three

point strategy. The first strategy is

economic strangulation. you basically

destroy the state's capacity to finance

the war. And there are two ways that

Iran is financing the war so far. The

first is using oil exports, right? 90%

of Iran's oil goes to China

and um this is Car Island. Okay, this

this little spot here is Car Island. And

this is where Iran will export 90% of

its oil overseas. That's the first

mechanism. Second mechanis mechanism is

sit who moves where the RA now can

collect tolls

right. So what you have to do is you

have to eliminate both of these finance

mechanisms. You can close off both with

a name of locket. Okay. So that's

strategy one. strategy two is you need

to create as much chaos within Iran as

possible. You want to turn this fortress

into a prison. And the way you do that

is by stirring up ethnic tensions in the

country. So if you look at a map, ethnic

map of Iran, what you'll discover is

that the Persian people are primarily in

this area in the middle of the country.

But if you go to the borderlands, okay,

the border areas, it's primarily ethnic

minorities. And there are two ethnic

minorities

in the country that have always been

problematic for the government. The

first problematic people are of color

bullocks here

uh in south east uh Iran by the

Pakistani border. They have a history of

insurgency against the government. Okay.

Second people that have been problematic

are the Kurds who are primarily in the

uh northwest of the country.

So if you are the US government, if you

are the military, your strategy is to

establish foreign operating bases in

these areas. A foreign operating base is

uh a spearhead of the military where you

insert ground troops to hold an area.

>> Okay. So

>> in order to resupply in in order to push

further into the territory.

>> Okay. So a forward operating base would

be the US putting troops into the the

northwest and the southeast and then

using that as a way to move forward into

Iran.

>> No, you don't want to move forward into

Iran because it's too large. You don't

have enough forces to move into Iran.

What you want to do is this. You want to

establish port operating bases in these

areas in order to arm and train

ethnic insurgents.

>> Okay,

>> that you can also finance as well. And

you do this because you want to turn

them into cannon fodder. You for you

have to force a response from the

Iranian military, right? So if they come

in with the army in order to quell these

rebellions, that's great because now you

can use your air power to decimate the

Iranian military. Your problem right now

is Iranian military is hiding inside

mountains.

And so you want to force them out in the

open. And so you want to create as many

points of tension in the country as

possible to force the Iranian military

to respond.

Right? Does that make sense? Okay. And

now your third strategy is to strangle

the capital Tran because that's the

that's where the political elite are a

city of 10 million people. And the way

you strangle Tran is you deny them three

things. You deny them water,

electricity, and food.

So you attack power plants. you attack

reservoirs, you attack railways that

bring um food into the capital. And when

you do that, these n these 10 million

people in Iran

will now oppose the government and

demand a political settlement because

they need food, uh water, electricity to

survive, right?

>> Is there a government?

Right now, there's a debate as to the

true extent of leadership in Iran.

>> Because Trump's recent interviews, he's

saying he's he's claiming that the the

leadership in Iran are fighting

themselves, but then he's also saying in

other interviews that there's they don't

even know who they're dealing with.

>> Exactly. Iran has a very unusual

political system in that um it's a

theocracy. It's a religious government.

It's run by clerics call them moolas. in

theory and then there's a parallel

system the state apparatus that actually

takes care of day-to-day bureaucracy and

that's secular. Uh the mas control the

morality of the country they also

control foreign affairs. So basically um

this is important because Iran has two

parallel military structures. You have

the military but you also have the IRGC.

The IRGC are only loyal to the mullas

>> which is the religious part.

>> Exactly. All right. So you have this

divide in the in the country where the

IRGC see this as a religious war as a

crusade to kill the great Satan and they

want to fight to the death

>> and the great Satan is

>> the great Satan is the American Empire.

>> Okay.

>> Uh which is a source of the misery that

I has been suffering for the past few

decades. And they already see not only

do they see America as great Satan, but

they also see this as a global conflict

because they have proxies that support

their beliefs, including here in

Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in

Yemen, the Huies, and of course in

Palestine, Hamas. Okay. and and before

Syria was also part of their axis of

resistance but Syria has been toppled by

the Americans and and Israelis. So the

IRGC see this as a religious crusade

that is global in nature. The political

leadership in Tran sees it completely

different. They see this as a conflict

primarily between America and Iran and

they want to reach a political

settlement as soon as possible. And so

in other words, these ceasefire

negotiations, it's really all for show

because at the end of the day, even if

the Americans gave the Iranians

everything they wanted, the RTC still

controls

um the battlefield and they would not um

surrender or or seek peace terms

lightly. Another problem in this

situation is the RTC practice something

called the Mosiaak strategy. Mosiaak.

The idea of the Moak strategy is okay

you know the Americans the most

effective military ever in human

history. You know that they practice

shock and all decapitation.

So how do you respond to that? You

respond to that using decentralization.

31 provinces in the country with their

own command and control that is

localized.

>> So basically they have 31 different

armies that have their own leadership.

>> That's correct. Okay. And when you do

this it's a fight to the finish.

>> Why did they do that?

>> They did it because the Americans

possess the most sophisticated

surveillance technology in the world.

meaning they can easily identify the

leadership and they can easily track you

down and kill you. So the only way

around that is to decentralize the

leadership and spread around the country

so that the Americans cannot kill the

everyone. How does the central

government orchestrate 31 different

armies in Iran? How does it get a

message out to them? I heard Peter Hexf

make a a comment in one of the

interviews saying that it takes some

time for the pigeons to get out to the

armies. And what he was saying basically

is that um when the ceasefire was called

and there was still some um missiles

flying, he was basically saying that's

just because it takes a long time to

tell the 31 different armies to stop.

>> The reality is that given a MOS

strategy, there's actually no way to

coordinate these 31 different military

operations.

Because the Musk strategy was meant to

was meant to fight to the bird of air.

You do not stop until you completely

control the Middle East and the

Americans have been forced out of the

Middle East and Israel has been humbled.

>> Okay,

>> so let's go into the specifics of what

the Mosak strategy is. The idea is that

they have an esquetology.

Okay. So, esquetology is an

understanding of how the world should be

and how we move towards this world. And

for the Iranians,

their esquetology is that Iran in order

to reach its true potential needs to be

master of the Muslim world. It needs to

displace Saudi Arabia because Saudi

Arabia it's too aligned with the United

States which is the great Satan. Mecca

and Medina are under the influence of

the great Satan because why are there US

military bases in Saudi Arabia?

So this war from their perspective, it's

a great opportunity to overthrow the

corrupt leadership of Saudi Arabia, but

not only Saudi Arabia, but the entire

GCC. Overthrow the corrupt governments

of the entire Muslim world and install

governments that put God Allah first.

>> So they're they're not going to quit

Iran. This war once it starts

can only lead to World War II.

>> That's a strong statement to make. As a

probability,

>> okay,

>> what probability would you assign to

that claim?

>> I would put it pretty high. Anywhere

between 80 to 90% probability.

>> So that's certainty.

>> Basically certainty. Yes.

>> Explain to me how that happens.

>> Okay. So we need to step back and

appreciate

um that there's a global dynamic going

on.

>> Okay. And we need to appreciate the

grand strategy of the different players

involved.

>> Right? So what what I'm going to do is

this.

I'm going to explain

to you how each nation

sees itself in the world.

>> Okay? And to do that, I'm going to use a

chess set. Okay.

>> Okay.

>> All right. This is the king.

This is the political system of the

United States, which is democracy.

And there are certain strengths and

weaknesses to a democracy. Democracy is

vibrant. It's creative. It's flexible.

But its ultimate weakness is

polarization

where today

um the different political factions

refuse to get along. And this may break

out the civil war. Okay.

>> Mhm.

>> So, the way you defeat the United States

is not to conquer it. You can never call

the United States. The way to defeat the

United States is to force it into a

civil war, which then kills the king

>> to get its people to rise up against the

leadership.

>> No, you want the Democrats and the

Republicans to form different factions

and fight a civil war.

>> Okay?

>> You you want to create so much political

polarization the different elite

factions take up arms against each

other. Okay? So, this is the political

system. Okay, but democracy. Now let's

look at the queen. What is the queen?

The queen is what I refer to as the

grand strategy

of the United States. How the United

States can maintain its control over the

entire world. And the grand strategy,

it's already outlined in the national

defense strategy,

>> right? Let's create Fortress America and

then create chaos throughout the entire

world so that we can sell everyone

weapons and resources. Okay, that's a

grand strategy. All right. All right.

Now, once you have a grand strategy, you

need you need to implement this grand

strategy. So, you need attack vectors.

All right. The attack vectors

are the rook, the bishop, and the

knight. All right. So, let's go over the

three major attack vectors of the United

States. They are first of all, America's

technological supremacy.

>> So, these are the basically the tools

that they use to attack others.

>> Exactly. In order to achieve their grand

strategy, right? All right. So, aeros

supremacy, right?

>> Which is the planes and the stuff like

that.

>> Then you have the US dollar,

right? Because the US dollar allows you

to finance everything and everyone wants

the um uh US dollar. Okay.

>> Mhm.

>> So, that is the second attack vector.

The third attack vector is propaganda.

mean United States controls the world's

most powerful media including New York

Times, CNN and as such they can control

the narrative of the world. Okay, so

these are the three major attack

vectors.

Now they use the pawns. The pawns are

weapons that they can sacrifice in order

to achieve the grand strategy. And in

the case of United States,

the pawn are the allies.

meaning I had to say this but the UK

um Europe,

South Korea

and Japan.

Okay. And also the entire Western

Hemisphere. This is the

America the Americans. Okay. The people

who are most opposed to this grand

strategy of Americans are the Russians.

So let's go over the the Russian system.

In the Russian system,

the king, the political system is an

autocracy.

And an autocracy, it's good because it

allows for coronation. It allows for

decisiveness. It allows for um resolve,

>> long-term thinking.

>> Exactly. Right. That's Putin.

What's bad is

if this guy dies, there's a secession

crisis, right? So basically once you

topple the autocrat, then the system

itself breaks down. Okay? So that's the

Russian system, right? For the Russians,

a great strategy is something called the

third Rome strategy.

>> The third Rome strategy.

>> Yes. Okay. So the people in Russia

believe that they are the true

successors to the Roman Empire and

previously there are two Romes. It was

the first Rome then it moved to

Kalanapole

and Moscow is destined to the to be the

third Rome. And what makes Moscow

interesting is that it wants to unite

the entire

Christian world under its leadership. Um

the main philosopher for the third Rome

strategy is Aern Dugan who in 1997 wrote

a wrote a book called foundation of

geopolitics. And what he said was this.

What he said that if Russia is to defeat

the Americans, it needs to build

alliances throughout Eurasia in order to

negate American sea power and aerosy.

All right. So what are the attack

vectors

for Russia? Okay. The first attack that

door, the size of the country makes it

almost invincible. So think about World

War II, Operation Bar Rosa. The Germans

went into Russia with 67 million men and

it didn't get very far. Okay? So the

Trin is very important. The geography is

very important. Then you have the

Orthodox religion

which is meant to galvanize believers

into supporting Russia. The third attack

vector is artillery. So Russia has the

best land army in the world and we we're

seeing that play out in Ukraine where um

a combination of Russian artillery and

drones it's devastating Ukrainian

military in Ukraine. The pause for

Russia are are its soldiers. So Russia

is able to sustain

many many casualties in its military. If

you actually go and interview Russian

soldiers, they are probably the bravest

soldiers in the world. They are

literally not afraid to die for what

they believe in. Okay. So, this is the

um Russian third Rome strategy. You can

see how it conflicts with the Americans.

>> Mhm. Okay. Now, we go to the Israelis.

Jerusalem, the capital, it's a mixed

system, meaning it's both democracy as

well as a theocracy.

And it's good in that the Israelis are

very creative. But the fundamental

weakness is the division within the

society where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

don't get along. Okay. So that is the

belief system of Israel.

The grand strategy of Israel is called

the greater Israel project. So the

Israelis believe that the entire Middle

East belongs to them from the Nile to

the Euphrates because that's what it

says in the Bible. This is what God

Yahweh promised Abraham. So their

intention is to conquer the entire

Middle East including Egypt, Saudi

Arabia, Lebanon, even parts of Turkey.

Okay.

Now let's look at the attack vectors for

the the the the um Israelis. The first

attack vector

is

Mossad. Mossad is the most powerful

intelligence agency in the world in that

it is able to infiltrate

and undermine different political

systems.

>> And the Assad for anyone that doesn't

know is their secret service

>> basically. Yes.

>> Their spy system. Second attack vector

for the Israelis is the Jewish diaspora

because the Jews do business everywhere

around the world and Jewish businessmen

work very closely with Mossad

and as such they have influence in a lot

of places that they shouldn't have. And

the um third um attack vector is the

Bible.

Why? Because if you're a Christian, and

there are many Christians who believe

this, you believe that the Jews are

God's chosen people. So if you look at

what's happening in uh the Middle East,

um all this conflict between Israel and

Palestine, a lot of this conflict is

being supported politically in the

United States by a group of people

called Christian Zionists. And these are

Christians. They're not Jews. Christians

who believe that Israel should treat

achieve the greater Israel project

because this is part of God's plan and

the pawns

for the Israelis are basically

everyone else. Okay.

So, a lot of the hardware underpinning

the global IT infrastructure um is being

controlled by the Israelis.

So now we go to the fourth player in

this great game and that's Iran. So

Iran, it is a theocracy. People are not

afraid to die for what they believe in

in Iran. But the weakness is that it can

alienate the majority of the population

because only a minority are religious

zealots in Iran. Most people just want

to live to live a decent life. So if

they feel that these mas the IRGC are a

threat to their peace and prosperity

then they might rise up against the mas

>> which is what we've seen over the years.

Right.

>> Exactly. So so this political system of

the um Iranians their grand strategy is

to unite the Muslim world under

leadership. They have three attack

vectors. Okay. The first attack vector

are their proxies.

Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthies.

Another attack vector

um is their asymmetrical warfare,

meaning using drones and missiles to

create as much economic damage as

possible. Okay. And the third attack

vector is their geography or their top

topography. They are a fortress. So it's

almost impossible to um in invade them.

Right? So that's their Shia militi.

these religious zealots who are not

afraid to die. Um, essentially they're

all many of them could be suicide

bombers. Okay? And and so for them, this

is a religious war. Okay? So now we're

seeing how this entire battlefield

unfolds across the world. All right? So

I've mapped out the grand strategy of

these different nation states who will

be involved in World War II. Let's look

at our present situation. Okay? So what

we have so far is that the Russians are

occupied with their army in Ukraine.

Okay, this is where their infantry,

their artillery is based. At the same

time, Russia has something called the

shuttle fleet. And these are about a

thousand

um tankers that evade sanctions around

the world. Okay? And this is essentially

their navy. America

is the most powerful military in the

world. They have the most sophisticated

aerial supremacy as well as a control

over the sea lanes and it tries not to

use infantry uh because that creates

civilian casualties and that pisses

everyone off in America. Okay. The

Israelis

are essentially a mercenary army aligned

with American Empire doing the bidding

of the American Empire. It's fighting in

against Lebanon as well as Iran. The

Iranians, they don't have much of an air

force, but they use a lot of drones to

threaten. So, this is where we are so

far. According to the grand strategy, we

can predict how they will make their

moves over the next few months, or next

few years. America

doesn't really care about this war in

Iran because what America wants to do is

force entire world to become dependent

on American weapons and resources and

you do that in two ways. The first is

you control

the strategic choke points of the world

and they include the sh of kumus but you

also want to control the sh of mala

right over here because that blocks off

east Asia. You also want to control the

panama canal. You also want to control

Greenland. You also want to control the

sh of uh Jibralar. You can see the

American Navy expanding outwards and

occupying all these maritime choke

points. At the same time, you want to

use your technological supremacy, your

aerial supremacy, your drones to destroy

the world's critical energy

infrastructure. Already, we're seeing

oil refineries being destroyed

throughout the world.

>> Oil refineries.

>> Oil refineries. Yes. So, you as as

America, you're trying to deplete the

world's energy in inventory. So, they're

forced to beg you

for to supply energy, right? And once

this market is created, then you can

build infrastructure for Venezuela. You

can take over Canada. You can control

Mexico. You can take take over

Greenland. Okay? The Russians have no

choice but to respond because if the

Americans are controlling the shooting

control points, your shuttle fleet is

rendered redundant, useless.

So, how do you ship your oil

around the world? Well, you have two

options. I'm just going to build

railways to unite the Eurasian

continent, okay? And I'm I'll transport

my oil using pipelines and railways. The

problem with that is not is now that

you're vulnerable to American aerosy

drone attacks. So, you have no choice

but to arm your shuttle fleet. And now

what's gonna happen is this conflict in

the oceans between Russian shuttle

fleet tankers that are trying to

transport oil around the world and these

American destroyers who are trying to

capture or destroy these shadow tankers.

Now the advantage that Russia has is

that America doesn't have that much

naval assets anymore. It used to but not

anymore. The other thing is that the

world really needs energy. So you can

imagine China financing the

militarization of the Russian shuttle

fleet.

>> Why would sir why would the US try and

stop Russian boats?

>> Because um in this global outlook

there are two nations that could provide

weapons and resources to the rest of the

world.

>> They are Russia and they are America. So

if America has become dominant, it needs

to blockade Russia. The way you do that

is by seizing their shuttle fleet.

>> But but if that happened, that would be

an act of war.

>> But it's already happening.

>> What? Really?

>> Yes, it's already happening.

>> Where?

>> Iranian tankers have been seized by the

Americans and tankers are being seized

in the Caribbean as well by the American

Navy.

>> Whose tankers?

>> I believe they are Russian tankers.

>> Yes. The United States has indeed been

seizing tankers linked to Russia. A

major escalation occurred earlier this

year on January the 7th, 2026 when the

US military and Coast Guard intercepted

two sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers.

While one was seized directly in the

Caribbean, the other involved a dramatic

chase that started in the Caribbean and

ended in the North Atlantic.

US forces captured this sanctioned

tanker during a pre-dawn raid directly

in the Caribbean Sea. The US military

described it as stateless sanctioned

dark fleet vessel which was engaged in

illicit activities. These seizures are

part of operation southern spear, a

strict enforcement of the US embargo on

Venezuelan oil exports. Both vessels

were targeted for violating US sanctions

by transporting illicit crude oil linked

to Venezuela as well as Iran and

Hezbollah.

>> And as you point out, this is an act of

war. So those were ships that didn't

have a country linked to them directly.

>> That's why they're called shuttle fleet

tankers.

>> Okay.

>> Yes. But they essentially Russian,

>> but they were essentially shipping oil

outside of the United States that the

United States wouldn't control. Is that

kind of

>> that? That is correct. Yes. Okay. Yes.

So

>> So the US said, "Listen, this is our

oil. Get lost."

>> That is correct. Yes. Right. So what the

United States is doing is slowly

expanding its global reach. The way it's

doing that is by setting treaties with

nations that are part of these choke

points. So the Malaa recently United

States has signed a military cooperation

agreement with Indonesia and with the

Jialter uh the Americans have signed an

agreement now with Morocco right so they

are looking for the legal framework

justification to control the world's

choke points which would bring them

directly in conflict with the Russian

shuttle fleet. So at some point you

think the way that the war starts is the

US Navy attacks a Russian boat. So I

personally believe that this will be a

drawn out process that and there's no

real concrete flash point because not

only are Russian shuttle flanker shuttle

um fleet tankers being seized but

remember Russian or foundaries are being

destroyed by Ukrainian drones. The

Russians believe that it is NATO that is

responsible for the sabotage.

>> So what when what do you think the

catalyst moment is when this all kicks

off?

>> I think we're already in the catalyst

moment. I think we're already in World

War II because um this conflict it's

going to expand outwards

uh into a global conflict and there's

nothing anyone can do to stop this,

right? Because again you have these

different competing visions of how the

world should work and the Russians and

Americans are already at conflict with

each other. So the next step will be the

Russians come into this war on the side

of the Iranians.

>> Do you think that's going to happen?

>> I think that's going to happen because

according to Russian grand strategy, you

have no choice but to save the Iranians

because you're trying to promote this

view that the world is split between the

spiritual and the material. The

Americans are the antichrist. The

Americans support individual hedenism.

Whereas we Russians, we believe in

humanity. We believe in goodness. We

believe in community. Right? So if you

believe if you if that is your argument,

if that's your grand strategy, then you

have a moral ob obligation, a moral

imperative to help the Iranians in their

time of need. And in fact, prime prime

minister uh Arachi of of Iran has

recently visited Putin in Moscow. Putin

Putin personally received him and said

to Rachi, "We the Russian people admire

your determination, your resolve um

against the Americans." And I think that

is a sign that Putin has entered the

chat and that the Russians will start to

help the Iranians as this war

progresses. So let's go back to this

map. Okay. Okay. And the Americans have

a threeprong strategy to

strangle

um Iran. The first is use ground forces

to establish sport operating bases to

incite ethnic violence in the country.

The second is to block officer of Humus

and cut off Iranian financing. The third

is to strangle pan and cause the people

to rise up against the government. Okay.

If the Russians, so if things stay the

same as they are now, America wins

easily.

But if Russia were to enter the war on

behalf of the Iranians, the first thing

that Russia would do is provide Tran

with reinforcement from the Caspian Sea,

right? Because the Americans want to

knock out Tran's capacity to provide

food, water, and electricity to its

people. But uh through the fastman sea,

the Russians can support the uh

Iranians. But not only that, and this is

much more important, if the Russians

were to come in, they could also bring

the Chinese into the war on behalf of

the Iranians. And the Chinese could use

the belt and rolling initiative,

basically the railway system to

reinforce Tran from

uh the east. So now you can no longer

strangle Tran because the Russians and

the Chinese are reinforcing Tran. Then

what the Russians could do is provide

financing to Iranians. Basically the

Iranian the Chinese sorry the Chinese

and the Russians can say to Iranians

don't worry about financing. We will

give you enough uh financing for you to

continue this war for as long as you

want and we'll use our resources as

collateral for this financing.

Right? And the third thing, and this is

actually the most important, is that

Russia could put Iran under its nuclear

umbrella. And this would negate the use

of tactical nuclear weapons. The

Israelis and the Americans, if they

really felt under pressure, if they

really put in a corner, they could

always choose to use tactical nuclear

weapons. If the Russians were involved,

that negates that option, right? So if

the Russians get involved in this war,

they bring the Chinese, they provide,

they provide the resources and the

financing to continue this war for as

long as it takes. Mhm.

Right. And now the Americans need to

expand this war on the world to try now

to topple the government in Russia

because the Russians are the main

backers of the Iranians. And you're

predicting that Russia will get involved

here.

>> According to the grand strategy of

Russia, the Russians have no choice but

to get involved because what will happen

is that if you look at this map, if Iran

were to be conquered by the Americans or

the Israelis, the entire southern flank

of the Russians are now exposed

to possible attack. And that's that's

something that the Russians would never

allow to happen. the sovereign fact. So

what this from underneath

>> basically right right but not only that

but the Americans already have close

relations with Azan

and they already have bases in Tbkasan

as well as Ubekistan right so you can

see how once the Americans consolidate

this area they can now attack Russia

from the south but what's most important

is the issue of global trade where like

a counter to America's n blockade is by

creating a uranian Ian trade block that

involves Iran, Russia and China. You

look at Russia's north south corridor,

right? You look at China's you look at

Russia's north south corner, it runs

through Iran. If Russia wants to access

the Middle East as well as Africa, it

has to go for Iran. You look at China's

battle road initiative, it goes through

Iran as well. So by taking out Iran,

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think this was going to happen? If you

get were to give me a timeline of events

you think are going to occur, what

timeline do you think you're operating

under? I guess one of the factors here

is that Trump only has what, three years

left in power. So,

you know, he's presumably going to leave

power at some point soon. So, if you're

Iran, you might just want to play it out

and hope that there's a different

leadership in place by by 20 what be

2030.

>> The political leadership in Iran believe

that they can wait Trump out. So they're

waiting for the midterms because they

believe that in November the Democrats

will win the midterms and then they will

impeach Trump and basically constrain

his capacity to fight wars.

And worst case scenario,

Trump will be gone in 2028. As you point

out, there are certain problems with

this. The first major problem is the

national defense strategy, which we

looked at previously. the national

defense strategy. It is a long-term

strategic

framework for how America can control

the world. And so one possibility is

that Trump is just creating enough chaos

for America to trans to transition. When

the Democrats come to power, if they

come to power, they will

institutionalize the strategy. And we

know this as a possibility because in

Trump's first term, he changed America's

strategy around the world. And then when

Biden came into power, he then

institutionalized the strategy

uh via v China, right? So it was Trump

who launched these this tariff war

against China and then finally comes in

power institutionalizes it. Right? So, I

think World War II, it's a much more

long-term

uh war of attrition, and I don't think

that this war

um will end anytime soon.

>> You've made a series of new predictions.

You've made eight new predictions.

>> Okay.

>> And I have them in this box here.

>> Okay.

>> I'll let you reveal what those

predictions are.

>> Okay.

Um this is one prediction. Okay.

Okay. So, this is the most controversial

prediction. Okay. I predict that there

will be a US civil war and Trump will

get a third term.

>> You think Trump will get a third term?

Isn't that constitutionally illegal?

>> There are things that are unconventional

and immoral

and wrong and evil and dangerous and

there are certain things that are

illegal.

Trump getting a third term is not

illegal. So, let me explain the

loophole.

What Trump could do is this. Okay, there

there are two possibilities. The first

possibility is in 2028 he has his son

Don Jr. run as a president and he runs

as the vice president. And then when Don

Jr. wins, if he wins, then Don Jr. could

abdicate

and Trump would be the president. And in

the constitution, if you read the

constitution very carefully, it doesn't

actually prohibit people from doing

that. It's not been done in the past.

And like no sane person with any

morality would do this.

But that doesn't stop Trump from from

doing this. Okay, that's one

possibility. Another possibility is that

by 2028, America

is at war with everyone. There's a

national draft. The president now has

emergency war powers and so he can

actually suspend the constitution and

delay the election, which is what

Zilinski did in Ukraine. So these are

two different possibilities.

But I think that given Trump's track

record, given his personality, I think

he very much um wants a third term. And

I think that he will do everything

possible to get a third term.

He would turn 83 years old in the same

year that he finishes his second term.

>> This is a man who eats McDonald's

hamburgers.

every day.

He doesn't really work out. Yet on the

campaign trail, he's able to go to two

rallies a day.

And in each rally, there's 50,000

people, and he will talk on and on and

on.

Then at night when he he should be

sleeping, he's either on truth social

tweeting about the world or he's calling

up reporters and telling him or her some

confidential information that he really

shouldn't be discussing with the media.

This is a man who is addicted to

attention.

This is a man who loves the spotlight.

He's lived all his life in the

spotlight. For him, death is to be

ignored.

So given his personality, he would

rather die in office than live uh

peacefully somewhere else.

>> And of those two strategies that you

named where he puts his son in and then

becomes president that way or you know

there's a war breaks out so he has he

says he has to stay in office. Of those

two strategies, which one do you think

he's more likely to deploy? I actually

think that given his narcissism,

he would prefer the first strategy,

>> his putting his son in

>> because because that shows himself in

the world that America loves him.

>> Okay? And it could also be JD Vance or

someone else, right? It doesn't have to

be his son necessarily.

>> Trump does not trust anyone. Trump has

never had a part on Jay. In fact,

everyone that's really worked for Trump

has been kind of screwed over by him. Do

you not think that if his son decided to

run and then announced that the vice

president was his dad, do you not think

that there would be such a huge backlash

in the United States that his son

wouldn't win?

>> Well, I think there's a possibility that

they figure out how to cheat in 2028.

>> Oh, as in actually cheat at the

election,

>> right? So,

>> at the poll booth,

>> right? So, let's go into Trump's mind.

All right. his his psychology. In his

mind, he won in 2020.

The people voted for him, but the

Democrats

stole the election with mail and ballots

and by rigging the election machines.

Okay? He in his mind, he literally

believes that. So in his mind he

believes that this is actually his third

term and the people and the government

they owe him a second term which is what

he wants now. He wants uh compensation

for having the election stolen from him

in 2020.

>> I find it really um really implausible

to think that Trump would run would run

for a third term.

>> So again this is a prediction.

>> Yeah. and it is a test of the validity

of my theorical framework.

>> I was looking at some of the the

constitutions and the laws and it says

that this 22nd amendment explicitly

states no person shall be elected to the

office of the president more than twice.

Some theorists have tried to argue that

since the amendment says elected, a

person might be able to serve a third

term if they were appointed to succeed

to the role.

>> Exactly. if they were appointed or

succeeded to the role, eg by being vice

president first. Legal scholars and the

judicial committee almost universally

reject this. The 12th amendment requires

that anyone serving as vice president

must be eligible to be president since a

two-term president is ineligible to be

elected again. They illegally barred

from being vice president. So the point

is the there's nothing explicit in the

constitution that bars someone from

having a third term

>> and there's debate in the legal

community about the spirit of the 22nd

amendment.

>> It would go to the Supreme Court, right?

>> And the Supreme Court is controlled

right now by the conservatives. Trump

appointed three of the nine justices and

there's a possibility he gets a fourth

later in the year. So it's entirely up

to the Supreme Court whether or not he

can run. And again, there's something

explicit in the constitution that

forbids him from running as a vice

president.

>> Okay. What's your next prediction?

>> The my second prediction is there will

be a grand bargain between United States

and China.

>> What does that mean?

>> It means that people expect that United

States and China will go to war at some

point over Taiwan.

It mean a lot of people expect that

China wants to challenge American

hijgemony and replace America as the

global superpower. But China does not

want to do that. China's perfectly happy

with America being the world's hegeimon

because you have to invest so much of

your resources into fighting these wars

that bank up your nation. China doesn't

want to fight these wars.

So what China is going to do is try to

triangulate between Russia and the

United States. This is what happened

during the cold war when China was not

actually on the side of the Soviet

Union. China was part of the nonaligned

community

and that's what China is going to strive

for in World War II where China may help

out Iran, may provide financing for

Russia, but it's also going to strike

deals with the United States as well.

>> Okay. So I think that Trump and

President C are supposed to meet at

least three times, possibly four times

this year, only this year. The first

will be uh in midMay in Beijing. And I

think that they will start a process in

which China and America come to an

enragment that benefits both

economically. What does America want?

America wants China to continue to buy

US treasuries in order to finance the

American debt. What does China want?

China wants energy resources from the

Western Hemisphere

and it wants to access the American

market.

>> So there's no reason why China and

America cannot come to a an arrangement

that benefits both. And Trump is very

much a transactional character. And

>> what will that mean for the world?

It means that China is not really part

of World War II in a meaningful way.

>> Okay. So, they're going to do a deal.

They'll continue to work together as

friends.

>> China will be friends with both Russia

and the United States as Russia and

United States fight each other.

>> Okay. What's your next prediction?

>> Iran is another forever war and the

United States will institute a national

draft.

>> Iran is another forever war and the

United States will institute a national

draft. So you think Iran is going to

Iran as a war is going to tumble on them

for decades and that the US are going to

draft people which means you're obliged

to go and fight. Exactly. Okay. So the

logic is this. America doesn't really

care

if Iran is a theater or not. That's not

really part of the American grand

strategy. Iran right now is a perfect

pretext for America to expand outwards

and establish maritime choke points

around the world and to force the world

to buy American energy. So this war in

Iran benefits America tremendously. So

why not have it go on for a long long

time?

In order to make sure this war goes on

for a long time, you need ground troops.

And you need a lot of ground troops. And

that's why you need a national draft.

>> So what would a national draft look like

in the United States? Everyone between

the age of 18 and 25 has to sign up to

the army,

>> right? So most people don't appreciate

this, but America has always had a

draft. But for the longest time, it

didn't really care whether or not you

actually signed for the draft. And

starting in December, participation in

the draft will be automatic. Meaning

that if you are between 18 to 24

in America and you're male, you'll be

automatically put into the draft system

>> from when?

>> I mean from December

>> this year.

>> Yes, that that is correct. Yes.

>> So between the age of 18 and 25, you

think? But what does that what does that

really mean? I've not really experienced

that in my lifetime. So it means that if

you're between the age of 18 and 24,

either gender,

>> no, male.

>> Male, then you have to sign up for the

army. No, you already put into a draft.

>> Oh, you already Okay, but you might be

called upon.

>> That's right. It's a lottery system.

>> Okay.

>> Right. And uh this created a lot of

backlash during the Vietnam era. And so

they sort of tone it down. But starting

in December, they just passed a law that

says that starting December um you will

be automatically registered for

>> They've passed a law.

>> Yes, they have.

>> Well, in theory, Congress first needs to

declare war.

>> Okay, fine. Right. That's a first step.

And Takawa has not actually decided war

yet.

>> Okay. So you think there'll be a draft

and you think this will this war in

Iran's going to trickle on for

>> a long time.

>> How long? 10 20 years like Afghanistan

or

>> I don't see it stopping.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah.

>> What's next in your prediction box?