WEBVTT 00:00:00.017 --> 00:00:04.477 So are you wondering how this whole Iran war debacle is going to end? 00:00:04.757 --> 00:00:09.537 What is the end game for this war? And what is the exit ramp? 00:00:09.857 --> 00:00:14.977 Well, don't ask me. What do I know? Ask the person who's making all the decisions, 00:00:15.697 --> 00:00:19.317 the commander-in-chief of the United States military. 00:00:19.597 --> 00:00:23.337 The president told me he thinks the war is, quote, very complete. 00:00:23.337 --> 00:00:28.177 He went on to say Iran has no navy, no communications, no air force. 00:00:28.177 --> 00:00:31.217 What is your day-off plan for Iran? Well, we have a lot. 00:00:31.417 --> 00:00:37.117 Look, if we left right now, it would take 10 years for them to rebuild. 00:00:38.028 --> 00:00:41.388 But we're not ready to leave yet. We are getting very close, 00:00:41.448 --> 00:00:46.428 he says, to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great military 00:00:46.428 --> 00:00:51.048 efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime of Iran. 00:00:51.568 --> 00:00:55.988 And we have right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks. 00:00:56.768 --> 00:01:01.008 But we have capability to go far longer than that. 00:01:01.168 --> 00:01:05.108 We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, 00:01:05.188 --> 00:01:08.868 the president wants to do it really quickly. after that he'll get bored. I don't get bored. 00:01:09.108 --> 00:01:13.188 Is the president in the process of winding down this war or escalating the conflict? 00:01:13.508 --> 00:01:15.228 Again, they're not mutually exclusive. 00:01:15.668 --> 00:01:20.308 Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate. And when Steve called up and 00:01:20.308 --> 00:01:23.188 he said that to me, I said, well, here we go. 00:01:23.628 --> 00:01:27.548 Let's do it the hard way. But the hard way, I think, is probably the easy way. 00:01:29.848 --> 00:01:32.888 Wait, let me get this straight. The U.S. 00:01:32.928 --> 00:01:36.948 Has already won, but not won enough. so they'll wind down soon, 00:01:36.988 --> 00:01:41.668 but they could go four to five weeks, but maybe longer because you got to escalate 00:01:41.668 --> 00:01:45.448 to de-escalate by doing things the hard way, which is also the easy way. 00:01:47.308 --> 00:01:53.188 Yes, if you want that hodgepodge of nonsense, then you can listen to Donald J. 00:01:53.368 --> 00:01:57.868 Trump. But as my very astute listeners know by now, he is not the one calling 00:01:57.868 --> 00:02:03.308 the shots on any of this. So who really is calling the shots and what do they 00:02:03.308 --> 00:02:05.388 want out of this conflict? 00:02:05.768 --> 00:02:09.408 Those are the answers that matter and you're not going to find them in the mainstream 00:02:09.408 --> 00:02:12.608 press. So let's roll up our sleeves and dig in. 00:02:12.748 --> 00:02:17.228 That is exactly what we're going to cover on today's edition of The Corbett Report. 00:02:37.164 --> 00:02:40.204 Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to another edition of The Corbett Report. 00:02:40.444 --> 00:02:42.864 I'm your host, James Corbett of corbettreport.com, coming to you, 00:02:43.004 --> 00:02:47.364 as always, from the sunny climes of Western Japan here in late March of 2026 00:02:47.364 --> 00:02:50.664 with episode 495 of The Corbett Report podcast. 00:02:51.164 --> 00:02:53.644 This is the real endgame in Iran. 00:02:54.464 --> 00:02:59.064 Yes, so for those who are wondering about the endgame in Iran, 00:02:59.244 --> 00:03:03.364 of course, we have to start with the first order question, which is how and 00:03:03.364 --> 00:03:05.324 why did this war even start? 00:03:05.324 --> 00:03:10.584 And although, hopefully, I would imagine most of my audience is beyond this point, 00:03:10.764 --> 00:03:15.504 perhaps it needs to be stated that the on-the-record official reasons that have 00:03:15.504 --> 00:03:21.824 been proffered in the establishment press and by establishment mouthpieces is not the reality. 00:03:21.824 --> 00:03:23.884 So, yes, let's put it on record. 00:03:24.084 --> 00:03:27.704 No, this is not about spreading freedom and democracy for the poor, 00:03:27.864 --> 00:03:31.544 oppressed Iranian people by raining love bombs down on their country and completely 00:03:31.544 --> 00:03:33.304 obliterating their infrastructure. 00:03:33.884 --> 00:03:38.524 Nor is this about stopping any perceived nuclear threat. 00:03:38.524 --> 00:03:41.524 And we know this from a number of different sources. 00:03:41.524 --> 00:03:46.144 But if you really do need it spelled out for you, boy, have I got a resource for you. 00:03:46.144 --> 00:03:51.764 It is the latest edition of my editorial that appeared in this weekend's subscriber 00:03:51.764 --> 00:03:55.244 newsletter, which, of course, as with all of my subscriber newsletters, 00:03:55.364 --> 00:03:58.024 is available right now on CorbettReport.com. 00:03:58.124 --> 00:04:00.924 It is called Why Did U.S. Real Attack Iran? 00:04:01.264 --> 00:04:04.764 And it purports to answer that very question. So you can either get it directly 00:04:04.764 --> 00:04:09.504 from CorbettReport.com or, of course, the editorial of my weekly subscriber 00:04:09.504 --> 00:04:11.864 newsletter is also posted to my substack. 00:04:12.304 --> 00:04:16.784 So here it is. Why did U.S. Real Attack Iran? And I start by talking about the 00:04:16.784 --> 00:04:20.424 very interesting phenomenon that we all know and that you have seen documented 00:04:20.424 --> 00:04:22.624 on Korver Report for many, many years now, 00:04:22.704 --> 00:04:28.064 which is that there is always some perceived ginned up war threat. 00:04:28.621 --> 00:04:33.741 In order to corral the public into sending their sons and daughters off to die in some foreign 00:04:34.081 --> 00:04:37.121 land once again so i go through some of those examples the 00:04:37.121 --> 00:04:41.501 spanish-american war had remember the main world war one had babies on bayonets 00:04:41.501 --> 00:04:45.761 world war ii had pearl harbor vietnam had the gulf of tonkin gulf war one had 00:04:45.761 --> 00:04:50.121 babies thrown from incubators gulf war two had weapons of mass destruction libya 00:04:50.121 --> 00:04:54.501 had a spontaneous people's uprising against qadavi's viagra-fueled rape squads. 00:04:54.701 --> 00:04:58.341 Syria had madman Assad gassing his own people. 00:04:58.721 --> 00:05:02.201 But of course, every single one of these casus belli was a deception, 00:05:02.201 --> 00:05:07.641 a false flag or a provoked incident or a completely fictitious non-event designed 00:05:07.641 --> 00:05:10.421 to whip up the masses' lust for blood and desire for revenge. 00:05:10.881 --> 00:05:14.961 But in each and every one of these cases, the puppeteers of the American empire 00:05:14.961 --> 00:05:19.641 had to at least try to deceive the public in order to win their support for 00:05:19.641 --> 00:05:21.441 war in some faraway land. 00:05:21.601 --> 00:05:24.501 But what's the justification for the iran war oh 00:05:24.501 --> 00:05:27.401 right we're uh we're we're freeing the iranian people 00:05:27.401 --> 00:05:31.561 or something oh wait no maybe there's a more obvious question 00:05:31.561 --> 00:05:34.501 and as i go on to talk about in this 00:05:34.501 --> 00:05:39.621 article of course the official story is bunk so what is the real story we can 00:05:39.621 --> 00:05:44.821 take it from people like uk national security advisor jonathan powell who was 00:05:44.821 --> 00:05:49.241 at the u.s iran talks in geneva in february and who reported that he was surprised 00:05:49.241 --> 00:05:52.921 what the iranians were putting down on the table or U.S. 00:05:53.161 --> 00:05:55.901 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who testified at the Senate 00:05:55.901 --> 00:06:00.681 Intelligence Committee hearing that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated last year. 00:06:00.761 --> 00:06:04.141 Remember that whole 12-day war thing where the White House literally put out 00:06:04.141 --> 00:06:07.681 a press release saying they obliterated Iran's nuclear program? 00:06:07.821 --> 00:06:11.301 So no, no threat there. And of course, we've all seen Joe Kent, 00:06:11.501 --> 00:06:15.321 the former director of National Counterterrorism Center, resign his post. 00:06:15.841 --> 00:06:20.761 Complaining that there was no imminent threat from Iran. So what was this really about? 00:06:20.941 --> 00:06:25.341 Well, we can take it from people like Joe Kent or Jonathan Powell, 00:06:25.401 --> 00:06:30.101 who have both testified that obviously there were Israeli pressures that were, 00:06:30.557 --> 00:06:33.997 putting being put on the White House in order for this to take place. 00:06:34.137 --> 00:06:37.177 But we don't have to take it from that or even from Stephen McIntyre, 00:06:37.317 --> 00:06:41.217 who people will remember, hopefully, if they've been following the climate story, 00:06:41.237 --> 00:06:43.897 as I have as climate audit, a.k.a. 00:06:43.977 --> 00:06:48.177 One of the people who completely deconstructed and eviscerated the Michael Mann hockey stick lie. 00:06:48.697 --> 00:06:51.557 Well, he's also eviscerating other lies. 00:06:51.677 --> 00:06:54.537 And he points out that the most definitive White House statement purporting 00:06:54.537 --> 00:06:56.097 to justify the Israel-U.S. 00:06:56.217 --> 00:07:01.357 War on Iran was its March 2nd, 2026 statement titled The Iranian Regime's Decades 00:07:01.357 --> 00:07:03.017 of Terrorism Against American Citizens. 00:07:03.297 --> 00:07:07.817 If you follow that link to that post, you can see all of these examples of Iranian 00:07:07.817 --> 00:07:09.717 dastardly terrorism against U.S. 00:07:10.277 --> 00:07:13.437 Forces and sources over the course of the past few decades. 00:07:13.617 --> 00:07:19.837 But as it turns out, that entire document was plagiarized almost word for word 00:07:19.837 --> 00:07:24.757 from a June 19, 2025 post by Zvi Khan, 00:07:25.137 --> 00:07:31.237 who works for a, well, was former APAC employee who works for a think tank, the FDD, 00:07:31.837 --> 00:07:37.337 which was founded, quote, to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America. 00:07:37.637 --> 00:07:44.557 So there is a pro-war Zionist funded think tank that was literally word for word behind that post. 00:07:45.017 --> 00:07:47.917 Again, you can take it from many different sources, but why don't we take it 00:07:47.917 --> 00:07:49.837 from the horse's mouth himself? 00:07:50.697 --> 00:07:54.817 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, yes, the same Marco Rubio, who, 00:07:54.977 --> 00:07:57.997 as, again, Corbett Reporteers will be well positioned to know, 00:07:58.157 --> 00:08:03.777 was personally vetted by Larry Ellison during his 2015 presidential selection run. 00:08:04.057 --> 00:08:09.937 Well, that Marco Rubio came out and kind of said the quiet part out loud about 00:08:09.937 --> 00:08:12.497 who's really directing America's foreign policy. 00:08:13.627 --> 00:08:15.087 And so the president made the 00:08:15.087 --> 00:08:18.707 very wise decision. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. 00:08:18.867 --> 00:08:21.907 We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. 00:08:22.107 --> 00:08:25.407 And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched 00:08:25.407 --> 00:08:30.387 those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed. 00:08:30.587 --> 00:08:33.747 And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. 00:08:36.047 --> 00:08:38.647 Wait, okay, so let me get this straight. 00:08:39.856 --> 00:08:45.656 Israel was going to attack Iran and therefore Iran would have obviously retaliate 00:08:45.656 --> 00:08:50.156 against those attacks and that retaliation would undoubtedly hit U.S. forces in the region. 00:08:50.336 --> 00:08:56.396 So the U.S. had to preemptively attack Iran to stop them from preemptively responding 00:08:56.396 --> 00:08:58.956 to the preemptive attack that hadn't taken place yet. 00:09:00.416 --> 00:09:06.456 Anyway, once you follow that unbelievable pretzel knot back to its underlying 00:09:06.456 --> 00:09:11.896 thesis, you will discover, as many in the mainstream establishment world soon did, 00:09:12.156 --> 00:09:15.596 hey, wait, he's basically saying Israel basically started this war. 00:09:15.676 --> 00:09:18.156 They were the ones who were going to attack. And so the U.S. 00:09:18.416 --> 00:09:22.916 Had to attack in order to defend the attacks against the defense against the 00:09:22.916 --> 00:09:24.236 attacks that hadn't taken place yet. 00:09:24.736 --> 00:09:28.636 And as you may or may not have seen, and as I document in this editorial, 00:09:28.956 --> 00:09:32.316 yes, there was quite a lot of diplomatic brouhaha about that and some walking 00:09:32.316 --> 00:09:35.956 back and, well, we don't mean to say that Israel is the one behind all of it. 00:09:36.056 --> 00:09:39.516 Anyway, that is exactly what Marco Rubio was indicating there. 00:09:39.636 --> 00:09:43.496 And of course, that comes as a surprise to precisely no one who has two brain 00:09:43.496 --> 00:09:46.336 cells to rub together or who has their head screwed on straight. 00:09:46.916 --> 00:09:52.236 And that is precisely because, again, as I document at length in this editorial, 00:09:52.556 --> 00:09:57.736 this is not the first time Israel has floated the idea of regime change in Iran 00:09:57.736 --> 00:10:05.276 or fighting Iran to the last American, which has been a key theme of warmongers like, oh, 00:10:05.596 --> 00:10:09.156 unconvicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu for decades. 00:10:10.416 --> 00:10:15.616 In 1992, as a member of parliament, Netanyahu addresses the Knesset. 00:10:15.736 --> 00:10:21.256 He says, within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous 00:10:21.256 --> 00:10:24.556 in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb. 00:10:25.453 --> 00:10:31.033 Three years later, in his book, Fighting Terrorism, he repeats the same time 00:10:31.033 --> 00:10:33.053 frame, three to five years. 00:10:33.453 --> 00:10:39.273 This is a fragment of a 2009 U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks. 00:10:39.833 --> 00:10:45.293 Netanyahu tells members of Congress that Iran is one or two years away from 00:10:45.293 --> 00:10:47.853 being capable of developing nuclear weapons. 00:10:48.853 --> 00:10:55.813 It's 2012, and Netanyahu is holding up his infamous cartoon bomb at the UN General Assembly. 00:10:56.093 --> 00:11:01.193 By next spring, at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates, 00:11:02.013 --> 00:11:08.233 they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage. 00:11:09.013 --> 00:11:15.933 From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium, 00:11:16.964 --> 00:11:24.544 for the first bomb. And now, 33 years after Netanyahu's first so-called imminent 00:11:24.544 --> 00:11:26.964 warning, Israel attacks Iran. 00:11:27.504 --> 00:11:32.484 And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. 00:11:32.644 --> 00:11:36.224 It could be a year. It could be within a few months, less than a year. 00:11:37.584 --> 00:11:42.584 Right. So if we listen to Bibi, well, the world has been on the threat of nuclear, 00:11:42.584 --> 00:11:46.904 under threat of nuclear annihilation by the Iranians for decades now. 00:11:47.044 --> 00:11:53.004 They are always and have always been just weeks or months away from their building 00:11:53.004 --> 00:11:56.884 their nuclear device that they're definitely going to rain down on your head. 00:11:57.064 --> 00:12:02.244 So you better go in and bond them. So yes, it isn't going out on a huge limb 00:12:02.244 --> 00:12:05.464 to say that Israel obviously wanted this war, 00:12:05.664 --> 00:12:11.284 has been lusting after this war for decades has been working concertedly to 00:12:11.284 --> 00:12:15.404 make this war happen and to put all of the domino pieces together that would 00:12:15.404 --> 00:12:16.684 allow this war to take place. 00:12:16.824 --> 00:12:20.304 You don't go after Iran first, of course. You have to destabilize the entire 00:12:20.304 --> 00:12:24.124 region. You have to take out Iraq and splinter that into sectarian violence. 00:12:24.284 --> 00:12:29.704 You have to destabilize all of Iran's regional proxies and allies in Syria, 00:12:29.904 --> 00:12:31.124 in Lebanon, and elsewhere. 00:12:31.364 --> 00:12:35.484 And then you go for Iran, right? Seven countries in five years? 00:12:35.704 --> 00:12:39.404 Well, 25 years and counting, but anyway, better late than never, right? 00:12:39.644 --> 00:12:42.504 So again, as I document in this Why Did U.S. 00:12:42.584 --> 00:12:47.564 Israel Attack Iran article, you can go back and see the development of Israel's 00:12:47.564 --> 00:12:51.544 foreign policy and geopolitical position on Iran over the decades from the time 00:12:51.544 --> 00:12:56.344 when they were best buddies and allies in the era of the Pahlavi dynasty that 00:12:56.344 --> 00:12:58.644 lasted from 1925 to 1979. 00:12:59.044 --> 00:13:05.344 With, for example, Iran being the second state in the Middle East to acknowledge 00:13:05.344 --> 00:13:08.044 the state of Israel after its foundation in 1948. 00:13:08.484 --> 00:13:15.224 And you had good relations between them. You even had Mossad literally training the Shah's savak 00:13:15.641 --> 00:13:20.161 secret police/torture goon squad back in the 1970s. 00:13:20.341 --> 00:13:24.241 That is all documented on the record. I go through the links and talk about all of that. 00:13:24.401 --> 00:13:30.421 And then, of course, we had the revolution of 1979, which made the Iranians 00:13:30.421 --> 00:13:34.181 into mortal enemies and a big threat. And then everything changed. 00:13:34.481 --> 00:13:40.881 And then you had the Iran-Contra deal through which Israel was actually providing 00:13:40.881 --> 00:13:46.341 weapons to Iran on behalf of America? And why were they doing that? 00:13:46.421 --> 00:13:50.661 To establish contacts with the Iranian militaries that they could use to overthrow Khomeini? 00:13:50.801 --> 00:13:55.061 I mean, it gets crazy. And I go through all of those twists and turns. 00:13:55.221 --> 00:14:00.041 But long story short, yes, Israel has been lusting after Iran for decades now. 00:14:00.181 --> 00:14:06.021 It is a regional rival that has to at least be taken down a peg or two if greater 00:14:06.021 --> 00:14:11.021 Israel is to be constructed as Odin Yenon, another well-known Israeli foreign 00:14:11.021 --> 00:14:13.501 policy planning documents have. 00:14:14.750 --> 00:14:17.170 Put on record for decades. But 00:14:17.170 --> 00:14:22.130 I don't think that that fully explains everything that's going on here. 00:14:22.230 --> 00:14:26.090 Yes, of course, Israel is interested in what is happening in Iran right now. 00:14:26.670 --> 00:14:31.210 But that also begs the question of why they have not accomplished this in the 00:14:31.210 --> 00:14:35.390 decades and decades that Netanyahu in particular, and of course, 00:14:35.530 --> 00:14:38.030 the Likudniks and Israel crazies, 00:14:38.610 --> 00:14:42.550 Zionist crazies in general have been lusting after for decades. Why now? 00:14:42.690 --> 00:14:47.950 Why is it in 2026 that suddenly this thing that's been talked about and prepared 00:14:47.950 --> 00:14:52.010 for for literal decades is now suddenly coming to a head? 00:14:52.170 --> 00:14:55.930 Well, as I have stated before, and I will state here again, 00:14:56.090 --> 00:15:00.830 I do not think that massive world historical events like these take place because 00:15:00.830 --> 00:15:07.250 a singular group with a singular agenda has suddenly decided to write the script 00:15:07.250 --> 00:15:09.910 that everyone else will now slavishly follow, 00:15:10.190 --> 00:15:14.230 I think that these types of massive world historical events take place because 00:15:14.230 --> 00:15:18.590 there are a number of players at the table with an interest, 00:15:18.810 --> 00:15:23.630 a vested interest or sometimes a very explicit interest in these events taking place. 00:15:23.630 --> 00:15:30.890 So the real question becomes, and this is where I ended that editorial, what's the 3D reality. 00:15:31.330 --> 00:15:38.110 As in 3D chess, not the cartoon meme-ified version of Lord Emperor Trump playing 00:15:38.110 --> 00:15:41.810 his 17-dimensional chess, whatever garbage that is 00:15:42.090 --> 00:15:46.530 Now, rightfully seen for the absolute garbage that it always was, 00:15:46.770 --> 00:15:50.890 although it was vociferously defended by some people in this quasi-supposed 00:15:50.890 --> 00:15:56.170 alternative media for years there, I think no one can think that this Iran war 00:15:56.170 --> 00:16:01.090 is part of Trump's super plan to undermine the deep state and judo flip Netanyahu. 00:16:01.330 --> 00:16:07.610 No, no, it is not, because he is just a puppet that is performing what his puppeteers 00:16:07.610 --> 00:16:08.750 are telling him to perform. 00:16:08.870 --> 00:16:11.610 But who are those puppeteers and what are they doing this for? 00:16:11.610 --> 00:16:17.050 What is the 3D reality to this 2D chess war that we see taking place on the 00:16:17.050 --> 00:16:18.690 two-dimensional chessboard? 00:16:18.910 --> 00:16:24.870 Well, we can get a hint of that from one of the strangest aspects of the war that we've seen so far. 00:16:25.010 --> 00:16:29.650 And I take my cue here from Kit Knightley at Off Guardian, who wrote a very 00:16:29.650 --> 00:16:35.050 interesting and in-depth piece that people should check out about the bizarre 00:16:35.050 --> 00:16:38.010 Strait of Hormuz back and forth that has taken place. 00:16:38.010 --> 00:16:42.670 I'll just read from this part of my editorial. As Kit Knightley points out over at Off Guardian. 00:16:43.090 --> 00:16:47.870 Perhaps the most telling part of this stage-managed war narrative is the very 00:16:47.870 --> 00:16:50.870 strange tug-of-war over the Strait of Hormuz, 00:16:50.990 --> 00:16:57.250 as Knightley correctly observes the clearly manipulated stage play of the closing of the strait, 00:16:57.370 --> 00:17:02.450 with the Iranians closing the strait before denying they closed the strait before 00:17:02.450 --> 00:17:04.850 the insurance companies actually closed the strait, 00:17:04.850 --> 00:17:09.930 and the clearly manipulated stage play of the mining of the strait with anonymous 00:17:09.930 --> 00:17:14.190 trust me bro sources telling Rothschild Reuters that the strait had been mined 00:17:14.190 --> 00:17:16.870 before Iran officially denied mining the strait 00:17:17.172 --> 00:17:21.192 Before Trump demanded Iran remove the mines from the strait, before U.S. 00:17:21.512 --> 00:17:24.672 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed that there was no evidence of mines 00:17:24.672 --> 00:17:26.932 in the strait, shortly after the U.S. 00:17:27.032 --> 00:17:31.592 Navy abruptly decommissioned four minesweepers in the region after 40 years 00:17:31.592 --> 00:17:36.912 of service, has led to the next narrative being propounded by the establishment press. 00:17:37.092 --> 00:17:42.412 The squabble over the strait will lead to a never-ending state of perma-war 00:17:42.412 --> 00:17:45.732 between the West and whoever is in control of Iran. 00:17:46.772 --> 00:17:50.992 Now, I highly suggest if you are interested at all, please go to the editorial 00:17:50.992 --> 00:17:52.892 and follow every single one of these links. 00:17:53.112 --> 00:17:56.432 Every single one of these statements is, of course, hyperlinked with back to 00:17:56.432 --> 00:18:02.212 its source, showing this strange shadow play taking place where suddenly there's 00:18:02.212 --> 00:18:03.572 this story. They're mining the straight. 00:18:03.752 --> 00:18:07.152 No, we're not mining the straight. Now, I'm going to blow you up if you don't 00:18:07.152 --> 00:18:09.032 demine the straight. We never mind the straight. 00:18:09.732 --> 00:18:12.172 Actually, there's no evidence they mind the straight. Oh, by the way, 00:18:12.252 --> 00:18:14.992 we just decommissioned our minesweepers after 40 years of service. 00:18:15.532 --> 00:18:17.732 Just bizarre, bizarre, bizarre, bizarre. 00:18:18.292 --> 00:18:21.572 But it ends up in this narrative. 00:18:22.032 --> 00:18:26.032 And Knightley links rightly, I think, to this Financial Times article, 00:18:26.352 --> 00:18:31.292 Why Hormuz Will Haunt Us Long After This War Ends, which notes, 00:18:31.652 --> 00:18:36.212 quote, it is not in Trump's power to reopen this vital sea passage by declaring 00:18:36.212 --> 00:18:37.672 victory and walking away. 00:18:38.052 --> 00:18:43.072 Instead, his war with Iran and this particular issue of the Strait of Hormuz 00:18:43.072 --> 00:18:47.692 will define the rest of his presidency and may haunt his successors. 00:18:47.852 --> 00:18:49.652 That is because the straits closure 00:18:49.652 --> 00:18:54.292 creates both an immediate crisis and a long-term strategic quandary. 00:18:54.472 --> 00:18:59.452 The current problem is that the longer it is closed, the greater the threat of a global recession. 00:19:00.032 --> 00:19:04.012 The future dilemma is that Iran now knows that control of the Strait of Hormuz 00:19:04.012 --> 00:19:06.392 gives it a stranglehold over the world economy. 00:19:06.832 --> 00:19:11.792 Even if it relaxes its grip in the short term, it can tighten it again in future. 00:19:12.292 --> 00:19:16.932 Dot, dot, dot. Do, do, do. Oh, no. So they're coming again straight from the 00:19:16.932 --> 00:19:19.112 horse's mouth of the Financial Times. 00:19:19.312 --> 00:19:22.012 Gideon Rackman. That's a name that people should be familiar with. 00:19:22.392 --> 00:19:27.432 But anyway, coming straight from the horse's mouth, it doesn't matter what Trump 00:19:27.432 --> 00:19:30.672 does or doesn't do at this point. He can walk away completely. 00:19:30.672 --> 00:19:33.072 He can obliterate Iran's navy 00:19:33.072 --> 00:19:36.192 as he already says he's done, but he's going to do it even harder now. 00:19:36.452 --> 00:19:41.552 There's more back and forth that's developing as I am recording this episode with an ultimatum. 00:19:41.652 --> 00:19:45.572 You have 48 hours to clear the Strait of Hormuz or we're going to obliterate 00:19:45.572 --> 00:19:48.832 your power plants, says Trump, etc., etc. 00:19:48.972 --> 00:19:54.232 People have seen this taking place. But as the establishment mouthpieces and 00:19:54.232 --> 00:19:59.112 gatekeepers are saying right there in the open, it doesn't matter what happens 00:19:59.112 --> 00:20:02.812 at this point and how this is resolved or not resolved. 00:20:03.012 --> 00:20:07.012 The point is the threat is now established and it is there. 00:20:07.172 --> 00:20:13.312 It is always there and will be the thing that can be ginned up at a moment's 00:20:13.312 --> 00:20:18.372 notice by anonymous sources telling Reuters, oh, yeah, they totally mind the straight. 00:20:18.856 --> 00:20:24.756 So again, where the hell did that report come from? Who were these anonymous sources? 00:20:25.316 --> 00:20:29.276 Reuters really, truly just says anonymous sources in a position to know. 00:20:29.656 --> 00:20:32.816 That could be literally anyone from anywhere, right? 00:20:33.436 --> 00:20:36.796 But they don't have to tell us because they're protecting their sources. Okay, great. 00:20:36.956 --> 00:20:40.896 So we have this completely, totally fabricated information 00:20:40.896 --> 00:20:45.396 from nowhere by no one that just appears in the press and then dominates the 00:20:45.396 --> 00:20:50.336 headlines that then completely reconfigures the entire calculus about the war 00:20:50.336 --> 00:20:51.716 and what's happening and what 00:20:51.716 --> 00:20:56.976 the strategic choke point is and brings the world to the state of warfare. 00:20:56.976 --> 00:21:01.876 Because of course, what happens with the Strait of Hormuz is and has been the 00:21:01.876 --> 00:21:07.016 choke point that makes this not just some regional squabble for dominance between 00:21:07.016 --> 00:21:09.736 Israel and Iran, but a global threat. 00:21:09.736 --> 00:21:14.916 And that is the thing that can be, again, drawn out of the hat at any time by 00:21:14.916 --> 00:21:19.536 anonymous sources speaking off the record to whatever established mouthpieces 00:21:19.536 --> 00:21:21.636 want to publish it whenever they want to publish it. 00:21:21.736 --> 00:21:24.896 This is the real ultimatum that is taking place right now. 00:21:24.996 --> 00:21:27.836 It is not an ultimatum from Trump to Iran, you better clear the strait. 00:21:27.936 --> 00:21:31.916 It's an ultimatum from the deep stake, the people who are really handling this 00:21:31.916 --> 00:21:36.676 to Trump and whoever else succeeds him in the Oval Office that you are going 00:21:36.676 --> 00:21:42.816 to be holden to whatever narrative we create about the Strait of Hormuz at any time we create it. 00:21:43.336 --> 00:21:50.376 So I think there's a deeper level of what's going on here that is not being managed by Trump. 00:21:50.396 --> 00:21:53.236 It is not even being managed by Netanyahu. 00:21:53.516 --> 00:21:59.076 There are forces above these players. And that brings with it some of the strange 00:21:59.076 --> 00:22:02.916 parts of this story that, again. 00:22:03.588 --> 00:22:08.608 Some of them obvious, some of them much less obvious as to who is really benefiting 00:22:08.608 --> 00:22:11.108 from what is happening with the Iran war. 00:22:11.268 --> 00:22:15.848 Of course, the base level of this analysis would be the obvious one. 00:22:15.928 --> 00:22:17.628 The follow the money, who benefits? 00:22:17.848 --> 00:22:23.648 Well, obviously, as always, when it comes to warfare, the military industrial complex benefits. 00:22:23.848 --> 00:22:27.768 They cash in, they laugh all the way to the banks that they own. 00:22:28.488 --> 00:22:33.268 And here we go. So, for example, we saw this float through the newswires a few 00:22:33.268 --> 00:22:34.968 days ago from antiwar.com. 00:22:35.028 --> 00:22:40.168 Department of War seeks $200 billion more to fund Iran war because, 00:22:40.328 --> 00:22:43.168 yes, on top of expanding and ballooning the U.S. 00:22:43.468 --> 00:22:48.408 Military budget to its largest ever in history, the Trump administration, 00:22:48.428 --> 00:22:54.748 the Peace Prize administration, right, is now asking for even more money for 00:22:54.748 --> 00:22:56.908 this war that they've already won today. 00:22:57.214 --> 00:23:00.094 But not one enough. And $200 billion. 00:23:00.494 --> 00:23:03.634 But don't worry, guys, they have to seek $200 billion. 00:23:03.854 --> 00:23:07.354 They're asking, please, Congress, will you approve this? Oh, 00:23:07.454 --> 00:23:08.734 wait, they don't have to ask anything. 00:23:09.134 --> 00:23:12.354 U.S. remove sanction. Oh, sorry, that's the wrong one. U.S. 00:23:12.774 --> 00:23:18.134 Fast tracks billions in emergency arm sales to Gulf, bypassing Congress. 00:23:18.394 --> 00:23:21.974 Yeah, of course, they can fast track the money that they need when they need 00:23:21.974 --> 00:23:25.014 it, because, of course, this is an emergency wartime situation, 00:23:25.014 --> 00:23:31.774 which, as always lets the floodgates open and ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. 00:23:31.994 --> 00:23:37.794 And if you want a really detailed deep dive report on this, I will point people 00:23:37.794 --> 00:23:40.814 to this recent report from the Democracy Defender, Iran War, 00:23:41.174 --> 00:23:43.494 We Follow the Money to Mar-a-Lago. 00:23:43.694 --> 00:23:48.194 And this is a step-by-step deconstruction of the entire Trump administration 00:23:48.194 --> 00:23:53.174 and everyone who's literally invested in this war, who also happens to be in 00:23:53.174 --> 00:23:56.274 positions of power in the administration. 00:23:56.694 --> 00:24:01.274 So again, person by person, Steven Feinberg, the co-founder of the Cerberus 00:24:01.274 --> 00:24:05.154 Capital Management, a private equity firm with approximately $70 billion in 00:24:05.154 --> 00:24:10.194 assets, who serves as the deputy secretary of defense. I thought it was the secretary of war. 00:24:10.914 --> 00:24:15.054 Howard Lutnick, of course, commerce secretary who has made appearances here 00:24:15.054 --> 00:24:16.594 on the Corbett Report in recent weeks. 00:24:17.034 --> 00:24:22.374 Scott Besant and his conflicts of interests in various investments that he's 00:24:22.374 --> 00:24:25.974 totally going to divest from in 90 days or something like that. 00:24:26.114 --> 00:24:27.234 Oh, wait, he failed to do that. 00:24:27.714 --> 00:24:31.474 Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and then going through the Board of Profits, 00:24:31.734 --> 00:24:34.334 the Shadow Contractors, the Golden Grift, etc. 00:24:34.974 --> 00:24:39.014 It's, again, a very, very detailed report. So please do explore that if you're 00:24:39.014 --> 00:24:44.774 interested in how exactly the military-industrial complex is benefiting from what's going on. 00:24:44.894 --> 00:24:47.114 But it's not just the U.S. 00:24:47.494 --> 00:24:51.314 Military-industrial complex that is benefiting from this. Although they demonstrably 00:24:51.314 --> 00:24:56.214 are, and obviously there are people who are making bank on this bloodshed and carnage. 00:24:57.890 --> 00:25:01.070 Weirdly enough, it's also people who have been in the U.S. 00:25:01.530 --> 00:25:05.550 State Department's crosshairs who are also benefiting from what's going on, 00:25:05.750 --> 00:25:07.510 sometimes quite literally and quite financially. 00:25:07.710 --> 00:25:11.910 For example, this recent report from the Daily Caller, Russian oil poised to 00:25:11.910 --> 00:25:16.110 flood world markets as Trump admin lifts sanctions. 00:25:16.290 --> 00:25:20.910 In fact, they've even lifted sanctions on Iranian oil, which has been stranded 00:25:20.910 --> 00:25:24.450 at sea to boost the overall supply because, well, what can we do? 00:25:24.590 --> 00:25:26.150 You see the oil price going up. 00:25:26.330 --> 00:25:29.230 So we have to unsanction Iranian oil. 00:25:29.430 --> 00:25:33.050 So the very people that we are bombing, we're going to unsanction their oil 00:25:33.050 --> 00:25:35.610 so that we can bring down global oil prices. 00:25:38.070 --> 00:25:41.790 And there's even more interesting parts of this. I want you to put a pin in 00:25:41.790 --> 00:25:45.670 this particular article because I think it tells us actually where this is really 00:25:45.670 --> 00:25:47.650 going and what the end game may really be about. 00:25:47.810 --> 00:25:51.830 But anyway, this little story floated through the newswires last week and probably 00:25:51.830 --> 00:25:53.770 most people didn't see it at all. 00:25:54.310 --> 00:26:00.810 Iran mulls allowing tankers through Strait of Hormuz if trade conducted in yuan. 00:26:02.013 --> 00:26:06.033 That, my friends, is a significant part of the narrative. 00:26:06.993 --> 00:26:11.573 But the real question, OK, so, yes, there are definitely financial interests 00:26:11.573 --> 00:26:16.433 on all sides that are taking place right now and that there are people who are 00:26:16.433 --> 00:26:17.893 literally invested in this war. 00:26:18.113 --> 00:26:23.233 But as always, it's important to stress it is not the average person who is 00:26:23.233 --> 00:26:26.313 going to benefit from this in any way, financially or otherwise. 00:26:26.313 --> 00:26:30.373 It's not that because the U.S. is making bank, U.S. 00:26:30.833 --> 00:26:34.373 Military contractors and well-connected insider administration cronies, 00:26:34.493 --> 00:26:36.753 they're making lots of money. Therefore, yay. 00:26:37.053 --> 00:26:41.613 No, because, of course, the average person is just going to see higher gas prices 00:26:41.613 --> 00:26:45.673 and higher prices of everything as the world economy comes to a grinding halt. 00:26:45.873 --> 00:26:53.233 And that's true not just in America. It's true in every country. Of course, Iran as well. 00:26:53.293 --> 00:26:56.813 It's not like the unsanctioned oil. oh, yay, now the Iranian people are going 00:26:56.813 --> 00:27:00.713 to benefit from the oil that their country owns. Oh, wait, they don't own it. 00:27:00.853 --> 00:27:05.853 No, the government claims control over it and they will reap any possible benefits 00:27:05.853 --> 00:27:08.693 from whatever funds might come through that unsanctioned oil. 00:27:08.933 --> 00:27:15.173 Meanwhile, in reality, dot, dot, dot, this latest article, Iran issues 10 million 00:27:15.173 --> 00:27:17.953 real banknote amid soaring inflation. 00:27:18.173 --> 00:27:22.493 Yes, they have just released their largest ever, their highest denominated ever 00:27:22.493 --> 00:27:28.693 bank note, the 10 million real note, because inflation is going through the 00:27:28.693 --> 00:27:29.793 roof over there, of course, 00:27:29.953 --> 00:27:35.053 as it would as their currency collapses, as their access to world markets already 00:27:35.053 --> 00:27:40.113 highly sanctioned and highly controlled begins to completely collapse. 00:27:40.313 --> 00:27:44.733 The average Iranian is sitting there in an internet blackout with inflation 00:27:44.733 --> 00:27:45.973 going through the roof watching. 00:27:46.173 --> 00:27:50.013 Oh, well, good, yeah, now I have a 10 million real note, yay. 00:27:50.913 --> 00:27:54.793 Hopefully it will buy me a block of butter at the end of the day. 00:27:54.913 --> 00:27:59.393 So this is the state of things for the average person. 00:27:59.553 --> 00:28:04.793 And wait, it gets worse. And I think this points us to where things may be really going here. 00:28:06.082 --> 00:28:09.682 Does anyone remember the dark days of the lockdown during the scandemic? 00:28:09.922 --> 00:28:15.562 Because it turns out warfare is a good way of reconditioning the populace to, 00:28:15.782 --> 00:28:20.742 of course, comply with whatever wartime rationing and demands that the state may make. 00:28:20.922 --> 00:28:27.542 For example, we get this from The Telegraph. People urged to work from home in global oil crisis. 00:28:27.802 --> 00:28:31.642 Yes, work from home mandates and rationing of various sorts, 00:28:31.662 --> 00:28:34.362 because, of course, there is a global oil crisis going on, guys. 00:28:34.362 --> 00:28:36.622 You see what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. 00:28:36.942 --> 00:28:39.882 We're all going to have to tighten our belts, but don't worry. 00:28:40.002 --> 00:28:45.162 It's for the good of the Iranian people or it's to keep us safe from their nukes. 00:28:45.262 --> 00:28:47.522 Well, I don't know. I don't know exactly why this is happening, 00:28:47.542 --> 00:28:50.002 but anyway, we're all going to make the sacrifices. 00:28:50.762 --> 00:28:54.362 If I didn't know better, and I do, but if I didn't know better, 00:28:54.502 --> 00:28:58.302 I'd say, hmm, I think there's something more going on here. 00:28:58.422 --> 00:29:02.762 There's some sort of, I don't know, great reset agenda, a build back better 00:29:02.762 --> 00:29:08.062 agenda, a new world order, a newer, friendlier world order that is being erected 00:29:08.062 --> 00:29:13.062 from the ashes of this smoking crater hole left by the Iran war. 00:29:13.842 --> 00:29:18.102 But again, don't take it from James Corbett. What does he know? 00:29:18.262 --> 00:29:24.182 No, no. Let's take it from one of the new rising stars of the alternative media. 00:29:25.222 --> 00:29:26.682 If you were the commander in 00:29:26.682 --> 00:29:30.882 chief of the United States, What would you do at this point as of today? 00:29:34.691 --> 00:29:38.271 Commander-in-chief, meaning Donald Trump? Yeah, you get to make the decisions. 00:29:38.351 --> 00:29:40.151 What does America do next? 00:29:40.431 --> 00:29:44.491 If it's acting in its own interest, if it's trying to preserve its power and 00:29:44.491 --> 00:29:46.111 wealth at this point, what does it do? 00:29:48.931 --> 00:29:52.871 Well, first of all, I would acknowledge that all these events are interconnected, right? 00:29:52.991 --> 00:29:56.651 So the Strait War of China, this war in Ukraine, this war in the Middle East, 00:29:56.791 --> 00:30:02.251 it's all interconnected because the American empire, it's too overstretched. 00:30:02.251 --> 00:30:05.931 And it has its fingers on everything. 00:30:06.151 --> 00:30:11.671 And so it allows its enemies to provoke it into these never ending wars. 00:30:11.971 --> 00:30:17.031 So what I would do is basically sit down everyone, including Russia, 00:30:17.571 --> 00:30:25.711 China, Iran, and say, it's time for a new world order where we are partners in this relationship. 00:30:25.991 --> 00:30:29.991 Before America was a hegemon, before the US dollar was a world reserve currency. 00:30:29.991 --> 00:30:36.311 But now what we want to do is open a dialogue where everyone is respected, 00:30:36.911 --> 00:30:43.211 where America is no longer the bully, but a winning partner in creating a new 00:30:43.211 --> 00:30:47.311 economic order that benefits everyone and not just a few. 00:30:48.816 --> 00:30:55.196 I think that's the wisest possible advice and probably the only path that preserves civilization. 00:30:56.576 --> 00:31:00.816 Are you buying this? I mean, really? Are you buying this? 00:31:01.016 --> 00:31:05.196 And who's selling it? Well, for those not in the know, that was Professor Zhang Shuiqin, 00:31:05.356 --> 00:31:08.316 who has rocketed through the ranks of 00:31:08.316 --> 00:31:12.656 absolutely nowhere to become one of the most revered Nostradamus's 00:31:12.656 --> 00:31:16.096 so-called of the mainstream alternative 00:31:16.096 --> 00:31:18.936 media and is now being hosted by the likes of 00:31:18.936 --> 00:31:22.776 tucker carlson himself interesting and interesting 00:31:22.776 --> 00:31:26.276 for a number of reasons not only because this proposed solution is evidently 00:31:26.276 --> 00:31:29.216 a shinier happier multilateral new world 00:31:29.216 --> 00:31:32.036 order with china and russia and where have i heard this 00:31:32.036 --> 00:31:35.256 before where have i heard this narrative being propounded before 00:31:35.256 --> 00:31:38.976 um but also because who is this professor jang 00:31:38.976 --> 00:31:42.256 anyway and how did he suddenly become so popular 00:31:42.256 --> 00:31:44.956 and amazing and millions of people watching him 00:31:44.956 --> 00:31:47.736 on youtube despite the fact that i 00:31:47.736 --> 00:31:50.876 have yet to hear him say literally anything make any 00:31:50.876 --> 00:31:54.076 analysis that is not available in a thousand other places and 00:31:54.076 --> 00:31:57.536 with better documented sources i just i don't it's 00:31:57.536 --> 00:32:01.036 almost like something's going on here and yeah when you start to dig into it 00:32:01.036 --> 00:32:04.976 canadian journalist deported from china from the globe and mail back in 2002 00:32:04.976 --> 00:32:11.576 noting how jang shui chin who was a canadian freelance journalist born who was 00:32:11.576 --> 00:32:16.176 born in china was working for our good friends at PBS back in that time, 00:32:16.376 --> 00:32:20.196 making a documentary about labor unrest in China, which caused him to be deported 00:32:20.196 --> 00:32:24.496 from the country and thus a crusader for human rights or something. 00:32:24.696 --> 00:32:30.556 I don't know. Anyway, he's a freelance journalist working with the US PBS to 00:32:30.556 --> 00:32:32.596 undermine China and gets deported. 00:32:32.796 --> 00:32:38.936 Then the next year he gets back into China and decides to give up journalism to, 00:32:39.436 --> 00:32:43.776 Focus on education? Well, anyway, that's what we can get from his own op-eds 00:32:43.776 --> 00:32:46.016 that he wrote for CNN back in 2017. 00:32:46.196 --> 00:32:50.296 China's media enables tyranny and corruption, unlike the U.S., I guess, and PBS. 00:32:51.616 --> 00:32:55.736 China let me back into the country a year later in 2003. And today I've switched 00:32:55.736 --> 00:32:59.196 from being a rebellious journalist into a public educator, tasked with helping 00:32:59.196 --> 00:33:01.356 China adopt Western creativity. 00:33:02.236 --> 00:33:05.596 And now he's literally a high school teacher in China. 00:33:06.916 --> 00:33:10.576 Mr. Zhang, not Professor Zhang, because that's just a title. 00:33:10.716 --> 00:33:11.696 He's just given himself. 00:33:11.916 --> 00:33:15.516 He is not a professor. He is a Mr. Zhang who is teaching high school in China. 00:33:15.696 --> 00:33:17.616 He has a BA in literature. 00:33:17.916 --> 00:33:23.096 I am literally more academically qualified than Professor Zhang if we wanted 00:33:23.096 --> 00:33:26.056 to go degree for degree, which I don't. 00:33:26.296 --> 00:33:31.636 But anyway, make of all that what you will. But along comes these truth tellers 00:33:31.636 --> 00:33:34.996 in the mainstream alternative media to tell you that the real answer here is 00:33:34.996 --> 00:33:39.656 for America to just give in to the multilateral world order that, huh, 00:33:39.976 --> 00:33:44.236 you know, now that I think about it, is the exact same thing that the U.S. 00:33:44.376 --> 00:33:49.976 Deep state and the globalists of all stripes have been advocating for openly for years now. 00:33:50.856 --> 00:33:56.596 As one of the top military people said to me in a secure meeting the other day. 00:33:57.836 --> 00:34:01.916 Sixty million people died between 1900 and 1946. 00:34:02.836 --> 00:34:08.856 And since then, we established a liberal world order, and that hadn't happened in a long while. 00:34:08.996 --> 00:34:11.336 A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos. 00:34:11.736 --> 00:34:15.236 And now is a time when things are shifting. We're going to — there's going to 00:34:15.236 --> 00:34:16.596 be a new world order out there. 00:34:16.796 --> 00:34:20.996 And we've got to lead it. We've got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it. 00:34:21.945 --> 00:34:28.285 The idea is that the international rules based order has a moral imperative, 00:34:28.285 --> 00:34:35.045 which is which stands in opposition to something that you you've discussed before. 00:34:35.045 --> 00:34:43.905 The joint statement between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, who suggested a different model. 00:34:45.125 --> 00:34:52.085 Based on what they were calling a multipolar rules-based system, 00:34:52.185 --> 00:34:56.965 but they very much focused on it being an international law-based system, 00:34:57.305 --> 00:35:03.905 focused more around the G20 than the international rules-based order, 00:35:04.105 --> 00:35:08.885 which is the one that we're encouraged to support, 00:35:09.125 --> 00:35:15.205 which is based around the G7 and what we might call a unipolar world order. 00:35:15.365 --> 00:35:21.625 And it was actually Patrick Stewart, who was writing in the Washington Quarterly 00:35:21.625 --> 00:35:25.925 for the Council on Foreign, well, not for the Council on Foreign Relations in 00:35:25.925 --> 00:35:29.565 this instance, but he's a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, 00:35:29.905 --> 00:35:38.445 who described what the international rules-based order is currently, the Western model. 00:35:38.585 --> 00:35:43.825 I should interject that you mean Stuart Patrick, not Patrick Stewart. Not Captain Picard. 00:35:44.485 --> 00:35:47.745 Yeah, no, not Captain Picard, no. 00:35:48.085 --> 00:35:51.765 But he described it as follows. 00:35:51.785 --> 00:35:57.245 What sets the post-1945 Western order apart is that it was shaped overwhelmingly 00:35:57.245 --> 00:36:04.565 by a single power, the United States, operating in the broader context of strategic bipolarity. 00:36:04.905 --> 00:36:12.585 It constructed, managed and defended the regimes of the capitalist world economy. So this idea of. 00:36:13.663 --> 00:36:18.523 You know, which is framed in fluffy rhetoric of democracy and all that kind of thing. 00:36:19.183 --> 00:36:22.383 And it is fluffy rhetoric. I think that's the point to make, 00:36:22.383 --> 00:36:25.923 because there is if we look at what's happening now, there is no commitment 00:36:25.923 --> 00:36:27.323 to democratic principles. 00:36:27.583 --> 00:36:30.043 There's none at all. So. 00:36:31.303 --> 00:36:37.903 The the idea is that the U.S. as a as a unipolar power, which certainly they 00:36:37.903 --> 00:36:42.483 were after the end and the sort of dissolution of the Soviet Union, 00:36:42.483 --> 00:36:44.163 They became that in reality. 00:36:45.063 --> 00:36:48.923 We had a unipolar world. There was only one superpower. 00:36:50.423 --> 00:36:53.723 That situation is rapidly changing. 00:36:53.903 --> 00:36:59.543 And that situation is changing very quickly, given what's happening in Ukraine at the moment. 00:37:00.183 --> 00:37:04.863 But nonetheless, that was the idea of the international rules-based order, 00:37:04.863 --> 00:37:09.763 as presented by the West, which stands opposed to the new model, 00:37:09.763 --> 00:37:14.243 which is being advocated by China and Russia at the moment. 00:37:15.563 --> 00:37:21.583 In case you missed it at the time, that was a clip from my 2022 interview with 00:37:21.583 --> 00:37:25.323 researcher Ian Davis, frequent Corbett Report guest, friend of the show, 00:37:25.443 --> 00:37:29.583 you will recognize from his many previous appearances on the Corbett Report. 00:37:29.763 --> 00:37:34.063 That one specifically was entitled Ian Davis on the New World Order and How 00:37:34.063 --> 00:37:40.783 to Oppose It, in which we were talking about what was very au courant in diplomatic circles at that time, 00:37:41.023 --> 00:37:44.483 which are various statements by Biden and other deep state stooges about the 00:37:44.483 --> 00:37:49.403 need for the creation of a new multipolar world order and how this international 00:37:49.403 --> 00:37:54.903 rules-based order has been advocated on both sides of the phony ginned up West 00:37:54.903 --> 00:37:57.903 versus Bricks conflict for years and years now. 00:37:58.043 --> 00:38:02.723 And there's plenty of evidence in that conversation, in the article that Ian 00:38:02.723 --> 00:38:07.783 Davis penned that we were talking about, in the various sources he was citing, Stuart Patrick, 00:38:08.325 --> 00:38:12.705 and others not, Patrick Stewart, etc. So there's a lot of information there 00:38:12.705 --> 00:38:15.085 for people who are just getting caught up on reality. 00:38:15.265 --> 00:38:20.065 So there you go, Professor Davis, or maybe Professor Corbett, 00:38:20.205 --> 00:38:23.405 because, you know, reportage, essays on the New World Order. 00:38:23.605 --> 00:38:27.705 How did Nostradamus Corbett possibly predict that this is where things were heading? 00:38:28.465 --> 00:38:34.745 Anyway, yes, let's yes-end this information that's coming now from the mainstream 00:38:34.745 --> 00:38:36.285 alternative media that yes, 00:38:36.505 --> 00:38:41.505 the end game for an Iran war conflict is the creation of a new international 00:38:41.505 --> 00:38:44.025 rules based order. Yes, that's that's true. 00:38:44.245 --> 00:38:48.045 I don't think that's a good thing because of everything that it entails. 00:38:48.045 --> 00:38:54.345 And we start to see that when we start to see the oil prices skyrocketing is 00:38:54.345 --> 00:38:56.405 going to create these rationing measures, etc. 00:38:56.725 --> 00:38:59.405 And one does not have to have a great deal of 00:38:59.405 --> 00:39:02.985 imagination to understand how these financial pressures are going to be used 00:39:02.985 --> 00:39:08.685 as leverage to advance every single one of the agenda items that we know is 00:39:08.685 --> 00:39:15.505 on board for digital ID and biometrics and all of the other apparatus of the 00:39:15.505 --> 00:39:19.385 biosecurity state that is now being transitioned into the war security state. 00:39:19.525 --> 00:39:24.365 You know that narrative is coming, but let's look at a very specific example, 00:39:24.545 --> 00:39:29.525 something we can put our finger on of who is behind what is happening and why 00:39:29.525 --> 00:39:34.165 they are so interested in it and specifically what will eventuate from this. 00:39:34.305 --> 00:39:38.305 Let's put our necks out there and make some specific predictions about what 00:39:38.305 --> 00:39:42.225 is coming as a result of this, because there is enough information now that 00:39:42.225 --> 00:39:43.425 we can start to get a sense of that. 00:39:43.565 --> 00:39:47.225 We've already looked at some of the people who are financially benefiting from this. 00:39:47.605 --> 00:39:51.405 Surprise, surprise. Guess what? The Iran war is also a gangster war, 00:39:51.565 --> 00:39:55.905 like every war is, because their financial and monetary incentives are there. 00:39:55.905 --> 00:40:00.225 But very specifically, when we're following the money on the Iran war trail, 00:40:00.425 --> 00:40:05.205 let's not just end at the usual military industrial complex grifters making 00:40:05.205 --> 00:40:07.225 bank from their blood money. 00:40:07.445 --> 00:40:11.205 No, no, no. It doesn't end there. In fact, what we are looking at is... 00:40:11.818 --> 00:40:17.238 Following the money all the way into a new monetary order, because that is on the table. 00:40:17.418 --> 00:40:22.378 And let's look at in more detail at that article that I read the headline of earlier. 00:40:22.818 --> 00:40:28.178 Iran mulls allowing tankers through Strait of Hormuz if trade conducted in yuan. 00:40:29.057 --> 00:40:32.897 What on earth is this about? Iran is considering allowing a limited number of 00:40:32.897 --> 00:40:35.877 oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on the condition that the oil 00:40:35.877 --> 00:40:38.457 cargo is traded in Chinese yuan. 00:40:38.757 --> 00:40:43.817 A senior Iranian official told CNN that Tehran is working on a new plan to manage 00:40:43.817 --> 00:40:47.977 tanker traffic through the strategic waterway on Iran's southern coast. 00:40:48.157 --> 00:40:50.757 Now, of course, this article is a week old. 00:40:51.277 --> 00:40:54.417 Things have moved on since then. We now have this new ultimatum that's happening 00:40:54.417 --> 00:40:56.457 as I'm recording this podcast, etc. 00:40:56.757 --> 00:41:02.997 So the ongoing brouhaha in the straight is not settled yet. But as we see, 00:41:03.137 --> 00:41:07.497 it is the open festering wound that can be the bandaid can be ripped off at 00:41:07.497 --> 00:41:09.617 any time, no matter how they cover it over. 00:41:09.877 --> 00:41:16.277 And the floating of the idea that only yuan denominated oil will pass through 00:41:16.277 --> 00:41:20.817 is extremely important because, as people know, 00:41:21.157 --> 00:41:25.777 maybe you've heard about it before, the petroyuan is a thing or a thing that 00:41:25.777 --> 00:41:30.577 China has been trying to bring into reality for years and has had some limited success on that. 00:41:30.717 --> 00:41:34.557 If you do not know about that, just type petroyuan into the Corbett Report 00:41:34.557 --> 00:41:38.317 search engine and you will find articles that I've had on that very subject 00:41:38.317 --> 00:41:40.417 over the years talking about that. 00:41:40.537 --> 00:41:46.357 But if you don't know what the petroyuan is, well, how about we start at basics, the petrodollar. 00:41:46.677 --> 00:41:50.737 Again, this is something that I've talked about before. But the long story short 00:41:50.737 --> 00:41:55.477 is that in the 1970s, as Nixon was closing the gold window and people around 00:41:55.477 --> 00:41:56.977 the world were discovering that the U.S. 00:41:57.077 --> 00:42:00.617 Dollar was no longer backed up by gold. Well, what's it backed up by? 00:42:00.977 --> 00:42:04.897 Of course, Kissinger, acting as a proxy for Rockefeller behind the scenes, 00:42:05.037 --> 00:42:08.857 was scrambling to put together a diplomatic coup. 00:42:09.557 --> 00:42:14.497 A monetary/military coup of sorts in the Middle East, specifically the 00:42:14.497 --> 00:42:16.157 construction of the petrodollar. 00:42:16.297 --> 00:42:19.017 And for people who don't know, this is an informal agreement. 00:42:19.017 --> 00:42:23.057 It was not a formal agreement. It did not suddenly end because it expired, 00:42:23.097 --> 00:42:27.017 as was fake news, false news reported a couple of years ago, 00:42:27.157 --> 00:42:29.877 something that I covered in the Fake News Awards recently. 00:42:30.633 --> 00:42:34.033 No, it wasn't a formal agreement. It was an informal agreement, 00:42:34.193 --> 00:42:40.553 primarily with Saudi Arabia, but also with other Gulf states to price oil in 00:42:40.553 --> 00:42:43.233 dollars, to sell oil in dollars. 00:42:43.233 --> 00:42:47.273 And for those dollars that were collected to then be recycled back through the U.S. 00:42:47.373 --> 00:42:51.913 Banking system by investing in treasuries or in the U.S. markets through U.S. 00:42:52.253 --> 00:42:56.033 Banks, that was the deal. And that was what's what made the U.S. 00:42:56.033 --> 00:43:00.653 Dollar, still the world reserve currency, still the thing that everybody had 00:43:00.653 --> 00:43:05.593 to have, because if the lifeblood of the world economy is literally priced in 00:43:05.593 --> 00:43:09.613 dollars, it means you need dollars in order to buy that lifeblood. 00:43:09.713 --> 00:43:14.933 And that's exactly the game that has been played for decades and decades now. But you know what? 00:43:15.153 --> 00:43:21.113 That's starting to change. And that changeover has been excellently summarized 00:43:21.113 --> 00:43:24.673 and encapsulated in this very important article from the Golden Geopolitics 00:43:24.673 --> 00:43:27.393 substack. I will, of course, include this in the show notes, 00:43:27.393 --> 00:43:29.653 along with everything else that I talk about today. 00:43:29.813 --> 00:43:33.833 So please go and read through it in its entirety. It's called The Breton Whoops. 00:43:34.473 --> 00:43:38.653 How 50 Years of Dollar Supremacy Are Dying with a Bang, Not a Wimper. 00:43:39.176 --> 00:43:42.316 And as I say, you should read through this whole article. It's got a lot of 00:43:42.316 --> 00:43:45.996 good detail in here talking about the situation we're in and how we've arrived 00:43:45.996 --> 00:43:51.176 at it, at least over the last several years, talking about Venezuela's attempts 00:43:51.176 --> 00:43:53.096 to get their gold out of the vaults in London, 00:43:53.376 --> 00:43:55.976 et cetera, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, et cetera. 00:43:56.116 --> 00:44:00.016 But here's where we get to the money part, where he describes the petrodollar. 00:44:00.116 --> 00:44:01.856 The petrodollar was a simple deal. 00:44:02.036 --> 00:44:06.296 The Gulf states price their oil in dollars, recycle the surplus into U.S. 00:44:06.416 --> 00:44:09.456 Treasuries, and in exchange get American military protection. 00:44:09.756 --> 00:44:14.156 Clean, elegant, and for 50 years, it actually worked. The U.S. 00:44:14.196 --> 00:44:16.896 Got permanent demand for its currency and its debt. 00:44:17.136 --> 00:44:22.196 The Gulf got security guarantees backed by the most powerful military on earth. 00:44:22.736 --> 00:44:27.976 Five decades of procurement scandals and DEI hires later, someone called the bluff. 00:44:28.316 --> 00:44:33.376 U.S. bases across the Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, 00:44:33.376 --> 00:44:37.016 were always sold as the physical expression of this guarantee, 00:44:37.396 --> 00:44:41.056 the muscle that backed the paper. They were protection. 00:44:41.496 --> 00:44:46.076 Except now, those bases are targets. The countries hosting them are getting 00:44:46.076 --> 00:44:48.476 hit precisely because they host them. 00:44:48.636 --> 00:44:53.736 What once was U.S. military presence as shield has collapsed and become U.S. 00:44:54.196 --> 00:44:55.556 Military presence as a bullseye. 00:44:56.176 --> 00:45:00.376 Medvedev put it with the particular relish of someone who has been waiting years to say it. 00:45:00.476 --> 00:45:04.796 And here he quotes the Medvedev tweet, The Gulf Arab countries let American 00:45:04.796 --> 00:45:06.136 bases onto their territory. 00:45:06.476 --> 00:45:10.656 Naively, they expected protection from them. Like hell. The U.S. 00:45:10.896 --> 00:45:14.096 Just uses them while protecting only one country. 00:45:14.356 --> 00:45:17.016 Think long and hard about whether you really need U.S. 00:45:17.356 --> 00:45:19.716 Bases. They're not protection. They're a threat. 00:45:20.497 --> 00:45:26.457 So you are starting to see what is happening here. What is truly unfolding in this situation? 00:45:26.757 --> 00:45:29.877 Yes, war and all of the things that come along with it. 00:45:29.977 --> 00:45:34.037 But very specifically, the people who are being retaliated against by Iran right 00:45:34.037 --> 00:45:36.257 now are the people who are hosting the U.S. 00:45:36.397 --> 00:45:41.917 Military bases, which threatens to undermine the entire bases of the petrodollar system. 00:45:42.057 --> 00:45:47.397 The entire guarantee was a security guarantee, which has now just become a security liability. 00:45:48.077 --> 00:45:52.937 So why are we pricing our oil in dollars again? Hmm, I wonder if there's another way to do it. 00:45:53.057 --> 00:45:57.117 Oh, if we price it in Yuan, maybe we can sail straight through the strain of hormones. 00:45:57.917 --> 00:46:01.377 Interesting. What an interesting trap that has been set and sprung. 00:46:01.997 --> 00:46:08.617 And later on in this substack, he goes on to write about $9.2 trillion in U.S. 00:46:08.717 --> 00:46:13.577 Treasuries rolled over in fiscal 2025, roughly a third of all outstanding federal debt. 00:46:13.697 --> 00:46:17.417 And the 2026 refinancing wave is already building. 00:46:17.977 --> 00:46:22.257 Annual interest payments on the federal debt have crossed $1 trillion for the first time. 00:46:22.557 --> 00:46:26.077 The Treasury is buying back its own debt in tranches to keep the market from 00:46:26.077 --> 00:46:29.657 seizing up. But the 10-year yield keeps moving higher regardless. 00:46:30.317 --> 00:46:35.357 The petrodollar recycling loop was one of the structural forces keeping treasury auctions clearing. 00:46:35.677 --> 00:46:40.537 When Gulf sovereigns stop buying or start selling, somebody else has to absorb 00:46:40.537 --> 00:46:44.657 that supply at higher rates, which makes the interest burden worse, 00:46:44.877 --> 00:46:48.177 which makes the deficit worse, which requires more issuance. 00:46:48.397 --> 00:46:50.357 The spiral is not complicated. 00:46:50.637 --> 00:46:54.837 And underneath all of this sits a deeper shift that doesn't get enough attention. 00:46:54.837 --> 00:46:59.637 The world is migrating from a currency-based monetary order to a collateral-based one. 00:46:59.897 --> 00:47:04.397 For decades, treasuries were the global safe asset, the thing you held when 00:47:04.397 --> 00:47:05.517 you didn't know what else to hold. 00:47:05.837 --> 00:47:09.217 That status is eroding. What's replacing it are commodities, 00:47:09.557 --> 00:47:14.677 physical stuff, things you can actually use, which is, not coincidentally, 00:47:15.017 --> 00:47:18.797 exactly what the GCC is sitting on and exactly what the U.S. 00:47:18.897 --> 00:47:21.437 Has just demonstrated it cannot protect. 00:47:22.037 --> 00:47:25.397 And he goes on to make the point for example of course this is what we've seen 00:47:25.397 --> 00:47:29.957 um as investors are selling off stocks as private credit fears mount we're also 00:47:29.957 --> 00:47:36.457 seeing of course gold skyrocketing as one of the safe haven assets or um that has, 00:47:37.016 --> 00:47:41.556 shown that it is, again, the thing that people will eventually turn to when 00:47:41.556 --> 00:47:45.436 they realize that the paper promises of U.S. Treasuries are not worth the paper they're printed on. 00:47:45.756 --> 00:47:48.956 And then finally, he wraps up by saying the entire purpose of U.S. 00:47:49.036 --> 00:47:52.196 Power projection in the Middle East, the bases, the carrier groups, 00:47:52.316 --> 00:47:56.336 the security guarantees, was always to protect the dollar system, 00:47:56.576 --> 00:47:59.836 to keep the oil flowing in dollars, the recycling loop turning. 00:48:00.116 --> 00:48:02.976 Not out of the goodness of its heart, it allowed the U.S. 00:48:03.056 --> 00:48:07.276 To run deficits indefinitely, export inflation to the rest of the world and 00:48:07.276 --> 00:48:11.136 borrow at rates no other debtor could even ever dream of. 00:48:11.356 --> 00:48:16.116 Whether Washington chose this war in Iran or simply couldn't say no when Israel 00:48:16.116 --> 00:48:19.156 saw its chance and leapt, that's still an open question. 00:48:19.416 --> 00:48:25.396 What isn't open is the result. The Gulf states are under attack because they 00:48:25.396 --> 00:48:28.456 host U.S. bases, end quote. 00:48:28.936 --> 00:48:32.596 So again, please do go read through this entire article. It is important, 00:48:32.596 --> 00:48:36.556 But it shows something very important that is developing here. 00:48:36.716 --> 00:48:40.076 This is the intertwined concept that. 00:48:40.617 --> 00:48:45.937 In times of great warfare, geopolitical instability, world warfare, 00:48:46.297 --> 00:48:52.937 we see monetary paradigm shifts from the gold standard that was being propped 00:48:52.937 --> 00:48:58.417 up by the UK banking system, the British banking system in the early 1900s, 00:48:58.777 --> 00:49:04.017 shifting over after World War I through the period of great instability of the 00:49:04.017 --> 00:49:05.897 depression and everything that came along with that, 00:49:05.997 --> 00:49:10.717 to the founding of the new monetary economic order in Bretton Woods and towards 00:49:10.717 --> 00:49:16.177 the tail end of World War II that has propped up the system as we know it and has made the U.S. 00:49:16.937 --> 00:49:21.537 Unipower, at this point, empire into the greatest world empire that has ever 00:49:21.537 --> 00:49:23.377 existed on the face of the planet. 00:49:23.557 --> 00:49:29.157 That has been done specifically on the back of a number of monetary inventions, 00:49:29.357 --> 00:49:34.617 including most recently the petrodollar system, which we are seeing starting 00:49:34.617 --> 00:49:37.037 to crumble before our very eyes. 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:43.080 This is significant. And this is how the people who are really controlling this, 00:49:43.300 --> 00:49:46.460 pulling the strings, not just of Trump, but of Netanyahu as well. 00:49:46.620 --> 00:49:49.820 And all of the players at the table, Iran and Russia and China, 00:49:50.040 --> 00:49:52.680 all of them are pulled on the monetary level. 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:57.380 And if you can affect a changeover in the monetary paradigm itself, 00:49:58.020 --> 00:49:59.720 there is your new world order. 00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:04.600 It falls out as a result of a new monetary order that is coming into view and 00:50:04.600 --> 00:50:09.000 a monetary order that may be commodity based for some time as needed, 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:14.100 at least to secure the reserves as the handover and changeover occurs. 00:50:14.300 --> 00:50:16.760 Will it be a petroyuan world reserve? 00:50:17.120 --> 00:50:21.200 Well, that's certainly much up in the air, but you can better believe, 00:50:21.380 --> 00:50:26.000 bet your bottom dollar, that it is going to be some form of digital currency 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:30.580 tied to digital ID and everything else that we know is part of this agenda. 00:50:30.780 --> 00:50:34.580 And whether that's through some stablecoin issuance, which is going to be the 00:50:34.580 --> 00:50:39.860 new replacement for the petrodollar, or something else entirely remains to be seen. 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.680 But this is what the bottom line is. 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:49.480 This is what the end game is. It is about a changeover in world monetary paradigm 00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:52.840 that is going to have an effect on the entire game. 00:50:53.428 --> 00:50:58.208 Global geopolitical calculus. We are watching it happen in real time, 00:50:58.208 --> 00:51:01.848 and data is coming in every single minute of every day. 00:51:02.208 --> 00:51:05.308 It's more than any one person, even myself, can handle. 00:51:05.448 --> 00:51:11.428 So I need your help in keeping track of this data and finding out all of the 00:51:11.428 --> 00:51:16.008 little pieces of the cookie crumb trail that is leading us into this new world 00:51:16.008 --> 00:51:18.568 order that some people seem to be so excited about. 00:51:19.148 --> 00:51:21.708 On that note, I'm going to call on Corbett Report members, 00:51:21.708 --> 00:51:26.928 as always, your support is needed not only monetarily, but also informationally. 00:51:27.088 --> 00:51:31.328 I need you to help in this open source information endeavor. 00:51:31.628 --> 00:51:35.648 So if you have information, good articles like this bread and whoops articles 00:51:35.648 --> 00:51:40.588 or other information along these lines to share, please share them in the comment 00:51:40.588 --> 00:51:45.068 section of this post at corbettreport.com/iranendgame. 00:51:45.408 --> 00:51:50.708 Your support is incredibly important to this open source educational endeavor. 00:51:50.968 --> 00:51:53.468 And I'm going to keep doing it, Professor Corbett or not. 00:51:53.968 --> 00:51:57.948 I'm going to keep doing it. So I hope you will be here with me as I continue 00:51:57.948 --> 00:52:02.028 exploring this incredibly important world historical event. 00:52:02.628 --> 00:52:06.528 That's going to do it for today's exploration. I am James Corbett of corbettreport.com, 00:52:06.688 --> 00:52:09.988 once again, inviting you to take a look at the entire hyperlink transcript, 00:52:10.228 --> 00:52:13.648 all of the sources, and follow the open source investigation in the comments 00:52:13.648 --> 00:52:17.168 thread at corbettreport.com/iranendgame. 00:52:17.368 --> 00:52:20.828 But that's going to do it for today. 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