We have 7 more classes left in the semester and what I want to
do in this last seven classes is look at the game theory of World
War Three. OK, So what I want to do this
class is just introduce the chess board or the players and
how the game we played over the next 5 to 10 years.
So the two major players in World War three are the United
States and Russia. And right now they are fighting
a proxy war in the Middle East between Israel and Iran, where
the United States obviously supports Israel, Russia supports
Iran. And what's going to happen is
that this war in the Middle East, it's going to spread out
and then it will engulf the entire world.
OK. So what I want to do today is
look at the individual players, USA, Israel, Iran and Russia and
explain to you who they are and how they will play this game.
And so, and once you understand their strategy, then it's going
to be pretty easy for us to make certain predictions about how
they will behave. So that's the first thing that I
want to point out. The other thing that I'll point
out is that there's a lot of people who believe that peace
can be achieved, that this war is a temporary thing, and that
once Donald Trump leaves office, once the United States divorces
Israel, then peace will come to the world.
And that's not true because on one hand, what's driving this
World War 3 is a conflict between these Four Nations.
But on the other hand, the other force that's driving this
conflict is the internal tensions within these countries.
So before we looked at the idea of elite over overproduction.
And so the idea is that the elite are parasites that collect
rent from the people. And so ever who's an elite can
exploit other people. So there's competition to to
join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to
join the elite. This creates internal conflict,
and this is what's happening throughout the world today.
So World War Three, it's not just being driven by the
disparities between these Four Nations.
It's really being driven by internal politics within these
countries. OK, so, so let me put this in a
versatile way. Right now, the people who run
the world are transnational capital.
OK. And a versatile way of saying
this is that if you're a rich person in Russia, you're
incentivized to work with rich people in Iran, Israel and the
United States. And as a result, for the longest
time, we've been able to achieve global peace and prosperity.
But because they only get richer and richer, more powerful, this
causes resentment among other elite forces in these countries.
And so there are three major forces that oppose transnational
capital within these four countries.
OK, so let's just list them. The first is, of course,
nationalism, right? There are people like Donald
Trump and Vladimir Putin who believe that it's important to
put their nation first, that globalism is hurting their own
people and their own nation. OK?
That's what's 1 force that opposes transnational capital.
Another force that opposes transnational capital is
religion or orthodoxy. OK, Why?
Because capital believes that money is God, it is godless, it
is secular, and it tries to create a multicultural secular
society in order to allow capital to pass through the
society easily. OK.
That also allows capital control and dominant society.
So religion is opposed to national, national capital as
well. And the last force that's
opposed to national capital is artificial intelligence.
OK, AI. Why?
Because right now, money is what structures society, and
artificial intelligence wants to replace money as a force that
structures and centers society. OK.
So in other words, what's happening is that there's a
civil war going on in the world where right now transnational
capital is dominant and trinational capital is
represented by Wall Street and City of London.
And there are these three forces, nationalism, religion
and technology, that oppose trinational capital.
And so what's going to happen over time is that they will form
an alliance to defeat trinational capital, OK?
And so this is already happening in America where these three
forces come together and they support Donald Trump.
And So what drives a lot of Donald Trump's policies is to
help his alliance ultimately defeat transnational capital,
OK. And something that we'll discuss
for the rest of the semester. So another thing that I'll point
out is this, OK, internally there is a civil war going on,
but externally as well, there are forces that drive these
nations to war and it and this is basically environmental
collapse. So for the past few decades, we
humans have been very lucky in that there have been no major
ecological disasters. But if you look at human
history, weather patterns fluctuate.
OK, so many speculate that we are heading towards a time of
extreme weather patterns. That means that it becomes
harder to go food. It means it's harder to access
energy. And so this is going to put
strain on the world. And so the world needs to
compete for precious resources. And quite honestly, we are going
to probably approach a time in human history when famine, it
will be much more common. We thought that we defeated
famine. We thought that we had developed
a system that could feed anyone and everyone, but over the next
few years we'll discover an increase in famine around the
world and an increase in ecological disasters around the
world. OK, so this is the schematic
that I want you to understand. In World War three there will be
4 major players, United States, Israel, Iran and Russia, and
they are competing for global dominance.
No one will win, but the conflict among these Four
Nations will drive fuel politics for the next 5 to 10 years.
This conflict is driven not just by disputes among these
countries, it's mainly driven by internal civil discord within
these countries. The two forces are the Tri
national capital versus a coalition of nationalist,
religious, religious people as well as tech people.
OK. And they have their champion.
So in America, they have Trump national capital is represented
by Carney, Mark Carney. We'll talk more about him later.
OK Mark Carney is currently the Prime Minister of Canada.
OK. So there are different
champions, and they're going to fight this, this war.
Now, one question that you're going to have, which is the most
obvious question, is, yeah, but what about everyone else, right.
What about China? What about India?
What about Brazil? What about South Africa?
OK, and yes, it is true. Oh, sorry.
And what about Europe and and Japan, Right.
And then South Korea. And while it is true that these
are major economies with a lot of people, and it is true that
they could, in theory, have great militaries, I will show
you that what makes these Four Nations distinct, USA, Israel,
Iran and Russia, what makes them distinct is that they have a
grand strategy that allows them to mobilize the population for
Total War. And that's what makes them
distinct. OK, And I'll show you this later
on. All right, All right, So let me
explain to you how this dynamic will play out.
Actually, we have US, a Russia, Iran, Israel, OK, So a major
players that will determine how these four player games are of
course, Europe, China, Japan, India.
OK, All right. So I understand that a lot of
people believe that China and the United States are in
competition with each other. That is not true.
And the reason why is that China does not have what we call a
grand strategy. A grand strategy is just how you
perceived your politics and how you want to dominate your
politics. China does not do grand
strategy. China is called Jungwa, OK.
Jungwa means the Middle Kingdom. The idea of the Middle Kingdom
is that we are a universe on to ourselves.
We don't care what happens outside of this universe.
We would like others to pay tribute to our cultural
superiority and we could help develop your other
civilizations, but honestly we don't care.
OK so China has always been an isolationist society for most of
its history. Today, yes, I understand.
For these past few decades, China has become much more
globalized, has become much more international, much more
cosmopolitan. But this is not part of the
Chinese tradition. So what's happening today, these
past few decades, it is an aberration.
It goes against cultural norms in China.
But in the long term, China will return to its cultural norms and
become much more isolationist. So we don't.
So China doesn't really matter in the great scheme of things.
OK, The same is true for India as well, right?
So I know India and China have have a lot of people, but
historically they have not really mattered in geopolitics.
And that's to do with their cultural values and norms.
OK, does that make sense? All right, so there are right
now three major battlefields in the world, OK?
The first, obviously, is Ukraine, where NATO and Russia
are fighting each other, OK? And this is a proxy war between
United States and Russia because United States controls Europe
and NATO. The second major battlefield, of
course, is Iran, where right now the United States and Israel is
attacking Iran and trying to force it into a surrender.
Now the last battlefield is actually in North America, Cuba.
OK, so this is not really discussed a lot.
What's been happening in the United States has been
embargoing Cuba, trying to blockade it, trying to 'cause
decided to collapse, and Russia has been trying to save Cuba.
OK? So these are the three major
battlefronts we're seeing right now.
Obviously, what's going to happen is that more battlefronts
will break out, OK? And what's going to happen is
that as this conflict increases, the COP between the United
States and Russia will increase as well.
So one major area of contention is the oceans.
OK, Why? Because United States believes
that it controls all trade access because the oceans
represent trade access. And So what the United States
has been doing has is it has been seizing Russian shadow
fleet tankers. And so what's going to happen is
that the Russians will eventually decide to arm its
ships, and this will create a war in the oceans.
OK. So that's one trend that we will
see happening. Another trend that we'll see
happening is the rise of Germany and Japan.
OK. Hey, why?
Well, historically, the most powerful nation in Europe has
been Germany. Historically, the most powerful
nation in East Asia has been Japan. the United States
defeated both in World War 2 and But now that the United States
is at war of Russia, it needs proxies in its allies to counter
both the threat of Russia as well as China.
So it makes sense that what the United States is going to do is
it's going to arm Israel to counter Iran.
It's going to arm Germany to counter Russia, It's going to
arm Japan to counter China. OK.
And what's going to happen now is that you have new in this
conflict, you have other players emerge that will take advantage
of these conflicts to amass more power for themselves.
So think about North Korea in East Asia, OK, Because North
Korea, it's a military society, and it can threaten South Korea,
Japan and China, OK. Then in Europe, you have Poland.
In the Middle East, you have Turkia.
OK, So these nations are going to try to navigate all this
chaos in order to amass more power from themselves.
So in other words, what's going to happen is complete chaos in
World War Three and something that we'll discuss more
concretely for the rest of the semester, right?
So now what I'm going to do now is explain to you the grand
strategy of the United States, Russia, Iran and Israel, because
these are only the four major players for the first five
years. Other players will come in later
on, but for now, these are the four major players, OK?
And once you understand the grand strategy, all these four
countries, then it's going to be pretty easy for us to predict
how they will behave as this war progresses.
All right. OK, So for each country, I want
you to imagine each country as a chess set.
OK, so this is a chess set and I want to show you how each player
behaves using this chess set as as a template, as a frame frame
of reference. OK, so the king is the political
system. All right, so the first idea to
understand is that when you fight a war, you're not trying
to defeat the other persons. Any military doesn't really get
you any war. What you're really trying to do
is you're trying to put your opponent in check by attacking
the political system. All right, And I'll show you how
later on. OK, so the king is political
system, the queen is the grand strategy.
The grand strategy is again how each player perceives
geopolitics and how to best dominate geopolitics.
OK, and then you have the Bishop, the knight, and the
Rook, and this are the attack vectors.
The attack vectors are your mechanisms, your tools for
achieving your grand strategy, right?
And now you have the pawn and the pawn are just that.
They are sacrificial tools that you can use in order to advance
your grand strategy, OK? You just fold them away.
You don't really care. OK, Does that make sense?
All right, so now let's apply this system to the four nation
states, United States, Russia, Iran and Israel.
All right? OK, so the United States, the
public system, of course, is a democracy, and this is both good
and bad. OK, It's good.
And that allows for innovation. It allows for debate and
openness. And creativity, okay, so that's
what's good about democracy. What's bad about democracy is
the idea of polarization, okay? Polarization, okay.
Why? Because in a democracy, you have
different political parties, and they can reach a point where
they just refuse to work together and all they care about
is destroying each other, regardless of the consequences
for the nation. In geopolitics, this is what's
happened in the United States so far right now.
Where in America Trump hates the Democrats much more than he
hates the Russians or the Chinese or the Iranians.
OK, All right. So the way you put America into
check is by enhancing the polarization and causing a civil
war. OK, does that make sense?
You cannot defeat America militarily.
It is impossible to do so. The only way to defeat America
is if you force it into a civil war that distracts it from the
world. OK, so that is the American
political system. Name the grand strategy.
The grand strategy is called Greater North America and the
idea of Greater North America is North America by itself.
It's a self-sufficient continental fortress.
No one can invade it, no one attacked it, and that's all the
resources it needs to survive. So all America has to do is
unite North America and then cause chaos around the world.
OK, So what the trick is how to create unity in greater North
America. And the theory that they use is
something called the technique, right?
And the idea of the technique is a democracy is inherently
volatile and unstable. You're better off transitioning
democracy into a technocracy ruled by the experts and ruled
by AI, OK? So basically try to create an AI
surveillance state, which is happening, what's happening in
America right now. OK, Something that we'll discuss
in greater detail next week. All right, so now we go to the
attack vectors of America. What are their tools and
instruments in order to achieve the grand strategy?
Well, the first major tool is just a technology, OK, meaning
that America has GPS satellites, it has precision weapons, it has
the best Air Force in the world, it has aerial supremacy.
OK, so technology is a very important tool.
Then you have a propaganda. Propaganda is basically America
controls the world's most powerful media systems,
including New York Times, including CNN, and therefore it
can control the narrative of the world.
The last is the US dollar. OK, the US dollar is the world's
global reserve currency and therefore America has unlimited
financing. All right, so as you can see,
America is a very powerful empire.
Now we go to the pawns, OK, sacrificial tools.
And So what Americans can sacrifice in order to achieve
its grand strategy or its allies, which are essentially
it's it's vassals. All right, so that is the
American system right now. We can, we can understand how
America will fight this war in Iran and how it will proceed to
fight World War Three because grand strategy, it's just not
only how a nation will go out to dominate the world, but it's
also constraint on their behaviour.
They can only operate within the contours of their grand
strategy. OK, any questions so far?
OK, all right, so let us look over the technique of America.
So there's something that post in 1930s and something that is
being implemented right now in America by the tech Bros, people
like Larry Ellison, St. Albman, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk.
The idea, of course, is to is to unite all of North America
together in something called a technate, OK.
The technate is basically a force.
A force, sorry. The technate is basically this
means an AI surveillance state, OK.
And this allows for cohesion and control.
And once that's achieved, then North America becomes invincible
and it can create as much chaos as it wants throughout the
world. The goal is to create chaos so
that the world depends on you for weapons and resources and
financing. OK.
And the idea is if the other world, if the entire world is
forced to buy weapons and resources from you and you can
lend money to them to do that, then you get rid of the $39
trillion debt, OK, So I'm not saying that this strategy will
work, but I'm saying this is how they approach it all right.
Now, something that is really important for us to understand
is that a grand strategy, it is based on a culture of your
society. OK, great strategy is not
something that you just make up. Grand strategy is an expression,
a manifestation of your public system and your cultural system.
And we can understand the cultural system through the
books that are read in society. OK, so this is Western
Civilization right here. So these are four representative
books of Anglo American civilization.
The 1st is Paradise Lost by John Milton.
OK and Paradise Lost is very important because it celebrates
individual achievement. So Paradise Lost is about why
Adam and Eve disobeyed God. And the argument of paradise
laws is that Adam and Eve disobeyed God because they
wanted godhood. OK, They it means of their
pride. And the thing about paradise
laws is that when you read it, and we'll read a part of it
together, you recognize that pride is a good thing because it
allows us to approach godhood, OK?
So it's not bad to want to be God.
In fact, it's a good thing because it's what allows for
progress. And Hamlet by Shakespeare is a
book that celebrates individuality, individual
reflection. Gurdas Thoss is a book in which
a scholar but name of Faust, he makes a deal with the devil
because he has an insatiable appetite for knowledge.
And that's a good thing, OK? He's trying to achieve God in
himself. And this idea of Faustian, so
Western civilization, especially angle American civilization, is
fundamentally Faustian. It's always about achievement
and it's insatiable achievement. And the the last book I want to
emphasize is A Founding Head by Anne Rand, which celebrates
individualism. Individualism, OK, It celebrates
individual achievement. So to get a sense of the essence
of Anglo American culture, I'm going to read to you a passage
from Paradise Lost. And this is where Satan,
disguised as a snake, is trying to convince Eve to eat the fruit
from the tree of of knowledge. Okay, and this is his argument
to to her. Why then was this forbid?
Why did God tell you not to eat from the tree of knowledge?
Why put to all? Why, but to keep ye low and
ignorant His worshipper? He knows that in the day ye
thereof your eyes that seem so clear, yet are but dim, shall
perfectly be then open and cleared, and ye shall be as God,
knowing both good and evil as they know.
OK so This is why God refuses to let us eat the fruit from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil, because if we can learn
for ourselves, we can be like God and God created us to be his
slaves and his servants. Okay that ye shall be as God,
since I as man internal man is but a proportion meat.
I have put human ye of human gods.
Okay So what he's saying is like think of this, I'm a snake and
once I eat that fruit I'm able to be like you.
I can speak as well. Now if you as a human eat that
food, you'll be a God then so ye shall die perhaps by putting off
human to put on gods death to be wished though threatened, which
no worse than this can bring. And what are gods that men may
not become as they participate in God like food?
What prevents men from becoming gods?
Shouldn't that be a good thing to be ambitious?
The gods are first and that advantage use on our belief that
all from them proceeds. OK so this is what he's saying.
He's saying like no anyone can become a God.
I'm a snake. If I can become human, then
humans can become gods as well. But the problem of gods is that
they came first and therefore they want to maintain the
monopoly over power. And that's why they trying to
keep us ignorant. So we have a responsibility to
be ambitious, to rebel, OK, to rebel, rebel.
Rebellion is honorable and just OK.
And again, this this is the ideas that permanent throughout
Anglo American civilization. I question it for this fear
earth I see warm by the sun, producing very every kind them
nothing, if they all things who enclose knots of good and evil
in this tree, that whoso eats thereof with with forthwith
attains wisdom without their leave.
And wherein lies the offense that men should thus attain to
know? What can your knowledge hurt
them? Or this tree impart against his
will, if all be his? Or is it envy?
And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts?
These, these and many more causes import your need of this
fair food God. This humane reached them and
fairly taste OK. If there's a God that tells us
we cannot eat the food, this cannot be the true God because a
God it has to be perfect, it has to be forgiving, it has to be
generous. And a God that tells us we
cannot do something that denies us our free will.
It's a God that is jealous, that is petty, that is power hungry
and therefore we should rebel against this God.
A rebellion against a tyrant is honorable and just.
OK, So it's a celebration of individual, of individual
intellect through rebellion. And this is a basis of Anglo
American civilization, OK. And so Anglo American
civilization is based entirely on individual achievement.
All right, Now Russian civilization is very different.
In fact, it's in opposition, in competition with Anglo American
civilization. Okay, so now let's go over to
Russia and discuss the Russian system.
So the Russian system is an autocracy.
And again, there are strengths and weaknesses to any political
system and autocracy, if one man is in charge, that allows for
long term planning, that allows for direction, that allows for
strategy. OK, But the problem with
autocracy is that if this man were to die, you would have a
succession crisis. So the American strategy to
defeat Russia is not to destroy the country, because you cannot
do that. Russia has nuclear weapons.
The strategy is to make Putin so unpopular that the elite rise up
against Putin and create a secession crisis.
OK, Basically to outlast Putin, to destroy his legitimacy.
All right. The grand strategy for Russia,
it's something called the Third Rome strategy.
All right, I'll discuss this more later on.
The idea of 1/3 Rome is that Russia is the here to the Roman
Empire, OK. The first Rome is Rome, second
Rome is Constantinople, and the third Rome is Moscow.
And there shall be no 4th Rome, meaning that once Moscow
achieves the third Rome, that's the end of history.
And the idea of the third Rome is for Russia to unify all
religious traditions together to defeat the enterprise system,
which is Western liberal, individual consumer democracy.
OK, The vectors, the attack vectors for Russia's grand
strategy are, of course, Orthodox religion.
The religion. Then you have the geography of
Russia, so Russia encompasses of Eurasia.
And then of course, you have the artillery.
So Russia is basically the world's best land army and we're
seeing that in Ukraine. OK.
And the pawns are soldiers. In other words, Russia is not
afraid to lose soldiers on the battlefield.
OK, All right. So this is Russia's Third Rome
strategy. OK, So Moscow is the center of
Third Rome. And as you can see, Russia
spreads throughout Europe and throughout Asia.
And what Russia is trying to do is it's trying to unite the
different religious traditions. So it's trying to unite Greek
Orthodoxy with even Orthodoxy. It's trying to work with the
Catholic Church, OK, It's and it's trying to work with Israel
as well, because Israel is also a religious tradition.
Iran is a very important part of this third room strategy.
Iran is a very important partner of Moscow, and in the future
India could also be a partner as well, because India is Hindu,
OK, But the great enemy, the enemy that must be destroyed, is
the Anglo American Empire. So the UK and North America.
And the idea is to cost them to go into civil war.
And the theory is that because the Anglo American Empire is so
focused on individual achievement, you can actually
force them into a civil war by exploiting the selfishness, the
egotism of the people, OK, basically the material greed of
their people. So what underpins Moscow's Third
Rome strategy are certain texts. OK, so you have a Virgil's in
the ad which focuses on the importance of duty.
OK duty. Then you have Saint Augustine's
Confessions and in his book he argues that we humans are proud.
OK, but whereas John Milton says pride is a good thing, but it
allows us to achieve godhood, so it says that pride is evil
because pride moves us away from God.
It makes us think we're better than God, so it moves us to
Satan. Therefore, our life should be a
journey into defeating our ego, our selfishness, and our pride
and embracing God. OK.
It's something that Twice, Sorry Basievsky talks about in his
book Crime and Punishment. So crime is in the in the book
Crime and Punishment, the protagonist wants to become a
superhuman. He he wants to prove he's better
than everyone else. And so to do that, he decides to
commit murder. OK.
He wants to show himself and to others that he is beyond
morality, that he's a God. He's not constrained by
emotions. And so he kills his landlady,
But in afterwards, he feels tremendous regret for what he
did. And what saves him is his love
for a for a woman, OK. He submits himself to the power
of love. He submits himself to the power
of God. And that's what redeems him in
the end. OK, so the argument here is that
your belief in your own possibility of achieving godhood
can only lead you to your own doom, OK?
What will save you, what will deem you, is to omit your
mortality, omit your fallibility, and to seek help
from those around you and from God.
OK, All right. So this is something that Toy
Story talks also about in his book, Anna Karina.
OK, so we're going to read a passage from Anna Karina.
And Anna Karina is a woman who's obsessed with finding love.
And she believes that through passion, through devotion, I can
find true love and therefore complete myself.
OK. So she has an affair with a man
named Count Ronski. And in the beginning, it's a
wonderful thing. It brings her tremendous
happiness. She leaves her husband.
She leaves her son. But eventually what she
discovers is that this lust for another, for a man, in order to
fill the void in her heart makes her even more empty.
And she feels her life becomes more and more pointless.
OK. So she decides to kill herself.
But before she kills herself, she has this internal monologue
with herself, OK? And this, this what?
She says. My love keeps growing more
passionate and more egoistic, more selfish, more proud, while
his is waning and waning. And that's why we're drifting
apart. OK.
So she demands Kat Rodsky love her as much as she loves him.
The problem is that she doesn't recognize that this love, it's
not about love, it's about control, OK?
She wants him to be as devoted to her as she is to him.
OK? She wants to control him, and he
rebels against his control. And so he starts to drift away
because he wants to maintain his freedom, see what I'm using.
And there's no help for it. He's everything, Everything for
me. I want to.
I want him more and more to give him some up to me entirely.
OK? So she wants him to surrender
himself completely to her. She wants to become God.
And she, he wants she wants to make him the servant.
OK. This is not about love.
It's about power. And he wants more and more to
get away from me. We walk to meet each other up to
the time of our love, and then we have been irresply driven in
different directions and there's no altering that.
He tells me I'm insanely jealous and I have told myself that I am
insanely jealous, but it's not true.
I'm not jealous, but I'm unsatisfied, OK?
But she opened her lips and shifted her place in the
carriage in the excitement, aroused by the thought that
suddenly struck her. If I could be anything but a
mysterious, passionately caring for nothing but his caresses.
But I can't, and I don't care to be anything else.
My desire. I rouse a version in him, and he
rouses fairy in me, and it cannot be different.
Don't I know that he wouldn't deceive me, that he has no
schemes about Princess Shirakina, that he's not in love
with Kitty, that he won't desert me?
I know all that, but it makes me.
It makes it no better for me about loving me from duty.
He'll be good and kind to me about what I want.
That's 1000 times worse than kindness.
That's hell. And that's just how it is.
For a long while now, he hasn't loved me.
And where love ends, hate begins.
I don't know these streets at all.
Hills, it seems, and still houses.
OK. And so she's going to go
carousel because she recognizes that she's been living a lie.
She thought that if I truly love him, then he will love me back.
She wants to become God. And what she doesn't recognize
is that as a human, she has an eagle.
And so we've she thinks she's loving Kat Ronski
unconditionally. But in fact, what he, what she's
trying to do is control him and have him obey her
unconditionally. OK, That's the difference
between God and human. Where God.
God is all knowing, all forgiving, all generous, all
love. But a human can't do that.
And when a human tries to become a God, a human can only become a
tyrant. OK, and that's a lesson from Toy
Story. Don't think you can.
You can become God. You can only destroy yourself as
well as others around you. And So what Toy Story will do is
that he will contrast and Aquino with man named Levin.
OK and Levin is different. Levin Rather than try to seek
happiness and passion, he just submits himself to duty and to
to to tradition. He marries a woman he loves and
he spends all his time being responsible to her as well as to
himself as well as to the household.
He just does what he's supposed to do.
And by doing that, by submitting his freedom, by submitting
himself to duty and tradition, he makes himself truly happy.
OK, so really the argument between America and Russia is a
different understanding of the story of Adam and Eve.
For the Americans, they believe that Eve's disobedience is a
good thing because it's what leads to progress.
It's what leads to achievement. Americans believe that godhood
is possible and it's a good thing.
The Russians are different. They believe that Eve disobeyed
because she was too proud and she does not recognize the
limitations of her humanity. And perfection is not possible.
Progress is not possible. What is good is recognizing our
limitations and submitting ourselves to the power of God.
OK, so that's why Russia and America cannot reconcile,
because not only do they have geopolitical differences, but
fundamentally the way they perceive the world is different
and they're fighting to impose their own reality on others.
OK, all right, but the same is also true for Iran and issue.
OK, so now let's go over Iran. Iran is a theocracy if theocracy
is good in that it creates cohesion in society and they are
able to survive major calamities because of their faith.
OK, so you know even though Americans and Israelis are
destroying a lot of Iranian infrastructure, the Iranian
people are still united. But if theocracy is bad because
it can lead to extremism and extremism can divide a
population, OK, So it's possible that as this war continues, you
have a small minority population who become who become
extremists, and they alienate everyone else, OK.
The grand strategy is Shia exceptionalism.
And the idea here is that the Iranians are Shia Muslims, and
Shia Muslims believe that only a descendant of the Prophet
Muhammad can lead the Muslim world, can become caliph, OK.
And the Sunni Muslims who are the majority in the Muslim world
don't believe that. They believe that anyone who's
qualified can become caliph. So for the longest time, the
Shia and the Sunnis have been at war with each other.
And Saudi Arabia is the center of the Sunni Muslim world and
Iran is the center of the Shia Muslim world.
And So what Iran is trying to do is topple Saudi Arabia and
become the leader of the entire Muslim world because that is
what their destiny is. OK.
The attack vectors for Iran are the terrain, their faith and the
proxies, OK. The proxies include the hoofis,
the Hezbollah and Hamas, OK. And the and the pawns, of
course, are the drones and missiles.
All right, So that is the Iranian situation.
And what's important to understand is the cultural
origins. OK, sorry.
So this is the entire Muslim world and what Iran's trying to
do is trying to unite all of them together.
OK, So something that really something you need to appreciate
about the Iranians is that they have two major cultural
traditions. The first is Zoroastrianism and
Zoroastrianism was the 1st. It's a tallest goal religion in
the world. And that they believe that there
is an end of the world judgement day and that judgement day,
those who live the truth Asha will descend, will ascend to
heaven and those who live the lie, the Jews, will descend into
hell. So what's important is not to
become wealthy or powerful or famous.
It's not about achievement. It's about being true to
yourself and being true to God, OK, To live a good life because
at the end of time you'll be rewarded.
That's what they believe. The other thing is they believe
in martyrdom. OK, so as I mentioned, the Shia
believe that only descendant, only a blood relative of the
Prophet Muhammad can be caliph. So this is Imad Hussein, who's
the grandson of the Prophet. And he rebelled against the
caliph. And so the caliph had this huge
army against him, and he was surrounded and he had very few
soldiers, but they fought to the death anyway, OK, Because they
believe what's important is to die for your, for your, for your
faith. And so this is a battle of
Karbala. And so in other words, because
of these traditions, you have both the Jurassian tradition
that believe in Judgment day, you also have the Shia tradition
which believes in martyrdom. The Iranians are are not afraid
to fight to the death. Yes, the Americans and Israelis
have bigger weapons, they have more soldiers, they have more
money. It doesn't matter.
What's important is to fight for, to believe it, to set a
good example for future generations.
OK, so that's, that's the Iranian system.
And that's why the Iranians will not, will never surrender in
this war, no matter how bad it gets.
The last I want to talk, the last country I want to talk
about is Israel. So Israel it is not.
It is a democracy and a theocracy.
OK, sorry. So it is a democracy as well as
a theocracy. And the way you destroy Israel
is you caused it. You caused it to enter a civil
war, all right? And it's actually not that hard
because right now Israel is a very factual society.
The grand strategy is gonna call the Greater Israel Project.
So the Israelis believe that in the Bible, it says that God
promised their ancestor Abraham all of the Middle East
stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates.
And that's what they must achieve.
OK, so they're fighting this war and not to defeat Iran, but to
achieve the Greater Israel Project.
The attack vectors are the Bible, the Mossad, and the
Jewish diaspora. OK, so Israel doesn't have that
many people, 89 million people. It's a very small country, but
it has three major advantages. The first advantage is the Bible
in that there are many Christians who believe that
Israel is what God promised the Jewish people and therefore the
Jewish people have a right to be in Israel and do whatever they
want because that is what God promised them.
OK, then you have Mossad. And so Mossad is the most
effective intelligence agency in the world.
And what they're very good at doing is infiltration,
infiltration. And they're so they're good at
Co opting, bribing and blackmailing the elites of
different nations. And this is especially true in
the Middle East. OK.
And then you have the Diaspora, the Jews are everywhere around
the world and that. And so they become very
important recruits for Mossad. But they're they're also very
wealthy. So they can finance Israel and
its mission to create the Greater Israel Project.
And of course the pawns are everyone else.
OK. So Mossad is very good at
infiltrating different nations and creating conflict in those
nations in order to benefit Israel, right?
OK. So this is the Greater Israel
project and this is the end goal of the Israelis, all right?
So the good initial project stretches from the Nile to the
Euphrates. What's important is that it also
encompasses parts of Turkia, of Syria, of Jordan, of Lebanon and
parts of Saudi Arabia, OK, And then Iraq as well.
So this war in the Middle East is actually helping Israel move
towards the Greater Israel Project, because what is
happening is that Iran is basically destroying the GCC,
OK. And maybe Torquilla will enter
the war at some point, in which case this will make Turkey a
vulnerable to attack from Israel.
OK, So what Israel is very good at doing is are creating false
flag operations, false flag operations.
And the idea is that, listen, what you want is the entire
Middle East at war with each other.
So you create as much conflict as possible, right?
So the idea is that the Iranians will actually have to attack the
GCCPC. Sure, this will do it for them
and and blame it on the Iranians.
OK, So this conflict will only get worse and worse because it
benefits Israel to have as much conflict as possible in the
Middle East, OK. And underpinning initial society
is something called the Kabbalah.
So this is something called the Tree of Life, and I'll explain
more later on in the semester about the Kabbalah is because
it's very important, but there's certain things I'll point out
about the Kabbalah, OK? The first thing that I'll point
out is that in the tradition of the Kabbalah, there's only two
things that matter. There's the crater and there's
the crated, OK? In other words, Israel does not
care about the world. Israel only cares about its
relationship with God. As long as Israel is favored by
God, they're happy. OK, that's the first one I'll
point out. Second thing I'll point out is
that this Kabbalah, the tree of life, it is a basis for the
entire universe. OK, this Kabbalah shows you
where the universe came from and where it's going.
And the main logic of the universe is the movement of
thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, OK?
This is the fractal that underpins the tree of life,
which underpins the entire universe.
OK, you can see how you have these fractals going on.
OK, OK, so in other words, what what the people believe about
believe is that there is an inevitable process to the
universe and you can't stop it. What you can do is you can
accelerate the process. All right, so if the movement is
thesis synthesis, one way to understand this is for for us to
be good, we must first be evil, OK?
Because what evil does is it annoys God and God punishes you,
and then you seek forgiveness from God, and then God Forgives
you and then you become better. But the, but the thing, the
thing to remember is you must first commit sin in order to
redeem yourself. And you can't stop this process.
What you can do is you can accelerate this process.
So this is very different from the Russian tradition.
The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the Catacon
right, which is just stop the Antichrist, which is like, let's
stop people from behaving badly. Whereas the people like about
the believe, no, it's important to behave badly because that is
the path to God. That's the path to wisdom.
That's the path to enlightenment and redemption, OK?
It's something that we'll discuss more in the future, OK.
And this helps us explain why Israel is behaving the way it is
behaving in the Middle East. First of all, what other people
think of Israel doesn't matter. What matters is God, OK?
What God thinks of Israel. Second thing is that it's
important to do evil in order to ultimately redeem yourself from
this evil. And the only force that can
redeem you is God. OK, so Israel is committing all
this evil because then God will humble Israel by setting the
world against it. And then the Israelis will beg
for forgive this and that is what will cause a reunion
between the Jewish people and God.
OK. And the third thing is, in the
system, goodness does not mean to avoid sin.
It's not impossible. Goodness means to accelerate
this natural process into sin so that issue can be redeemed at
the end of days. It doesn't make sense.
All right. So what I'm trying to explain
here, what is very important is that each of these four
different players, United States, Russia, Iran and Israel,
they have their own world view. They have they have own
understanding and that's what drives their actions, OK.
And the other thing to remember is that what's really
interesting between these four world views is that they're
actually not in conflict with each other, OK?
And these four in these four world views, it's going, it's
what's going to drive your policy for the next 5 to 10
years. And because they are galvanized
into achieving their worldview, this forces the world to go
along, even though the world may not want to go along.
OK, does that make sense? All right, So what I will do
next week is talk about the Civil War going out, going out
on in the world between artificial intelligence and
finance. Okay, and Trump is visiting
China in about a weeks time, so we'll also look at the
relationship between United States and China as well.
Okay, any questions? All right.