1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,120 There is a ceasefire now between Iran and United States, but most 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:10,560 analysts expect that this war will resume in a week, 2 weeks, 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,040 a month. But it will, it will resume 4 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:16,440 because it is impossible for United States and Iran to come 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,680 to a mutually beneficial and satisfying arrangement. 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,280 So today I want to look at how this war will evolve. 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:32,040 And my argument to you today is that this US, Iran war, it's 8 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,600 really the first war of the 21st century. 9 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,200 And so I want to explain to you how warfare has evolved these 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,680 past few 100 years. So the simplest way to fight a 11 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:49,000 war is you would destroy a state's capacity to fight by 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,520 killing as many soldiers as possible, right? 13 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,160 You would arrange to fight the enemy on a battlefield. 14 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,840 Whoever wins this battle would win the war. 15 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,680 And that was how traditionally wars, wars were fought for 16 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,640 hundreds and hundreds of years. When it was a century, something 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,480 happened, which is that the state and nation state, they 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,920 have the capacity to have a lot of people, millions of people. 19 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,040 And so the state could always replenish its forces on the 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,400 battlefield. And so now what you had to do 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:26,680 was you had to destroy the state's capacity to produce, to 22 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,800 manufacture, OK. And this is really. 23 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,360 And so the point is to kill as many civilians as possible 24 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,480 before you want to kill as many soldiers as possible. 25 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,600 When the 20th century war, mainly World War Two, you're 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,400 trying to kill as many civilians as possible. 27 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,720 But in the 21st century, it's different because we have 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,920 nuclear weapons now and there are too many people. 29 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,480 So it is impossible for you to kill everyone. 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,080 And if you use nuclear weapons, then others will use nuclear, 31 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,480 will use nuclear weapons on you. OK, so now in the 21st century, 32 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:01,560 our goal is to use the population against the state, to 33 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:06,240 turn the civilians against the government by sowing as much 34 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,360 discord and dissent as possible within society. 35 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,560 And you do that through economic sabotage for economic 36 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,720 strangulation. OK, so that's the argument I 37 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:20,360 will make to you today. The first thing I want to look 38 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,240 at is why is it that we have 8 billion people? 39 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,320 8 billion people are living on this planet. 40 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,160 And for most of us, we think this is a tremendous 41 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,840 achievement. But if you think about it, it's 42 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,200 not that nice because there aren't that many resources to 43 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:40,880 share. There's not much that much 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,880 space. In fact, if it were not for 45 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,200 fertilizers, we would only be able to support 1 to 2 billion 46 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,360 people. So how do we get to a stage? 47 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,280 We have 8 film people in this world and most of us are are not 48 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,120 very happy with the state of affairs, OK? 49 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,200 And scientists will tell you it's because of the Senate 50 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,800 revolution. It's because of this revolution 51 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,280 in technology and understanding that's allowed us to progress. 52 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,120 That's not true, OK? The real reason is because of 53 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,200 the nation state. In the nation state, it is a 54 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:21,680 revolution in politics that came to us because of the French 55 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:26,040 Revolution. All right, so the main architect 56 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,920 of the French Revolution, his name is Jean Jacques Rousseau. 57 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,400 He was, he was not French. He was, he was actually Swiss. 58 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,960 But he's important because he dealt the theory that 59 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,040 underpinned the French French Revolution called social 60 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:51,000 contract theory. Before, we didn't really think 61 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,280 about what the individual's relationship with the state was. 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,960 Basically, you were born in the community and you just did what 63 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,760 tradition and custom and family asked you to do. 64 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,640 But John Russo was the first to say, no. 65 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,120 We are Born Free because God gave us freedom. 66 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,840 So why do we choose to surrender our freedom in order to join a 67 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,720 community? OK. 68 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:21,720 And so his theory is that we join society to become more 69 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:31,120 free. So by ourselves, we together, 70 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,000 OK, all of us together, we create something called the 71 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,720 common will and think of this as democracy. 72 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,080 Democracy is basically the idea that to make a decision, we just 73 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,440 vote and then whatever comes, whichever is the majority wins. 74 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,080 So for example, we might debate whether we're going to 75 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,840 McDonald's or Pizza Hut, OK, There's three of us. 76 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,880 If 2 of you say let's go to Pizza Hut, we go to Pizza Hut 77 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,440 and that's this democracy for genre, we're. 78 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,880 So this is not a good system because we should strive to be 79 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,880 higher than we are. We should strive for total 80 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,640 freedom. And that's the idea of the 81 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,680 general will, OK? The common will is who we are. 82 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,960 The general will is who we could be if we came together as a 83 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,080 people, OK. And the best way to understand 84 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:29,800 the general will is through Kant's theory of the categorical 85 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:36,360 imperative, OK, which is for him the highest moral law. 86 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,800 So as human beings, what makes us truly human, what allows us 87 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,120 to achieve our ideal state, are three principles OK? 88 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,320 The first principle is a principle of universality. 89 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,080 So imagine that all your actions will be reflected throughout the 90 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,680 universe. So if you smile, everyone smiles 91 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,000 at once. You get angry, everyone gets 92 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,560 angry at once, and you ask yourself, what sort of society 93 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,920 do I want to live in? Do I want to live in a society 94 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,200 where everyone is smiling or angry? 95 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:09,480 Right. And then that's the way you 96 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,440 should behave, the law of universality. 97 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,400 Secondly, it's the idea of free will. 98 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,440 No one can compel you to smile. You must smile out of your own 99 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,800 free choice. Even though smiling makes you 100 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:30,000 feel happy like make you smile like goes against the good of 101 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,760 humanity. OK, the third is the idea of 102 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:39,480 human as an ends. OK, so I can never sacrifice 103 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,920 another human being in order to achieve a better society because 104 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:48,400 we are the ultimate end. OK, so these these together, the 105 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,720 category imperative is what gives us the theory of the 106 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,400 general will. So even though we all vote to 107 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,560 eat ice cream, we shouldn't eat ice cream because that's not how 108 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:05,240 we we achieve enlightenment. That's not how we achieve the 109 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,480 ideal state, right? We should think about can't 110 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,800 category imperative. Now what happens is this from 111 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,960 the general will, this is a sovereign. 112 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:20,760 OK, this is the highest law. This is God basically. 113 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,520 And from the sovereign we achieve the state, the 114 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,200 government and the state makes us into citizens. 115 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:37,040 And then we have laws, culture, education. 116 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,560 OK, So for John de Rousseau, this is the social contract, 117 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,440 this is the ideal state. And the French Revolution 118 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:50,440 started because there were many intellectuals, revolutionaries 119 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,360 who wanted to achieve the social contract. 120 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:00,640 But as you can, as you can appreciate, there were many who 121 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,960 disagreed with this theory, especially monarchs, right? 122 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,760 Because the idea here is that the general will, the people are 123 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,360 the sovereign. But in a, in a monarchy, the 124 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,800 monarch is what's sovereign. So the sovereign must. 125 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,720 So it's a debate over who's sovereign. 126 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:25,880 And so at this time in history, most nations, most countries in 127 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,400 Europe were monarchies. So they saw the French 128 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,679 Revolution as a direct threat to them. 129 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,919 And that's why they invaded France many, many times. 130 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,240 But it's something really weird happened. 131 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:47,040 These professional armies who go into France and they're fighting 132 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,880 against the citizens, OK? People with no military expense, 133 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,760 we're not professional soldiers. What's happening was that they 134 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,520 were losing to these citizen armies. 135 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,440 And the question is, why was this happening? 136 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:07,120 And the reason why is that this theory is so powerful that it 137 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:13,040 makes people willing to fight to die for this. 138 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:17,880 OK, Right. So what was happening during the 139 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,960 French Revolution, these wars, was that you had the monarchies, 140 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:26,840 and these were professional armies. 141 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,240 And so these were basically mercenaries. 142 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,320 And the thing about mercenaries is they didn't want to die, 143 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,600 right? They're collecting a paycheck. 144 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,280 Their point is to intimidate. Their point is to scare. 145 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,560 It's not to die. But then you have the French 146 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:49,480 Revolution and they were citizens and they were willing 147 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:56,360 to fight and die, OK. And that's why France became 148 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,960 most powerful nation in Europe at this time, because they could 149 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:03,440 call on their citizens to fight and to die. 150 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,360 And it was almost unlimited amount of soldiers. 151 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:14,280 Whereas the other countries like Prussia, Russia, Austria, they 152 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,280 had professional soldiers who were afraid to die. 153 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,160 They all all they wanted was their paycheck. 154 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:28,400 So over time the French were overwhelming the Europeans and 155 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,800 this great the French Empire, right? 156 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,560 But once these these places were conquered, they had they dealt 157 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:38,240 their own theory as to how to defeat the French and they 158 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:42,320 recognized that we also need a theory of nationalism. 159 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:44,520 We also need a theory of the nation state. 160 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,080 But they didn't like the social contract theory, OK. 161 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:54,720 So they came up with a new theory based on nation, which 162 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:00,560 was basically language, culture and race. 163 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:06,600 And so these are these, this becomes Germany, OK, or we call 164 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:13,760 iron and blood. So now you have these theories 165 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,960 of nationalism come out into Europe, and now they're 166 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,120 invincible because they can call on their citizens to fight and 167 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,880 to die. This is why Europe became the 168 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,040 most powerful region of the world starting in the 19th 169 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,720 century, OK. But of course, the problem with 170 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,840 nationalism, the problem with populations that want to fight 171 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:39,400 and die, is that they keep on fighting wars, but it's not a 172 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,840 real. And So what happens is that to 173 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,680 solve this problem, all these nations focus on trying to grow 174 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:49,760 the population as fast as possible, as much as possible. 175 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,040 And this and this is what led to this massive population growth. 176 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:59,520 But with more population, what was happening was that these 177 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,280 wars were becoming deadlier and dead deadlier, culminating of 178 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,600 course in World War 2. And then by World War 2, Europe 179 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,080 had exhausted itself. Too many people had died, their 180 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,760 civilization was destroyed. And so this allowed America to 181 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:20,640 come into power. OK, America and America had a 182 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,440 different theory of the nation state. 183 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,840 So the French, their theory was the social contract. 184 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,320 The Germans, their theory is iron and blood. 185 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:33,080 OK, race. The Americans had a different 186 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,320 theory because America was a multicultural nation of 187 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:42,280 immigrants who are trying to colonize the Western Hemisphere, 188 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,000 North America, right? So for them, their theory is to 189 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,320 create a game. The nation state becomes a game. 190 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:02,080 The Constitution and government are the game masters and what 191 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:07,240 they will allow is for anyone to come to America and get rich as 192 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,520 long as they work hard and this will create the greatest nation 193 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:15,720 in the world. OK, so this becomes a game where 194 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,880 anyone can play. In fact, the more players that 195 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,960 you have, the wealthier merit becomes, right? 196 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,120 And then after World War Two, what happened was in America, 197 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:35,040 spread this game throughout the world as much as as much as it 198 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,200 could, right, to Europe and to Japan. 199 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,040 But there's still communist countries like China and Soviet 200 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,120 Union, which they want to participate in this game. 201 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,920 They had their own game. And So what happened was that 202 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,200 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this game conquered the 203 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,760 world, right? You had globalization. 204 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:03,040 OK, the problem is this. Once this game keeps on going, 205 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:09,840 eventually what happens is that only a few players achieve all 206 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,520 the wealth, right? You have massive inequality and 207 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:19,480 everyone else become falls into debt, OK? 208 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,120 And that's the world that we live in today. 209 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,520 America create this game. It was very successful in 210 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,960 creating tremendous wealth. And they're trying to have as 211 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,880 many players as possible. That's why you you have the 212 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,560 population boom, but now only a few people have all the wealth 213 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:39,080 and everyone else is in debt. In other words, these people are 214 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,760 useless and therefore we need to reset the game. 215 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,280 And the way that we set the game of course is to destroy the game 216 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,840 in the 1st place. Therefore I have World War three 217 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,200 but everything down and start the game over again. 218 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,040 OK and that's why we are in the situation we are in today. 219 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,320 OK so now what? So now what? 220 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,320 What I'm going to do is go over some of the major ideas that 221 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,240 allowed for this system to come into being. 222 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,880 OK, so first I want to look look at the Social Contract by Jean 223 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,640 Jacques Rousseau. So Ivory, could you do a favor 224 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:22,240 and read the first passage? Okay, so let me progress in 225 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,000 context. This is from his book called The 226 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,040 Social Contract. And Jock Rousseau is arguing 227 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,160 slavery. And before it was understood 228 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,600 that slavery is a good system because the master is nice to 229 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,840 the slave as long as the master is nice to the slave. 230 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,520 It's that you be happy. And General Russo says, no, that 231 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,560 cannot be true. In no, under no circumstance can 232 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:46,000 a slave ever be happy. OK. 233 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,080 And he explains why. So, Ivor, can you be, please? 234 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,360 To renounce your liberty is to renounce your status as a man, 235 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,920 your rights as a human being and even your duties as a human 236 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,080 being. There can be any way of 237 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,080 compensating someone who gives up everything. 238 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,280 Such a renunciation is incompatible with a man's 239 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,120 nature. To remove all freedom from his 240 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,800 will is to remove all morality from his actions. 241 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,520 Finally, an agreement to have absolute authority on one side 242 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,400 and unlimited obedience on the other. 243 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:20,000 What an empty and contradictory agreement that would have to be. 244 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,320 Isn't it clear that if we are entitled to take anything and 245 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,520 everything from a person, we can't be under any obligation to 246 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,200 him? And isn't that fact alone, the 247 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,440 fact that there is no equivalence, nothing to be 248 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,520 exchanged between the two sides enough to nullify the agreement? 249 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,920 What right can my slave have against me? 250 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,680 Everything that he has is mine, his right is mine, and it 251 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,080 doesn't make sense to speak my right against myself. 252 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,440 OK, so the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by 253 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,880 God. Our freedom is what connects us 254 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,800 to God. So our freedom cannot be 255 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,080 surrendered. If we surrender our freedom, if 256 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,800 someone takes our freedom away from us, that is surrounding our 257 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,760 humanity, that is bringing our connection to God. 258 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,800 Therefore it is better to die than be a slave. 259 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:08,640 And that was their thinking during the French Revolution, 260 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:09,160 right? Yeah. 261 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,599 All these citizens, they've actually no experience with 262 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:16,040 firearms, but they were running into cannon fire against 263 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,160 professional soldiers because they were like, give me liberty 264 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:24,240 or give me death because, well, my liberty, I am nothing. 265 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,040 OK, So it's a really important concept. 266 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,880 And then you can read this below. 267 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,400 I'm continually astonished that such a simple sign of good 268 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,160 government isn't recognized. Or perhaps men do recognize it 269 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:40,760 but aren't honest enough to say so. 270 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,240 What is the purpose of any political association, the 271 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,720 preservation and prosperity of its members? 272 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,800 And what is the surest sign of their preservation and 273 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,160 prosperity, their number and their population growth? 274 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,120 That's the sign you're looking for. 275 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,080 Other things being equal, the unquestionably best government 276 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,000 is the one under which the population increases most 277 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,320 without external help from naturalizing foreigners or 278 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,320 establishing colonies. The government under which the 279 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,080 population shrinks is the worst. Over to you. 280 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,480 Calculators count, measure, compare. 281 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,760 OK, this really important idea. OK, so first is liberty is the 282 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:26,600 most important value. And the second idea is a good 283 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,840 government, a good society should focus on population 284 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,400 growth, on having as many people as possible, because that's the 285 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,240 best sign that you're you're frightening as a society. 286 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:43,400 OK, so because of these two ideas, OK, population growth and 287 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:50,800 then liberty, the French will become the greatest empire in 288 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,800 Europe at this time. So this is France in the in the 289 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,520 dark green and they will colonize and conquer everything 290 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,760 in the green and you can see how vast it is right? 291 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,800 So this shows you the power of the nation state based on 2 292 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,200 ideas. The first idea is liberty is all 293 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,680 that matters. Second idea is go to population 294 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:22,080 as fast as possible, OK, So of course what happens, as I 295 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,360 mentioned, is that the Germans who are being conquered by the 296 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:28,600 French, they get upset and their intellectuals come up with a new 297 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:33,360 theory of nationalism. This is Johann Fekte, who is 298 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:35,440 considered the father of German nationalism. 299 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:41,320 And this argument is that it is language that binds us as 300 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,360 humans. OK, so for Rousseau, it's 301 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:46,480 liberty that we should strive for. 302 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,080 It's liberty that gives us value as human beings. 303 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,920 But for Johann Ficte, it's no It's language. 304 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,960 It's language that binds us to the past. 305 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:56,920 It's language that binds us together. 306 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,240 It's language that's worth fighting for. 307 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:06,440 It's race, nation, blood. And this becomes. 308 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,080 The philosophy of the German state at this time in history, 309 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,720 Germany was divided into many hundreds of different kingdoms. 310 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,640 It is Bismarck on and on. Bismarck of pressure will unify 311 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,160 the German people into one Germany. 312 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,600 OK, often called the Second Reich. 313 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,040 And so can you read? I read this. 314 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,440 This is a speech or his famous iron and blood speech. 315 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,440 The position of pressure in Germany will not be determined 316 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,400 by its liberalism, but by its power. 317 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,560 Pressure must concentrate its strength and hold it for the 318 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,440 favorable moment, which has already come and gone. 319 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,360 Several times since the treaties of Vienna. 320 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,280 Our frontiers have been ill designed for a healthy body 321 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,960 politic. Not through speeches and 322 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,760 majority decisions will the great questions of the day be 323 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,120 decided. That was the great mistake of 324 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:04,960 1848 and 1849. But by iron and blood, OK. 325 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,880 All right. So the thing here is that, 326 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:12,280 listen, we're a germination, OK? And as a nation state, as a 327 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,000 people, we must protect our freedom by going to war, OK? 328 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,400 It's only by for war that we can survive and thrive as a people. 329 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,560 But how do you fight wars? Well, you fight wars, and it's 330 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:30,280 really important by making sure your population is seen care of. 331 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,880 OK. So can you read Ivory? 332 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,120 The real grievance of the worker is the insecurity of his 333 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:39,440 existence. He's not sure that he will 334 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,960 always have work. He's not sure that if he will 335 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,960 always be healthy, and he foresees that he will one day be 336 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,320 old and unfit to work if he falls into poverty, if even if 337 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,000 only through a prolonged illness. 338 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,960 He is then completely helpless, left to his own devices, and 339 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,120 society does not currently recognize any real obligation 340 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,920 toward him beyond their usual help for the poor, even if he 341 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,160 has been working all the time, ever so faithfully and 342 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,040 diligently. The usual help for the poor, 343 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,360 however, leaves a lot to be desired, especially in large 344 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:12,880 cities where it is very much worse than in the country. 345 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,520 So Bismarck will turn Germany into the most powerful national 346 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,560 world by recognizing that it's not just soldiers who contribute 347 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,920 to the war effort, it's also your people as well. 348 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:30,240 Because it's your people who make the machines of war, that 349 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:36,240 the machine guns, the artillery, the ammunitions, and therefore 350 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:38,320 you have to make sure they are healthy. 351 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,480 You don't want to send sick soldiers to the battlefield, 352 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,160 right? You don't want sick, sick 353 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,520 workers as well. That's why he passed a lot of 354 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,960 progressive worker reforms, including health insurance, 355 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,800 accidental insurance, old age pension, workers protection, 356 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,000 children protection. OK. 357 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,800 It is because he recognizes that a nation state is first and 358 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:05,200 foremost about making warriors. And if you want to win, you have 359 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,600 to make sure you have as many people as possible. 360 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,680 And everyone has contribute to the war effort. 361 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,920 And to do that, you need to make sure that everyone is taken care 362 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,240 of, including your soldiers, including your workers. 363 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,880 OK. And it was Mussolini who 364 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,120 basically understood that the real purpose of a nation state 365 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:32,600 is to fight wars. In fact, it is wars that give 366 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:37,360 people meaning their lives. If you have a war, if you create 367 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:41,480 a nation state around war, you create a mythology around the 368 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:46,080 beauty of war, then people will happily fight and die. 369 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,120 OK, can you read a speech? We have created our myth. 370 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,680 The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be 371 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,760 a reality. It is a reality in the sense 372 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,160 that it is. It is a stimulus, is hope, is 373 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,960 faith, is courage. Our myth is the nation. 374 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,520 Our myth is the greatness of the nation, and to this myth, this 375 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,520 greatness which we want to translate into a total reality, 376 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,200 we subordinate everything else. OK, so this is the highlight or 377 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:25,840 the peak of the nation state. And so during World War 2, they 378 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:30,000 had to fight a war to destroy the entire society because the 379 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,920 soldiers were not emotionally army like they were in the past 380 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,200 before the soldiers were coming from the population themselves. 381 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:43,000 So in World War 2, the Allies won not because they were 382 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,920 democratic or moral superior or or had a better strategy. 383 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:51,800 It was because they could destroy the productive capacity 384 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,680 of their enemies, but their enemies could not destroy the 385 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,480 productive capacity of their nation states. 386 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,720 Does that make sense? So America, their factories were 387 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,040 fine. Soviet Union, their factories 388 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:10,160 were removed into Siberia, far away from German, from the 389 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,600 Germans. The Germans and the Japanese 390 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,480 could be fire bombed. OK, so look at this. 391 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:24,240 So from 19401945 the British and Americans fire bombed Germany. 392 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,040 OK, this is Dresden. Dresden. 393 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,960 You can see the entire city of Dresden was destroyed by the 394 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,400 fire bombing. So in war to what they what they 395 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,560 recognized is there's no point in killing soldiers on the 396 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,120 battlefield because they'll just send in more soldiers with more 397 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:42,440 weapons. So we need to destroy the 398 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,880 civilian population. That's how you win the war, OK. 399 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,720 And that's how and that's how they defeated Germany. 400 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,640 Japan was much worse. Look at this. 401 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,560 At least half of Japan was destroyed by the American 402 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,640 firebombing of Japan. That's why Japan lost the war. 403 00:25:58,360 --> 00:25:59,800 Otherwise they would have kept on going. 404 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,760 All right. And these are huge cities. 405 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:09,600 So Nagoya is a city the size of Los Angeles. 40% of it was 406 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,480 destroyed. OK Tokyo is New York City, 40% 407 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,600 of it was destroyed as well. Yokohama, 60% of it was 408 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,920 destroyed, OK. This is Tokyo. 409 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:26,200 You can see the extent of the damage. 410 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,040 Then this you say idea was so powerful that in order to win a 411 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,400 war you need to destroy the civilian population. 412 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:43,960 OK, so as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, 413 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,440 we have to kill more and more people in order to fight wars. 414 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:56,760 So this is War 2 and at least 20 to 31 people were killed. 415 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,800 OK. And depending on your on how you 416 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,240 calculate, probably a lot more than that died. 417 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,640 But what's interesting is that even though War 2 was a 418 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,800 calamity, even though 10s of 1,000,000 have died, there was a 419 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,240 population growth. It didn't, it never stopped. 420 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:21,560 OK, so when So for most of history of human history, 421 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,600 population growth was steady, but then starting around the 422 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,560 year 1600, it boomed. OK. 423 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:34,960 And again, scientists will tell you this coincided with the rise 424 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,040 of science and technology, but we've always had science and 425 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,200 technology. What made this different was the 426 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:45,240 rise of the nation state and the recognition that to fight wars, 427 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,720 you need more people who want to kill themselves for the nation. 428 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,280 And to get them to do that, you have to treat them well as well. 429 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,160 OK. And that's what. 430 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:03,960 And so the nation state wanted science, technology to grow the 431 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,920 population. That's where we had medicine and 432 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:12,000 sanitation, OK. These innovations happen because 433 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,760 the nation state will these things to happen all. 434 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:24,400 Right. Now, as I mentioned, after War 2 435 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,960 and after all the travesty and destruction of World War 2, the 436 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,720 world got together and said, OK, America, you're not, you're in 437 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,160 charge now. And let's build a world in which 438 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,280 we don't have to fight and kill each other anymore. 439 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,040 And so America create this game, right, called capitalism, 440 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,920 consumer capitalism, in which we we live in today. 441 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,080 And this system is unique in human history. 442 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,600 And for most of this history, what's extremely successful, it 443 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,800 grew the population from about 2 billion to about 8 billion 444 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,840 today. It made a lot of people more 445 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,840 wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth 446 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,840 that China has generated in the past 30-40 years because of its 447 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,320 participation and consumer capitalism. 448 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,640 But unfortunately, we've now reached a point where the system 449 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,480 is off balance. It's it's unstable, it's 450 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,160 unsustainable. So now we're going back to war, 451 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,880 but unfortunately, because there's too many people, this 452 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:30,200 means that when we go back to war, at least 50% of humanity 453 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,600 will die off in World War Three. OK, so this is a war in Ukraine, 454 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,520 and already millions of people are dying in this war. 455 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,680 When you look at the war in Ukraine, it's essentially a 19th 456 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,240 century war, OK? It's almost like World War One. 457 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,080 I know World War One happened in the 20th century, but it's 458 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,960 really a 19th century war where you are trying to kill as many 459 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,280 soldiers as possible. OK. 460 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,440 And that's what's happening in Ukraine. 461 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:07,400 The what I will show you is that Iran will be the 1st 21st 462 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:16,600 century war. So America in round one, try to 463 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:22,720 use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically you 464 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:34,160 decapitate the leadership, OK? You destroy the military and you 465 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,800 destroy production, right? That's the idea of shock and 466 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,320 all. I come in, I kill your 467 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:47,280 leadership, I kill your military, I kill your war 468 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,800 factories. And you do it as soon as 469 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,520 possible. But this is not working against 470 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,480 Iran because they've prepared this. 471 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,800 They've prepared this war for 20 years. 472 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,280 So it's decentralized. OK, so you've killed the 473 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,600 leaders, but they don't care because they have new leaders 474 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:11,480 come into place. The military is hidden, OK, 475 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,160 They're hidden in mountains, and the factory is also hidden in 476 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,640 mountains as well. So even though the Americans 477 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:23,600 have really destroyed much of Iran's war fighting capacity, 478 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,320 Iran is still in this fight. So what's going to happen is 479 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,880 that over the next few months, America is going to shift its 480 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:36,000 strategy into a 21st century war strategy. 481 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,600 OK, Which way? Which will have 3 components. 482 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,360 The first component is economic triangulation. 483 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,080 I will destroy your economy, your entire economy. 484 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:57,080 Second is ethnic tension. I will try to create as much 485 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:03,960 conflict as possible between the different peoples in Iran. 486 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,520 OK. And the third thing is destroy 487 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:16,000 civilian infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy 488 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:21,640 people's capacity to access water, electricity and food, the 489 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,040 basic necessities of life. Why do I want to do that? 490 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,200 Because if people cannot access these things, they get angry, 491 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,040 right? Then if they get angry, I can 492 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,600 channel this anger against the government because it's easier 493 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,480 for them to attack the government than it's to attack 494 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,000 the US military, which which is the ones destroying all this 495 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,720 infrastructure. So this is what a 21st century 496 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,280 war strategy looks like. And this is what the Americans 497 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,880 will deploy in Iran over the next few months. 498 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,400 Now, why haven't they done this before? 499 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:01,520 Well, because these are war crimes, OK, there are lots of 500 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,720 treaties, the Geneva Convention, that prohibit you from fighting 501 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,760 these wars. But as the Americans become much 502 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,520 more desperate as they continue to lose this war, they'll be 503 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,520 like, screw this. I'm going to win this war no 504 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:17,800 matter what it takes. OK. 505 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,680 So let me show you how how this war will be fought. 506 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,840 So before, right now, they're trying to target weapons. 507 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,600 They're trying to target military bases. 508 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,800 That doesn't get you anywhere, OK, You, you need to better use 509 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,160 your weapon systems because there's you just don't have 510 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,040 enough munitions to destroy the entire Iranian military, OK? 511 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,480 So, so you have to be strategic now. 512 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,640 And so you target things that have huge impact on the civilian 513 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,080 population as well as the economy, right? 514 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,960 So the the most most basic thing is water. 515 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:58,240 OK, Look, guys, these are all dams and reservoirs around you 516 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,960 ran OK, I don't destroy all of them, but but I strategically 517 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,400 destroy some of them. This is a create a lot of 518 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,239 pressure on the on the civilian population. 519 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,960 They'll be very angry. They might protest against the 520 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,480 government. OK. 521 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,920 Also transportation networks, right? 522 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,199 These are roads and railways. This is important because Tehran 523 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,840 is a city of 10 million people, and they do not grow their own 524 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,760 food. They require food to come from 525 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:38,560 the countryside, from elsewhere. So if I attack the roads leading 526 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:45,280 to Tehran, if I attack strategic hubs, then it's very hard for 527 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,199 food to move from place to place. 528 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,840 OK, I don't destroy, destroy the entire food supply. 529 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,400 I can't do that. I don't have weapons. 530 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,040 But I'm pretty strategic about it. 531 00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:00,360 I'm putting strain on Tehran's capacity to feed its own 532 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,480 population power plants, OK, These are all power plants 533 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:10,840 around Iran, and it's really easy to destroy these power 534 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,480 plants, right? So does that make sense? 535 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,840 So the idea is war. The rules of engagement require 536 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,760 me to only attack soldiers and only attack weapons. 537 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,320 But eventually I'm going to run out of munitions. 538 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,920 And I keep on doing that. And it's not going to destroy 539 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,280 Iran's capacity to fight. They won't surrender. 540 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,680 So now I need to be more strategic with how I use my 541 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,800 munitions, well, how I use my bombs. 542 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,920 And so I want to create as much damage as possible. 543 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,800 And the best way to do that is by targeting key infrastructure, 544 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,400 power plants, desalination plans, roads, railway networks. 545 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,400 OK? I can't destroy all of them, but 546 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,920 I didn't create as much havoc as possible over time, so the 547 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,600 civilian population gets very angry. 548 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,840 So my best weapon in this war are no longer my planes and my 549 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,160 aircraft carriers. My best weapon is the Iranian 550 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,760 people themselves. And that's what the 21st century 551 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,200 war looks like. It's very slow. 552 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,880 It's very methodical. It's pretty evil, OK? 553 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,240 All right, all right. The other thing is economic 554 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:24,080 strangulation. All right, So what am I trying 555 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,440 to do here? OK, So Iran, there are two ways 556 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,440 for them to generate income for to finance this war. 557 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:36,240 The 1st is to sell oil, OK? And this is Carg Island, which 558 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,560 is their main depot, OK, Oil depot. 559 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:45,920 And 9% of Iranian oil goes from Carg Island elsewhere, primarily 560 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,480 to China. 90% of Iranian oil exports goes to China, okay, So 561 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,000 what Americans have done is they've imposed A blockade 562 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:03,760 stopping oil exports, okay? That's one way you can stop the 563 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,160 Iran's economy. The other thing is that right 564 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,240 now Iran controls the strip of Hormuz and they collect tolls on 565 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:12,280 that. OK, so I basically need to 566 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,080 destroy Iran's control over the strip of Hormuz. 567 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:19,400 The way I do that is I use ground forces. 568 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:24,200 OK, So what I can do is seize Qassem Island, seize Current 569 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:29,960 Island, seize the coastline and force the Iranians to respond to 570 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,520 my attacks. Right, I can. 571 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:40,680 Also position forces here and here, Why? 572 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:46,400 Because these areas, OK, in the northwest of Iran are home to 573 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,400 minorities as well as the southeast. 574 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,120 And when I put my soldiers here, this is going to encourage local 575 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,680 population to rise up against the Iranian state. 576 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:02,080 And now what's going to happen is that the Iran, well, Iran 577 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,600 will now the same forces to respond to all these ethnic 578 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:14,120 insurgencies around Iran. OK, so before Iran could just 579 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,160 focus it's resources on controlling certain moves. 580 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,560 Like screw that, I'm going to expand the battlefield so that 581 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,120 Iran is forced to deal with multiple threats at the same 582 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,680 time. I'm going to collapse their 583 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,880 economy. All right, OK. 584 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,600 So this is what a 21st century war looks like. 585 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,520 It's slow. You focus on triangulation as 586 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:47,760 opposed to a knockout punch. All right, So what is one way to 587 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,640 understand what's happening is that the Americans have been 588 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,280 doing this for a long time, but more subtly. 589 00:38:53,280 --> 00:39:00,720 All right. So in 2012, the Iranian 590 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:11,080 president named Ahmad Tejad. He accused the Americans of 591 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:18,680 conducting weather warfare against Iran, mainly by creating 592 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,640 droughts in Iran. And how do you do that? 593 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,000 Well, it's cloud seeding, right? It's cloud seeding. 594 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,400 So the idea of cloud seeing is that you shoot up a chemical, 595 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:35,200 silver iodide, into clouds, forcing it to rain, OK. 596 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,560 When you do that, well, the clouds dissipate the rain 597 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,640 elsewhere and they don't go to Iran. 598 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,920 OK. So in 2019 there's a real fear 599 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:52,680 that Iran would suffer from long term drought and regions like 600 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,600 Dubai, which there is claim to be the source of this weather 601 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,240 warfare, they experienced droughts, Sorry, sorry, floods. 602 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:03,680 OK. All right. 603 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,760 So again, I don't know how science works and this is all 604 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,960 rumors, but it doesn't make sense where the Americans would 605 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:18,000 use weather warfare against Iran, forcing rain to come down 606 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,560 in Dubai to deny rain to the Iranians. 607 00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:28,600 OK, there's a conspiracy theory that these war governments are 608 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,640 conducting weather warfare using something called HARP. 609 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,760 OK, Now, HARP was originally designed in order to study the 610 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:42,080 atmosphere, but some conspiracy theorists claim that HARP can be 611 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:47,240 used to create extreme weathers, including hurricanes, cyclones, 612 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,400 flooding, droughts. I don't know. 613 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,720 OK, I, I'm, I'm just pointing this out there. 614 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:59,640 What we do know is in 1962, Lyndon Johnson, who became 615 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:03,280 president of the United States, he had a very famous quote at a 616 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,320 speech and he basically said he controls the weather, will 617 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,840 control the world. OK. 618 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,200 The future of warfare is not about weapons. 619 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,720 It's about weather. So it's not about how many how 620 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:16,560 many weapons you make. It's about how why you can 621 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,320 control the weather because you think about it, if you can 622 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,400 create a drought in a country, that country will be destroyed, 623 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,720 OK. And they put out resources into 624 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:34,760 developing weather warfare. And we know that from 1967 to 625 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,680 1972, the Americans present cooperation. 626 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:44,880 Popeye OK, So this during the Vietnam War and what the 627 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,640 Americans did was they see the clouds so that the monsoon 628 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,320 season would be a lot longer in Vietnam. 629 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,000 Why do that? Because then it's harder for the 630 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,640 Vietnamese to resupply themselves. 631 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,240 OK. It makes it it makes it harder 632 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,360 for them to fight because the Vietnamese are living in 633 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,240 tunnels, right? Whereas Americans are attacking 634 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:09,120 from the ear. All right, So this is pretty 635 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,040 well known. Operation Popeye is something 636 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,760 that the Americans did do in Vietnam, and they do have 637 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,320 weather manipulation technology. The question is, the debate is 638 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:23,640 how effective this technology is and how powerful is it and how 639 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,040 scalable is it? OK. 640 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:32,320 And that's the debate. We're already seeing elements of 641 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,680 21st century warfare being implemented around the world. 642 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:40,360 OK, So look at Cuba. There is now a oil embargo on 643 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,600 Cuba. And so they're blackouts. 644 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:46,320 All right? So again, the intention is not 645 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,680 to kill civilians. The intention is not to fight a 646 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,080 war. The intention is to strangle a 647 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,800 nation. So eventually the population 648 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,680 wants to overthrow the government. 649 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,680 And already what we're seeing is these past few months, lots of 650 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:04,560 accidents around the world that's destroying the world's 651 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,200 oil supply. OK. 652 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,640 But there's only, but there's one regional world that doesn't 653 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:16,640 really care about the loss of refineries, the loss of oil 654 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,480 supply, and that's North America, because North America 655 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:25,040 is extremely wealthy. And so when, if the rest of the 656 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:30,120 world is facing energy scarcity and food scarcity, it's, it's 657 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,920 going to beg North America, United States, Canada, Mexico 658 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,120 for resources. And this allows the Americans to 659 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,640 better control the world. OK, Again, this is what 21st 660 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:47,160 century warfare looks like. All right, The last, another 661 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:53,000 thing that I will point out is that the the Americans are very 662 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,440 good at over foreign governments. 663 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,160 OK, That's been called the colour revolution playbook. 664 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:02,120 Colour revolution playbook. And So what the Americans do is 665 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:07,040 they basically invite young people from different nations to 666 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,760 come to America to learn about democracy, to learn how how to 667 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,480 organize protest movement, how to overthrow the government in 668 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,840 order to promote democracy. The Americans will also finance 669 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:24,720 NGOs in different countries in order to create young movements 670 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,280 in the world. The Americans will also control 671 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:32,360 social media in order to galvanized the population and 672 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,800 foment unrest. OK, we saw this play out most 673 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:41,520 recently in 20 story last year Nepal when young people overfrew 674 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:46,160 the government. Now guys, OK, here's the thing. 675 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:52,400 In Nepal, most people don't speak English. 676 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,600 They don't read English. So why are these young people 677 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,520 holding up signs? OK boomer, time's up. 678 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,240 OK, that's in English. Who's it for? 679 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,600 Also, OK, boomer. It's an American phrase. 680 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,360 OK? It's an American phrase, not a 681 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,040 Nepalese phrase. So in other words, they're doing 682 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:20,760 this not to have impact locally in Nepal. 683 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,960 They're doing this based on paying them to do this. 684 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,040 You understand, it's being funded by Washington and 685 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,440 Washington's like, OK, well, I'll pay you this much, this 686 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,680 amount of money if you give me a slogan. 687 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:38,520 Do you hold a slogan so I can show my boss that this protest 688 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,360 is working? Also, guys, here's another side. 689 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,480 We pay you flax enough. OK, another English sign. 690 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,720 So again, why are they doing this when the local publishing, 691 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,040 local population don't even speak English? 692 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,520 They're doing it for Washington. They're not doing it for their 693 00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,480 own country. They're doing it for their 694 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,200 masters in Washington, right? Does that make sense? 695 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,080 Right. And this is very common in the 696 00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:09,680 world today where these protests are being orchestrated by 697 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,640 Washington for Washington as opposed to being organic. 698 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,120 This was in 2000 and ten, 2012 you have these Arab Spring 699 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,560 protests happened all around the Middle East. 700 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,600 OK, Did they stabilize 6 elements in the Middle East? 701 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:30,880 And we know that social media, basically Twitter and Facebook, 702 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,960 were instrumental in organizing people and promoting unrest in 703 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,040 these places. All right. 704 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,280 So these are all called color revolutions or color revolution 705 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:47,280 playbook. So not only does America have 706 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:52,640 the capacity to strangle a nation's economy and force the 707 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:57,120 population to beg for mercy, Washington and the Americans 708 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,480 also have strategies on how to overflow the government using 709 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,360 local population. OK, Basically by controlling 710 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,760 social media, by organizing young people, paying them to 711 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:16,080 protest and bribing security services to not intervene, OK. 712 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,560 It's a very successful playbook. They've tried many times and 713 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,560 it's worked many times before. All right. 714 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:31,120 So America can use this playbook against every country that 715 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,920 opposes it. OK, so the main reason again is 716 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:40,080 because America controls the world's troll points including 717 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:45,280 Sri Malaka, Panama Canal, Gibraltar. 718 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,720 These are the major troll points. 719 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,600 Even though the Iranians controller sort of moves, the 720 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,600 Americans can have aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and 721 00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,760 blockade the Iranians. OK, this is important because a 722 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:05,400 lot of people believe that what America really wants to do is 723 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,160 destroy China. And unfortunately, right now, a 724 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:13,800 lot of the Chinese economy depends on exports, meaning 725 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,000 trade. If you can't export, your 726 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,920 economy can suffer a great deal. When your economy suffers a 727 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,200 great deal, you lose GDP, your unemployment. 728 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,720 And it's possible that your protests happening in China 729 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,840 because of the clap to the economy. 730 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,080 OK, so that is what a 21st century war looks like. 731 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:38,480 OK. You don't send troops. 732 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,480 You don't destroy. What you do is you strangle a 733 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:47,400 people to death and force the people to rise up against the 734 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,200 nation, nation state, OK. And so the the concluding 735 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:57,800 message is this ultimately to fight a 21st century warfare, 736 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:06,080 OK. It's really about population 737 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:13,800 management. What I mean by that is your 738 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:18,440 enemy is trying to provoke your population into unrest to 739 00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,880 destroy you. So you have to respond by 740 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,040 managing your population better, OK? 741 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,560 And that can often mean culling your population. 742 00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:34,400 Culling your population just means killing them, OK? 743 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,920 Killing them can mean you deny them food, you create famine, 744 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:44,560 OK, You it can mean you spread diseases. 745 00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:49,600 It could mean you actually do go and shoot them. 746 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,440 OK. And this forces you to use 747 00:49:54,480 --> 00:50:00,000 artificial intelligence, AI surveillance state, because the 748 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,800 best way to control your population, the magic population 749 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,600 is with an AI surveillance state. 750 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,120 All right, so that's the future. We're looking at what a 21st 751 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,120 century war looks like. And there's no and there's no 752 00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,640 way around it. It is just the inability of 753 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,960 history. We have too many people. 754 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:22,040 We want to fight wars. And so a lot of people will have 755 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,760 to die in these wars. Does that make sense? 756 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:34,060 All right, any questions, guys? Any questions? 757 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,400 Yeah, Yeah, Sorry. Can you give the microphone to 758 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,640 Colin? I just have one small question 759 00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:50,320 about the 20th century war. Like if a country has been 760 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,440 attacked by the strategy, how can it respond? 761 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,040 Like how can Iran responds to American strategy right now? 762 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:07,600 OK, That's a good question. OK, look, the reality is that 763 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:13,440 when the Americans do this, OK, when when they do three things, 764 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:22,520 right, they destroy your economy, when they strangle, 765 00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,520 sorry, when they destroy your infrastructure, and when they 766 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:35,560 divide and conquer according to game theory, there's only one 767 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,640 response, OK? There's only one proper response 768 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:50,400 to this and this idea of eschatology, OK? 769 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:56,760 And the idea here is this. You need to create fanaticism 770 00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:01,320 among your people, right? Because your people are 771 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,880 suffering, they don't have enough to eat. 772 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,560 They don't have enough to eat. They don't have any hope in the 773 00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,880 future. So what you say to them is it's 774 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,800 all part of God's plan. We're meant to suffer because 775 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:19,320 when we suffer, God will make us invincible for our suffering. 776 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,920 We'll find the courage to commit martyrdom. 777 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,240 OK. When we do martyrdom, we go to 778 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:34,040 heaven. All right, the problem with this 779 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:39,360 is that most people don't want to do this, OK? 780 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,280 They're like, no, I don't want to kill myself. 781 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,480 I don't want to die for God. I just want to live a normal 782 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:51,520 life, OK? But unfortunately what history 783 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,680 tells us is that you really don't need that many people to 784 00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,800 commit to eschatology to win a war. 785 00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:03,200 Maybe at most 10 to 20%. If if 10 to 20% of your 786 00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:08,320 population commit to this eschatology, then you will 787 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:09,360 survive. OK? 788 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,960 We have an example of this with an example of this is the US. 789 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:17,800 Sorry, the Iran Iraq War, which which is what happened in the 790 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:22,120 1980s, OK, an 8 year war between Iran and Iraq, right? 791 00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:28,280 And guys, it was a crazy war. These Iraqis were supported by 792 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,080 both the Americans and the Soviet Union. 793 00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,040 They had tanks, they had helicopters, they had a 794 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,480 professional army. The Iranians in 1980s didn't 795 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,840 have an army. They didn't have tanks. 796 00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,680 Didn't have, they didn't have helicopters. 797 00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:50,600 So what they said to Indian people is the greatest glory is 798 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,640 to be a martyr. The greatest glory is to die for 799 00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:58,720 your nation and for God. So they, all these young people 800 00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,520 went into the battle with just a rifle. 801 00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,480 OK, guy, like, like, like, imagine this. 802 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,040 OK, you have this young guy, 16 years old. 803 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:13,040 He's running into battle against a tank in a helicopter, and he's 804 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,080 screaming at them. I will kill you. 805 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:22,200 And most of them got blown up, but some of them got through and 806 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:23,960 they threw a grenade into the tank. 807 00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,480 OK, Now you think you, you, you think all this. 808 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,040 You're like, Oh my God, that's crazy. 809 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,120 But. First of all, it galvanized the 810 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,920 Iranian population into resisting and event and 811 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,160 eventually they turned the tide of the war so that they were 812 00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,080 actually winning the war. And it was only because the 813 00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,200 Americans started to use chemical weapons against them 814 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:44,800 that the Iranians had to were forced back. 815 00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,960 OK, but if, if let alone, the Iranians would defeat the 816 00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:50,800 Iraqis. So think about that, how it 817 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,880 governs the population into resistance. 818 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:57,320 The other thing is that it scared the hell out of the 819 00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:58,480 Iraqis. OK? 820 00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:05,240 You are, you have a tank, right? The guys come at you with a 821 00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:07,520 rifle and a grenade. He's not afraid of you. 822 00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,120 His fearless, his fearlessness makes you afraid. 823 00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:17,640 OK, So even though, yes, in twenty 21st century warfare, OK, 824 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:23,760 it seems invincible, but eschatology is the counter to 825 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,720 this approach. And that's why we should see 826 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,320 over the next few years a huge surge in eschatology and 827 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:36,200 religious extremism throughout the world, because it's it's 828 00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,200 really the only counter to this type of warfare. 829 00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,360 Does does that make sense? OK, great question. 830 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,240 Any more questions, guys? OK, great. 831 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,840 So there's no class on Thursday and next Tuesday, but we'll come 832 00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,520 back next Thursday and we'll continue this. 833 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:53,760 OK. All right. 834 00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:54,280 Thank you.