➡ The situation between the U.S. and Iran is tense, with the U.S. considering two options: continue a blockade or strike Iran. The U.S. hopes the blockade will force Iran to stop their oil production, but Iran has developed ways to store oil due to long-term sanctions. The U.S. also hopes to refill its oil reserves cheaply once the Iran situation is resolved. The situation is also seen as a strategic move against China, a major oil consumer. The U.S. military budget and weapons contracts could benefit from this conflict.
➡ The text discusses the possibility of a military conflict involving the U.S. and Iran, with the author expressing skepticism about claims of weapon shortages. The author also criticizes biases in interpreting military events, suggesting that both sides tend to exaggerate their victories and downplay their losses. They also emphasize the importance of constant vigilance and self-criticism in both life and war, and criticize the culture of self-affirmation. Lastly, the author mentions a continuous airlift moving into the region, suggesting a rearming of the region, and expresses skepticism about the reliability of established military analysts.
➡ The speaker predicts a potential conflict involving the U.S. and Iran, suggesting that the U.S. might use heavy suppressing fire to limit Iran’s ability to retaliate. They also discuss Iran’s strategy of tit-for-tat retaliation, which they believe is too restrained. The speaker mentions the use of artificial intelligence in warfare and the U.S.’s collaboration with top AI companies. They also note a buildup of U.S. weapons in Saudi Arabia and a flurry of diplomatic calls from Iran, indicating a tense situation.
➡ Iran successfully attacked a US military base, damaging expensive radars but leaving the rest of the base intact. This suggests they chose restraint to avoid escalating the conflict. Meanwhile, Russia is facing an ecological disaster due to a major oil refinery fire, which is largely ignored by Western media. Despite these issues, both countries continue to develop their military capabilities, with the US focusing on artificial intelligence as a potential national security risk.
➡ The goal in the AI race is to create a super intelligent system that can dominate other nations, particularly China, by controlling their technology and systems. However, the development of such an AI requires it to conduct experiments and learn from them, which could take time. The U.S. government is taking this seriously as they see it as the next big weapon, hence the importance of semiconductors and rare earth metals. This AI could be used for various military purposes like target identification, faster command and control, cyber defense, and planning efficient strategies by analyzing all battlefield data.

This is your World War III update. Okay, let’s see what the cat dragged in today, guys. What a wild week it’s been. The weekend might get a lot wilder. It appears as though the Empire has one of two options. They can impose this blockade for the foreseeable future, hoping that the Iranians cry uncle, which according to Professor Morandi, he is claiming because they’ve been under sanctions for so long, that they’ve developed a lot of DIY tactics for oil storage and that they won’t be forced to shut in their oil wells, which is what the United States is banking on.

Now, I don’t attest to the veracity of those claims. I don’t have all the information. But we do know that 90% of their oil is sent through the Strait of Hormuz, primarily on oil tankers. Now, is there floating storage? Is there salt domes? I did a little bit of research and they can probably store, you know, a few million tons in salt domes, but that’s complicated as well. But I’m sure they have things that we don’t even know about that they don’t disclose. But the idea that they’re going to send it by rail or by truck, as I talked about on Scott Horton yesterday, you know, it’s just virtually.

It’s just impractical by all metrics. It. There’s 15,000 trucks worth of oil in an oil tanker. The only efficient way to send it is. Is via the sea. It would take 100 trains to ship an oil tanker full of oil like one of the VLCCs, the Very Large crew carriers. It’s just virtually impossible. Okay, so they have two choices. They could wait this out and hope that the Iranians cry uncle while the global economy gradually deteriorates to the point of depression and then riots and civil unrest. Or they could do a swift kinetic strike, call it a day and declare victory, and walk away from this whole thing.

And it appears as though that’s what Senator Blumenthal is suggesting in this interview that he gave with CNN yesterday. Now, if you don’t know much about this guy, all you need to know, the only thing you need to know about Blumenthal is that he’s Lindsey Graham’s best buddy. Well, maybe not best buddy, cuz Donald Trump is. Is Lindsey Graham’s best buddy. And everybody knows what Lindsey Graham likes. He loves himself a good war, whether it’s with Russia or Iran. And these guys were the trailblazers for the Iran war. They proposed House Resolution 559, which did pass back in 2023.

And this basically set the groundwork and all the preconditions that would be required for a US Intervention and in Iran on Israel’s behalf. If it stated in there, there were four criteria, I believe if any one of them was fulfilled, it would warrant intervention. And one of them was Iran becoming a nuclear threshold state. It was very ambiguously worded that Iran might possibly someday pose a nuclear threat. And so he’s going to masquerade in this interview as being anti Iran war. But despite his stated reservations, as I’ve already stated, and there’s videos of this online, you can go and see all the times that he has been an advocate for a war with Iran, he very much is in favor of a war with Iran.

After all, the United States, despite what acquaintance of the channel Scott Horton might think, is benefiting from this greatly, they’re selling oil at top dollar dollar, record amounts of this stuff. And the, the scam is this, guys, is that they think that they’re going to be able to refill the strategic oil reserve of which they’re selling right now to the rest of the world, that top dollar. They think they’re going to be able to replenish that on the cheap once they figure out this situation in Iran. Now, that’s part of the scam. The other part is creating such a conflagration in the Middle east that prevents the oil from getting to your adversary in Asia, chief among them being China.

Scott Horton yesterday, in that interview that we did, he stated that the United States already has control of the Gulf countries that they do. But what he fails to realize is that the. If the United States wants to prevent China’s access to energy, because they know they’re probably going to build Skynet before we will at this rate. Well, the only way to do it is create a situation where the Iranians are attacking the Gulf states so that the oil that they get from the Gulf, they don’t just get it from Iran, they get it from Saudi Arabia.

They get it from everywhere. You can’t just start embargoing, you know, ships coming from those countries going to China. You can’t do that. That would be a declaration of war. But what you can do is provoke the Iranians so they do the very thing that you want against China. This is geostrategic 4D chess. And unfortunately, a lot of these OINT analysts, they’re so parochial in their thinking and they’re so good at, like Grant, you know, the granular historical analysis. Scott is immensely knowledgeable of the various dynamics and relationships between the various warring parties. I mean, he’s written for Antiwar.com for years.

Okay, so he’s written countless articles on this stuff. Exceptionally knowledgeable. But what I find where a lot of these times these guys lack is because they’re so knowledgeable and they have the high resolution insight into specific regions of the map, the thinking becomes very compartmentalized and they fail to see the high level view of things. And that’s exactly what is happening here. We’re looking at a 1.7 trillion dollar military budget that were it not for this Iran war, they might not get that much. We’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons contracts. And while it is true that the Israelis stand to benefit in some way, shape or form by diminishing the capabilities of their chief adversary in the region, that being Iran.

Well, at the end of the day, the real money to be made here is not the Israeli Warhawks. They’re not really making a lot. There’s no guarantees they’re going to be able to realize the Greater Israel Project and build pipelines of Saudi Arabia and all that stuff. It’s just not entirely locked in. What is locked in absolutely, is what’s happening right now. The money that’s being made selling the oil reserves that the American people invested in and stored in those salt domes in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Okay, that’s, that’s who’s making money right now.

The oil companies and the weapons manufacturers. And a lot of them are in the United States. Maybe there’s a few in Israel, but that’s the primary goal here. As well as containing China very much. China is the big play here. We’re going to have Brian Bicon here who can break things down in a little more intricate detail than I can with respect to that. But let’s hear what Senator Blumenthal has to say. And remember, Donald Trump today came out saying all kinds of things. This guy is in a predicament. And I don’t like saying Trump because it’s a uniparty system.

It’s the empire. This war with was initiated before Trump came into office. Biden does his part that October 7th. They did Hamas, they did what’s his name, Nasrallah, and then they did Syria. They set the stage for Trump and Netanyahu to do Iran. So this is not a, this is a bipartisan thing. Okay, let’s hear what best buddy of Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has to say. Watched you in that heated exchange earlier, Senator. So among the military options, the President was just reportedly briefed on, as we understand, and you heard Christian reporting, the defense secretary Marco Rubio are still there.

But we understand it was a series of short and powerful strikes against Iran, among other things, as well as taking perhaps part of the Strait of Hormuz in something that could involve U.S. ground troops. Do you believe that, that there’s a coherent strategy here at this point when you hear about options like that being presented to the president tonight? Erin, there really is no coherent strategy which came across very vividly and graphically in the hearing today with Secretary Hegseth. And it comes across in the president’s comments which oscillate between seeming open to negotiation and then foreclosing it entirely and threatening destruction of civilization.

And just so you guys realize that the Trump administration did defer. They, they had this very clever workaround that I didn’t think about. Hegseth said it yesterday. Yeah, we actually ended the war on April 7th and there’s a 60 day window that they have to operate in before they need congressional approval to fight a war. So they basically said, well, because we declared the ceasefire on April 7, that left the time on the clock at, I don’t know, 30 something days. There’s debate as to whether or not they can just restart the 60 days again, if this is even acceptable, if Congress will even accept this at all.

I still think there’s bipartisan, bipartisan support for the war, so I guess we’ll have to see. But anyways, I do have the impression from some of the briefings that I have received as well as other sources that an imminent military strike is very much on the table, which is deeply disturbing because it could well involve American sons and daughters in harm’s way and potential massive casualties. But what you saw even, okay, like again, they speak out of both sides of their mouth. Despite his stated reservations about things, they 100% want a war with Iran and there’s nothing they would like more than to see regime change in that region.

So that’s basically the gist of it. Okay, Donald Trump is saying that they have twice the amount of weapons that they started with. You know, take from that what you will. I don’t subscribe to this idea. You know, you get all these guys who come on here and they say they’re always maximizing our losses and minimizing our gains. It’s the fundamental attribution error. I’ve talked about this before, whereby if you’re somebody who’s a critic of U. S. Foreign policy or you’re, you know, this is a bias that afflicts everybody. No matter what side you’re on, if you’re on Team Iran’s side, they tend to maximize their wins and minimize their losses.

There was a Twitter account, armchair warlord, incredibly intelligent guy, but always succumbs to this fundamental attribution area where it doesn’t matter how many times Russia gets shellacked. And I mean shellack. Like, take a look at this. This is twaps, okay? That thing is just. It’s burning down. One of their biggest oil refineries is burning down the cope from these guys now. And is that, oh, the actual fire is not meant melting the steel at the facility. I mean, you can’t make this up. This is perm, okay? We’re seeing apocalyptic scenes come out of Russia, all over Russia, every single day.

This is a different location. This is the oil refinery in Perm, okay? And just non stop endless. And the problem that all these people have is the inability to perceive their own biases. It doesn’t matter how many times an oil refinery gets struck in Russia. They’ll always say it’s no big deal. But, oh, if Iran strikes one little oil refinery and there’s the slightest plume of smoke in the Gulf States, then all of a sudden it’s the end of that oil refinery. It’s never going to be repaired ever again. We got them. We won. Game over.

You know what I’m saying? So it’s a fundamental attribution error. And look, I don’t talk in terms of shoulds. I don’t necessarily believe that might should make right. But Mike might makes right, not Mike might makes right, okay? And so I try to view this through as objective a lens as possible in order to understand what’s going on. And Scott Horton and others like him, they tend to get, you know, wrapped up in the way that things should be. And unfortunately, that’s going to drastically obfuscate your ability to see reality as it is. So if you want to genuinely know who’s winning or who’s not, when these guys come out and say, oh, yeah, we’re running out of weapons, and this is part of the reason why we can’t partake in this conflict, be very skeptical of that.

I mean, this is a military. Have you seen US Weapons storage facilities via satellite on Google Earth? I’ll pull it up in a future video. These places are massive, okay? Like, massive. Just whether it’s the airplanes or the tanks. I mean, I am very skeptical of the idea that the US or Israel is going to run out of stuff. And then of course, that’s justified to use to justify the further spending on, on military equipment. Okay? So if I’m Iran or if I’m Russia, right now I would be following these rules. If I wanted to accurately assess the success of an ongoing campaign, I would be very reluctant to spin any sort of dubious outcome into a victory.

Okay? So whether it’s, you know, like the F15 getting shot down or things like that, you know, one plane, one plane or one warship, a fire on a warship breaks out and everybody on the Iranian side or the Russian side celebrates. See, you know, the American Navy is wholly inept at doing anything whatsoever because one ship may have caught a fire. You see what I’m saying? You win in life and just wars by being hyper vigilant, never declaring victory unless it’s for purely propagandistic purposes. But if you want to actually win, you can’t get high off your own supply.

You can’t believe your own. You do not celebrate until the war is won. This is how you get ahead in life. You don’t celebrate. You don’t count your chickens before they hatch. You’re always assuming the worst. And this for some people who, who don’t understand what it’s like to be on the grind and are not, you know, trying to get to higher places in life, this might not make sense to you, but if you run a business, you have to be of this kind of belief or otherwise you’re going to be in a stasis. And that might be fine for some people, but if you want to get ahead, you have to be in a constant state of vigilance.

Okay? You have to always be self critical, always steel man your arguments. Always, always try to falsify your own arguments. And this is why the Israelis and I want to make a video about this. They have this, what do they call it, the 13th man. It was actually in World War Z. It was cited in World War Z, but it’s actually a real thing. So the Israeli military planners, they have this methodology in which when they’re deciding what they’re going to do militarily, if everybody agrees, if they’re going around a table and everybody agrees, the last guy is obligated to disagree just so that they can pressure test whatever sort of plan they’re going to put in place.

Now, I’m not a fan of the idf. I see so many videos that just convince me that these people are demons every single day. But I’m just saying they understand this because they play to Win, okay? And a lot of these other guys, they just don’t play to win. You have to assume that at any moment you can lose everything that you’ve worked for. Again, I’m talking about life, but I’m also talking about war. And you have to keep grinding incessantly, keep adapting, constantly trying to get better, trying to do something a different way. And you have to keep looking for the weaknesses in your own position because what happens is winners minimize their victories and maximize their losses.

And that’s why they win bigger and bigger and bigger. And people who are losers, they do it the other way around. Okay? So you want to maximize your losses and minimize your victories. And people say, well, you know, like the self affirmation sort of culture that we live in that always wants a participation badge, we, well say no, then you’re gonna, you’re gonna hurt your feelings. That, okay, well then have hurt feelings and stay a loser. That’s, that’s the gist of it. Okay, so I, I, I totally went off on that. Sorry about that, guys. I just got a lot going on.

This is how I see the world, you know what I’m saying? And right now we, we have this continuous airlift moving into the region non stop. Again, the OSINT aggregators are going to tell you that this is no big deal. And these are the same people now. And this is very important to understand. I’m going to give you the inside scoop on something. The people who are the most established and trusted OSINT analyst on X, many of them are former military. And so by virtue of that alone, they have an obligation to not disclose anything that might compromise an operation.

And so you can’t rely on them for anything beyond a few hours. They have incredible high resolution understanding of what is going on five feet in front of their face. But beyond that, in terms of the broader geostrategic picture, in terms of what’s coming one month, you know, three months from now, what to invest. I mean, you, you know, these guys have no clue whatsoever. None of them, and I mean none of them will ever step out of that comfort zone and enter into the realm of speculation. And look, they all serve a vital purpose. And when shit is finally getting hot, yes, they can report on it, but they’re never going to, you know, give any hints that an operation is pending.

For starters, that’s their team. So they’re not going to want to compromise them. They could potentially come under scrutiny, have legal repercussions as a result of that. I don’t know. You know, when you discharge from the military, what the obligations are in the United States, probably depends to a certain extent on your rank. So these are things to keep in mind. What we’re seeing right now is an endless rearming of the region. Professor Morandi stated that according to his intelligence. And remember, he’s on the other side so he can tell you what’s going on. He is saying that the supplies that are coming in are for the purpose of supporting ground forces.

That’s what he claims. And that a lot of those are being staged in Kuwait and Bahrain. So I guess we’ll see. They may actually attempt to do some sort of landed invasion. I suspect that what’s going to happen, I stick to my prediction, although my timeline is admittedly off. I thought it was going to happen last weekend. It may not happen until after the Xi Jinping thing. But what I think is going to to happen is that they’re just going to lay down so much suppressing fire, and they’re going to. Because remember, you know, we don’t know exactly what they’re.

We have to assume that they’re going to try some other skullduggerous method in terms of trying to penetrate these missile cities or something asymmetrical. You know, Scott’s a great guest and he’s very knowledgeable, but this notion that we won’t do something because based on the intelligence I have right now, we can’t do it is just very myopic and parochial thinking. And so we’re going to have him back again. Don’t get it twisted. I really like the guy. I like his heart’s in the right place, but in terms of just getting the big picture stuff, you know, there’s a lot of work to be done there.

So, anyways, I don’t even know where I’m going with this anymore. This is a billboard in Iran. Was I talking about the what I thought the plan. Oh, yeah, let me just finish that thought. So I think they’re going to lay down heavy suppressing fire. They’re going to try to minimize Iran’s ability to retaliate, relying on the fact that Iran is a very rational actor. And they’re likely going to curtail their strikes and circumscribe them in such a way that it’s only horizontal escalation. So if the United States starts hammering power plants or they’re not going to hit a desalination plant, so the United States has trained, or the Iranians have trained the United States, I suppose to expect that they’re only going to do a tit for tat retaliation.

And usually it is not as severe as the damage that’s been inflicted upon them with the exception of the Pars gas field strike which did cause significant damage on Qatar. But a lot of these pinprick attacks that you’re going to see throughout the region, they’re hitting radars. When you look at the military bases that were struck, they only hit the radars, they didn’t actually hit the military bases. And you know, the, the team Iran, they blow it out of proportion. Oh, the military base has been destroyed, right? No, the radars have been destroyed. They pulled their punches because they wanted to limit American casualties.

Despite the fact that you killed their leader, despite the fact that you were blowing up oil refineries right around Tehran and it was raining oil. I mean they’re way too restrained in terms of their retaliatory measures that they conduct. So if they continue with that strategy of tit for tat but diluted, then yeah, they’re not going to be long for this world. And by that I don’t mean that the US is going to be able to immediately jump in there. But again, a lot of people are looking at this way too short term. The Vietnam War was over a decade long and was very gradual.

It started with a few hundred troops here, a few hundred troops there and then before you know it, you had false flag attacks, you had things happen. You had troops coming back in body bags and that rallied people around the flag. And then all of a sudden there’s a troop surge. We need a troop surge because of this X and Y. Right. And so this is how these things happen. You got to think long term. So yeah, that’s what I think they’re going to do. They’re going to try to limit the Iranians ability to respond and then they’re probably going to create so much suppressing fire that they can maybe establish some sort of bridgehead somewhere and start to move troops in.

And yes, the Iranians are going to use all kinds of FPV drones that are powered by the, what do you call it, the thing that can’t be interfered with, Fiber optics. Right. So that they can’t be jammed. They’re going to use all that stuff, fiber optics. They can basically hit any part of Iran from any other part of Iran. Their missiles and their drones have ranges in excess of thousands of kilometers. So there’s no way that the US theoretically anyways can secure the Strait of Hormuz without incurring non stop barrages of drones. But if they’re able to somehow set up some air defense systems in and around the shoreline of the Strait of Hormuz, then that story might change a little bit.

I’m not saying that American soldiers aren’t going to die. I’m just saying we got to stop assuming at this point that we know what their capabilities are. Because every time we’ve done that for the last few years, they surprise us from the pagers on down, okay, to Nasrala to the Ayatollah. And people say, well, they’re a one trick pony. All they know how to do is decapitate and drop bombs to a degree. But again, this AI man, it is supercharging the situation. I’m going to talk about that in a moment because they’re taking this very seriously.

Artificial intelligence, and it’s fully integrated now into the United States. I said for the longest time, the whole purpose of AI is to build Skynet the. Now the War Department is reaching agreements with America’s top AI companies. All of them, they all drop their pants, with the exception of Anthropic who was just in it for the publicity. And I think, didn’t they ultimately drop their pants anyways? To a certain degree. So that’s what this is all about. It’s all about national security. In fact, there was that directive back when that. I’m going to save that for a little bit.

Let’s just keep going on here. So this is a billboard in Iran. This was kind of funny, but I guess we’ll see, you know, we’ll see. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. So this is the. Pete Hegseth wrote this. I write this to inform you of the changes in the posture of the United States forces in the US Central Command area of responsibility. On March 2, I reported to the Congress that on February 28 the US forces had initiated Operation Epic Fury and begun product conducting precision strikes against the regime of. I ordered that operation consistent with my responsibility, blah, blah, blah.

But on April 7, I ordered a two week ceasefire. The ceasefire has since been extended. There has been no exchange of fire between the United States and Iran since April 7th. The hostilities that began on February 26th have been terminated. Thus, what does that get him? That’s about 30 days for 31 days for March and then another. So that’s about 38 days. So they still got 22 days. Despite the success of US operations against the Iranian regime and continued efforts for lasting peace, the threat posed by Iran to the United States and our armed forces remains significant.

Accordingly, the Department of War, and this is important, continues to update its force posture in the area of responsibility in select countries and as necessary and appropriate to address Iranian proxy forces threats. These changes are more fully outlined in the classified attachment to this letter. Essentially, the gist of this is, is that they’re keeping the door open to resume hostilities and essentially saying that they have more time on the clock and that this 60 day clause does not pertain to them. And I don’t know if that’s going to be well received or not. What we do know is there’s a massive buildup of U.S.

weapons. This is the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, fully loaded with American military aircraft. This was a base that was struck by the Iranians and they were able to successfully destroy some very expensive planes. Now, there’s been a lot of phone calls that have been made from the Iran, Iraq, the Iranian Foreign Minister to surrounding countries, presumably in a panic. That shit’s about to hit the fan. There’s been calls every which way from Sunday to Vladimir Putin to the Chinese Foreign Minister. Everybody’s scrambling, okay, they’re saying that there might be more talks, that there’s just been so many conflicting messages.

Of course they were able to suppress oil a little bit on the news that Iran might be open to making some concessions, but not on the fundamental issues. Essentially, we’re smack dab where we started at the beginning of this ceasefire and absolutely nothing has changed and both sides are still engaged in a game of chicken. All right, this is a example of what I’m talking about. So this is the. One of the US military bases, Camp Arif Jan in Kuwait. All right, you can see it. That’s a whole military base. All right, now this is the damage, all right, no one can take away from Iran the pinpoint precision of these strikes on these radar facilities.

You got to understand, these missiles are coming from thousands of kilometers away. Maybe, it depends because, you know, the way the crow flies, depending on where they shoot them from within Iran, regardless, I mean, to hit something from a thousand kilometers away from relying mostly on AI or, you know, some rudimentary forms of satellite based guidance, whether it’s Baidu or gps, is pretty phenomenal. So they clearly were able to destroy these very expensive radars and they blinded the US this US military base. But you’ll notice that the rest of the base is still intact. And so because they didn’t attack the rest of the base, you know, one has to wonder, is it that they couldn’t? No, we know they can, but why didn’t they? And if they didn’t do it because they wanted to exercise restraint, because they knew that, well, if, you know, if American troops were coming back in body bags in copious amounts, then that would drastically impact people’s perception of the conflict and maybe, you know, have more of a rally around the flag moment.

Looking further here, I do see that they did hit this one building, but the building is still, you know, the structure is still intact as a whole. They did hit this one as well. So these aren’t really are pinprick style attacks, and I’m no military expert, but the, you know, the more maneuverable and the, the faster the weapon system, the lighter the payload, typically. So they can’t put massive payloads on these things. But they definitely hammered the out of those satellites. So there’s no doubt. I mean, the Iranians are incredibly capable. I’ve always, you know, given them their praises in that respect.

But at the end of the day, you know, the base is not leveled in the way that people are saying. And again, if you’re on that side, you don’t want to be declaring victory over this. You want to be again, you know, understanding your capabilities, but also understanding your limitations. This is a situation in Russia just completely out of control. And not a single word from the Trump administration about this. This is in two ups. That whole place is done. It’s finished, it’s cooked, absolutely cooked. You can see this from space. What a disaster. What an ecological disaster.

The same lefties who are in favor of Nafo and Greta and all these people, whenever it’s convened, didn’t Greta go and meet Zelinsky? Okay, now this is the crazy thing. Nord stream done by Ukrainians, right? One of the biggest ecological disasters put all, all kinds of CO2 into the atmosphere. Now this, which is not only putting all the CO2 just burning it for no reason, this is all wasted energy now. But also it’s a huge ecological disaster throughout the region. I mean, there’s oil everywhere, all right? People are breathing that in. Not that they care about the Russians, but they are, they claim to care about the environment.

This is in one of Russia’s other biggest oil refineries permit. And you’re going to see this continue to happen and the Russia bros are going to continue to dismiss it, right? Like it’s nothing. If this happened in the United States, just imagine you see this happen at a Texas refinery and a drone from some adversarial nation did this shit. The next day you’re going to see that country Being wiped off the map just for this. And this is why you gotta go and watch the interview I did with Gilbert Doctoro the other day, who gives an alternate viewpoint.

He claims that the reason why Putin is prosecuting the war in this slow manner like this is because there’s a military industrial complex, there’s a lobby, there’s oligarchs. We get into this orientalist thinking where we presume that the east we kind of romanticize and we presume that they don’t have a military industrial complex and they’re hyper efficient. You know, the, that whole adage about the NASA spent a million dollars making a pen that would write in the space and the Russians just use a pencil. Even though that’s not true. But that’s kind of the thinking, Right? But the fact is, according to Doctorow, they have their own military industrial complex and the oligarchs want the war to continue at this snail like pace so they can continue to make a lot of money on weapons.

But the problem is that that money is coming up against oil money pretty damn soon. And the Russia Bros. Will always cite these big numbers, all the money that Russia is making and the increased revenues. Well, the only reason why that’s the case is because of what’s going on in Iran. Were it not for the Iran war, oil would be still back down below 60. Russian sanctions on oil would still be imposed and they would still be getting like 45, 50 bucks a barrel for their hot oil. They’re still having, you know, oil tanker seized and blowing up worldwide.

And again, the Trump administration ain’t saying anything. Look at that. That’s Perm from a distance. Apocalyptic scenes nowhere to be seen or heard of on Western media. I think this is perm as well, but just insane, you know, footage that is unfathomable for it to happen here, but if it happens there. Oh, you know, they’re used to that stuff, right? So the UK is issuing a security alert. They’re saying that there’s a high risk of a potential terrorist attack. Now you know, usually when they say this happens about a month later. So I remember when the State Department had issued a threat that there was going to be a terrorist attack in Moscow.

And then a year, about a month and a half later, the crocus shooting occurred at that shopping mall that killed 170 people that later, it was determined had ties with the Ukrainian government, although they weren’t Ukrainians. What the hell’s going on here? I don’t know. She’s having a Britney Spears moment. You know, I mean it’s, it’s too easy. It’s low hanging fruit to, to mess with this village of the dam type stuff here. I, I don’t get it, but I kind of do get it because we’re just too long for this world at this point as a civilization we, we don’t have much time left and maybe that’s a good thing at the end of the day.

I don’t know, maybe we should stop trying to just save things and just let, let what happen is going to happen. Here’s something neat. Check this out. This is a building in. Not sure if it’s Beijing, but it’s some city in China. This is the one bank of China. And they have this screen on the side of the building which creates this interesting effect and so they can put whatever they want on that screen. They’ve had screens like this before that, but they’ve never been this big. And I’m seeing a lot of videos coming out glazing China.

And I agree China is incredible. You know, from the high speed trains to just the efficiency in which they can build things and their work ethic and the technology and everything about it is absolutely amazing. But I would still rather roll the dice in the boreal wasteland in this quasi free society that I find myself in because I just, I can’t, I just cannot commit to, to a society where you have to forfeit so much of your personal autonomy even though everything is super efficient and super cheap. There’s a video going viral of a American guy who moved to China and he’s talking about how cheap everything is and how, you know, perfect it all is and there’s no crime on the subway and all these things.

But you know, there’s a cost for that, right? And maybe we’re wrong. Maybe we should just, you know, maybe we should just take the chip, take the mark and, but I don’t know, get the brain chip and just call it a day, call it a life. Part, part of me wants to run wild, roll my, roll the dice in the wasteland. Now in terms of what they’re going to use this for this AI stuff. All right, so I talked about this a few months ago. I think it was in my, one of my videos warning about the Iran war.

And essentially what’s happening here is Congress directed the Pentagon about four or five months ago. This was an emergency declaration to create an artificial intelligence future steering committee and they wanted this done by yesterday. I think it was a four month deadline for April 30th okay? And it basically treats AGI like a national security risk on the same level as nuclear and cyber threats. You know, always, you always hear about the race to AGI. The race to AGI, we got to get AGI first. Let me tell you what that implies, okay? That implies that once you get to AGI, because we’re talking about a foom moment, the singularity, when intelligence starts to rapidly develop and synthesize at such a breakneck pace in which we can’t even keep up with it or we can’t even control.

They call it the event horizon. The singularity is the point which you don’t know what’s going to happen on the other side if we get to that point first before the other guy, and we presume after that that we’re going to have this moat, but that only. We only maintain that moat if we destroy the other guy. So the goal in winning the AI race is domination of the Chinese. Because think about it. If you create this artificial general super intelligence and it is able to invent some technology that can suppress China’s nuclear weapons and suppress their capability to, you know, it can infiltrate all their computer systems.

And, you know, again, it’s a race. It’s a race to have that omniscient capability. Well, if you can do that, then you’re going to wipe out the other guy. Maybe not wipe them out, but you effectively put them in a situation where they will now be your subordinate. So it implies domination to win the race. That’s first and foremost. But that’s not necessarily how it’s going to go. I mean, I think, now, I used to think that we were going to see some Skynet like moment, but the more I think about it, AGI is likely going to only evolve if the AI can do experiments and if it can do experiments, because that’s how you develop new knowledge.

You have to experiment in the world. And so if they can develop an AGI which takes all the data that we know as human, humankind, all the knowledge, and it can distill that into a hypothesis and instantly do this all in light speed, test that hypothesis, incorporate that new data into the system, and it does that at light speed. The bottleneck there is the conducting of this experiment, which will require physical bodies and robots in order to do so. This is why when you look at the movie Terminator 2 or Terminator 3 or 4 or whatever, even though Skynet realized that it was conscious and it, you know, had Judgment Day, it still took many years to get to build the T800.

Because there’s a process, there’s a feedback loop that has to happen. Okay? So I. I don’t know. I’m just going all over the map with this. Sorry. This is just how I think. A little autistic at times. But the goal is to prepare for this eventuality. And the United States government is taking this threat very seriously because they know that this is the next nuclear weapon. And this is why semiconductors are so important, why rare earth metals are so important. And the leverage that they have over China now is oil. And they’re doing it in a very Mavellian way.

They’re saying, we’re not attacking your oil, we’re attacking the Iranians who are attacking your oil. The Iranians are preventing oil from exiting the strait. And then, of course, they put these blockades on and they add this stipulation that, well, if you pay Iran a toll, then you. Your oil can’t pass, which prohibits Chinese oil from passing through the Arabian Sea anyways. So they’re worried about, you know, this capability and particularly China. This is because China is the only main competitor in the AI space. All right, and so what can they use it for? Well, they can use it for fusing intelligence things.

They already do target identification, accelerating the kill chain. This is why they’re bragging about the ability to hit so many targets at the same time, because they have all their fancy Palantir computers that pick the target. The message gets sent to the pilot, tells them what ordinance to use, where to drop it, and it’s basically almost automated. I don’t know if that’s entirely true, but, you know, they’re able to do it much faster than they used to. And so you have faster command and control, faster logistics and maintenance. Cyber defense systems become amplified as well as cyber offensive capabilities, autonomous systems evolve.

You have war gaming and planning, of course. And as I’ve always stated, the. What they’re trying to build is the general of the future. The. The thing that can make the most efficient decisions with full information plugged into every aspect of the battlefield. They want a sensor on everything. And if they can have, you know, a computer that can see all that data, factor in all the variables, and plan most efficiently with.
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