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of like reading the T leaves, where are we where are we headed?

One of the things I said was that there are some terms that you're going to have to get

used to in 2024 because they're going to be everywhere, terms like the Gulf of Aiden, the Gulf of Oman, Red Sea, you know, you're like, I don't really know. Where Yemen is, well, you're going to, you need to. And I'll say, I'll say that about this episode. If you're driving around or you're at the gym or you're pulling weeds in your garden or

whatever you're doing, don't worry about it. But if you're sitting in front of a computer or if you listen to this at a time when you are in a place where you can pull up a map of what the Middle East looks like, you might want to do that. Just so that you have it as a handy reference guide, there's going to be geography on this

test. I'm sorry. They're just this. But, and again, I don't expect Americans, which is, according to Listen Note, 70% of my audience is Americans.

So I don't expect Americans to, to know the geography of the Middle East inside now. And it's okay. You know, you know, probably don't spend too much time there, I know I don't. But, but if you've got a map, or if you understand what this area looks like, we're going to talk about it in detail, because there's several different places in which things

can kick off. And they're already starting to happen when you see Yemen firing missiles at cargo ships and things like that, oil tankers.

“You need to know sort of where this is on a map, and really take three minutes to do it.”

Just pull it up just so you can take a look and maybe you want to search like Saudi Arabia, Gulf of Aiden, Red Sea, something like that. And pull up a map so that you can see what we're working with. I'll do my best to paint a picture of this. But estimates are that over 200 billion dollars in goods have already been diverted away from

the most important canal in the world.

And that is the Suez Canal in Egypt. Okay. You know, Panama Canal in Panama is extremely important as well. It's not a contest. I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe in terms of like dollars of goods shipped, maybe there's more going through the Panama Canal. I'm not sure. But the Suez Canal is deeply important for a variety of reasons, not just the geography, which

makes it crucial, but also because of the relationship and location to the oil producing countries that need this waterway in order to reach the Mediterranean. And then out into Europe and wherever. And frankly, even if they're not going up the Red Sea through the Suez and into the Mediterranean, maybe they're coming down from the Mediterranean through the Red Sea.

It doesn't matter. This is a choke point and it's a place that we here in the United States don't think about too much unless it's a situation like this where we're starting to see conflict down there. And most people don't understand sort of why it is imperative.

But we're going to get into it. We're going to talk about what has become a shooting gallery. You know, in this area and why this area is important, part of it is just dumb luck. Just geographical dumb luck. There are areas in which the sea, the Red Sea, or the Persian Gulf itself, start to

get narrow in parts, not because of manmade issues or anything like that. Just topography, geography, whatever. It just is a little bit narrow in certain areas. And where it is narrow, that makes it a logical choke point. That makes it a place where you don't have to control all of the Red Sea.

“You just have to control the narrow parts of the Red Sea, right?”

So it's not even so much geopolitics as it is just logic and strategy and dumb luck.

in Yemen, in Eritrea, in Djibouti, then you have been, this has been a crucial part of

your existence forever.

“The Red Sea is majorly important, not just for oil, just for everything.”

So it's not like it's new, it's not like we just invented it. It's been there for a while, there's been problems there for a long, long time. I mean, this isn't like some new occurrence. It's just that now, because of the situation in Israel, as a way to fight back on behalf of the Palestinians in Gaza that are being overrun, there are a line, there are brethren,

brothers, I don't know, religious brothers, political brothers in Yemen have decided that

what they're going to do is they're going to do their part to disrupt anybody that's trying to bring supplies into Israel and therefore bringing supplies into what they perceive to be their enemy. So if you're a ship that is going through the Gulf of Aden and into the Red Sea, you've got to pass by Yemen.

You don't have a choice. You can hug, jibudi and eratria on that western coast to the extent that you can, but there is a region right at the beginning, the southern most part of the Red Sea that we're going to get into, that it's extremely narrow. And when you go through there, you're just a gigantic target. You better hope that you don't have enemies on the shorelines, because if you do, you've

got nowhere to go. And that's kind of the situation that we're in right now. So let's start with, we'll do a little bit. This is going to be sort of a geography class,

but I like geography. I always have, and I've come from a family that I'm a work travel

in family. It's been all kinds of places. My mom was one of those legendary panem flight attendants

“in the 60s on the international legs. She's been like, hey, have you ever been to Beirut?”

She's like, I've been to Beirut 200 times. You know, like, you know, like, you know, so like, we come from a family, my dad was a pilot. We come from a family that likes to get out and see things. And I, and I've been to Egypt, and it's, you want to talk about a humbling place, man. You got there to the pyramids. So things is a little less impressive than you might think it is, but the pyramids more than make up for it. And I don't know how

it works now, but at the time, when I was there in 1989, you could go in the pyramids. Like, I've been in the chambers and everything in the narrow, it's very steep ladders that they've put in there and gone up in the menu. It's a, it's a really important place. It's an important place to geographically. It's important now because we have, we place a lot of emphasis on it because the oil in that region, not so much Egypt, but in that area.

And it's been, you know, they call the birthplace of civilization in that region. So it's

“very important. It's got a long history. And it's, and we should probably pay attention”

to it because it's now going to become part of our problem. And that's, that's, that's the thing is that I'm not just picking some random place and say, well, it's like, let's talk about this waterway that nobody cares about. No, this is important because it's only going to get worse. I don't see this getting better. Well, I wish, I don't see it. There's too many, there's too many people at play. There's too many agendas. Somebody gets

an itchy trigger finger and it's on. So let's start with this. Let's talk a little bit about the Suez canal. No, Suez canal is at the, if you look at the Mediterranean to see like the south east part of it, there's a little canal that goes from the Mediterranean. It splits this region of Egypt, um, cyanide peninsula on the east side and Egypt proper on kind of the west side. And it's a narrow band. It's 120 miles long. It connects these

in the Mediterranean sea to the Red Sea connects them. 20,600 ships per year passed through that. That works out to about 60 a day. Okay. So you've got, um, you know, it's busy. It opened in 1869. It was widened in 2016. So it's now a little bit more up to date

be in, in big trouble. But it's been, it's been adjusted over the years and widened really

“recently within the last decade. So, um, and it's very important. Clearly, you get a lot”

of traffic that goes through there and, and oil, in particular, a lot of it flows through this region, man. So, so as you go down, let's say you're coming, you're in the Mediterranean, you find where the Suez Canal is in Egypt. You're pretty close to Israel right there. Israel is kind of like do east and you're kind of like southeast here in Egypt and you go to burst down this red sea. As you're going down the red sea, on the western side,

you have Egypt and as you get further down, you have Sudan and then you have a small little country called Eratria. And on your eastern side, almost the entire way down the red sea, you've got Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is gigantic, right? And it's like a large,

“very large peninsula that dips down. And the red sea runs alongside it. And so you've”

got like proper Africa on one side and you've got kind of like the Middle East on the, on the other. So, as you make your way down the red sea south, you get to a part, when you reach almost the very, very end of the red sea, it narrows to a place that's, it's almost like a choke point. And it is, it's only 14 miles wide in this area, which is extremely narrow, you know, you can see the other side sort of thing, you know, to put this in, in, I don't know,

how would I compare it if you, you know, if you've, if you've ever been in Hawaii, if you've ever been in Maui, and you look across and you see like La Nai and Molokai in those places, those islands are about seven miles away. So you're talking about something about twice that, you know,

“as, as wide as that, not, not wide at all. And this is an area called Babel El Mandeb. And it's,”

um, and once you get into this area, this real narrow region in the red sea, as you're going south down the red sea, and you're, you're, you're about to pop off into the Gulf of Aden. This narrow area,

Babel El Mandeb is basically just the choke point between the red sea and the Gulf of Aden.

You've got, um, you've got 9% of all of the oil that travels by boat goes through this region, 9%. We can round up and say 10% if it makes it easier. This works out to about three and a half million barrels a day. Go through there. It's a lot. If you, if you did something and messed up, 10% of the world's sea traveling oil, you would be creating catastrophe. We need every barrel that we've got. And, um, and this is where ships are getting attacked. Now, because

as you go, come down through Babel El Mandeb, you no longer have Saudi Arabia on your eastern site. You now have Yemen. So Saudi Arabia is a big, almost like a big square peninsula that comes down at the very bottom of it. One half of it is Yemen and the other half of it is Uman.

So Saudi Arabia, as it goes down, does its southern, most flank, never hits water.

It, it becomes Yemen and then Yemen hits water. And where Yemen and Uman hit the water, that is called the Gulf of Eden and also the Gulf of Uman. So, just south of Saudi Arabia. So the Red Sea runs through, once you get through this narrow part, right, you would probably have, well, you would have protection if that narrow part had Saudi Arabia on one side. If Saudi Arabia wouldn't be launching missiles. But it doesn't. And if you had Yemen up higher,

up more northern, it would be, the waterway would be too wide for Yemen to do all that much. But because it narrows down into just a 14 mile across channel. And because Yemen is on one side, an erratria is on the other side. Two countries that are pretty easy to, you know, I mean, they do what they want to do, essentially. So that region is where a lot of these ships are getting hit. They don't have anywhere to go. They can't, so you either avoid this area or you take your chances.

And this has been, um, you know, this is an easy region to shut down. You know, all they, so as it stands right now, what we've been experiencing are missile attacks coming from Yemen

flying in Israeli flag. You're flying in American flag. You or you're flying a different flag,

“but you're taking supplies to Israel or from Israel. If you're doing any of those things,”

you're going to, you run the risk of getting attacked. If you're a Chinese vessel, if you're a Saudi Arabian vessel, which is interesting because Saudi Arabian Yemen have been fighting for the last several years. In fact, it's been really brutal. But Yemen and Saudi Arabia have come to an agreement where they are no longer going to be fighting each other. And so when Saudi ships traverse this, this part of the Red Sea, and by the way, it's not, they don't have to.

They have access on and on their eastern flank, which into the Persian Gulf, and they can go

all the way around this if they want. But what they've found is that Saudi Arabian vessels, they're not being hit. You know, they've got the ghetto pass. They can get through. Nobody's shooting at them. So that's something to consider. And so as you come down, through the Mediterranean, down the Suez Canal, into the Red Sea, down further south, through Babel El Mandab, you make it through this 14 miles of narrow passageway with an enemy on one side.

You then wind up dead end into a region called the Gulf of Aden. It went, once you're in the Gulf of Aden, it's wider. Of course, now it starts, instead of going north and south, it starts to kind of just go towards the east a little bit. You kind of have to hang a, hang a turn and head towards the east. Now on the Africa side of things, you've got Somalia, Somalia on one side, which ain't great, because it's been kind of lawless. And you've got Djibouti in there, which is a very small country,

America likes it, because just geographically, it's a good place. And this region is called the Horn of Africa. And so in this Gulf of Aden, this is one of the places where I said, like, get ready for it. You might not know where it is on the map. You're going to need to. So the Gulf of Aden, and I said the Gulf of Oman, this is all just a big

“that area of water that is south of Saudi Arabia, that peninsula. And it's a very important”

waterway. First of all, it's sort of like the connection between Africa and the Middle East and

that's very important. We've got a lot of oil producing nations in the area. Of course, that's very important. So as you start to head a little bit more towards the east in the Gulf of Aden, because it's the only direction you can go. If you go west, you run right in Africa. But as you traverse the east, you come to that coastline of Yemen and Oman at that southern tip where Saudi Arabia kind of dead ends into Yemen and Oman, and then Yemen and Oman touch the water in the

Gulf of Aden. If you just keep going east, it passed Yemen. You'll eventually wind up into Oman. And as soon as you come around that corner at the end of the peninsula, you're in the Gulf of Oman. And then you wind up in a region that is called the Strait of Hormuz. And the Strait of Hormuz is extremely important as well. It's just as important as the Red Sea and also has that geographical quirk where there is a very narrow passageway that just happens to be in the Strait of Hormuz

in an area that puts it, puts friendlies on one side, which would be Oman, universe, UAE, United Arab Emirates group there, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, the like, and also Saudi Arabia. So you've got them on one side. And then you know who you have on the other side? You have Iran.

“Okay. So again, if you want to deal with oil on the water, you've got to get it out of these”

tight spots. You've got to get it down the Red Sea and through a 14-mile wide area called Baba El Manda. And if you want to take it the other way out of the other side of Saudi Arabia, the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, through the Persian Gulf and south, which is a logical place to do it, you then have to go through the Strait of Hormuz. And you've got Iran on the other side watching. Okay. And if Iran wants to throw monkey wrench in this entire thing, they shut down the

Strait of Hormuz. And they can do it because it's only 21 miles to 52 miles wide. Okay. A little bit bigger than the 14 miles on the other side, but 21 miles in nautical terms in turn,

that you could lay mines all over the place. You could put subs out there, which I'm sure there are,

“and you could shut that place down. If you wanted it shut down, you could shut it down.”

You could make anybody going through their half-to-pay-a-huge price. So, I know it's kind of like a, I know this is a bit of a geography class, but it kind of has to be in a sense that once you take a look at this and you kind of understand the topography of it, it starts to make a lot of sense. You go on a wonder. They're so concerned about supply chains in the middle least on the water. No wonder. It's not like you can just bring it out of you. You could take

this stuff out of like 18 different ports. You still have to navigate these Straits that are very

small, and you've got enemies on one side of the strait in both it. You've got Yemen on one side on the Baba El Mandab, and you've got Iran on the other side of the strait of Hormuz. Okay, so if you're America or you're Britain or you're Israel, these are not your friends.

“Israel's been trying to fight Iran forever. So, you have to be very careful about this.”

No, the strait of Hormuz is 104 miles long. So, you know, Sue has canal 120 miles long, and that's the same roughly the same thing. But here's the difference. Whereas the red sea has just about 10% of all oil. We've decided to round up about 10% of all oil going through there. When it comes to the strait of Hormuz, you get 20% of the world's oil goes through there. So, it's twice as important. And we're not even talking about liquified natural gas, which in this case,

a third of it goes through there. So, now you've got a serious problem. You think you've got

problems with Yemen, firing missiles and shutting down the red sea and the Gulf of Aden. If you want to kick this thing off even further, the minute Iran decides to shut down the

“strait of Hormuz, there goes 20% of the oil. On the other side, there goes 10% of the oil. So, that's”

30%. There goes a third of the world's natural gas. You're going to have massive, massive problems with this. And not for nothing, but even in the Gulf of Aden, when you consider yourself to have like maybe the good guys on the other shoreline, meaning not Yemen, on the other side of Yemen, one of the places right across Yemen is Somalia. And I'd like to remind you that Somalia is on Wesley Clark's list of seven countries and five years. Just so you know. So, we would most definitely

like to take control of that. All right, enough of the geography for a little bit. Let's talk about well, let me do this. Let me just just mention really quick here. When we talk about the the supply chain issues that are going on in this region, I mentioned oil quite a bit because it's at the top of the list, but it's not limited to that. So, industries and corporations that are impacted by the supply chain with regard to oils, since we'll start their shell, BP, Valero Energy,

Qatar Energy, and Edison, or all have all diverted from that region. They've all decided that it is it's just too dangerous in the Red Sea, near Yemen. We're not going by there. So, we're already starting to see that. In the automobile industry, we have Volvo, Tesla, Suzuki, Michelin, and Chinese Car Manufacturer, Geely, have all diverted away from the Red Sea. So, again, this adds timing to the shipping because it's now going to go around the southern part of Africa

or elsewhere. It adds price to it. It takes, it adds traffic. It screws things up. Okay. Logistics companies, FedEx and DHL have decided they're no longer interested in trying to take the chances through there. And frankly, they may not have a choice. They may not be able to get insurance for it. So, and then retail companies such as Target. These are companies that have had their supply chain impacted already and have had to find ways around it. We're talking about Target. Ikea,

Adidas, Tractor Supply, Primark, Dannon, William Sonoma, Stainsbury, Electrolux, Levi's, Logitech, Markson Spencer, Pepco, and Primark. This is all according to Al Jazeera who have reported on this. So, it's not limited to oil, but of course, oil is a huge factor in that. Let's move on

coup in 1962 that was organized by Lacer Kel, by their UK branch, gunning Neil McLean. So,

“the West has had their fingers in Yemen for a long time because of the geography of it.”

I mean, it really kind of boils down to that. If you don't have oil or you don't have a strategic port or something like that, then America will usually leave you alone. They might starve you to death, but usually they don't really mess with you too much. But Yemen has this sort of geography that makes them a prime candidate to throw a monkey wrench in a lot of things going on in this area. And you'll hear when talking about Yemen, you will hear them talk about the Houthis.

And they're almost contractually required to say Iranian backed Houthi rebels. Those are the four words you'll hear. Iranian backed Houthi rebels. Yes, Iran backs them.

“Doesn't mean they do exactly what Iran says. Iran backs a lot of people. The US backs a lot of people too.”

Doesn't mean that they do exactly what the US says. So, yes, the Houthis are backed by Iran. And yes, they take funding from them among others. And they take weapons from them among others. And they are ideologically aligned for the most part, but not on everything. So they don't want to work with the US Saudi Arabia or Israel. They just don't want to work with them. But even fighting Israel for Saudi Arabia for a while now. And you find these missiles that have

gone off inside some part of Yemen. And they put the camera on them and the missiles, you know, on the side of them, the parts that are still in kind of intact. It's like all written in English. You're like, oh, it's like from Raytheon or Lockheed Martin or whatever. I mean, so we're in it. You know, it's like a proxy American war, of course. We're the worst. We're in it. But in and you will know this because like I said, the 1962 coup that happened as recently as 2017,

the president of Yemen was assassinated. I'm sure. I'm sure the CIA had nothing to do with that at all.

We inquink. Also, in 2017, Yemen had the worst outbreak of cholera in the world with a million

“cases of cholera in just one year. That's what happens when the Saudi start bombing the”

Yemen's water infrastructure causing the cholera epidemic, not and not accidentally either. Water treatment facilities, water facilities, you know, they starved a bunch of them out too. They starved, I think, I'm millions of people to death. There are currently, God damn it. There are currently 19 million people in Yemen that are hungry, which is 60% of the population. 60% of the population are hungry and starving to death.

And they know who did it. They know who's involved in that. Saudi Arabia is real in the United States. So when these ships go through, they're not just doing it for fun. They're not just taking shots at them for fun. They're taking shots at them to get revenge for what the West has done to their

people. 4.5 million people in Yemen have been displaced just since 2015. 17.8 million people

in the country of Yemen lack safe drinking water. 22 million people in Yemen are without health care. It's one of the poorest countries in the world now because of this. It's one of the hungriest countries in the world. So when they fight, they are fighting for more than just high fives. They are avenging the mass genocide that was committed against their people by the West. So when Israel clutches their pearls, where America gets up on its podium and starts talking about

how we're going to bring law in order back to this region, you guys go fuck yourselves. You're the reason why this is happening. If it wasn't for Saudi Arabia and Israel in the United States doing what they're doing here, they wouldn't be firing missiles at you. What you've done to the Palestinians is the justification for this, but it's only one of them. It's only the latest justification for this. They have plenty of reasons to launch missiles and destroy this area.

I mean, I can't even blame them. They are part of the Arab League, which includes Palestine,

by the United Nations Security Council against Yemen, while Saudi Arabia creates a famine there.

Again, the United Nations, United Nations into a one-world government, started by David Rockefeller, who's also deeply involved in depopulation. Do you think the United Nations gives a flying fuck if Yemen can defend itself? Absolutely not. They would prefer all of those people were dead. Who these have attacked cargo ships tied to Israel? But they have an agreement currently not to

“attack Saudi Arabia. I find that to be very interesting. I think that the relationship between the”

Saudis and the Americans is on life support. I think that if George H. W. Bush were alive today and not in hell where he belongs, he would be turning over in his crypt right now. If he saw what the Biden administration and the Obama administration has done to the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, they've destroyed it. I have no love for the Saudis or the

American Empire. I don't care. But George H. W. Bush would never allow this to happen. Just say,

you know, I mean, there would be airplanes blowing up with critical people of his regime inside them. We just know that. Here's the motto from the Houthis. God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel. A curse upon the Jews victory to Islam. I mean, it doesn't look great on a hallmark card. But does, you know, I get it. I mean, listen, I get if I were there, I'd feel the same way. Hell, I'm not there. And I feel the same way. America's doing this. Israel's doing this. Yes,

we know who's doing it. They know who's doing it. You know how they know who's doing it. You know how they know who's doing it. You know why they know because they are watching their family members starved to death. And they know who's responsible for that. It's not confusing to them. Every clear on who it is. It's us in the West. It's the Westerners. And their partners in Israel. Speaking of that, BDS boycott, the Western and sanctioned plus Israeli ships targeting is working.

There has been a 90% decline in activity in the Israeli port city of Eliot in the Gulf of Akaba. Again, this is a geography. There's a very obscure port in Israel. And there's a very tiny

channel of water called the Gulf of Akaba and 2.6 million tons of cargo goes through this place

annually. And you can only reach it through the Red Sea and it is basically cut off. There's nothing going on there. Since the situation started in Gaza, that place is they just, the, the Yemenis just turned it off. They just said, nope, we're not letting anybody get through. It's not even geographically close to Yemen either. It's just that they just, they said, "Anybody going to that port is Israeli in nature?" Either, I mean, it's in Israeli port. You're going there to get something.

You're going there to drop it off. Either way, you're not going there anymore. 90% closed. This is, it was the fuck around us of times. It was the find outest of times.

“What do you want? I mean, you, you should know that this is going to happen.”

Deutsche Bank warms clients about global supply chain crisis in the Red Sea. I love it. When Deutsche Bank is concerned about something other than their own balance sheet, you should really be worried because Deutsche Bank should rightly be out of business. They're so poorly mismanaged and they're, they have arsonist working for them. They're burning their own buildings to the ground, essentially, not actual arsonist, but financial arsonist.

And they're waving their hands going. Stay away from the Red Sea. It's really fucked up when the most decrepit zombie bank in the world is telling you to be careful

“of the Red Sea. Maybe listen to them. Baltic dry index. That's where you go. If you want to get”

shipping rates for around the world, you check the Baltic dry index and it'll show that war risk insurance premiums are spiking. So you can get insurance, but you have to buy what's known as a war risk insurance policy. Instead, it's not like I ensured this boat against, you know,

whatever. You can insure against a lot of things. But if you have an active war going on in the region,

“you have to get war insurance from like companies like Aliands and places like that. Like those”

those very hard to find insurance policies. And what the Baltic dry index is saying is that yeah, the shipping rates are up, but the rates are in particular because insurance in that area is up. And shipping companies are just flat out avoiding the area. So as it stands right now, they have other options. There's other places they can go and they're exploring that as you would expect. Hundreds of oil tankers have already diverted, which is, you know, obviously messing with

the supply chain. But currently, there's a place to divert to. The problem becomes when they cut off both choke points, when they get, when they get Babel Mandav and they get the straighter formus

at the same time. And now you've got 30% of the crude that's not going through and a third of the

LNG, not going through, you've got massive problems. You have, you have something that impacts oil prices, which impacts transportation, manufacturing, and global just energy, heating your house, fueling your car, all those things. And then the multiplier effects of all of those industries

“that then are impacted because of it, shipping food costs the food because now you have to ship it.”

And now the food, the gas is more expensive for the truck. So all you have to do is impact oil. And you can screw everything up. If you impact enough oil, then you'll set off a think of, you know, the guys that spend, you know, a year setting up all those elaborate dominos in cool patterns and they hit one and then they all sort of simultaneously start to go down. Well, think of it like that.

You hit oil, a third of the oil in the world, all of a sudden the price of oil just explodes

through the roof. That triggers derivative contracts to hit. And that causes banks to have to pay on derivative bets or lose or, you know, and it starts a cascading effect. We're now you start to mess with options derivatives, which are bets on bets. And by some accounts, there are two quadrillion dollars of derivatives sitting out there on these banks, balance sheets. You have the possibility of taking down the entire banking system. Not by blowing up the bank for international

“settlements. God willing, just kidding. Oh, oh, really, all you have to do is shut down these two”

areas, a 14 mile stretch and a 21 mile stretch on either sides of Saudi Arabia. And next thing you know, you've ended the banking system. You think you're just impacting, you think you're going to get revenge against the West for what they've done in Gaza. You wind up taking the entire oil gas and banking system down. I mean, this could happen. This, this isn't like 90 things need to happen in order for this one thing to happen. Not like four things need to happen. They decide

they can coordinate. They decide we're shutting down oil. We're going to mind the shit out of these

regions. Good luck. First one of those ships that blows up, there nobody's coming through.

Send a couple of subs in there. Start taking shots in American ships, start taking shots in X on ships that are going, I mean, also an oil stop flowing. Also, it goes from $100 a barrel to $300 a barrel. I mean, this could happen. I'm not trying to, you know, look, I'm not trying to say it's going to happen. But it's not as disconnected from realities, but is I would like to think. And of course, you know, now we've got the USS gravely a Navy destroyer out there that had a

who the missile come within a mile of it, which is pretty close in terms of like launching missiles and boat sort of things. You know, it's not a direct hit, but I don't know. I mean, I get Vietnam vibes when I start hearing about missiles getting launched at ships. And what what are we going to do? Double check their work. Make sure they're not lying to us. How would we know? Another USS Maddox incident? I mean, it's possible. Let's talk about the bricks for a second here.

Because I think I see their strategy. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. Those are the five major players that started the bricks coalition. They just made a move to add seven more. They

then reneged and pulled them out. So now they're down to adding six. So it was five. Now it's going

to be 11. But if you take a look at what they're doing, at what they've got and the countries that they're that they're going after, they're being pretty strategic here. So they just added Egypt. It's one of the new members to the bricks conglomerate. So now they control the Suez canal. They just added Iran to the bricks. So now they control the straight of Hormuz. They just added Saudi Arabia to the group. So now they control the Red Sea in the Persian Gulf

and the Arabian Sea. They added UAE. So now they grabbed the Gulf of Arabia. They added Ethiopia.

So they control the Gulf of Aden. All of those waterways that I just talked about,

the bricks countries are doing deals with them. America's about to find themselves completely shut

“out of that region geographically. That's what the bricks expansion is about. It's about two things.”

It's about securing energy, which by all accounts are doing. They just got Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. And it's about controlling travel and trade through the maritime regions. They got the Suez canal. They got the straight of Hormuz. They got the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Gulf of Arabia. They locked it all down. One shot. Frankly, Argentina

can go fuck themselves. They're unnecessary here. They were the most expendable of the seven.

So now they control the ports. Now they control the waterways. They're expanding as we know the Belt and Road Initiative. This is part of it. Part of the Belt and Road Initiative. There's a port in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. That's part of their BRI push. And this is a way to introduce Saudi

“Arabia to China, to tie them even closer together. Remember, China is the sea in bricks.”

And now Saudi Arabia is in that group. So we've now created a new partnership that can be used to kill the dollar and create the Petro you want. I look, I'm not, I'm not cheerleading for the bricks in this multi-polar scenario here, because there's no good guys in this scenario. There's just no good guy. It's just the Western American Empire and those fuckers. And it's everybody else. Now, it's starting to click up and grow themselves. Now, I mean, if you fast forward and run this

type of 50 years from now, you may find that this new group of bricks is worse than the American Empire. It wouldn't be surprised by that at all. I think there's something about when you take

“over the world you sort of become awful, or maybe you have to become awful in order to take”

over the world. But either way, once you're there, you're usually up to no good. So right now, this is a nice little check on the American Empire's power to see the rise of the bricks in the bricks plus countries. But it's, it's only a check for a while. It could lead to war. Of course, that's not good. It's definitely going to slip the throat of the American Empire financially. I mean, it's just the catastrophic failure on their part to not understand this. And look,

the BRI, a bone road initiative has a port directly across from Yemen in that Baba El Mande straight in Djibouti. So the Chinese are already there. And the Chinese don't have a problem with the Chinese. They got no problems. So now China is on one side in Djibouti, on the Africa side. They've got Yemen on the other side threatening to close it down. But they get along with each other. It's not going to close it down if you float Chinese ships through there. They're fine with that.

And in Djibouti, on this, this very small sort of like almost a very obscure but geographically significant country in this form of Africa. What you have is the port in Djibouti is being directly fed by a railroad that is originating in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. And it is, it's already built. This railroad's already built. It's functional. And it's part of the

kind of like to the northeast a little bit into the port of Djibouti and then from there out to wherever.

“So this is part of the Belt and Road initiative is that it's one thing to have all these”

ports everywhere but you also have to have a rail system inside Africa itself. And we're going to get if you're extracting all these minerals. You get to get them from the center part, the landlocked area of Africa out to an edge where you can get it to a port. And so they've already been doing this in Ethiopia. They've got this. They've built the railroad. So that goes straight up to Djibouti which is part of the Belt and Road initiative. So China's in this region in a big way.

We're just not talking about it yet or at least the mainstream media isn't.

A little bit south a little bit south if you guys you go around that horn down around Somalia and down a little bit south. You wind up in Kenya and in Nairobi, Kenya. The Belt and Road initiative has a port or a lease agreement there as well. There's a port in Sudan. There's a port in the United Arab Emirates. There's a port in Iraq. So they've got the Chinese are building ports everywhere. U.S. is threatening people with their ships while the Chinese are building ports strategically.

And you know, look, not for nothing but we've got a currency problem on top of all this. We have

a petro dollar arrangement that is coming to a close. We have the bricks nations getting together

and saying, you know, maybe for our inter-country trade, we could have our own currency, a bricks currency. But instead of backing it, thought, you know, style by a promise or whatever,

“we'll back it with gold. And that's what they've been doing. Of course, they took this idea”

from the rubble, which once America slapped all its sanctions on Russia, Russia decided, well, let's just back our rubble with gold. And we got a bunch of it. We've been buying gold for a while. We, um, who knows how much they have, but, you know, they've got to have a lot. So we've now got instability in the form of a petro dollar, instability in the form of trying to get your oil around these regions, if you're the United States Empire or Israel, you know, you've got all this

instability with the West and yet on the other side of things, this bricks group is building a gold-back currency. That's more stable. They have their building ports along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aiden and everywhere that America's worried about having to fight their way, you know, fighting in order to keep the oil flowing, the Chinese are building ports and signing leases in agreement with the countries there. There's no fighting, they're partnering.

So you've got stability in the bricks countries. Surprising is that my, my sound, but you do. You have more stability. You have a gold-back currency. You have ports that are being built. You don't

“have animosity. Nobody's launching missiles at Chinese ships, but I think this kind of leads us”

to the conversation that a lot of people are unwilling or unable to have. The elephant in the Middle East and that is that Israel is bad for America's reputation and that and that's saying something. Okay, because America's reputation is really bad and I would say around the world Israel's is worse. If you can imagine that, the United States is totally captured by Israel. A pack anti-deformation league about Louisville's, those groups are embedded in American politics.

Just watch the performance art. Find me a president that hasn't put his hand on the wall and kiss, you know, and bowed his head with the Omicon. You show me one. You show me a president that isn't doing that and I'll show you a president that isn't captured by Israel. They're all captured. Even your beloved God-figured Donald Trump, maybe even the most captured because he thinks he's not. The reputational damage to the United States, and it's really, it's a two-way street because

I will say this for the people of Israel, to the people of Israel. I'm sorry that you guys are held hostage by your psychotic government, but I know the feeling we're held hostage by our psychotic government, too. American people don't want this. I assume these really people don't want this either. It's not us. I'm not shitting on the people. I think at this point we're well-versed enough to have the conversation and

things that they do and the general public of America that is not involved, but no-one asked

“our opinion on this, we're mortified that they're conducting these wars on our behalf, talking”

about spreading democracy and freedom and America stands for all these things like, "Oh my God, what a lie!" And I fully recognize that the same thing is happening to the people of Israel, that there is a huge percentage of them that are like throwing their hands up saying, "We don't want this either." These people in our government don't represent us, Benjamin Netanyahu's a terrorist, okay? Joe Biden is a terrorist, Barack Obama,

George W. But these are terrorists, and in the lucute party of Israel, it was formed by actual

terrorists. Monocombegan was a fucking terrorist who's blowing up hotels. Okay, so we got a lot in common, the United States Empire and the Israeli Empire, or whatever you want to call it,

“both like to take over land and then exterminate the people that are on it, it's bad luck,”

and then tell everybody else how to live. It's just preposterous. But I want to make sure I say that because I want the Israeli people that listen to this show and I know I know I've got an audience there. To understand, we know it's not you, okay? And we hope that you know it's not us. We're mortified by this. But it is not in America's best interest as Scott Horton says on Twitter about three times a day. It is not in America's interest to be allies with Israel at all.

International Court of Justice, they have no teeth, but they said Israel was guilty of genocide, not that that means anything, not that that means anything. To, to, to, to, it can't a legal sense. The United Nations will do nothing because everyone is controlled by Israeli blackmail. Long history of doing that. US allows Israel to do whatever they want through the United Nations. Again, a reminder, the United Nations started by David Rockefeller. If you think that this is like

somehow like the World Court, where like you're going to get a fair and impart, like stop, don't ever think United Nations security counsel that United, I mean, they have all these very official sounding names. It's just David Rockefeller. It's just him sitting, you know, it's him sitting in his office in New York City saying, how can we take over the world? Let's start all these international governing bodies. Make it look like they're international and

scope, but actually we're running them. 30 Palestinians civilians found wrapped in black plastic after being shot execution style and dumped in a mass-graving Gaza. Israeli soldiers were blamed for not just shooting them, but for torturing them as well. Real fuckers. Congratulations. Defending your right to exist. Go fuck yourselves. Here's representative from Florida, Brian Mas, who wore his IDF uniform into Congress. I'm pretty sure he's an allowed former member of

the IDF dual citizen dual loyalty. So I should say a single loyalty to Israel made it very clear on camera. So he's not misquoted here. That Palestinian babies were not innocent victims. He said there's more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed when talking about Gaza Holy Shit. So what are we doing? Here's from a friend of the show, Kyle Ann Zalone from the Libertarian Institute and also anti-war dot com. Here's a headlight. Israel destroys Belgium, aid, agency, office in Gaza.

Why would you do that? Are there terrorists hiding in there? Were they hiding in the basements and

“tunnels? Is that it? You know, never forget, beheaded, raped babies, except that the story was”

bullshit, except that there's zero proof of it, except that they had to walk it back. But never

forget it, even though it didn't happen. Interesting, though. The Israel of all of the aid agencies that you could destroy in Gaza, interesting that they destroyed the one that belongs to Belgium. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Belgium just voted against Israel at the United Nations. Right. I'm sure that's just a humongous coincidence. U.S. strikes Iraq and Syria, 85 targets, 40 more additional strikes. They say they're going after command centers, supply chain,

intelligence centers. The United States is being attacked in Syria because it has bases in Syria

us in Syria, the question should be, why are you in Syria?" I know you're, I know why you're there.

“They're stealing the oil. We all know that. But instead of them saying nothing or spinning it differently,”

it's just interesting that they flip out as if there's just some that the Syrian people are completely unreasonable and have just decided for some reason to attack the poor Americans that are

doing nothing. You know, except, except occupying their country and putting military bases in

their country when they're not supposed to and drilling for oil and stealing the oil and all that ship. But besides all that, I wonder why the Syrians decided to, I mean, what the fuck do you think is going to happen here? U.S. strikes targets inside Iraq. U.S. strikes targets inside of Syria.

Let me guess where the terrorist was at al-Qaeda was al-Qaeda there. I'm getting very confused now

“because, you know, for a while al-Qaeda was the worst thing in the world, you know, and then we”

started financing them and then they weren't the worst thing. They were, they were al-Qaeda in Iraq or they were, you know, I mean, whatever brand name there, it's very difficult to keep track because it keeps changing. One thing you can tell for sure is that the terrorists that were told were fighting against are often financed by us and in actuality, the real terrorists, the American Empire. This is a really bad idea. Everything about this bothers me, worries me, we're too close to

Iran here. You think you think Iraq was a mess. Iran is three times the size of Iraq. Iran is partnered with Russia and China. Iran is not fucking around. This is the fight you don't want or maybe they do. Maybe they do. I mean, somewhere out there, John Bolton is consulting a doctor because his erection has lasted longer than four hours with all this talk of going to war against

“Iran. I just know it, you know, somewhere that guy loves this. But I don't. I think it's disgusting”

I think what America's doing is disgusting. I think what Israel's doing is disgusting. There'd be careful in that red. She's red sea shooting gallery, man. You know, these boys are not messing around. And if oil gets cut off, you'll have nobody to blame but the American Empire. Hey, if you like this episode, you can take the additional step right now of sharing it with your friends and family. Follow me on Twitter @macroaggressions. You can go to

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