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0:00When the Berlin Wall fell, there was an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama. And he wrote a very influential essay called The End of History. And for decades capitalism was in a struggle with communism. And in his essay Fukuyama argued that the triumph of capitalism would come to the end of history. Meaning we now know what humanity must strive for, which is a liberal consumer democracy, where people feel empowered to have the freedom to buy whatever they want.
And this for him was the apex of human civilization. And this creates what is called the unipolar moment. Where America is the global hegemon. And it creates a world that is heavily globalized capitalistic um and very individualistic. And this is a very unique moment in human history.
And we've come with this one Iran to the end of this moment. All right? So, let me first explain the three major characteristics of this unipolar moment. The first is what I call Pax Americana. Where American power American military might guaranteed peace in the entire world.
And this is unique in human history, where for the first time there was a power that was able to dominate the entire globe. And America was able to do so through three mechanisms, okay? The first is of course its military power, but
2:01but specifically aerial supremacy. Okay? Which is backed up by special forces and [clears throat] the CIA. So, the CIA was able to infiltrate every single government in the world and identify who would be loyal to the American Empire and then promote this person. If there were individuals that challenged the American Empire, these people were demoted or eliminated.
Nations that proved problematic, for example, maybe Syria or Libya, special Special forces went in to sabotage the economy and then aerial power went in to destroy the government. And um so, this created Pax Americana. Now, what's good about this is that it did bring peace to very problematic regions. For example, in Indonesia,
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Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, China, Vietnam not compete against each other, they just participate in the global economy, which brought tremendous wealth and prosperity to uh the East Asia region. This is true also in Europe uh and South America as as well, okay? So, um aerial supremacy. Then you have something called surveillance. And basically what I mean by that is the internet.
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So, believe it or not, but the internet was created not not to actually help you communicate and to watch pornography, it was actually to to have um a mass surveillance system over the entire human population so that the Pentagon, the military knew exactly the vibe or the culture, uh the attitudes, the emotions of each region. And through social media, through mechanisms such as Facebook and Twitter, they were able to manipulate certain emotions. Okay? So, the second mechanism is mass
4:01surveillance through the popularization of the internet. Um and the third is something called a rules-based international order. Okay, what this means is American power hid behind multilateral organizations such as the uh United Nations, such as the World Bank, such as the World Trade Organization. And so, people didn't notice that the American uh empire was strong-arming everything. They believed that the world was fair and just, and through uh logic and reason and debate, they could present their case.
All right? So, for the longest time, this Pax Americana provided peace and stability to the world, which brought tremendous prosperity.
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All right, so that's number one. Number two is the supremacy of science.
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So, for most of human history, people were religious. They believed in gods. But, with the rise of Pax Americana, science became the dominant religion of the whole world. All right, so the classic example is COVID. COVID was raging all across the world, and then they issued vaccines.
Now, I teach critical thinking skills. So, when I first heard about the vaccines, I was a bit skeptical. I said to my friends who were Chinese and American, I said, "You know, um vaccines used used to take about 10 years to to develop, and that's when the virus is stable and it had been around for centuries. But this COVID is constantly mutating and they haven't have done enough trial research. So, is it really safe to take this these vaccines?
6:01And whether they were Chinese or American, their response was the same, which is, "How dare you question science? You are a peasant. Have you gone to school? Have you no culture? Can you not think?" Okay?
And it shows you the how science has become the new religion of the world. And you think about it, the scientists around the world, they're actually transnational priests. Okay? And science is an international brotherhood, where if you're a scientist in China, you're not you're not actually loyal to China, you're actually loyal to the international order of science because that's how you get promoted, right? You get published in Nature or Science.
If you win an award, like a Nobel Nobel Prize, that's how you how you get rewarded, okay? So, you're better off being loyal to the brotherhood brotherhood of science rather than your own nation-state. And of course, it is the American empire that controls science.
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And the third, um, unique aspect of the European movement is, of course, the universality of the US dollar. And it's kind of like you think about think about where just a piece of paper, you think it's gold. You think there's value in it. And not just you, but everyone around you, so that you take your US dollars, you go anywhere in the world and buy yourself a villa or, uh, enjoy a nice vacation or fly around. But not only that, but you aspire like to accumulate as as much US dollars as possible, right?
Is there really a difference between $100 million and $100 million? There's absolutely no difference. You can't spend it. But you want to achieve as much as possible. And as a result, you um focus your entire life on accumulating as much as possible.
Okay? So, these are the three main pillars of
8:02the unipolar moment. And again, in the beginning, which was maybe the early '90s, this led to tremendous peace and prosperity throughout the world. The problem, though, is that over time, these three pillars started to decay. Right? So, um Pax Americana started to itself ignore the rules-based natural order, which itself created.
Right? So, America started to bomb countries such as uh Libya and Syria without international approval. Most recently, it went to attack Iran without even asking for the opinion of the world, without even caring what the what the world thought. Okay? So, this leads the idea of hubris.
Maybe the first generation appreciates the importance of collaboration, of consensus. But the second generation, the children, are arrogant. They have hubris. They want to enjoy their power. Okay?
So, that's problem one. The problem with science, um uh religion, basically becomes a religion in itself, orthodoxy. So, that science does not become the main engine of innovation in the world, it becomes the main uh engine of orthodoxy or suppression. That's why for the past 20, 30 years, we've seen very little in terms of technological innovation. Don't tell me Silicon Valley is a center of innovation in the world, okay?
All they do is make food delivery apps. It's been a long time since we've seen massive innovation in the world. What we've seen in these past 20, 30 years is the scaling out, the popularization of innovation, right? Where American technology is spread throughout the world, especially in China. But we have not seen actually major innovation in
10:03science itself. All right. And the third thing, the university of the US dollar leads to um printing dollars, okay? Or just basically corruption. Where because America is able to print as much US dollars as it wants to fund its corruption, it does so, okay?
So the US dollar has has lessened in value. And what this means is basically it's made inequality worse, it's made corruption worse, it's made people very lazy. If you're a young person, you're like, "You know what? No matter how hard I work, I'm still screwed in the end because the boomers, the older generation, have so much more money than I do. I can never catch up.
So I I refuse to play this game. Either I refuse to play this game, so I quiet quit, you know, complaining like like that, or I gamble. I pray that my put I'm going to lost in Bitcoin, it'll go up to $10 million or or or the stock market or sports betting, okay? That's why in America gambling has become so popular. All right?
So this has led to uh today basically. All right? So um it's we shouldn't see this war against Iran as just a decision of one person, Donald Trump, or the machinations of a country, Israel. Really, this war in Ukraine is happening because we come to the end of the unipolar moment because uh the American empire has become corrupt, self-indulgent, lazy, arrogant. All right?
So, with the end of the American empire, with the end of Pax Americana, we are shifting towards a new world. And this new world, some will survive, most will not, okay? Because And this is true throughout history where an empire
12:03declines and the world order is shifting, where there's a paradigm shift, people are forced to make a hard choice of either adapt or die. All right? So, let me show share with you what how how the world needs to change if it is to survive. Basically, what has to happen is we have to move from an emphasis on efficiency to resilience. Okay?
That is the main goal in the future. Today, it's really about how to make things as cheap as possible and get get it to as many people as quickly as possible to make as much money as possible, okay? The idea of efficiency. Generating as much profit as possible. The idea of resilience is to is to appreciate that there will be a series of crises and what you need to do is focus on adapting and surviving these crises, okay?
So, for a nation, for a community to survive in the future, there have to be three major changes. If you're able to make these three um major changes, you will survive. If you do not [clears throat] make these changes, you will be eliminated, okay? It will be survival of the fittest. All right.
So, the first thing you need to do is move from materialism to spirituality. Right now, the entire world, these nation-states, have convinced the population what matters is your material well-being. If you are driving a car, if you have a house, if you have enough food to eat, then you should shut up and obey because we're doing a good job. Okay? But, in the future, governments can't do that because there's not enough resources to go around.
Therefore,
14:05therefore, the government has to make you believe that what matters is your happiness, your well-being, your spirituality. And that that usually means um a renewed focus on religion. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is to move from system of individuality to community and family.
All right. And what this means is today what you're taught in school, what you're taught in society is what matters is you, me, okay? The ego. If if if it's doing well for me, it's good. I don't actually care about other people.
In the future, you have to focus on building a community, on helping others. Okay? And the last um um major shift is from the old to the young. Okay? And this is very simple.
And this is actually the hardest thing to do, which is like today, most countries, especially the wealthy Western industrial nations, are controlled by the baby boomers, the elderly, the gerontocracy. They have all the money, they have all the power. But, for society to thrive in the future, this power needs to shift to a younger generation. Ideally, maybe in their 30s, okay? The younger the better.
And you think this is easy to do? It's not. Because first of all, these baby boomers have access to the best health care in the world. They have a lot of money, and they really enjoy living. And they're also really selfish.
Okay? So, this is actually the hardest problem to solve for most Western societies. How do you transfer power from the old to the young? And what I see, historically, we've never ever faced this problem before. Never.
Because the
16:06old simply don't live that long, okay? Now, baby boomers are living to at least 100 years old. So, they they have another 20 years ahead of them in power. Meanwhile, the young cannot uh develop the experience and expertise in order to lead the nation. So, whichever nation actually speaks speaks out this problem first, how do you really own and give power to the young, then will most likely thrive in the new world that's coming.
And if you were if you were to ask me which nation would most likely achieve this first, I would say Japan. And the reason is very simple. Because Japan in Japan this problem is the most present. They are the um um the oldest population. They have the oldest population in the world.
And so, they they need to resolve this issue really really quickly. Okay? And maybe in the five next five 10 years, uh and I think that Japan will actually resolve this issue. But it may be the only nation that's able to resolve this issue. Because it's so difficult.
You love your grandparents. Do you want to see your grandparents die? Of course not. Okay, you're going against human biological nature. All right, okay.
All right, so that's the main argument I want to make you to today, okay? So, what we're going to do now is we're going to look at how the world is going to transform because of what's happening in the circle of moves, because of this war in Iraq. Okay. All right. So, basically we're in a new world because our world today is built on entirely entirely on access to cheap petroleum products, cheap energy.
Right? Why are Why are you allowed to be in school learning from me rather than the fields farming? Because of energy, right? Because of oil from the Middle East. Your computer is based on what?
18:06Petroleum. This camera that's filming me is based on what? Petroleum. This pen, petroleum. This clothing, petroleum.
The medicine you eat, petroleum. The food that you eat comes from fertilizers, which is based also on petroleum. So, basically everything in this room, everything in the world is based on cheap petroleum. The entire world economy, the main foundation is cheap petroleum. So, what happens in a world where petroleum is no longer cheap?
Well, now you have a You need a massive rebalancing in the world, okay? The other thing about the world is this is the GCC countries, okay? Um uh the Middle East countries. And as you can see, this is really important to see is um around the year 2005,
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they started to have massive massive um account surplus. Meaning they were selling so much oil, they couldn't really spend all their money. Do you guys know why? What what was this happening? What happened in 2005, 2004 that made these countries extremely wealthy?
All right, China, okay.
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Think about it. What is China doing? Well, China in the '80s and '90s was putting factories, right? But then it China itself developed this a counter plan. So, now China wants to develop its industrial base, right?
And how do you do that? By importing oil from the GCC. Right? And that's why we have these skyscrapers, these malls, these roads, okay? Because China was able to import all this cheap oil from the GCC.
And then the GCC would take this money, okay? And then invest it back into the market stock market. But not just that, they would invest it in Africa. They would invest invest in
20:06infrastructure. So, for the longest time, the Chinese economy and the GCC are the two main pillars of the entire global economy. Okay? And what this means is that if the GCC no longer is able to export oil, this is going to have a major impact on China. And together, the two are going to have a major impact on the global economy, okay?
[clears throat] Basically, the global economy is dead. All right. Okay, another thing that you may not be aware of is today, flight flying around the world it's very very simple to do. You get up like if you want it what we can do now is get our mobiles out, uh go to a website, and look at where we're going to fly to, and then book that flight for tonight. Pay using a credit card, take a taxi to the airport, get on a flight, and we're there the next morning.
That's really really impressive. Guess what, guys? You couldn't do this 20 years ago. Okay? The technology was around, but it was not um widely available.
Now, look at this, where the entire world is interconnected, okay? Um this is a pretty stark chart where in 1950, it was considered an a tremendous luxury to fly. You had to be a millionaire, basically, to want to fly for vacation, okay? Everyone else just drove their car. Now, it's like anyone can drive.
And again, this happened just in the past, basically, 30, 40 years. And this, of course, is because of Pax Americana, where Pax Americana will guarantee there's a cop in the world, and therefore, planes can just fly around. Otherwise, be shot down. Okay? All right.
Well, this world is coming to an end. In the future, flights will be very expensive, and vacations will be unaffordable,
22:08okay? All right. This is the internet, guys. Now, you don't know this. You think that the internet is just a one computer, and then, boom, the internet is there.
No, actually, the internet is under these cables that connect the entire world. And unfortunately, uh there's a war going on right here, guys. And unfortunately, it's really easy for Iran to cut off the underseas cables, which would lead to internet disruption for maybe 20, 30% of the world. Okay? Africa, northern Africa, India, the Middle East, maybe parts of Europe will lose internet access.
You think, "Okay, well, that's fine. They just won't watch Netflix anymore." No, guys, okay? The entire world economy is based off the cloud. So, if want to bank, if you want a basic finance, okay? This is going to have a huge impact in the world.
And this can happen anytime. Where for the reason there's a war going on in the Strait of Hormuz, some cables get get get cut off, and then suddenly you've lost internet access. And this would basically cause major um disruptions throughout the world. All right. Okay.
So, one thing that you notice about this world is the sheer amount of population growth. Where after World War II, because of Pax Americana, you see a massive boom in population. And unfortunately, this is not sustainable. It is not possible for the planet to sustain 8 billion people. Many of whom want to fly around the world every uh twice a year.
Who want to drive an SUV. Who want to have food any who want to
24:08have avocados uh every single day. They want to have like cherries every single day, okay? So, um this population growth um is not sustainable. And basically what happens is this. When you are too off balance, when there's a correction, the correction is pretty extreme, okay?
So, this problem by itself, the fact that we have so many people, means like if there's a crisis, the population will see a massive shrinkage, okay? You're like, "Okay, how?" And the answer is food scarcity. Food is not is today pretty common, but food is based on global trade, okay? So, let me show you what I mean by this. All right.
So, this the the yellow, okay, are places that need fertilizer to grow food, meaning their land is not uh good for farming. So, they need fertilizer to grow food. They also have large population. As you can see, a lot of this is based in uh Africa and [clears throat] maybe Central Asia and parts of South America. Ammonia is chemical produced from oil to petroleum that is fundamental for fertilizers.
And as you can see, this is mainly in the north of the world. What allows for 8 billion people is the fact that the north is able to export fertilizer to the south. And that's it, guys. You understand? If this were to stop for whatever reason, people in the south would be in a lot of trouble.
All right? So, as you can see, this trade in fertilizer is what sustains a global population of 8
26:09billion people. Again, if there is a disruption to this trade, the people in the south are in a lot of trouble. All right.
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So, um if you're in the green, you're okay, okay? But if you are in the red, you you are in a lot of trouble, okay? You are in a lot of trouble if you are in if you are in the red. But honestly, if you are not in the green, you could still be in a lot of trouble because again, what we're looking for is resilience. The idea of efficiency is let's imagine the best case scenario and try to make as much money out of it as possible, okay?
The idea of resilience is let's imagine the worst case scenario and see if we can survive it. Basically, if you are if you have food security issues, you are facing a massive problem, okay? Because again, we're imagining the worst case scenario. And again, I hate to say this, but you know that we you should be worrying right now, okay? And and where's China?
Not in the green dots, okay? There's something that national leaders in the world have been talking about right now, food scarcity. All right.
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Water. Again, the countries that suffer from food scarcity, some of them also suffer from food scarcity, okay? I from water water scarcity. Okay? All right, we got this.
All right. Okay? So, basically, this area is not a problem. I would say that water is far more problematic than food. And again, I hate to say this, but if
28:11you are any country here, what's going on here?
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If you're any country in this area, okay? You should be worried. Freedom is a very important issue because freedom is actually important for resilience issues, okay? And what this means is that when there's a crisis, leaders and the population need to collectively make sacrifices. But when there's very little freedom, meaning there's very little transparency and accountability, where the public don't have access to the leadership, then the leadership could possibly make selfish, self-defeating decisions.
And it And the public is not involved, and therefore the public refuses to make the sacrifices necessary in order to uh make the nation survive, okay? And so, this leads to conflict around the world. And again, countries that um suffer the most from food issues and water issues also are most likely to come into conflict with other people, okay? So, this is a map of nations at war. The red means that they are at war, okay?
And you can see Africa and the Middle East is uh especially under a lot of conflict and a lot of stress. While at the same time they're suffering from food scarcity and water issues. All right? So, what you will see uh sorry, another issue I want to um bring up is that of megacities. And let me I mean megacities is any cities that have over 10 million people.
And you think, "Wow, like megacities are
30:14amazing cuz you have like shopping malls and you have like skyscrapers. That's great." No, no, no, guys. Megacities are really bad, okay? Megacities should not exist. They exist because of globalization.
Because what megacities do is they're able to bring in a lot of people, have them specialize in a particular area, make it industrial, and then export to to the rest of the world, okay? And where are most mega cities located? Well, they're located in India and in China. This a problem because India and China both suffer from food and water issues. If you are to be resilient, you actually want most of your population not in cities, but in the countryside growing food.
Because first of all, they are self-sufficient. Second of all, you will have um a food supply. Unfortunately, right now, um China imports a quarter of its food. And also remember, food also requires energy to grow, right? So, China imports 75% of its oil.
This brings up the question of how resilient is China. Okay, not just China, but also any big country with a mega city or too many mega cities, India um specifically, will face problems in the future. Again, if you're a national leader, you should be worried right now, okay? All right. So, with this war and disruptions to global trade, we should expect massive instability in nations that are not very resilient, okay?
That have very little freedom, that have food issues, and which have water issues, okay? And so, you would see revolutions, you would see wars, you
32:15would see famines, which leads to what? Which leads to massive migration, okay? And so, these are trends. These are migration trends that we're already seeing where people from Africa, Middle East are moving to Europe, and people from um South America and Latin America are moving to the United States, okay? And we should expect these trends to not only continue but to accelerate by maybe maybe 100 times.
Okay? And you think to yourself, okay, well, what Europe and North America can do is just build walls, right? They should right now build a wall because you're going to see a massive influx of refugees due to uh food and water issues. And unfortunately, Europe and North America have a huge problem. The problem, of course, is aging.
Okay? So, in 2020, the countries in purple are countries that have a significant elderly population. And this is 2050, where the entire northern hemisphere will have um an significant elderly population. So, the north, the industrial economies, are aging very rapidly, which means their only option is to bring in cheap, desperate workers from the south who are fleeing conflict zones in order to um run their economies. Right?
The problem with this of this, of course, is that this will lead to cultural conflict where the local populations, native populations, will feel they're being replaced by um these refugees and these immigrants. And this will probably lead to civil conflict within
34:15uh North America and within Europe. Okay? And unfortunately, there's really no way around this issue. Because the elderly are in control, and they want people to mow their lawns. They want people to nurse them.
They want people to deliver food to them. And unfortunately, young people don't have to do that because their parents have money. Okay? So, one way around this issue is by importing cheap immigrant labor. Right?
Okay.
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With the end of Pax Americana, what you will see emerge is regional trading blocks. Basically, the idea of mercantilism, okay? Mercantilism. And for [clears throat] most of human history, this was what we did. Where there was no one power that controlled the entire world, what happened was that maybe you had a local hegemon, which guaranteed trade among its allies, okay?
And you didn't trade with other people, you only traded within your regional trading block. And that's the world we're heading back towards, okay? So, this is a map of the 17th 16th century, 17th century, where, you know, you have these mercantile empires, like the British, the Portuguese, the French, the Spanish, and they had their own trade networks. And they refused to work with each other, but the system worked fine. Okay?
It's always more expensive, it was not so convenient, but it still works. So, this does not This does not mean the end of global trade, it just means much more limited global trade.
36:15Right?
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Um another thing that you will notice about the Asian economies is slaves Slaves were a very important part of the trade. And the reason why is this: You need energy to run your society. Today we use oil, back then they used human beings. Right? You can no longer have access to cheap oil, what you do is you enslave people.
And that's the way historically we've done things. All right? Okay. So, the last thing I want to talk about is religion. Because remember, the idea of resilience is you need people to focus more on spirituality and less on materialism because if you they focus on materialism, their lives are going to get worse and worse.
Okay? So, you need to cause a national spiritual rejuvenation in your country. And if you are in the gray, um you might have issues, okay? Why? Because your people are not religious and too materialistic.
And unfortunately, East Asia, okay? Japan, uh China, Korea, Vietnam are especially non-religious. That's going to be a problem for them in the future, okay? All right. So, let's just summarize what we've learned so far.
What are some major trends that we should expect over the next 10 to 20 years? Again, I just say this, all right? If you really believe that next week Donald Trump and Iran are going to come to a peace agreement, if you believe that um maybe in five, six months both Iran and the United States will exhaust themselves, the global economy will
38:15suffer too much, and then they'll just stop the war and things will go back to normal. I don't know I don't know what to tell you, okay? You're living in a fantasy world. You have to wake up and recognize that this is the end of the unipolar moment and we're moving towards a new world. And you either choose to adapt to this new world or you will die.
It's that simple. All right? So, massive trend is deindustrialization and deurbanization where people in the cities will have to move back to the countryside, especially young people. Okay? They have to learn like real skills.
No more cryptocurrency trading for you guys, okay? Learn how to milk a cow or kill chicken or grow food, whatever, okay? But just do something useful for your life. Um nationalism and remilitarization is very important where you have to get young people who willing to fight and defend your land. Okay?
And that means getting them to believe that your nation deserves to be strong. So, which every nations are most ready and most able to excite their young population into fighting wars will will be the ones who will be most resilient. Uh mercantilist systems, basically independent trading blocks. Resource wars is a very big thing, okay? Famines, genocides, slavery.
Okay? So, remember, for most of human history, humans were the cheap energy. If you don't have access to cheap oil, well, then you're going to enslave human beings. All right? This is not a pretty future, but it is a future that could happen and you have to mentally prepare yourself for this possibility.
Okay? Um mass migration where people in the south are most likely to suffer from resource wars over water and food and and people, so they escape from escape to Europe and North America.
40:16Okay? Um revolution, civil wars, political instability in America and in Europe because the baby boomers refuse to retire from the scene. And these are aging populations, massive inequality, massive corruption, massive stagnancy. And so this will lead to chaos in the streets, okay? Um religion is a big thing.
Um if you are not religious, I actually recommend looking into the possibility of becoming a religion, okay? It's been very useful for what's going to happen later on. Um this These are things I will talk about more in the future, okay? But I will bring them up now. Like how do I see the world in 10, 20 years time?
All right? So I will say this. I think that there will be eventually an alliance between Russia and Germany in Europe. Maybe for the next 5, 10 years, Germany and Russia will go to war against each other, but eventually what the two will figure out is they're better off actually working together than fighting against each other. Okay?
Um you have Pax Judaica. Remember the entire point of this war in Iran from Israel's perspective is to knock out America from the Middle East and establish itself as the local hegemon. And then it becomes Pax Judaica. Okay? So I think Israel will come to dominate the Middle East.
But then you're like, "What about Iran?" Okay. And like I used to try to understand, but if the United States were to leave the scene and Israel and Iran had to go to war against each other, what would happen is they would say, "Why?" Because Israel is like, "I don't want Persia." And then Iran is like, "I don't want Israel." And Israel has nuclear
42:16weapons. So, they would agree to split the Middle East up where Iran controls Shufu Moos, and Israel controls the Levant, right? Historically, actually, um the Israelis, the Jewish people, they hated the Greeks, they hated the Romans, but they actually got very happy with the Persians. So, there's this history going back where where Persians and Jews actually get along very well. And in fact, um in the Middle East, the place outside Israel with the largest Jewish population is Iran.
And they're very well treated there. Okay? So, I don't see why, if America were to leave the scene, why why couldn't Israel and Iran come to a mutually satisfactory agreement that benefits both nations, right? Um Japan. Again, I think the major problem facing all Western industrial nations is the aging crisis.
What do you do with these people who are 90 years old? They can't get out of the house. Their brains aren't really functioning properly, but they still control all the money, all the power, and they're extremely influential. What do you do? Well, in most countries, you can't do anything about it.
But Japan is a very special country where the elderly have a moral obligation to the nation, to the people. So, it could be uh a situation where Japan is in a lot of trouble, and the elderly voluntarily choose to exit power and give it to the young. All right? But I think Japan is the only nation that would do this voluntarily. Every other nation, um basically basically there has to be wars in order for the young to arise to power.
All right. The American Holy Empire.
44:16The nation that is most capable of surviving the next few decades of tribulation of crisis is America. Why? Because America is so incredibly, incredibly wealthy, okay? It's protected by two oceans. It really controls Canada and Mexico.
So, think of America as not just the continent continent of America, but really as entire North American and Latin American, okay? That entire sphere is basically America. So, it has unlimited resources. It has unlimited population. And also, America and the Americans are the most creative, the most entrepreneurial, and the most energetic people in the world.
So, I would bet against America, all right? But, what I think will happen is that America will need a new identity in order to survive the age of tribulation. They'll go from Pax Judaica Oh, sorry. Pax Americana, which is a secular, global idea to one that is much more nationalistic, that is more focused on community and nation. That means embracing Christianity.
Okay? And I think that Christianity is what will be the force that we build America after the many crises America will face over the next few years. The last thing that will happen is techno-Marxism, okay? Where nations that um have the resources want to institute an AI surveillance state to better marshal the limited resources um to basically basically to better control its people. And this is something we'll talk about later on, okay?
Um, but basically, you will have this sharp uh, division of people into different classes. Right at the very top, you have
46:16freedom, but people at the very bottom, um, become slaves or serfs. Right? Okay. So, that is it for trends I see in the future. Again, I didn't say this, but you have to give the illusion that this war will end soon, and that once this war ends, then we'll go back to the things before this the before this war, okay?
No, the world has completely changed. We're not going back to the old world. We're going to a new world. And what this new world will look like is something that we can choose to control. Okay?
All right, any questions? All right.
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So, about the new world, so the relationships between countries will all be changed, such as China and Japan, and you know, those five big countries will the orders be changed? Okay. All right. So, the best way to understand the geopolitical situation is that it's it's constantly in flux. It's constantly dynamic, okay?
Meaning, you cannot easily divide nation-states into enemies anymore. The alliances will constantly shift over time. And the nation-state system will also break apart into, uh, much more resilient communities. That's it's possible that nation states become a series of city-states. Okay?
So, um basically think about the world the world in maybe 1930s. Or maybe even China during the Warring States period, okay? Basically, I can't tell you that we'll go to a new world and then
48:18this is what it will look like. No, it will constantly change over time. Okay? Alliances will constantly shift over time. It's possible that in the beginning, um in East Asia, maybe Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Russia combine to contain China because they see China as the hegemon.
But then they're like, "Wait a Wait a minute here. Japan's rising in power. So, let's combine against Japan." Okay? It's a dynamic situation. But but but basically, what you have to understand is that everything that you've been taught in school, everything that you understand about the world, everything you believe about to be true about the world will change.
And so, you have to open your mind and be ready for constant, um political flux. And does that make sense? All right. Any Any more questions, guys? All right.
So, um now that we've looked at the world ahead for the next 10, 20, 50 years, who who knows who knows how long. Um what I'll do in the next class is examine how this this war between the United States and Iran will eventually end.