So, about 2 months ago, I made a video saying that Iran would be next after Venezuela. And I wish I was wrong, but on February 27th, Iran agreed to nuclear inspections. And then one day later, the United States bombed them.
>> Over the past 36 hours, the United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives. That means the US is now at war with a country of 92 million people. That's what's happening right now.
The question that I think we're all trying to understand is why. Because official explanation doesn't make any sense. The official explanation is this was not a regime change war, but their regime is gone.
And that the nuclear program was the threat, but we already destroyed it 8 months ago with Operation Midnight Hammer. that Iran was about to attack the US because they had the capability to make nuclear weapons, but the Senate Intelligence Committee says they saw no evidence of any threat. >> There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians.
>> That's why all of this is so confusing because nothing makes any logical [music] sense. And that's why I wanted to make this video because the truth is that all of this is very logical because [music] it has been planned for the last 30 years. And I'm going to show you the four different power players that all wanted this to happen [music] and what their interests actually are.
If we follow the money far enough, we'll come to a theory that [music] connects all of this. And that theory has to do with something called the control grid and [music] power over the flow of money. So with that said, let me explain who this benefits, how this affects investors, and what the heck is happening.
Let's get into it. Hi, my name is Andre Jick. Hope you're doing well.
Come for the finance and stay for the geopolitical rabbit holes that keep me up at night. So let's talk about why this is happening beyond the official narrative that we're told about. There are four major theories that explain it.
There's four interest groups all with credible evidence. And let me just start with the elephant in the room which is Israel. Okay.
So why do people think Israel forced the US to go to war? Evidence number one is a video of Marco Rubio explaining why this happened. He >> We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even hire those killed. >> So Mara told Congress, "We knew there was going to be an Israeli action.
" So we struck preemptively. He's saying Israel was going to do this no matter what. And once Israel hit Iran, Iran was going to retaliate against the US by attacking US military bases.
And because Israel made this inevitable choice, the US was forced into it as a preemptive action. Now, another piece of evidence is an incredible interview with a former CIA officer, John Keryaku. I'll leave a link down below to the podcast, but John claims that Israel essentially gave the US an ultimatum.
his words, Israel said to the US, "Bomb Iran's nuclear facilities or we will use our own weapons to do it. " The reason though, I'm told that Donald Trump decided to bomb Iran was that the Israelis said for the first time, if you don't bomb Iran to take out these deep bunkers, we're going to use nuclear weapons. And they had never threatened that before.
And so Trump said bombing Iran might actually save us from the start of World War II if it keeps the Israelis from using nuclear weapons. That's the whole reason behind Operation Midnight Hammer, the initial strikes against Iran, which was to prevent World War II or an all-out nuclear war from starting. Right now, Israel has never officially acknowledged having nuclear weapons, but a lot of experts believe they do, even though they've never said it.
So, if John Kyaku's source is accurate, Israel threatened to use weapons it has never admitted to having, which forced the United States into a war to prevent a potentially much bigger one involving nuclear weapons from starting. That's a huge claim. It hasn't been independently verified, but it does have a lot of credible evidence.
Now, even if we discount him and we don't believe him, the third piece of evidence comes from the source from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been pushing for an attack and a regime change in Iran since the mid 1990s. >> The deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely is extremely close. And Iran, by the way, is also outpacing Iraq in the development of ballistic missile systems that they hope will reach the eastern seabboard of the United States within 15 years.
By next spring, at most by next summer at current enrichment rates, they will have finished from there. It's only a few months, possibly a few weeks. the foremost sponsor of global terrorism could be weeks away from having enough enriched uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons.
That would place a militant Islamic terror regime weeks away from having the file material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year.
It could be within a few months, less than a year. >> So, if you've been paying attention at all, this has been the project for 30 years. This was the goal and it happened.
So, that's power player number one. Israel wanted Iran's regime gone and they got it with American firepower, American service members, and American money. And in the grand context of power, who does this benefit?
It benefits the military-industrial complex, which some people call the neocons. Right? That's power player number one.
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Thank you, T for sponsoring this segment. And now, let's get back to it. Now, let's talk about the second theory, which says the reason why all of this is happening has all to do with China.
Because the number one goal of the United States right now is to destabilize the rise of China's economy. How do we know this? We know this because this was documented in the Don Row doctrine, like the Monroe Doctrine, but Donald Trump's version.
The way to disrupt China's economy and get leverage is, for example, cutting China off the cheap oil they were getting from Venezuela and the cheap silver they were getting from Latin America [snorts] and now the cheap oil they were getting from Iran. This is where something called the Strait of Hermuz comes in. There's this body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula called the Straight of Hermuz.
It's very narrow, but about a quarter of the world's supply of oil passes through this tiny little point. And as of right now, it's shut down. Traffic has dropped 70%.
There's over 150 ships just sitting there waiting. And insurance companies have suspended their coverage, which is basically a financial kill switch. Because if you can't get insurance, they can't ship their oil to places like China.
So, as a result, oil has gone up in price. And analysts are saying if this close lasts more than a couple weeks, we could see $100 or higher for a barrel of oil. Gas prices at the pump are also projected to go up 10 to 30 cents a gallon in the short term.
That's the optimistic scenario. Now, hold on. How does this benefit the US?
This benefits the US because this hurts Iran. What hurts Iran hurts China because China buys a lot of Iranian oil. So from a sovereign powers perspective, right?
So from the perspective of the United States, this is a strategic win because it makes China more dependent on US oil. And if the US can control the supplies of oil around the world, that is leverage. Now, obviously, US oil companies will also benefit.
Exon Mobile, Chevron, Kico Phillips, their costs will stay the same, but the price of what they're selling is going up. Every dollar increase in crude oil translates to higher profit margins for them, aka those companies make more money. But this also benefits the dollar because oil is still priced in dollars.
So when oil prices go up, global demand for dollars goes up with it. And we can even see that in the data when we look at the Dixie index, which measures the strength of the dollar relative to other currencies that is getting stronger. Some people argue this is a way of saving the global hegeimon that is the dollar system.
Now, if this theory sounds crazy to you, believe it or not, this was predicted on video by a Russian politician as early as 2013. >> So, what's their plan? They still need to occupy seven more Arab countries, crush Syria, and destroy Iran with a military strike.
America needs to weaken China. If Iran is struck, oil prices will soar to $200 per barrel. The Chinese economy won't be able to withstand that.
and the European Union won't withstand it either. So by striking Iran, America weakens both the EU and China. So higher oil prices and flow controls benefits the dollar, the US corporations and hurts adversaries like China and the European Union and that was planned a long time ago.
So that is the second theory. The third theory is that this is all to benefit the financial industrial complex, which are the real powers behind the people who got the president elected. So, who am I talking about specifically?
This is the big money donors. This is a list of Trump's top 20 donors. There's $635 million in total.
Look at this as a map of every interest we just talked about. For example, number one, Timothy Melon, old banking and transportation dynasty, financial industrial complex. Number two, Elon Musk.
Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, XAI. His companies hold billions and billions in Pentagon contracts, and his AI company just entered a program to build autonomous drone swarms for the military. That's the technological industrial complex and the military-industrial complex in one person.
There's number three, Miriam Adlesen. She has spent decades as the single biggest pro-Israel donor in American politics. She's been pushing for regime change in Iran.
That's $105 million towards the policy we just watched happen. Right. Number seven, Ike Pearlmutter, former chairman of Marvel, served on Trump's informal defense advisory council.
Number nine, Robert Bigalow, Bigalow Aerospace Defense and Space, right? These are military-industrial complex adjacent donors. Number 10, Kelsey Warren runs energy transfer partners, one of the biggest oil and gas pipeline companies in the country.
Higher oil prices from a Hermuse shutdown goes straight to his bottom line. That's the oil interest, right? Number 15, Howard Lutnik.
Indirect ties to Counter Fitzgerald. Has huge interests in Tether and whose company allegedly bet against the tariff policy while advising the president on the same policies. Right?
He's now the commerce secretary. It's number 16. Paul Singer runs one of the most powerful hedge funds on Earth.
His fund's most recent public filings show hundreds of millions of dollars in defense and energy index funds which all went up the moment the strike started. So here we have tech, defense, right? Oil, finance, Israel, every interest group that is represented here.
This is their return on investment and this is only what we know publicly. Now some people also believe this has all been pre-arranged, right? Like the deal was made a while ago and what we're watching on TV and social media is all just theater.
Now, if you assume for a moment that this is true, maybe it is, maybe it isn't, I don't know. But if it's true, then why bomb a whole country? If this was pre-negotiated, why just not do it peacefully?
And the answer from the military-industrial complex perspective is that this operation was a live product demonstration. What does that mean? It means every weapon system just got used, right?
B2 bombers, Tomahawk cruise missiles, F-22s, F-35s. This has all been shown on every news network and social media in the world. You could not buy this kind of advertising.
Every country watching this is now thinking about what they need to buy, either to do what America just did or to defend against it. That is worth [snorts] hundreds of billions of dollars in future sales and billions more in stock appreciation. Cuz we know war is good for business.
So, that's theory and power player number three. Now, if you made it this far, congratulations because this is the fourth theory and it is by far the most interesting one. It's going to tie all of this together.
[snorts] This theory says the reason why all of this is happening is because of the technological industrial complexes digital control grid. So, let me tell you something crazy that just happened. The US military used an AI called Claude, made by a company called Anthropic.
It was used to help plan these strikes for target identification, battle simulations, and intelligence analysis. >> Sources tell CBS News the US military used Claude for its attack on Iran over the weekend. Now, the Pentagon's ongoing use of Anthropic's AI model comes despite a falling out with the company over its refusal to grant the military unrestricted access to the technology.
Which means we are now living in a time when AI helps plan a war. Like, just sit with that for a second. That is crazy.
Here's where it gets crazier. Just hours after the strikes, Trump signed an executive order banning federal agencies from using Anthropics technology. Why was it banned?
It was banned because the CEO of Anthropic, Daario Amade, publicly said no to the government. He said no to fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. The US responded by saying, "All right, you are now a supply chain risk to national security.
" That's a label normally reserved for foreign companies, but this has never been used against a US company before. And on the exact same day, Open AI, which is Anthropic's biggest competitor, signed a deal with the Pentagon. >> Now, hours after the Trump administration ditched Anthropic over the dispute, Open AI swooped in and struck its own deal with the Pentagon.
So the message to every AI company in the world right now is that if you say yes to the military and yes to the US government, you will get the contract. But if you say no, you will be treated like a foreign enemy. Hold on.
It gets way crazier. When Iran retaliated, guess what they attacked? One of their targets was Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain.
Not military bases. Iran attacked the cloud computing infrastructure. >> AWS has confirmed objects struck the site.
Sparks, fire. The UAE fire department cut the power to the entire building. That is the first time in history that commercial data centers have been physically targeted.
By the way, those are the servers that run huge parts of the internet like you know banking data and host businesses. And these are now military targets. People are calling this the beginning of technofudal wars where the military uses AI to plan the attack and the enemy retaliates by bombing the servers which means our digital and physical worlds are now colliding.
So what happens next? Well, this needs to be a separate video, but I want to give credit to Katherine Austin Fitz. Who is that?
She was the assistant secretary of housing under George HW Bush. She managed hundreds of billions of dollars in government money. She ran a Wall Street investment bank.
And she has a theory that connects all of these wars into one grand theory. This is something I've talked about in my last few videos, so I hope you've been subscribed. But here's the theory.
She says, "What's being built right now is a global financial control grid. It has three parts to it. The first part is programmable money, aka money with rules.
Money that knows where it can be spent, when it expires, who's spending it, and can be shut off remotely. The second part is the control grid, right? The digital identity system that is linked to that money, digital IDs, right?
Most likely using biometric data like fingerprints, retinal scans, things like that. And the third part is the physical infrastructure. Things like data centers, cameras, satellites, fiber optic networks.
Hold on. How does this all fit into Iran? Well, here's a fun fact.
Iran's central bank is not part of the Western financial system. It sits outside this control grid. And Iran's oil going to China in non dollar currencies is not good for that system because it's not controlled by the Western financial infrastructure.
Iran is the last piece of this puzzle because it's what puts pressure and challenges the ultimate adversary in this tech race, which is China. How do we know this? We know this because in 2007, the former NATO Supreme Commander, General Wesley Clark, shortly after 9/11, was shown a memo at the Pentagon listing seven countries to be taken down in 5 years.
That list included Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. We have now been involved in all of them. Iran was the last one on that list.
>> We've got a good military and we can take down governments. And um he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail. " So I came back to see him a few weeks later and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
And I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq? " And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that. " He said, he reached over on his desk.
He picked up a piece of paper. He said, "I just" He said, "I just got this down from upstairs," meaning the Secretary of Defense's office today. And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
" >> Okay. So then the question is, when does this control grid take effect? What now?
Nobody knows. But there might be more regional wars and special operations. For example, Taiwan is of very specific interest, but that's another video for another time.
Right now, there is bills in Congress that will make this possible, like the Genius Act, which creates a legal framework for stable coins, and the Clarity Act, which creates a framework for tokenizing financial assets. Katherine Fitz argues these are the legal building blocks for programmable money. You don't need a governmentissued central bank digital currency if private stable coins will do the exact same thing.
And this is exactly what Larry Frink, the CEO of Black Rockck, the biggest asset manager on the planet, has been saying for years, even at the most recent World Economic Forum. >> We believe the next step going forward will be the tokenization of financial assets. And that means every stock, every bond will have its own basically QIP.
it'll be on one general ledger. >> He wants to tokenize every financial asset in the world as fast as possible, which means in the very near future, we're going to see corporations issuing their own programmable money. And if you remember, this is exactly what Russia accused the US of preparing to do, where allegedly the US will dump the entire debt burden on the rest of the world.
The US will not be paying anything back. It will just redistribute the debt throughout the world using these stable coins and CBDC's by giving the powers of the banking system to the corporations. Right?
This is the legacy of the dollar. I don't think the dollar is going to go away quietly. That's its last frontier.
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