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I. METHODOLOGY OF GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS
Historical context is essential for understanding modern geopolitical events.
The Rule of Bankers: Geopolitics, History, and the Money Monopoly by Alex Krainer.
A broad study of history allows the various dots of geopolitics and macroeconomics to connect in a meaningful way.
Without this historical framework, individuals are left navigating a blizzard of psychological operations.
Root cause analysis is the pinnacle of successful problem-solving in global affairs.
Moving past peripheral issues to find the primary drivers of change is the most effective way to gain a clear picture.
The true root cause of all happenings in the world are the influential parties who drive them.
Identifying key individuals and groups reveals the motivations behind history.
Understanding the specific actors behind historical events makes the progression of the world remarkably predictable.
Conventional history often ignores these specific drivers in favor of isolated facts and statistics.
Distinguishing between reality and induced psychosis is a critical modern skill.
The current information landscape often produces a state of psychological operations designed to confuse the public.
By paying attention to what is relevant, individuals can better predict what might happen next.
Successful analysis requires looking beyond the "band-aid" explanations offered by media.
Deeply investigating the motivations of those in power reveals the structural reasons for global dysfunction.
This focus allows an observer to approximate the true drivers of history with enough attention.
II. THE HISTORICAL CYCLE OF BANKING OLIGARCHIES
Western civilization has been driven by a system that incentivizes destructive behaviors.
The history of colonization and depopulation suggests that the underlying system must motivate these outcomes.
It is not that the surrounding people are inherently evil, but that the structure dictates their actions.
Money-lending oligarchies have been the primary motivators of empire for over two millennia.
Since Greek antiquity, the process of building empires has consistently stemmed from the banking classes.
Every major empire, from the Venetian to the American, follows this same financial motivation.
The search for collateral is the fundamental driver of colonial expansion.
Banking interests are perpetually looking for new wealth and populations to turn into assets.
Once a colony is controlled, its natural wealth and working-age population are magically transformed into collateral.
Other people’s wealth is converted into profit-making assets for the banking balance sheet.
This collateral allows banks to lend money to corporate clients for the development of natural resources.
The system turns real-world assets into financialized flows that serve the lenders.
A financialized conveyor belt extracts wealth from global peripheries toward central hubs.
Wealth is systematically moved from colonized lands to banking centers like London, Wall Street, and Paris.
This process ensures that the labor of local populations ultimately benefits distant financial interests.
III. THE DUALITY OF EMPIRE: MAYHEM AND MISERY
The imperial syndrome creates a predictable duality of mayhem and misery.
While empires create chaos and war abroad through colonization, they simultaneously produce suffering at home.
Even when an empire reaches its peak of power, the domestic population often lives in a state of decay.
Modern United States cities reflect the squalor of historical imperial centers.
Current urban centers are gutted by homelessness, illness, poverty, and a sense of dystopian misery.
This mirrors the domestic conditions seen during the height of the British and Venetian empires.
Victorian Britain was a place of extreme domestic suffering despite its global reach.
The wealth generated by the empire did not prevent widespread squalor for the local British population.
This demonstrates that the extraction system does not prioritize the welfare of its own citizens.
The Lombard banking period in Italy was marked by internal strife and plagues.
Historical records from this era of banking dominance show a population suffering from persistent misery.
This pattern suggests that oligarchic control is fundamentally decoupled from domestic prosperity.
Global empires function as systems of extraction rather than engines of civilization.
The primary goal is the concentration of wealth in the hands of the money-lending classes.
This structure inherently creates instability both in the conquered lands and the imperial core.
IV. THE RUSSIAN COLLAPSE OF THE NINETEEN NINETIES
The transition from communism to capitalism in Russia was a catastrophic era.
During the 1990s, approximately 60 percent of Russia’s GDP fell into the hands of a small group of oligarchs.
This period was defined by the rule of a specific group known as the "seven bankers."
The "Semban Kirshina" represents the historical pinnacle of oligarchic dominance.
These seven bankers held such power that they openly boasted about their control over government ministers.
Under their rule, the political process was essentially owned by private financial interests.
Russia experienced a total disintegration of law and order during the banker era.
The country was plagued by street shootouts between rival gangs and a collapsing military.
This decay illustrates what happens when a money-lending oligarchy operates without any state constraints.
Over 40 percent of the Russian population fell below the poverty line in the 1990s.
One in four Russians lived in a state of destitute poverty during this financialized transition.
Life expectancy plummeted to approximately fifty-seven years as the social fabric tore apart.
The mortality rate in 1990s Russia reached levels seen only in countries at war.
The nation became a "waste case" due to the extreme extraction of its national wealth.
This era serves as a modern example of the misery produced by unchecked oligarchic rule.
V. THE PUTIN REALIGNMENT AND THE NEW RULES
Vladimir Putin’s rise in 1999 signaled a shift in the Russian power structure.
Initially nominated as a caretaker, he quickly moved to solidify political support.
His primary task was addressing the spectacular corruption that had gutted the Russian economy.
The 2003 meeting with oligarchs established a new social contract for Russia.
Putin convened fifteen of the top oligarchs to lay down three non-negotiable rules for their survival.
This meeting was designed to put the financial elite back into a metaphorical "playpen."
The government agreed not to nationalize the properties the oligarchs had acquired.
Putin allowed them to keep what they had essentially stolen during the privatization era.
This was a pragmatic choice to avoid a total economic upheaval while establishing new boundaries.
The first rule required oligarchs to pay their taxes correctly and transparently.
They were no longer allowed to use the state’s resources without contributing to the national budget.
This ensured that the government had the funds necessary to begin rebuilding the country.
The second rule mandated that oligarchs treat their employees fairly.
Workers could no longer be treated as a disposable workforce to be exploited for maximum gain.
This rule aimed to restore some level of social stability and dignity to the Russian people.
The third and most critical rule was the total exclusion of oligarchs from politics.
Putin explicitly told the bankers that the political domain was no longer open to their influence.
The era of bankers setting up and taking down government ministers was officially declared over.
Sovereignty was returned to the state through the enforcement of these rules.
By removing the bankers from policy-making, the government could finally prioritize national interests.
This move was essential for reversing the 50 percent loss in GDP experienced in the previous decade.
VI. LEGAL ENFORCEMENT AND THE KHODORKOVSKY CASE
The Russian government used the rule of law to challenge defiant oligarchs.
Unlike Western assumptions of extrajudicial assassinations, the state utilized court cases to set boundaries.
These legal battles demonstrated that the government had solidified more power than the financial elite.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky served as a proxy for Western financial interests.
He was a trustee for the interests of Jacob Rothschild within the Russian Federation.
His arrest for tax evasion was a signal to all other oligarchs that the rules were being enforced.
Khodorkovsky’s nine-year prison sentence ended the era of political bribery.
It proved that even the most powerful trustees of global finance were subject to national law.
The political process was effectively removed from the auction block of private interests.
Several bankers fled to Israel after losing their legal challenges in Russia.
These individuals realized that they could no longer hold the Russian society hostage to their requirements.
They left their properties behind, turning them over to the next batch of trustees who would follow the rules.
The Russian turnaround over twenty-five years has been spectacular in scale.
The country transitioned from a corrupt basket case to a wealthy and well-ordered power.
Standard of living and public satisfaction have improved dramatically since the bankers were sidelined.
Russia today operates under a framework of the rule of law regarding its elites.
The state does not force egalitarianism but ensures that the political process is off-limits to moneyed interests.
This historical example proves that a nation can be revitalized by taming its oligarchy.
VII. WESTERN OLIGARCHIES AND POLITICAL CAPTURE
Most Western countries currently suffer from an acute problem of unchecked oligarchy.
In nations like France, the UK, and the US, financial elites are essentially above the rule of law.
Democratically elected governments often find themselves unable to touch these powerful networks.
It is unthinkable in the West for a leader to tell bankers to stay out of politics.
The political systems in the US and Europe are deeply subordinated to the requirements of the money-lenders.
As a result, governments often act in ways that are directly injurious to their own populations.
Wealth preservation for oligarchs depends on the maintenance of political control.
While individual wealth naturally dissipates, it can be kept together for generations through state capture.
Oligarchs operate from the shadows to ensure that every government action helps them grow more powerful.
The question of whether Western leaders are "controlled opposition" is a vital one.
There is deep skepticism about whether populist figures are truly pushing back or merely appearing to do so.
Some leaders may be playing a dangerous game on the "razor’s edge" between the elite and the public.
The Western system produces results that are the opposite of what people vote for.
Despite the labels of "democracy," the direction of society is determined by a money-lending meta-tribe.
This leads to a lack of sovereignty where the public has no say in critical national policies.
VIII. THE FABRICATED ORIGINS OF GLOBAL CONFLICTS
Many historical wars were fueled and orchestrated by the same financial interests.
Deep investigations into conflicts like World War II reveal drivers that contradict the official narrative.
The strategy of the financial elite is often to fuel all parties to prevent peace from breaking out.
Leaders like Winston Churchill purposefully avoided peace accords during the 1930s.
Historical records suggest that the Western powers goaded the German leadership toward war.
Peace was seen as a problem by the oligarchies who stood to benefit from global chaos.
The Munich 1938 conference is widely misunderstood in modern history.
While taught as "appeasement," it was actually a coordinated effort to allow the takeover of Czechoslovakia.
Neville Chamberlain and a small cabal orchestrated this event to help Hitler expand without a fight.
The Czech military was actually superior to the German Wehrmacht in 1938.
The German general staff considered Hitler’s orders to invade Czechoslovakia to be suicidal.
Chamberlain’s intervention shielded Hitler from his own generals, who were planning to assassinate him.
The German economy was rebuilt using massive credits from Western banking cabals.
Financial aid was withheld from Germany until Hitler became chancellor in 1933.
After his rise, credits flowed through figures like Hjalmar Schacht, who coordinated with the Bank of England.
German rearmament was supported by major US and British corporations.
The industrial base for the war was built by cartels producing steel, energy, and explosives.
Hitler was essentially used as a proxy to drive a pre-planned conflict that served financial interests.
IX. THE UKRAINE CONFLICT AS A FINANCIAL NECESSITY
The modern war in Ukraine follows the same principles of colonial extraction.
The conflict is used as a mechanism to secure new collateral for a failing Western banking system.
European leaders are clamoring for the war to continue even though it is strategically lost.
A peace agreement was nearly signed in March 2022 before Western intervention.
Russians and Ukrainians were on the verge of a deal that included neutrality and withdrawal.
Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv to block the signing, insisting that the war must be fought out.
One point seven million Ukrainian men have reportedly died because peace was blocked.
The refusal to end the war demonstrates that the lives of the population are disposable to the bankers.
The system is willing to sacrifice all of Europe to preserve its financial dominance.
The global banking system functions as a fraudulent Ponzi scheme.
This system requires constant growth through the issuance of more and more credit to remain stable.
Without new collateral to back these loans, the entire financial architecture would implode.
Russia’s 75 trillion dollars in resources is a primary target for Western banks.
The "Money Monopoly" wants to turn Russia’s natural wealth into assets on their own balance sheets.
Because Putin refuses to financialize these resources, he is characterized as irredeemably evil.
The preference for leaders like Boris Yeltsin stems from their willingness to open the gates.
An "awesome" leader in the eyes of the bankers is one who allows for the strip-mining of national wealth.
The current conflict is an attempt to replace sovereign leadership with a puppet who will provide collateral.
X. THE STRATEGIC GEOMETRY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
The creation of a homeland in Palestine was driven by strategic imperial interests.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was a letter written by the UK Foreign Secretary to Lord Walter Rothschild.
The Rothschild family was instrumental in shaping the policy that led to the formation of Israel.
Israel was designed to be a "beachhead" for the British maritime empire.
The region was seeded with a "patriotic stock" to ensure Western control over trade routes.
This location is vital for managing the Suez Canal and future energy pipelines between East and West.
The Middle East has historically been a source of tribute for money-lending empires.
This pattern dates back to the Roman Empire, which was also run by an oligarchy of lenders.
Modern Israel fulfills its role by keeping surrounding regional powers weak and destabilized.
The objective in Iran is regime change to secure new banking collateral.
The focus on Iran’s nuclear program is merely a justification for potential military intervention.
The goal is to install a puppet regime that will open Iranian oil to Western financialization.
Financial extraction is the "name of the game" in every modern war.
It is not about needing the oil, as it could be purchased simply through trade.
The goal is for the developing corporations to be clients of major banks, ensuring wealth flows to the hubs.
XI. THE GLOBAL PIVOT AND THE CHINESE CHALLENGE
The relationship between Western bankers and China has shifted from cooperation to demonization.
Western elites initially sought to build up China as the next global hegemon after 1971.
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger opened China to globalization to serve banking agendas.
The Western establishment believed China would be their next model for world governance.
Figures like George Soros and the Rothschilds were excited about transferring power to China.
They viewed China as the future seat of the globalization process and a new vassal state.
Xi Jinping’s rise revealed that the Chinese had "beheaded" the Western strategy.
Instead of serving as a vassal, China used Western investment to build its own national sovereignty.
The Chinese prioritize internal prosperity and national interest over the requirements of Western credit.
China’s "Taoist and Confucian" approach differs fundamentally from Western pathology.
They have lifted 850 million people out of poverty and focus on maintaining social stability.
China does not have a history of wholesale slave trades or far-flung colonial empires.
China is now demonized because it represents a risk to the Money Monopoly.
The West wants to convince its public that China is "the devil" to justify future warfare.
This shift occurred because China refused to be the next obedient hegemon for the bankers.
XII. SOCIETAL CONTRASTS AND THE BRICS ALTERNATIVE
The contrast between life in Russia/China and the West is becoming undeniable.
People in these nations report higher satisfaction and feel that their countries are moving in the right direction.
In contrast, Western populations are dealing with drug addiction, social decay, and collapsing standards.
The BRICS alliance serves as a necessary counterweight to Western "madmen."
Competition in the global arena forces the pathological Western systems to reckon with a challenge to their power.
Without this alternative, the Western public would be in an even worse position of exploitation.
Mass migration is being used as a tool to undermine Western social cohesion.
By attacking the family, religion, and national identity, the elite turn societies into a manageable "blob."
This destruction of culture serves the interests of those who wish to eliminate sovereign resistance.
Russia and China have resisted the mass migration and social deconstruction seen in the West.
They maintain a nationalistic approach that prioritizes the stability of their own societies.
This resistance is a major reason why they are currently targeted by the Western banking network.
Public dissatisfaction in the West is an empirical fact supported by social studies.
In some European countries, only a tiny percentage of the population believes the country is on the right path.
This disconnect highlights the fact that Western governments no longer represent the will of the people.
XIII. THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM AND FINANCIAL RISKS
The shadow banking system holds 220 trillion dollars in liquid investable assets.
These institutions, including hedge funds and pension funds, cannot create money like traditional banks.
They allocate existing capital, which creates massive imbalances when they shift their focus.
The fiat currencies used today—dollar, euro, pound—are mathematically certain to go to zero.
The survival of purchasing power depends on moving out of these failing paper systems.
Financial power over a person’s existence eventually amounts to power over their will.
Ownership of physical assets is the only defense against the "own nothing" agenda.
Holding agricultural land and physical gold provides a hedge for the difficult transition ahead.
The system aims to make individuals dependent by stripping them of all tangible property.
The gold market is a tiny sliver compared to the global shadow banking system.
All the gold in the world is valued at about 20 trillion dollars, with only a fraction actively traded.
A small shift in institutional allocation from 0 percent to 1 percent can cause a vertical price rally.
Central banks are currently "buying gold like crazy" to hedge against a collapse.
The "heads of the snake" understand that the current monetary system is reaching its end.
Watching the actions of the central banks is more informative than listening to media analysts.
XIV. THE PATH TO INTELLECTUAL SOVEREIGNTY
Public awareness is the only force that can truly topple the Money Monopoly.
The financial elite depend on secrecy and the disinformation of legacy media to maintain their power.
If 5 to 20 percent of the population understands the system, the oligarchy can be challenged.
True enemies of stability are the people in charge of credit issuance.
The crisis is not caused by foreign nations or religious groups, but by the banking nexus.
Ending the system requires identifying the "Babylonian money magic" at its core.
The current system has reached its limit and threatens future generations with slavery.
If the public does not demand a change of course, they are surrendering their children’s freedom.
This is not an exaggeration, but a logical outcome of the current financial trajectory.
Sovereignty can be restored by putting oligarchs back into their "playpen."
The Russian example shows that elites can keep their wealth as long as they stay out of politics.
This realignment allows the state to function for the benefit of the community.
Understanding the "grid" of power allows the residents to demand a fix.
The global financial system is like a power grid designed to divert energy from the many to the few.
Once the layout is understood, the public can demand the power serve everyone.
XV. ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS ON CONFLICT AND CONTROL
The "Forever Wars" are a systemic necessity of the current banking architecture.
Conflict is not an accident of policy but a requirement for the growth of the financial Ponzi scheme.
Every new war creates a need for more credit and more debt-based assets.
Western leaders are often groomed and recruited by elite university networks.
Figures like Mao were cultivated by Yale networks to eventually serve global agendas.
This demonstrates the long-term planning used by the network to manage different nations.
The "Network" operates as a meta-tribe that exists above national laws.
It functions like a mafia organization where order is enforced from the top down.
This hierarchy ensures that individual nations cannot deviate from the global financial plan.
Civil wars can erupt between different banking factions when the system is in crisis.
American bankers may currently be attempting to break their subordination to British bankers.
These internal elite struggles are often reflected in the chaos of global geopolitics.
Wealth naturally dissipates unless political power is used to protect it.
A billionaire’s descendants usually become ordinary people within a few generations.
Oligarchies must capture the government to ensure their wealth remains concentrated forever.
XVI. CONCLUSION ON THE RULE OF BANKERS
The diagnosis of the problem determines the effectiveness of the solution.
If energy is wasted on false solutions, the root cause remains unchecked.
The money-lending oligarchy is the primary layer that must be addressed for civilizational survival.
Historical periods of unchecked oligarchic power lead to dark ages.
The fall of the Roman Empire resulted in the disappearance of money, markets, and basic industry.
Society can revert to a pre-civilizational existence if the extraction becomes too extreme.
Intellectual rejection of the current system is a moral imperative.
Safeguarding the future requires a widespread understanding of how money is created and used.
This knowledge is the most important tool for preventing the surrender of the next generation.
The objective is a world of permanent peace rather than permanent warfare.
Nations like Russia and China are moving toward a model based on national sovereignty.
This offers a blueprint for how the West might eventually reclaim its own governance.
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XVII. STRATEGIC ASSET PROTECTION AND MACROECONOMIC REALITIES
Maintaining physical gold is a necessary step to resist the "own nothing" agenda.
Owning tangible assets prevents the total erosion of an individual's purchasing power and personal agency.
The system seeks to strip individuals of property to gain total control over their will and existence.
Holding several months of living expenses in gold provides a safety net for difficult transitions.
A minimum of six months of physical gold is recommended to safeguard against unpredictable global shifts.
This reserve acts as a critical buffer while the world navigates uncharted historical territory.
Fiat currencies like the pound, euro, and dollar are mathematically destined to fail.
The inherent structure of modern money ensures that these currencies will eventually reach a value of zero.
Only physical assets can bridge the gap as the current paper system reaches its end.
Agricultural land provides a foundational layer of sovereignty for families.
Owning land that can produce food is a strategic hedge against the collapse of global supply chains.
It serves as a physical anchor in a world increasingly dominated by digital and fraudulent financial systems.
Diversification into silver and Bitcoin offers additional protection against systemic collapse.
These assets provide alternative layers of liquidity and value storage outside the traditional banking nexus.
A multifaceted approach to asset preservation is required to survive the coming financial reorganization.
Asset prices can enter vertical accelerated rallies that defy standard economic predictions.
Markets like cocoa and palladium have demonstrated the ability to climb multifold in very short periods.
This phenomenon is driven by massive liquidity imbalances within the global financial system.
The shadow banking system contains over 220 trillion dollars in liquid investable assets.
Unlike traditional banks, these institutions like hedge funds and pension funds cannot create money from thin air.
They must allocate existing capital, which can create extreme volatility when shifted into smaller markets.
The global gold market is a tiny fraction of the size of the shadow banking system.
The total value of gold in the world is approximately 20 trillion dollars, representing only a tenth of the shadow banking liquidity.
The actual traded market for gold is even smaller, making it highly susceptible to vertical price movements.
A shift of even one percent in institutional allocation can drive gold prices to unprecedented highs.
If pension funds and insurance companies move from zero to minor gold holdings, the price could reach ten or twenty thousand dollars.
Most major financial institutions currently have no exposure to gold, leaving enormous room for upward growth.
Central bank activity is a more reliable indicator than the predictions of media analysts.
The "heads of the snake" are currently amassing physical gold at record levels.
Watching the actions of the central banks reveals the true direction of the global financial architecture.
XVIII. THE ORCHESTRATED PATH TO GLOBAL WAR
Historical records indicate that the path to World War II was purposefully goaded by Western powers.
Winston Churchill and US leadership consistently rebuffed efforts to establish peace or accord with Germany.
The strategy was to fuel the conflict rather than allow a peaceful resolution to take hold.
The 1938 Munich conference was a coordinated effort to allow the takeover of Czechoslovakia.
Conventional history incorrectly labels this event as "appeasement" by a weak Neville Chamberlain.
In reality, a small cabal in the British foreign office was actively orchestrating Hitler's expansion.
The Czech military was structurally superior to the German Wehrmacht in 1938.
On nearly every measure except for the air force, the Czechs possessed a more formidable fighting force.
Hitler's own generals believed an invasion of the mountainous Sudetenland would be a suicidal mission.
Chamberlain's intervention shielded Hitler from a planned assassination by his own generals.
The German general staff was preparing to remove Hitler to prevent what they saw as a military disaster.
By signing over the Sudetenland, Chamberlain removed the pretext for the generals to take action against their leader.
The German economy was sustained by massive credits from Western banking cabals.
Financial aid was deliberately withheld from Germany until Hitler was installed as chancellor in 1933.
Once he was in power, the Western banks opened the floodgates of credit to fuel the rearmament process.
Hjalmar Schacht coordinated German financial policy with the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve.
Schacht worked in close cooperation with Montagu Norman and Benjamin Strong to manage German credit.
This ensured that the German industrial machine was properly funded for the coming conflict.
Major US corporations provided the industrial base for the German war machine.
Companies like Ford, Standard Oil, and US Steel were instrumental in developing Germany's capacity for war.
The rearmament of Germany was a corporate-led project supported by the international banking network.
XIX. THE MECHANISMS OF MODERN CONFLICT IN UKRAINE
The war in Ukraine is being sustained to prevent the collapse of the global banking Ponzi scheme.
The current financial system requires constant expansion into new territories to secure fresh collateral.
Ukraine is viewed as a necessary sacrifice to keep the fraudulent credit system from imploding.
A viable peace agreement was blocked by the British government in March 2022.
The Russian and Ukrainian delegations were on the verge of signing a deal that would have restored 2022 borders.
Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv to demand that the Ukrainians continue the fight rather than sign the accord.
Over 1.7 million Ukrainian men have been lost because peace was sabotaged.
The refusal to allow the March 2022 peace deal has led to a catastrophic and unnecessary loss of life.
The systems driving the war view human populations as disposable in the pursuit of financial objectives.
The "Project Alchemy" think tank provides policy justifications for permanent warfare.
This ad hoc group emphasizes the absolute necessity of keeping Ukraine fighting at all costs.
Such groups work to ensure that the conflict serves the long-term goals of the money-lending classes.
Russia's natural wealth is the ultimate prize for the Western banking network.
The estimated 75 trillion dollars in Russian resources is viewed as potential collateral for Western banks.
The inability to financialize these resources is the primary reason the Russian leadership is demonized.
The banking system's obsession with GDP growth is a byproduct of debt requirements.
Even productive societies are forced to grow by specific percentages to service the mounting global debt.
If this artificial growth stops, the entire balance-sheet-based system collapses.
XX. IMPERIAL AMBITIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The Balfour Declaration was a strategic pact between the British government and the Rothschild family.
This 1917 letter was addressed to Lord Walter Rothschild to secure a homeland in Palestine.
The document was not born of sentiment but was a calculated move for imperial positioning.
Israel was established as a strategic beachhead for the British maritime empire.
The region was seeded with a "patriotic stock" to ensure Western control over critical trade routes.
This location allows the network to manage the crossroads between the Eastern and Western worlds.
Control over the Suez Canal and future pipelines is the primary driver of Middle Eastern policy.
The region has historically served as a source of tribute for money-lending empires since Roman times.
Modern conflicts are designed to keep regional powers weak and their resources accessible.
The focus on Iran's nuclear program is a pretext for regime change and resource extraction.
The ultimate goal is to install a puppet leader who will open Iranian oil to Western banking collateral.
This mirrors the strategy used in Ukraine to secure control over sovereign natural wealth.
Corporations like ExxonMobil and BP function as clients for the major banking hubs.
The goal of war is to ensure that the companies developing local resources are tied to Wall Street and London.
This ensures that the financial flows from the region are captured by the money monopoly.
XXI. THE RISE AND REALIGNMENT OF CHINA
Mao Zedong was a product of Western-backed university networks.
The Chinese leader was recruited and cultivated by Yale University networks to serve global agendas.
This demonstrates the long-term investment the network makes in developing foreign leaders.
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger built up China to replace the United States as a hegemon.
Following the 1971 decoupling of the dollar from gold, the elite began transferring power to the East.
They believed China would provide a more stable model for future global governance.
The Chinese leadership successfully "beheaded" the Western strategy of vassalage.
Instead of serving as a permanent puppet, China used Western investment to build its own national strength.
Xi Jinping's rise signaled that China would prioritize its own people over the needs of Western bankers.
George Soros and the Rothschilds were initially proponents of Chinese globalization.
The financial elite were excited about transferring the seat of global power to China.
Their current hostility stems from the fact that they can no longer control the Chinese development model.
China and Russia serve as a counterweight to the pathological Western system.
The BRICS alliance creates competition that forces the Western network to reckon with its own failures.
Without this alternative, the exploitation of the Western public would be even more severe.
XXII. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE OLIGARCHIC NETWORK
The "Network" is a meta-tribe of oligarchs that operates outside the rule of law.
It functions as a mafia-style organization where orders are enforced through a strict hierarchy.
This group uses the political systems of individual countries for its own direct benefit and injury to others.
Sovereignty is stolen from nations through the private control of the financial system.
The powers of financial capitalism aim to create a world system of control in private hands.
This allows a small group to dominate the political and economic life of the entire world.
Wealth preservation for the elite requires constant capture of the government.
While individual wealth naturally fades, it can be maintained for centuries through state power.
This allows the network to stay in the shadows while holding the whole society hostage.
The banking system creates "induced psychosis" through constant psychological operations.
The public is kept in a state of confusion to prevent them from identifying the true drivers of history.
A broad study of history is the only way to cut through this blizzard of disinformation.
High-profile oligarchs often serve as trustees for even more powerful banking interests.
Figures like Mikhail Khodorkovsky acted as proxies for the Rothschild family's Russian interests.
Identifying these connections is the only way to understand the true motivations behind policy.
XXIII. SOCIETAL DECAY VERSUS SOVEREIGN RENEWAL
The unchecked power of oligarchs inevitably leads to the disintegration of society.
The Western Roman Empire's collapse serves as a visual warning of what happens under extreme extraction.
During such periods, money, markets, and even basic industrial knowledge can disappear for centuries.
Mass migration is a deliberate tool used to undermine national culture and cohesion.
By attacking the family, religion, and identity, the elite turn solid societies into manageable "blobs".
This process destroys the social fabric that is necessary to resist oligarchic control.
Russia provides a modern blueprint for how to put oligarchs back in their "playpen."
The nation moved from a 1990s basket case to a wealthy, well-ordered power by setting firm boundaries.
Elites are allowed to enjoy their wealth as long as they pay taxes and stay out of politics.
The contrast in public satisfaction between the East and West is an empirical fact.
Populations in Russia and China report feeling much safer and more optimistic about their future.
In the West, governments consistently deliver the opposite of what the people vote for.
Root cause analysis is the only way to accurately diagnose civilizational problems.
Focusing on peripheral issues or "band-aids" ensures that the destructive system continues.
Only by addressing the money-lending monopoly can the house truly be fixed.
XXIV. INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE AND CIVILIZATIONAL SURVIVAL
The ultimate enemy is not a foreign nation, but the central banking nexus.
True threats to humanity are those who control credit issuance and foment perpetual war.
These groups are responsible for the migration crises, the pandemics, and the economic collapses.
Awareness is the primary force that can break the "Babylonian money magic."
If a significant minority of the population understands how money works, the system can be challenged.
The elite's power depends entirely on the public's ignorance of their financial mechanisms.
Failing to push back against the money monopoly surrenders future generations to slavery.
This is not an exaggeration, but a mathematical certainty of the current financial trajectory.
The current generation has the moral imperative to demand a change of course.
The "Network" has had its run for centuries, and it is now time to end it.
The current global crisis is an opportunity to reclaim sovereignty and build a future of peace.
By correctly identifying the root cause, we can safeguard our children's freedom.
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XVII. THE GRANULAR MECHANICS OF GLOBAL PREDICTION
Predicting historical outcomes requires a dedicated focus on the specific groups and individuals who are driving events.
The Rule of Bankers: Geopolitics, History, and the Money Monopoly by Alex Krainer.
Conventional history often ignores these specific drivers in favor of isolated facts, statistics, and figures.
With enough attention and focus on the motivations of these influential parties, the progression of history becomes remarkably predictable.
Root cause analysis is the most effective methodology for achieving a clear picture of geopolitical happenings.
The pinnacle of successful problem-solving is to go to the root cause rather than relying on a peripheral band-aid solution.
Resolution and understanding are only possible when the true drivers of historical events are accurately identified.
The "Seven Bankers" era in Russia serves as a modern microcosm of the struggle between sovereign states and financial oligarchies.
The rule of the seven bankers in the 1990s illustrates what happens when a country's GDP falls into the hands of a small financial group.
Understanding how this situation was reversed provides a framework for addressing similar systemic dysfunctions today.
Modern Western civilization operates within a system that consistently incentivizes colonization and the destruction of indigenous cultures.
This system has motivated the enslavement of people and the depopulation of huge swathes of the earth for centuries.
Individuals within this structure are not necessarily evil, but the systemic incentives dictate and reward these destructive behaviors.
Financial oligarchies have sought foreign collateral to sustain their credit-issuance models since the times of Greek antiquity.
The process of building empires always stems from the requirements of the money-lending classes.
Every major empire, from the Venetian to the American, has followed this same fundamental motivation for expansion.
XVIII. THE FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE OF EMPIRE
Empires are created by banking classes who seek to turn foreign natural wealth into assets on their own balance sheets.
Once a colony is controlled, its resources and its working-age population are magically transformed into collateral for the lender.
This collateralization allows banks to issue profitable loans to corporate clients for resource development.
Resource development loans are issued to business companies who utilize local populations to extract wealth.
These clients develop resources such as natural gas, crude oil, gold, diamonds, and plantations for the benefit of the lenders.
The extracted wealth is then moved through a financialized conveyor belt toward central banking hubs.
Extraction hubs like Wall Street, London, and Paris act as the final destination for the world's extracted wealth.
The labor of local populations in colonized lands ultimately serves to increase the balance sheets of these distant financial centers.
This systematic movement of wealth ensures the concentration of power within the money-lending meta-tribe.
The zenith of imperial power often coincides with the total gutting and decay of the empire's domestic urban centers.
Modern American cities are described as dystopian places marked by homelessness, poverty, and illness.
This pattern mirrors the domestic squalor found in Victorian Britain and the internal strife of the Lombard banking period in Italy.
Global empires function primarily as systems of wealth extraction rather than engines of broad civilizational prosperity.
The imperial syndrome creates a predictable duality of mayhem abroad and misery for the population at home.
Oligarchic control is fundamentally decoupled from the welfare of the domestic citizenry.
XIX. THE RUSSIAN COLLAPSE AND THE PUTIN REALIGNMENT
Russia’s transition from communism in the 1990s saw 60 percent of national GDP fall into a few private hands.
The "Semban Kirshina" represented the rule of seven bankers who held complete control over the government.
Under this financialized rule, Russia experienced a total disintegration of law and order.
Post-Soviet social decay in Russia included a collapsing military and street shootouts between rival gangs.
Over 40 percent of the population fell below the poverty line as life expectancy plummeted to fifty-seven years.
The mortality rates during this period were comparable to countries involved in a major world war.
Putin's 2003 roundtable meeting with fifteen oligarchs established the boundaries for the new Russian state.
He offered a social contract where the state would not nationalize the property the oligarchs had previously stolen.
In exchange, the oligarchs were required to pay their taxes correctly and treat their employees fairly.
The exclusion of financiers from the political domain was the most difficult rule for the Russian oligarchs to accept.
Before this realignment, the bankers boasted about their ability to set up and take down government ministers at will.
Putin's primary challenge was to signal that the political process was no longer a private domain for sale.
Legal court cases were the primary mechanism used by the Russian state to enforce the new rules of sovereignty.
Unlike Western assumptions of extrajudicial violence, the government utilized the legal system to sideline defiant elites.
This methodology demonstrated that the political state had solidified more power than the financial oligarchs.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky served as a primary trustee for the interests of Jacob Rothschild within the Russian Federation.
His arrest and nine-year prison sentence for tax evasion served as a definitive signal to all other oligarchs.
By enforcing these laws, the state effectively ended the era of political bribery and corporate capture.
XX. THE TURNAROUND AND WESTERN COMPARISONS
Russia’s spectacular turnaround over twenty-five years was achieved by putting the oligarchs into a metaphorical playpen.
The country moved from a corrupt basket case to a wealthy, well-ordered power with a high standard of living.
This was achieved without returning to communism or utilizing a "Night of Long Knives" strategy against the elite.
Most Western countries currently suffer from oligarchies that operate entirely above the rule of law.
In nations like France, the UK, and the US, democratically elected governments find themselves unable to touch powerful financial networks.
It is currently unthinkable for a Western leader to tell the banking elite to stay out of the political process.
Trump’s 2024 meeting with tech and financial billionaires could be interpreted as a potential laying down of the law.
There is a significant debate regarding whether such figures represent genuine pushback or "controlled opposition".
Some leaders may be attempting to play a dangerous game on the razor's edge between elite interests and public freedom.
Bankers fleeing to Israel after losing legal battles in Russia illustrates a pattern of shifting loyalties among the global elite.
When they could no longer hold Russian society hostage to their requirements, many chose to leave their properties to other trustees.
This retreat highlights the necessity of political control for the maintenance of oligarchic power.
Wealth naturally dissipates over generations unless political power is captured to protect it.
An individual's fortune usually fades within a few generations through luck or a lack of capability.
Oligarchies must operate from the shadows to ensure the government only acts to increase their wealth and power.
XXI. THE FABRICATION OF WAR AND PEACE
Historical war narratives often hide the fact that conflicts were fueled and orchestrated by the same financial interests.
Leaders like Winston Churchill purposefully avoided peace accords in the 1930s to satisfy the requirements of the oligarchies.
The strategy of the financial elite is frequently to fuel all parties to prevent a peaceful resolution.
The 1938 Munich conference was not an act of "appeasement," but a coordinated orchestration of territorial expansion.
Neville Chamberlain and a small cabal in the British foreign office encouraged Hitler to take territory peacefully.
Simultaneously, the Czechoslovakian government was pressured to stand down and not defend its superior military position.
The German Wehrmacht was statistically inferior to the Czech military during the 1938 crisis.
Hitler's own general staff considered the invasion of the Sudetenland to be a suicidal mission.
The German generals were even planning an assassination of Hitler to prevent a military disaster.
Chamberlain shielded Hitler from his own generals by signing over the Sudetenland.
This intervention removed the pretext for the planned coup and allowed Hitler to expand without opposition.
The friendship between the British establishment and Hitler only fell apart when they realized they had lost control over him.
Financial aid was withheld from Germany until the elite’s chosen chancellor took power in 1933.
Once Hitler was in power, massive credits flowed from the Bank of England and the New York Federal Reserve.
Hjalmar Schacht coordinated this rearmament process with the heads of the world's most powerful central banks.
Rearmament credits were prioritized over the civilian needs of the German population to prepare for war.
Major US and British corporations provided the industrial base and materials necessary for the conflict.
The historical use of Hitler as a proxy parallels the modern utilization of leaders like Zelensky.
XXII. THE UKRAINE CONFLICT AND THE PONZI SCHEME
European leaders are currently clamoring for the war in Ukraine to continue despite its strategic failure.
A viable peace agreement was sabotaged by Boris Johnson in March 2022 to ensure the fighting continued.
The refusal to sign the accord has resulted in the catastrophic loss of 1.7 million Ukrainian men.
The stability of the global banking system depends on a fraudulent Ponzi scheme model.
This system requires infinite growth through the constant issuance of more credit to remain stable.
New collateral must be secured to back these loans, which necessitates the expansion into new territories.
Russia’s natural resources, valued at 75 trillion dollars, are the primary target for the Western banking nexus.
The "Money Monopoly" wants to turn these resources into assets on their own balance sheets to sustain their lending.
Because the current Russian leadership refuses to financialize these resources, they are demonized as evil.
XXIII. THE NETWORK AND WORLD SYSTEM OF CONTROL
Quigley’s "Tragedy and Hope" reveals the aim of financial capitalism to create a world system of control in private hands.
This system is designed to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.
Such power is used for the direct benefit of financiers and the direct injury of all other economic groups.
The "Network" functions as a meta-tribe of oligarchs that operates like a mafia organization outside the rule of law.
This hierarchy requires a "top dog" to enforce internal order and manage subordinate factions.
Civil wars can erupt between different banking families, such as the American and British factions, during times of crisis.
XXIV. THE MIDDLE EAST AND STRATEGIC BEACHHEADS
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was a strategic pact between the British government and the Rothschild family.
This letter was not born of sentiment but was a calculated move to secure a homeland for strategic imperial interests.
Israel was designed to be a "beachhead" for the British maritime empire to control regional trade and energy routes.
Control over the Suez Canal and future pipelines is the primary driver of Middle Eastern policy.
The region has historically served as a source of tribute for money-lending empires since the Roman era.
Modern conflicts are orchestrated to keep regional powers weak and ensure resources are open to Western collateralization.
The focus on Iran’s nuclear program is a pretext for regime change to secure new banking collateral.
The ultimate goal is to install a puppet regime that will open Iranian oil to development by Western corporate clients.
This ensures the financial flows from the region are captured by the major banking hubs in London and Wall Street.
XXV. CHINA AND THE GLOBAL HEGEMONIC SHIFT
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger built up China to replace the United States as the global hegemon after 1971.
Western elites initially believed China would provide a more stable model for future global governance under their control.
Figures like George Soros and the Rothschilds were eager to transfer the seat of global power to the East.
Xi Jinping’s rise revealed that the Chinese leadership had successfully "beheaded" the Western strategy of vassalage.
China used Western investment to build its own national strength and prioritized its people over the needs of foreign bankers.
Because China now represents a risk to the Money Monopoly, it is being demonized by the Western establishment.
XXVI. SOCIETAL CONTRAST AND AWARENESS
Populations in Russia and China report higher satisfaction and optimism compared to those in the West.
While Western societies face drug crises and social decay, these nations maintain nationalistic stability and safety.
This disconnect highlights that Western governments consistently deliver the opposite of what their people vote for.
Awareness of how the money system technically works is the only force that can truly topple the Money Monopoly.
The financial elite depend on public ignorance and legacy media disinformation to maintain their power.
If a significant minority of the population understands the system, the cycle of perpetual war and slavery can be broken.
XXVII. ASSET PROTECTION AND THE FUTURE
Physical gold is a critical hedge because fiat currencies like the dollar and euro are mathematically certain to go to zero.
Holding tangible assets prevents the total erosion of an individual's personal agency and purchasing power.
The elite "heads of the snake" are currently amassing gold, which signals the eventual collapse of the paper system.
The shadow banking system holds 220 trillion dollars in liquid assets that could drive gold prices to vertical highs.
A shift of even one percent in institutional allocation would create a massive imbalance in the tiny global gold market.
This potential for vertical, accelerated rallies makes gold an essential tool for survival during the coming transition.
XXVIII. CONCLUSION ON THE REJECTION OF SLAVERY
The ultimate goal is to return sovereignty to the people and put the oligarchs back into their playpen.
Failing to push back against the Babylonian money magic surrenders future generations to a state of financial slavery.
Correctly diagnosing the root cause of global decay is the first step toward safeguarding the future for our children.
thank you for listening to another session of the NoteBookLM.news series. You can find the full archive of all my podcasts at NotebookLM.news.
The Rule of Bankers: Geopolitics, History, and the Money Monopoly by Alex Krainer.
Welcome to this deep-dive exploration into the hidden mechanisms of global power, where we look past the daily headlines to uncover the structural drivers of our modern world. To truly understand the context of current events, one must engage in a broad study of history that allows the various dots of geopolitics and macroeconomics to connect in a meaningful way. Without this historical framework, the average person is left navigating a blizzard of psychological operations and induced psychosis, unable to distinguish what is relevant from what is fabricated. A successful investigation into the world’s current state mirrors a root cause analysis, moving past superficial "band-aid" explanations to identify the specific groups and individuals who drive historical events,. By focusing on the motivations of these influential parties, the seemingly chaotic progression of history becomes remarkably predictable,.
The Architecture of the Money Monopoly
The dysfunction currently witnessed across Western civilization is not a series of isolated accidents but the result of a system that has incentivized specific behaviors for over two thousand years. Throughout history, the expansion of empires—from the Spanish and Venetian to the British and American—has been motivated and incentivized by the interests of money-lending oligarchies. Since the era of Greek antiquity, the process of colonizing foreign lands has consistently stemmed from the requirements of the banking classes. These financial interests are perpetually in search of collateral to support their credit-issuance models. When an oligarchy gains control of a new territory, they effectively transform that region's natural wealth and its working-age population into assets on their own balance sheets.
This process creates a financialized conveyor belt designed to extract wealth from every corner of the globe and concentrate it in banking hubs like London, Wall Street, or Paris. This historical syndrome generates a predictable and tragic duality: it creates mayhem and war abroad through colonization while simultaneously producing deep misery for the domestic population at home. Even when an empire reaches the absolute zenith of its global power, the local citizens often live in states of poverty, illness, and social decay. This pattern is visible today in the gutted urban centers of the United States, which mirror the squalor of Victorian Britain or the internal strife and plagues seen during the Lombard banking period in Italy,.
The Russian Precedent: Taming the Oligarchic Beast
A profound modern example of the struggle against these systems occurred in Russia during the 1990s. As the nation transitioned from communism to a capitalist system, roughly 60 percent of the nation's GDP fell into the hands of a small group of individuals known as the "seven bankers," or the Semban Kirshina. Under their rule, Russia experienced a total disintegration of law and order, with over 40 percent of the population falling below the poverty line and the military collapsing into a state of total dysfunction. The country became a dystopian wasteland characterized by street shootouts between rival gangs and widespread destitution.
The trajectory of the nation began to shift following the rise of Vladimir Putin, who was nominated as caretaker prime minister in 1999 and elected president in 2000. In 2003, Putin initiated a pivotal change by convening a meeting with approximately fifteen of the nation’s top oligarchs. During this discussion, he established three fundamental rules for their continued operation: the government would not nationalize the property they had acquired during the 1990s, but the oligarchs were required to pay their taxes correctly, treat their employees fairly, and, most importantly, stay entirely out of politics. This third rule was the most difficult for the bankers to accept, as they had previously boasted about their complete control over government ministers and their ability to dictate state policy.
When certain oligarchs challenged these new boundaries, the Russian government addressed the defiance through legal channels and court cases rather than the extrajudicial methods often imagined by the West,. A notable example was the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who served as a trustee for the interests of Jacob Rothschild in Russia,. Khodorkovsky was charged with tax evasion and sentenced to nine years in prison, serving as a clear signal that the political process was no longer for sale,. By restricting the oligarchs' ability to dictate foreign and economic policy, Russia underwent a spectacular turnaround. Over the last twenty-five years, the country transitioned from a corrupt "basket case" with a plummeting life expectancy to a wealthy, well-ordered power where the standard of living has improved dramatically,.
Western Oligarchies and the Rule of Law
The Russian case demonstrates that a country can be revitalized by setting firm limits on oligarchic power within a framework of the rule of law,. This provides a vital lesson for Western nations, such as France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which currently face acute problems with oligarchies that operate above the legal system. In most of the West, it is currently unthinkable for a democratically elected leader to demand that financial elites stay out of politics. There is a growing question regarding whether political movements in the United States represent a genuine pushback against these elite structures or whether they are a form of "controlled opposition" that merely appears populist while remaining beholden to certain interests,.
The difficulty in challenging these structures lies in the fact that oligarchic power is often perpetuated through many generations by operating from the shadows. While individual wealth naturally dissipates over time through shifting capabilities and luck, it can be kept together indefinitely if the group maintains political control,. By holding society hostage to their requirements, these networks ensure that every action of the government serves to increase their wealth and power. If a political leader manages to undo this control and return sovereignty to the people, it represents a massive gain for humanity.
The Fabricated Conflicts of the 20th Century
A deeper investigation into the drivers of historical conflict reveals that many wars were fueled by the same financial interests that seek to control modern policy,. In the 1930s, although the reconstruction of Germany was acknowledged globally, historical records suggest that leaders like Winston Churchill and the United States purposefully avoided peace accords with the German leadership. It appears that international oligarchies desired a state of chaos from which they could benefit in the long run, and there is evidence that the path to war was encouraged by Western interests,.
The conventional historical narrative regarding the 1938 Munich conference suggests that Neville Chamberlain attempted to "appease" Hitler to prevent war. However, a closer look at the records of the time indicates that Chamberlain and a small cabal within the British foreign policy establishment were orchestrating the German takeover of Czechoslovakia. They encouraged the German leadership to expand while simultaneously pressuring the Czechoslovakian government to stand down and not defend themselves. At the time, the Czech military was actually superior to the German Wehrmacht in most measures, and the German general staff considered the orders to invade suicidal, even going so far as to plan an assassination of their leader,. Chamberlain’s actions effectively shielded Hitler from his own generals and allowed the German military to expand without opposition.
The German economy of that era was also managed and fueled by Western banking interests,. Despite some surface-level pushback against local bankers, the main financial figure in Germany, Hjalmar Schacht, worked in close cooperation with the heads of the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Massive credits flowed into Germany not for civilian use, but to support corporate cartels producing the steel, energy, and armaments necessary for a prepared war,. The strategy was to fuel all parties and prevent peace from breaking out, as war served the interests of the financiers who managed the credit.
The Ukraine Conflict: A Modern Resource Grab
The contemporary conflict in Ukraine follows these established historical principles and incentives,. While the war is devastating, European leaders and certain ad hoc think tanks, such as "Project Alchemy," have been adamant about the necessity of keeping the fighting going,. In March 2022, Russia and Ukraine were reportedly on the verge of signing a peace agreement that would have involved Ukrainian neutrality and a Russian withdrawal to previous positions,. However, this peace was blocked by Western intervention, specifically when Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv and insisted that the war must continue.
The refusal to allow peace stems from the nature of the global banking system, which functions essentially as a Ponzi scheme. Such a system can only remain stable if it continues to grow through the issuance of more and more credit, which requires constant expansion and new collateral,. Russia possesses an estimated 75 trillion dollars in natural resource wealth, which Western financial institutions desire to turn into collateral for their own balance sheets. Because the current Russian leadership refuses to allow these resources to be financialized by Western banks, they are characterized as evil by the establishment,. In contrast, the previous era under Boris Yeltsin was favored because the gates were open for the exploitation of Russian wealth. The system is willing to sacrifice Ukraine and all of Europe to preserve the stability of its financial Ponzi scheme.
The Strategic Geometry of the Middle East
The instability in the Middle East is similarly tied to the requirements of banking networks,. The origins of modern conflict in the region can be traced back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which was a letter from the British Foreign Secretary to Lord Walter Rothschild. The Rothschild family and members of the "Milner roundtable group" were instrumental in the creation of a homeland in Palestine, not primarily for sentimental reasons, but for strategic imperial interests,. They recognized that to remain a viable maritime empire, Britain needed a beachhead in the region to control trade routes, future pipelines, and the Suez Canal,.
Historically, this region has always been vital for the extraction of tribute, a pattern that dates back to the Roman Empire, which was also a system run by money-lending oligarchs. In the modern era, Israel has fulfilled its role by keeping the region destabilized and the surrounding regimes weak and easy to control. The current focus on Iran is driven by the same desire for regime change that has characterized other Western interventions,. The goal is to replace the current Iranian government with a puppet regime that will open the country's oil and resources to be used as collateral for Western banks,. The objective is not simply to buy oil, but for the corporations developing those resources to be clients of major Western banks, ensuring the wealth flows back to the City of London and Wall Street.
The Global Pivot: China and the New Paradigm
The relationship between the Western banking system and China has undergone a significant transformation over the last century. Initially, banking powers may have supported the rise of communism in various nations as a way to create vassal states that could be easily strip-mined for resources. However, after the U.S. dollar was severed from gold in 1971, Western elites, including figures like Nixon and Kissinger, initially sought to build up China as the next global hegemon,. For a period, Western elites like George Soros and the Rothschilds were excited about transferring the seat of global power to China, believing it would serve as the next model for governance and globalization.
However, after Xi Jinping took power, the Western bankers realized they had been misled,. Instead of serving the interests of the Western financial elite, China began to build a future based on a different set of principles, focusing on internal prosperity and national interest rather than permanent warfare,. As a result, China is now demonized in the West because it has become a risk to the established banking system. While China and Russia have different cultural backgrounds, both have moved toward a nationalistic approach that prioritizes their own people and avoids the mass migration and social deconstruction seen in the West,,. These nations now serve as a counterweight to the sociopathic Western-dominated system. The contrast is becoming increasingly obvious: while the West faces social decay and drug crises, Russia and China report higher levels of public satisfaction and social stability,,.
Financial Sovereignty in the Age of Shadow Banking
To protect against the eventual collapse of the current financial system, it is essential for individuals to consider the preservation of their own assets,. The fiat currencies used today—whether the dollar, euro, or pound—are mathematically certain to go to zero over time. Physical gold serves as a critical hedge because it cannot be printed into oblivion and maintains its purchasing power,. Owning physical assets, such as gold or agricultural land, is a way to push back against the agenda where individuals "own nothing and are happy",.
The potential for a massive increase in the price of gold is driven by the vast amount of liquidity in the shadow banking system, which includes hedge funds, pension funds, and insurance companies. This system holds approximately 220 trillion dollars in liquid investable assets. In contrast, the total gold market is only about 20 trillion dollars, with only a small fraction of that being traded daily. If even a small percentage of these institutional funds shifts from zero allocation to a minor percentage in gold, the price could experience an accelerated, vertical climb. The recent increases in the price of gold have been primarily driven by central bank buying, which suggests that the "heads of the snake" understand the direction the system is heading.
The Intellectual Rejection of Financial Slavery
The ultimate solution to the cycle of oligarchic control and perpetual warfare is the growth of public awareness,. The financial elite depend on secrecy and the disinformation provided by legacy media to maintain their power. If a significant minority of the population—perhaps 5 to 20 percent—understands how the money system technically works, the power of the oligarchy can be challenged,. It is vital to recognize that the true enemies of social stability are not foreign nations or specific religious groups, but the people in charge of the credit issuance and the monetary systems that foment global crises.
The current system has had a run of several centuries, but it has reached a point where it threatens to surrender future generations to a form of slavery. By diagnosing the problem correctly and identifying the money-lending oligarchy as the root cause of social and geopolitical decay, we can begin to fix the house,. The contrast between the decay of the Western Roman Empire and the revitalization of modern Russia under sovereign control serves as a visual reminder of what is at stake,. Addressing the "Babylonian money magic" and understanding the drivers of global conflict is the most important task for safeguarding the future.
thank you for listening to another session of the NoteBookLM.news series. You can find the full archive of all my podcasts at NotebookLM.news
The Rule of Bankers: Geopolitics, History, and the Money Monopoly
The current global landscape presents a complex array of challenges that require more than a superficial analysis of daily headlines. To truly comprehend the context of modern events, it is necessary to undertake a broad study of history, which allows the various dots of geopolitics and macroeconomics to connect in a meaningful way. Without such a framework, individuals often find themselves lost in a blizzard of psychological operations or induced psychosis, struggling to distinguish what is real from what is irrelevant. A successful understanding of the world is rooted in the identification of the specific groups and individuals who drive historical events, as well as an investigation into their underlying motivations. While most conventional history focuses on isolated statistics and figures, a more effective approach mirrors root cause analysis, seeking the primary drivers of change rather than focusing on peripheral issues or temporary solutions. When the influential parties behind global happenings are identified, the seemingly chaotic movements of history become significantly more predictable.
The Money Monopoly: A 2,000-Year Cycle of Empire and Extraction
The dysfunction witnessed in modern Western civilization is not a new phenomenon but is part of a systemic process that has persisted for over two thousand years. Throughout history, the expansion of empires—including the Spanish, Venetian, Dutch, British, and American—has been motivated by the interests of money-lending oligarchies. Since Greek antiquity, the process of colonizing foreign lands has consistently stemmed from the requirements of the banking classes. These financial interests are perpetually in search of collateral to support their lending activities. When an oligarchy gains control of a new territory, they effectively turn that region's natural wealth and working-age population into assets on their own balance sheets. This collateral allows them to issue loans to corporate clients who then develop resources such as natural gas, oil, gold, or plantations.
The result of this system is a financialized conveyor belt that extracts wealth from various corners of the globe and concentrates it in banking hubs like London, Wall Street, or Paris. This historical syndrome creates a predictable duality: it generates mayhem abroad through colonization and war while simultaneously producing misery for the domestic population at home. Even when an empire reaches the zenith of its power, the local citizens often live in states of poverty, illness, and social decay. This pattern is visible today in the gutted urban centers of the United States, which mirror the squalor of Victorian Britain or the internal strife of the Lombard banking period in Italy.
The Russian Experiment: Taming the Oligarchic Beast
A recent and profound example of this oligarchic struggle occurred in Russia during the 1990s. As the nation transitioned from communism to a capitalist system, roughly 60 percent of the nation's GDP fell into the hands of a small group of individuals known as the seven bankers, or the Semban Kirshina. Under their rule, Russia experienced a total disintegration of law and order, with over 40 percent of the population falling below the poverty line and the military falling into a state of collapse. The country became a dystopian waste case characterized by street shootouts and widespread destitution.
The situation began to shift following the rise of Vladimir Putin, who was nominated as caretaker prime minister in 1999 and elected president in 2000. In 2003, Putin initiated a pivotal change by convening a meeting with approximately fifteen of the nation’s top oligarchs. During this discussion, he established three fundamental rules for their continued operation: the government would not nationalize their property, but the oligarchs were required to pay their taxes correctly, treat their employees fairly, and, most importantly, stay entirely out of politics. This third rule was the most difficult for the bankers to accept, as they had previously boasted about their complete control over government ministers.
When certain oligarchs challenged these new boundaries, the Russian government addressed the defiance through legal channels and court cases rather than through the extrajudicial methods often imagined by the West. A notable example was the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a trustee for the interests of Jacob Rothschild, who was charged with tax evasion and sentenced to nine years in prison. This served as a clear signal that the political process was no longer for sale. By restricting the oligarchs' ability to dictate foreign and economic policy, Russia underwent a spectacular turnaround. Over the last twenty-five years, the country has transitioned from a corrupt basket case with a plummeting life expectancy to a wealthy, well-ordered power where the standard of living has improved dramatically.
Western Oligarchies and the Illusion of Democracy
The Russian case demonstrates that a country can be revitalized by setting limits on oligarchic power within a framework of the rule of law. This provides a vital lesson for Western nations, such as France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which currently face acute problems with oligarchies that operate above the legal system. In most of the West, it is currently unthinkable for a democratically elected leader to demand that financial elites stay out of politics. There is a growing question regarding whether political movements in the United States represent a genuine pushback against these elite structures or whether they are a form of controlled opposition that merely appears populist.
The difficulty in challenging these structures lies in the fact that oligarchic power is often perpetuated through many generations. While individual wealth naturally dissipates over time through luck and shifting capabilities, it can be kept together indefinitely if the family or group maintains political control. By operating from the shadows and holding society hostage to their agendas, these networks ensure that government policy serves only to increase their wealth and power. If a political leader manages to undo this control, it represents a massive gain for humanity.
The Fabricated Conflicts of the 20th Century
A deeper investigation into the drivers of historical conflict reveals that many wars were fueled by the same financial interests that seek to control modern policy. In the 1930s, the reconstruction of Germany was acknowledged globally, yet historical records suggest that leaders like Winston Churchill and the United States purposefully avoided peace accords. It appears that international oligarchies wanted a state of chaos from which they could benefit in the long run. There is evidence that Adolf Hitler was encouraged along his path to war by Western interests.
The conventional historical narrative regarding the 1938 Munich conference suggests that Neville Chamberlain attempted to appease Hitler to prevent war. However, a closer look indicates that Chamberlain and a small cabal within the British foreign policy establishment were orchestrating the German takeover of Czechoslovakia. They encouraged Hitler to expand while simultaneously pressuring the Czechoslovakian government to stand down and not defend themselves. At the time, the Czech military was actually superior to the German Wehrmacht in most measures, and the German general staff considered Hitler’s orders suicidal and were even planning an assassination. Chamberlain’s actions effectively shielded Hitler from his own generals and allowed the German military to expand without opposition.
The German economy was also managed and fueled by Western banking interests. Despite some pushback against local bankers, the main financial figure in Germany, Hjalmar Schacht, worked in close cooperation with the heads of the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Massive credits flowed into Germany not for civilian use, but to support corporate cartels producing the steel, energy, and armaments necessary for a prepared war. This demonstrates that the strategy was to fuel all parties and prevent peace from breaking out, as war served the interests of the financiers.
The Ukraine Conflict: A Modern Resource Grab
The contemporary conflict in Ukraine follows these established historical principles and incentives. While the war is devastating, European leaders and certain ad hoc think tanks, such as Project Alchemy, have been adamant about the necessity of keeping Ukraine fighting. In March 2022, Russia and Ukraine were reportedly on the verge of signing a peace agreement that would have involved Ukrainian neutrality and a Russian withdrawal. However, this peace was blocked by Western intervention, specifically when Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv and insisted that the war must continue.
The refusal to allow peace stems from the nature of the global banking system, which functions as a Ponzi scheme. Such a system can only remain stable if it continues to grow through the issuance of more and more credit. This constant need for expansion requires new collateral. Russia possesses an estimated 75 trillion dollars in natural resource wealth, which Western financial institutions desire to turn into collateral for their own balance sheets. Because Vladimir Putin refuses to allow these resources to be financialized by Western banks, he is characterized as evil by the establishment. In contrast, the previous era under Boris Yeltsin was favored because the gates were open for the exploitation of Russian wealth. The system is willing to sacrifice Ukraine and all of Europe to preserve the stability of its financial Ponzi scheme.
The Strategic Geometry of the Middle East
The instability in the Middle East is similarly tied to the requirements of the banking networks. The origins of modern conflict in the region can be traced back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which was a letter from the British Foreign Secretary to Lord Walter Rothschild. The Rothschild family and members of the Milner roundtable group were instrumental in the creation of a homeland in Palestine, not primarily for sentimental reasons, but for strategic imperial interests. They recognized that to remain a viable maritime empire, Britain needed a beachhead in the region to control trade routes, future pipelines, and the Suez Canal.
Historically, this region has always been vital for the extraction of tribute, a pattern that dates back to the Roman Empire, which was also a system run by money-lending oligarchs. In the modern era, Israel has fulfilled its role by keeping the region destabilized and the surrounding regimes weak and easy to control. The current focus on Iran is driven by the same desire for regime change that has characterized other Western interventions. The goal is to replace the current Iranian government with a puppet regime that will open the country's oil and resources to be used as collateral for Western banks. This is the same game played in Ukraine: the objective is not simply to buy oil, but for the corporations developing those resources to be clients of major Western banks, ensuring the wealth flows back to the City of London and Wall Street.
The Global Pivot: China and the New Paradigm
The relationship between the Western banking system and China has undergone a significant transformation over the last century. Initially, banking powers may have supported the rise of communism in various nations as a way to create vassal states that could be easily strip-mined. However, Russia was able to reclaim its sovereignty from these families. China followed a different path, where the Western establishment, including figures like Nixon and Kissinger, initially sought to build up China as the next global hegemon after the U.S. dollar was severed from gold in 1971.
For a period, Western elites were excited about transferring the seat of global power to China, believing it would serve as the next model for governance and globalization. However, after Xi Jinping took power, the Western bankers realized they had been misled. Instead of serving the interests of the Western financial elite, China began to build a future based on a different set of principles, focusing on internal prosperity and national interest rather than permanent warfare. As a result, China is now demonized in the West because it has become a risk to the established banking system.
While China and Russia have different cultural backgrounds, both have moved toward a nationalistic approach that prioritizes their own people and avoids the mass migration and social deconstruction seen in the West. These nations now serve as a counterweight to the sociopathic Western-dominated system. The contrast is becoming increasingly obvious: while the West faces social decay and drug crises, Russia and China report higher levels of public satisfaction and social stability. This suggests that the democratic systems in the West are no longer responding to the will of the people, but are instead subordinated to the money-lending oligarchy.
Financial Sovereignty in the Age of the Shadow Banking System
To protect against the eventual collapse of the current financial system, it is essential for individuals to consider the preservation of their own assets. The fiat currencies used today—whether the dollar, euro, or pound—are mathematically certain to go to zero over time. Physical gold serves as a critical hedge because it cannot be printed into oblivion and maintains its purchasing power. Owning physical assets, such as gold or agricultural land, is a way to push back against the agenda where individuals "own nothing and are happy".
The potential for a massive increase in the price of gold is driven by the vast amount of liquidity in the shadow banking system, which includes hedge funds, pension funds, and insurance companies. This system holds approximately 220 trillion dollars in liquid investable assets. In contrast, the total gold market is only about 20 trillion dollars, with only a small fraction of that being traded daily. If even a small percentage of these institutional funds shifts from zero allocation to a minor percentage in gold, the price could experience an accelerated, vertical climb. The recent increases in the price of gold have been primarily driven by central bank buying, which suggests that the "heads of the snake" understand the direction the system is heading.
Conclusion: The Intellectual Rejection of Financial Slavery
The ultimate solution to the cycle of oligarchic control and perpetual warfare is the growth of public awareness. The financial elite depend on secrecy and the disinformation provided by legacy media to maintain their power. If a significant minority of the population—perhaps 5 to 20 percent—understands how the money system technically works, the power of the oligarchy can be challenged. It is vital to recognize that the true enemies of social stability are not foreign nations or specific religious groups, but the people in charge of the credit issuance and the monetary systems that foment global crises.
The current system has had a run of several centuries, but it has reached a point where it threatens to surrender future generations to a form of slavery. By diagnosing the problem correctly and identifying the money-lending oligarchy as the root cause of social and geopolitical decay, we can begin to fix the house. The contrast between the decay of the Western Roman Empire and the revitalization of modern Russia under sovereign control serves as a visual reminder of what is at stake. Addressing the Babylonian money magic and understanding the drivers of global conflict is the most important task for safeguarding the future.
To visualize this, imagine the global financial system as a complex web of high-voltage power lines. Most people see only the lightbulbs in their homes and wonder why they flicker or dim. To truly fix the light, you cannot simply change the bulb; you must trace the wires back to the power plant and understand who controls the switches and for what purpose the energy is being diverted. Only when the residents understand the layout of the grid can they demand that the power serve the community rather than just the owners of the plant.
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But it's come to a point where, you know, if we don't push back, if we don't demand a change of course, then we are surrendering our children to slavery, basically. And I don't I don't think I'm either even exaggerating. That's that's really what it is. Well, guys, you just heard a taste there of my fascinating conversation with Alex Crainer. And, Alex, it's great to see you again.
Maybe give a quick introduction, and it'll probably indicate how you seem to be correct on nearly everything in geopolitics and macroeconomics, which is quite stunning. Well, thank you. Thank you, Ivor. Great to join you again. I think maybe you're a little bit too kind.
But I think that, you know, if you if you take a very broad study of history, you know, to try to understand the the context of everything that's going on, then the, you know, the dots connect nicely. And it's you know, rather rather than this blizzard of PsyOps, you can maybe pay better attention to what's relevant, what's not relevant, what's what's real, what's, a psyop or a or a, you know, induced psychosis, and and then it becomes a little bit more easy to to predict what what might happen next. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, I was you know, I'm I'm I'm hesitating to say because I'm going to certainly butcher it, but there's a an American historian who who has a great quote. I forget his name now, but, basically, he says that when we study history, it's very important not to just look at events and statistics and and figures, but to try to understand the the, who are who are the groups and individuals driving historical event and what their motivations are. And once you understand that, then it becomes really predictable, which is not easy to do. But I think that with enough attention and focus, you can you can kind of approximate that. Yeah.
Absolutely. Or in the world I come from is root cause analysis, and the pinnacle of successful time to resolution and getting a clear picture of what's going on is to go to the root cause, not a band aid, not a peripheral thing. And what you've described there is essentially root cause because all the happenings in the world, the true root cause of them are the influential parties who drive them. And often history kind of ignores that and just gives you facts. Fantastic.
You know what? I was gonna start off with a list of bullets here, but I was gonna start off with a case in point in a way. I heard you in an interview, an hour Russia interview in Dubai was fantastic, but you didn't mention this. The rule of the seven bankers. I thought it was just an incredible story that I wasn't aware of.
So maybe a few minutes on ninety nineteen ninety Russia, the collapse, how Putin brought it all back, but and the rule of the seven bankers. Okay. So that story fits in in a context of things that are happening today, which are things that have been happening for two thousand years, for for longer than two thousand years. And that is basically that, you know, I've been I've spent my lifetime pretty much trying to understand why is everything messed up, you know, you know, why did why did what we call the western civilization go around the world, enslave people, colonize, wipe out six major indigenous civilizations, and depopulate huge swathes of the of the Earth, of their indigenous peoples. And, you know, it's if you look around, it's not like people that surround us are are evil, but the system that we live in somehow must must be incentivizing those behaviors.
You know, the forever wars, the colonizations, the empires, you know, Spanish, Venetian, Dutch, British Empire, French Empire, British Empire, American Empire. It's it's what what motivates this? What is incentivizes this process, and where does it come from? And, I I I kind of worked it out to, to the it it it seems to always stem from the, money lending oligarchies. Since the Greek antiquity, since the times of Greek antiquity, the the the process of colonizing foreign lands and building empires always stems from the money lending classes from the from the bankers.
And so I wondered why that is. And the reason why that is is because they're always in search of collateral because, you know, once they get control of a colony, they can turn its wealth, they can turn its working age population into their collateral, which means that, magically, other people's wealth turns into assets on their balance sheet, and they are profit making assets because what do they do with that collateral? Well, they lend money to their clients in order to go and develop whatever, natural gas, coffee plantations, tobacco plantations, crude oil, whatever it happens to be, gold, diamonds. And then their clients, which are which are business companies. Right?
They go to those lands. They employ the local populace to develop all these resources, and then they turn them into financialized flows that ultimately are shaped as a, basically, as a as a as a as a conveyor belt that extracts wealth from wherever they can, take it to their own banks, be it Wall Street, London, Paris, whatever else. And as it happens, if you if you study all these historical episodes, you know, the Roman Empire, Sparta, Athens, Venice, Venetian Empire, Dutch Empire, Spanish Empire, British Empire, the American Empire, you see that the the syndrome is always that it creates mayhem abroad, and at the same time, it creates misery at home. Because even even when these empires are at their zenith of power, the local population at home, lives pretty much a life of misery. You know, like, if you look at The US cities today so, you know, you could say that, you know, the The United States is this empire today.
You look at The US cities and they are and they're they're gutted. They're they're, you know, they're they're like a dystopian places of misery and illness and homelessness and poverty and so forth. And if you go back to Victorian, era of the British empire, the same is true of life in Britain. And then you go to Italy during the Lombard banking period, same thing. Misery, plagues, internal strife, and so forth.
So it's always the same thing. But, you know, so what is the solution? And we have one very, very recent example was Russia during the nineteen nineties because when Russia when Russia was transitioning from the communist system to the capitalist system, all of a sudden, very quickly, the bulk of the ownership, something like 60% of the GDP, fell into the hands of a small group of oligarchs. And the most powerful of these oligarchs were, the group of seven bankers. In Russia, they called it Semban Kirshina.
So it was that world entails the rule of seven bankers. And then during the nineteen nineties, in Russia, we have the same symptoms of social decay, you know, where where more than 40% of the population falls below the poverty line. 25 one one in four are at destitute poverty. Law and order disintegrates. You have you have fights between rival gangs in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, you know, shootouts on the streets.
Military disintegrates. The the the the whole country turns into into a into a waste case. And, then Vladimir Putin takes over in 1999, and she so he Boris Yeltsin nominates him as a as a as a caretaker prime minister. And the situation begins to turn around a little bit later. Putin, stands for election in March 2000, wins the presidency, and then he does something interesting in 2003.
He calls all the oligarchs to his office, the fifth about 15 of them, including the seven bankers. They have they have a meeting around a very large roundtable, and, basically, Vladimir Putin lays down the rules, and he says, okay. Three key things. We're not going to nationalize your property. So what you stole, you keep.
It's yours. But you have to pay your taxes correctly. You have to treat your, employees correctly. Don't treat them as disposable, workforce. And three, you have to stay out of politics.
And this third rule was actually the the most difficult for the oligarchs to accept because they, up until that time, they pretty much owned the government. They were boasting about how they, set up and take down prime you know, ministers. The ministers have to do as they tell them. If if not, they they're they're sacked and so forth. So these seven bankers, they were boasting about having complete control of the government.
Now Vladimir Putin telling them you have to stay out of politics. Politics is is is is not your domain. This was a big challenge. So there were some court cases, you know, a few of the, these oligarchs challenged the government. It went to it went through courts.
You know? So, you know, unlike the way people in the West imagine, Vladimir Putin didn't just send assassin assassins to take out these these oligarchs. It was it was done in, in a legal way. But, basically, the oligarchs lost the court cases, the legal cases. Right?
Which which which went to show that, between 2000 and 2003, Vladimir Putin, solidified his political support. So he felt that he was more powerful than the oligarchs, and he felt that he could take them on. And then, one of the oligarchs, challenged Vladimir Putin more seriously, and that was, Mikhail Korokovsky, who was a trustee for the Jacob, Rothschild's interests in Russia. And, and there, you know, they they arrested Korokovsky, and they charged him with tax evasion. And, he was found guilty, and he spent nine years in prison.
But that was a signal to other oligarchs. Don't mess with it. I laid down the rules. You have to play by those rules. So basically, what happened is, you know, he didn't disenfranchise them in the sense of taking away their properties and renationalizing it.
He didn't, shoot them dead. He didn't, imprison them apart from Mikhail Korokovsky. He just left them alone with those three rules. No politics. Pay your taxes correctly.
Treat your employees correctly. That's it. And, from that point on, you know, with the oligarchs no longer able to dictate policy and, you know, social and economic development, foreign policy, etcetera, Russia had a a spectacular turnaround. So it went from one of the most corrupt countries in the world, whose GDP during the nineteen nineties, Russia lost something like 50% of its GDP. It was absolutely spectacular what happened there.
The the the life expectancy fell to something like fifty seven years. The mortality rate were at the level of countries at war, you know, like in, you know, like, mortality rate was at the level of World War two for countries involved in that war. And, so it was really a basket case. And we see that today, twenty five years later, Russia is a power to be reckoned it with. The standard of living has improved spectacularly.
It's a wealthy country. It's a well ordered country. It's a it's it it it's a country of the rule of, you know, the rule of law. And, this all has been achieved by, you know, putting the oligarchs in their playpen and setting limits. You know, you didn't get rid of oligarchs.
You didn't force some kind of egalitarianism where everybody has to be equally poor. You didn't, you know, bring back communism. You just set the rules where the political process was off limit to the to the oligarchs, and the country turned around in a very spectacular way. And so that is a very, very useful example for us in historical terms because it didn't involve, you know, the knife the the the night of the long knives where, you know, somebody went and got rid of all the oligarchs, you know, like like Philip the seventh with the or with the with the Knights Templar. You know?
Is it just, like, wipe them out? Or, you know, there wasn't a return to communism. There wasn't confiscation of asset. It was all done legally within the framework of the rule of law with minimum recourse to violence, and it helped the country turn around. And I think it's it's a hugely important example to keep in mind because most countries in the West have the acute problem of oligarchies, particularly, you know, France, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden.
You know, many I would say probably most of the Western countries have oligarchies that are above the rule of law, and they get to do whatever they like. And the, democratically elected governments cannot touch them. You know, in the West, it's unthinkable that, you know, some prime minister like Keir Starmer or president Macron or how do you call it? United States president lines up the oligarch and tell oligarchs and tells them, from today on, this is how it's gonna be. But I think that what happened the other day in The United States where Trump had their, you know, Zuckerberg and Bezos, and I don't know who was there, but I think that comes about as close as as possible in The United States.
And I'd you know, many people are interpreting this meeting as, oh, you know, Donald Trump is cozying up to the oligarchs. They're all, you know, in cahoots. I think it was some kind of a laying down of the law. We'll find out, but I don't think that it was the I I I don't think it was some kind of a, oh, yeah. You know?
Like, let's let's us billionaires get together and think about how to screw and enslave the the ordinary population. Yeah. And I agree. And I know that whole Trump question we probably won't really get into it here, but it's a big burning question. Is Trump actually pushing back against the oligarchies in many ways?
Or is he kinda controlled opposition whose populist, kind of approach of appearing to push back but not really? That's a big question. But I'd agree with you. I think he largely is pushing back but he has to kowtow to obviously Zionism and there's certain things you can't mess with. So I think he's playing down to the razor's edge.
That's my my estimation so far. But you know the, Inski person, the Rothschild banker, one of the seven rulers, he was put in jail. But you mentioned the first three who lost in court. Very interestingly, they all ran off, and escaped to Israel. Yeah.
That's kind of like a cliche. That's almost like some somebody would make that up, if they were going to feel a little bit anti s. And yet three of them went to Israel. Rothschild's guy went to jail. What about the other few?
Yeah. They lost their cases, and they ended up going to Israel. I don't, you know, I don't know what the cases were exactly, how they were fought, but I know that they lost. And so, why they felt they had to, hightail the Israel, I don't know. But, they also you know, they they didn't give up their properties.
They turned them over to the next batch of, stand ins of the trustees. You know? So I think that, Mikhail or Vladimir Chernoy, he turned over his, portfolio to, Abramovich, I think, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know how it went exactly, but, you know, they they remained in charge of what they owned. But, you know, it's it's already since the Medicis, you know, the the the the the Florentine banking family that, it was it was it was out in the open that it is very difficult for them to do what they do unless they have political control.
Because if you're just running a business, then you're subject to competition, you're subject to unpredictable event. You cannot hold the whole country, the whole society hostage to your requirements. So I think that Vladimir Putin and people around him were very wise to let them keep their assets. Because, ultimately, it doesn't matter. You know?
You know, even statistically, you know, if somebody is a billionaire, in the next generation, they're probably going to be millionaires. And then in the generation after that, they're just going to be ordinary people. You know, it's it's just the way it is. You know? Somebody builds the wealth.
They think they're very capable, but they're probably it's probably always a mix of capability and luck. And and and wealth dissipates. It's very it's very, very difficult to keep it together unless you're part of this oligarchy that has political control, whether overtly or covertly. And then you can, you know, perpetuate it through many, many generations because you're back in the shadows and you control the government. And you make sure that everything government does is only helping you grow more wealthy and more powerful and that you, you, you, you, you hold the whole society hostage to your agendas and your priorities.
And this is this is what Vladimir Putin has undone, and this is what I hope that, Donald Trump, will be able to do in The United States because if he does, that's a that's a huge gain for for for humanity, in fact. Yeah. For sure. I mean, this one is on the razor's edge. Often people feel despondent and hopeless when I'm sharing all details around the reality, but I think people need to know reality no matter how challenging it is.
The headwinds, you might as well accept them. But I see it as we're all on the razor's edge. It's all to play for. The awareness is growing. Trump is doing a lot of stuff.
Whether he's fully on board with, say, our side of freedom and libertarianism and all that other good American apple pie or not. He's doing loads of things which are hugely in our advantage. No question about that. Huge things to our advantage indeed. But we also need to do things for ourselves and our family, which are hugely to our advantage.
And we're gonna have a conversation later on in this incredible discussion. We're gonna cover way more about The Middle East and the whole world issues at the moment and what's driving them. We're also gonna touch on physical gold. And, of course, Alex, as a hedge fund manager previously and an expert in all things investment is bang on point with everyone else in my network. Physical gold is hugely important.
This isn't financial advice. This is the opinion of all the best I can find out there. And Pure Gold in London, I have a connection with. So you get looked after there. If you want to further explore, hedging against the future and the issues that are coming down the track and with terms of pension or if you have other net worth, consider protecting at least some of it.
I would suggest that's my opinion, which I hold very strongly. But in any case, let's get back to Alex, and you ain't seen nothing yet. So it's all to play for. But one other thing occurred to me with that story and your story, the seven bankers, I immediately recognized that it was pivotal because that's largely been our problem for hundreds of years across all regions in the West and and elsewhere. So it's a microcosm.
Basically, once you understand the rule of the seven bankers and as you described what Putin somehow managed to do, you kinda know how everything in the world works. Only mostly, we don't manage to do what Putin did. Otherwise, that's the game. Right? But one thing occurred to me, it's a little bit controversial.
I was a World War two buff for decades, and I thought I knew nearly everything about World War two. And I realized in the last year or two, I was absolutely filled as to the drivers, to your point, who actually drove World War two, who was funding it, who was orchestrating all the moves. But your story there, there was a certain Austrian nasty man. Okay? Ironically, it almost parallels, the Putin story.
Because he in the thirties threw out the bankers, essentially, brought in a load of country building stuff. And in fairness, he was made Time Man of the Year. I think in '37 or 1938, the world actually officially acknowledged that he was rebuilding Germany in a miraculous form. And then all the bad things happened. But I also found out, and I think it's historical record, that Churchill and The US purposefully avoided any peace or accord with that Austrian guy.
In fact, they would if anything goad him, and I think he had made around 10 or 15 efforts to placate them and reassure them and all of them were rebuffed. So it seems in a way that the world or the oligarchies wanted them to cause some chaos and would benefit from that in the long run. That that's the way it seems to me. And if he hadn't made all those mistakes and done terrible things and all that stuff, he could have pulled off some kind of Putin and Russia thing. Maybe.
But obviously, terrible things happened and it was all the disaster and fifty million people died. Absolutely. I I acknowledge that. But it looks like he was also almost encouraged to go down that path. I mean, what do you think of that?
He was absolutely encouraged to go down on that path. And we know that from, we know that from the way he came to power, and then we know that from the way the World War II started. And the way the World War two started well, you know, he got he got support for, annexation of, Austria in 1937. And then, you know, the, Munich 1938 episode, that's the one that's very, very widely misunderstood. But, basically, you know, the way the way we are being taught, conventionally in our history curriculum is that, you know, Chamberlain tried to prevent war and that he thought that he would appease Hitler by letting him take, how do you call it, Sudeten Sudeten lands in in the Czech Republic.
And, the truth of the matter is completely different, and that is that, Chamberlain together with a very small cabal of, the British foreign policy establishment was actually orchestrating Hitler's takeover of, Czechoslovakia. And they were doing it by, encouraging Hitler to to, take Czechoslovakia, and on the other hand, by encouraging Czechoslovakia to stand down and not defend themselves. And so Chamberlain and Lord Halifax and a couple of these people were going back and forth for for months, making sure that, Hitler takes Czechoslovakia in a peaceful way because they he didn't want to fight Czechoslovakia and making sure that Edward Benesch does not raise mobilize the arm Edward Benesch, at the time, was president of Czechoslovakia, to make sure that he doesn't mobilize, the the military and mount defense. Because at that time, it was perfectly well understood by by everybody involved that, German Wehrmacht was no match for the Czech military. Czech military was superior to Hitler's Wehrmacht in 1938 on on all measures other than air force.
And then to take Sudetenland, they had to, you know, they would have to go and conquer a mountainous terrain where the Czechs had forty five forty five defenses and hundreds of bunkers lining the roads. So, you know, the the German general staff thought that Hitler's orders to go into Czechoslovakia were suicidal. In fact, they were planning to assassinate Hitler. And they were so they had three three ways to diffuse the situation. One was they were appealing to Great Britain because at the time, you know, Britain was like The United States today.
Everybody was deferring to London, and everybody tried to manage their affairs by coordinating with with London. And so, they they tried to do that, and then they they, they plan to, try to talk Hitler out of attacking Czechoslovakia. And if both those initiatives fail, they were, going to assassinate Hitler, and they had a they had a date set for for that for that to happen. And so Chamberlain has been able to, shield Hitler from his own general staff, and he's been able to, get the checks to, stand down and not defend themselves. So the result of it was they had this Munich conference in which they basically signed over, the, not Bohemia, the the Sudeten Deutschland Sudetenland to Hitler, and then, you know, Hitler went in without any opposition.
You know, the hit Hitler's troops went into Sudeten, Germany without any troops, and then they just continued going on and took all of, Bohemia. And then later, they added the rest. And then September 1939, it was it was already already turned Poland's term. But by then, they realized that they have no control over Hitler. And so this is where, you know, they the the the partnership, let's call it, the friendship between the, the British, foreign policy establishment and Hitler, fell apart.
And then, you know, you saw Chamberlain, his government fell, and and Churchill took over. But it was, it was not at all what what is presented to us. Now, I think it's you know, Hitler has been their creation since the get go, since the early twenties. And so they've been they've been cultivating him. They've been, preparing him for his roles.
They've been, you know, in you know, they've been man they've been kind of managing Germany as well because, you know, Germany was desperate for, investment funds. They were practically under an embargo, under trade sanctions, and the Western banking cabal would not give any financial aid to Germany until Hitler won the elections in 1933, until he became the chancellor in 1933. And then they said like, ah, yes. All these credits, practically massive amounts of credits for Germany, which is why, you know, now, the, how do you call it? The the the credit started flowing and the German economy started rebounding.
Yes. He got rid of some bankers, but the the main bankers, which was his the the the the head of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, He didn't get rid of him, well, until much, much later. And Helmerschacht was working in very close cooperation with Montagu Norman, who was the the head of the Bank of England and with Benjamin Strong, who was the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. And so, this is where the the this is where actually the the the German policy was formed. And then there was a very, very heavy corporate support by, you know, Ford and Standard Oil and and, US Steel and all these huge corporations that helped German economy developed, but it developed around the rearmament process.
So, you know, the the credits flooded into German economy, but not for the civilian uses, but for these, huge corporate cartels that were producing steel and energy and explosives and armaments and everything that was needed for the war that they were preparing. And, you know, Hitler was their Zelensky, basically. Exactly. And, you know, Churchill as well, which I always viewed as a straightforward hero. You know, because why would I not?
That's what everything Turns out he was a scumbag. Right? That is the hilarious thing. It's the exact opposite of what you actually grew to believe through propaganda. And, it's a a version of always accuse your enemy of what you yourself are doing.
I mean, everything here is a double thing. But the funny thing was Churchill, I didn't realize, he had very little money, after his naval roles or whatever, but he ran a full household with staff and a huge house. Now I don't know exactly who, but he was well funded as well by the usual sorts. You know? And then he refused to defuse, the Austrian guy.
I mean, I think like I said, 13 or 15 pushes from Germany to kind of, hey, let's let's get a cap on this whole thing. Apparently, there were loads of offers, but demonstrably, Churchill would not even respond to any and the same with the Americans. So although the money was flowing from The UK and America to fuel the war from all the parties you mentioned, On the other hand, the strategy was to keep fueling them and not allow peace to potentially break out. So peace was obviously a problem, a big problem. They wanted their war.
Right? I mean, that's the way I see it now. And, that has a very, very, interesting parallels to what we see today. Yes. You you know, it's it's almost exactly the same thing.
You know, obviously, the the person the the the characters are different. The the countries are different. But the principles, the the the the incentives, and the and the vested interests are practically the same. You know? The the names of corporations are different, but it it's it's basically all the same.
And then, you know, once you understand that, and then you go like, oh gosh. You know? What about World War one? Oh gosh. Look.
It's it's practically the same there too. And then all the wars before that and before that, and and then you go centuries and centuries and centuries back, and you realize that certain certain principles always remain constant, and it's it's some kind of a system of incentives that is shaping the you know, like, if you look at today and you realize that this war in Ukraine is is completely insane, that, it's been lost, but that European leaders can't give up. They they just are clamoring for war to continue. I mean, we even had this little cabal, a a little ad hoc think tank that came together, called what what are they called? Project Alchemy Project Alchemy.
And, you know, they they even put together some kind of a policy paper in which they keep accentuating. It's very important to keep Ukraine fighting. We have to keep Ukraine fighting. And then let now you understand how all those peace initiatives where, you know, the in in March at the March 2022, the Russians and the Ukrainians were on the verge of signing a peace agreement, and that the Ukrainian government people were opening champagne bottles because they thought, like, okay. The war's over.
We're you you know, it's finished. We're gonna be neutral, and the Russians are going to withdraw to before to the position before twenty twenty fourth February two thousand twenty two. And then, you know, Boris Johnson lands in Kyiv, and he's like, you're not signing anything. Fight it out. And so the war goes on, and one point seven million Ukrainian men die.
And you ask yourself, what was wrong with that piece? How was that piece worse than what we have now? And why won't they give up even though they should, you know, like anybody with with two brain cells, can tell that the the war has been lost. But instead of giving up, they're doubling down, and they're doubling down again, and they're doubling down more. And then you understand that it's, it's always the same thing.
They their system is their system completely depends on them conquering new colonies and taking in more collateral because the, the banking system and the institutions that they control run on fraudulent money. It's a Ponzi scheme, and the Ponzi scheme can only remain stable as long as it continues to grow. So you have to con continue to issue more and more credit. Your balance sheet always has to grow. By the way, this is why we have this obsession with GDP growth.
Right? Because even even when a society is at a high level of productivity, standard of living, prosperity, it still has to grow. It always has to grow, like, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, whatever it be. But it has to keep growing. And if you're not if it's not growing, then, oh my god, we have to do something.
It must grow. Why? Because this whole system is based on a Ponzi scheme that has to keep issuing more and more and more credit in order to remain stable. And what do you need to to issue more credit? You need more collateral.
So that means that you can't let the Russians keep their natural wealth for themselves. You have to take it. It has to become our collateral. And they've got 75,000,000,000,000 of it, and gosh, just imagine how many loans we could issue if that that natural resource wealth could be turned into our collateral. And Vladimir Putin won't let us have it, which is why we think he's, you know, irredeemably evil.
And it's also why we thought that Boris Yeltsin was awesome because, you know, the the the gates of Troy were open, and we could have we could do whatever we wanted with Russia. And then Vladimir Putin said, so sorry. No mas. You know? Which is why we hate him and why which is why we want another Yeltsin or Zelensky or, you know, new new Guaido, to take over and to let us have their natural resources.
That's why. And and and so they can't give up because if the Ponzi scheme comes to an end, it implodes as all Ponzi schemes do. And so they will, you know, they will sacrifice Ukraine. They will sacrifice all of Europe in order to preserve their Ponzi scheme. Yeah.
Absolutely. When all else fails, they take you to war. But that's only one part of it. So the Putin example, and I'm glad you came back and and touch back on that, it is truly a microcosm. It's like fractals.
That scenario, just apply it to everything pretty much. And now you know root cause, and now you're correct. And you know it's a good segue into the second bullet point. I'm only on the second one. We'll speed up a bit.
But this is soup this is superb, Alex, because I really want people we need to frame it and describe it in such a way that it really is simple for any layperson to grasp the enormity of what we're saying. And everyone needs to grasp this and understand it and understand the legacy media. It's comical at this stage, Alex. Nearly everything in the legacy media is largely nonsense or propaganda. I'm I'm astonished.
I flick through it occasionally just to amuse myself. It's it is astonishing. But we'll get now to the network. And I like that name. People say cabal.
People say the blob. But I love the network. And it goes back to a book I got recently from Joe Plummer. And he summarized tragedy and hope from Carol Quigley from the nineteen sixties. An enormous tome, which covers load of history.
But in there, Quigley who worked with the network, the people we're talking about, and he was meant to keep his mouth shut. And then he published Tragedy and Hope. And it wasn't an expose of the network, you know, but it had pieces of truth about them throughout it. And he was meant to never tell anyone a word of this. So the book was pulled after 8,000 copies.
The publisher destroyed the plates, you know, and eventually it came out bootleg and Quigley had lawyers against them. But obviously, the network had such power they picked up the phone and his book was gone. But Joe Pope Plummer has written a synopsis of the important aspects of Quigley's book. And it's an astonishing read. And I'm gonna put the link down below guys.
Download it and read it. It's free. But the network, Alex, broadly who are the network? Because it's clear from tragedy and hope, I'd say, is the most accurate around. It's kind of starts mainly in the modern times with, Cecil Rhodes who had the vision, right, to have a world completely controlled by the elite.
No conspiracy theory. It's all documented. And then he handed over to Milner and the Milner group. And he said Milner basically said is my blood brother. He fully entrusted him with the vision.
Milner was committed. And then you have this whole crown kind of city of London, UK, powerful network that eventually became a network that encompassed Wall Street and the American Deep State, if you wanna call it. And, of course, all the great banking families, many of them named in tragedy and hope. Is this is this getting towards, like, what the network is? It's a meta tribe of oligarchs.
That's why it's kinda hard to to get right to the guy at the top. There isn't really a guy at the top. It's all of what I said and more. Yeah? Yes.
Look, I I read Tragedy and Hope, and I read it very carefully. And in fact, this whole story about appeasement, I reconstructed it from Carol Quigley. And with some subsequent research by, the guy who wrote, Conjuring Hitler, that's that's a masterpiece. His name is Guido Antonio Preparata. Okay?
And that book is not as not as long, but it's it's it's, like, dense. It's, like, completely fluff free, and it, like, blows your mind. So from those two books, I reconstructed the what actually happened in 1938 in in Munich. Anyway, so, basically, Carol Quigley, I believe, that he gave us the keys. He just couldn't come out exactly and give it away because it will be too you know, the it would have been spotted straight away.
So So he put it in a into a book that's, like, thirteen four 1,400 pages long, and then you have to read it very carefully, but it's a lot is there. A lot is there. And, I will I will read to you. I have this in front of me the maybe the key quote, which which tells you what we're up against. And the one so this is this is the key quote from Carol Quigley.
I think many people are already familiar by this, but he says that the powers of financial capitalism had a far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a decentralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and direct injury of all other economic groups. And so this quote, when you take when you keep that in mind and you look at what happened in Russia in the nineteen nineties, it's it's exactly what happens. And then you you also find out that these people like Mikhail Korokovsky and these other oligarchs, that they were not just, you know, Russian tycoons who emerged because they were very capable and, you know, aggressive young reformers as they were presented in the media, in the West. They were handpicked trustees, who were serving the needs of the foreign financial interests.
And so Mikhail Korokovsky was a trustee for Jacob Rothschild's interests in Russia. George Soros was there, involved very prominently, Edmond Safra, and and a numb a a number of a number of high profile western bankers. But, you know, when you say that there's nobody at the top, I think that there's somebody at the top necessarily because, you know, this is, you know, these are these are networks of power, and you're right to call it a network. These are networks of power that operate outside of the rule of law. So they're not bound by, lawful institutions.
This is like, law of the jungle. It it functions like a like a mafia, like a mafia business, like a mafia organization, which means that somebody necessarily has to be at the top to enforce the order. You know, you can't have democracy at at that level. So in in everything that I've read so far, it always emerges that this name Rothschild comes up as as the people who seemingly wield the most power, and then everybody else is, kind of in a in a subordinate position to them. And I think that when things are going well, they they get along, and they work as a club.
And, you know, I'm in charge, but you have your own suzerainty there, and you have your own you know, you dominate your but when things get difficult, when the system comes to a crisis, then you see that you might have civil wars there, between these bankers. And I think that we're living in a period when these civil wars are erupting again. And it seems to me that the American bankers, feel that they no longer have to be subordinated to the to the British bankers. And I think that part of what we see today might be, that civil war. Of course, we don't know anything about this.
We can just, look at where smoke you know, which orifice produces the smoke, and then we can just try to kind of, wonder what what actually happened behind the the closed walls. But Yeah. You know, there must be there must be top of the hierarchy because, otherwise, the whole system you know, it'd be like you have a pack of dogs. There's always going to be a top dog. And if there isn't a top dog, the other dogs are going to fight to the death until one emerges as the top dog, and then they'll be at peace.
Yeah. And that's the lead dog kind of principle. Absolutely. You know, a slight variant on that to allow for not one kingpin? To your mafia analogy, there's a bunch of major families and each of them sure has the Dom.
But maybe there isn't a single one, but but there's certainly a cluster of key lead dogs. The beautiful elegance of that is because we're talking about families. Right? Back gig families, mafia families. There's there's a family element to it.
And, you know, I was going to my next bullet point. This is fantastic, Alex. This is a one stop shop for everyone to know how the world works. There's no question about that in my mind. I was gonna say Russia Ukraine mess as the next thing to cover, but we've largely covered that and everyone listening knows what that's about now.
Unequivocally, a 100% knows what that's about. And it's nothing like the media tell us, of course. And then the next one I was going to go on to was, of course, to be current and topical, the Middle East mess. Now, obviously, Iran, is a no brainer target and a massive prize for its resources, to your point about the bankers want the collateral. But also there's a bigger picture with the Middle East because there's the craziness of what's going on with the Zionism in Israel and all the other kind of nutso stuff.
So maybe just a few minutes on the whole Middle East side of the mess, but it's connecting right back to the same people, I guess. Yeah. It does. And we can we can go straight back to the creation of Israel or or, you know, for the to the plans for the creation of Israel, which go back to, I think, eighteen seventies, maybe even sooner, maybe even earlier. But let's say that, if we fast forward to, 1917, we had the famous Balfour Declaration.
Now what was the Balfour Declaration? It was basically a a very short letter written by Arthur Balfour, who was the foreign secretary of the of The United Kingdom to, lord, lord Walter Rothschild. Okay? And, basically, it said that his majesty's government will support the formation of a homeland for the Jews, blah blah blah. Okay.
So, Walter Rothschild's son was, Nathan Rothschild, who was very, very close friend with Arthur Balfour and who hung out at the foreign office practically nonstop. So, you know, it was like, hey, dude. I I really need you to write this letter to my daddy saying this. And then this other guy says, like, sure. Yeah.
You got it. We'll do that. Why did they need to create a homeland? Because the Rothschilds felt particularly sentimental about the Jews having their homeland? Absolutely not.
We have, you know, both Nathan Rothschild and, I think Balfour was part of it too. I'm not a 100% sure, but Nathan Rochelle definitely was part of the roundtable group, led by, Alfred Milner, whom you mentioned, who was the, you know, ideological heir to Oh, to, the Rhodesia, Rhodes. Rhodes. Yeah. Yeah.
To Rhodes. And so in a at a later stage, you know, the the alumni of the of the of the of the roundtable group, spoke about why it was necessary to create Israel. And we're talking about nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties before Israel before Israel was actually created. And then basically what they were saying is in order for Britain to remain as a maritime empire, to remain viable, they needed to seed that region, meaning the Palestine. They needed to seed that region with a particularly, patriotic stock.
You know? So they needed somebody who would be practically fanatically devoted to, living in that region, holding on to that region, to be their beachhead with which to control the region, not only because they already knew that it was very rich with energy resources, but also because it was right there at the door doorstep of the Suez Canal and at the at at the at the very crossroads of trade routes and future pipelines between the East and West. And that region has always been extremely important for that very reason. You know, the Roman Empire the Roman Empire was drawing most of the most tribute from the the Levant, from the Eastern Mediterranean. And, you know, once you once you understand that and once you understand that Roman Empire was also an empire of money lending oligarchs, and once you understand that King Herod was one of their clients who was, using the the loans from the Roman, money lenders, from the bankers for this megalomaniacal construction projects everywhere, and they had to service those loan by squeezing his own population, then you start to get a very, very interesting new perspective on what actually happened, back there at that time, you know, and then who Jesus Christ was, you know.
I was gonna say, Herod went after the Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ ultimately what was the big thing he did? He kicked the money lenders out of the temple. So he was against the bankers. Yes.
That's probably one of his finest attributes or qualities. And that's why the anti Christian thing the anti Christian thing is off the wall as you well know, Alex. Yeah. It's the only religion in the world that's being attacked left, right, and center, which kinda fits in with that. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly. But that's also the the the the one dimension in history that we're meant to never focus on and we're meant you know, basically, the way they tell us the story is like, oh, you know, the the, the Romans had many gods, and the Jews had one god. So they were just went crazy and started killing each other. You know?
They they they just couldn't tolerate that. It wasn't like that. The Romans lent money to their clients, and they wanted it paid back with interest. That was the that was the the the moving principle of history even back then. Anyway, back to the Middle East.
So today, you the Israel has been fulfilling its role very, very faithfully. It's been keeping the region destabilized. It's been keeping all the regimes, surrounding Israel, let's say, weak and perpetually on edge, much more easier to control for the The United States, for Britain, for for, you know, for the Western and the challenge now is that, the the the most powerful regional player is Iran, which is not on board with the Western Empire. So what they need to do is they need to regime change Iran. And, so now we're hearing about, Iran's nuclear program, blah blah blah blah blah.
Nobody cares about Iran's nuclear program. That is the justification for military intervention. What they want is a regime change in Iran because they need, again, a regime that's going to be run by Boris Yeltsin, Juan Guaido, Volodymyr Zelensky, Shah Bahlavi. I don't know what what the current guy's name is, but, you know, they need to put in their Muppet in there so that their Muppet will open the gates of Troy so that they can take over the collateral so that that collateral can become the, you know, the asset on Western Bank's balance sheet, and then they can loan out, money to JPMorgan no. Sorry.
To, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, to go and take over Iranian oil. And it's not because we need the oil. We can have the oil by just simply buying it from the Iranians. The important part is that all those corporations that go and develop Iran are clients of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan and Citigroup and Royal, Bank of Scotland and so forth, that all the money ultimately, gets sucked into City Of London, Wall Street. Paris always gets some crumbs off the table to keep the to keep the French on board, but that's that's the whole name of the game.
So it's exactly the same exactly the same as in Ukraine, same players, same moving principles, same incentives, and same reasons why this Western system generates never ending perpetual wars. Yeah. And, you know, I just want to say something not self edifying, but I've spent nearly forty years in root cause, complex problem solving, you know, for what it's worth. And I was damn good at it. But I've realized over the decades that psychology, even though that's seen as very complex, human psychology, oh, that's really complex.
That's not just like physics. No. You can root cause and fix people and even large groups of people and management issues with the same tools. And I'll tell you something, Alex. What you're describing and we're talking about, every complex problem after you put together all the pieces and all the smoke and all the data, always every complex problem that's impossible to see what's going on during it and it's very stressful.
Afterwards, there's always one thing that happens. You can see it all clearly and you could actually explain it in an elevator in retrospect when you know everything. What we're talking about, this method, this system, it's so far from a conspiracy theory. It's the opposite side of the universe. It's actually perfectly logical system to have money and power and dominance over your species for the select number of people and it's been the same for all of human history.
The mechanisms are the same. The propaganda is the same. The tools are the same. And I hope people realize as they listen, they can just see the it with clarity. I hope that's what we're achieving here.
Now the last bullet, which wasn't on my list, but I'm adding it now in my mind, I'm surprised I forgot it, It's the whole China thing. And that'll be it. And then we'll get to a message of hope as to where we're going and why we're gonna win. But just before China, there was one last thought. Oh, yeah.
I might put the clip in here. I was jaw dropped, even though I shouldn't have been surprised when I saw around six months ago a 1986 video of an angry Joe Biden practically slamming his fist as they sent billions, to Israel. And he said and repeated it twice for emphasis. He said, if there was not an Israel, we'd have to create an Israel. And he looked glowering at the audience in the congress or wherever, and then he repeated it again.
He said if there was not an Israel, we'd have to create an Israel for our interests in the Middle East. There's no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3,000,000,000 investment we make. Were there not an Israel, The United States Of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.
The United States would have to go out and invent an Israel. And everyone just said, and then all the money was approved. It's just a delicious little proof of what you're saying. But we get on to China, the final step. And here's what I've come to understand that it may have been from watching one of your other interviews.
I'm not sure if it's you. But basically Russia, the banking powers gave Russia their nineteen seventeen revolution. Because there's nothing better to control a country as a vassal state than to give it communism and then just hold the the reins from above and strip mine it. Now Russia kind of went in hard communism Soviet Union and became kind of out of bounds. But the people at the top just say, you know, we'll wait.
Might be a generation or two. And they did and they came in the late eighties to strip mine it. They're very patient. But then Russia, because of its long 1,200 year old history sort of of culture and patriotism and belief in themselves, they managed to pull off a coup against the banking families as you described. Now China, I believe Rockefeller and Rothschild were over there with universities in the thirties, forties, and fifties just slipping them a stinky wink and feeding them a bit of communism.
And then that took off in a big way. But then eventually it looks like Xi Jinping China's kind of Putin now and they're playing the game, but they've got enough Chineseness going back thousands of years that they know what was done to them and they ain't playing anymore. But they're playing along to not get, I don't know, really a massive war thing going. Is China kind of analogous and all and the same mechanisms used? Well, it's they're not they're not the same mechanisms.
That is they are the same mechanisms, but they're not you being used for the same, ends. Okay? And, you know, one one thing that I've understood by researching how how the banking system works, how the corporate system works, is that it's not banking is not inherently and inevitably evil. The it's the evil comes out as a result of choices that are made by people in charge. Same thing with multinational corporations.
So the the cultural element there is very, very important. And in in this sense, the the western empires, the ones that have been fomented by, western banking dynasties, you know, from from the Venetians on, and it was the same thing in in in Rome. And, arguably, there's a there's a there's there's some kind of a continuity there that goes through Vatican, you know, Rome, Vatican to Venice after crusades. There's there's a cultural element there that is that makes that is using those mechanisms and that is using them in a very pathological or pathogenic ways. Okay?
I think that Russian approach, Chinese approach are very different. And we can even you know, for people who don't believe it, you can even look go through history, and you can see how many times did the Russians or the Chinese colonize anywhere. Did they ever develop wholesale slave trade? They didn't. Did they build large empires that went beyond the their, you know, their immediate regions, they didn't.
Are they are they running a system that generates poverty today? You know, the the kind that we were talking about earlier, you know, like, Britain, when it was at the zenith of power, British people lived a miserable life. You know? Charles Dickens wrote novels about this. Upton Sinclair wrote novels about the same in The United States.
Today's cities in The United States are are, you know, are are a disaster. If you look at China today, in the last forty years, they lifted 850,000,000 people out of poverty. Their approach is very, very different, and I think the the direction is given on on the cultural basis. You know? So there's there's this, Taoist, Confucian, dimension that that determines how the how the policy is shaped.
And, I think that the clash between the Western bankers and China occurred maybe even before Xi Jinping. I'm not sure. But it it definitely crystallized with Xi Jinping. That is that, you know, election of Xi Jinping was the moment where the Western bankers realized they'd been had. Because what happened in, in August 1971, Richard Nixon severed the convertibility of US dollars to gold.
And from that moment, I think that they knew that they were going to sacrifice The United States, that they were that the dollar was going to collapse. It was only a matter of time. And that The United States is going to be, too weak. It's going to become too weak to be, you know, the hegemon. The the force in the world is going to be able to, guarantee their empire.
And I think that they designated China as the next global hegemon, which is why Nixon and Kissinger, you know, almost straight after they sever the convertibility of the dollar, they went they started going to China to open up China, and then they started building up China. And, you know, they you're right. They they had certain foundations and certain connections there because, you know, Mao, for example, was a was a was a Yale man. You know? He was he was backed by the Yale Yale University networks, and he was even a publisher of of of of, some kind of, newsletters, for the, you know, the Chinese Yale schools.
I I I knew the name. I don't I don't know the names anymore of these of these institutions and these schools, but he was definitely, recruited and cultivated by the the the American establishment. I think that the Chinese concluded that in order for them to avoid, going through further, centuries of humiliations, that they needed to absorb the American, the Western system. They didn't they needed to bring the Westerners on board and, play along, make them believe that they were going to be their next Hegemon and and serve their their agendas. And then to, you know, not not in order to actually serve them, but in order to behead them.
And you will see in the in the statements from people like, like Evelyn Rothschild and Jacob Rothschild and George Soros and so forth, that they were all very excited about developing China, about transferring their seat of power to China. George Soros was openly talking that that China was going to own the, the future of the globalization process. And, you you you know, like, if you look it up almost almost exactly in those world words, you'll find interviews, where they say things like this. So they were really looking to China as their next global hegemon and as the next model of governance for the world. But then, after Xi Jinping took over, they they had a complete turnaround.
They they realized that they've been had. And now they don't have another hegemon because China is looking to build the future of humanity on a completely different, set of principles. So it's not going to be permanent warfare, but permanent peace. And, you know, this is why China is being demonized twenty four seven every day in the West because they want to convince us that China is the devil, that we we have to go to war against China and destroy them because China has now become a risk to their system. Yes.
And that's and that's where there are quite a lot of parallels with with Russia and Putin. It's not exactly the same. Different cultural stuff, different ploys were used, But they've kind of ended up a bit like Russia. They're nationalistic. They look after their own people.
They want prosperity. They don't want, you know, perpetual wars. And they've never really con colonized majorly. And they simply don't have the cultural makeup of our western sociopaths and all the families we we talked about. So in a sense now, enemy's enemy is your friend.
Well, like, I have no belief that China, if they rule the world, would have me doing anything other than a janitor's role. You know? And why would they? They look after their own. But at the same time, Russia now and China are kind of indirectly very important allies for also fight against the sociopathic western kind of dominated system that we've talked about.
That's kind of the case. And the BRICS, If the bricks weren't there to counter our madmen, we'd be in a worse spot, I think. Yeah. I do think so. And, you know, you're always better off if there's competition in any field.
You know? So even if our pathological monsters have to reckon with some kind of competition, some kind of a challenge to their power, they have to, at the very least, soften their their stance. You know? They have to reduce the contrast between themselves and the other side. Otherwise, it becomes obvious to us to say, like, hey.
How come life in China is, is really good and people can walk safely down the street, and there are no drug addicts and needles everywhere, and their women don't get assaulted routinely and raped, in public, where and then they live they have a very high standard of living, and they support their government, and they report that they live happily, and they feel free. Whereas here, everything is shit. How come that? You know? Can can somebody explain this to me?
Why is it that we have these, beautiful sacrosanct democracies, but it seems that we always keep getting a lot of what we don't want, but we can never have a lot of what we do want and vote for. Why is that? Can somebody explain that to me? You know? But, you know, if if we have democracies, then we should be able to decide the the, you know, the policies and the and the direction of the development of our societies, but we get always everything opposite of what we what we choose.
Whereas, you know, in Russia, people are happy. People support Vladimir Putin. He has a very, very high job approval rating. The standard of living is very high. The percentage of people who report that they believe the country is moving in the right direction is very high.
Over on our side, it's it's actually very low. They've been they've been now, contaminating those statistics. You know? They're no longer, they no longer reflect what people actually say. But a few years ago, they did, and I think that figures from 2011, 2012, 2013, in the Western European countries, the people who, who saw that their country their countries are moving in the right direction was, in some cases, in the in the low teens.
You know? Like in France, I think it was 11%. In Great Britain, it was, like, 13%. Whereas in Russia, it was it was close to 60%. So, you know, I think that we have to acknowledge that something's not right in our house.
Because if we don't acknowledge it, we can't fix it. And once we acknowledge it, we have to diagnose it correctly. Otherwise, we waste energy on on, on false solutions. And, I I I think that you can't you know, if you try to diagnose it and you research, you know, you know, you peel the layers of the onion, you always end up getting to the to the money lending oligarchy. And then you understand that the money lending oligarchy is actually, above the the legally elected, governments and that the legally elected governments, our governments, are subordinated to the money lending oligarchies, and they do their bidding, obviously.
And that's actually an empirical fact. It's not that Alex Kraner is inventing it. That's an imperial empirical fact that was determined both in The United Kingdom and The United States in in, in empirical studies. And so this is a problem that we have to solve because if we don't, then we're surrendering our children into slavery. You know, it's it's there's no two ways about it.
This is not a small problem. This is a huge problem. And if anybody needs, like, a visual about what what a society would look like if this oligarchic power goes in check, Or you have to look at how things turned out for the Western Roman Empire, where you had a complete collapse of society, where you have complete collapse of markets. And we basically went back to the dark ages and the economy of barter where, you know, concrete floors or tiled floors disappeared from the archaeological record for a few centuries. Money disappeared.
Production of small of, you know, like, items of cheap items of broad use, like nails and roof tiles and thing like this, they disappeared. So people went back to living basically, like like like stone stone age existence, you know, like like nomads. They went back to basically pre civilizational times. And this is what happens if oligarchic power is not checked. And then if you wanna know what happens if you do check oligarchic power, then you study the contrast between Russia during the nineteen nineties and Russia today and the man who put oligarchs in their playpen and left them with their money to enjoy life.
He didn't kill them. He didn't arrest them other than Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He he didn't take away their toys, and, you know, they can focus on enjoying their life, eating good food, buying nice cars, having nice women. All they have to do is stay out of politics. And that should be something for our oligarchs to consider as well.
Absolutely, Alex. But I I feel they they will need a little bit of persuasion at this point. Need some pursue they might need some enhanced persuasion as well as enhanced interrogation. Yeah. I mean, they are I often said, like, the COVID flu nonsense, that triggered the massive insanity of the last few years with the trans and, of course, the mass migration, which is a disaster.
I don't even need to tell you what's happening in Ireland and, you know, The UK. It is shocking what they're destroying. They're destroying culture history, sovereignty, nationality. It it's it's it's it's it's a fire sale or not a fire. It's an inferno.
It's crazy. But, you know, a couple of quick things there before we move on to the future, the bright future for all of us. Just one thing people will say when you kinda painted China as a nice place, you know, they got cameras everywhere and everyone's tracked and traced. So there is that. Russia, I think, is a better example.
We've all seen the videos of Russia and, Moscow and everything as you describe. And but China and Russia share something. No mass migration, attack on their countries, you know. And Poland, I think, and a couple of European countries are getting fined by the EU because they don't want to destroy their culture history and their their whole society with mass migration. But that's a topic probably won't get into, but it looks to me to be a major tool of the oligarchs in the West in the last couple of years.
I mean, it's and it's very clever because if you use mass migration to undermine society, just like you attack the family, you bring in abortion, you attack religion, you attack everything that keeps a society solid. If you wanna turn all the societies into one big blob for your pleasure. So that's a whole topic. But getting on to the positive, and where we go from here, I think awareness is a massive thing. We might we might have a quick chat, by the way, first because you're a hedge fund manager and you know all about investments and and everything.
I actually see it, like my role during the COVID flu, was to help people understand reality in order to hedge for themselves and their families this new crazy world. But I've been banging on for years. And, yes, I do have a relationship with Pure Gold in London. I know. But personally, I can say with absolute a 100% honesty.
I see my role, a very important role, to introduce people to physical gold whether through their pension if they don't have much money or whether through money they have especially high net worth. It's so important that people get a percentage into physical gold to hedge against what's coming. I mean, what do you think about that one? I was worried that gold in the last six months might correct, which I would not care about, from 3,200 down to maybe 27. Pippenberg, Matt, the gold guy, he said it best.
He said, I don't care care whether I keep accumulating at 32 or it goes to 27 or it goes up to 36 where it is now. The important thing is we keep accumulating physical gold and silver. And now Alex is looking to me that there was no correction. And after a long holding period or a pennant, a bull flag, it seems to be heading on up. What do you reckon about the importance of gold for people to shield themselves from some of the the crap that's going on?
So before I say that, I just one correction. I'm not a hedge fund manager. I used to be one. I so I'm a former hedge fund manager. But, you know, that's it is very important for us to try to, push back against their, agenda of, you will own nothing and you will be happy.
So it's actually quite important for people to try to preserve their assets and their purchasing power to the best extent possible because, you know, as as I think it was Alexander Hamilton or somebody like that, Benjamin Franklin, I don't know, who said that the power over your, existence amounts to power over your will. So if they manage to get you to owning nothing, then they then they have you. So in that sense, I will agree with you that it's important to own, some assets like gold for the transition that's ahead of us, and that transition could be very, very, very, very difficult, for many people. We don't know what's going to happen. We've never been, at this point in history, but let's say that I I, you know, I don't I don't necessarily, recommend hoarding gold infinitely, but I do recommend having at least so much that it could be let's say, an equivalent of at least several months of your living expenses.
So let's say six months of your living expenses you should own in physical gold just in case it becomes necessary. And also because 100%, the the the currency that we use today, whether it's a pound or euro or dollar or yen or whatever you you're using, it's going to go to zero. That's a mathematical certainty. It's only a question of time. Gold is not going to go to zero.
So in order for you to pre preserve some purchasing power, you need to own some gold. If you can, you should own a little a a plot of, agricultural land, and you might think about diversifying into something like Bitcoin as well, silver, other things. Now if if we're going to talk about the price of gold and where it might go from here, I I've noticed something over the last ten years or so, and that is that any any asset, any security that starts to form an uptrend has a certain tendency to go into a into a vertical accelerated rally that can see the price go up multifold, not, you know, 10%, 20%, 50%, but several fold. And I've seen that happen with with with Cobalt, with many stocks, with with Bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies, with things like palladium a couple of years ago. Anyway, the Coco, for example, Coco, which has been trading forever between 2 and $3,000 for, I don't know, 15 or 20 years, it was always between, you know, $2,000 a ton and $3,000 a ton.
And then in the last two years, it hit, I think, $14,000. It just went into this almost vertical climb. And I asked myself why why would that be? And I think that maybe part of the explanation at least is in that we have now this huge quantity of, liquidity that's that exist in the so called shadow banking system. And shadow banking system is is, these are institutions like hedge funds and pension funds and endowments and insurance companies.
Let's say they are financial institutions, but unlike banks, they cannot create money. So they have liquid investable assets that they allocate to this or that asset, but they can't create credit. You know? They can't print money out of thin air, unlike banks. Nevertheless, in all the world, the shadow banking system adds up to something like $220,000,000,000,000.
So that's a lot. And if you take a market like gold, which I think all of it all of it all of it in the world amounts to about $20,000,000,000,000, so it's just one tenth of the shadow banking system. And then if you reduce that gold market to just what's traded, that's only a small fraction of those $20,000,000,000,000 because a lot of that is, like, gold that's sitting physically involved somewhere, jewelry. If you if you just go to the, let's say, to to to the to the market where where gold is traded daily, that's a that's a sliver of that market. I I don't know.
Let's call it a trillion or two. And so you have price discovery, which is happening in this 1 or $2,000,000,000,000 market, and you have $220,000,000,000,000 of liquid investable assets that can impact the price of gold. And so when people see the price of gold start to do this, it's enough that just some of those hedge fund managers, pension fund managers, endowments, that some of them just say, like, gold is looking very strong these days. Maybe I will increase my allocation to gold from 1% to 2%, and that can then create that vertical hockey stick chart. According to last information that I have, and that is not so recent, maybe it's a few years old, like two or three years old, Most of these institutions in the shadow banking system had zero allocation to gold.
Zero. So the amount of purchasing power compared to the quantity of of gold that's available for for sale is is there there's a massive, massive imbalance. So for that reason, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw gold reach $10,000 in the next two, three, five years, $20,000. You can't really put a number. And all these analysts that, like, boldly predict, oh, the gold price might close at 3,800 this year, or it might go to 4,000 this year.
The I don't know I don't know on what basis they make those predictions, but I've been reading those predictions for the last twenty years. And they you know, that's a class of analysts that always makes a prediction that's just above where the price of something is today. So, So, you know, if if when when when like, at the beginning of this year, when gold was trading at about $2,600, people were predicting that, oh, during 2025, it might go to 2,800 or even $3,000. Well, what? It's September now, and we're at 3,650.
Did anybody predict it? Somebody must have. But, you know, most people were making these predictions that were maybe current price plus a $100 or $200, depending how bold they actually feel. But there's no predicting this. You know?
You could say, like like with Bitcoin, one day it's trading at, like, $10,000. The next day well, you know, couple of months later, it's at $60,000. Is there any, market fundamentals that could possibly explain this? Nope. There isn't, except that there's so much money out there, and it's chasing after assets that will allow them to not get wiped out, you know, by inflation and by by by government printing infinite amounts of currency.
And and I'd have to say I have my process for who I trust and listen to, and I have around a dozen now, including yourself, of course, in macroeconomics and all these things. And Rick Rule and Matt Pittenberg, Christopher Mullen from the technical traders who purely goes by price action and technicals, not the macro we're talking about. But all of them pretty much were pretty bang on in their predictions for gold over the period. But you're absolutely right. CNBC and all this is just junk.
They just keep adding on a little when it's going up. Like, a moron could do that. So absolutely. And the other key thing, I suppose, that people it'd be good to know, I got heavy into this, and one overriding driving factor for me was 2019 with the Bank for International Settlements, the head of the snake, the head of the head of the snake, which, Quigley earlier referred to the BIS. It's to be the ruling kind of central nexus for all of this crap.
Well, they certainly are. And they move gold from, I think, tier two c right up to tier one with The US sovereign debt 2019. Once when I found that out and I found out that central banks all over the world are buying like crazy. And the other thing is that the gold price gone up to 3,600 from where it was at, I don't know, 1,800 when I got in. That's been driven primarily by central bank buying.
So you gotta watch what the head of the the heads of the snakes are doing. Let's be fair. For the last hundreds of years, they've made everything happen that's happening in the world. Right? And if they're amassing gold and that alone is driving up the price and retail have hardly even got in yet, never mind all the private equity and all the shadow banking.
Your point, you can square your point. No financial advice, no predictions, but it's such a no brainer for me for people to hedge with a chunky amount of that beautiful metal. I mean, I don't know. I truly believe it. But positive stuff besides taking care of your family's finances in the way we just talked about, for me, awareness, it might sound naive, but I keep telling people the only thing that can counter these ultra powerful, and they have all the money and the power currently, it's beginning to crack and fail and there's infighting happening and they're losing against the BRICS and they're losing in Ukraine and they're losing in ways in The Middle East.
They're losing against China. So we covered all the headwinds they have, the so called elite. They're kinda screwing up a lot now. They're getting desperate. But for me, the only thing that will truly topple them and safeguard our children's future fundamentally is awareness of the people.
Currently, we have a small minority of people who are aware. If you double that or tripled and got up to 15 or 20% of people in the West broadly know what we're talking about and understand it, That would make a mark that would leave a mark. Is it your belief that similarly that we just need awareness and a lot of the rest will take care of itself over time? Yes, absolutely. That's the key.
I think we need to understand, how the system works. We need to understand what the agenda is. We need to understand what their plans for us are, and we need to understand where where that would take our children and their children, what what the reality of their life would be. And then there's no question that everybody will resist this because it's it's a fate that could be worse than death. And nobody would wish that to to to their children, even their enemies' children.
And so, we we need to know this, and and that's also the reason why, a lot of what they do, they do in secret, or they try to mis disinform us and mislead us about about it, which is why they're so, you know, vexed and and and hysterical about us having access to information on on social media and on the Internet, and they wanna shut it all down. But, you know, so far, we're in good shape. I read probably about a hundred years ago, you know, after after the Federal Reserve was created in The United States, one of these one of these powerful money people said that maybe there's a few dozen people in the whole world that understand how the money machine works. I think that today, that's probably a a whole percentage of people. It may not be very high, but even even if even if a percentage as low as two, three, 5% of people understand, in very broad terms how the money system works, we are already in a good shape because from there comes the understanding of who exactly the enemy is.
You know, it's not the Chinese. It's not the Russians. It's not the Muslims. It's the people who are, in charge of the of the credit issuance of the of the monetary system of these big banks, of the Bank of International Settlements and the central banks. They are the enemies.
They are the ones who have created the migration crisis. They're the ones who orchestrated the the the the not just the COVID pandemic, but all of the previous ones before that. You know? That started with, you know, I don't know, SARS, MERS, two thousand three, and then they had one every year or two. So they keep doing these things, and these are also the people who who foment the wars, who instigate the wars everywhere around the world, which is why, you know, we we live in this Orwellian world of nonstop never ending warfare and shifting alliances and shifting friends and and and enemies.
And I think it's it's time to end this system. You know? It's had its run for about, you know, a few centuries. Let's call it five hundred, six hundred years. But it's come to a point where, you know, if we don't push back, if we don't demand a change of course, then we are surrendering our children to slavery, basically.
And I don't I don't think I'm either even exaggerating. That's that's really what it is. I know for a fact. That's big claim. I know you're not exaggerating.
And that's what's driven me really since I got engaged in all this thing, primarily through the trigger event of the COVID flu nonsense. And then over the years, I I discovered everything we're talking about from people like you and doctor Nordengard and others. And now I know it's the most important thing any of us can do is help achieve what you just described. A percentage of people aware of the Babylonian money magic of knowing who ultimately, truly, technically is driving all of our problems and then addressing it. So that was a great way to wrap up.
Alex, I've kept you way longer than we agreed at the start, but I think this is a master class. I truly think so. I'm gonna go straight and start putting it together now. And I plan on doing a series of maybe weekly live streams with doctor Jacob Nordengard, I'm sure you're aware of, and his fantastic work on Rockefeller and all the all of what we're talking about, but a little more contained. We went broader.
And, I'm gonna do a weekly with him where we go through tragedy and hope chapter by chapter and reveal the full picture of the world and how it works towards what what you also share with me. I hope that we can get people to understand this and who the enemy is. And we might, if you're available, bring you in occasionally as a special guest of honor into some of those perhaps. That would be with pleasure, Ivor, of course. Thank you so much, Alex.
You're doing a sterling job, getting the message out there, and, it's a joy to watch. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for the invite, and, warm greeting from Croatia to your viewers and listeners. Beautiful Croatia.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Take care. Bye bye. That'll do it, folks.
I'm gonna name this my most important interview yet. I think that's very fair because it's the best compilation or synthesis or integration of everything we need to know about what's happening in the world and how we ultimately push back against this craziness. Again, I'll just mention briefly, there's a link down below if you want to follow-up, on the financial and family kind of wealth and safety front. You can check-in with the guys in Pure Gold and they'll give you excellent advice, covering physical metals and much more besides. I don't give financial advice, but I do direct people towards the people who are good at that kind of thing.
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