Middle Nation 100 Days Challenge: Radical Realism

Alright. Anyway, for whoever's here, if anyone's here or for the recording later, this is halfway through. Mhmm. Right? We're halfway through.

Fifty fifty days. It's a little bit over fifty days now.

We are on day 52 today.

No. Okay. Day 52. Right. Halfway through.

Okay. The hundred day challenge.

Yeah. Of the hundred days of elimination challenge. And, the last video, we discussed the last video over the course of what? Ten days. Mhmm.

And

That was the that was the Kowon Moon stuff. Right?

No. The Kowon Moon's we've already discussed the Kowon Moon content.

Oh, right. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

To the psychological decolonization.

Right.

It drank unrealism, the antidote to pessimism. So it's a long it's an hour long almost an hour long video.

That's a very long video. Yeah. That that's the one where I went into a lot of economic the the background of of Yeah.

Did a did a, you know, a thorough breakdown from pretty much after World War two,

you know. Right. Brentwoods and Yeah.

The financial system. All all of the tools and infrastructure that was set up to basically carry on the colonization by remote control, so to speak. Mean

Right. And moving the center over to the to The United States.

To The United States. Yes.

For anyone who is new here, first of all, I would just say my eyesight is very, very terrible, so I can't actually see your messages. Okay.

I'm

So I'm relying on my wife to tell me if there's messages, comments. The the Middle Nation hundred day challenge is a sort of I always I always try to go through this on the lives just in case there's new people because we've had a lot of new people join the channel, recently. There's what is it? I always forget. It's 1,400 videos on the channel?

Yes.

There's, like, 1,400 videos on the channel. So it's a lot to go to to to try to go through. And especially the the the Middle Nation the the our own videos are quite short, but the Middle Nation videos have tended to be quite a bit longer as as she say, this this last one that we're doing that we're reviewing now Yeah. Or discussing now anyway is almost an hour long.

Mhmm.

So it's a lot for anyone, for any viewer to sort of dive into the the entirety of the channel. So we've selected the Middle Nation team has selected specific videos that sort of cover or touch upon, or maybe summarize or best represent, basically, the themes of the channel, the main themes of the channel, the economic sovereignty, political independence, psychological decolonization, and related issues. And then if you're if you're in the telegram group, the Middle Nation discussion telegram group, we're putting out the prompts every day or yeah. It's every day. Daily.

Yeah. Daily because it's a hundred day challenge. Right. So we're putting out the prompts every day for which section of a particular video. It's not you don't you don't even have to watch the full video.

It'll be like five minutes or ten minutes or or something of a of a video, and then extract the with the help of the prompt, extract the the core message there. And then we have a lot of really, really good Middle Nation team people who are producing their own content Yeah. On social on various social media platforms

Mhmm.

Based upon the prompts and based upon the theme and based upon the content. Yes. So that's that's what the Middle Nation hundred day challenge is. It's basically like it's almost like a forerunner to a course Yeah. Where we're sort of putting the the the existing content, the existing videos, almost you can say in a curriculum type of a format

Mhmm.

And breaking it down section by section by section of, you know, video by video and section by section of those videos. Mhmm. So that's what that is. And now the latest video that is being reviewed or the latest what's the latest theme now? Is it psychological decolonization?

Yeah. Are exploring, studying videos under the banner of psychological decolonization. So we just completed the Kawamun series. So now under psychological decolonization, we selected the video on radical realism, the antidote to pessimism because, again, there's a kind of a yoke that's tying our sight to what's taking place because there's a kind of a inflated perception about the powers at play. Mhmm.

So, namely American power. Mhmm. So this was the first the the first prompt was to dismantle this opinion, essentially, with facts about what America is really vis a vis the power dynamics that we have today and the how we got here today. It's not a recent thing that the decline of American power is not something that just happened, you know.

Yeah. Yeah. It it has been it has been deteriorating for some period of time.

Yeah.

I think that, one of the things that I would say about this, just this general topic is that a lot of people mistake pessimism for wisdom. And they they think that it's always the wise thing to say, nothing good is ever gonna happen.

Yeah.

And there's no way that we can win. And the cynicism and the pessimism sort of substitutes for wisdom when you don't have wisdom. Mhmm. And and it's usually an expression of ignorance on the topic about which you are expressing your pessimism, that you haven't really done a review, that actually you are yourself, and your your perception and your impression is the product of propaganda. Mhmm.

It's the it's the it's the product of of, in this particular case, the American narrative about themselves Mhmm. Or about itself. And you never either you never do it or you don't have the tools or you're not equipped in one way or another to do the necessary review and analysis and research of real existing power dynamics and what what what what is true and what is not true about the American narrative, and what, for example, was formerly true but is no longer true Mhmm. And how things have changed. And and also even even for people who are relatively educated, being educated oftentimes is just an a way of organizing ignorance rather than actually organizing knowledge or or replacing your ignorance with knowledge.

It just sort of organizes the ignorance Yeah. In a way that is that serves the interest of, the power structure. And by that, I mean, people who are, educated in, say, for example, political science or international relations, they operate on a set of assumptions.

Mhmm. Dictated to by the

Dictated to them by the by the power structure

Yeah.

For the interest of serving or or for for serving the interest of the power structure. And so they even have different they they even have metrics that are either wrong or are misconstrued

Mhmm.

About power. For example, the obvious example here would be military power.

Yeah.

The idea that, that a military power is by definition going to be the biggest player and will always win. Mhmm. That's simply not the case. And just because and and they they push that that narrative about the importance of military power because that's something that they have Mhmm. Or anyway, that's something that they have had.

Mhmm. And therefore, it's the definition of strength. And then you also have to go back into and since this is about psychological decolonization, you have to understand what's the roots of them thinking that brute force equals power. Because, again, this this has very deep cultural historical roots for Westerners, for for for Europeans. The idea that the the the one who has the ability to extract by force, resources by force, that's as much as you need to accomplish in life.

And if you're able to do that, then you've done everything, and you've got the whole game wrapped up. So it even those assumptions are based on a cultural history. It's based based on history. It's based on a culture. It's based on an ideology that grew out of that culture Mhmm.

That grew out of that history that is incorrect.

Yeah. Inaccurate and built upon a a kind of a perceptive assessment on reality, which is just utilized by propaganda, and then we just get swept away by that

Mhmm.

And and we buy and and

And then that also I'm sorry to interrupt, but then then that also becomes one of the sources of pessimism. Mhmm. Because you think to yourself, well, our countries, whether you're talking about Muslim countries or countries in the global South, we don't have the military power that America does, therefore we can never do anything. Exactly. Therefore we can never be free.

Mhmm. Therefore we will always be colonized, we will always be subjugated, we will always be slaves.

Mhmm.

Because you have accepted the American definition of what power is, which is just sheer brute force.

Mhmm.

Not understanding that even sheer brute force is itself a servant to power, to the to to actual power, which under in in the real operating system again, this is under Western in within the Western framework.

Mhmm.

The real existing power is economic.

Yeah.

And the military power is only ever used to forward economic objectives

Mhmm.

And economic interests. So it doesn't make any difference how big your gun is. Mhmm. If it's not in your economic interest to shoot that gun, then you never will.

Yeah. And so we we in in trying to illustrate this and clarify this for consumers of urination content, We broke down this video for over the course of ten days. So in day two, the problem is America's unearned empire, deception, and dollar dominance. So here we broke down how it how its rise to empire is not something that was earned through merit Mhmm. But rather one that was presented to us without an option.

This is like a in in the scenario of a post World War two world order. So basically, the problem is, okay, America's rise to global superpower status as achieved through its opportunism rather than merit. The United States inherited power after World War two when other global players were weakened. America's role in establishing the Bretton Woods agreement, which mandate the mandated the US dollar as the world's reserve currency and enabled it to reap the global economy in its

favor. Mhmm.

So this deception allowed The US to print money and run deficits without immediate consequences, making other nations financially dependent and effectively hostage to the dollar. So now America's dominance, again, just to present that it was not earned through actual superiority, but rather through coercion and lack of viable alternatives for these other countries.

Yes. I mean, and and just trickery. Yeah. You know, it's very important. This is this is something that will that will come as a shock to most Americans because, of course, the the the narrative that we grew up with.

America became a superpower by default, not not by merit, as you say, not by merit, not because it rose, not because it defeated others. It it won by default. It became the superpower by default because every other global superpower, global hegemon at that time, basically buckled under their own weight and fell apart. So it was that the the all of the other empires of the West, specifically, all of the other other empires of the West broke apart. The the colonial powers of France and The UK, and then eventually even Soviet Union, they all fell apart.

The America didn't defeat them. America there was no competition. America was just the the last one left standing because the other ones all died of exhaustion Mhmm. Not because America defeated them. So it's it's important to understand that.

Yeah.

That that this isn't the country that actually built its way up to the status that it has now, which is something you could actually juxtapose against or contrast with China. Mhmm. For example, China has absolutely built their way up to the status that they're at now. Yeah. And you can also juxtapose or contrast that with what's happening now with the construction the gradual construction or consolidation of the soft empire in The Middle East that is being built between the GCC and Turkey Mhmm.

But primarily through the the capital of the GCC, the the money, the funding of the GCC, where they are they are building up, and they built up their own domestic economy first, and then they began with strategic investing regionally and then globally. They have really done the hard work of building themselves up. China has done the hard work of building themselves up. Now don't misunderstand because there will probably be probably be people who will jump on that and say that China couldn't have done it without America because America is buying all of their products Mhmm. And because people were shipping over there.

Yes. That's fine. No one says that it has to be done independently. Yeah. But you are wise and cunning and practical Mhmm.

And efficient in the way you do it. Mhmm. America didn't have to do that. Yeah. America just ended up being the last man standing.

Mhmm. And then they they rigged the global economy through trickery and through deals Mhmm. Which in which gave them really very fragile power, which gave them very fragile hegemony over the world through the dollar. Right. They they didn't they this wasn't through military force.

Mhmm. They didn't achieve it through. Everyone talks about their military power, but that's not how they became a global hegemon. They became a global hegemon because of the dollar. Which is a very fragile web Yeah.

To to build your house on.

Yeah. But at the time, when it was developing and the rest of us were not capable of of standing on our own, and we have to interact and trade, so we were held hostage.

Right, right. Well, and because again after World War II everyone was demolished.

Exactly. Which then brings me to the next problem.

So you didn't, so I mean, I'm sorry to, again, to interrupt. So again, it's very important to understand that this country that always talks about competition did not rise to the winning position through competition. Mhmm. They did it through parasitic predatory opportunism against their own so called allies, their own so called friends in Europe.

Mhmm. Okay. So next prompt reads, end of the gold standard and the rise of the counterfeit power. So Mhmm. Okay.

So in 1971, President Nixon ended the gold standard, and so this was basically, the rest of the country, it was just too late for them to withdraw from the from already the system that they were all entrenched in. Mhmm. So this is the beginning of the end of productivity in America and the beginning of a counterfeit economy that is unsustainable because our current dominance dominance is unsustainable. Mhmm. And the establishment of the petrodollar system was nothing short of an economic extortion on a on a global scale.

So this led to the development of the petrodollar because you now stipulated that in order for energy.

Yes. America America as a as a global power would have ended in the seventies. Yeah. It would have ended in the seventies if basically the Saudis Mhmm. Had not come to the rescue and agreed to the petrodollar Mhmm.

Had agreed that we will only sell oil in dollars. If they had not agreed to that, if they had not made that deal and they had their own reasons, which are quite complex to to to get into, and you can debate whether they were good enough reasons or not, but I don't know if anyone could could foresee what the what the full ramifications of that decision were going to be. But they had their own, basically, regional domestic reasons for what they did. Mhmm. And that that basically saved the American economy from complete collapse as a as a as a global hegemon Mhmm.

Which which, you know, if you if you understand it properly, and I think that the Saudis eventually did understand it properly Mhmm. It means that America is dependent upon them. Yeah. And dependent upon OPEC. Mhmm.

They're you're completely dependent upon us agreeing to continue selling energy Mhmm. That moves the world Mhmm. Using your currency. Mhmm. If we choose not to use your currency, then what are you gonna do?

Yeah. And and this is a this is a threat that they're facing now.

At the moment, at the present day.

It's it's it's not correct for me to call it a threat. No. It's being presented, you know, and this you see, this is this is why it's very difficult. It's very difficult to maintain your own epistemological sovereignty and your own narrative sovereignty when you are consuming news and information from the West. Yeah.

Because they always package things in narratives. Yeah. They cannot just be factual. They always package things in narratives. And then it's like I said in the chat just now, if you're around if you're around some food and that food has a very pungent odor, even if you don't eat it, the smell is gonna get on you.

And it will you you'll absorb even the smell or the scent or the odor of the food. And this is what I mean about when you're consuming the news and consuming the information, and inevitably, therefore, also consuming the narratives and the narrative framing of the West, then you just if you let your tongue slip where you say something without thinking, without being deliberate, you'll say something by accident that's wrong. Like the fact like what I just said that ending the dollar dominance is a

threat because

it's not a threat. Yeah. It's a it's a it's a deliberate decision that is being supported and pushed by the a national OCGFC. Mhmm. The people who are actually the the most powerful private sector actors in the world, the the collectively, biggest non state actor in the world Mhmm.

The a national OCGFC are pushing for de dollarization. They are pushing for, so called multipolar world. So it's not a threat. It's an inevitability.

Yeah. Which then brings which now brings me to another point, on the following day's prompt. So now that we've established the function of the petrodollar in the scheme of controlling countries, we talk about the the video talks about the Israel's role in American global strategy. Okay. So the Russian border deal cannot be separated from the existence of Israel and America's support for it as a destabilizing force in the Middle East.

Western powers created Israel not out of center being for the Jews after the Holocaust, but to establish a permanent source of conflict in the Middle East.

Correct. Correct. And that's and and this is why the Israelis should have seen it coming. Yeah. A number of things have happened.

I've talked about it several times. Mhmm. A number of things have happened that, have rendered the post World War two world order obsolete, and the existence of Israel, the perpetuation of Zionism depended upon that world order not becoming obsolete. It only made strategic sense. It only made political sense.

It only made economic sense in the context of that world order. And that world order is being dismantled dismantled at a very rapid pace. And again, there's many reasons for that. A few is the one that I've mentioned many times before is just sheer demographics.

Mhmm.

The demographics of Europe are in decline. The demographics even in America are in decline. The birth rate and so forth. The the markets are also too expensive for workers. Salaries are too expensive.

America at the time in the post World War two order, America was not a net producer and exporter of oil and gas, which it is now. That changed the world. When America became that a a producer and exporter, a net exporter, and the world's largest producer of oil and gas, this completely changed the the the logic of the World War two global order.

Yeah.

And then, of course, the rise of BRICS. Mhmm. You know, things that have sort of happened subsequent to that, which is which is the a national OCGC trying to organize the inevitable transition to the global South Mhmm. Because, the Northern Hemisphere is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

Yeah. Now okay. So, again, the the the next prompt would be the American petrodollar hegemony, debt, dollar and global military reach. The petrol dollar system requires nations to finance America's debt and has allowed The United States to recognize the dollar against its adversaries. Because the dollar is the global reserve currency, essential for oil and debt payments and global financial operations, The US can essentially print money to fund its extensive global military presence, which includes, you know, about several 100 military bases in all these countries in the world.

Mhmm. And now this unique ability allows The US to spend trillions on foreign military bases, wars, and global policing without needing to earn the money through production, which explains the state of America's you know, domestic situation, you know, poor infrastructure, poor educational systems. I mean, the the list goes on, you know. Now The US exploits this financial dependency, then it pressures the countries with the threat of economic isolation if they resist US military expansion, leading many nations to tolerate US military bases to avoid financial ruin.

Right.

Yeah. So this is this was covered in the video, and then again, all of this is to illustrate for you and clearly show you the landscape in which that that we were in, and that we are in right now, and the case for optimism.

Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, that's this is why radical realism, as we called it, is the antidote to pessimism because a realistic view of the world and the trajectories that the world is moving and the momentum at which they are the power dynamics are shifting, the momentum of the trajectories that the world is on, it's it's it's extremely positive. There's every reason for realistic, practical, cool headed optimism Mhmm. For the way things are moving.

Mhmm.

And now, and then we video goes on to talk about America how America becomes a global hegemon hegemon. Again, just to emphasize Mhmm. Okay. It became a global hegemon because of the absence of alternatives. This extortion pattern through the IMF and World Bank is well documented.

You know this. This pattern applies across Africa, Latin America, and other regions where military bases are a condition for economic stability. The US doesn't openly hold on a second. The US doesn't openly demand military presence for loans, but it frames it as protection and as a guarantee for foreign investors. And then it is a protection racket, essentially.

That's what you just called.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a protection racket, but it's also it's also important to understand. I think that there's that there's a certain degree of misinterpretation of the relevance of those military bases. Again, that goes back to the idea that power is military power, that there's not another kind of power with military power.

And therefore, wherever military power can be seen, then that means power is being exerted in that location. America has been running its economy on the military industrial complex. That's been the engine of their economy. So they want expansion of military presence everywhere in the world so that they can arm all of that, so that they can fund all of that through the Pentagon as a as a basically a money laundering operation Mhmm. Taxpayer dollars into, the Pentagon, into the private sector, into the military, private sector, defense sector.

So the the the presence of those bases does not, in and of itself, necessarily mean that those countries are shaking in their boots in fear of these military bases. Mhmm. A lot of the military bases have very little personnel in them. A lot of them are functionally useless, but they serve they serve the purpose that they're supposed to serve, which is money laundering. So that's America's interest.

And because they you know, otherwise, what they could do is sell those weapons to other countries, which, of course, they do. They do sell weapons to other countries, but they don't want anyone to be too well armed. So that's been their policy. You you have to have our base there rather than you building up your own forces.

Alright. So now we go on to the next prompt. We talk about now basically, you talk about in the video, the decline of US hegemony and the aggressive retreat. So America's global hegemony was achieved, again, just to emphasize, through the absence of alternatives. Now this is not insufficient even to contend with emerging regional hegemony.

The US is now becoming a de facto, just another regional power, albeit with significant reach. Mhmm. The world is splitting into spheres of influence with The US being just one such regional everyone. The US can no longer afford endless wars as evidenced by Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, showing its inability to enforce its will as before. The British Empire was pressured into decolonization due to changing power dynamics, and the same is happening to The US with China, Russia, and

Brits. Right.

And then

This is why I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is why it's very important to understand that America rose to being a superpower, in the absence of competitive rivals. Mhmm. What that means is that when a competitive rival emerges, America is not going to be able to compete, which is what has happened.

Yeah.

And it also means that that all of the other countries in the world who got basically stuck and trapped into being into being in the orbit of The United States, the moment they have a choice, they will opt out Yep. Of that relationship. As long as they if if they can make a deal, if they can make a partnership with another hegemon that doesn't impose the same kind of subservient demands upon their their country that requires them to be obsequious and to change politically and to hand over control of their economy to that hegemon. If they can find a country that's not going to do that Mhmm. Then anyone would prefer that option.

Yeah. And and that's the case with China. They don't make anything like the kind of demands that America makes Mhmm. In terms of what what they expect if they're going to invest or if they're gonna loan money and and so on and so forth. Mhmm.

They they don't make any any anywhere close the same kinds of demands that America has made. Mhmm. Because because again, this is all because America has been aware policymakers in America have been aware how fragile Mhmm. Their actual hold is on power, global power. They've understood.

They have to have understood how fragile their hold really is. Mhmm. So they wanted to do everything they could to consolidate their power by forcing everyone else into a subservient position vis a vis America. They can't let you rise at all Yeah. Because they're scared to death because their their hold on power has been very fragile.

Mhmm. And it was inevitable that that they will lose their grip on power, and that's that's what's happening.

Mhmm. I mean, again, like, forcing countries to take a position and forcing them to take sides, these tactics are no longer working. Mhmm. I mean, because that's that's the only posture that they have left now. Mhmm.

Because everything else is just

Yes. And they can it's extremely important to understand what we're talking about here. Yeah. To to understand and to recognize and to incorporate this into your when when you move around in the world, Yanni, when you read about news, when you follow events and so forth, to really understand and incorporate in your knowledge and in your interpretive framework for for news and information that you consume to understand what we're saying. Because now, I lost my train of thought.

What what did we just About

consuming information that Yeah.

Yeah. Right before that.

Talking about the rise of America I mean, the merit of America's rise and how it's Sorry.

I apologize if one hour. Inshallah will come to me. And I did the big buildup as well. How important it is for you to keep this in mind. It's very important for you to keep it in mind because yes.

Because it's very important for you to keep it in mind and for you to understand and to incorporate it. And if I keep talking, I will lose it again. To incorporate it into your understanding, in your interpretive framework when you read information because the only thing that they have now is narrative. That's the only thing that they have. If you are well informed and you have a good grasp of real existing power dynamics in the world and what power, what constitutes power, what power is really comprised of in 2025, who has it and who doesn't.

If you really understand that, then you will know that their narrative is a lot of huffing and puffing, and they really don't have anything left. They don't have anything left except for you believing the that propaganda, you believing that narrative and and allowing that narrative and your belief in that narrative to make you hopeless and pessimistic. The only power they have now is your belief that they have power.

Yeah. And then finally, the video concludes with why radical realism is just inevitable when and and the rise of the empowerment of the global South. So optimal what does it mean to be optimistic in 2025? It's not just idealism, but it's actually real as the slave master has become old and weak and senile and the plantation is ours. The United States' ability to threaten and with sanctions is diminished because its economy needs the world more than the world need needs its economy.

America is no longer a dominant force, rejecting US aid investment and market access if The US acts host you know, hostile shouldn't be con controversial. Mhmm. You know? And so the world is now entering an era of America's humbling where The US will be forced to deal with the world as it truly is, stripped of its propaganda and lies.

Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. And I think but and and but I but I also think that and I have mentioned this a number of times because there is there is there is another narrative about, for example, the rise of the multipolar world and the rise of bricks and so forth that I think I've mentioned this before even in in recent lives.

It's being presented as sort of the almost a revolution or a rebellion by the global South, and that this is all happening against the will of The United States. The United States, first of all, there isn't a global power actually called The United States. Wrap your head around this. Because The United States as a political entity is subordinate to private sector power. It was previously subordinate to American private sector power, specifically nationalistic private sector power connected to the military industrial complex that was reliant upon industry inside the country.

And it has it it had and continues to have a nationalistic framework and paradigm that operates in a nationalistic paradigm. So America has been, as a political entity, more or less subordinate for most of my lifetime, but especially since the eighties eighties, nineties, and February. It became more and more and more subordinate. Again, originally to corporate private sector power within the country. Now it is subordinate to the a national owners and controllers of global financial life scappel who have no care whatsoever for something called The United States Of America.

Mhmm. They have no interest. They have no nationalistic loyalties. They have no patriotic loyalties even if they are American by nationality or by citizenship. Mhmm.

This is not where their loyalties lie. Their loyalties lie with their shareholders

Mhmm.

And with their own bank accounts. Mhmm. So America isn't a power. Something called The United States Of America isn't really a political force. Yeah.

It is the the country, the government, the the body politic is subordinate. Mhmm. It was subordinate to private sector power within the country. Now it's subordinate to global private sector power. I'm sorry.

I'm very tired. Yeah. What was what what was the last thing that you said?

Let me see. Pretty much the the the head their function as hedging on global hedging on is over. I mean, entering an era of America's Right.

Right. Right. Right.

Will be

forced to give The the the this and this this goes back to what I was saying about BRICS and the and the idea of there being a rebellion by BRICS and a a rebellion by the global South. The the the power structure to whom the body politic or the the government, the state, the public sector in America, to whom they are subordinate, the power structure to whom they are subordinate are abandoning them. Mhmm. They are navigating the the the the dismantling of American empire. They are overseeing the dismantling of American empire.

They are overseeing the, basically, the demise of American prosperity and America's global reach and pursuing the isolation and the containment of America into being only what it actually has the real existing power to be, which is a regional hegemon. Mhmm. It's a great power. It will continue to be a great power, but it will be a regional great power. It will dominate the global North.

Yeah. It will dominate Europe belongs to them. Mhmm. Europe now is going to belong to them. Canada will belong to them.

I I was talking about it one in in a recent live that, unfortunately, I think that also Central And South America are also not so much up for grabs because I think

You've talked about that.

America is gonna try to continue to keep their iron fist around Central And South America. Central And South America aren't without options, but it's that's that I don't I don't think that that that their liberation or their freedom or their sovereignty, I don't think that that's in the cards according to the a c a national OC GFC plan. I think I think everyone has accepted, okay, you can have that. Alright. But Africa and Asia and the Arab world, the Middle East, these will be free from American domination.

We do have a number of questions from this from a person called Michelle Whitehorse.

Okay.

My worry is with the fall of the old empires, will there be a vacuum left, or is there a new power rising? And then and will Islam be a global part of that rising or only local in the global South? Will Islam be rising in the old empire as the old order is falling away? Or will Islam be dragged down in the collapse of the West as the old order goes down?

Okay. Well, the last the last one is very easy to answer. Islam cannot be dragged down. They've done they've they've they've done everything they possibly could to drag it down in our part of the world Yeah. Brutally, and they have completely failed.

So there's no way that it will ever be dragged down in the West. It will only rise in the West to one extent or another. The first question was about a vacuum. Yeah. The the fear of there being a vacuum is is based off of the whole American narrative Mhmm.

That there must be one dominant player. This is there there's no reason for that. That has not historically been the case. Even when there were significant empires, even when there was the Muslim empire, or when there was the Roman empire, or when there was the Byzantine empire, the Persians. The empires coexisted.

Mhmm. So there's not there's not a reason to believe that there that there must be one. But then also, the idea of of vacuum is like it's like saying, well, what are we going to do? What what are we going to do in this room if we don't have a gangster? The the room is gonna be fine.

Mhmm. Everyone is going to be fine if there isn't a gangster there bullying and extorting and threatening and beating and abusing everyone. That's not a vacuum of stability. The the departure of The United States from the global stage does not represent a vacuum of stability. It represents a vacuum of instability, a vacuum of aggression and hostility and violence.

So their absence is not in any way whatsoever destabilizing. It's only the opposite.

Okay. So there's more other comments or questions.

Like a daycare center. What are we gonna do if the tiger isn't here? What are we gonna do if there's not a a vicious, you know, wild dog in the daycare center?

Yeah. For in order for you to entertain this question, you have to have a a belief in, like, again, a one dominant force, one

Yeah. Well, I mean, this this this this goes into part of part of the different ways that America has justified Mhmm. You know, even even if we even if we admit as America that we aren't the best at keeping peace, or maybe we have committed crimes in the past, maybe every once in a while we commit a genocide, but we're necessary. It will be much much worse if you don't have we're the anchor of the world. Right.

Which is why they they put in so much effort in their propaganda machinery to malign

Right.

Countries like China

Right.

Or India or, you know, Russia.

I mean, just just just think about it like like, you know, if you if you were in a relationship with someone who is abusive, you know, violently abusive, verbally abusive, physically abusive, abusive in every other kind of way, psychologically abusive, manipulative, gaslighting, every every bad quality that you could possibly think of. And then his only argument for why you shouldn't break up with him is you'll never find another person like me.

Well well well put.

You know? Yeah. Dear God, we hope not.

Okay. White Claws. Can South America free themselves and be sovereign if they are willing to fight for it and get support from each other or breaks?

I think that, excuse me, I think realistically speaking, the only way that they can, they need to they need to completely embed themselves in in the entirety of the global South in terms of business partnerships, investment partnerships, economic cooperation, and so on. Like, for example, there are many things that happen between, for example, Indonesia and Chile. Excuse me. All of you know, because what's happening in the Muslim world in in from from from my observations, what I'm able to deduce from what's happening in the Muslim world is that they are creating a soft empire. I've talked about it many many times.

They're creating a soft empire driven primarily by Gulf money, Gulf capital, but also by a great deal of of political savvy and collaboration with, for example, Turkey, and now also even with Iran. And everyone is working together and is and is a cohesive, as I say, soft empire where all of the countries will continue to exist. Every country will continue to have their own government. They'll be their own state and so on. But it they they will they will be able to fashion a kind of collective sovereignty, where together they become sovereign, whereas independent they would not be.

If one country was independent, they would not be sovereign, it would be vulnerable. And I think that that this has to happen in the so called Latin American or South American countries, and not just within South America. I mean, they need to create partnerships and build ties and build bridges with Asia and with Africa, and as I say, across the whole the the entirety of the global South. They have to completely embed themselves in a meshwork of partnerships and agreements and, you know, collaborative relationships, private sector. All of what I'm talking about now, everything that I'm talking about now is private sector.

Because the truth is that, like, when we're talking about The Gulf, you can't separate private sector from state because the state owns everything. The the sheikhs own everything. Mhmm. Everything is in their hand. It's the opposite of the West where the government is in the hands of business.

In the in The Gulf countries, business is in the hands of the government. So, largely what the what the Gulf countries are doing is economic more than political, but they're they go, you know, they go hand in hand. But the most important thing to build is these private sector relationships, these private sector partnerships.

Okay. Again, once again Michelle Whitehorse is asking questions. Mhmm. But how do we prevent superpower and attain coexisting I don't understand. How do we prevent superpower and attain coexisting relations?

I don't understand the question.

Yeah. The question

If the idea is because I I don't know if this is what you mean, but this is another part of the American narrative, which is that, well, it's better us being the global superpower than China. Because if if if we're off of the stage, then China is gonna take the stage, and they're gonna be the same as or worse than us. This again is is like an abusive spouse or an abusive partner who's just telling you that you'll never find anyone like me or everyone is gonna be the same as me. No one is gonna be like America. No country is gonna act like America.

Yeah. This is where American exceptionalism is a is a is a real thing. You are exceptional in how vicious and how tyrannical and how unfair and how unjust and how sabotaging you have been of other countries. Countries in for example, countries in Africa and obviously countries in Asia have many many many years of experience now with China. And they know how how China operates.