Livestream Excerpt: Navigating Limits is the Key to Long-term Victory

Right. There was there was a lot of hope and and optimism. And okay. It was delusional, but often hope is delusional. Mhmm.

Because because, you know, especially when you're young. Because you what do you have when you're young except for your imagination? You don't have experience. Mhmm. So you imagine that the world can be a certain kind of way because you haven't experienced it yet.

You haven't seen what the limits are. The young people with their imaginations who haven't experienced the world and so don't understand necessarily the trade offs that are required and the restrictions and the limits that are that that exist realistically, geopolitically, economically, and in every other kind of way. The realistic limits that exist on a nation, on a country, on a government, on what they can and cannot do. And we see this very much with regards to the hostility and the condemnation and the criticism of the Muslim governments right now with regards to Gaza. That it tends to be younger people, it tends to be westerners who have no experience, generally speaking, who don't have experience in politics, but they feel very strongly about the Palestinian issue, obviously, and with good reason, and rightly so.

But their and I've talked about this before, their zeal and their the fervor of their emotion is not matched by their education in the issues. And not just in the Palestinian issue, but in the regional geopolitics. And as I said, the realities of what those governments the context within which those governments have to operate.

Yeah, which is driven by economy.

Which is driven by economics and it's driven by the history of colonialism. I mean, like, was someone who commented in the discussion group the other day about the miserable situation in Egypt and was blaming the government for that, or rather was explaining public hostility towards the government on the basis of the miserable situation in Egypt. Well, that situation has a context. It has a history, and you have to understand what that history is and what that context is and why things are the way they are. If if, you know, if you want to make a a fair assessment of your government, then you have to understand the context in which they are forced to operate.

Mhmm. And that they they have limited options, and they they they have to they have to pursue the options that they actually have.

Yeah. Pursue the options that they actually have with a long term goal of of asserting their own interests. Mhmm. You know, which is obviously,

you

know, to to establish your

own

sovereignty, you would have that

Nobody wants to be a slave. Yeah. And, you know, it's it reminds me of we were talking also earlier about during the crusades

Mhmm.

How during the crusades, you had many Muslim leaders who collaborated

With the Crusaders.

With the Crusaders, with the Christians, who worked with them, who fought alongside them Mhmm. Against Muslims.

Common common enemies.

And and and so so but but here's the thing. They were making choices tactically, strategically according to the options that they had. Mhmm. But the leaders, even during the crusades, even when they were collaborating with with the crusaders, they always had it in the back of their mind. We want to drive these people out when we can.

And we're so we're trying to slowly but surely build conditions that will enable us to drive them out. And sometimes that requires us in order for us to build that, sometimes that requires us to work with them.

Yeah. And strategize.

And that's and in my opinion, an example of that is, like, Saudi Arabia working with BlackRock. Mhmm. This is an example. Because by doing that, you're building your strength, you're fortifying your strength, you're fortifying your economic and political power in the region, which is slowly but surely enabling you to defy The United States.

Again, we have this where is Salahdin? You know? Like, as if, you know, he he he had this

Do know that yeah. And now that do you know that Salahdin killed more Muslims than he did Kufar?

That's something you know, this is the thing. If you if you

And you you know for sure that there were people, like I'm sorry. People like Sami Hahnbi, people like Daniel Hafiqatu, people like all of these types, you know, complete political novices criticizing Salahdin. Yeah. And and calling Salahdin at that time, a Munafiq. Calling Salahadin in to Islam, that he was an enemy of Islam, he's an enemy of the Muslims because look, he's he's not look, the the Crusaders are over here in Jerusalem and he's fighting the Fatemids.

Right.

Why? Why is he fighting the the Muslims? Why why isn't he fighting the the Kufar? Well, he has a plan.

Takes a lot of work

to do. He has a plan. And that's what you need to understand about the rulers then and the rulers now. They're pursuing a plan. And again, I'll repeat what I've said many many times that no one seems to hear.

I don't necessarily believe that they're doing it I don't necessarily believe that they're doing it for Islam. But nobody wants to be a slave. Especially when your name is crown prince, when your title is king, it's kind of embarrassing to also be a slave. So you want to be able to control your own territory, you want to have some prestige, you want have some uzza, you know, and I think that someone like Mohammed bin Salman is more or less inclined towards Arab nationalism and Sa'rudi pride as a Sa'rudi. So people have asked, like, about asked a question, I don't remember if it was in the group or in the YouTube comments, Like, how can we be sure that the leaders genuinely care about Palestine and the Palestinians?

Why do you have to? Mhmm. Why why do you have to? The the Palestinian issue is a is a is a legacy building issue for any Arab leader. This is a legacy building issue.

So if you can be the ruler who resolves the Palestinian issue once and for all, you will go down in the history books like Salahdin. And who doesn't want that? Having this very simplistic, simple crayon cartoon version of our own history and how problems can be resolved is in and of itself defeatist, and is in and of itself a kind of infantilization of our own approach to the world, that we are infantilizing ourselves, and we are because we feel weak. So so we so we recede into an infantilized mindset because of our perceived weakness, our perceived weakness of ourselves. And that's because we have been completely convinced by the Western narrative.

We've been completely convinced that we are, that all of our rulers are puppets, that all of our rulers are hypocrites, that we have no power, that America can't be challenged, and so on. And so we have a superhero idea that a superhero has to come in and save the home.