City of London's OIL Empire COLLAPSES: The UAE Proves It

Blaine Holt: See, this is the problem in a Fifth Generation Warfare environment. You can subscribe to the news you want.

And I think even you’ll find this kind of news in The Telegraph and The Guardian and other places: “The Americans are losing this war handily. And we’ve seen all these bases destroyed.”

If the bases were actually destroyed, then what you would be seeing is the first layers of the Gulf States’ defenses gone, since we’re essentially the ones who have been protecting them for decades.

And so if that were the case, then you can bet your bippy that you would have seen …Emirati, Omani, Saudi Arabian jets in the sky, dropping bombs on Tehran. It didn’t happen.

We have received some shots. But when you take, I don’t know, less than 10 hits to your basing, while these are sad things, and you lose an airplane, that does not the removal of a base make.

So a base is a very big thing. And if you get hit in one corner of the base, let’s say your Recreation Center gets hit in the middle of the night, luckily, nobody was there. Damn, now the civil engineers have to go build a new recreation center. 

Crypto Rich: The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC. It is moving away from the clutches of the City of London. Iran is attacking the UAE on behalf of London. That’s what we’re going to talk about in this video.

Hey Blaine, thank you so much for making yourself available.

Blaine Holt: Hey, how’s your war going? You, you know, you really cannot tell who’s who without a scorecard at this point in time.

Crypto Rich: No, that’s right. That’s right. There’s twist and counter twist and double twist and triple twist and subterfuge.

Blaine Holt: If you tried, if you tried to roll it all up into a Ian Fleming screenplay, Hollywood would kick you right out of the town. They’d go, “That’s completely unbelievable. Get out of here!”

Crypto Rich: OK. Retired General Blaine Holt, I shall have links in the description below, where people can find you. Dangerous Intellectuals podcast. So General, what’s going on? Why is UAE leaving OPEC and why is Iran pissed about it?

Blaine Holt: Well, let’s back up a few steps. So – and in fact, let’s get into the early weeks of this. What people call a war in the Middle East, I would call it more of a battlespace or a battlefield in a world war but reasonable people can argue.

When the hostilities broke out against Iran, this most recent time, one of the, one of the field generals that President Trump has that went to work immediately was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. And what he started focusing on was not the war machine of Iran, but more the money machine of Iran and who is attached to it.

Now, how did he get some clues? What were some clues and leads on how do these guys launder all their money?

Well, a big one is that immediately, when we started dropping bombs, a guy named Keir Starmer – I know you guys hold him in high regard, there – he immediately said, “Well, you can’t use the base in Diego Garcia. Oh, the bases in Glasgow. You can’t use them. Oh, I’m going to make phone calls to other NATO allies and tell them you can’t use their bases, either!”

Then, you get, the crazy kids at Lloyd’s of London who come out and say, “Oh, force majeure, there’s a war. Nobody gets insurance coverage, so there!” Even though they’ve not done that in their 337-year history.

So there’s what Scott Besant sees for, “Huh, I see some smoke. Let’s go find out if there’s some fire.” And over the time, up to the last few weeks, just from right now, when we’re talking, he’s developed a picture of at the center, what we call the “Shamkhani Network”; Mohammad [Hossein] Shamkhani, a kajillionaire-bajillionaire out of Iran who owns a lot of the shipping has been basically at the center of illicit trade, illicit oil maneuvers and all of that. He’s been at the center of the laundering.

So what Scott Bessent did was expose the Shamkani Network and he found no less than seven banks that we’re told about – there are more, but that we’re told about – from Dubai to London to Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland. And all picked up us sanctions. And in the case of MBaer in Switzerland, they’ve been altogether shut out of the United States system, completely.

So, what that is is, this massive amount of laundering network. Well the United States now is hip to it. We have put tourniquets on it and then, the diplomacy follows.

And in cases like UAE – and why is UAE more special than the others? Well, it has its own version of City of London, a wholly-owned franchise of the City of London called the DIFC, the Dubai International Finance Center. It’s exactly set up the same. So it’s one square mile in Dubai and there’s no rules there. They have their own sovereign things. They can do whatever the heck they want.

OK, so basically, the diplomacy runs this way: “Hey, UAE really, you should come over to President Trump’s line of thinking about the Abraham Accords and everything else should really help us out with this war, because you’re not really getting a lot of shipping out of the Straits, either, are you? Hey, we noticed you’ve got some problematic banks and we’d really like to see this shut down and dried up and possibly even criminal sentences for those who have been participating.”

So, when those things got shut down, then basically the IRGC, uh, you, you’ve got their leader General Vahidi, I believe he’s the de facto leader of Iran, right now for the moment – maybe not after tonight, but for the moment – but they’ve run them all broke. Their monies have been frozen. They’re rolled-up. The End.

What’s more important is the IRGC cannot make payroll. Meaning, if you’re Private Mohammed, down on the at the baseline there, you’re in real trouble. You’re not getting paid to go shoot bullets. And yet the United States is looking to hunt you down, eventually.

And, and so a lot of people are focused on bombs and Straits and “Will we get the oil out?” And those are perfectly appropriate laser points of focus, but don’t mess up that this is a global war and this is Globalists versus the Sovereigntists, in this case, led by the United States.

It’s going to change the entire world. And we’re in the closing act of this chapter called “Iran”.

But London is playing – been playing – both sides of this through the High Table for hundreds of years and now, it’s getting shut down. And when you shut down the money, an enemy gets desperate and desperate enemies do desperate things.

Crypto Rich: OK. The IRGC not being able to make payroll, how do you know? Because there’s so much obfuscation and noise in the media.

Blaine Holt: Well, you could have really cool sources or another way is to start looking at the symptoms around Iran. You have people who are actually putting their lives on the line every single night. There is a resistance army, now that’s growing. We have Intel operatives on the ground that are working with them. There’s good communications. Those are rising, but we also know about –

Crypto Rich: You’re talking about in Iran?

Blaine Holt: Oh yeah. And we’ve got a lot of massive infighting. President Trump’s talked about this openly. But I mean, through different networks, you can see it: massive infighting amongst those who say they’re in charge and the military that says it’s in charge.

So you’ve got Araghchi, the Foreign Minister, you’ve got Bagher Ghalibaf, I can never say his name, right? But anyway, he’s the Parliament Speaker. They seem to think that they speak for Iran. They don’t even speak for themselves.

They’re only saying big, blustery things to threaten the world and the United States, because they’re trying to convince 90 million people that they’re still in charge and they’ve still got resources and they’re still OK.

But but honestly, when we see this faint military response, a couple of speed boats and a dog named Rex; you’ve got some missiles that are 97, 98% intercept rate, as to wherever they go. False flags all over the place, where Iranian propaganda comes up and says, “Ah, look at this. We destroyed a US warship!” And the footage is of a US warship being intentionally decommissioned some eight years ago.

It just, it goes on and on, but it’s all for the benefit of the 90 million people. Cause that’s who they’re really worried about, at this point.

It’s over. They’re out of money. They’re out of ideas. And they’re the only thing that can save them now is US politics pushing back on Trump’s campaign or the Chinese or the Russians.

Well, the Chinese or the Russians have already said, “We’re out. We’re not going to do this, because we don’t think you guys can survive this. You will not be victorious in this.”

And so, for the City of London or the Globalists, you can imagine the amount of panic going on, as they have completely lost control of the Strait, their monopoly and Lloyd’s of London is cracked.

I mean, all that they could do, out of anger is tell the IRGC, “Go get your butts out there and throw some missiles at Dubai, as a sign of our dissatisfaction.”

And honestly, maybe they didn’t even hit those targets in Dubai. I think all that got smacked was a building and a oil storage facility, of which no real damage was done.

And, and, and, you know, did those things happen by missile or did they have happened by other means? I don’t know. I’m not going to make any kind of assertions.

All I’m saying is, is that before you just get in and go, “Oh, Billy threw a missile at Sally. And that’s what happened.” You better just kind of put on different types of glasses and just say the word, “maybe” a whole lot. “Well, maybe that happened. Well, maybe somebody paid them to do this.”

Well, but what I would look at, as concrete evidence is the leadership structure in Iran are at each other’s throats. They have hyperinflation at 150% a week, and they’ve got people who can’t feed themselves. They are the Weimar Republic and they’re decimated. They are vanquished.

And what we’ve told the Iranian people is: “130,000 us soldiers aren’t coming. We’re not doing it that way, anymore. Those days are gone. So, best opportunity, ever. We’re trying to save your oil fields. By the way, you might want to kind of get in the game.” And I think that’s exactly what we see happening. And I think it’s what will happen.

Crypto Rich: OK. Blaine, thank you for that. You –

Blaine Holt: Postulated, reasonable, no hype, no hyperbole, no bombastic statements.

Crypto Rich: It was all good and you, and you didn’t turn the air blue with your, with your foul language.

Blaine Holt: Yes. My profanity was at a minimum.

Crypto Rich: OK. Alright. You posted on X today about real intelligence being about metacognition, thinking about thinking, right?

So, I like that. So, I’m going to think about my thinking and then share with you about my thinking about what I notice is going on, in terms of what you’ve said plus also other pundits from the United States have said:

I am so used to the United States lying about war, lying about the first Gulf war, lying about Vietnam. It was to “Stop Communism”, lying about Gaddafi and “He was such a terrible, terrible, genocidal maniac, madman,” lying about the Taliban or we have to rescue the women in Afghanistan – but not the women in Saudi Arabia, notice. And of course, WMD and Assad being a “brutal dictator”.

And I’m not saying you’re lying, here. Not at all. I just noticed that I have this Already Always perception, that, “If it’s the United States and it’s a war in the Middle East, they are going to lie. And I cannot count on them.

Blaine Holt: Oh, you’re so unfair.

Crypto Rich: I’m not saying that. I just noticed that’s going on, the way that I’ve been trained and conditioned and that even I find myself relating to and listening to President Trump, like any other megalomaniac, warmongering president.

Blaine Holt: Do you have any other adjectives before we begin?

Crypto Rich: Orange!

Blaine Holt: Orange? Well played! So, so here’s, from a military general –

Crypto Rich: Yes.

Blaine Holt: Of the United States, of which you besmirch. Let me expand your thinking a little bit. And then, later afterwards, then you can think about your thinking

Crypto Rich: And then you can tell me if I’m clever or not.

Blaine Holt: Yeah. Well, you’re very clever. I will give you that – but not much else! So here’s where we’re at. If you recall a book that me and Tom Luongo, I think EM Burlingame, as well had recommended to you, which was a Smedley Butler’s ‘War Is a Racket’.

Crypto Rich: Yes.

Blaine Holt: OK. I think it’s rather cute that you assign a nationality to that. So, ever since the beginning of warfare, which, you know, from my philosophical perspective would be when Cain wrapped-up Abel, which we could call World War One, ‘cause that’s all the world was, at that time.

Crypto Rich: Yep.

Blaine Holt: What was the first thing he did? He lied. He lied, covered it up, buried the bones. Get rid of it, get rid of the body, get rid of the corpse.

In other words, all war is a deception. All of it. And unfortunately for military practitioners and officers, you are not called into the war by honesty or truth. You don’t evaluate that.

What you are trained to do, as a professional-in-arms is to adhere to your oath to your nation and respond to your country’s call of duty and go forward.

And if you can’t, you’re then a conscientious objector and whatever your country’s rules and laws are, you’ll be pulled off the battlefield.

But most countries are either told, briefed, taught, or propagandized, influenced by whatever the Boogeyman is that that country’s going to go after – and this goes back well before modernity – to say, “These are the bad guys. This is why you hate them.”

Um, I’ll go Tennyson on you: “Ours is not to question why ours is, but to do or die.”

And so, when you talk about the deceptions of warfare, I would say there are military deceptions that are things that you can count on being present in the battlefield. So I don’t begrudge the IRGC’s brilliant cyber propagandists, who put together those brilliant A.I. Lego movies that are just so well done. But that’s what I would expect out of a military force. I wouldn’t even call them a “professional military force”, but then, I have a bias.

So, let me get back to the worst lies. And this is the one that sends millions to their deaths, and has, over history.

There is no such thing, as I can find that is the “good war”. The “good war” is really a masquerade for, in my view, in my experience, mostly bankers, businessmen, -women, agendas, political agendas, high crimes that need to be covered-up, misdirection, a quest and a thirst for routes and resources that you do not control. And, and that is brought upon the public as a “motivation”.

You know, I guess in my war college experience, we call this the “Oughtness Theory”: “We ought to do something”. Is there justification? Do we have what we call a Casus belli? i.e., the reason for war?

But when you put that into the political meat grinder and the only place where I really disagree with you is having this attachment called, the words, “the United States” to it. You can just fill in the blanks on any country. The one you’re sitting in nearly perfected it over time, since the Fall of Rome.

Crypto Rich: Britain’s never, Britain’s never done anything unjust or mean or horrible.

Blaine Holt: No, no, of course not. Of course not. “Just a little spin on the ball, you know!”

And so what I hate is watching – and I have seen in modern times, I’ve seen it in the history books is – is people being manipulated to something that really only suits a very small few.

And that’s why I think there is a great shift in history right now, because people are waking up by the millions. And I am finding them quite open to the idea that a Globalist few, who call themselves “elites” – I prefer to call them “parasites” – have been around pre-Roman Empire and have reincarnated themselves, by one fashion or another and they have no compunction about watching your son go off to a war they can’t possibly win nor have any chance of coming back from.

And if, and if you think that that’s not still true today, I’m pretty positive, if a real analysis was done in Ukraine, we’d find a combined deathcount now of over 2.2, 2.5 million and nary a word in the media. Nary a word from those, only the cry to, “We have to check the Russians, get us more weapons, get us more money!”

And so, we can make the United States out to be the Boogeyman-of-Boogeymans, in all of this and many times, you’d be right and sometimes you’d be wrong.

There have been instances in history, where the United States, despite all our freckles, sins and missteps has also been quite noble and has adhered to our Constitution.

You know, when we left World War II, while we kept bases in Europe, because it seemed like a real smart idea, with a rising Soviet Union and a decimated and very weak Europe, we didn’t colonize anything. We didn’t take anything else. We just asked for a few buckets of dirt to bury our dead.

And even now, in modern European politic, you have members of the European Parliament that are asking to have us war graves from World War I and World War II exhumed and have the body sent home!

And I find that repulsive, quite actually, because we can all pat ourselves on the back and say, “Churchill was the genius.” “No, it was the Russian Army.” “No, it was!” It doesn’t matter. It was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears from soldiers of all countries that laid down their lives to save Western Civilization.

And they saved it from themselves, because it was the bankers and the parasitic elites that engineered that, from the get-go.

Crypto Rich: OK. Thank you for that. Two things struck me about what you said. One is, “There’s no such thing as a good war,” because it isn’t like the Iranians are noble in this enterprise, either.

Nobody else, right? Human beings killing human beings. And the other thing that struck me is your humanity.

Blaine Holt: Yeah, every once in a while I, I, I fall down and I show a little softness and I try not to, but, but, but, but so I’ll put the big mask back on.

Crypto Rich: Yeah. You, you might be hanging out with a social workers too long.

Blaine Holt: That’s it. That’s it. That’s exactly. Yeah. You know what? I’m going to the gun club right after the podcast is over!

Crypto Rich: But I’m also reminded, I owe you an apology by the way, you and I recorded a video with Chris Coverdale, an anti-war campaigner many months ago. I lost the video. I found it again and I’m going to be posting it on Crypto Rich BTC, “Where a general meets a peace campaigner,” and they both talk about the importance of Notaxforwar.com.

Blaine Holt: There you go. “Peace Campaigner Turns the General into a Peacenik”. How about that?

Crypto Rich: Notaxforwar.com. OK. Alright, so how’s it going to work out? ‘Cause there’s all this noise about, “Oh, the ceasefire is not quite over.” They’re sending, was it two destroyers went through the Strait of Hormuz today? And UAE is going to attack Iran and Saudi Arabia is going to attack the UAE. I mean, all this noise!

Blaine Holt: Yeah. I mean, this is the thing. What the media loves to do to drive up fear, to instill focus where it’s needless is into this type of tactical crap.

I mean, maybe we should get onto the deck of one of the destroyers where he screamed into the microphone so that all of the coast of Iran could hear it, “Nan, nanny, boo, boo!”

You know, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s absolutely silly. Right now, this thing we call Project Freedom or Operation Freedom, it’s meant to be very short term in duration, but it’s to finish off the coastal defenses of Iran. And then, it’s to get the shipping pulled back to wide open and get those poor merchant marines out of the Straits. My God, they’ve been there for such a long time, two and a half months!

And they’ve just been locked up on these ships, the re-supply. You can just imagine how –

Crypto Rich: You’re talking – you’re not talking about the military ships, you’re talking about all those crew of the tankers and cargo ships.

Blaine Holt: Oh, yeah! We’re talking about probably thousands of Filipino and Malaysian and Bangladeshi sailors. Those are the big populations who actually have those jobs and they’re just sitting on there going, “Man, I just need to get out of here!”

And so, we’re going to start seeing ships get underway, in earnest. There’s more work to do with the very resistant Lloyd’s of London and monopolistic insurance cartels. They need to start issuing wrappers on these vessels, if we’re going to be escorting them with military ships. So there’s more on that. That’s going to come.

And there’s more destruction of these banking networks that go all the way to the drug cartels in Central and South America. And this is chopping – I mean, a lot of people want to focus on this Iran piece and it’s like, “Do you not see the tentacles of the elites getting chopped, at every instance?”

I mean, isn’t it telling that NATO is not doing a damned thing, coupled to Japan and South Korea, as well?

And, and isn’t it interesting, that those are the exact countries that have more of a vital interest in what happens in the Straits than the United States does?

And so, before we go throw a rock at the “Vicious United States, that lies about getting into all of its wars and manipulates the world and is the bastion of Evil, globally, who’s there to try to alleviate this; knock out one leg of the City of London, free the Iranian people and let fertilizer and oil get out of the damn Straits, despite all of our bruises, warts and blemishes?

I don’t know, I think history is going to look back on this time and go, “Yeah, that was one of the better moments for the United States and its military.”

Crypto Rich: OK. Except, except one of the criticisms that I –

Blaine Holt: Only one?

Crypto Rich: No, one of the –

Blaine Holt: “One of the,” OK. Sorry. I’ll straighten up.

Crypto Rich: That’s out there, in the ever-so-reliable and objective and reasoned mainstream media –

Blaine Holt: Well said, sir! Well said!

Crypto Rich: Is that the Strait of Hormuz was open before and passage was free before and he’s managed to – Trump and the US – have managed to bung it up and now, they want to get it free. Well, it was free before this war! What was the point? He’s messed up!

Blaine Holt: Oh yeah. He’s totally screwed up. Um, except for a couple of things. Your future grandchildren, Rich will never be in a world where a group, a cult of radicals believes it’s their role in this world to bring back the 12th Imam by nuclear weapon.

You don’t – your grandchild – will not fear that and we’ll never have to know whether that was going to end up being a real threat or not, because the Iranians are never going to have the ability to make a nuclear weapon, ever again – ever.

And we just recently had a president whose answer to the question – I mean, this guy, Obama could have been standing next to Neville Chamberlain after he got back from visiting with Hitler and Obama would have said, “Well, hold my beer! Watch this, because I’m going to load $2 billion in cash and give it to the craziest jackass in the world!”

There, see, the profanity just slipped. And so, what is being accomplished is the rollback of what the City of London, the CIA and the Mossad did together, jointly, and that is installing the first shah, putting in the Ayatollah, after first shah wouldn’t play ball.

And so, here we are again and we even have a shah in the bullpen throwing pitches in a practice format, in case he can come and get back in charge.

And the answer, from President Trump is, “No, no and no. The Iranian people can decide that and it’s high time that they did, because they’ve been held captive by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, with proxies around the world and laundering machines that join up with the cartels and the drug cartels that all hook through – guess where? All roads lead to London.

And so, you know, go ahead, throw rocks. But I kind of think my granddaughter growing up in a world where some crazy person who says “Death to America!” 50 times a day and loves the idea of having a bomb, I like the idea that my granddaughter didn’t have to grow up in that; that I’ll take that benefit.

Crypto Rich: OK. Three things.

Blaine Holt: Not four?

Crypto Rich: Well, four will come later, right?

Blaine Holt: Oh, you’re so tricky.

Crypto Rich: One, one is I just really appreciate your responses and the space that you give me to push back this way. ‘Cause I know there are people out there that have these questions and then, what it actually does, it gives me answers to deal with some of those people in my personal life who have these questions.

Then also, I do notice how the mainstream media, The Guardian and the BBC in particular, they never point the finger at the City of London. Never. I don’t even know if they know that the city of London exists.

Blaine Holt: Oh, they know! They know! That’s where their paychecks come from, so they absolutely know!

Hey, to your point about the discourse, one of my favorite guests of yours, Mark Attwood, I think – or Ivor [Cummins], I think that when we discuss things, even when we disagree about things and take our perceptions and we meld them and we walk around them and we study them, not as rivals but as gentlemen or gentlewomen who are just looking at the puzzle pieces and saying, “What do you think?” Yeah, I think we get to a better outcome. I think we get to a better understanding.

Crypto Rich: Absolutely. From that dialectic discourse. Absolutely, Blaine. Thank you.

Then, the other thing I was going to say is – and I think I’ve said this before on my channel is, “Well, what about Israel? They’ve got nuclear arms. Iran’s getting them just to defend itself against Israel, because Israel wants to destroy Iran, too.”

Blaine Holt: You’re right. So what if we took the United States out of the equation and President Trump just said, “Hey, let us know when you need a logistics resupply. You got it. It’s not our war. We don’t care.”

And what what does Israel possibly do? You know, they’ve mapped-out their Greater Israel Project and what they think the borders actually ought to be with some false history that they’ve concocted.

I’m not sure the Middle East is in nearly as good shape today, as if we were not on the scene and leading – even if Israel played a role in saying, “We want to deal with the Iran thing right now, whether you want to or not.”

So, those politics and the truths of that, I don’t know them. They’ll sort themselves out.

There is a very difficult relationship with Israel, I would say, albeit they are an ally. I don’t see strategic alignment in military purpose and strategic outcomes sought in instances – not all instances, but some instances.

And as you well know, we’ve got a very strong Israeli influence in the nation on the political side and so those are you know, that’s where democracy gets really ugly, really fast. We’re going to have to have those debates. We’re going to have to hear from the people. We’re going to have to flesh those things out.

But I think that Bibi Netanyahu would be very naive to think that we’re not paying attention to what’s going on in southern Lebanon or other parts of the Middle East. And it’s not to say that we don’t share common goals in certain instances but I think there’s a certain amount of pragmatism that has to be displayed, because while we see horrendous things going on in the Middle East right now, everybody’s got to kind of remember what the president’s strategic prize is in the Middle East.

And that is the Abraham Accords, a demilitarized foreign policy of multiple cultures, multiple religions and backgrounds and a different way of working with each other. Well, if that’s the prize that we’re seeking, you’re still threading a needle while you’re still dealing with some certain things, militarily.

And one of those things that’s going to be problematic, and I just don’t see it going away anytime soon, is the Diaspora in the Knesset and Israeli politics. And I don’t have any expletives for them, and I don’t have any pejoratives for any of them. I’m just saying those are variables and factors and if what President Trump wants to see is an Abraham Accords that reaches that place, where we can have a lasting peace, and I think that’s a goal worth pursuing, then I think that, you know, along the way, we’re going to see some options and decision sets where no option you pick is a good one.

And so, you know, a lot of people here, at home that are in the President’s political base or were supporters of it, they’re angry and they’re upset about foreign wars, and “This is not what we signed up for”. And I remind them that if the nation was a bunch of passengers that boarded an airplane the day Donald Trump was inaugurated, and Donald Trump is the pilot of that airplane, and he took off to the place that he wants to go, and that we voted for him to go, then you have to remember that the airplane is now airborne, and it’s got the landing gear up, and you can get as upset as you want, but this is the direction we’re going.

You would do well, instead of screaming and threatening to cut the wing off the airplane, to maybe just write down a few thoughtful suggestions on a bev nap, give it to the flight attendant, and have her take it up to the pilot.

Or you could have hoped for the different pilot to be there, Kamala Harris, and wonder what the airplane would be doing right about now?

So, we have our troubles in this world, but quite honestly, and on this podcast, and so many others, we can break them down, we can analyze these things, we can say where are we going next.

I have a private group that I talk to, where when I am upset with something that came out of the President’s White House, I can scream to in earnest, and then I remember to buckle my seat belt, because it’s probably a time for some pretty heavy turbulence.

Crypto Rich: Well, one of the things that I think people that voted for Trump, voted for, is a United States that’s free, independent, and strong. And although they may not have known about it, and it’s not really been articulated this way by Trump, an America that is out from under the heel of the City of London, and not doing the bidding of the City of London, like previous presidents have done, but he’s a president who is out to serve America and Make America Great Again.

I just wish we had a leader like that in this country, to Make England Great Again!

Blaine Holt: Well, you may get that chance!

Crypto Rich: Yes, yes. And the other thing that I think was really important, what you said is, is “I am so grateful we don’t have President Kamala Harris.”

Blaine Holt: Oh my gosh.

Crypto Rich: Yes, if you too, and for the viewers out there, right, if you too are grateful that Kamala Harris isn’t the President, let us know in the comments.

Blaine Holt: Yeah, do that. It helps the algorithm.

Crypto Rich: And then, the other part is... And it helps the gratitude algorithm. Gratitude is good for the soul.

Blaine Holt: Gratitude is good for everything. But the other part about, if Kamala was the current Commander-in-Chief, I think the biggest challenge we’d be facing right now is, “How am I going to get this can of meat decontaminated, if I have to leave the facility for three or four minutes? And will my mask filter allow that?

Crypto Rich: I’ve been thinking about. Let’s move on to less horrific topics, Blaine.

Blaine Holt: Quite!

Crypto Rich: Which is, and this is pretty horrific, because I just wish Trump would hurry up, in dealing with Israel. Because, I keep seeing on independent media, on X and Telegram...

Blaine Holt: Oh, I hate it. Oh God, Rich, I hate it. I have friends in Lebanon.

Crypto Rich: Destroying Lebanon. Destroying Lebanese churches.

Blaine Holt: Yep, 3,000-year-old villages. Listen, I’m not blind to this. And then people could say, “Wow, it’s fake news and it’s AI and it’s all that.” No, really? I have a dear friend who’s personal friends with the President of Lebanon, and no, it is not fake!

And so, I think it’s a point to raise Hell on, I think we’ll get our opportunity to do that, here very soon, because I’ll tell you one thing the President’s not going to do. He’s not taking the foot off the accelerator of getting to the endgame, here with Iran, which I think is very soon. But at the same time, I have to believe there is back-channel diplomacy going on with what’s going on with Bibio Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir.

And then, the blackout in the media on these things. Again, any time a population or a people, a civilization, a society can’t tell itself the truth, you know you’re on your way to a very, very bad place. And so, again, this is horrible but I also understand the complexities involved.

And so, you can’t just – you know, there’s young ones who will run out onto some campus and say, “I saw a horrific thing. I’m going to light myself on fire.” Literally. I’ve seen this. It happens.

And it’s if I could just ask the young ones to do one thing: it’s so much more complicated than you’re thinking. And this is a global war, not a battle. I mean, not a, not, the war is not in the Middle East. It’s part of a battlefield.

And the horrific things happening. We’ve got 60 conflict zones around the world, right now. Hardly anybody knows that. And so that meanwhile, while we’re tackling this monster, this Hydra.

The enemy is not without weapons and is using them. So every time you see something about this energy refinery, oil storage getting blown up, these ships sinking to the bottom of the ocean, Australia loses half its refining capacity, jet fuel shortages.

And then, and then invariably we’re hearing a lot more about food security or the lack thereof that’s coming. And inflation and now pandemic, with the Hanta virus and other stupid crap.

If you look at any of these things, just go ahead and look at those as the acts of a very desperate enemy that understands it is being attacked by President Trump and it may well be that some of their arrogance and their hubris is now starting to wear off, as they’re starting to see, coming out of the fog, the complexion of President Trump’s true intentions. And I think a lot of that got laid to bed when King Charles visited DC. I don’t think that went very well for him.

Crypto Rich: OK. Well, I’m going to go another angle. Actually, before I do, I want to go back to the Christians, because I’ve heard Trump say, quite rightly; condemn what Boko Haram are doing in Nigeria, with the killing of Christians.

Blaine Holt: Sure. Sure.

Crypto Rich: I haven’t heard him say likewise about the IDF killing Christians.

Blaine Holt: I understand. And it’s, it’s wrong. And at the same time, you know, you have to be outcome-based, which is I’m far less interested in seeing an equivalency in language from the bully pulpit on Boko Haram versus what the IDF has done to Christians in Southern Lebanon, as I am getting to the outcome of, “Hey, I get it. We’re locked in this conflict. We’re allies. But I’m going to have to insist behind-the-scenes that if, unless you want to threaten a divorce with the United States, you’re going to conduct your affairs very differently.”

I’m hoping that we’re pressing in that direction. And I’m hoping there’ll be an outcome soon because just simply going for moral equivalency, in your language, it might be good and it might poll well, and it might have people resonate on that but in terms of the second and third order effects and what you’re trying to achieve strategically, it may, they may be incompatible.

And this is where these things get extremely messy when we’re talking about leadership, the top realms, the strategy and all of it. None of these kids are choir boys and girls, and none of them are what I would call angelic examples of Virtue, but that they are the ones who are in the position.

And we who are in the back of the airplane, we need to try to influence these things as best we can. Going out on a college campus and raising Hell might feel good, but by and large, it’s not going to achieve a whole bunch.

But getting, you know, if I was talking to a young one right now, I’d say, “If these things tick you off, go get you a Substack account and start writing and start writing and keep writing and writing and don’t stop writing.

Crypto Rich: Yeah. Alright, Blaine Thank you. Thank you for that. And then the, I think it’s an important point. It’s in the long term, actually, even in the short term, it’s much, much better that there’s an end to the killing of Christians in Lebanon and Nigeria. An end to the killing of any group.

Blaine Holt: Yeah. I mean, we don’t even have to put – I’m a Christian – but you don’t gotta put the Christian tag on there. I’m for the killing to stop. And I’m for borders. I’m a sovereigntist. I’m for borders to be respected. I want the country of Lebanon back in their hands.

My urgency would have been, or my advice would have been when [Michel] Aoun and Bibi Netanyahu get together, if that ever happens now, is to say, “Look, let’s set up a three-way force. Let’s go do something with Hezbollah door-to-door, if necessary, but it doesn’t require us to turn 3,000-year-old infrastructure into ash and kill a bunch of collateral damage through civilians.

So let’s work together. Let’s work together to end Hezbollah. Nobody of any – nobody is saying they’re great. The only ones waxing romantically for Hezbollah are the Iranians. And that’s just the regime part of it, not the 90 million.

So it should have been one of those things where it could have been a nice pushoff point to the Abraham Accords, by getting Lebanon and Israel to work together but yet, what I see is a six-mile buffer that’s put in and kind of a weak justification of what they’re doing.

I mean, no matter what, I want to see this examined. And it’s not just about the Christians. It’s about people of all faiths, background, cultures, and people have a right to live and not be destroyed.

And that’s a human right. It’s not something that I would ever, for expedience sake or some strategic outcome on a battlefield say, “Well, this war is different. You have to understand.”

“No, no, it’s not different. No, it’s not different. And I don’t care where, who you call ‘Creator’, from whatever faith you hail from, whatever God you’re worshipping doesn’t bless this, at all.”

Crypto Rich: Yep. Alright. Thank you for that.

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Crypto Rich: Here’s one for you, General Blaine Holt –

Blaine Holt: Throw the curve ball. I can hit it!

Crypto Rich: So Trump, by sleight-of-hand, it looks like people like you, myself, Susan Gokinda, Tom Luongo, and those of that ilk and that mindset have been tricked into thinking that he’s actually a sovereigntist, when really, as a consequence of his actions, it’s like, look over here, what he’s doing over here is causing, bringing about famine through because the oil stopped, the fertilizers stopped, energy prices are going to go through the roof. He’s actually doing the work of the Globalists in such a way that people are being fooled that he’s not doing the work of the Globalists.

Blaine Holt: I just love that you called this group of people that I have come to be so fond of an “ilk”. I didn’t realize we had achieved that status together, but that is really marvelous. We are now an ilk.

Crypto Rich: You are an ilk. I declare you all an ilk.

Blaine Holt: This is really, this is better than knighthood for me. I am an ilk! I am in an ilk!

Crypto Rich: I don’t know if that’s better than a cult. Let us know in the comments which is better, a cult or an ilk?

Blaine Holt: An ilk is far superior to a cult! This is an ilk. I like this!

Well, a couple of things about this famine you speak of, because there is going to be one, I believe. Europe didn’t have a care in the world about fertilizer, even if not a scrap of sulfur and urea came out of the Straits of Hormuz, because they always had the ability to just go buy cheap, readily-available fertilizer from a country called Russia.

And Russia said, “We are not going to sell you any fertilizer because you are so mean to us.” Probably different words, but you get my gist.

And so, what President Trump has been urging from Hour One of his presidency is, “Let’s get diplomatic with the Russians. Let’s solve this. Let’s get to a settlement. Stop the killing. Let’s go forward.”

But no, the craven warmongers of the Globalist desk of Europe have doubled- and tripled- and quadrupled-down into, “Keep the war going. We are going to check these Russians anytime, now. Vladimir Putin is going to die. Let’s have another sanctions package so that we can make fuel $40 a liter! And I think eating crickets, like Klaus told you to do is a real good idea, right now, because you know we are killing your cows at the rate of a thousand per day. And farmers, surrender your land immediately, because you can’t afford to farm it anymore, anyway. And I hope you’ve learned Arabic. And I hope you’ve learned Farsi and Urdu and all these other languages, because, you’re now a multicultural society, where the new invaders really can’t stand you. But the famine will be here, too and we’re going to blame it all on Donald Trump, because he’s a meanie in the Straits.”

Crypto Rich: Orange meanie.

Blaine Holt: “Yeah, he’s an Orange meanie. Orange meanie swap nuclear weapons for food. And that’s what it is. We would much prefer Obama to come back and give them another $4 billion in cash and just say, “Could you guys just slow it down a bit, and we’d all be much happier and better off.”

And of course, Europe would live happily ever after, because they could keep thumbing their nose at Vladimir Putin awaiting his untimely demise. And maybe go blow up another natural gas pipeline, because that works out so economically, as well.

Wait a minute. Oh no, they’ve got another friend. They could go to China and buy their fertilizer, because they’ve got a lot of it. Oh wait, no, they don’t. Because China’s not selling their fertilizer anymore, either.

And actually, with some of the bombings that have gone on – “random fires”, let’s call them that – in Australia, they can’t get their fertilizer out. In fact, their number one fertilizer production facility is still down.

And so. Weird. But yes, let’s put this all on President Trump’s tab. He did it. You’re right.

Crypto Rich: I’m glad you agree with me! I’ve obviously won you over with the force of my argument!

Blaine Holt: No, it wasn’t that. You bribed me with the status of “ilk”.

Crypto Rich: That’s right. I’ll throw you out of the ilk, unless you agree with me.

Blaine Holt: I can’t risk that. I cannot risk that. I can’t risk my status in the ilk.

Crypto Rich: Yeah. And being socially-ostracized. OK. Well, what about Russia and China in all of this? Because there are smart people in the independent media space, other channels that I follow, and then, of course, The Guardian and the BBC, talking about how Russia and China are supporting Iran. They don’t support what Trump is doing, and that they’re losing-out, and Trump is risking war and greater hostility with China and Russia. I mean, where are they in all this?

Blaine Holt: You know, I just, on TV in the Straits, I really haven’t seen the Carrier Lioaning or the Admiral Kuznetsov Carrier in the Straits. So weird. And they’re supporting Iran. Huh. That is so bizarre.

So, I haven’t seen any Russian submarines patrolling around those pesky Straits. I haven’t seen any Russian weapons. You know, the Foreign Minister did go take a little break from the war and went up to Moscow for a little hospitality. And I think the best he was going to be able to do was work out the terms of his exile later, and maybe he could live in the same subdivision as Bashar al-Assad.

But, you know, it seems like Beijing and Moscow turned kind of a cold shoulder on their once-great friends. Because the once-great friends no longer have the ability to sell them oil. And if they did, they’d be selling it at retail.

The once-great friends don’t really have weapons production, anymore. The Shahad drone facility is all but dead. And they’re really now just becoming more of a cost liability to both countries. And both countries definitely want to have a better relationship with Trump.

Putin really wants Trump to help him get the Hell out of this war. That’s for sure. And China would really like a trade deal that puts them back into manufacturing and it’s awfully super sad that we now have a defense agreement with the country of Indonesia.

So when you add up the Straits of Hormuz, Indonesia, the Malaccan Straits, and Venezuela, we kind of have a tourniquet on about 80% of China’s energy.

So, you know, you can say what you want. But it does seem that China and Russia are largely staying on the sidelines. And I think it’s through some very good power plays. And I think we transmitted to them that we were not coming for them in the National Security Strategy, where we talk about “spheres of influence” and the ARC, America, Russia, China.

Crypto Rich: OK. Very good. Very clever, Blaine. Very clever. I have to get up early in the morning.

Blaine Holt: You see, you zigged and then I zagged. It was really quite simple.

Crypto Rich: It was quite simple. OK. Alright. So then, what about what’s happening? Have you had your any eye on what’s happening in Armenia?

Actually, no, before that, these American bases, because here’s what I can see, that from my point of view, and possibly, your point of view is positive in terms of what’s happened in the Middle East. The American bases are no longer viable.

Blaine Holt: So who told you that?

Crypto Rich: Isn’t that true?

Blaine Holt: No.

Crypto Rich: What do you mean?

Blaine Holt: The American bases in Europe are no longer viable?

Crypto Rich: No, the ones in the Middle East.

Blaine Holt: Why? Because they’ve been blown-up and destroyed and smacked? No, none of that happened. We’ve lost a couple of airplanes.

Crypto Rich: What do you mean none of that happened?

Blaine Holt: Our bases are fine. There’s no problem. See, this is the problem in a Fifth Generation Warfare environment. You can subscribe to the news you want.

And I think even you’ll find this kind of news in The Telegraph and The Guardian and other places: “The Americans are losing this war handily. And we’ve seen all these bases destroyed.”

If the bases were actually destroyed, then what you would be seeing is the first layers of the Gulf States’ defenses gone, since we’re essentially the ones who have been protecting them for decades.

And so if that were the case, then you can bet your bippy that you would have seen …Emirati, Omani, Saudi Arabian jets in the sky, dropping bombs on Tehran. It didn’t happen.

We have received some shots. But when you take, I don’t know, less than 10 hits to your basing, while these are sad things, and you lose an airplane, that does not the removal of a base make.

So a base is a very big thing. And if you get hit in one corner of the base, let’s say your Recreation Center gets hit in the middle of the night, luckily, nobody was there. Damn, now the civil engineers have to go build a new recreation center.

Crypto Rich: OK. OK. Now, I just want to reassure you, Blaine, and also the viewers, I don’t get my news from the BBC and The Guardian. I very rarely look at them.

But I think what happens, because I get my news mostly from X, Telegram, and various YouTube channels, including ones that I don’t, that aren’t necessarily supportive of Trump, because I want to triangulate and get different perspectives.

Blaine Holt: But I’ve seen the same reports you’ve seen, because I do, I try to take in all sides. Yeah, I try to take in all sides.

Crypto Rich: And then, I think one of the things that happens is the noize. If I think of it as an explosion, right, there’s this big explosion in the mainstream media. And some of the fallout goes, infects the independent media space, the alternative media space, you know, where you have people who are pro-Trump and anti-Trump and neutral. So some of that fallout shapes what gets discussed within that, as well.

So that’s where I got the idea from. So I just want to reassure you, I do occasionally look at The Guardian.

Blaine Holt: A good example would be, OK, so a little while ago, I saw a post on Twitter or X, that we had started dropping bombs in Tehran again, and that Tehran is under siege. Now, it looked fairly legitimate. The account that I was viewing it on had put legitimate stuff up before.

Now, you know that I’m a contributor on Newsmax, kind of our GBNews equivalent. And so I sent that over to them. And my words were, “This is a random stray report. But my recommendation is, is that you have our researchers at the newsdesk start to run this down and see if there’s any validity to this.”

So in other words, the responsible thing to do is to go, “I see it. It’s interesting. If it’s true, it’s a real game-changer and I’m going to share it responsibly with folks who have the resources to go run this to ground, even further. And I think that you got to do that with everything.

So in my case, I have a really cool cheat code, because I’m an Air Force General. I can call up Air Force people and go, “Hey, man, did we lose Al Udeid?” “No, Al Udeid is just fine.” “OK, that’s all I need to know. Thanks.”

Crypto Rich: Alright. Yeah, well, I suppose that is very, very useful, that you have those, those contacts, plus also whatever contacts you might still have informally through your military network, perhaps.

Blaine Holt: I share with you those, I just don’t let you know when I’m doing it.

Crypto Rich: Yeah, that’s fair enough. You’ve got to be responsible for what you put out there. So then, you’re saying that this is going to get wrapped-up very quickly.

Blaine Holt: Yeah, I think, I think a few weeks, I think a few weeks, you’re going to see such a different complexion to this. But I think we’re on a path for some good stuff. We were getting indications that the resistance movement is just about ready to go. And the leadership in Iran is crumbling even further.

Could they last longer? Yeah, they could. This is their sole thing right now; is to try to just survive, day-to-day. And hopefully, the politics, here in the United States will work against President Trump.

And, you know, they have reason to believe that that could work. That’s every foe we fought in an asymmetric warfare environment, where we’re the big military, they’re the little military, that’s, that’s what’s been successful, like Vietnam.

Vietnam, we had a Forever War going on. And honestly, all the Vietnamese, the northern Vietnamese had to do is wait us out. You said it’s not about winning. It’s about just not losing.

Crypto Rich: Yeah, yeah. OK. And then if it does turn out, and then we get a new representative government in Iran, one that actually, I don’t know, represents where the people are now one that isn’t controlled by MI6 and CIA, right, then that’s great for the people of Iran but it’s also a bloody great coup by the United States that they’ve actually won a war by mostly non-military means.

Blaine Holt: Right. And then if we could preserve the oil infrastructure, which is their birthright for the future, and they get to engage in self governance, pick their own leader, I think what you’ll see is a great population that is grateful for its liberation.

Crypto Rich: OK. But how do we know or what’s the chance that MI6 and the CIA aren’t going to go in and do their machinations and their mischief again?

Blaine Holt: I think they’ll try. I think they’ll try. But, but so this isn’t the end of the big war. That’s why I’m saying you’re looking at a battlefield. You’re looking at a battlefield, you’re not looking at the whole global war.

The war goes on. It’s just that this particular battle then is a is a massive loss to the City of London. But but if you think that this isn’t going to end with the eradication of the the nasty rot that exists in some of these intelligence agencies across the world. No, that that that that has to come.

The Age of Accountability is going to have to come. Otherwise, they will respawn themselves.

Crypto Rich: Yeah, that’s important. This is a battle in a much, much larger war, a war that is being waged against an entity, an entity that has ruled over the world for hundreds of years and caused immeasurable destruction and suffering.

And we’re still seeing, we’re seeing it play out. We haven’t got time to talk about what what’s going on in Mali and Armenia and the Ukraine. And, you know, that will come in time.

Blaine, thank you so much.

Blaine Holt: My pleasure. It’s been a while since we’ve gotten together. And, you know, and these these conversations are immensely helpful for me, too, Rich.

Crypto Rich: Yeah, yes. And they’re helpful for me. And let us know if you found this conversation helpful or tell us if you found it completely helpless or if you think or perhaps I’m helpless and Blaine isn’t.

Blaine Holt: What we determined, if we determined nothing else, we determined that I’m part of an ilk. And yes, I take that responsibility seriously. And I wish all of your wonderful listeners well.

Please come listen to my podcast, too, at DangerousIntellectuals.com.