Last Thursday, Trump announced that Xi Jinping will be visiting the US on September 24th. This came exactly one week after Trump had given a detailed speech revealing China’s years-long, large scale operation, in conjunction with the US Intelligence Community to steal US elections and to pay mainstream journalists to denigrate him and to influence major corporate business leaders to undermine his presidency.
So, if Trump says China has been doing all of this, why is he inviting Xi to Washington? What’s going on here?
Well, what if the current Chinese government is actually assisting the Trump administration’s investigations? What if the source of information on the tens of thousands of the fake driver’s licenses and the fake Joe Biden ballots came from an official of the People’s Republic of China?
That’s exactly what’s suggested by the declassified document entitled, “FBI_ALBANY_IIR_ PROVIDED_TO_CHAIRMAN GRASSLEY.pdf” published on the White House website on July 16th:
IMAGE: Document released on July 16th, 2026 by the White House, under “China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data”, referring to information obtained from unidentified PRC officials.
As Pete Santilli tweeted on July 18th, “This would be a solid reason why @RealDonaldTrump is not sanctioning China by invoking Executive Order 13848. The PRC was part of the investigation!”
IMAGES: Pete Santill tweets on July 18, 2026
Pete Santilli is pointing out evidence of what Gen Blaine Holt, Tom Luongo and EM Burlingame have been noticing and that I’ve been covering, here for the past several months; namely, that all of the other great- and middle powers of the world, including China and Iran have been victimized, puppeteered and used as proxies for the Financialist/Globalists (“City of London”) for as many centuries as America has and that the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy aims to end the toxic internationalist dynamic that has prevailed post-World War II.
To wit:
“The United States will put our own interests first and, in our relations with other nations, encourage them to prioritize their own interests as well. We stand for the sovereign rights of nations, against the sovereignty-sapping incursions of the most intrusive transnational organizations, and for reforming those institutions…”
Is it such a stretch to consider that China and Russia also want the Globalists out of their hair?
I may as well point this out that Q posted about this on Nov 11, 2017:
IMAGE: From Q post 140
In Gen Blaine Holt’s latest podcast with Crypto Rich, he said that when he first started seeing Xi Jinping disregarding the CCP Party Elders and consolidating power, he came to the simplistic conclusion that Xi was just crowning himself Emperor-for-Life.
However, after talking to EM Burlingame and others, he says he’s coming around to the idea that:
“The Elders are the ones who have been in the back pockets with the Globalists, the World Economic kids, the City of London kids, in being consistent with those policies that are anti-United States. Certainly, pro-anybody who wants to help take down the United States – that would be your Biden administration.”
Therefore, he says the fact that Xi Jinping’s visit is still on means that Trump may have gained knowledge about:
“Who in China – that was a pun, by the way – Hu in China is really messing with our elections? And I guess he’s taking Xi Jinping off the hook, if we’re going to have a visit.”
In other words, the massive number of Chinese officials and military leaders who have been rolled-up and in many cases assassinated in recent years has to do with an internecine battle between the Globalist vs Sovereigntist factions within the Chinese power structure, which may have neutralized some of the Chinese component of this Global election theft operation that I’ve been covering here for years.
However, not everybody is as optimistic about Trump’s behind-the-scenes dealings with Xi. And it’s quite telling to see who is incensed – to the point of mutiny:
IMAGE: Thread of tweets by Gen Mike Flynn on July 22nd.
I’ll just let that marinate.
Blaine continues:
“Go back to the National Security Strategy, where spheres of influence are identified with the “ARC”, America, Russia, China.
“It does not imply that they’re going to be allies. And Xi Jinping, as much as they can profess their ‘love’ of each other, and they’re ‘friends’, and wo peng you, and all this stuff, it’s still smash-mouth politics.
“Xi Jinping would probably have an easier time in this world if President Trump was not standing up for the United States and repatriating American manufacturing but he’s got a bigger problem. He’s got factions aimed right at him that want to see him go down. And so it’s a mixed bag. It’s a very difficult situation.
“Have Xi Jinping and President Trump coordinated behind the scenes? Oh, absolutely, they have. The Exhibit A I would give you on that is, look how China stayed on the sidelines all during this Iranian war, despite 18% of their energy coming from Iran. That’s not going to happen without coordination.”
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Rich: Hey Blaine, thank you so much for being here.
Blaine: Good to see you. Good to see you and fabulous tan.
Rich: Thank you Blaine, thank you. And I say the same to you, as well. Your tan’s looking particularly magnificent today.
Blaine: Yes, it’s got an Idaho sheen to it.
Rich: Yes, mine has a Cypriot sheen. I’m in Cyprus right now, but my wife has said you still got to keep producing videos. And I still want to keep producing videos, because stuff is happening and it keeps happening.
And one of the things that’s been announced today, as we’re recording this is Xi Jinping is coming to the United States on an official state visit.
(Roll video)
Donald Trump: President Xi is coming over on September 24th.
Blaine: Yeah, we thought that was going to happen. There it was, in the plan after President Trump’s visit in China. However, something happened on the way to that place. And last Thursday, the President showed clear evidence of the Chinese government interfering in the 2020 election and working with intelligence operatives here, in the United States.
And so, the common wisdom at the time was, “Well, I guess that scrubs that state visit, because we’re now in a really awkward place with China.”
And weird enough, not only did nothing really happen except for the Chinese foreign ministry screaming their heads off, crying, “We never did anything wrong!” which is exactly what you’d expect from the Chinese foreign ministry, to this confirmation of the Xi Jinping trip to the United States.
So, I guess my initial reaction to that, I got to think about this a lot longer, is that we know the Chinese Communist Party is bifurcated, trifurcated, at each other’s throats, a lot of infighting, crisis all over the country.
So, has President Trump gained the knowledge of who in China – that was a pun, by the way – Hu in China is really messing with our elections? And I guess he’s taking Xi Jinping off the hook, if we’re going to have a visit.
And at the same time, one can’t help but wonder, is now really safe time for Xi Jinping to be traveling to the United States, when political stability in Beijing and Zhongnanhai is anything but?
Rich: OK. There’s stuff there that you’ve mentioned or referred to that I don’t know about. I’ll come to it in a second.
I want to let people know I recorded a video with Barbara Boyd from Promethean Action, where she went through in detail about the information that’s, because she’s read through the documents now, the information that got released last Thursday about the electoral vulnerabilities, including China’s involvement. And she answered the question, “Why would China not want Trump in?” and we’re not going to address that, people should go and watch that video.
So this information that you have about the state of China, one is I do get that there are many factions. There are factions in every large organization. And in a state as large as China, well, of course, there’s going to be many, many factions. And some of them will be working for other countries or other entities, hostile powers.
That’s the case in the UK, was the case, certainly the case under Biden and probably still some remnants, in this current administration in the United States.
But where do you get the information from? How do you know that there’s all this trouble going on in China?
Blaine: Alright, well, besides sources, we’ll set those off to the side. Let’s, let’s do it as if I didn’t have one source on China and all I did was read.
We are in a season and have been for the last four years now of purges. And the purges go from generals being purged – and we’re not talking about the entirety of the Chinese government all the way down to, you know, the county sheriff. We’re talking at the provincial secretary level.
So there’s 30 provinces in China, we’re talking those 30 and up have been factionalized. And where this whole saga pretty much starts, besides the corrupt and avalanche dumpster fire called the Chinese economy, it really, you have to go back to the, I think it’s the 20th CPC, the last People’s Congress, where about four years ago in October, Xi Jinping humiliated Hu Jintao, the former leader of China, by having him ripped out of the session and carried off by guards, just as they were announcing who the next members of the Politburo would be, or the Central Planning Committee, and Hu Jintao fully expected his son and some other protégés of his to be on there. And no, they were not.
And so, before he could even open the piece of paper, they hauled his butt out of there. Well, that type of humiliation, at that level in China, where Hu was in his role and still is to this day, is he’s a Party Elder. So in their system, their kind of cabal-ish system, you’ve got this, you know, their campus where all the top government leaders work is called Zhongnanhai.
And the Elders passed – you know, they have separate and private meetings with Politburo members, they have separate and private meetings with Xi Jinping. And they’re supposed to be doing a collective policy kind of crafting. But since Xi Jinping got into his next affirmation of power, he has largely consolidated that power. He disregards the Elders.
And, you know, at first blush, at least from my aspect, when we started seeing these things, I was moreover just coming to a very simplistic conclusion, looking back on it now, that Xi Jinping’s consolidation was just crowning himself Emperor for Life.
And that’s the way it’s going to be. And anybody who gets in his way, he’s just going to mow down.
It’s much more complicated than that, it turns out. So what we start to see then is over these years, Xi Jinping starts this “anti-corruption” campaign. Well, everybody in the Party is corrupt. So he’s essentially using that as a cover to take out political enemies. And to large extent, that’s true.
But then, people who are loyal to Xi in the last 18 months, two years, have started getting rolled-up. And so, it’s been kind of a Game of Thrones-type atmosphere with the Elders. And then the guy who was the top general at the time, I don’t think he’s even alive right now, Zhang Youxia, undermining Xi Jinping by taking out his loyalists.
So there’s been a lot of palace intrigue in China. And talking to EM and others, and scholars, I really am kind of coming around to the idea that the Elders are the ones who have been in kind of the back pockets with the Globalists, the World Economic kids, the City of London kids, in being consistent with those policies that are anti-United States. Certainly, pro-anybody who wants to help take down the United States, that would be your Biden administration.
And so, when you go back to 2020, and you want to ask me, “Well, why would China want to take out President Trump? Why would they have a problem with that?”
Well, it’s fairly obvious that the President’s economic policies, for one, and the President is absolutely an impediment, and has been, to this “China Rising” plan. And China’s not rising anymore. China’s actually doing the opposite of that.
And so, when things fall apart, then factions go at each other even more intensely. And that’s where I’m setting the stage with why I’m like, wow, it’s really kind of surprising to me that Xi Jinping would be coming for a variety of reasons, from that speech to the instability he’s facing at home.
Rich: Okay. Alright. That makes a lot of sense. But why would Xi Jinping not want, why is he working, or appears to be like he’s working with Trump, and not use this as an opportunity?
Blaine: I think you got to go back to the National Security Strategy, where spheres of influence are identified with the ARC, America, Russia, China.
It does not imply that they’re going to be allies. And Xi Jinping, as much as they can profess their “love” of each other, and they’re “friends”, and wo peng you, and all this stuff, it’s still smash-mouth politics.
Xi Jinping would probably have an easier time in this world if President Trump was not standing up for the United States and repatriating American manufacturing but he’s got a bigger problem. He’s got factions aimed right at him that want to see him go down.
And so it’s a mixed bag. It’s a very difficult situation. Have Xi Jinping and President Trump coordinated behind the scenes? Oh, absolutely, they have. The exhibit A I would give you on that is, look how China stayed on the sidelines all during this Iranian war, despite 18% of their energy coming from Iran. That’s not going to happen without coordination.
Rich: Yeah. And even now, with the US upping the ante, China’s not doing what we were told it was going to do, which is coming on the side of Iran. Neither is Russia.
OK. So that’s interesting. So then, how do you think, I mean, it’s a bit early to tell, right? But one, there’s the reception that Trump is going to lay on for Xi, I’m sure it’s going to be a really grand affair.
Blaine: It’s going to be over the top. It’ll be a circus. There’s no question about that. The President loves a circus. Whether Xi attends the circus or not, they’ll still have the circus. It’ll be great. It’ll be a great party. Fabulous party. Yeah. And maybe they’ll take him to Mar-a-Lago or something. I don’t know. And then we’ll have to get in afterwards and scrub for bugs and cameras and all kinds of surveillance crap. But we do.
Rich: Yeah. I’m sure they did that after Trump’s visit to China.
Blaine: “Here’s a gift. It’s a Statue of Friendship for your office.” “I’m sure. That’s great.”
Rich: Yeah, that’s how it works. OK. Alright.
(Promo)
Rich: So we will be talking about that near the time. Yeah. Because they’re going to be dealing, addressing mutual trade, plus also other aspects of mutual relations and international relations. And I wonder how Canada and Britain and the European Union are going to look upon this.
Blaine: Yeah. I think they hold the position of being in between the dog and the fire hydrant. They’re going to lose.
So Carney’s game is that because he’s such an arrogant bastard, he...
Rich: Hold on a second! Hold on a second! Don’t be evasive. Just say it.
Blaine: Yeah. I really need to learn to be more direct. It’s my introverted nature. That’s how everybody in the Air Force knew me. All my superior officers, “Holt, what did he say this time?”
So anyway, Carney cannot get out of his own way. And one of those things is he cannot hide the fact that he does not look at the Chinese as a peer or even a superior country.
He’s there to pat them on the head and go say, “Canada’s ready to deal with you and get a deal that’s better than the one we had with the United States – had.”
And so, China’s just laughing at them, because they’re like, “Well, you know, if we’re going to go pick on the US, I guess we could do some military exercises with you, flood your country with cheap goods, maybe put some exploding electric vehicles in there and you could find a way to sell them to the United States. Because, hey, nobody makes an exploding electric vehicle like the Chinese do!”
But Carney is now boasting that, “Ha ha ha, Americans, you’re such idiots. We had $5 billion of trade with you, which is going away largely, and we’ve replaced it with $7 billion to the world!”
Here’s the little problem. There’s a thing in business, which Carney, he knows the banking side of it, for sure. There’s a thing in business called “cost of goods sold” and cost of goods sold includes shipping – shipping, which to the United States is virtually free. So now you want to send that lumber to where? Ethiopia? Kenya? So your $7 billion in trade. What’s the profit margin there?”
And here’s the newest thing about Canada that’s just a mess is they have if it’s such a Shangri-La – chose that word carefully – if it’s such a Shangri-La in in Canada, then why are they losing their businesses, hand-over-foot and these companies are moving into the United States as fast as they possibly can, right?
Because Canada is an Orwellian ‘1984’ version of the City of London’s crown jewel and the highest thing you’ll ever see – anyway, with a face on it that resembles those putzes – is Carney, because he’s a former Governor of the Bank of England and he views China as a subsidiary of all of that.
And so, I can see him easily calling up Wen Jiabao or Hu Jintao and saying “Xi Jinping’s not playing nice with me.” I think that nobody’s going to do anything, because if anybody even raises a finger in Beijing, they’re gonna get their head shot off. Nobody trusts anybody in Beijing.
So it’s a mixed mess. And it’s delicious. And it’s fun to watch. And the 24th of September is when Xi Jinping comes here – or he doesn’t. You can see in 10 days from now. And this is like the great the world’s greatest soap opera, it’s ‘As the World Turns’ and and you could miss 25 episodes and in 15 minutes be caught back up.
And “Tune in next week, we find out Xi Jinping is bad! He won’t come to the United States!” And then, “Tune in next week, when we find out Xi Jinping is missing!” And then, “Tune in next week, Xi Jinping is running a Holiday Inn on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles! We don’t know what happened. We don’t know! We don’t know!”
But what is for sure is a force of nature called President Trump is absolutely moving on the big board in great power politics. And Xi Jinping is responding to that.
And everybody here in the United States is a little bit quizzical about why in the heck would he make a speech? Dime-out China as the foreign influence into these elections, skipping over the fact that we’ve got a whole lot of other countries that were involved in this mess, too?
And he zinged right past that one, put a bunch of evidence online. And we’re not rolling-up any Chinese spies. The United Front’s still here. We haven’t taken away their farmland. The drones are still a problem. We’ve got Smithfield Farms, a meatpacker that that’s in their hands. Nothing’s been done. No punishment. What’s going on?
And then now, the trip is back on. So, if there is factionalism in China, I think what we really need to start digging into and start to understand, to use the Abbott and Costello, “Who’s on First?”
But who are the players and where do they stand? And who are they standing for? And what’s being done? That’s the next piece to dig into.
If something wasn’t up, Xi Jinping would not be announcing he’s he’s on his way to the United States.
Rich: OK. Alright. Now, I did ask you about the UK and the European Union, because they’re not going to like it.
Blaine: They’re getting a raw deal from everybody. The European Union has zero world friends, outside of the Schengen Zone. And most of those friends are compelled, anyway.
Rich: That can’t be true. That’s a real shame, because there’s such powerhouses of politicians!
Blaine: Oh, yes. Look at that foreign minister of foreign ministers, Kaja Kallas. Wow.
Rich: What a heavyweight intellect.
Blaine: Yeah. I mean, when we start talking about that name, it’ll be right up there with Georges Clemenceau –
Rich: Winston Churchill –
Blaine: Winston Churchill.
Rich: Yeah. Napoleon.
Blaine: Napoleon. All of them.
Rich: OK. And now, we have – was it in the video that I recorded with EM and Tom? Yeah.
Blaine: Those other people.
Rich: Those other people. And you came in. They were just the warm-up act, because you came in –
Blaine: They’re just the warm-up act but why do you pay them a Christmas bonus and not me?
Rich: OK, we’re going to talk about that offline. OK. You you’ve actually reduced your chances of getting a Christmas bonus with that comment publicly.
Blaine: I knew my anger would get the better of me.
Rich: They they talk about the new new Gay Rent Boy or something like that. The new gay prostitute.
Blaine: Oh, Andy Burnham. Yes.
Rich: Replacing the previous gay prostitute.
Blaine: Yes. For this reason, this is so efficient and the Brits are so smart for this reason. If you just get another gay prostitute, then you don’t have to change the bar or the the decor, the disco ball, the rhinestones can all stay. Nobody’s got to pay any money for scenery change.
Rich: OK, so keeping it with Xi Jinping’s visit to China, what’s the UK going to do? What can they do? So more Scottish whiskey in a massive trade deal, like Starmer did?
Rich: Yeah, yeah. Apparently, you won’t be selling Jaguars. That’s for sure. The the the bad part is is that Burnham is now lumped-in with all of the Euros and it’s their belief system – at least, their professed belief system – I don’t think they believe anything, except for what they’re told to read as a script, when they when they profess things that are, “We need more taxation. We’re going to worship at the altar of Climate Change. We’re going to be Net Zero. We’re going to make sure our foreign policy is wrapped around throwing rocks at Chinese human rights records – which are awful atrocious – and just saying that this is they’re just going to net themselves nothing while they destroy Europe and the UK’s populations, because they’re not serious, in terms of interacting on the world stage. And Europe’s run in Europe and the UK are running out of things to offer, not just China, but the rest of the world.
So you saw delegations, not here, because here had no time for anything but Ukraine. But you’ve seen delegations out of Europe make tons of trips to China, hat in hand, trying to kiss the ring and garner some sort of trade package and they’re just getting nowhere, because the influence and leverage is not there, because, who was it?
I think it was Ursula von der Leyen. First off, they completely insulted her when she showed up in Beijing. Nobody even met her at the airport, had to get a bus. She gets a bus, comes to the airport and and then she gets up on stage and wants to lecture them about things that she doesn’t like about China.
And it’s like, you don’t got to kiss China’s ass, but you may not want to smash your posts in the face, either if you’re trying to get something. So then why do the trip?
So Europe has basically made itself the laughingstock of international relations and doesn’t really have and doesn’t have much to offer.
But let’s look at what Europe’s doing. Europe has unchecked migration, is emaciating its cultures, is deindustrializing itself and is going into a Communist stance. It’s a pre-Communism stance. It might be gussied-up but go ask the kids in Oxford, England how they like that 15 minute city. The reviews are 1-Star, “Do Not Recommend”. It’s not going well.
And this is the thing about the UK and Europe, is while all this great power politic goes on, Iran’s getting solved without European assistance. The Middle East is going to get straightened out without European assistance. The Russia-Ukraine war rages on, but America is about to put their foot down on that thing in terms of, “OK, no weapons, no money, no nothing.” Europe has put itself into a real box.
And I feel bad for the Europeans, because these WEF-anointed urchins are still running around lighting matches and burning things down. And I don’t know how you’re going to recover that on the Continent that fast.
You lose five Volkswagen plants, you don’t put them back online the next day, just because Alice Weidel got into leadership. So, what I think I see happening is, in a world where the elbow-rubbing and the things that matter are happening in Moscow, Beijing, in the United States or in DC, I think the European Union is going to crumble.
And I think it’s going to crumble violently, unfortunately. I don’t know how that’s going to resolve any other way right now, because what the leaders are going to do to the end is they’re going to steal everything inside, which they’re already doing. They’re just going to steal everything, same thing that’s not nailed down until they get it right.
Andy Burnham is going to be the last, I think, the last of the prime ministers that runs this ilk. I think he’s the last one. And I think there’ll be a time when Europe, after it’s extinguished itself of these Globalists, is again, looking to the United States.
You got to help us. And we will, but it’ll be under different terms and conditions.
Rich: That makes absolute sense. OK, I want to go back to something you said about Iran, that Iran’s getting wrapped up. We’ve been told this before, that it’s not going to take time.
Blaine: You damned Americans!
Rich: You know, Trump said “It’s just going to take two weeks.” And then we had a pause in the fighting. Then, we had a Memorandum of Understanding. And now, here we go again. He’s upped the ante and he’s bombing bridges and threatening to bomb bridges and power stations, which my understanding on international law is that those are war crimes.
Blaine: Are you sure?
Rich: I heard it on the news.
Blaine: I saw it on a TV show.
Rich: Along with “Safe and effective”. But I’m telling you about international law, General.
Blaine: I appreciate that. And listen, I think that going to the BBC for all of your Law of Armed Conflict information is a fine idea. I’m certain that you’re getting the granularity you’re needing to make a decision about that.
What if I told you that every bridge and every power station that we fried so far, the Iranian people, themselves were cheering us on saying, “Yes, please, more of that. We love that! That’s great!” because that’s what’s happening.
Now, let’s let’s break it down. It’s one thing and it makes a very good CNN soundbite to go. “You’re taking their power!” Well, you got to get into the granularity of it.
Who’s bridges? You mean the IRGC bridges that lead to Bandar Abbas Naval Base, so that they can’t move their missile forces around the country, anymore? Is that those bridges you’re talking about? Because those are the ones that got hit.
Or maybe you’re talking about the power station that the IRGC was using to power all of the District of Bandar Abbas. What is it? Hormozgan? I think it’s Hormozgan, is the province. That power station, that took out basically most of the IRGC’s power? Is that what we’re getting at?
In other words, the United States strategy is not pent up around, “Hey, 90 million people living in a police state having 40,000 of you fried at the hands of your Ayatollah. Now we’re going to stick it to you and we’re going to make sure you don’t have an economy on the other side of this thing.”
That’s ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. And then to the timing of this thing, President Trump has a very annoying way of managing the press and the American Congress by going, “Oh, any day now. I mean, this thing is getting wrapped-up. I think we’ve already won. We have literally won this war 27 times.” And that’s 27 military victories he can notch. That’s great. You won 27 wars. Perfect.
But in all seriousness, let’s look at the results. We’re getting back to nearly full shipping in the straits. Last night, the IRGC didn’t throw one damn weapon at us or anything, even though we torched their missile stocks and logistics supply of everything in Bandar Abbas.
And so, when you look at it, five and a half months, brother, I’ve gone to wars that took 20 years and never resolved and went to a bad place.
And if we’re all getting upset about the amount of weapons and stuff used, no, I think we’ve learned our lesson, at least for a little while, that Forever Wars don’t make a whole lot of sense for anybody in this world, especially us.
And there’s not 130,000 Americans on the ground in Iran, right now who are attempting to occupy it and manage sectarian factions and manage who’s going to be who in the leadership realm. We’re going to let that stuff take care of itself.
But what I can tell you is, is there are guerrilla groups now in three sections of the country that are organizing. They’ve been supplied.
So we can go back to the MOU and go, “What was that MOU crap? It’s not even a treaty. And they didn’t agree to anything. And there was no ceasefire.”
And the time just went on and on and on. So who’s winning, here by kicking the can down the road? Because everybody in the press says, “Oh, well, the Iranians are just using President Trump. They’re just moving the goalposts, kicking a can down the road, using time on their side.”
Time for what? They blew up the train trestles. There’s no resupply. There’s no money. There’s no nothing.
The only thing that time is doing is getting the Iranian people more and more pissed off, because they don’t have any water, food, or a currency.
So who’s the kicking-the-can-down-the-road work against? Ghalibaf, Pezeshkian, and Araghchi, I can tell you that. And now, the IRGC wants to go kill those guys, too.
Mojtaba, we don’t think he’s alive. They’ve got a problem.
And what the Iranians are waiting for is us to decrement IRGC military capability and get them to a vulnerable state, vulnerable enough so that we can do the baton-pass and go, “You got it. It’s your country. Go take it back now. But if you need some air power, we’ll be there right there for you. We have A-10s overhead, F-22s, and 35s. And if you need an air show over Tehran and you want some bombs on the ground, well, 30 minutes or they’re free. You just let us know.”
So the thing that we have to watch in the final closing act of this thing is martyrs have a nasty habit of burning everything to the ground on their way off the planet. And we really do have to watch Kharg Island and all of the storage facilities for the oil. We have to protect the oil fields and make sure that the infrastructure is as intact as it possibly can be, so that they can’t sabotage it on the other side. We need that for world stability.
Remember, China is staying on the sidelines for now. India is on the sidelines for now. That needs to stay that way. So those are your military objectives to get out of this thing.
And it looks like the Straits are getting cured. And you can tell the Houthis, who are firing up on Bab al-Mandab – I can never say the name right of that strait – the Gulf of Aden place. Anyway, they threw a couple missiles at some Saudi Arabian tankers.
And then, you would sit there and go, “Well, that was really stupid, because don’t the Saudis have F-15s of their own?”
Well, yeah, they do. But look at the facts. The Houthis like Hezbollah are orphaned. They’re cut off.
Well, no money, no logistics resupply. They’ve got a few weapons. They’re just like the Iranian Regime, in that they have to project this aura of strength to the Yemenis, who want to kill them all.
And the Yemenis are just the Iranians. They’re looking at the Houthis going, “I think these guys are falling apart,” which they are.
And so what they’re doing is they’re flexing to try to close those straits. And it’s not going to work. And they don’t have the sufficient combat power and they’re cut off.
I think they’re going to meet the same demise in Yemen.
Rich: Thank you. Thank you. What I noticed is going on with me listening to you is there’s legacy brain patterns about how previous presidents or many current administrations have conducted wars to get rid of that “evil dictator” Gaddafi, “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq, “destroy Afghanistan because they did 9/11,” which they didn’t, right? So those brain patterns, this is how I listen to American presidents.
There’s that. And then on the other side, what I can see clearly is Trump doesn’t do war like previous American presidents that I’ve had direct experience of. But there’s a tussle between these factions in my head.
Blaine: Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example of brilliant strategy and action, for everybody who says President Trump’s not a good wartime president.
Do you remember last June, not just this previous June, but a year ago, we had the B-2s fly over and they hit the nuclear facilities. They left one alone and everybody thought we were the stupidest country on the planet. Pickaxe Mountain was left alone. Nobody touched it. We didn’t put a bomb on it. We didn’t target it.
And then every, you saw a reporting of going, how stupid are we? We didn’t take out their nuclear capability. They still got Pickaxe Mountain. Is everybody crazy?
Well, it’s beautiful. So we hammered those facilities and what we have seen activity-wise is that the regime for the past four months has been going back to those bombed-out sites, trying to excavate and pull crap out of them. They’ve got to put those centrifuges in a secure place.
We left them one! “Go ahead and put it Pickaxe Mountain!” So, they rescued all the centrifuges and they put them in the one place that we left alone for them to put them in.
Beautiful! Thank you for that!
So one of two things is going to happen. We’re going to fire a few weapons into the front doors of Pickaxe, and that’ll be the end of that. Or the Iranians will take back the country and they’ll open up the doors and say, “Come on in. You can have anything you want. It’s fine. We’re happy that you liberated us.”
Rich: OK. And then what about Trump giving Saudi Arabia a pass to develop nuclear weapons – or enrich uranium?
Blaine: See, that’s the thing. You got to watch your words. Did he really say “Develop nuclear weapons?” Did he say that?
Rich: He said that Saudi Arabia could blow up the whole world. What about that?
Blaine: Yeah. Or did we say we could license enriched nuclear fuel at a particular level for their power plant needs, much the same way we do in the UAE? Which is what the agreement was. And we still don’t have the finite on what it is that Saudi Arabia truly wants.
What they may want, because nuclear power technology is developing so rapidly, is that they don’t want the old standard plutonium or uranium stuff, at all.
What they probably want is Small Modular Reactors or Micro Reactors that run on TRISO pellets, that don’t have any problems, whatsoever if they’re ruptured.
So does that create nuclear power and fusion? Yes, it does. So we have companies now in the United States like Valor Atomics and others that can make those things.
And wouldn’t that be a nice thing to have in multiple units so that, A) you can’t just fire a weapon at one power plant and take the whole thing down? B) what a great way to power a desalinization plant.
Rich: And to create energy independence for sovereign nations.
Blaine: Exactly. And so then what do we do? What is this elemental towards the Abraham Accords? And what does that do? That gets us to a place where we have demilitarized foreign policy. And regardless of your ethnicity, religious background or whatever, you are beneficially tied to other business interests around the region. And that’s what we’re after.
Rich: Blaine, absolute delight and education. And you make it fun as well, Blaine, talking to you.
Blaine: I try.
Rich: Thank you so much. This is why everybody should follow Blaine on X and also on dangerousintellectuals.com, which is his weekly podcast. Look forward to speaking to you again, Blaine.
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