Former Advisor to President Genocide Joe Biden:

‘The oil price is NOT reflecting reality. Traders right now are trading the price based off of headlines from Washington.

“The President said war is over, Strait is open. Great, let’s reduce the price.” But that’s not reality.’

Trading algorithms read Donald Trump’s blatant lies about the disastrous war on Iran on Truth Social, mainstream corporate media regurgitates Trump’s declarations that are detached from reality in their headlines…

Trading algorithms view corporate news outlets as ‘high trust’, and then trades based on these positive, fake headlines, keeping prices artificially suppressed.

Philip Pilkington: ‘This could be the beginning of THE END of the US DOLLAR system.’

‘The two weakest links there are Japan and Britain. Japan and Britain are both the largest lenders to the United States. The United States is a huge borrower in the foreign markets. That’s how it runs the big trade deficits, and it’s able to consume without producing enough.

Well, the creditors in that equation are Japan and Britain. Japan is collapsing. Its economy is collapsing. The yen is collapsing, and Bessent is desperately trying to prop it up so that they don’t stop buying US Treasuries or they don’t start dumping US Treasuries into the market.

Britain is borderline bankrupt. A bunch of economists a few weeks ago said that it would probably end up in an IMF bailout at some point. If the IMF could even bail it out, it’s probably too big a country to bail out.

So you’ve got the two largest holders of US Treasuries, that is the two largest creditors to the United States, and both of them are creaking under pressure.

And when this oil prices oil crisis actually breaks out and we see the sort of inflation similar to 2022-2023, the pressure on, for example, Britain and Japan will be too much, and at that point the dollar global system could start to collapse.

Scott Bessent came out a week before the Japanese bailout and started to talk about a new Bretton Woods system signals to me that they may be beginning to understand that the dollar system is finished and it would be much more productive for them to do something constructive rather than let it unwind chaotically.

But I will say in history when these things have happened it’s tended to be chaotic unwinding. It’s tended to be.’

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President of Russia🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin:

‘The use of the dollar as the world currency brings the United States a lot of money it didn’t actually earn.

Experts estimate the US has earned $10 TRILLION from the US dollar being used as the world’s currency. That means it consumes more than it produces.

The dollar allows the United States to continue exploiting other economies for their benefit.’

Philip Pilkington EXPOSES how Donald Trump and corporate news outlets MANIPULATED MARKETS via trading algorithms to keep oil prices suppressed:

‘So Trump said that they have full control over the Strait of Hormuz. Now to me and you, that looks like a clownish thing to say. It looks ridiculous. You’d think why would anyone say that?

That’s a ridiculous thing to say. Because robots don’t have a sense of humor, they’ll see that and they’ll give that a weight in their trading algorithm.
The big one was the oil glut, three or four weeks ago, when there was a partial reopening.

There was never really a partial reopening, but the financial headlines all said that there was going to be an oil glut. Now, anyone with a brain would realise that there would be no oil glut. It made absolutely no sense.

The point wasn’t even to convince people, the point was to convince algorithms. And if the algorithms see words like ‘oil glut’, ‘we’ve gained full control over the strait’, ‘ceasefire’, ‘peace deal’…

The algorithm will put weights on these keywords if they’re from quote unquote trusted news sources, and then they’ll trade accordingly.’

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Philip Pilkington: ‘They have manipulated oil futures in the past after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Houthi attacks, but they never went NUCLEAR on it. They NEVER did as much manipulation as they're currently doing.

I think those two, you could have gotten away with. Ultimately, the Russian situation was not actually lost energy to global markets. It was rerouting energy.

I don’t think the Red Sea was enough to seriously impact global supplies alone. I think you needed the Hormuz Strait and the Red Sea.

The problem now is you're dealing with probably 20% of the world's oil supply. And so what you're seeing that you didn't see last time is inventories are crashing.’

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BREAKING: Donald Trump to Fox News on Iran-Oman negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz:

‘If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the SH*T out of them.’

After destabilising the Gulf States with his pointless war on Iran that they didn’t want, now Trump threatens to bomb a GCC state.

Philip Pilkington: ‘China🇨🇳 SAVED the US🇺🇸 from a disastrous OIL SHOCK, but the serious economic problems will arrive BEFORE the midterms.’

‘Before Trump went over to Beijing, China cut their oil imports in half, from about 12 million barrels a day down to 6 million barrels a day, and that held while the MOU held.

The MOU was supposed to be for 60 days, and then the moment Trump tore up the MOU, the Chinese started importing again.

Now, what that tells me is that the Chinese and the Americans struck a deal. I don’t know what else was included in that deal. We could speculate…

The Chinese probably said to the US: “60 days, Sign this MOU, it’s going to be brutal. You guys are going to basically sign a surrender document. And you sign that, and we’ll give you a reprieve. We’ll give you we’ll cut our oil imports in half.”

That wouldn’t have completely solved the crisis, but I think the Americans calculated that will probably get them up to the midterms.

But then, because the Trump administration is so chaotic, Trump got got out of the wrong side of the bed one morning and decided to tear up the MOU.

The moment that MOU was torn up, tanker traffic started to show the Chinese started ramping their imports up again. So I don’t think the current situation was planned for.

I reckon they came up with a coherent plan to get them through the midterms that involved the MOU, and it rode or die on the MOU, which is now dead, and it’s not coming back.

And the Iranians aren’t interested in negotiating anymore. So I think I think there’s a fairly decent chance that the that the serious problems will hit before the midterms.’

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Philip Pilkington: ‘China🇨🇳 set to be BIGGEST WINNER as US🇺🇸 dollar system begins to UNWIND.’

‘If the dollar system unwinds and we’re probably talking about, Unless something changes in the next year or two, we are really are that close.

If that happens, the countries outside of the dollar system, ai include Europe in that. The euro system is actually separate from the dollar system.

Europe has problems of its own, I’m not saying that Europe’s gonna come out on top here, but if the dollar system itself starts to unwind, these other systems are gonna come to the fore.

That’s very clear, and I think the Chinese are gonna be the biggest winners out of this.

Europe, it’s a mixed bag. I think the euro will actually strengthen. Christine Lagarde knows that this is happening, and I can tell that because for the past 18 months or a year, she’s been talking about the global euro.

Christine Lagarde in my opinion is the only competent technocrat left in Brussels. she’s the only smart person left in the room. A lot of them are clowns. A lot of them are not serious people. And she’s actually quite smart. And she’s been talking about this global euro for a while.

The Chinese are quite well prepared for this. I think it was about six or eight months ago, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank launched Panda bonds.

Now that was that was very interesting. These are renminbi bonds, that are you know issued fully in renminbi and you borrow in renminbi and you get renminbi and then you use the renminbi.

This was the biggest investment bank in Europe, Deutsche Bank, and one of the biggest investment banks in the United States, and what they were clearly doing was testing the water, because at the moment, US interest rates are far higher than Chinese interest rates, and so logically, you just go and borrow renminbi.

But the reason that they haven’t switched completely is because of the political risk involved. Obviously, if they switch most of their lending, the US government will go crazy, but past a certain point.’

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Philip Pilkington: ‘What you see in the Iran war is that there is NO PLAN AT ALL.

‘You even see a complete lack of systematic propaganda from the American side, which during the Ukraine war was hard to ignore.

You could imagine a shelf in the State Department had a set of plans for the Ukraine conflict. I don’t think there was a set of plans for the Iran conflict.

That’s why someone like Obama, who in my opinion is a strong representative of the American state rather than the government, was the one who did the JCPOA, because he knew this was a non-starter.

Going to war with Iran, you were never going to win, even back in the Obama administration. And since then, the weapons technology has become even more advanced, and we’re seeing the results of that now.

The reports suggest none of Trump’s cabinet were in favor of this, including Rubio, who’s quite hawkish and very interested in other ventures. But no, I think this was a one-man show, and that’s why what is happening is happening.

Now, with the fact that US financial media aren’t covering burning ships anymore, it suggests to me the state has figured: okay, we’re in it, so we have to manage it or deal with it. But I don’t think there was any coherent Iran plan.’

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Jared Kushner: ‘Iran is engaging in a very strong way and that is quite positive…

but we are not there yet on an understanding and President Trump will be very patient. He doesn't want to rush to a deal.’

Jared Kushner and Donald Trump are selling serious negotiations with figments of their own imagination as ‘peace talks’ to markets and the American people…

While the Trump family continues to use every announcement as an opportunity for insider trading and market manipulation.

In 1776, the US🇺🇸 defeated the British Empire🇬🇧 with ASYMMETRIC warfare, now the US is defeated by asymmetric warfare in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Former CIA Advisor Michael O’Hanlon:

‘The US’ success in the War of Independence wound up foreshadowing some of the opposition that not only the US, but France, Russia, and other great powers of the last 100 years have faced everywhere from Afghanistan to Vietnam to Algeria,

Where often the established powers have been defeated by insurgents using these asymmetric tactics, and so that, 250 years ago it was the other way around. The United States used those sorts of counter-punching tactics against the British.’

—Michael O’Hanlon joins us on Saturday’s episode of Going Underground

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‘The ROUGHEST period for the US🇺🇸 on the battlefield has been in the modern era.’

—Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, former advisor to the CIA

‘Even though in that period of time, the United States has generally been acknowledged to be the world's number one military power...

But since World War II with the Soviet Union and the Brits as our key allies, we have struggled. We have struggled in Korea where we fought to a draw. We lost the Vietnam War. We lost the Afghanistan War, and we sort of fought to a draw in Iraq.

And so it's sort of striking, even though this period has been characterised by American global influence and some people even say hegemony on the battlefield, it really has not been so.’

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Julian Assange in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.

The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.”

This has been the goal of every major war since 1945.

Can the US🇺🇸 keep LOSING wars and still maintain its hegemony?

Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon:

‘It’s an important lesson for all great power wars to remember, because sometimes when you're in the middle of a war, it seems more important than it may actually be.

It’s striking that we're getting along pretty well with Vietnam these days in the United States, even though we lost the war to Vietnam.

Does that mean that the war itself was pointless? Probably. Does it mean that, the war was crucial for our global standing?

Clearly not, because even after losing that war, we wound up regrouping and having a good 1980s and then successfully completing the Cold War without a direct conflict.

So, I think great powers need to bear in mind sometimes the smaller wars don't matter as much as they may think.’

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Donald Trump says the US military could be used to intervene in the spiralling bond market crisis (?)

The answer to every problem in the US somehow always ends up being to bomb something.

If he is taken seriously, the US may be threatening to bomb other countries if they stop buying US debt, now over $40 trillion.

Afshin Rattansi CHALLENGES former CIA Advisor: ‘The Afghanistan War WAS IN VAIN.’

Afshin: ‘Sacrificing all those American soldiers, let alone countless Afghans, was not in vain? What did it achieve?’

Dr. Michael O’Hanlon: ‘We have not been attacked again by Al Qaeda on the homeland.’

Afshin: No one from Al Qaeda was Afghan.

Afshin: ‘The original 9/11 Al Qaeda attackers, as you correctly note, were from the Middle East. But my point is that by showing the Taliban government that we were prepared to overthrow them and fight them for 20 years if necessary…

Once they gave Al Qaeda safe haven within Afghanistan to help plan those attacks, the Taliban has not associated itself closely with Al Qaeda since then and has not allowed Al Qaeda to plan attacks against the Western world since then.’

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Oliver Stone on Going Underground in 2020:

'The intelligence agencies grasped the reins of the US government...look at their role in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, there's no end to the messes they get us into, Syria and Libya...it's getting worse.’

It got a lot worse. Washington provoked the Ukraine proxy war, armed a genocide in Gaza, supported Israel’s wars of expansion across the Middle East, and now the US government is stuck in a disastrous quagmire for Israel in Iran.

Afshin Rattansi: ‘The United States went on to support Al Qaeda in Syria…the United States’ strategy is to create Al Qaeda and ISIS-Daesh.’

Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon: ‘The Obama administration was reluctant to support the Syrian opposition very much because it knew there were Al Qaeda sympathisers within that group.

And even though declared American policy was to try to help overthrow the President Assad in Syria, there was never that much enthusiasm behind the mission in the United States.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘We have the leaked document from Jake Sullivan to Hillary Clinton: Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria.

It was a covert support for Al-Qaeda just as it was covert support for what would become al-Qaeda that created 9/11. It was covert support that would lead to ISIS-Daesh beheadings and al-Qaeda.’

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“Do you now realise what you have done?”

Vladimir Putin to NATO nations in 2015 after they destroyed Iraq, Libya, and Syria in regime change wars where they backed Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups…

Eventually leading to blowback terror attacks across NATO countries.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon on the Ukraine proxy war:

‘The United States made policy mistakes that made it more likely Russia would react this way, but Russia’s reaction was still wrong. Russia’s reaction was criminal, but it was also foreseeable.

It was foreseeable that in the Russian state there would be this sense that if we got too close to Russia’s own territory, there would be a strong Russian reaction.

I think we should have understood that better than we did, and approached the idea of NATO expansion in a fundamentally different way.

I wrote a book in 2017 proposing a different security architecture for Eastern Europe because I didn’t think we would do well in our future relationship with Russia if we continued down the path that we were on.’

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon:

‘My hope would be a negotiated end to the Ukraine war that allows for a real detente.

If you look over 250 years, more often than not, the United States and Russia had been friends and partners rather than adversaries or rivals.

I would like to get back to the day when that’s possible again.’

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