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A few days ago on the 3rd of this month, the Guardian put out an article titled,

US troops were told war on Iran was all part of God's divine plan, a watchdog alleges.

According to the headline, Religious Freedom Group says 200 troops sent complaints of

superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify the war. And I don't know if you remember

back in the day when I was talking about Project 2025, and I talked about the Heritage Foundation's

mission, which pertain to Christian accelerationism. They want to create an apocalypse,

so Jesus will come back and rapture everyone. The goal is to literally speed run the end times

so they can gain more control. But the actual goal is to launder a fuck ton of money.

The US economy has been struggling for a while. We are the lowest in jobs that we've ever

been as a country, and we have no fucking healthcare. Yet we have billions and billions and

billions of dollars to drop bombs and provide healthcare to a country that isn't ours.

According to the Guardian article, one non-commissioned officer and a unit that could be deployed

at any moment to join the operations in Iran told the watchdog group that their commander had

quote, urged us to tell our troops that this was all part of God's divine plan. He specifically

referenced numerous citations out of the book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the

imminent return of Jesus Christ. And I quote, he said that, President Trump has been anointed by

Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to earth.

According to another source, the organization has received more than 110 complaints between February

20th and March 2nd. These complaints came for more than 40 different units spread across at

least 30 military installations across every branch of the military, according to the reporting.

Now in past episodes, I've referenced Professor Zhang, a YouTuber and a Chinese Canadian educator

based in Beijing. His YouTube channel is how I found him. It's called predictive history and his

whole platform kind of escalated when he predicted the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.

But he's also getting a lot of attention about the Iranian conflict with the U.S.

because he predicted this several years ago as well. And he also predicted we would lose.

In an article from penlive.com by Brian Linder, he says that Professor Zhang made three big

predictions back in 2024. The first was that Donald Trump would win the election and become

president of the United States again. The second was that Donald Trump would start a war with Iran.

Both of the predictions came true, which makes his third prediction concerning for the U.S.

And that is because the Professor predicted the war with Iran would be lost.

Quoting Zhang here, given my analysis of how the world is progressing, I think that Iran has

many more advantages over the United States. The reality is, right now, it's a war of

attrition between the United States and Iran. And Iranians have been preparing 20 years for this

conflict. In their religion, this is a war against the Great Satan. They've had many practice runs.

Last week was a 12-day war when the Iranians were able to examine and analyze the strike capacities

of both the Israelis and the Americans. They've had a lot of time, eight months, to prepare fully

for the new attack. Their proxies, the Houthis, Hasbola, Hamas, and the militias have been able to

really grasp the American mentality. And now they have a pretty good strategy of how to weaken and

ultimately destroy the American Empire. Zhang goes on to say that Iranians are waging war against the

entire global economy. So the GCC countries, and not only are they striking the GCC countries

American bases, they are going over the critical energy infrastructure of the American bases.

Eventually, they'll go after the water. But as of now, they can also close off the

Strait of Hormuz, which they've done. And quote, the GCC gets 90% of its food from the

Strait Hormuz. So I know a lot of people are talking about the disruptions to the global

economy. But right now, the Iranians are actually threatening the very existence of Saudi Arabia,

the UAE, Bahrain. And why this is important is that the Gulf states are really the linchpin

of American economy. He goes on to explain that he believes the entire US economy is currently

propped up by AI investments and data centers. A lot of that comes from the Gulf states.

So if the Gulf states are no longer able to sell oil and are no longer able to finance this AI

bubble, then the AI bubble will burst. And with it, will burst the entire American economy,

which is really just a financial Ponzi scheme. So that's a dire situation that the Americans

are facing right now. He later says that the US military is not designed to fight a 21st

century war. Remember, the military industrial complex came to being after World War II.

It was designed to fight the Cold War and the Cold War was really about muscle flexing.

Zhang said the entire American military strategy revolves around sophisticated technology that

cost a lot of money to build. Zhang then pointed to million dollar missiles trying to take out

$50,000 drones. As he puts it, it's just not sustainable. So really what you're seeing is a

puncturing of the aura of invincibility that sustain American hegemony for the last 20 years,

especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this is not only a reordering of the global

economy because of the signaled collapse of the petrodollar and with it the entire US dollar

base and reserve currency system, but also the global hegemony of the United States.

Zhang went on to say that a regime change has never been made from airstrikes alone.

Quote, you need ground troops. And so unfortunately what's going to happen over the next few months

is that pressure will build on America to send ground troops, especially from GCC countries

in Israel, which are being pounded right now by the Iranians. And remember, if these GCC

like Saudi Arabia, the UAE Qatar, if they go, then the petrodollar goes with them.

So the Americans need to protect these countries and these countries are going to demand that either

the Americans bribe the Iranians or send in ground troops to wipe them out once and for all.

As it unfolds, there is a key question to consider. Why did they do this? He said of attacking Iran.

Quote, I think there are three possibilities and I think all three possibilities are valid.

The first is hubris. If you look at history, this is how empires behave. So the

Maduro kidnapping was quite successful and it was probably an adrenaline rush for Trump.

They made him overconfident in the capacity of the military. So hubris was a factor and we have

seen this throughout history. Why did Hitler invade Stalin? Because he conquered Europe really

easily and he thought he was invincible. But this led to the destruction of the German army in

the Soviet Union. Then you have to look at an internal political calculus where even though

America does not benefit from this war against Iran, Trump himself personally does. The Saudis

and the Israelis are bribing him to attack Iran. Remember when the Saudis invested two billion

dollars in the private equity firm of Jared Kushner who was the son-in-law of Donald Trump?

And the Israelis through the Miriam Adelson have been financing Trump's entire political career.

Zhang said Adelson offered to put $250 million for Trump to run a third term,

which is not allowed in the Constitution. Quote, also remember if this war goes sideways and

Trump is forced to use ground troops, he will probably get an approval from Congress and this

will get him emergency war powers which will allow him to influence the midterms. So Trump is

thinking about a third term. And at the ballot box, he probably won't get it. But if there's a

war going on and you can delay the election and you have emergency war powers and people rally

around the flag, then he will probably get a third term. And as someone with a uniquely naive

perspective that there should be no war ever the fuck again because it's always been a money

laundering scheme of dominating the power list which don't deserve to be dominated and that the

people who benefit from the war are never involved in it and that the people who aren't benefiting

from the war are always the ones who suffer and die first. I am anti-war period. But because we

live in a country that is not, it is important to understand what's going on and Professor Zhang

puts it into context so that it's understandable. He does not give me hope, but he does give me

perspective. And I think staying grounded during all of this is very important. Tomorrow,

I'm going to share what I'm doing to push back in little ways because I don't fucking know what

to do. But I felt like it was important to address the elephant in the room because unfortunately

lately it feels like there are a lot of elephants in this damn room. Anyway, you can access all

of the resources plus a few extra ones in the show notes if you're interested. In the meantime,

just know I love you so much. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and I will talk to you

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