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@8thDecade Both militaries are controlled by MIC.
MIC (Military Industrial Complex) runs Israel.
FIC (Financial Industrial Complex) runs US.
FIC is more powerful than MiC.
Both are captured countries where corporate power is much greater than state power.
Netanyahu:
If my opponents win, they will leave Lebanon, they will leave Gaza, they will leave Syria, and they will establish a Palestinian state here.
And it won’t just be a Palestinian state. It will be a Palestinian state backed by major powers, and that will be the beginning of the end of Israel.
We will go into free fall.
Other way around.
MIC (Military Industrial Complex) runs Israel.
FIC (Financial Industrial Complex) runs US.
FIC is more powerful than MiC.
Both are captured countries where corporate power is much greater than state power.
@JBTMBT Other way around.
MIC (Military Industrial Complex) runs Israel.
FIC (Financial Industrial Complex) runs US.
FIC is more powerful than MiC.
Both are captured countries where corporate power is much greater than state power.
Syria had this lifestyle before Jolani.
Christian regions in Damascus always existed under Assad.
And Jolani is not an extremist. Armed factions at this scale are merely contractors.
Ideology is the packaging.
If a Salafi brand produces fighters, money, and a corridor war against Assad and Iran, they sell that brand.
If a quieter, investable Syria produces recognition, power plants, and bank links, they sell that instead.
The man can look like a preacher on Monday and a finance minister on Tuesday.
That is why the old Jolani and the new president look like two people.
I said this on the day Assad fled.
Capital allocators wanted Iran’s land route shut and a Syrian file that could sever Israel's security posture with the country.
Turkey wanted a neighbor it could manage and a path for refugees to go home.
Qatar and other Gulf capitals wanted reconstruction contracts and a Sunni-led capital that does not answer to Iran.
Those backers do not pay for a caliphate.
They pay for one army, one customs service, oil fields under a single flag, and a country that can take a Visa card, re-integrated into the system.
Syria left the US state sponsors of terrorism list.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was pulled off a separate US terrorist designation.
International card networks went live.
Qatar has already signed large power and reconstruction packages.
That is the new payroll.
Now this nightlife footage is not new.
What’s new is what’s being amplified in the media depending who’s in control.
This nightlife scenery needs to be amplified now.
Because it becomes proof of delivery of a new Syria on the path of re-integration.
The shop window needs to get loosened just enough for capital to enter.
This is not about Jolani and how he runs Syria.
Anyone studying him will make no sense of this.
Anyone who follows his backers knows exactly whats going on.
Axis supporters will use this footage to call Syria the new degenerate of Western society under Jolani.
Jolani supporters will use the footage to proclaim Syria has been liberated from the old oppressive regime.
Truth is, that this nightlife footage existed then, and it exists now, and it will continue to exist.
🇻🇪 Watch Venezuela.
Bloomberg reports Venezuela is considering leaving OPEC.
But don’t watch OPEC in isolation.
Watch the gold too.
Venezuela is trying to recover roughly 31 tonnes held at the Bank of England.
Ignore reports claiming it has already been transferred to the US. That has not been established.
The interesting part is what happens next.
Venezuela could become a perfect example of the MIC → FIC → TIC transition I’ve been describing.
The MIC does the dirty work.
The operation against Maduro was about changing the political alignment and pulling Venezuela back into the FIC sphere.
Then the FIC takes over.
The gold gets negotiated.
The sanctions get negotiated.
Access to financial markets gets negotiated.
The oil gets negotiated.
And the currency war begins.
If Venezuela leaves OPEC, regains access to its frozen assets and keeps its oil inside dollar settlement, the FIC doesn’t need the old petrodollar system in the same way.
Especially if the TIC gets the final piece:
Stablecoins.
Move Venezuelan oil and commerce onto dollar stablecoin rails and you have a new model.
MIC changes the regime.
FIC controls the money.
TIC controls the rails.
That’s the transition.
The US can shrink from global hegemon to regional power of the Western Hemisphere only.
The less likely outcome is if Venezuela leaves OPEC, gets its gold back and starts settling more oil outside the dollar, then the story changes.
That would tell me Venezuela is moving towards the multipolar financial system rather than being absorbed into the US-led node.
That’s why the OPEC headline is only half the story.
Saudi Arabia is already connected to mBridge, infrastructure that can settle cross-border, multi-currency payments without relying on the traditional correspondent banking chain.
The old architecture is being dismantled.
The new nodes are being built.
America consolidates its node.
China consolidates its node.
Everyone else hedges.
And the FIC/TIC fight over whose currency and rails connect them.
MIC → FIC → TIC.
That tells you what Venezuela was really about.
@pious__athiest@lovesequities Exactly the right question.
Until you ask the right question on the impact you are having on others then you will never understand the impact it will have on you.
🇻🇪 Watch Venezuela.
Bloomberg reports Venezuela is considering leaving OPEC.
But don’t watch OPEC in isolation.
Watch the gold too.
Venezuela is trying to recover roughly 31 tonnes held at the Bank of England.
Ignore reports claiming it has already been transferred to the US. That has not been established.
The interesting part is what happens next.
Venezuela could become a perfect example of the MIC → FIC → TIC transition I’ve been describing.
The MIC does the dirty work.
The operation against Maduro was about changing the political alignment and pulling Venezuela back into the FIC sphere.
Then the FIC takes over.
The gold gets negotiated.
The sanctions get negotiated.
Access to financial markets gets negotiated.
The oil gets negotiated.
And the currency war begins.
If Venezuela leaves OPEC, regains access to its frozen assets and keeps its oil inside dollar settlement, the FIC doesn’t need the old petrodollar system in the same way.
Especially if the TIC gets the final piece:
Stablecoins.
Move Venezuelan oil and commerce onto dollar stablecoin rails and you have a new model.
MIC changes the regime.
FIC controls the money.
TIC controls the rails.
That’s the transition.
The US can shrink from global hegemon to regional power of the Western Hemisphere only.
The less likely outcome is if Venezuela leaves OPEC, gets its gold back and starts settling more oil outside the dollar, then the story changes.
That would tell me Venezuela is moving towards the multipolar financial system rather than being absorbed into the US-led node.
That’s why the OPEC headline is only half the story.
Saudi Arabia is already connected to mBridge, infrastructure that can settle cross-border, multi-currency payments without relying on the traditional correspondent banking chain.
The old architecture is being dismantled.
The new nodes are being built.
America consolidates its node.
China consolidates its node.
Everyone else hedges.
And the FIC/TIC fight over whose currency and rails connect them.
MIC → FIC → TIC.
That tells you what Venezuela was really about.
Watch the shift from MIC to FIC across the Middle East.
🇸🇾 Syria gets sanctions relief, SWIFT access, Visa and World Bank-backed digital financial infrastructure.
🇮🇶 Iraq gets US-backed banking reform, digital payments and conditional access to dollar rails as US troops withdraw.
🇮🇷 Iran gets secondary sanctions and threats to cut any bank facilitating its trade out of the dollar system.
The MIC military footprint changes.
The FIC financial rails remain.
Net effect:
The MIC’s forever war in the Middle East is ending, while the FIC prepares for regional stability & distributing its dollar rails while simultaneously driving further hedging towards China and alternative CBDC payment rails.
In short, my analysis doesn’t miss that. It factors it in.
The FIC can profit from forever war AND from rebuilding after war.
For decades, the Middle East was extraordinarily profitable as a MIC profit centre. War, debt, weapons, reconstruction, sanctions and financial dependency all created opportunities for extraction.
Israel has been an important node in that architecture.
But incentives change.
The FIC is increasingly extracting from a heavily indebted West while simultaneously investing into the multipolar system emerging around it.
It increasingly relies on Gulf sovereign wealth funds, capital from the Middle East and access to the growth those economies represent.
At the same time, China has become too large to simply dictate terms to. It has to be negotiated with.
That changes the equation.
At some point, another decade of regional destruction can become less valuable than the capital flows, infrastructure, trade corridors, financial rails, reconstruction contracts and asset ownership that come from regional stability.
That doesn’t mean the FIC suddenly develops morals.
It means the profit model changes.
Forever war eventually gives way to reconstruction and financialisation, while the MIC searches for its next profit centres elsewhere.
Then the cycle begins again.
War → destruction → debt → reconstruction → financialisation → extraction.
So yes, Israel absolutely factors into my analysis.
Where we disagree is that you appear to assume yesterday’s incentives must remain tomorrow’s incentives.
I don’t.
Follow the incentives and you can often see the next phase before the narrative catches up.
I’ve gone much deeper into this in the videos on my blog if you want to explore the full thesis.
@SimonDixonTwitt But FIC seems to favor Israel too. So how can there be peace in the middle east when this malignant cancer continues to spread? Seems like FIC is fine with Israel continuing the terror indefinitely. This is what your analysis misses
In short, my analysis doesn’t miss that. It factors it in.
The FIC can profit from forever war AND from rebuilding after war.
For decades, the Middle East was extraordinarily profitable as a MIC profit centre. War, debt, weapons, reconstruction, sanctions and financial dependency all created opportunities for extraction.
Israel has been an important node in that architecture.
But incentives change.
The FIC is increasingly extracting from a heavily indebted West while simultaneously investing into the multipolar system emerging around it.
It increasingly relies on Gulf sovereign wealth funds, capital from the Middle East and access to the growth those economies represent.
At the same time, China has become too large to simply dictate terms to. It has to be negotiated with.
That changes the equation.
At some point, another decade of regional destruction can become less valuable than the capital flows, infrastructure, trade corridors, financial rails, reconstruction contracts and asset ownership that come from regional stability.
That doesn’t mean the FIC suddenly develops morals.
It means the profit model changes.
Forever war eventually gives way to reconstruction and financialisation, while the MIC searches for its next profit centres elsewhere.
Then the cycle begins again.
War → destruction → debt → reconstruction → financialisation → extraction.
So yes, Israel absolutely factors into my analysis.
Where we disagree is that you appear to assume yesterday’s incentives must remain tomorrow’s incentives.
I don’t.
Follow the incentives and you can often see the next phase before the narrative catches up.
I’ve gone much deeper into this in the videos on my blog if you want to explore the full thesis.
Wait for the narrative.
Maybe God promised space to Israel too?
Israel is a MIC node.
It provides a testing ground for illegal technology and covert operations that the wider MIC can later adopt with plausible deniability — with a story for Western consumption attached to every move.
BREAKING: Israel unveils plans to develop weapons capable of striking targets on Earth from space, including "laser beams," with Defense Minister Katz directly tying the space-weapons push to preparing for possible renewed conflict with Iran, per Jerusalem Post.
Katz says "as of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability," adding Israel is investing heavily in developing both offensive and defensive capabilities in space, including "powerful laser beams."
Katz has said Israel must first disrupt systems from orbit, then carry out kinetic strikes on Earth, arguing space is where Israel’s small size stops mattering.
It took me longer to understand the dollar than Bitcoin.
We wanted you to understand Bitcoin so you could hold it in self-custody.
The FIC never wanted you to understand the dollar so you would keep it in their custody.
Your dollars in the bank are their liability.
Cash is the dollar in self-custody.
Now watch how hard they work to get rid of cash and replace it with stablecoins & CBDCs.