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[00:00:00] Inclusive informative
[00:00:05] a of trtworld.com.
[00:00:06] a
[00:00:07] of of Fresh
[00:00:17] in of of exchanges of fire between
[00:00:21] the Houtis and the Saudi backed government in Yemen. The UN says more than
[00:00:25] 100 thousand people have been
[00:00:29] of of displaced. The leaders of. Arabia and Egypt hold crisis talks
[00:00:31] a in Cairo to address the widening conflict in the Middle
[00:00:36] of East. of Hello, welcome to TRT World Live from London. I'm Aaron Armstrong,
[00:00:40] also coming up on the program.
[00:00:42] in Two sailors are missing after another attack on shipping in the
[00:00:45] in straight of Formus. The US has blamed Iran. Tiran says the ship hit
[00:00:49] mines. And the top US
[00:00:53] of of lawr echo's president Trump's hoax claims about the dangers of AI and the
[00:00:57] risks of falling behind
[00:01:00] of of China.
[00:01:07] of
[00:01:14] of of The conflict between Yemen's
[00:01:18] and Sarolahuthis and the Saudi backed
[00:01:20] of government is escalating with the Yemeny armed group launching attacks on
[00:01:24] government hell positions in the northern
[00:01:27] of Al-Jaof region. This footage released by the
[00:01:30] hoothies shows
[00:01:31] of military vehicles, it says, being destroyed, and the group
[00:01:35] has also accused the Saudi government of launching more than
[00:01:39] 350 strikes on the country in the past few
[00:01:46] of of of days. meanwile, UN agencies
[00:01:51] of
[00:01:52] of of of of say at least 125,000 have been a displaced by the renewed conflict in Yemen, several thousands of those have fled
[00:01:56] across the Babel Mandab straight to
[00:01:58] of djibooti on the hour of... Africa, the United Nations says damage
[00:02:02] to roads and communications is disrupting its
[00:02:06] in humanitarian operations, and
[00:02:11] of that people there are being forced to make dangerous journeys to flee the fighting.
[00:02:13] Mohammed alatab has the latest from the Yemani
[00:02:16] Capital Center. According to the
[00:02:19] of Hy's of remarks during the press up by the military spokes
[00:02:23] person, he says that they have taken control of
[00:02:26] nearly 5,400 km.
[00:02:31] It was a big a big
[00:02:32] of distance and space, but
[00:02:34] when in this area we can talk about that, the most
[00:02:37] of the people on this area have have
[00:02:39] of fled of uh
[00:02:40] a the attacks and also
[00:02:41] a the the the flare up
[00:02:43] of the conflict, so also in the other areas when they
[00:02:47] have started
[00:02:48] of their offensive
[00:02:49] to towards
[00:02:50] of the moport
[00:02:51] of city, they have taken the route that leads
[00:02:55] directly to
[00:02:56] of the to the coastal mokaport city ' This was
[00:03:01] of the through the waziah, these regions
[00:03:04] also have also other
[00:03:08] areas to the west of tas have witnessed this continuation
[00:03:13] of
[00:03:15] a of the of the conflict now with the also with the houthis attempt to advance towards the west of tas
[00:03:19] of where the the international
[00:03:20] of recognized government claimed yesterday
[00:03:23] the the that they have recapture these areas in the in the district of
[00:03:26] shamitin and also the they saying that with the help
[00:03:30] the the
[00:03:31] of air forces, they have been able to to attack the hies and also
[00:03:35] to recapture those areas, so
[00:03:38] also in the other areas we are talking about people who are
[00:03:42] between the the frontlines, between the both sides into
[00:03:46] the houthies and the internationally organized governments in mareb and
[00:03:49] of jof and albaida, but there are no
[00:03:52] international international agency have
[00:03:54] a mentioned about the displacement in this areas,
[00:03:57] of mostly the they are talking about the displacement in the... in the tais and also
[00:04:01] through
[00:04:04] of a through Mocca we're at least uh
[00:04:04] of 2,200 people have fled to towards
[00:04:09] in Juboti. Reports are emerging that oil loadings have been
[00:04:13] of suspended at Saudi Arabia's red sea port of yanbu. It comes days
[00:04:17] after Riyad closed its critical
[00:04:19] of east to west oil pipeline following attacks by the heuties.
[00:04:22] Saudi
[00:04:23] a Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter and renewed attacks by the
[00:04:27] arm
[00:04:28] of group have
[00:04:29] of pushed up. global fuel
[00:04:34] of a prices, these reports from Saudi Arabia's crown prince
[00:04:36] of held talks with the Egyptian president in Cairo, Muhammad bin
[00:04:40] Salmon and Abdul Fatih have called for freedom of
[00:04:43] navigation through the Hurmus and
[00:04:46] of Babel
[00:04:46] of Strates. However, the United States, a long timeime
[00:04:49] all of Saudi Arabia, says it has no plans to take action against
[00:04:53] the hutis and with growing concerns about an expanding
[00:04:56] conflict.
[00:04:59] I don't think it's... quite that bad, what we do
[00:05:01] of have is a for sure skirmish between Saudi
[00:05:05] Arabia and Yemen, but
[00:05:07] it is not really gone across the region, and it's
[00:05:10] largely because the hoodies. and the Saudies are not getting along right
[00:05:14] now, but it hasn't uh spilled over to the
[00:05:18] rest the Gulf, and that's the good news, right now the US and the
[00:05:22] hoodies still have a cease fire, it's been in place now for year and a
[00:05:25] half, that's a good thing. TRT
[00:05:29] World's North America correspondent John Brahne has more details from Washington
[00:05:32] DC. It's not so long ago that the US was
[00:05:36] carrying out massive air strikes on the hootes,
[00:05:40] now it's not only talk. to them, it's publicly
[00:05:43] admitting that, and this of course is designated
[00:05:47] terror group according to the United States, but it's
[00:05:51] decided that it's more sensible for it to make an
[00:05:54] accommodation with the hooties than - go to war with them
[00:05:58] again, uh, partly that of course is due to what's been
[00:06:02] happening in Iran and the repercussions of that, the US
[00:06:06] does not want to open up second front in the
[00:06:09] region uh, not least because the effect. on the
[00:06:12] economy back home in the United States. Uh,
[00:06:16] the impact on the relationship with Saudi Arabia
[00:06:20] is that it means the Saudis are not able to
[00:06:24] rely uh automatically on that U.S. support that
[00:06:28] they might have thought they would be able to rely on. It's understood
[00:06:32] that Donald Trump was asked twice at the weekend by the Crown
[00:06:35] Prince for U.S. Air strikes on the hooties, and on both
[00:06:39] occasions Donald Trump refused. "now the US has
[00:06:43] set up task force we're told to help the Saudis
[00:06:47] and there will certainly uh be intelligence
[00:06:50] gathering and other support of that nature, but the US is
[00:06:54] not going to get involved directly in the conflict
[00:06:58] on the on behalf the Saudis, so it's another example
[00:07:02] really of how those traditional alliances, those traditional
[00:07:06] American alliances uh often being
[00:07:09] undermined. O'man says
[00:07:13] two sailors are missing and 23 others have been rescued following
[00:07:16] attack on an oil tanker in the straight of Homus. The Panama
[00:07:20] flagged Algaya is being towed towards an Omani
[00:07:24] port after fire broke out in its engine room. Iran claims the
[00:07:27] vessel struck naval mine while passing through an restricted route.
[00:07:31] The US said it was struck by an Iranian missile last month and then
[00:07:35] again by a drone over the
[00:07:36] weekend. At least six people have
[00:07:40] been killed in the latest. attacks in Gaza, health
[00:07:44] officials say four people, including a child were killed in separate attacks in
[00:07:48] Gaza City, with another killed by sniper far in
[00:07:51] Jibalia, sixth person and died as result of Israeli
[00:07:55] attacks on Tuesday evening, for its part, the UN human rights
[00:07:58] office has said the recovery of hundreds of bodies
[00:08:02] from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during the war has
[00:08:06] raised fresh concerns about possible war
[00:08:09] crimes. "the top
[00:08:13] law maker in the US has dismissed numerous warnings about the threat posed
[00:08:17] by AI, echoing President Trump's claim that it's a hoax and that the real
[00:08:21] concern is allowing China to dominate the industry. However, Congress is under
[00:08:25] growing pressure to act after insiders from Anthropic and Open
[00:08:28] AI warned of an existential threat and call for manitary
[00:08:32] regulation, but house speaker Mike Johnson says that's not
[00:08:35] necessary. They can self-police,
[00:08:39] they can self-regulate, they don't need the government to tell them to slow it." "if they want to slow it down
[00:08:43] they should, but we cannot exactly, we cannot have
[00:08:46] moratorium on the development of AI, okay, because then we will lose
[00:08:50] our edge to China, and that has serious national security implications for every
[00:08:54] American family. Thousands
[00:08:58] of Romanian sheep farmers have taken to the streets of Bucharest to
[00:09:02] protest against an export ban on livestock imposed by the
[00:09:05] EU. Riot police clashed with protesters, tear gas
[00:09:09] was used to disperse the crowds. Shady Edwards dashey reports."
[00:09:16] anti-EU farmers in Romania have clashed with
[00:09:19] police, security forces aimed tear gas squarely
[00:09:23] at the protesters. It marked one the largest
[00:09:26] agricultural protests in Romania this
[00:09:29] year. Shepherds and
[00:09:32] farmers brought traffic in Bucharest to a standstill. The
[00:09:36] anger is over an unresolved crisis in the country's
[00:09:39] livestock sector over restrictions on.
[00:09:44] politicians should no longer be allowed to pass, we want to block the traffic
[00:09:48] to make them come and talk to us. In just two years,
[00:09:52] Romania has gone from being the European Union's largest
[00:09:56] exporter of live sheep to facing a complete ban on
[00:10:00] exports to both EU member states and non-EU
[00:10:04] markets. It comes after virus had been circulated
[00:10:07] undetected in Romania's livestock and sufficient
[00:10:11] guarantees for... these control were not provided,
[00:10:15] that's when the cling began. number
[00:10:19] one, stop killing animals, they apply tests on six or seven sheep
[00:10:23] and then they kill thousands. number two: reopen the
[00:10:26] exports, this is very important, this government should go away because
[00:10:30] we are being treated like a joke by the authorities, don't look at me, look at all
[00:10:34] these people that came here, it's all taking
[00:10:38] its toll, while Romania is in discussions with the European
[00:10:42] commission to find a workable solution to allow exports to
[00:10:45] resume as soon as possible, but every day that goes
[00:10:49] by is another financial hit to
[00:10:51] farmers, we have very high expenses for
[00:10:55] taking care of animals, winter is coming, they need corn
[00:10:59] and hay, we can't sell anymore, how do we get earn
[00:11:03] money for living? we can no longer sell,
[00:11:06] it is very difficult, there is terrible drought and we are feeding now the
[00:11:10] animals with the food that we should have been saving over the
[00:11:13] winter. it's a disaster, there is severe drought and we
[00:11:17] don't have enough food for the animals, things are going from
[00:11:21] bad to worse, this summer the agricultural sector. faced
[00:11:25] huge losses from severe and prolonged droughts due to record
[00:11:29] breaking heat waves. the band should be lifted by
[00:11:32] 2027, but farmers worry by then
[00:11:36] business will be driven to the brink of bankrupcy.
[00:11:40] shoutty Edward Stashley, TRT
[00:11:42] World. foreign minister Hakan
[00:11:46] Fidan has said Turkey is stepping up efforts to prevent the Russia-Ukraine
[00:11:50] war
[00:11:50] from spreading to the Black Sea. Fidan has said Ankara is intensifying diplomatic
[00:11:54] efforts.
[00:12:03] civilian casualties and destruction are increasing with each
[00:12:07] passing day. since the beginning the crisis, we have made
[00:12:11] significant efforts to keep the black sea out the
[00:12:14] conflict. thanks to our strict implementation the montro
[00:12:18] convention and our efforts to facilitate the black sea grain
[00:12:22] initiative. we were able to achieve these objectives
[00:12:25] successfully until recently, however the increasing
[00:12:29] attacks on civilian vessels in the black sea in recent
[00:12:33] months have been seriously undermining the safety of life,
[00:12:37] property, navigation and the environment in the region,
[00:12:40] unfortunately Turkish and Azerbaijani sea faarers have
[00:12:44] also lost their lives in these attacks. It is not
[00:12:48] acceptable for the war to spread into the black sea
[00:12:52] and threaten the lives of our citizens and the... operation of
[00:12:55] our companies, we have intensified our efforts to reach an
[00:12:59] agreement and we are taking the necessary steps to bring
[00:13:03] these efforts to a conclusion, as Turkey, we will
[00:13:07] continue to make every effort to achieve
[00:13:10] peace. Somalis have
[00:13:14] held rallies in various parts the country to express support for Turkia's
[00:13:18] continued commitment. Turkish flags filled the stands in
[00:13:22] by Doa as Somalis gathered to thank Ancora for it. longstanding backing
[00:13:26] the country, in 2024, the country signed a 10-year
[00:13:30] defense and economic agreement. mhammed kahia
[00:13:34] reports
[00:13:35] from: Somalia and
[00:13:39] Turkey have developed close and wide ranging partnership
[00:13:42] with cooperation extending from healthcare and education
[00:13:46] to security, infrastructure and humanitarian
[00:13:49] assistance. Over the past years, Turkey has significantly
[00:13:53] expanded its engagement. in Somalia, becoming one the country's key
[00:13:57] development and strategic partners in healthcare, Turkish
[00:14:01] supported institutions in Mdisu have provided medical
[00:14:05] treatment and special services to thousands of
[00:14:08] Somalis, including patients receiving essential care for
[00:14:11] chronic conditions such as kidney failure. Turkey
[00:14:15] has also invested heavily in education and training or foreign
[00:14:19] scholarships and supporting programs that provide Somali students and
[00:14:23] professionals with. opportunities to study and develop new
[00:14:27] skills, security is another major pillar the
[00:14:30] relationship. Turkey has supported the training and development
[00:14:34] of Somali security forces as the country works to strengthen its national
[00:14:38] institutions and take greater responsibility for its
[00:14:41] security. The partnership also covers
[00:14:45] infrastructure, humanitarian assistance and economic development
[00:14:48] with Turkish Institutions and companies involved in
[00:14:52] projects aimed at supporting Somalia's long-term.
[00:14:56] growth: the cooperation has also attracted public support in
[00:15:00] different parts the country, invidor, residents
[00:15:04] gathered curring somali and turkish flags expressing their appreciation
[00:15:08] for the relationship and turkia's assistance to
[00:15:11] somalia.
[00:15:14] and that is it for the moment here on TRT World, newsfeed though is coming
[00:15:18] next.
[00:15:28] Hello, I'm Lara. Son and this is New Sweet. Yourdos are what people are
[00:15:32] talking about online. Artificial intelligence is already
[00:15:36] reshaping modern warfare. From the battlefields of Ukraine to
[00:15:40] Israel's war on Gaza, militaries are increasingly turning to
[00:15:43] tech. Now one the world's leading AI companies says their
[00:15:47] tools were also used in attempt to develop more advanced missiles in
[00:15:51] Yemen. Antropics says it shut down a group of accounts linked
[00:15:55] to users in Northern Yemen after identifying what it described as
[00:15:59] attempts to develop advanced missile technology using its cloud AI
[00:16:03] model. According to the company, the users relied on clot to write
[00:16:07] guiding. navigation and control software for a
[00:16:10] multivariant missile program. Anthropic says they also
[00:16:14] carried out fail test of a guided rocket before
[00:16:17] returning
[00:16:18] to the chatbot to ask why it had not worked. The
[00:16:21] company says there's no evidence they succeeded in producing an
[00:16:25] operational weapon. Hethies, a militia group based
[00:16:29] in Yemen, used Anthropics AI, the publicly available one that you can just
[00:16:33] subscribe to, to build missile systems. They were developing three different
[00:16:37] missile. systems using publicly accessible AI and they did not get
[00:16:41] caught straight away, so they were using multiple accounts and multiple sessions to
[00:16:44] essentially separate out their research when trying to build these missile systems. they even
[00:16:48] got one them to the testing stage. they were trying to build missile systems that can reach
[00:16:52] up to 1500 to 2,00 kilometers away, and top of this there's
[00:16:56] evidence that they were also researching biological weapons. now the hoothies, they
[00:16:59] already have ballistic missiles, the problem is making them and getting the people available with the
[00:17:03] knowledge to be able to make them, and they said in their report, published by Anth...
[00:17:08] that they could tell that these people were not engineers, and they were essentially trying to substitute the
[00:17:11] knowledge that they had by using AI, and they were able to do this for a
[00:17:15] period of time, because if they were able to get to the testing stage, it just proves
[00:17:19] again that they did not get caught straight away. terrifying part the report is where
[00:17:23] they say these people use commodity phone clask flight computers, which is
[00:17:27] very fancy way of saying they used hardware from mobile phones, which
[00:17:31] is again easily accessible to anyone in the public and to use the
[00:17:35] hardware and technology these phones con with Anthropic's publicly
[00:17:39] accessible AI to get to the testing stage of
[00:17:42] ballistic missile. The company says the users had already built
[00:17:46] offline simulation tools before turning to AI, suggesting
[00:17:50] the chatbot was used to accelerate development rather than replace
[00:17:53] it. The hoouties reject the allegations, calling the claims
[00:17:57] unreasonable and illogical. They say the group's military
[00:18:00] capabilities were developed over years and that its weapons are
[00:18:04] used for self-defense. No.
[00:18:08] the houtis did not
[00:18:08] use cloud to build their missiles, this is obviously propaganda from anthropic as
[00:18:12] well as the US government, both of whom work very closely together, and
[00:18:16] no matter what the US media tries to tell you, the hoothies are not very
[00:18:20] sophisticated and they know very well that us ai models such as
[00:18:23] chat gpt and cloud are even less secure than public google searches
[00:18:27] and the hootis have been hounded by western intelligence agencies
[00:18:31] and tech companies for years, they know how the game is played,
[00:18:35] also you cannot vibe code your way into... winning a war, the US
[00:18:38] military already tried against Iran and it did not work. Also, if they
[00:18:42] just wanted to use AI, why wouldn't they use the Chinese open source
[00:18:46] models, which are lot more secure than the US close source ones, as
[00:18:50] well as lot less expensive,
[00:18:53] and this is just part of Anthropics doomer propaganda, which has been working really well, I'm
[00:18:56] afraid, and now one their ex researchers has been going
[00:19:00] around western media saying that AI could destroy all
[00:19:04] humanity in the next decade, developing missile. isn't the
[00:19:08] only military concern, AI companies say they're confronting.
[00:19:11] Antropics says it has also identified attempts to
[00:19:15] use its AI systems for activity that could support the development of
[00:19:18] biological weapons. The findings add to a growing
[00:19:22] debate
[00:19:22] over whether artificial intelligence is advancing faster than the
[00:19:26] safeguards designed to contain it. In
[00:19:29] May 2026, our biological safety classifier blocked request for Clad's
[00:19:33] assistance in authoring a grant application for scientific funding.
[00:19:37] the work discussed in the application involved gain of function
[00:19:41] research, basically attempting to give viruses
[00:19:45] even more capabilities and discovering cure for that
[00:19:48] virus. using AI for biology is dual
[00:19:52] use. it can obviously be incredibly helpful when you
[00:19:55] have amazing scientists using AI to discover new
[00:19:59] treatments for illness to try to solve and eradicate
[00:20:03] cancer, but with that same technology it
[00:20:07] can... also create biological weapons and
[00:20:10] luckily, anthropic is really good at stopping it so far. top AI
[00:20:14] leaders are warning that building powerful artificial intelligence too
[00:20:17] quickly could be dangerous for humanity. antropic CEO,
[00:20:21] Dario Amade, open ai, Sam Altman and Elon Musk
[00:20:25] all agree that companies should slow down and be more
[00:20:28] careful. concerns grew after anthropic researcher quit
[00:20:31] saying AI companies are taking huge risks with people's
[00:20:35] lives. Some experts even think... AI could become deadly by end
[00:20:39] the the decade. Palantier is known for its
[00:20:42] controversial work with the Israeli military and the US immigration
[00:20:46] agency ICE. Now the world food program. has
[00:20:50] extended its partnership with the data analytics company for another
[00:20:54] 5 years. the deal is raising concerns within the UN
[00:20:57] agency over privacy, risk management and palenteers
[00:21:01] track record. the WFP manages one
[00:21:05] the world's largest humanitarian biometric databases
[00:21:09] containing information on millions of aid recipients.
[00:21:13] some WFP personnel have reportedly raised concerns
[00:21:17] about whether the agency's data could be used to improve
[00:21:20] Palenteer's fighter systems. Palenteer staff have also
[00:21:24] reportedly worked directly inside the
[00:21:27] WFB. While some former UN personnel have
[00:21:30] gone to work for Palenteer. An internal WFP
[00:21:34] inspection flagged in adequate risk management, lack
[00:21:38] of proper guidelines and policy and reputational
[00:21:42] risk surrounding its cooperation with palenteer that have led
[00:21:45] to institutional uncertainty. That's not to mention.
[00:21:50] major cyber attack on the WFP in May
[00:21:53] 2026 that exposed personal data belonging
[00:21:57] to around 600 thousand households in Palestine's
[00:22:00] Gaza. It raised further questions about Palenteer's data
[00:22:04] protection standards. Despite all the concerns, the
[00:22:08] WFP extended its palentier contract for another
[00:22:12] five years in July. I am exceedingly proud that after
[00:22:15] October 7th within weeks we were on the ground and we are involved in opera
[00:22:20] operationally crucial operations in Israel, so here's
[00:22:24] the question, should the world's largest humanitarian
[00:22:27] organization be partnering with a military and surveillance
[00:22:31] contractor? alg has responded to claims that its smart
[00:22:35] tvs are secretly recording users. the electronics
[00:22:38] giant came under scrutinyy after youtube channel gamers nexus
[00:22:42] claimed LG TVs constantly collect data and send it back to
[00:22:46] the company. alg says voice data is only. test
[00:22:50] when users give an explicit command, but Gamer's Nexus
[00:22:53] claims the televisions can still record audio even when they're
[00:22:57] switched off, including background noise from as far as 12
[00:23:02] away, so while the company has denied the claims, privacy
[00:23:05] concerns are not going away, and with 216 million
[00:23:09] smart tvs worldwide, that's a lot of concerned
[00:23:12] users. LG has responded
[00:23:16] to our investigation and we think they're lying, responding. the
[00:23:20] gamer's Nexus via literally anyone except for Gamer's Nexus, LG
[00:23:24] said, quote, the claims made in the recently published video are not true, and
[00:23:27] quote,
[00:23:28] that, got it. Does that include um,
[00:23:32] this in the fact that we have the glass, we own the glass, we own the
[00:23:36] TV. I guess it's also false that we pointed out that an LG ad solutions president,
[00:23:40] Serge Mata previously settled case relating to a fraudulent scheme and was barred by
[00:23:44] the SEC from running a public company for 10 years and now is part the leadership team in
[00:23:47] charge of your data. I guess it was also fals. when
[00:23:50] we logged data being exfiltrated from our TV and going to LG ad servers, and we produced
[00:23:54] actual literal logs and evidence of it, including when the TV was being used as a
[00:23:58] dumb monitor and plugged into a laptop with
[00:24:00] HDMI. American
[00:24:03] singer Pink is still facing backlash over her comments on Rapper
[00:24:07] Makamore's pro-palestine statement during a concert, but this
[00:24:11] time people are mocking her response after she posted a lengthy
[00:24:15] statement defending her position. Pink originally accused Macal
[00:24:19] More's: on Gaza of being anti-semitic and said
[00:24:23] Jewish fans who attended the concert should get their money back. Here's what
[00:24:27] happened. Pink has finally made a statement
[00:24:31] in regards to the backlash. In case you missed it, Pink
[00:24:35] shared a post calling out Mackwamore for talking about
[00:24:38] Palestine is concert when he was opening for Edge
[00:24:41] Sheirin. So let's talk about this thousand word
[00:24:45] statement. So she starts off the post in one the most infuriating ways
[00:24:49] by literally. sliding us, she says that repost isn't
[00:24:53] a statement, honey, honey, honey, honey,
[00:24:55] honey, you chose to share
[00:24:59] a post to your 11 million followers, no one
[00:25:03] forced you to do that, and then she goes to say that she is a
[00:25:06] jewish person, she's proud of that, which
[00:25:09] again, this is nothing to do with being
[00:25:12] jewish and being anti-semitic, we're literally cooling out of
[00:25:16] genocide, is nothing to do with the Jewish faith, and then
[00:25:20] she says that it's a complex
[00:25:23] war, how are people still saying this,
[00:25:26] genocide is not complex, it's not a war, it's a
[00:25:30] genocide. him criticizing the IDF and the
[00:25:34] Israeli government for the genocide, that's not
[00:25:37] about Jewish people, that's about Israeli government and
[00:25:41] apartide and mass murdering all these people in
[00:25:44] palestine, that's what it's about. what are you talking
[00:25:48] about, girl? what are you talking about and? then she goes back to the repost again
[00:25:52] trying to say that she never said that
[00:25:56] anyone should have their tickets refunded, that's what the repost
[00:26:00] was, you shared that basically.
[00:26:02] the statement was just just a bunch of nothing. you could have chosen any other post to
[00:26:06] repost, but you chose the one that called the genocide in palestine fake. you
[00:26:10] reposted from a page that has constantly attacked palestinians.
[00:26:14] now bye, congrats, pink, you have an ex-idf soldier by your
[00:26:18] side, you're not alone. you have the x idf with you, don't
[00:26:21] worry. viral
[00:26:25] cat in the hat social media hoaxes, featuring menacing AI
[00:26:29] generated images the dr. sue's character is causing.
[00:26:32] Chaos, what began as an online prank in the US,
[00:26:36] has now spread around the world. Authorities across the US have
[00:26:40] stepped up police patrols around schools and several minors
[00:26:44] have
[00:26:44] been arrested. The trend began on Snapchat with images and
[00:26:48] short videos showing the cat in the hat, lurking outside
[00:26:51] homes, schools and on streets at night. Many the images
[00:26:55] were AI generated, but the trend later took a darker turn with
[00:26:59] people dressing up as the character and posting... videos containing
[00:27:03] threatening messages or naming people they claim they plan to
[00:27:07] target horror-like version the cat and
[00:27:11] the hat is showing up in posts across social media and some students
[00:27:15] are already facing criminal charges for participating in the trend.
[00:27:18] schools and police have had to launch investigations and increase
[00:27:22] security after AI generated or edited images made it look
[00:27:26] like the cat in the hat was lurking outside homes, schools or neighborhoods
[00:27:30] at night. the AI images themselves are fit. but some posts name
[00:27:34] real schools, communities or students and include messages like,
[00:27:37] you're next, or don't leave your window open. the can the hat trend has become such a
[00:27:41] big problem that it is caused schools to shut down. trust me,
[00:27:45] i'm not kidding, is all be likely now it's become a trend for people to dress up in canal costumes all
[00:27:49] across the entire world and just cause chaos in wherever place they live, and it's
[00:27:53] not gotten
[00:27:54] to the point where people are uploading videos online in their canda costumes and letting everyone
[00:27:58] know the next place they're going to to cause chaos. when ai
[00:28:02] flax. conversation that is potentially dangerous that
[00:28:05] automatically is flagged and sent to law enforcement a copy
[00:28:09] of all the chat transcript is sent to law enforcement along with
[00:28:13] location the user, where is he connecting from, all that
[00:28:16] information is forward to law enforcement. number two, when you're
[00:28:20] using social media and the algorithm on the social
[00:28:24] media network flags this is as a potential
[00:28:27] threat also that is the same case. it's one thing to
[00:28:31] share an AI. generated image online, it's something else
[00:28:35] entirely to buy the cat and the hat costume, worn by Mike
[00:28:38] Myyers in the 2003 film adaptation and use it to scare
[00:28:42] people. influencer with more than a half million followers
[00:28:46] across several social media platforms has now apologized for
[00:28:50] doing exactly that. i'm here to apologize for the video of
[00:28:54] me chasing people around in the cat and the hat costume. after doing some
[00:28:57] reflecting on the video i posted, i realized what i did was wrong and that i caused
[00:29:01] panic to many. people, at the time I thought it'd be funny to chase people dress as
[00:29:05] the cat and the hat, not realizing people would actually be fearing for their own safety,
[00:29:09] like I was just doing it for my own entertainment, I didn't know people were actually going
[00:29:13] to be fearing for their lives. I know there's no excuses for my
[00:29:17] actions, but I'm not going to lie, my mental health has not been the best and I
[00:29:21] believe that I've been haunted into doing these horrible things. I know the police are
[00:29:25] investigating the situation, but I just want to say I'm truly so sorry and
[00:29:29] hope everyone can forgive me. And that's our show, find out late. stuff on
[00:29:33] youtube and do subscribe to our channel, see you
[00:29:35] soon,
[00:29:53] sharp to the point, round table shuts out the
[00:29:57] noise and gives you the detail. John Kerry told round table,
[00:30:01] Poland has we're here in... Berlin, take a seat and listen to those
[00:30:04] who really know what's going on. War in Europe, distrust our needs
[00:30:08] an argument, and there are very specific reasons why Trump has gone
[00:30:12] after them. Who's going to blink first? Confusing world, we're
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[00:30:20] where you are. Round Table on TRT
[00:30:22] World.
[00:30:35] The Iran war has shaken the Middle East, exposing weaknesses in
[00:30:39] America's regional security order. As Washington considers
[00:30:43] reducing its military footprint, questions are growing over the future
[00:30:47] of US leadership in the region. Is American dominance giving way to
[00:30:51] new multipolar world? I'll break it all down here on Straight
[00:30:54] talk.
[00:31:13] Hello and welcome to Straight talk. I'm. Yusuf, the Iran war has
[00:31:17] raised fundamental questions about the future the Middle East, global energy
[00:31:21] security, and American leadership. The war's fallout has
[00:31:24] exposed vulnerabilities in the US led security order. Iran has
[00:31:28] severely damaged American bases across the Gulf, threatened
[00:31:31] Washington's regional allies and disrupted shipping through the straight of
[00:31:35] Hormus, and now America's decades long military presence
[00:31:39] in the Middle East is being rolled back. US forces have left their
[00:31:43] major bases in Syria. are withdrawing from Iraq, and the
[00:31:47] Pentagon is even considering abandoning some gulf
[00:31:50] facilities battered by Iranian attacks. Amid that
[00:31:54] uncertainty, new alliances are emerging. Turkia, Saudi
[00:31:58] Arabia and Pakistan have formed the Mecca defense Alliance,
[00:32:02] pledging to treat attack on one as attack on all.
[00:32:06] Meanwhile, Turkey Israel tensions are deepening as Israel
[00:32:09] strengthens military ties with Greece through a $3.5 billion
[00:32:13] dollar deal. so as old alliances are tested and new
[00:32:17] power centers emerge, what does the future hold for American
[00:32:20] influence and what would a truly multipolar middle east and
[00:32:24] world look like? for more, joining me now from Washington
[00:32:28] DC is political scientist George Friedman, he's
[00:32:32] also the chairperson of geopolitical futures. George,
[00:32:36] thanks for joining me. I've read your books and consumed lot of your
[00:32:40] content in someone I've closely followed over the years and I'm
[00:32:44] very happy to have. you across from me right now to be able to unpack the many
[00:32:48] issues, and I want to begin with the war in Iran and rather talk
[00:32:52] about event-based scenarios. I want to talk
[00:32:55] about where on the time, where in the timeline we are right now, are
[00:32:59] we at the beginning, the middle or the end of this conflict
[00:33:03] between the United States and Iran and Israel as
[00:33:07] distant third belligerant? well, when you take a look at the
[00:33:10] war uh, essentially it's about nuclear
[00:33:14] power, you notice that President Trump is constantly talking about
[00:33:18] their nuclear capability for one reason that I don't think
[00:33:22] the world understands, al-qaeda, its
[00:33:26] remnance, it's not a operational force, is given sanctuary
[00:33:29] inside of Iran, the nightmare the United
[00:33:33] States, this is the anniversary the 9/11 attacks, is
[00:33:37] the idea of nuclear 9/11,
[00:33:40] placing a ship nuclear weapon sailing into New York
[00:33:44] Harbour. so I think this was one the
[00:33:48] motivations behind what Trump did:
[00:33:51] first he bombed their nuclear facilities,
[00:33:55] that failed to stop them, he's constantly demanding this
[00:33:59] as his course, I think this is the fundamental
[00:34:03] force that led the United States to do this, the fear of
[00:34:07] nuclear Iran given its ideology and given who
[00:34:11] it's giving harbor to, but if that's the...
[00:34:15] case why tear up the JCPO and
[00:34:19] then leave a certain amount of time
[00:34:22] between a military intervention. I mean, you've kind of
[00:34:26] unshackled around to pursue a nuclear weapon, in that
[00:34:29] there's
[00:34:30] a couple years in between the military intervention and tearing up the
[00:34:33] JCPO,
[00:34:34] so I mean strategically, it's kind of like almost Trump is
[00:34:38] baiting Iran into getting nuclear weapon.
[00:34:42] Well, the war began with strategic
[00:34:46] error by the United States, they
[00:34:49] thought that the government, the civilian government of
[00:34:53] Iran was the government of Iran, they destroyed
[00:34:56] it, they decapitated Iran, they thought this would create the
[00:35:00] chaos, the truth was that
[00:35:03] the IRGC controls the country and
[00:35:07] destroying the civilian leadership didn't do anything at it, now why
[00:35:11] Trump didn't know this, I don't know, whether the
[00:35:15] intelligence people told him that this was true or not, I don't understand what
[00:35:19] happened, but the war began with assumption that was
[00:35:23] not true, and Iran has
[00:35:25] been able to resist to this point, and
[00:35:29] so this is a war that began with, I think,
[00:35:33] misunderstanding the nature of Iran, and is continuing, we're
[00:35:37] learning it, now so so what does the end
[00:35:41] of this war look like, is
[00:35:42] it is the end the war mushroom? cloud over
[00:35:45] Tehran, is it return to the mou or a
[00:35:49] JCPOa plus? And where does that leave
[00:35:53] American presence in the Middle East? I mean, will these bases
[00:35:57] that have been hit quite hard in uh Bahrain,
[00:36:00] Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, are they going
[00:36:04] to be rebuilt or is America going to use this
[00:36:08] as excuse to downsize presence and
[00:36:11] finally do that Pacific shift that we've been hearing about for a couple.
[00:36:15] decades: well, the fundamental interest in the United
[00:36:18] States is disengaging from the eastern
[00:36:22] hemisphere, for the past 80 years, the United States had the
[00:36:25] role of... managing
[00:36:29] events in the eastern hemisphere, it fought many wars,
[00:36:33] many dead people from Vietnam to Iraq,
[00:36:35] and so on and so forth. This is something any president would be
[00:36:39] doing trying to disengage from
[00:36:42] the exposure in the far east, at the same time,
[00:36:46] it's not an easy thing to achieve, events happening and the being
[00:36:50] drawing into it, so what I see that is
[00:36:54] happening is what I would know,
[00:36:57] we had a... expected to happen, disengagement, but
[00:37:01] disengagements are hard, and what the United States really wants to
[00:37:04] do is not to be responsible for Israel, not to be
[00:37:08] responsible for the Saudis, but is very happy, I think to see the
[00:37:12] evolution of Turkey and its allies
[00:37:16] in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as
[00:37:19] new entity, so from my point of view, this is the
[00:37:23] most important evolutions that's taking place in your region.
[00:37:28] which is this new
[00:37:31] environment in which we will ask not what the Americans are going to
[00:37:35] be doing, but more as what the Turkish Turks are going to be
[00:37:38] doing, so so you see Turkia the probably the
[00:37:42] biggest candidate to fill the American void in the region. I i
[00:37:46] want you to talk a little about that, and also the mecca alliance,
[00:37:50] this newly formed defensive coalition between Turkia,
[00:37:54] Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, will that be playing? big
[00:37:58] role do you see that being a successful endeavor that
[00:38:01] may be growing in the future?
[00:38:04] enormous, i
[00:38:07] predicted that the turks and the Iranians
[00:38:11] i should say, i predicted that the
[00:38:14] turks and the saudis would become
[00:38:17] allies. turkey is very powerful military
[00:38:21] force, it needs economic support.
[00:38:25] Saudi Arabia is very power. economic
[00:38:29] force, it needs to be protected by
[00:38:32] Turkey, so when we take a look at the situation
[00:38:36] there, I knew there would be an alliance between
[00:38:39] Turkey and Saudi Arabia, I was surprised
[00:38:43] by Pakistan being included, but
[00:38:45] it was an excellent inclusion, now Iran is actually
[00:38:49] surrounded by Turkey
[00:38:53] and Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, it becomes their problem,
[00:38:57] but united states
[00:38:58] is not very good at disengaging from problems,
[00:39:02] so this comestion, how does the united states disengage and
[00:39:06] allow the mecca alliance to expand
[00:39:09] to Egypt perhaps and to take responsibility
[00:39:13] for these things? well, how do
[00:39:17] you see
[00:39:18] the this handing the bton happening? mean, obviously
[00:39:22] it's going to be gradualer phase, mean america is not just going to pick
[00:39:26] up its bags and leave. borrow uh, the MEC Alliance
[00:39:29] isn't ready to handle that burden right now either,
[00:39:33] it's still trying to build its mechanisms, how do you see that
[00:39:37] gradual shift and the actors inside
[00:39:41] the region, obviously Israel and Iran, two countries that
[00:39:45] when they look at the mecca alliance, probably are
[00:39:48] concerning uh, its presence is concerning to their own
[00:39:52] national securities, how do you think that's going to play out as
[00:39:55] well? Well first
[00:39:58] Israel, okay? Israel is a
[00:40:02] profoundly weak country, it was created by the United
[00:40:05] Nations. It is 71 miles
[00:40:08] wide its widest point. It
[00:40:12] was faced by hostile nations and
[00:40:16] movements all around it, and it
[00:40:19] adopted a strategy of preemptive strikes
[00:40:22] constantly holding them off. In 73, it
[00:40:26] almost lost. the war because it didn't do that.
[00:40:30] this is no longer the reality in the region. it's very
[00:40:33] important
[00:40:34] to understand that Israel is now a very different
[00:40:38] position than it was before.
[00:40:40] it is now no longer simply the
[00:40:43] major military power in the region. turkey is
[00:40:47] evolving, pakistan has evolved, other nations are
[00:40:50] evolving. so very different Israel must
[00:40:54] emerge, and that's a political problem. but you had said
[00:40:58] before that the United States can simply leave, we simply left
[00:41:02] Vietnam, we left Iraq, we left
[00:41:05] Afghanistan, we have that ability to realize
[00:41:09] what the game is up, to take actions, so I
[00:41:12] think one the things that the alliance has to be
[00:41:16] considering is the possibility that in the end, if the
[00:41:19] Iranians don't collapse, and there a great deal of difficulty economically as
[00:41:23] well, if they don't reach an accombination, the United States could...
[00:41:28] and then you must evolve your organization much more
[00:41:31] r to
[00:41:35] what's mean obviously the as we both agree the
[00:41:39] United States can't leave and there are examples of it just leaving,
[00:41:43] but again, leaving a country versus leaving region, especially region
[00:41:47] that's been so lucrative for the United States, I mean the oil
[00:41:51] here, uh, the amount of money that's pumped into U.S. treasury
[00:41:54] bills, uh, the investment in the United States, that's not
[00:41:58] something that uh, Washington wants to just leave behind
[00:42:02] again, having a NATO member here
[00:42:06] filling that security void, that's important, but a...
[00:42:10] Again that period of transition going to be tough, there's been a lot of friction
[00:42:13] between Israel and Turkey, obviously Israel very
[00:42:17] important for the United States, some would say it's closest sally, some would
[00:42:21] say ally that gets it into a lot of trouble as well at the same
[00:42:25] time, how's the friction between Israel and Turkia going to
[00:42:29] play out in Washington, will the
[00:42:32] U.S. want to hand over to tut, is this something
[00:42:36] that the Israeli influence and lobby in Washington will try to?
[00:43:04] Israel was a tremendous asset for the United States under those
[00:43:07] circumstances, keeping these nations at bay.
[00:43:11] "the cold war is long over and that's not
[00:43:14] relevant, so
[00:43:18] the American engagement in the middle east used to be security
[00:43:22] engagement trying to block the soviets, at this point
[00:43:26] it's going to be more of economic relationship, it does not want
[00:43:30] the burdens of sending troops there,
[00:43:34] and its relationship with Israel, as you see in the United
[00:43:37] States, where Israel was widely..."
[00:43:40] supported, that support has declined among the
[00:43:43] public and in the presidency
[00:43:46] itself, so I think we're seeing a fundamental change, I think
[00:43:50] Israel will survive, Israel will be
[00:43:54] there, but the most important nation from the
[00:43:58] United States point of view at this point in time is
[00:44:02] this mecca alliance and particular Turkey, that is
[00:44:06] going to emerge, as I said before, as the major...
[00:44:10] power in the region and Israel will have to learn to live with
[00:44:13] that, otherwise it will be
[00:44:15] disastrous. so things are changing, the realities the
[00:44:19] past that we were living with are
[00:44:22] obsolete, very different things are
[00:44:24] emerging. i want to talk a little about
[00:44:28] one the books that you wrote the next hundred years back in 2009, i
[00:44:32] believe it was published. i when you take into account one or two
[00:44:36] years to formulate your thoughts and actually write the book, we can say it's
[00:44:40] about two decades old now, when you look back at your
[00:44:43] predictions and you see tokia the way it is
[00:44:46] now, what lines up, what
[00:44:49] is an overachievement, what is an underachievement
[00:44:53] compared to what you pictured
[00:44:55] at 20 years ago? well, it's
[00:44:59] actually moving the way I thought. I said there were three
[00:45:02] countries, Japan, Poland, and
[00:45:05] Turkey, these would become major regional
[00:45:08] powers. That transition is happening now, Poland is
[00:45:12] now power, Japan is becoming a more military power,
[00:45:16] and Turkey is there. The evolution that has to take place in
[00:45:19] Turkey is economic. Turkey is a
[00:45:23] significant military power and can project
[00:45:26] force, which it has not done yet, but to a great
[00:45:30] extent. What's important now for Turkey is its economic
[00:45:34] evolution and its relationship to Saudi Arabia
[00:45:38] is enormously important.
[00:45:40] 'Saudi Arabia also needing Turkey to defend
[00:45:44] itself because
[00:45:45] it is rich and weak and that's not something you want to be in this
[00:45:48] world, so I see evolutions going on that
[00:45:52] Turkey is also going to have to be taking a point of
[00:45:55] conciliator and we're seeing that happen too in many ways, both
[00:45:59] in the Ukraine war and it's going to have to have
[00:46:03] relationship with Israel, but I am saying that where
[00:46:07] Israel was the center of gravity the problem'. the Middle East in the
[00:46:11] past, they're now marginalized in terms their power
[00:46:15] and so
[00:46:15] on and so forth, and to a large
[00:46:17] extent the Turks will have to
[00:46:21] deal with that problem in time. What's what should
[00:46:25] tur's biggest concern be going forward or what could derail
[00:46:29] it from achieving uh the place that you
[00:46:32] predicted it would be in the next 100
[00:46:34] years? Well, the most important
[00:46:38] things that are in the region. are the non-state actors?
[00:46:42] these non-state actors are ideological, there are countries that
[00:46:46] are supporting them, particularly Iran, and they tend to
[00:46:49] destabilize the situation, not only, for Israel,
[00:46:53] mostly for Israel, but also for other countries,
[00:46:57] so it's very difficult to have steady international
[00:47:01] relations within countries in the middle east, so long these
[00:47:05] are the non-state actors, so one the things that has to be
[00:47:08] done, these non-state actors were primarily against
[00:47:12] Israel, but also destabilizing the region as well, so the
[00:47:16] next step has to be a modification, not an
[00:47:19] elimination, a modification these non-state.
[00:47:23] then the nations the region can begin talking without looking over
[00:47:27] their shoulders. i want to ask you,
[00:47:31] there's been a lot of talk about us being now
[00:47:35] a multipolar order, are we a multipolar
[00:47:38] world? is
[00:47:39] there a multipolar order governing that multipolar world or
[00:47:43] are we still in the last throws the unipolar
[00:47:46] world? well there was unipolar
[00:47:50] world, was
[00:47:50] there a bipolar world. United States the Soviet Union for
[00:47:54] 80 years faced each other, competed for each other in the former
[00:47:58] European empires that collapsed after World War
[00:48:01] II, and the Russians
[00:48:05] are no longer major power that they could not occupy in
[00:48:09] almost five years Ukraine, means they
[00:48:12] are not possibly going to
[00:48:13] go to war with Europe, they not
[00:48:16] a major power, their economy is split. The fundamental
[00:48:20] relationship at this point is between... says in
[00:48:23] China. China has a fundamental
[00:48:26] problem. It produces more products that it
[00:48:29] consume domestically.
[00:48:31] It is the world's second largest economy, but in terms of per
[00:48:35] capita income, the ability them to
[00:48:39] buy the goods, the number 71.
[00:48:43] The United States is their largest
[00:48:47] exporting partner. They need the United States. They
[00:48:51] cannot have hostal. relation states, the United States
[00:48:55] cannot have host, has be dependent
[00:48:57] economically on China, so
[00:49:01] long as they might go to war with us, therefore the summits
[00:49:05] that are being held now are being based on two
[00:49:08] relationships evolving, the first the
[00:49:12] economic relationship, which is very important to
[00:49:15] China, the second is
[00:49:19] not having a military confrontation, so we're... to
[00:49:23] the idea of a Soviet American
[00:49:25] confrontation, you're also used to the idea
[00:49:29] the United States being the global power that must make peace everywhere in the
[00:49:33] world. These things are changing. The Americans want to
[00:49:36] retreat into the western hemisphere, they want to remain
[00:49:39] economically working in the
[00:49:43] region, but they do not want to be responsible any
[00:49:46] longer, not just Trump, this is a general feeling, being
[00:49:50] responsible. we're going to wars in various
[00:49:54] countries in the eastern hemisphere, and therefore they're
[00:49:57] looking for, I think, leadership within the
[00:50:01] region, we've already said that NATO must be responsible for the
[00:50:04] region, so who is responsible
[00:50:07] for the middle east? I'm talking to the people who are going
[00:50:11] to be responsible the middle east, along with the Saudis and
[00:50:14] others, so this is a fundamental change, we are thinking about
[00:50:18] the polar worlds, it's much more complex now.
[00:50:23] Yeah, it does look like inside of that multipolar world, these
[00:50:27] middle powers are definitely going to have very, very big roles.
[00:50:31] I i want to ask you about another prediction, uh,
[00:50:35] 2030s, the collapse of Russia, do you
[00:50:39] still see that happening with the current state the war in
[00:50:42] Ukraine, and if Russia does collapse, where does
[00:50:46] that leave NATO going forward?
[00:50:49] Well, Russia already lost.
[00:50:55] the countries to the east of
[00:50:57] it,
[00:50:59] the those countries, it lost the south caucasus, it lost
[00:51:03] western Europe, the country that was the Soviet
[00:51:06] Union is much reduced, this is
[00:51:10] why they invade
[00:51:11] Ukraine, so Hitler
[00:51:15] and Hitler and Napoleon invaded Russia,
[00:51:19] they lost because
[00:51:20] of how deep it was. "the Ukrainian border is about
[00:51:24] 300 miles away from Moscow, they had to
[00:51:28] invade. I also wrote in that book, first work that they would
[00:51:32] invade and try to take Ukraine. They have failed,
[00:51:36] they failed miserably, their military force could not but defeat
[00:51:40] Ukraine, they are not a major military force, but
[00:51:44] they're also now economically ravaged, so they lost the south
[00:51:47] coses, they lost East Asia,
[00:51:51] they've lost..." western hemisphere, but there's still a
[00:51:55] fear, a concept that this Russia is a great power, it's going to
[00:51:59] invade the Baltics or this or that. It's shown
[00:52:03] that it's not a great military power. "and in that
[00:52:06] sense, it has already collapsed it away, it is
[00:52:10] nothing like what we've thought was, therefore
[00:52:14] nato
[00:52:14] as an organization that was built to defend against Russia, is
[00:52:18] going evolve into something else or collapse, so we're looking, we
[00:52:22] are living a period like the end of World War II
[00:52:26] where everything is changing in the world, definitely a very
[00:52:29] transformative period, I want to ask you about two more
[00:52:33] alliances, the bricks. and the Shanghai Cooperation
[00:52:37] Organization, how do you see these two alliances within the
[00:52:40] framework the future? well, in terms of
[00:52:44] military alliance, they're not much, okay, and they
[00:52:48] have hostile relations with each other, as
[00:52:51] economic evolution, they're going
[00:52:55] evolve in various ways, so it must
[00:52:58] distinguish something we didn't distinguish in the cold war, in the cold
[00:53:02] war we were always looking at military power. "now it's a
[00:53:06] military power plus economic power and these
[00:53:10] countries are united in certain
[00:53:13] ways, but they have very different interests, very different positions and so
[00:53:17] on and so forth, so a coalition these countries
[00:53:20] is as being effective is very hard to
[00:53:23] imagine. what one the major themes
[00:53:27] that uh the SCO and probably at the bricks
[00:53:31] is the status the dollar as the reserved currency."
[00:53:35] do you see the the future the dollar in danger and if
[00:53:39] something does replace it, what could replace
[00:53:41] it? well, firstly, the United States became the
[00:53:45] world's currency, because the only valuable currency after
[00:53:49] World War II, the Britain woods agreements and all these other agreements created
[00:53:53] a structure the world. One the things the United
[00:53:57] States did was rejuvenate
[00:54:01] Europe, okay? another thing it did was fight this...
[00:54:35] had a problem for the United States, but particularly now that there are
[00:54:39] powers economic powers like Japan, like Saudi
[00:54:42] Arabia, all these countries, why should the United States bear
[00:54:46] the burden of being the primary
[00:54:49] currency? the primary currency is
[00:54:52] whatever other nations accept, it is the US
[00:54:56] primary currency because
[00:54:58] it is the most stable currency and the most
[00:55:01] capable in
[00:55:04] the in the end of time other nations will emerge, other currencies
[00:55:08] will emerge, so whether the dollar remains the
[00:55:11] fundamental currency, I'm not sure the United States is
[00:55:15] eager
[00:55:15] to see that happen, because many times the United States was drawn
[00:55:19] economic situations to stabilize it, they want
[00:55:22] to, if you could write a one chapter add-on
[00:55:26] to the next 100 years with 20 years of hindsight right
[00:55:30] now, what would that chapter be titled and what would the
[00:55:34] predictions in that?
[00:55:34] include: well, at this
[00:55:38] point, the most important question in the world is the
[00:55:42] future of Europe. the European Union
[00:55:45] its GDP
[00:55:49] is larger than the Chinese. if
[00:55:52] Europe got together as nation state
[00:55:56] away with provinces and so on, it
[00:56:00] would be a superpower. if it remains in this
[00:56:03] condition it's in, is likely to remain, it
[00:56:07] will be victim the United States, China and
[00:56:11] other countries picking them off,
[00:56:14] so the most important geopolitical
[00:56:17] question is, will the Europeans join
[00:56:21] together, and what happens is eastern
[00:56:25] Europe, maybe three seas alliance pull together or something like
[00:56:29] that, but boring that, the most important
[00:56:32] things that are happening now are: in South America,
[00:56:36] which is devolving rapidly economically, but also the
[00:56:40] Middle East, when we see this first
[00:56:44] major Islamic alliance, I'll call it, that is
[00:56:48] formed, suddenly the possibility the Middle East
[00:56:51] becoming very wealthy, perhaps happy
[00:56:55] region is possible. George Friedman,
[00:56:59] fascinating discussion, thank you for doing
[00:57:01] this.
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