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As I mentioned last class, there are

three major questions that will

determine how this war is fought, what

the what this war

will end up looking like, and how the

world will change.

And as I discussed last class, I'm

making three predictions about this war.

The first is United States will use

ground troops.

And this will mean that

Donald Trump will institute a national

draft. Okay? That's the first

prediction. Second prediction is that

Israel and the United States will not

use tactical nuclear weapons in this

war.

Number three is that the Al-Aqsa Mosque,

the third holiest site in the Islamic

world, will be destroyed during this

war.

Okay, so last class, I explained my

analysis and my reasoning for

my first two predictions. Today, I'll

explain my

third prediction. So, but before we

start, I just want to look at some

videos, okay? So, you understand some of

the context, some of the players in this

war. All right, so this is Senator

Blumenthal of Connecticut, and he is one

of the 100 members of the US Senate.

He's also one

of the members of the Gang of Eight.

Now,

when when you are fighting a war,

the White House has responsibility to

report its

objectives, its purpose,

how the war is progressing to eight

members

of Congress in a confidential setting,

okay? And this is um

Senator Blumenthal after he's been

debriefed by

the White House. Okay, and this is what

he has to say about the progress of the

war so far.

I emerge from this briefing

as dissatisfied

and angry, frankly,

as I have from any

past briefing

in my 15 years in the Senate.

I am

left with more questions than answers,

especially about the cost of the war.

My questions [snorts]

have been unanswered.

And I will demand answers because the

American people deserve to know.

And

I guess I am most

concerned about the threat to American

lives

of potentially deploying our sons and

daughters on the ground in Iran. We seem

to be on a path

toward deploying American troops on the

ground in Iran

to accomplish any of the potential

objectives here.

And

there is also

as disturbingly as anything else, this

factor of active Russian aid to Iran

putting in danger

American lives.

All right.

So, three things to take away from

his talk with reporters, okay? The first

thing is

>> [snorts]

>> the administration, Donald Trump, the

White House, has not articulated a

budget. How much will this war cost?

Which means that this is an open-ended

war. We don't know when this war will

end.

And so, we don't know what the

commitment is, and so we don't know how

much this war will cost, okay? That's

the first point he makes. The second

point he makes is we are on a path

towards the deployment of ground troops

in Iran.

Okay, and that basically means a

national draft. Now, the third thing

that's crucial is he says that they know

for a fact that Russia is already

involved

in this war aiding Iran.

Okay? So, that's the three main

takeaways

from

um

Okay, so this is um

um the foreign minister of Iran, Zarif,

talking to NBC News. All right. And NBC

News is going to ask Zarif, "Hey,

there's talk United States already of

ground troops being used against

uh Iran, okay?" Now, I want you to

observe his response and then the

response of the journalist.

President Trump has not ruled out boots

on the ground in Iran. Are you afraid of

a [snorts] US invasion in your country?

No, we are waiting for them.

You you were waiting for the US military

to invade, the ground troops?

Yes.

Because [clears throat] we we are

confident that we can confront them, and

that would be a big disaster for them.

Okay, do you understand? Okay.

So, you're saying that that Iran is

ready and willing to take on the US

military if there were to be ground

troops?

Well, we were ready for this. Okay, so

again, certain things to appreciate.

First of all, the foreign minister,

Zarif, he is not at all concerned about

ground troops. In fact, he basically

said, "It's a trap for you guys. You

come in, we've been preparing for about

20 years for this, we will destroy you."

Another thing that you will notice is

the journalist is completely surprised

by the answer. He's shocked into

silence. He has asked again, "Wait, are

you saying you're ready for ground

troops?"

And so, this shows you that within

Washington, D.C., okay, within

the Trump administration, within the

foreign policy elite, within the media

elite, they haven't really thought this

through. They haven't really

considered the possibility

of losing this war. Washington, D.C.

right now, it's a bubble, okay? It's an

insular bubble where everyone just

believes the same things, and that's

very problematic um if you are to

continue fighting this war, okay?

>> [snorts]

>> All right, let's continue.

>> [laughter]

>> Okay,

this is um

um

Rabbi Schneerson.

And he is the leader, or he used to be

he he's died, but he used to be the

leader of an organization called the

Chabad Lubavitch. I'll be talking more

about Chabad Lubavitch as we go along,

okay? But I introduce you to him now.

This is the year 1990, and he is talking

to Benjamin Netanyahu, who is who is a

young up-and-coming

politician in Israel, okay? And so,

let's look at the conversation.

>> [snorts]

>> Okay, so what's going on here? Okay, so

as an up-and-coming politician,

Netanyahu is going to a rabbi, and the

rabbis are the most powerful people in

the Jewish society. He basically says,

"Will you give me your blessing? Will

you support me in my political

endeavors?" The rabbi says, "Yes." They

also talk about how things are

progressing, okay? So, another way of

saying this is that there's almost like

a plan in motion to achieve certain

religious objectives, and things are

going well. But the

Rabbi Schneerson says,

"But they're not going fast enough,

because we need the Messiah,

the great leader of the Jewish people,

to come, and we can set in motion things

that will force the coming of the

Messiah. So, let's speed things up,

Netanyahu."

Okay? So, what this is, I'll explain

later on, okay? But I want you to be

aware of this, who these people are.

Rabbi Schneerson is very important for

our story, and Netanyahu, of course, is

the current prime minister of Israel.

All right, let's continue.

All right.

We want to know what you're reading now.

What I'm reading? Yeah. The Jews against

Rome. What made you pick it up?

Well, we lost that. That's why I think

we have to win the next one.

We want to know what you're reading now.

Okay.

All right, so that's a very quick

exchange, okay? So, a journalist is

asking

Benjamin Netanyahu, "What book are you

reading now?" And he says, "Jews versus

Sorry, Rome versus the Jews." It's a

book by Barry Strauss, an historian. And

it goes about goes on about the three

wars that the Jews fought against the

Romans. And it was essentially a

holocaust for the Jews. A lot of Jews

either died or were enslaved. The Romans

burned down the second temple. So, this

is historical animosity of the Jews

against the Romans, okay? But what you

But But what he said is what What

Benjamin Netanyahu said is that "I'm

reading this book because we lost that

war against Rome. But the next war

against Rome, we must not lose." The

question then is who's Rome?

It's not Iran, guys. It's probably not

Russia. It's probably America, right?

The great empire.

So, this is strange because Israel is

the ally of America in this war. But

Netanyahu is saying that

"No, our real enemy is Rome. And that's

what we must prepare for." Okay? So, I

want you guys to keep this in mind.

All right. This is Peter Hoekstra, who

is a secretary of war for

Donald Trump, okay? And this is the year

about 2018,

where he is in Jerusalem, and he's

talking

to Christian Zionists and Zionists,

okay? Who these people are, I'll explain

later on, okay? But let's let's listen

to his speech really quickly.

And I know had a chance to go see the

Western Wall of the Temple Mount, the

Western Wall tunnels,

so much of the old city. And as you

stand there, you can't help but behold

the miracle before you.

And it got me thinking about another

miracle that I hope all of you don't see

too far away. Because 1917 was a

miracle.

1948 was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle.

2017, the declaration of Jerusalem as

the capital, was a miracle. And there's

no reason why the miracle of the

reestablishment of the temple on the

Temple Mount is not possible.

Okay. So, he is a Christian. He's not a

Jew.

But what he's saying is that he's come

to Jerusalem and he's visited these

Jewish holy sites.

And he can't be He can't help be

be amazed, be awed by the beauty,

the spirituality of the Western Wall. He

also goes on to say that the There's

been a series of miracles, okay? So,

1917 was the Balfour Declaration, when

basically the British Empire permitted

the Jews to found the nation-state of

Israel. 1948 was when Israel was

founded. 1967 was when the the when

Israel fought a war against its Arab

neighbors and won.

Okay? And 2017

was when Donald Trump transferred

American Embassy from Tel Aviv to

Jerusalem, thus recognizing Jerusalem as

the capital of Israel. And what he's

saying is that "Well, if this is a

series of steps to achieving the divine

plan, then the next miracle should be

the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple, the

third temple.

And that means destroying the Al-Aqsa

Mosque.

Okay?

So, what's going on here? Okay, again,

I'll explain to you later on, but I want

I want you to be aware of who these

people are and how they think. All

right, let's go one more video. And so,

if you want to build Solomon's Temple,

if you want to build the third temple,

you need to get rid of the third holiest

site

in the Islamic world. And how do you do

that?

Well, there are some options, okay? So,

missiles will hit the mosque

and clear the place for the third Bet

Hamikdash.

That could also be a a miracle if

If it was up to me, the last time when

they shot hundreds of missiles, I would

pretend that one missile came from Iran

and shoot it down.

You know,

then all the Arabs will go against Iran,

that will be the end of the problems.

You make them fight with each other,

this bunch of lunatics.

Never too late to deal with a bunch of

cowards.

Okay? So, this is a rabbi in Israel.

He's saying how last year, during the

12-day war in June,

Iran was firing missiles

at Israel. And what he's saying is, "You

know, that was an opportunity for us to

pretend

that an Iranian missile hit the Dome of

the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, thus

destroying it.

And then well, the Arabs will blame the

Iranians, and the Arabs will go to war

against the Persians. And then we can

just sit back and laugh at these

lunatics."

Okay?

So, again, this may be confusing to you

as to who these people are, why they are

saying these things.

All right? But now what what I'm going

to do is explain to you what is really

going on, okay? And I keep on saying

this, but it is hard from a from a

geopolitical perspective to explain this

US-Iran war. You have to look at the

religious perspective, okay? The

religious angle. And that's what I want

to focus on today.

Okay.

Sorry.

Okay. So, again,

this is

the three holiest site

in the Islamic world.

Um this is Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Medina,

and this is

the

Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque,

which is where Muhammad was supposed to

ascend to heaven.

And the Jews and the Christian Zionists

believe that this must be destroyed so

that they can build the third temple, or

Solomon's Temple, okay?

>> [snorts]

>> All right. So, this is the big question

in this war. And again, I I hate I I

keep on saying this, but I need to be

right if my prediction, if my analysis

is to be correct. If they do not destroy

the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and if they are able

to achieve peace,

then my predictive model, my analysis is

is completely wrong. You can just ignore

me, okay? For the rest of my life. I

I can I can go back to teaching, you

know, the great books or something. All

right.

So, let us examine

w-

um

why this is important, okay? So, today I

want to introduce you to a new theory of

game theory called the law of

eschatological convergence.

Okay.

So, this is a very hard thing to write

down, okay? It sounds complicated, but

it's not, okay? Eschatology,

what it is is a story

of how the world ends.

And it's very comp-

And it's it's it's very

compelling for people because, remember,

we discussed this last semester, but as

human beings, we have three questions.

Where do we come from?

Why are we here? Where are we going?

And eschatology

provides a story that answers all three

questions. Why God created us, what our

mission on Earth is, and what God has

planned for the end of the world, okay?

And different traditions will have

different eschatologies.

And what's important to figure out is

in what aspect

do these eschatologies converge, okay?

Converge, meaning a union

of these eschatologies.

And why is that important? Because it

allows you to predict how they will

behave.

Think of a story as the operating system

of a society.

And as such, it's a script that they

will act out.

And if you're able to figure out

the different scripts and see how they

converge together, where the union of

these different scripts are, then you

can actually predict how the world will

turn out.

Okay? All right. So, having explained

the law,

I'm going to some theory to help us

understand

why this is why this works, okay? All

right. So, the first thing to understand

is something called

the universal

law of game theory.

Okay? And the universal law of game

theory states this.

Whoever wins a game

is able to do this, okay? Mass

times

um energy

times

coordination.

Okay? So, these are the three things you

want to look at

to understand how well player would do

in a game. So, mass is just the number

number of people involved

um on the team, okay?

Energy is just how much attention,

focus, motivation there is, okay? So,

think of think of it as attention

or motivation

or action, okay? Any of these words will

do. But, basically, how how invested are

you in winning the game?

And how willing how hard you willing to

work to win the game? And in

coordination, it's just the idea of

synchronicity.

And what I mean by that is

how well

do

the teammates work together?

Okay?

And something that you need to

appreciate is that the most important

thing in what in winning a game is

actually coordination. In fact, I would

say it's four times more important than

just mass. So, you could have a lot of

people but if they don't work well

together, you're defeated by another

team with few few people, but they work

well together, okay?

And then energy is twice as important as

mass.

All right. So, let me give you an

example. Let's just say that you're

playing a game by yourself.

Okay? May maybe maybe for example, you

enter a ping pong competition or a chess

competition. Well, mass and coordination

don't really matter cuz you don't have

any teammates.

And so, what matters is energy. How

motivated you are to win this game. How

much time do you put in practice? How

much time do you put into studying and

improving yourself? How much how focused

are you in winning, okay?

All right. So, a team sport uh well,

mass is constant, and so what matters is

energy and coordination.

How well the team works

uh well together, okay? Now,

um what's interesting is that there are

different ways to

improve or increase automatically the

energy and coordination. All right? So,

maybe

um

a leader.

Okay? So, maybe if someone is a really

inspiring leader, that will make people

much more motivated. That will allow

them to work well together cuz all they

have to do is listen to a leader.

Okay?

The problem with leader, of course, is

that eventually he will die.

All right? Then you have a family, okay?

Blood.

Okay?

Um they work well together because they

all share similar blood.

But, we cannot account for the

differences within this family, okay?

The conflict within this family, right?

So, historically, in a long term, um the

force that allows teams to beat other

teams is the idea of narrative.

Okay? Narrative.

Or a story.

Okay? Why? Because it implants in the

minds of all those who believe in the

narrative

a series of actions that they must take

in order to win the game, okay? So,

think of it as a script. And in a in a

script, you know what part you play, so

you just have to act it out. And that

allows for you all to work together to

achieve the outcome that you desire,

okay?

Does that make sense? Okay? And in

narrative, the most powerful powerful

uh form of narrative is the idea of

eschatology.

Because eschatology is a complete

script.

A complete script in which everyone

knows

what he or she must do in order to

achieve the desired outcome. And

eschatology also is able to transcend

both time and space.

Meaning that

um you can actually spend centuries

acting out the script because everyone

knows his role anyway, okay?

And it can transcend borders, as well.

You can you can go beyond ethnic

identity and family, okay? So, the most

powerful mechanism in history is

eschatology.

All right? So,

what is eschatology?

All right. So,

most religions

are similar.

Most religions require you to be a good

person, be humble, be kind, be generous.

But, there are certain aspects of

religions that are extreme, okay? We can

we can call them eschatologies.

Okay? So,

the classic example is the Jewish

religion, okay? In the Jewish religion,

if you're

um

what you believe is that you you you no

longer live in Israel because a long

time ago, the Israelites pissed off God

by disobeying him. God told the

Israelites, "Do not worship false

idols." But, the Israelites sinned, they

disobeyed, so they were kicked out of

Jerusalem, and they were forced to

wander the earth in the diaspora for

centuries. And so, what they believe is

that they each need to engage in an act

of redemption, of humility,

of submission, of piety to God if they

are to redeem the whole Jewish people,

okay? And when that happens, when they

recognize their own limitations, when

they recognize

um how inferior they are to God and

submit to God, then God will send the

Messiah

to redeem them and lead them back to

Jerusalem,

defeat the enemies of the Jews,

bring all the Jews from the diaspora

back to Jerusalem, unify the Jewish

people, and then build the third temple

so that God can come to earth and live

with all the Jews and create heaven on

earth, okay?

That is the um

Jewish religion

that most Jews believe. Okay, like there

are a lot of differences, okay? But but

I'm just trying to simplify it for

clarity, okay?

But, then you have these extremes,

fanatics,

who have a different

eschatology, okay? And these people we

can say are accelerationists.

And what And their point is that

this is fine, but it's way too slow.

And it dissolves us of individual

responsibility. If you have faith in

God, then you should want to hurry

things up and um force the return of God

as soon as possible. And you do that by

recognizing that

um

if you

actually, before the Messiah comes, if

you actually go and create the nation of

Israel, bring all the Jews back, build

the third temple, defeat all the

enemies, then the Messiah will come

naturally,

okay?

And so, of course, most Jews hear this

and they think that this is blasphemy,

it's heresy.

Because you are defying the will of God.

You think you can manipulate God into

action. That is wrong.

That is the opposite of redemption. That

is the worst possible sin you can make,

okay? And so,

this eschatology

is considered a fringe, an extreme,

something to be ignored. The problem,

though, is that if you think about it,

what an eschatology really is doing is

creating a vector

to force a religion to move in a certain

direction,

okay?

And also, if you think about it, if this

is the case where eschatology is a

vector that forces the mainstream to

move in a certain direction,

then whichever eschatology is the most

extreme, the most violent,

will be the one that wins out,

okay?

Okay, does that make sense? In other

words, what we're going to do today is

look at the most extreme versions of

different eschatologies

because, quite honestly, even though

these extreme versions are shared by

only a few people,

they're the ones who are working the

hardest

to achieve their eschatology, and

therefore, they're forcing the religion

they are in to move a certain way.

Okay?

All right.

So,

um you hear this and and you think this

is all confusing, but what I what I'll

do now is I'm going to share with you

a passage from a biography of Rabbi

Schneerson. Remember, we um

we had a look at Rabbi Schneerson

talking to Netanyahu and saying, "Hurry

up. Let's hurry up the the return of

Messiah." Okay?

Um he is

uh in charge of

Chabad Lubavitch,

>> [snorts]

>> which again

is

an extreme eschatology. But again,

because they are so extreme, they're

willing they're willing to work as hard

as possible to achieve their vision, and

therefore they are forcing the Jewish

mainstream in a certain direction.

Okay?

All right. So, um this is a biography of

Rabbi

Schneerson.

And the Chabad Lubavitch movement um was

founded in modern-day uh Belarus.

And [clears throat]

over time, it went over to America

because they suffered a lot of

persecution

um by the Russians.

And today, they are global movement. And

they are powerful in Russia, in America,

and in Israel.

Okay? So, we will discuss the Chabad

Lubavitch as we move along, but I want

to with this passage show you

how coordination

among eschatologists work, okay? All

right. So, so the year is 1939.

And the Nazis Nazi Germany's again who

are anti-Semitic, they hate Jews.

They want all Jews out of Europe. They

are overrunning Europe. And by 1939,

they have conquered Poland,

Warsaw.

Okay? Now, Poland Warsaw is where the

head rabbi, the rebbe, of the Chabad

Lubavitch movement is. And his name is

um

Yosef Yitzchak, okay? And he's the

father-in-law of Rabbi Schneerson.

And [snorts] he's an old man, and he's

in Warsaw. The Nazis are overrunning the

city. So, his followers in America

are

are want to save his life, okay?

So, the then the question is like, "But

how do you do that?" Because America and

Germany are not best friends. The war is

breaking out in

um

Europe, and

um

Yosef Yitz- Yitzchak is a very old man.

And there are no plane Well, there are

planes, but there are no commercial air

flights that you can take, okay?

So, it's going to be a very long,

arduous journey across many borders.

Plus, um

he will need a visa, not just for

himself, but for his whole family.

Okay?

Now, what I will show you is how

powerful these people are. And again,

this is an eschatology where they all

share similar vision, and therefore

they're willing to make the necessary

sacrifices in order to help each other

achieve this vision, okay? All right.

So, this is from the biography.

An ocean away in America, Yosef

Yitzchak's followers were mounting a

rescue effort. With the help of Sam

Kramer, an Orthodox attorney and son of

Lubavitcher immigrants, the Chabad

activist Israel Jacobson hired Max

Rhoade, a politically connected lawyer,

to secure American visas for Yosef

Yitzchak and his family, okay? So, in

other words, even though there there may

may not be that many followers, they

have a wide

um political circle. And a lot of reason

why is that um they pool their resources

together. And when they pool their

resources together, they're able to

invest in real estate together, they're

able to invest in business together, and

they're able to generate a lot of money,

which they can then which they can then

use influence politics in America, okay?

They can buy politicians, they can um do

a lot of things.

>> [snorts]

>> Okay. So, the first part is easy,

getting visas for

uh the rabbi and his family.

Now, the problem is how do you actually

get to him, okay? Cuz there are no

telephones, there's no internet, there

are no airplanes. How do you find him in

when there's a war going on in Poland

when there are Nazis everywhere, okay?

All right, let's continue.

Yosef uh Yitzchak's followers also

reached out to Attorney General Benjamin

Cohen, okay? And Supreme Court Justice

Louis Brandeis, okay? This guy This man

is very important. He's what I call a

Shabbatean Frankist.

What I will show you later on is that

uh Shabbatean Frankists and the Chabad

Lubavitch movement are very much allied,

okay? So, even though they're not part

of the same movement, they are

sympathetic towards each other. And he's

the most powerful Jew in America at this

time, okay? In the in the 1930s, '40s.

Um whom Yosef Yitzchak had met during

his fundraising trip of 1929. The

Lubavitch efforts in America were

successful, all right? So, they won over

the Americans. They They won over the

entire American political apparatus, and

they are dedicated to helping

the rabbi escape Europe and come to

America.

All right. Now, the second part is how

do you deal with the Nazis?

Okay.

The Lubavitch efforts in America were

successful. On October 2nd, Cohen wrote

to Robert Pell, a senior official in the

State Department, asking for help. The

next day, Pell contacted Hellmuth

Wohlthat, a German and a member of the

Nazi Party, a Nazi, who specialized in

national industry and economics to see

if he would be willing to save one of

the leading Jewish scholars in the

world, okay? This is a guy, American,

writing to a Nazi and saying, "Hey, man,

uh I know you're a Nazi, but we need

your help to save a Jew."

And the guy says, "Yes."

Okay?

Um Wohlthat was strategically chosen. He

had studied at Columbia University in

the early 1930s and had forged a

relationship with Pell after the Evian

Conference on Jewish refugees in 1938.

Um seeing an opportunity to curry

goodwill with the United States,

Wohlthat secretly contacted Admiral

Wilhelm Canaris, the head of German

military intelligence. Wow.

The head of German military intelligence

is saying, "Hey, man,

let's help this guy."

Canaris, a skeptical Nazi who

disapproved of SS atrocities and thought

the invasion of Poland a mistake,

enlisted Major Ernst Bloch, a

distinguished veteran of

World War I and one of the most trusted

officers. Bloch was a Mischling, okay? A

Mischling just means a German who had

some Jewish ancestry, but because he was

so valorous in World War I, he was

considered a German, okay?

Um he had been declared of German blood

by Hitler in 1939. Along with three

other soldiers, two of whom were also

Mischling, Bloch was instructed to find

Yosef Yitzchak and bring him to safety.

Wow.

The Nazis, okay?

despatched their own soldiers to find

this guy and bring him to America. And

this is again during war.

>> [snorts]

>> But how do you find this guy? Bloch and

his colleagues had to maneuver through

the ruins of Warsaw without suspicions

of the SS to find a rabbi who did not

know of their mission and did not want

to be found, okay? So, this rabbi is

hiding from everyone. So, how do you

find this guy?

And he's deadly afraid of all German

soldiers because he sees them as just

Nazis.

There's another problem.

Well, Jews in the city were naturally

unwilling to divulge the location of a

Hasidic leader to a Nazi officer.

Eventually, information came from the

Americans. Brandeis was informed of

Yosef Yitzchak's address by the Chabad

lawyer Arthur Rubinowitz and relayed it

via Cohen and Pell to the US chargé

d'affaires in Germany. This requires the

coordination of dozens and dozens of

people who are supposed to be on the

opposite side of a war. And they're

working together to achieve a goal.

>> [snorts]

>> Um at the end of November, Bloch found

Yosef Yitzchak's apartment and after

some confusion convinced the residents

he was there to help. Once he had

obtained fuel coupons, train tickets,

and military clearances for SS

checkpoints, Bloch loaded Yosef Yitzchak

and his family onto a truck and headed

for the train station. There, the family

received first-class tickets and boarded

a train filled with Nazi officials and

soldiers.

Okay? And that's how they got out.

In other words, they are able to work

above the bureaucracy of different

nation-states

in order to achieve their eschatological

goal, okay?

All right.

Does that make sense?

All right.

So, now what I'm going to do is

I'm going to go into the idea of

eschatological convergence.

Because once we know the different

eschatologies, and we know how they

converge together, we can actually make

certain predictions about how this war

will progress. Okay. So, the first major

eschatology I I want to look at is

called Zoroastrianism. And this is the

first

eschatology.

And the it's a it's a it's a it's a

eschatology of the Persian Empire, okay?

And this eschatology is very simple.

In the world, there's truth and the lie,

okay? The light and the darkness. And it

it is our responsibility as humans to

live for the light, to die for the truth

against the lie. And at the end of days,

there will be a final battle and a day

of judgment, okay? So, light

versus dark,

and then you have a day of judgment.

Okay? Where the god Ahura Mazda will

come down, and he will create a paradise

for everyone. Okay? So, what matters is

to live a noble life and await the day

of judgement where eventually

heaven on earth will manifest, okay?

>> [snorts]

>> And this is important because if you

think about how the Iranians are

fighting this war, the Iranians refuse

to take the initiative and destroy too

much, okay? They refuse to be the

villains in this war because for them,

in their eschatology, it's important to

die for the light, to fight for the

truth, okay?

Now, Jewish eschatology has a major

impact on

Jewish eschatology, okay? And Jewish

eschatology, again,

I'm only talking about the most extreme

version of this eschatology, okay? And

in this eschatology,

the idea is that the Jews

disobeyed God, okay? Disobedience.

>> [snorts]

>> And what And in order to repair the

world, to save themselves, to create

heaven on earth, they need to engage in

redemption, okay? Redemption.

And redemption is really about spiritual

alchemy, improving yourself as a person,

being good to yourself, being good to

others, loving your neighbor as though

you would love yourself, okay? That's a

mainstream idea.

But in an In the most extreme version,

redemption just means acting out God's

plan to

compel the return of the Messiah, okay?

And this plan is basically

create Israel,

>> [snorts]

>> return

Jewish diaspora,

build the third temple.

And this will lead them to call the war

of Gog and Magog.

And then, when the Jews

are most threatened, the Messiah will

come to save them

from their enemies. And this will create

something called the Messianic age,

okay? When God rules over the earth

through his Messiah, who comes from the

house of David.

Okay. All right. So, again, this is a

simple version. There are lots of

different versions. This is the most

simple version for our purposes, okay?

Now, what's interesting is that this

Jewish eschatology would go on to

influence the Protestants,

okay? And this creates a movement called

Christian Zionism.

Christian Zionism,

so the technical word for Christian

Zionism is called premillennial

dispensationalism.

Okay? And this sounds very complicated,

but it's not. What means is that

God has a plan

for how to create heaven on earth, and

we have a duty to fulfill his plan by

following his instructions,

okay? All right. So, what Christian

Zionism is doing is that it takes this

Jewish eschatology and makes certain

changes to it, okay? So, for example,

the first change that it makes is, okay,

this plan is fine, but rather than say

that the Jewish Messiah is the

representative of God, what they say is

that, no, he's actually the

representative of Satan, okay? So, the

Messiah

in the Jewish tradition becomes the

Antichrist

in the Christian Zionist tradition. And

why is this important? It's important

because for the Christians, the Messiah

must be Jesus, okay? So, the Messiah So,

the Antichrist, what he does is that he

rules over the world. He's very

charismatic and he rules the world in

Jerusalem. And he starts the war of Gog

war of Gog and Magog

in order to conquer the world and

destroy the Jews. At this At this point,

Jesus will return to save God's chosen

people, the Jews.

And

when Jesus returns, there will be

something called the rapture, where all

Christians will immediately ascend to

heaven, okay? So, the rapture.

All right, okay? So, again, Christian

Zionism is working off Jewish

eschatology,

but it's making some important changes,

okay?

So, another thing this is,

in the beginning, Zionists and Christian

Zionists will work together to reach a

certain point of history,

okay? What we call the Great Racial

Project.

But then they will diverge and fight

against each other, okay?

So, they're allies now, but eventually

they'll turn against each other.

All right. So, now I'm going to talk

about the Freemasons

because the Freemasons

We'll talk about the Freemasons later,

okay? The Freemasons are also working

within the Christian Zionist context.

>> [snorts]

>> But they are much more focused on

actually how to implement this, okay?

So, what they want to do is they want to

take the Antichrist

and turn it into a system.

And this system we discussed last

semester is called Pax Judaica.

What is Pax Judaica? Pax Judaica is that

Israel controls the world through AI,

okay? An AI surveillance state.

Okay?

Or their exact words is holy empire.

Okay?

And Pax Judaica, the AI surveillance

state, wants things such as the mark of

the beast.

And what is the mark of the beast?

It is digital ID.

Okay? And this digital ID will also lead

to digital currency. And they can

actually put a microchip or a QR bar in

your forehead, and this will be

considered the mark of the beast, okay?

And it's all part of the Christian

Zionist eschatology.

Another really important thing about the

Freemasons is the idea of a one world

government

because, remember, the Antichrist is the

leader of the one world government.

And it will be based in Jerusalem, okay?

And so, the headquarters will be

Solomon's Temple or the third temple.

All right, okay. So, these are the

And then you have the Islamic

eschatology,

okay? And

Islamic eschatology is a response to all

these other eschatologies,

where

they say that when this system is

created, it will be called Dajjal.

Dajjal, the Antichrist, okay?

And when this happens, then Jesus will

return

to defeat the Antichrist.

Okay, that's the mainstream Islamic

eschatology. Then you have the Shia,

okay? The Shia are Remember, are the

Iranians,

where they believe that it's not It will

be the 12th

Imam Mahdi

who will lead

the

followers, okay? The Ummah. Okay, Ummah

just means community of of believers, to

believers,

into victory

against the Antichrist, the Dajjal,

okay?

So, you can see how these eschatologies

are basically lining up together,

right? The Shia are the Iranians. The

Islamic is the entire Arab world, all

right?

Now, there are other two more

eschatologies I I I want to look at. And

again, I know this is a lot. I know this

is too much information, and we'll go

over these eschatologies specifically as

we move along, okay? But I just want to

introduce the different eschatologies.

Another eschatology that's very

important is the Catholic eschatology.

And in the Catholic eschatology, we can

call City of God,

okay? Which is

the church,

which is Jerusalem.

And Saint Augustine

talked about this,

about how the Catholic Church, it is the

millennium. It is the Messianic age

because we represent God, and we bring

peace and prosperity to the world. Now,

what's important about the church is

that it became the dominant power in the

world because Rome fell, okay? So, Roman

Empire collapses,

but this is all part of God's divine

plan because Roman Empire, Rome, was the

city of

earth, okay? Of power, of money, of

wealth.

>> [music]

>> And what matters is Jerusalem, the city

of God, of spirituality,

of um

divinity, okay?

Now, the City of God came to an end

because of the rise of the Protestants

and the Anglo-American empire.

So, for the Catholic Church to achieve

its eschatology and establish again the

City of God. What they need to do is

also see the

American Empire destroyed just like the

Roman Empire.

Okay? So, that is the Catholic

eschatology. The last eschatology

I want to discuss is the Orthodox

eschatology. And what's the Orthodox

eschatology?

The Russians, okay?

This is called the Third Rome prophecy.

Okay? The Third Rome prophecy is

basically that Moscow

will become the Third Rome. Okay, the

first Rome The First Rome was Rome,

second Rome was Constantinople, the

Third Rome will be Moscow.

>> [snorts]

>> And also what's really important to

uh appreciate is that there will be no

Fourth Rome. So, when Moscow becomes the

Third Rome, history ends.

Okay? And peace and prosperity will come

to the world. Okay? So, so what does

this mean? It means that

Russia will well unite the Orthodox

world.

Okay? So, right now the Orthodox world

is split into Eastern Orthodox see

um and Greek Orthodox see, okay?

And something that is very important

that this prophecy says is that the

Russians will defeat Turkia

in a war and then have the Greeks return

to Constantinople, which is modern-day

Istanbul. Okay? That's what the prophecy

says.

And so, you look at all these different

eschatologies, okay? And again, guys,

this is the majority of the world,

right? If you actually look at the

convergence points, you come to some

startling

um conclusions, okay? So, let's let's

look at the convergence.

All right. Where do they converge? Okay?

Well, first of all,

okay? Where they converge is that

the greater

Israel project

will be achieved, okay? Pax Judaica will

be achieved.

It's a one world government, okay? One

world government.

That is one major convergence. If that's

true, then another convergence is

the Al-Aqsa Mosque

will give way to the Third Temple.

All these eschatologies either say this

or indifferent to saying this, okay?

They're not opposed to this. All right?

So, that's that's why I predict the

Third uh the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be

destroyed because they need to build a

Third Temple.

Another thing where which in which um

they converge is the rise of

anti-Semitism.

Why? Because that will force the

diaspora the Jewish diaspora to return

to Israel. This is very important for

this eschatology, okay?

All right?

Another important convergence point is

the war of Gog and Magog.

We don't actually know what this is, but

this war is supposed to be the final war

before the return of God, before the end

of history, before the end of the world,

okay? What this war is, we don't know

yet, but another thing this is that this

war in Iran will lead to the war of Gog

and Magog at some point, okay? What this

war is, we'll discuss at a later time.

Another thing that's very important is

US and China

are not part

of this eschatology.

Okay? This is where everyone agrees.

For whatever reason, the United States

is not going to partake

in future events. Neither will China,

which means that

um something will happen to these two

two countries that will make them not

significant anymore, okay? And the best

prediction for the United States then is

civil war.

Right?

Okay? Civil war.

Okay? And this is where

um

all these eschatologies converge. So, in

other words, this war in Iran is

happening so that these different

eschatological traditions can achieve

um heaven on earth from their

perspective.

All right? So, what does mean So, given

this convergence, we we can actually

predict certain events that will happen

over the next two to four years.

Okay?

Because they all want these things to

happen together. All right? So, let's

look at some quick predictions.

>> [snorts]

>> Okay? First prediction, of course, is

that the US will use ground troops.

Because using ground troops will create

a national draft.

And what does a national draft do? It

creates a civil war.

Right?

A lot of young people are going to

refuse to fight in this war. And this is

this is going to create protests. Then

America will have no choice but to

deploy the National Guard.

And this will create the recipe for a

lot of civil conflict in America, okay?

Another thing that will happen is

because you use ground troops, you will

lose the war and then CENTCOM, which is

the American military in the Middle

East, will then transfer over to Israel.

Okay?

What's happening in this war is that the

economies of the GCC

are being destroyed and that's part of

the plan, okay? Because for Israel to

achieve the greater Israel project, it

needs to absorb the GCC and parts of

Turkia and parts of Egypt, okay? So,

another way of saying this is that the

GCC is basically finished.

The intention is to collapse their

economies and make them irrelevant.

All right?

The third thing we can expect is that

Turkia

will enter this war And Saudi Arabia,

actually, will enter the war.

>> [clears throat]

>> Because you want to use this war to

weaken opposition to these eschatologies

as much as possible, okay? So, Turkia

and Saudi Arabia will enter this war and

they will suffer tremendously because of

their participation.

All right.

>> [clears throat]

>> Um again, the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be

destroyed.

Okay?

And then

you'll have the rise of Persia.

Okay? The rise of Persia. Why is this

important? Because

um you need this Arab world to unite

against Israel for the end of days.

Right? So, you don't mind if actually

Iran wins this war because by winning

this war, Iran will activate its Persian

identity.

>> [snorts]

>> And this is important for eschatology

because in the war of Gog and Magog,

people are interpreting Gog and Magog,

which will march against Israel,

they're interpreting Gog and Magog to be

Persia and Russia.

Okay?

Okay? Together they will march against

Pax Judaica.

Number six is that in Israel, you will

achieve the Pax Judaica

and the greater Israel project.

Okay? So, the greater Israel project and

Pax Judaica are not the same thing,

guys. Greater Israel is is just

basically the territory

that the Israelis believed that God had

promised to ancestor Abraham. Pax

Judaica is a one world government, okay?

Based on AI surveillance and the mark of

the beast.

So, um what will happen is that um

Israel will use this war to expand its

territory

and then what will happen is that

capital, technology

um will then start to flow to Israel in

order to create the great Pax Judaica.

So, think of companies like Nvidia,

Oracle, Microsoft, Google. Well, they'll

probably transfer themselves to Israel

because that is where the power will

rest. Okay?

Um so, Pax Judaica.

Um then you will have

um Russia

winning the war in Ukraine.

Okay?

And then um

return Greeks to Constantinople.

Basically, another way of saying this is

it is possible that

um

the Greeks go to war against Turkia and

then Russia supports the Greeks and

return the Greeks to Istanbul, okay? But

then you're like, "Wait a minute. Turkia

is a NATO member."

Well, we can also expect

destruction of

of

Europe, okay? The end of NATO,

basically.

So,

this war in Ukraine, it's not just about

Russia protecting its borders. This war

in Ukraine is also meant to achieve

Orthodox eschatology, to destroy Europe,

to destroy NATO so that Russia can

achieve the Third Rome prophecy. That

means the destruction of Europe.

So, I will discuss the Russian-Ukraine

war later on as as we go along, okay?

But, what what I'm trying to show you is

that just by, okay?

Analyzing the most extreme eschatologies

of different religious traditions,

you can then

from this analysis pick out points in

which they agree.

Okay? And and at these points, you can

figure out then how they will affect

current geopolitics to make certain

predictions about how the war will

progress, about how the world will

transform itself next 2 to 4 years.

Okay? So, this is called a law of

eschatological convergence. It gives us

tremendous insight into why things are

turning out the way they are, okay?

Because again, I keep on saying this,

but purely from a geopolitical

perspective, purely from a realpolitik

perspective, this war in Iran makes no

sense.

But, if you look at it from an

eschatological perspective,

then it makes perfect sense, okay?

Any questions?

>> [snorts]

>> Yes.

But, I think like if we look

into the war between America and Iran,

um

I think Trump is trying to destroy Iran

as the same way that he destroys

Venezuela, but it fails, which

let Iran to fight back. So, I think this

could also explain in a political way,

but not religious.

Okay.

All right, that's a great point in that,

listen, there's an explanation, which is

that Trump is just stupid. He's

arrogant. They had too much success in

Venezuela. They go into Iran, they think

it's the same thing, and now they're

losing, okay?

And because they're losing, um they are

just panicking, okay? Okay, that's true.

And um

if this explanation is true, then what

will happen? What we can expect to

happen is that Trump declares victory

and goes home.

Okay? That's what what what we can we

can expect.

Um [snorts]

and if if if the US does go home, then

you're right, okay?

So,

we can expect but sorry,

um the question then is what happens

next few months, all right?

What you need to understand is this.

Um war isn't simple.

Once you start a war, you can't end the

war, all right? So, let me explain

really

really quickly why, okay?

So, [snorts]

you have Iran,

and the main

thing the main advantage that Iran has

over the United States is the GCC

cannot defend itself.

Okay? Because it's just a desert. And

Iran, it's a mountain fortress, so it

can shoot rockets, it can shoot drones

at the GCC, and the GCC can't can't

defend itself, okay? Before, they

thought these US bases could defend

against Iran, but now you recognize

these US bases can't defend themselves

either, okay?

All right? So, um the other thing that

Iran did was close off the Strait of

Hormuz.

Okay? They close off the Strait of

Hormuz. And this is important because

the GCC then

um exports

oil to Asia and gets back food, okay?

So, the GCC basically requires the

Strait of Hormuz

uh in order just to survive.

Okay? Now,

let's just say the US don't comes like,

you know what? Screw this. This is a

stupid war. The Middle East is stupid.

We're going to go home, okay? What

happens now? What happens is that Iran

says to GCC, "Hey, man, you attacked us.

You destroyed our infrastructure. You

destroyed our economy. You have to pay

pay pay a pay a compensation, okay?

Right? Also, hey, man, now we control

the Strait of Hormuz, so if you want to

um use Strait of Hormuz, you have to pay

us a toll. You have to pay us a tax.

Right? So, all this money of the GCC

before it's going to the United States

um to fuel the US economy, now where

where does it go? It goes to Iran.

Right? That's a lot of money, man. We're

talking about trillions of trillions of

dollars. And what will Iran use with

this money? It will use its money this

money to repair its economy. So, in 5 10

years,

this is going to be an economic miracle

where now Iran is able to industrialize

really fast.

And as a result, what's going to happen?

What's going to happen is that the

United States leaves the Middle East,

Iran becomes the superpower,

and controls the entire Middle East.

Right? Now, what Now, Israel

has nuclear weapons.

And so, what's going to happen is that

Israel and Iran will sign a peace

treaty.

Okay? But, the United States

won't be involved. The United States

goes home. It doesn't get any money from

the GCC. What's going to happen to the

US economy? It's going to collapse. Why?

Because the entire US economy is based

on the stock market, on finance, on AI,

on investment from the GCC.

Right?

So, the question then is, can Americans

go home? The answer is, no, they can't.

Because if they go home, their economy

is going to collapse, and their people

are going to have a revolution anyway.

So, you're better off sending people to

Iran than have the people in America

cause a revolution.

Right?

Okay?

So, you're right in that it's possible

that Donald Trump made a mistake, but it

doesn't matter if it was intentional or

accidental. You have the same outcome.

And and strangely enough, this strange

this outcome that you have matches that

aligns with these different

eschatologies in the world.

Okay? Does that make sense?

Okay. All right, any more questions?

All right, okay. So, we'll continue this

next week, guys, okay?