Gas Prices Skyrocket, Trump Freaks Out & His Powerlessness Is Exposed: The True War Agenda Revealed

We don't want to be cynical, but it does sometimes occur that maybe we're talking about the wrong things. We mean that when a big news event happens and everyone in the media is talking about one element of it, and we're usually part of that herd, embarrassingly, you have to ask yourself at a certain point, h could it be that the thing that we're all talking about is not the most important thing? Could it be that we're talking about it or being led into that conversation on purpose? I again not to be a conspiracy nut or anything, but it's possible that happens. And here's a example ongoing. And that's a straight of Hormuz. We've done a bunch of different shows in the Straight of Hormuz. Straight of Hormuz is obviously inherently significant. It's the waterway now famously at the eastern end of the Persian Gulf through which a lot of the world's energy flows. Iran has the longest shoreline along that straight. We're all geography experts now. And so now we all know that it's essential to keep that waterway open. And then it curves around in the Red Sea along the coast of a country called Yemen, which is controlled almost the entire country by a group called the Houthis. People are getting an ongoing education and all this. And and why is that meaningful? It's meaningful because you can't get oil out of the richest oil producing region in the world unless you have access through those waterways straight up form into the into the Red Sea. So the ongoing conversation again including conversation we participated in has been about how to open the straight of formoose how to get that oil through. But if you think about it is that really the most important question that arises from the Iran war. So a waterway of course it is inherently important. On the other hand that's a problem that you can fix really quickly. If you have a blocked waterway if one country says you can't come through or we're going to blow up your tankers. Well, you could reach an accommodation with that country and you could fix that in about 10 minutes if all sides were willing to do it. What's harder to fix is the destruction of energy infrastructure, pipelines, wellheads, but more than anything else, refineries. So, a refinery is the plant is the factory where crude oil pumped out of the ground is turned into products you can actually use. And people may not have an appreciation for how different crude oil is from the refined products made from it. So from crude oil we get famously gasoline, jet fuel aka kerosene. We get all the way down to asphalt. We get diesel fuel and we also get a lot of the precursor elements for fertilizer. So none of those things come directly out of the ground. They are made from this commodity called crude oil. And they're made in things called refineries. So without refineries, you really can't run a society. You cannot run a country on crude oil. There's very little you can do with crude oil. Actually, you can't even put it in a diesel motor. And they'll I mean, they'll run on vegetable oil, but you can't run crude oil. You have to refine it. So, refineries are actually the most important link in the chain from drilling to turning on the lights in your house or getting on an airplane or eating food that's grown in the ground. And the problem with refineries is there aren't very many of them. So, there are a lot of oil and gas wells. In fact, no one really knows the number. There are about 70,000 new oil and gas wells drilled every year globally. The US alone has almost a million active oil and gas wells. But refineries which are absolutely necessary are a different question. So how many refineries are there globally on planet Earth right now? We know the answer because it's not a very big number. There are a total of 825 refineries on the planet for a population of 8.3 billion people. 825. So that's about one refinery for every 10 million people. one refinery for every New York City plus two million. So when you destroy a refinery, that's a big problem because a big refinery is incredibly expensive. $25 billion for example, very expensive to build and timeconuming. It can take more than 10 years to build a big refinery. So when you destroy one, you have an immediate and longlasting effect in a way that closing a straight does not achieve. It's a big deal to destroy a refinery. And so with that in mind, you have to kind of wonder what's going on with refineries. All of a sudden, they're getting hit. By our count, and this may be off, we may be undercounting it, but we think as of today, seven refineries in the Persian Gulf have been hit, destroyed, damaged, shut down for a while anyway, maybe some long term. So far in this war, not even a year old. Seven refineries. So, if you're wondering why diesel is 650 nationally and much more expensive than that in other parts of the world, it's because of that. It's hits on refineries and not just in the Persian Gulf, but in Russia, which makes about 7% of the world's diesel fuel, refineses it. And so, what is that? How exactly is that helping? Even if you're waging a war, would you go after the refined? Would that be your first order of business? Well, it has been the first order of business in both of those conflicts. So, we've got footage, no sound, but just so you can see it. This is from the very early days of the Iran war. This is in early March, and this is the product of an Israeli drone attack on a refinery in Iran. Amazing. So, the war breaks out. We're told that this war is an effort to stop the Iranian nuclear program because they're minutes away from nuking Miami. And that's what it's about. It's only about that nuclear program, which we're not going to accept. But if that's true, why do the Israelis, instead of hitting a nuclear facility or assassinating more nuclear physicists, they've done that in Iran, why do they hit a refinery? Hm. No one has answered that question because almost nobody's asked. Why would the Ukrainian government be hitting Russian refineries right now, which they are all over Russia, apparently 60% of Russia's refinery capacity has been hit, and we're not exactly sure how much is taken offline permanently or for the short term, but but 60% of their capacity has been hit by the Ukrainians. Why refineries? So, that's the first mystery. The second mystery is why is no one talking about this? Because the thing about hitting a refinery is that it releases massive epic amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Now, for the last couple of years, people have not been talking about CO2 emissions. For the preceding 20 years, every child at every grade in American schools learned that CO2 is a poison and that it is increasing the temperature on the Earth and that Florida will soon be underwater and we are destroying the planet every time we emit CO2. All of a sudden, no one's talking about that. And there's nothing that emits CO2 in greater volume that we can think of than blowing up energy infrastructure. The Biden administration's destruction of the Nordstream pipeline, the natural gas pipeline from east to west, from Russia to Europe, was the largest man-made emission, we think, of CO2 in human history. And yet, no one said a word. So, for example, the Sierra Club, which is the best funded environmental group climate change organization in the United States, they've got like a hund00 million budget. They didn't say a word about the Biden administration blowing up Nordstream. Well, that's very, very curious if you think about it. They also haven't said a word about the bombs that the United States under Biden and Trump has sent to Israel. 2,000lb bombs. So, how much CO2 does a 2,000lb bomb emit? Well, we know because academics in London figured it out. They did the math. About three metric tons. How much is that? Well, it's a lot. In fact, it's more than three times what the average gas fired home water heater, we look this up, emits every year in a residential home. Now, why the comparison between a single 2,000lb bomb and Biden sent like 14,000 of them to Israel to eliminate Gaza to commit genocide in Gaza. Trump's sending 40,000 of this bomb and lots of other bombs, but we're just picking the 2,000lb bomb. Why compare it to home water here? Because the Sierra Club has issued endless press releases on home water heaters, gas fired home water heaters, the ones that work well, that are efficient, and has also paid a team of lawyers to make sure you can't have one. And not just gas fired water heaters, but gas ranges, wood stoves, basically any household appliance that you enjoy that is effective, dryers, washing machines. All of these are threats to the earth according to the Sierra Club, our largest climate group because they emit CO2. But for some reason, the SER Club has, so far as we could tell, never mentioned the CO2 emissions from munitions, from dropping bombs or from blowing up refineries. They never mentioned that. Now, why is that? It makes you wonder if the environmental movement, the climate change movement, which really was kind of the dominant piety of our ruling class for two decades, we were very concerned, really concerned. If you ever had dinner with rich ladies in the past 20 years with a private equity wife, you get stuck next to one at dinner. She would turn to you doeyed at some point and say, "I'm very concerned about climate. We're destroying this planet with our emissions." And she would get a little misty. They really meant it. But all of a sudden, there's not a word about the biggest CO2 emissions in our lifetimes brought on by this war and the war in Ukraine. How strange could it be that they never really considered carbon dioxide a poison? Because of course it's not a poison. You breathe it, you exhale it all day long. It's not a poison. And they never really believed it was. Could it be that the real appeal of the climate movement was its effects on the way people live? So, if you think about it for a second, what were the climate people telling you you were going to have to do? What were you going to have to give up? How are you going to have to change your life in order to save the planet, which you uniquely had destroyed? Not China, the world's largest emitter of carbon. No, they never mentioned that. But you, as an American, as a European, as a Westerner, what are you going to have to give up? Well, for one thing, your mobility. You're going to have to live in a 15-minute city. You couldn't go anywhere. You'd be locked down effectively. But for the good of the planet, assuming you care about the planet, you have to give up meat. Of course, you may have to wear a sweater indoors in the winter time because it's proflegate to heat your home to 70. Obviously, that's not good for the environment. And you can't have working appliances. You can't have anything that actually gives you comfort at low expense because that's a sin. So instead, you're going to have to have, I don't know, a thermostat that can be controlled from Sierra Club HQ or from your local state capital or at least your city council. You're going to have to give up your autonomy and dial down your standard of living. That's what you're going to have to do in order to save the earth. It's fascinating when you think about those effects, which are, by the way, wildly unpopular. Nobody wants to wear a sweater indoors in February. No one wants to be cold and hungry. In fact, for all of human history, the two main goals on the mind of every person on the planet was let's not be cold or hungry. So, it's not like anyone wanted this. There's no ground swell of support for being cold and hungry, but you were going to have to do that. And of course, the people in charge, and they said this a lot, wanted that. They wanted that. But what's interesting is they're getting it anyway. So we're not talking about climate change because famously Larry Frink, the single most powerful businessman in the world, the head of Black Rockck, deeply embedded in the Ukraine war, profiting from the Ukraine war, of course, dropped his demands for climate change. In other words, the idea was Black Rock's not going to do business with you unless you sign on to the climate agenda. Well, he's dropped that. Why? Maybe because they're getting the same thing from these wars. Because when you destroy refineries, what do you do? Well, you hike the price of diesel and gasoline and jet fuel beyond what most people can pay. And the trajectory is in place now. 650 for a gallon of diesel, which is the energy source that gets all of our goods from manufacturer to warehouse to home. Yeah. So, you are going to when you destroy the world's refining capacity achieve the same effect you would if you were to enact plan 2030 or whatever they were calling it to avert climate change. exactly the same thing. And of course, if you adjust people's standard of living down enough, what do you get? Fewer people because either they starve to death, and we're facing that possibility very soon in countries around the world, particularly in Africa, and that will, needless to say, spark mass migration to the West. There are billion people in subsaharan Africa, and if they go hungry, you think they're going to sit and starve to death. No, they'll be in Los Angeles obviously and Frankfurt and Lisbon. So there's that they starve or they decide to have fewer kids. So one of the goals of the climate agenda was reducing global population and they just said it. I mean they just said it a lot all the time. Bill Gates, hate to blame everything on Bill Gates, that poor autistic elderly man. Bill Gates being unique among rulers of the universe because he's sort of damaged enough to say the dark stuff out loud because he clearly doesn't know the difference. Doesn't know what he's not supposed to say. Bill Gates, but all of him has said this. We need fewer people. Jeffrey Epstein famously, maybe not so famously. We're going to read it to you. Here's part of an exchange that Jeffrey Epstein had in the now famous Epstein docks. The ones that have been released are not being hidden by the Trump administration. and we're quoting this is from 2016 and he's uh in an exchange with Josh Bach a cognitive scientist and he says this about climate change maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation the earth's forest fire potentially a good thing for the species too many people so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense is the fundamental fact that everyone dies at some time now Jeffrey Epstein and if you read The Epstein fell, you know, this was basically illiterate, so it's not entirely clear what that meant, but he's applauding of mass death, of course. And he's emailing this to a normie, someone who probably, we haven't checked, but probably still has a job and is walking among us as a cognitive imminent cognitive scientist. And they're talking about fewer people. And by the way, at a certain level, way above the level where you and I live, the people who run countries think in terms of population. If you assess your life, you think in terms of your kids and your job and your wife and how are things going and am I making enough money to pay for everything. If you're running a country, if you're in charge of a civilization, if you're part of the class of people making big decisions about giant populations, you think in terms of what? Demographics. How many people live here? How many people do we need to live here? That's the very first question people who run countries ask themselves and their adviserss. Do we have the right number of people? So when you see big things happen in the world, if a completely pointless war breaks out in Eastern Europe and they're telling you, "Oh, it's about these three Oblasts in Eastern Ukraine no one's ever heard of, and we have to take a stand on principle because Churchill is at war with Hitler again." You can be absolutely dead freaking certain that's not the cause of the war and that's not the reason it's continued for almost 5 years. There's something else going on here. Something much more important than who controls three Oblasts, whatever an Oblast is. Cuz nobody cares actually. And you got to think just watching that maybe one of the reasons for that war is its effect. And its effect is to completely depopulate the largest country in Europe, which is Ukraine, which has fewer than half the people it had when the war started, and will never be Ukrainian again, ever. So, a child could have known that going into this. If this war continues, and if it's a First World War type standoff, meat grinder, the country with a smaller population is going to lose a sizable chunk of its working age population. You're going to have to change the population. You think people didn't know that going in? You think NATO and the Biden administration, you think the Trump administration doesn't know that? You think the leadership of the EU doesn't know that? You think the British prime minister doesn't know that? Of course, they know that. I mean, they're not geniuses, but they're not entirely stupid, and they think in big terms. That's the point. So when the Western proxy, the Ukrainian military, tries to take out 60% of all of Russia's diesel production, it's probably not just about Russia, is it? It's about hiking the price of diesel globally, which it immediately did, of course. And that has the effect of imposing the same restrictions they called for in the climate agenda, but which were broadly rejected by the population. It's like, yeah, I care about the earth, but I I can't control my own thermostat. I I can't have a wood stove. I don't have a functioning water heater. I don't think so. Like, I don't care that much. And the same with the Iran war. Iran can have a nuclear weapon. Okay. Yeah. That doesn't sound great. Iran nuclear weapon. They seem bad. Certainly don't speak English. They seem pretty foreign. Some weird religion. I don't Yeah, they should have a nuclear weapon. But at this point, how many Americans care if Iran has a nuclear weapon? I mean, probably don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon or anyone to have a nuclear weapon. But really, as a justification for $6.50 a gallon diesel, they don't care. So, what does that tell you? $6.50 50 Cent diesel isn't an ancillary byproduct of this war. It's the whole point of the war. The point of a system is what it does. And that's how you know what's true. Because I don't doesn't matter what they tell you the justification. We're doing this for this reason. No, watch what they do. Consider the result it produces. if they keep doing it and it keeps producing that same result, that result is the point of the exercise. You don't need to be a genius to understand that. So when people, dumb people like me, get up on camera and say, "Oh my gosh, if this continues, we're going to have famine in Africa and mass migration. All of subsaharan Africa is going to move to Europe and the United States and Canada." You think that hasn't occurred to them? If this continues, the standard of living in the United States is going to plummet. People won't be able to afford essentials. They're going to have to stop eating meat. You think they never thought of that before? I mean, at at some point, all of us need to just like wake up and ground our understanding of reality in reality itself. Be like your dog. Your dog doesn't understand a word you say. And yet your dog has an amazing track record most likely of anticipating what you're going to do. How does that work? Because by not hearing what you say, the dog is restricted to watching what you do. And watching what people do is over time a far more reliable indicator of why they're doing it. Seek motive by understanding people's actions, not their words. Words mislead. Actions tell the truth. And these actions both in Ukraine and in Iran, both in Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf, have the same effect, which is to lower the standard of living in the West. Not in China, in the West. China has gone crazy with refineries, and none of them have been blown up. China is producing energy liquefying coal as the Germans did during the Second World War because they don't have adequate oil reserves. So they have a massive gasification program with coal. They have big coal reserves. So they're taking the coal and turning it into liquid fuel, effectively diesel. So China is actually fine. We're not fine. Europe is shafted. It was obvious when this started that was going to happen. They did it anyway. Why did they do it? Don't listen like your dog to what they say. Assess what they do. They did it to destroy the standard of living in the United States and Europe to make way for the Chinese empire. Obviously, oh, that's crazy. Is it crazy? Look at what they're doing. By destroying refineries, they are ensuring that the West will be a lot poorer than it is now. And that's not quickly fixable. And they know that. And by they, who are we talking about? Well, whoever's making the decisions in the Ukraine war. And it's not Putin. Putin. The Russians are responding at this point. They're responding to increased aggression from Ukraine. Well, Ukraine's out of men. We don't know the numbers because they're still secret, but hundreds and hund likely over a million Ukrainians have been killed, and certainly way over a million have been killed or wounded. So, there is no Ukrainian fighting force left, but they're amping up the aggression. What is that? And who's making that decision? Well, watch the following clip and you will know. So, this is Donald Trump. This is just the other day as diesel prices start to climb in the United States. And Trump, whatever his many faults, which we've cataloged pretty extensively, understands commodities prices because they're not hard to understand. A commodity is really simple. It's not, you know, there's nothing complex about diesel fuel. You wouldn't want to have to refine it. The process is complex, but diesel as a commodity is easy to understand. It's the liquid that goes inside trucks to keep the global economy going. And without it, the global economy grinds to a halt. Literally grinds to a halt. So Trump gets that and you can check diesel prices on your phone and there's no question he does. So his fear from the very beginning of this whole conflict was commodities prices would go up and he's been very focused on the price of Brent crude. Brent crude is one of many markers of global oil prices. It's named after a now defunct oil field in the North Sea called the Brent oil field. But it's kind of the measure that people use. It's like the S&P of energy markets. You know, it's just like a brand name and people check it. And the Brent crude prices stayed, you know, it's it's gone over a 100 but it's not at 300. So fossil fuel prices or crude oil prices have stayed pretty I mean relative to what's happened they've stayed pretty reasonable but it's the refined products that people actually use jet fuel gasoline diesel and fertilizer those are the ones you got to start worrying about a lot and diesel in particular because unlike jet fuel and fertilizer they advertise the price of diesel at your local gas station so you know what it So Trump's watching this and it's freaking him out, of course, because he'll be judged and he knows no matter how many arches he builds or Kennedy centers he names after himself or whatever kind of sad insanity uh he attempts to make sure that he's remembered fondly if the diesel price gets to eight bucks. Like there's no chance, you know, you will always be remembered as a failure. Period. And he knows that because he's despite appearances not stupid on this level. So Trump clearly asked advisers like, "What what's going on with diesel?" And they say, "Well, it's really not the Middle East that's causing the spike. It's the Ukrainians smacking all these Russian diesel refineries." And it turns out Russia is one of the big producers, I think number two in the world for diesel. And so Trump gets so agitated that he says he calls for Zalinski to stop hitting diesel refining. Watch this. >> Mr. Zalinsky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel because he's causing a shortage of diesel fuel. This isn't done by the Middle East. This is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. So, we spoke to Mr. Zilinski about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel fuel because that's hurting that's hurting the world. We don't want him to hit diesel field. >> So, that's pretty clear. So, that's last Sunday. Um, Trump says that and that's actually a pretty good thing to say, pretty smart thing to say. I mean, he's identified one of the main causes of the problem. Why are diesel prices going up? It's because Ukrainians are hitting Russian refining. And he thinks understandably that he's in charge like there would be no Ukraine well that it wouldn't be a Ukrainian nation were it not for the support from the United States. And there certainly wouldn't be a Ukrainian war effort. It's not like the Ukrainian people want it. They were being held hostage by an unelected president who's eliminated civil liberties in the country, banned the biggest Christian denomination, put people in prison for criticizing him. He's a he's a lunatic and a tyrant. And why is he continuing? Well, the only reason he's continuing is because the Trump administration through its intel agencies is giving the Ukrainians targeting information. So when they hit a target in Russia, where did that information come from? From their intel agencies? No. No, from ours. So whatever they tell you, the Trump administration is allowing this war to continue. It's just a fact. Okay? And so Trump feels understandably that he can shut it down because this is only happening because he's allowing it to happen and aiding the Zalinsky government. Now, God knows why he's doing that. That's a much deeper question that someone should get to the bottom of. I think we know. In any case, it makes sense that Trump would be like, "Okay, enough. Shut it down. You're hurting me. You're hurting America." So that was last Sunday. Here's Trump on Friday, last Friday, just the other day, declaring mission accomplished. Watch this. We have the highest employment that we've ever had in history. All of these things are the lowest. We have the best poverty rate, the lowest poverty rate in the history of our country. And people are making more money today than they ever had. And we do have something that I'm very proud of. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. Now, for that, people are going to have to pay some extra gas. I think most people, if they had a vote on lower gas prices or letting Iran have a nuclear weapon, I'd be willing to vote that it would be a a massive landslide. People don't want to have Iran have a nuclear weapon. And you know what? They won't. And the war is going to end soon. And when it ends, your gas prices are going to drop to a level that they were before, maybe even lower. >> Yeah. Ignore the stuff about Iran having a nuclear weapon. I mean, that's obviously the ram kind of sad ramblings of an old man. Nobody cares actually at this point. Israel having a nuclear weapon. Israel's threatened to use nuclear weapons against various countries uh a lot and there are no nuclear inspections in Israel. Inspectors have never been to Deona. So, if there's one country on the planet that's breaking international law on nuclear weapons, it's Israel. Of course, they're a much greater threat than Iran's non-existent nuclear program. And honestly, at this point, nobody really cares, and Trump must know that, which is why he keeps repeating it. But it's the first part of that statement that really feels almost poignant in retrospect. So, here's Trump just a couple days after saying, "I'm goin