The ‘Board of Peace’ Explained: America’s Retreat & the Middle East Reset

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The annual World Economic Forum meeting at Davos has come and gone, leaving a trail of grand speeches, confusing announcements, and misleading headlines. While global leaders spoke of cooperation and resilience, the real agenda was being negotiated behind the scenes. What is really happening behind the curtain of these carefully crafted announcements? As always, the key is to follow the money, not the speeches.

Buried within the noise was a single initiative that signals more about the future of the global world order than anything else discussed: Donald Trump's "Board of Peace." This isn't just another diplomatic effort. It is the official signal of a complete reset in the Middle East, a fundamental change in the global power structure, and America’s managed retreat from unipolar dominance.

This post will break down the true meaning of this initiative. We will bypass the official narratives to reveal how this "peace" plan actually marks America's strategic exit from the region and the definitive end of the "Greater Israel" project. For those who want to understand the real power dynamics at play, this is your TLDR.

This analysis is taken from the 1 hour and 44-minute Part 3 segment of the SimonDixonHardTalk LIVE show, which aired on January 23rd, 2024, on my YouTube, X, and Rumble channels. The full 3-hour and 19-minute livestream was titled 'WEF 2024: Follow the Money, Not the Speeches | SimonDixonHardTalk LIVE | 23 JAN 2024'.

1. Counter-Intuitive Takeaway: "Peace" is the New Profit Center, and the MIC is Pivoting

To understand the emerging world order, you must first understand the business models of the global power brokers: the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) and its senior partner, the Financial Industrial Complex (FIC). Their motivations are not ideological; they are transactional. This is how the system has always worked.

The core business of the MIC is not defense; it is perpetual conflict. Peace is bad for the bottom line. They want bodies clutching their rifles, every border a frontline, and every city a rubble. Every explosion is a sales pitch showcased in a quarterly deck. Every casualty is a proof of concept for the board of directors. A ceasefire means idle factories and diminishing profits. For decades, proxies like Israel served as key client states and laboratories—places to test weapons and ensure regional chaos so that inventory keeps moving. The goal is simple: manufacture war so that every country becomes a customer.

However, a strategic pivot is underway. The Financial Industrial Complex—the BlackRocks, JP Morgans, and Goldmans of the world—has partnered with powerful Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Their analysts have done the math. They see dollar signs in the rubble, and they have calculated that the profits from post-conflict reconstruction, lucrative arms maintenance contracts, and long-term security deals now offer superior returns to active warfare. The decades of war were just the setup; the reconstruction that follows is the real payoff.

"The ONLY way to stop the MIC, is to offer them returns in an investment that requires the conflicts to end. And then you have to demonstrate with charts, that the investment will outperform the returns in the MIC department."

After decades of destabilization orchestrated from the outside, this is a miracle for the Middle East. Don't get me wrong, this is evil, but it’s the real world. The region’s key players have finally managed to negotiate the MIC’s exit, not through force, but by successfully pitching a more profitable business model to its financial overlords.

2. Counter-Intuitive Takeaway: The "Board of Peace" is America's Elegant Exit Strategy

While President Trump's "Board of Peace" is framed as a bold American initiative for global stability, its true purpose is to manage the country's strategic decline from a unipolar superpower to a regional one.

This initiative has very little to do with genuine peace. It is a mechanism for the United States to shed costly global commitments while preserving the appearance of strategic relevance and narrative control. It puts a noble face on what is, in reality, a retreat. The powerful hire managers to execute their agenda. Trump was hired by the FIC to asset-strip the US and manage the transition to a multipolar world. If these managers deviate, they get taken out—think JFK or Yitzhak Rabin. Trump is executing his job description perfectly.

The board will function as a "backchannel legitimacy room" where pre-packaged deals are announced to the world as "diplomatic breakthroughs." It provides the necessary political cover for regional actors like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Turkey to normalize relations and finalize arrangements that were already in motion. Most importantly, it allows FIC actors to position themselves for worldwide expansion as the US downsizes its global footprint. Jared Kushner’s raw sales pitch for redevelopment reveals the brutal, transactional vision behind the plan.

"Gaza as President Trump's been saying has amazing potential and this is for the people of Gaza... New Gaza it could be a hope it could be a destination have a lot of industry and really be a place that that the people there can thrive have great employment... we think there should be 100% full employment and opportunity for everybody there."

This is the Financial Industrial Complex executing its agenda. The US is not getting stronger by acquiring assets in Greenland or Venezuela; it is downsizing its global operations to focus on the Western Hemisphere. The "Board of Peace" is simply the public relations campaign for this managed decline.

3. Counter-Intuitive Takeaway: The Middle East Forged Its Own Path (With China's Help)

America's retreat was not decided in a Washington D.C. boardroom. It was forced by a seismic geopolitical shift in the Middle East, where regional powers finally stopped playing the West's divide-and-conquer game.

The old dynamic of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) vs. Iran vs. Israel has been completely upended by two competing visions for the region. Israel, aligned with the MIC, pursued a strategy of perpetual chaos to justify its territorial expansion—the "Greater Israel" project. The GCC, aligned with the FIC, now seeks regional stability to achieve dominance through investment. In their vision, they don't conquer Israel; they buy it. As one source states, "The GCC in fact, wants to own Israel through FDI's." This was achieved through a sophisticated "good cop/bad cop" strategy, where the UAE played the bad cop to normalize relations and buy assets, while Saudi Arabia played the good cop by holding out for a better deal.

The key turning point came when China, now the primary energy purchaser for the entire region, brokered a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. China’s core interest is regional stability to secure its energy flows, which is in direct opposition to the US MIC’s long-standing interest in chaos. With Iran and the GCC quietly cooperating through BRICS, the pretext for endless war began dissolving. This new alignment forced Iran into a cold, rational calculation: and regime survival always outweighs ideological expansion. Its extensive proxy network was no longer sustainable. The targeted decapitations of proxy leadership reflect a calculated, regional effort to deconstruct the architecture of conflict. These proxies were never ideological; they were transactional. For example, ISIS was originally paid to destabilize Syria to serve Israel & US interests. It has now been rebranded to HTS to stabilize Syria to serve Turkey & GCC interests.

This new regional stability leaves Israel, the MIC’s key client, in an incredibly weak position. Its entire strategic value was predicated on being a check against a unified regional "Axis." Without a tangible threat, its calls for military action lose all credibility. The Greater Israel project is officially over because its enemies evolved while America's relative power declined. This new reality is a direct result of multipolarity. The GCC used its sovereign wealth, Iran chose regime survival, and China used its economic leverage to collectively buy their way out of the MIC's forever wars.

4. Counter-Intuitive Takeaway: The War Machine's Tactics Are Coming Home

The model of destruction followed by profitable reconstruction, perfected abroad for decades, is the same model now being prepared for the West. As I've said before, "whatever happens in Gaza is what they want to do to you."

The "rebuilding" of Gaza is a beta test for the future they envision. This is the blueprint for 15-minute "freedom cities"—a world of Teslas that can be turned off if you don't comply and affordable housing for $7,000 that can lock you in your home. This is all integrated with a total surveillance network powered by social credit scores and digital IDs, the ultimate payoff for the Technology Industrial Complex (TIC).

As artificial intelligence and robotics lead to mass unemployment, the powers that be will require a justification to implement this level of control. The MIC's new domestic role will be to manufacture civil unrest and false flag events. These manufactured crises will serve as the "problem" for which total surveillance will be presented as the only "solution."

The West is about to get a taste of its own medicine. People are having mental breakdowns over what amounts to just 1% of what the MIC has inflicted upon the rest of the world for decades. This is the MIC "bringing it home." It is critical to recognize these manufactured events for what they are. Do not become a "useful idiot" for power by buying into the narratives designed to justify your own loss of freedom.

Conclusion: Welcome to the Multipolar World

The "Board of Peace" is the official ceremony welcoming us to the multipolar world order. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is the geopolitical reality confirmed by following the money.

The new global structure is now clear: The US becomes a regional power focused on the Western Hemisphere, powered by its own energy and vassal states. The Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund and the FIC asset-strip Europe. Ukraine will be negotiated between the FIC and Russia. A new Saudi, Turkey, and Pakistan security pact unifies regional interests, while an India and UAE pact controls Red Sea shipping. Iran is vassalized into China and normalized with the GCC. And the once-dominant Military-Industrial Complex becomes a "rental militia for transnational capital."

The old world order was propped up by exporting violence. The new one will be sustained by domestic surveillance. As the storm comes, the only question that matters is how you will protect yourself and build your sovereign wealth. The game has changed—are you prepared to play?

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This analysis is an interpretation of publicly available information from events like the World Economic Forum and is intended to encourage critical thinking by "following the money" rather than political narratives. It must be understood that this is not financial, investment, or political advice. The perspectives presented here are fundamentally different from those you will find in mainstream media, which often serves the interests of the very power structures being discussed. The purpose of this content is to document events in real-time and provide a framework for viewers to make their own informed decisions in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world.