Iran, Yemen & Venezuela | The Truth Behind Regime Change

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Introduction: It's Not Chaos, It's Theater

The global headlines are chaotic. Escalations in Iran and Yemen scream of a world hurtling towards World War III. But what if the chaos is the point? What if the wars, the protests, and the political drama are nothing more than manufactured theater, designed to distract you while a coordinated global transition takes place right under your nose?

The real conflict isn't on the battlefield; it's a currency war. This is a meticulously managed operation designed to asset strip the West, establish a new multipolar world order, and drain the wealth of the average person. The conflicts you see on the news are merely the cover story.

This analysis is a summary of Part 3 of the SimonDixonHardTalk LIVE session that aired on my YouTube, X, and Rumble channels on January 16, 2026. The full 3-hour and 39-minute livestream, titled "Currency Wars, Power Struggles & Regime Change: The Real Global Wars Explained," covered the technical, macro, and geopolitical aspects of this transition. This post is your shortcut to understanding the 1-hour and 32-minute final segment on Iran, Yemen, and Venezuela.

1. The Great Deception: The US Military is a "Rental Militia"

The United States is in a managed retreat, transitioning from a global superpower to a regional one. The critical shift in global power is evidenced by the US military's new role: it is no longer a sovereign force, but a "rental militia" for the transnational Financial Industrial Complex (FIC).

The mechanism of America's asset stripping is now laid bare. The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) burdens the American taxpayer with trillions in debt to fund foreign operations. However, the assets seized—oil fields, infrastructure, strategic ports—are not acquired for the American people. They are acquired for the FIC, a global network of corporate and banking interests that includes foreign sovereign wealth funds from powers like China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The US public pays the bill, while transnational capital takes home the prize.

Venezuela is the blueprint for this new model. The recent US military operation in Venezuela was theatrical cover for a massive transfer of wealth.

• The operation's immediate impact was a 300% pump in the Venezuelan stock market, benefiting a tiny number of wealthy domestic investors and insiders, very likely including President Maduro.
• The true objective was to secure Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, which require an estimated "$200 billion of investment."
• As the opposition figure Maria Corina Machado—recognized by the US as Venezuela's legitimate leader—stated plainly: "We will open Venezuela for foreign investment, a transparent massive privatization program that is waiting for you."
• The real beneficiaries are not short-term focused US firms like Exxon and Chevron, but entities with long-term capital, like sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Aramco, operating through its US subsidiary Motiva Enterprise LLC, owns the specialized Port Arthur refinery in Texas—one of the few capable of refining Venezuela's heavy crude.

This playbook isn't new. In the Iraq War, US firm Halliburton managed the contracts that ultimately led to Chinese corporations gaining 30% of the equity in Iraqi oil infrastructure. The American taxpayer foots the military bill, and a foreign power gets the multi-generational asset.

2. The Real Middle East Power Play: The Gulf Wins the Red Sea

Forget everything you’ve been told about Israeli dominance in the Middle East. The power dynamics have fundamentally shifted. Israel is being "vassalized," its role reduced to that of a proxy serving the interests of the FIC and, more specifically, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The financial evidence is undeniable: the recent 12-day war alone pushed Israel's debt-to-GDP from 60% to 70%, weakening it and subordinating it to the financiers of the new order.

The recent events in Yemen provide a masterclass in this new reality. The public-facing narrative of conflict between Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was pure theater. Behind the scenes, they executed a brilliant strategic trade:

• The UAE orchestrated a dramatic exit from Yemen, allowing KSA to consolidate control and manage the Houthi integration.
• In exchange, the UAE secured control over strategic ports in Somaliland.
• The outcome: The GCC and Turkey quietly seized control of the Red Sea chokepoints, a role previously held by the US.

The narrative manipulation that followed was audacious. Israel suddenly recognized Somaliland, sparking media hysteria that this was a precursor to moving Palestinians there. This narrative was absurd by design and served as a smokescreen. Israel was acting as a proxy for the UAE's interests, not its own. In another example of this manipulation, the UAE simultaneously pushed a media story that the "Muslim Brotherhood is taking over the UK" to fuel domestic instability and capital flight from Britain into the safe haven of Dubai.

The silent banker underwriting this entire transition is China. By purchasing massive amounts of Gulf oil, China provides the sovereign wealth funds of KSA and the UAE with the capital they need to buy up assets and political influence.

What looks like the Greater Israel project is going to end up acquiring land for Gulf control, regional stability, and negotiated outcomes based upon power dynamics.

3. Iran's Role: Compliance, Not Conflict

The media has been pushing the narrative of an imminent, all-out war with Iran for years. The reality is that Iran is not gearing up for a fight; it is cooperating and has accepted the "Gulf terms" for regional stability. The primary reason is that China, its main oil customer, demands this new arrangement to secure its investments and trade routes via BRICS.

This compliance is visible in a quiet, internal operation—an "inside job"—to shed hardliners within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Israeli Mossad assets who are not aligned with the new plan.

• The recent helicopter crash that killed key figures was likely part of this internal cleansing. The proof is not in what happened, but in what didn't happen: a massive, coordinated propaganda campaign that would have been unavoidable if this were an external attack by the US or Israel. The overthrow part never happened.
• This follows a similar playbook to Syria, where Assad's removal was not a popular uprising but an agreed-upon transition where "the army stepped down and Assad and Russia and China and Iran and Turkey and the Gulf powers and American factions of power had all agreed that he would go into exile in Russia."

This internal purge is part of a larger trend where major players, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, are integrating or eliminating disruptive proxies like the Houthis and Hezbollah to ensure the stability required for the new financial order.

4. The Declassified Playbook: Today's Crises are Reruns

These analyses are not conspiracy theories but are based on historical patterns revealed in declassified Western government documents. Today's events are simply reruns from a well-established playbook.

1. Operation Ajax (1953): The CIA/MI6 coup in Iran provides the exact blueprint for overthrowing a government for economic reasons. Declassified files show how agencies used propaganda, bribery, and paid mobs to stage fake riots, creating the illusion of chaos to justify a military takeover—all to reclaim Iran's oil for British Petroleum (BP).
2. The Iran-Contra Affair (1980s): This affair is clear historical proof of the US government secretly arming and dealing with its publicly declared enemies, Iran, to fund other covert operations.

After seeing the confirmed historical playbook, how many of today's crises have their roots in yesterday's secret operations?

Do you really think that this is a conspiracy theory, or do you think that we've all been played?

Conclusion: Don't Be a Useful Idiot in Their Game

The world is not spiraling into a chaotic World War III. It is witnessing a carefully managed financial transition to a multipolar world order. The apparent chaos is theater, designed to distract you, divide you, and provide cover for the final asset stripping of the West.

The most important step you can take is to stop being a "useful idiot" in this geopolitical game. Real power does not lie in the left-vs-right political distraction designed to keep you divided and angry. The solution is monetary, not political. The only way to win is to refuse to play their game by "voting with your money."

You can boycott the system through concrete actions:

• Hold Bitcoin in self-custody to escape the debasing fiat system.
• Invest in your local community businesses instead of the S&P 500.
• Disengage from the manipulative media narratives designed to hijack your emotions.

In a world of carefully constructed theater, the only way to escape the script is to become your own sovereign wealth builder.

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