Weaponizing the Iran War: “You Will Own Nothing & Be Happy” — My Second Interview by Peter McCormack

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Hey hey Sovereign Wealth Builders,

Welcome to a deep dive into the ruthless structural reality of our shifting world order. We are currently navigating a period of unprecedented volatility, but it n my opinion, what many perceive as a sequence of random global crises is actually a meticulously scripted transitional theater. To make sense of the noise, I recently sat down for a comprehensive two-hour discussion on March 19, 2026. While the conversation was a rigorous exploration with my long-time friend Peter McCormack, the session was hosted by Nathan on BTC Sessions to ensure we reached the widest possible audience of those seeking truth over narrative. Our goal was to pull back the curtain on the move away from a Western-dominated unipolar world toward a technocratic multipolar order controlled by transnational capital. This is not a conspiracy; it is the application of game theory to the financialization, securitization, and tokenization of everything. The real pandemic we face today is the psychological trauma inflicted upon the global population as the financial industrial complex socializes its losses while privatizing its gains. Understanding this shift is the only way to protect your capital and your family from the global asset-stripping phase currently underway.

The Three Industrial Complexes: Who Really Runs the World?

To understand why the world feels like it is fraying at the edges, you must look past the theatrical masks of politicians and examine the three factions of power that have captured Western governments, specifically within the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Israel. These factions operate as distinct but overlapping industrial complexes: the Financial (FIC), the Technical (TIC), and the Military (MIC). The Financial Industrial Complex is the realm of transnational capital, epitomized by asset managers like BlackRock, which now sits on approximately 20,000 board seats across the world’s major public companies. The FIC views nations as mere asset management portfolios. Their objective is to weaken the nation-state through monetary colonialism, saddling countries with debt they can never repay to ensure they remain subordinate to the global money printer. This system dates back to 1694 and the founding of the Bank of England, where William Patterson issued a perpetual loan to the King, creating a monopoly on currency that requires the constant creation of new debt just to pay interest on money that never existed.

The Technical Industrial Complex serves as the infrastructure for the new surveillance state. This faction, with its deep DARPA and CIA roots, weaponizes algorithms, data, and artificial intelligence to construct a global grid of digital IDs and social credit scores. They seek to replace human wisdom with algorithmic tyranny, ensuring that every citizen is managed within a digital "box" of radicalized echo chambers. Meanwhile, the legacy Military-Industrial Complex continues to profit from the "forever war" model, but it has become increasingly subordinate to the FIC. In this ruthless game, wars are narratives used to justify the reallocation of resources and the destruction of competition. Binding these complexes together is the "Epstein Files" network for example. The people who rule the world are not found on a list within those files; rather, they are the ones who control the files. This blackmail and compromise network ensures that no political actor breaks rank, as rising to the top requires mutual compromise to guarantee compliance within the scripted transition.

Trump as a Transactional Agent of the Transition

In this theater, figures like Donald Trump are best understood as transactional agents installed by specific backers to usher in systemic change. His role is to facilitate the strategic dismantling of the American empire to make way for a regional power structure. Among his most prominent backers is Elon Musk, representing the TIC. Musk’s involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is far more than a cost-cutting measure; it is a massive data-mining exercise designed to provide the infrastructure for a future social credit score. Despite his public persona, Musk’s businesses remain fully subordinate to the financial industrial complex, relying on Pentagon budgets and stock-based collateral that can be manipulated at will by the banks.

Another critical faction is the Mellon Family, representing the FIC. Their strategy involves the hollowing out of the traditional dollar system, a process accelerated by the events of Dollar Liberation Day on April 2, 2025. This move was designed to weaken the dollar and push capital into more liquid, globalized markets, facilitating the asset-stripping of the West. Furthermore, Miriam Adelson represents the interests of the MIC through an "Israel First" policy, providing a layer of plausible deniability for American corporate interests while the empire is reconfigured. Trump’s administration has already signaled this shift with the Big Beautiful Bill, a $1.3 trillion spending package accompanied by a $5 trillion debt ceiling, aimed at running the economy hot through fiscal dominance while the middle class is crushed under the weight of the resulting inflation.

The Iran War Strategy and the New Silk Road

I believe the current conflict involving Iran is not an organic explosion of ancient grievances, but an agreed-upon operation between the FIC and the MIC. For forty years, the world operated under a "strategic tension" model in the Middle East. That model is being killed to make room for a new era of China-aligned stability. We are witnessing Operation Midnight Hammer, a strategic maneuver intended to expel the United States military presence from the region. This exit is not a defeat in the traditional sense, but a relocation of military assets to Europe and South America to manage "civil unrest" and surveillance contracts. I believe e the goal is to transform the Middle East back into "West Asia," a central hub for China’s 100-year plan and the New Silk Road.

As the military exits, control of vital corridors like the Strait of Hormuz is being transferred away from autonomous national guards and into the hands of private corporate structures and asset managers like BlackRock. This transition ensures regional stability that favors capital flow and data center development over perpetual kinetic warfare. In this game, the price of oil is a primary lever; once it hits the $115 oil threshold, it triggers a global financial crisis that allows the FIC to hoover up distressed assets. This logic extends to South America as well, where the "Gold Deal" in Venezuela and the massive new oil discoveries in Guyana—the largest in modern history—are being brought under the control of Chevron and Exxon, ensuring that resources are privatized and the profits flow upward to the US stock market regardless of who sits in the White House.

The Asset Stripping of the West and the K-Shaped Reality

The most significant war is not happening in a distant desert; it is being fought against the middle class in the West. We have entered the final phase of strategic asset stripping, where the Western hemisphere is being "hollowed out" through a strategically overvalued dollar that destroys the manufacturing base. Governments act as "battering rams," taking the public blame for their roles as "piggy banks" in a debt-based Ponzi scheme. With the US debt now at a staggering $38 trillion, the system is in a state of fiscal dominance, where the government prints money to stimulate a fake 4.7% GDP print while the average cost of debt hovers at 3.3%. This spread allows the elites to continue the scheme until no more bonds can be sold.

This has resulted in the K-shaped economy, where the divergence between the classes is absolute. On the upward arm are the asset owners—those who hold the stocks, the land, and the hard money. On the downward arm are those who are the assets. If you do not own your wealth, you are merely the collateral for the debt used to roll over the Ponzi scheme. We are seeing a managed decline where the American and British man is reduced to a feudal serf, provided with Universal Basic Income and technological distractions to mask the pitiful nature of their situation. In this environment, humans are increasingly viewed as "liabilities" compared to the efficiency of AI and robotics, and the middle class is being systematically eviscerated to pay for the final stages of the transition.

The Technocratic Nightmare: From Gaza to the Global Surveillance Grid

The conflicts we see today serve as industrial pilots for a global surveillance grid. In Gaza, we are seeing the emergence of "Genocide as a Service" and "Occupation as a Service," where companies like Palantir test AI-powered systems for pre-crime, mass surveillance, and drone integration. This technology is then exported globally to manage "weaponized immigration" and manufacture civil unrest in Europe and the UK. The ultimate goal is the tokenization of physical reality, where land and resources are converted into digital shitcoins managed by transnational banks. This allows the FIC to acquire the world on the cheap through distressed "vulture capital" deals while the population is distracted by manufactured cultural divisions.

This technocratic nightmare is supported by algorithmic tyranny. Platforms like X and YouTube utilize algorithms to compartmentalize the population into radicalized echo chambers. Whether you are in the "white nationalist box," the "socialist boomer box," or the "Christian conservative box," the goal is to prevent collective resistance by keeping people focused on hate. While the public argues over these narratives, the technical industrial complex quietly installs the infrastructure for digital IDs and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). This grid is designed to monitor every transaction, ensuring that human behavior is fully subordinate to the financial interests of the American stock market and the global control grid.

Sovereignty in an Era of Betrayal: The Bitcoin Boycott

In the face of this systemic betrayal, the only path forward is a total boycott of the existing financial order. Bitcoin and gold are the ultimate tools for opting out of the Federal Reserve and the financial industrial complex. However, we must be vigilant because the FIC is actively attempting to "capture" Bitcoin. Through the Genius Act and the Clarity Act, the elites are creating a framework where JP Morgan can create Federal Reserve collateral backed by stablecoins, effectively integrating Bitcoin into their debt constructs. Figures like Michael Saylor and Howard Lutnik have become strategic tools of this capture, building "treasury companies" that sell equity to the FIC in exchange for Bitcoin, creating a two-tiered system where the elites hold the real asset and the public holds a paper derivative.

The state’s attack on sovereignty is already visible in the arrests of the Samurai Wallet developers, signaling a war on self-custody. To win, you must engage in the "infinite game" of Bitcoin. This means holding your own keys, running your own independent nodes, and refusing to "mine fiat currency" by borrowing against your holdings or using custodial ETFs. When you keep your wealth in a BlackRock ETF, you are allowing the FIC to use your assets as collateral for their derivatives and debt games. True sovereignty requires keeping your wealth outside of their reach, maintaining the integrity of the network against the "finite game" of speculators and institutional managers.

The White Pill: Returning to the Analog and the Local

Despite the darkness of this macro breakdown, there is a strategic "white pill" to be found. While we cannot collectively defeat the global machine through the "theater" of traditional politics—as seen by the 1971 default and the long history of operations like Operation Ajax—we can exit the system individually. The answer lies in returning to the analog and the local. This involves investing in community connections, supporting local farmers and butchers, and disconnecting from the digital "little box" that feeds us algorithmic hate. We must reclaim our most scarce resource: our time.

True sovereignty is found in high-integrity living. It is about paying off debt, owning your home, and building a life that does not rely on the whims of the financial industrial complex. The decline of the Western empire is inevitable, but it also provides the opportunity for individuals to reclaim their autonomy. Go outside, touch grass, and as the saying goes, "sun your balls"—reconnect with the physical world and the people around you. We may not be able to stop the global machine’s transition to a technocratic feudal state, but we can ensure that we are not its casualties. By focusing on local altruism and asset self-custody, we build the foundations for a new world while the old one finishes its asset-stripping phase.

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This document is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion of geopolitical transitions, "financial industrial complexes," asset stripping strategies, and the role of digital assets like Bitcoin does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. The global macroeconomic landscape is exceptionally volatile and subject to rapid change. All readers must perform their own due diligence and consult with professional advisors before making any decisions regarding their wealth, asset custody, or jurisdictional residency. Simon Dixon and his affiliates are not responsible for any financial losses or consequences arising from the use of the information contained herein. Mention of specific acts like the "Genius Act" or "Clarity Act" are for educational context regarding the legislative environment as discussed in the source materials.