Rothschild Agents, Iran & the Coming Civil Wars
Crypto Rich is joined by Brigadier General Blaine Holt (Ret) and former Green Beret EM Burlingame to discuss Joe Kent, Iran and the coming civil wars in Europe and in the US.
EM says that he believes Joe Kent resigned so publicly three weeks ago because the latter believed that President Trump was “under duress” from the interests pushing for war in the Middle East and that he wanted the President and those in power to know that the Special Operations community does not support a war with Iran.
He says that after 30 years in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc, and going further back to Vietnam, the veteran community is extremely bitter about the false premises and the futility of these campaigns and how while they were putting their lives on the line, their kids were being wrecked with Marxist gender ideology, even within the DoDDS system that serves the children of military overseas. Moreover, they were being force-vaccinated with bioweapons and betrayed by the DoD at almost every turn.
EM says, “You think we’re going to go f@cking fight for you in Iran? You think we’re going to fight for f@cking BlackRock’s investment in Ukraine?“
Blaine agrees, saying that these Neocon interests have created a monster among the community of ~17 million military veterans in the US that is going to become very unwieldy for them to deal with, describing it as a “Sleeping Giant, which is not so sleepy anymore”.
George Webb has a different understanding of the forces at work behind the operation in Iran, which he says boil down essentially to “A Tale of Two Pipelines”. He says, “The Rothschild interests are going nuts right now, because the Rothschild pipeline through Iran is getting blown up and also, the Rothschild customer base of highly-enriched uranium and bio-agents for Iran is getting blown up.”
George explains that Joe Kent is working for the Rothschild/City of London and that he is a toady of John Brennan, Jim Woolsey, Jack Lew and of all the Obama insiders who did the Iran Nuclear Deal and of those affiliated with Genie Energy; of those who want to build the Rothschild pipeline through Syria.
He says that in order to keep the “Rothschild Teeter-Totter” going, both Israel and Iran needed to have the ability to use nuclear weapons asymmetrically without causing a nuclear war.
He says Bibi Netanyahu represents an alternate Israeli faction that he calls “Old Mossad” that wants to sidestep Iran and Syria in favor of building a pipeline across the Arabian Peninsula to the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, connecting with the Eilat–Ashkelon Pipeline and from there, the EastMed Pipeline. George claims this is the basis of the Abraham Accords for peace in the Middle East, versus the Rothschild model that profits from the world always teetering on the brink of destruction.
George explains:
“That’s why they tried to kill MBS, the Crown Prince and now the King of Saudi Arabia, right? That’s why they try to kill him. They don’t want that. That’s why they try to kill him in Las Vegas, right? That’s why they try to kill him in the Red Sea. They don’t want just one partner. They want the Rothschild Teeter-Totter. The CIA wants the Rothschild Teeter-Totter. That’s why Joe Kent did eight different CIA deployments in Syria, mainly giving ISIS weapons.”
But Joe Kent has long been a poster boy for the Special Ops community and it’s doubtful this will change, because he emblemizes their suffering and every horrible thing they were ordered to do over the decades. They will close ranks behind him, because he paid the price of losing his wife for the Neocon’s stupid narratives and for their worthless wars.
EM suggests that whereas, US warfighters may have no interest in fighting for oil pipelines in the Middle East, they may have an interest in defending their ancestral nations in Europe, which are currently under attack. He believes that the next phase of this world war will manifest as “revolutions” in Europe and the UK, where he expects US Special Operations private military contractors to deploy in order to advise and assist against the enemy in their own domains and that the same scenario is likely to spill over to the US.
He asks:
“How do you unwind this regime, this system, this insidious slaver system that’s three-, four hundred years old, without pushing the enemy to such a place that they revolution you and your country?…Revolution’s coming. So who’s going to do it to who first?…
“Now, you got to take certain external threats off the table, which is happening. We did, in Venezuela. Now we’re doing, in Iran – and the region – you’re going to have to deal with Turkey somehow, right? But ultimately, when this gets to it, it’s really going to be, is the City of London and their European Masters is going to revolution the United States before we revolution them?”
Blaine says Europe will probably pop-off first. He also notes that he doesn’t think it’s possible that the military action with Venezuela, Iran, etc didn’t happen without coordination between DC, Beijing and Moscow and how each capital has an intimate knowledge of – and scar tissue from – what they’re up against, namely, the Globalist financial system and its “Rules Based Order“. He reminds listeners that the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy implies an alliance between the three superpowers, the “ARC” (America-Russia-China).
TRANSCRIPT
Gen Blaine Holt: I think Joe Kent really did an amazing job of what I would call grabbing the emergency brake and pulling it as hard as he could, knowing he did not have direct access to the President, trying to get the President’s attention to have him see that in this Game of Thrones environment, not everybody’s with you. In fact, a lot of them are not.
And I think the message transmitted, you know, President Trump keeps his own counsel, and that’s a very good thing. But I could tell by the way the President went down on him, that it was, he was very light touch.
Usually, if you leave the President’s team, and you don’t have permission to do so, he will excoriate you publicly. And that is the big tell for me is he just called Joe “weak” and moved on. And that was the end of it. He didn’t stay to antagonize him. He didn’t keep after him. But I think it did create a spark, where the President is looking internally at what’s going on, and then, what is filtering information from getting to him.
And if you look at what we’re seeing with just energy policy in this country, he’s being filtered. I don’t think the President has a decent appreciation for what’s going on in California right now with the refineries. He’s one guy. He’s the CEO of the biggest thing going in the world.
But what Joe did was expose, there is a Game of Thrones contest, here. And he has fallen on his own sword to make sure that people, at least the president has an opportunity to understand that folks that he may trust may not be worthy of that trust.
EM Burlingame: So I think that’s absolutely true. I think there’s a second front in what Joe did. The second front was to let power, real power; the President and others know where the Special Operations and Intelligence Community fall and what are they willing to go do what we are capable to do? What are the things that we are willing to do that for? And what are the things we are not willing to do that for? Right?
And maybe that’s not so terribly clear. But there is a selection thing going on amongst the Special Operations and Intel Community writ large, and it’s falling down around specifically Joe Kent and his statements. And what is that? It is a message to the President of the United States and to those who are trying to machinate the President of the United States into doing what they want: that you do not actually have the Special Operations and Intelligence Community behind you.
Gen Blaine Holt: Oh, that’s a good point. That’s a very good point.
EM Burlingame: You do not. You think you’re going to use us to go do these things? You do not have us. Now, the President has us, but only under these conditions.
So me personally, I think that was more of what the intent of Joe Kent was, specifically for what I was saying earlier, because the next phase of this, as we’re fighting-out this English Civil War, is revolution breaks out. And for revolution to break out, you need the Special Operations and the intel guys as people who are out advising and assisting against the enemy in their own countries, in their own lands, in their own companies, in their own operations; everything that we do.
And the people around Trump that have been machinating, they’ve been able to send our community off to do their dirty work, their bag work for the last 30 years, don’t realize how turned against them the GWOT-Era guys are, and a lot of the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era guys are.
We do not want a war with Iran. We do not want a war with the world. We do not want a Middle East war.
And if we have to go revolution our own country and we have to go revolution, you know, sister countries or, or, you know, our parent countries, we’ll do that. But most of us have kids that are fighting age now. Do we want – or grandkids And do we want them to go die in a slaughter that is useless and has no meaning, whatsoever to any of us?
And we’re not foolish enough now to think that, you know, the medals and the badges and the honor of battle with glory, because we did that for you motherf@ckers for 30 years.
Gen Blaine Holt: Too many lies, too, too many lies, marination and lies. And the thing is they just, they don’t have any more narratives to offer. There’s no more rationalizations.
EM Burlingame: Yeah. And they destroyed our country while we were gone. They just went after our kids while we were gone. They went after our families. They destroyed our country. They flooded-in all of our enemies – and all kinds of people who aren’t our enemies, but shouldn’t be here – in our countries, while we were off doing their dirty work.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah.
EM Burlingame: If they try to say – and so, this is one of the things that’s coming clear – and you can see how strong it is, because you can see the vitriol from guys like this Greg Kelly or whatever his name is and everyone and these others is the message is being heard: “You try to take us to war overseas and we’re going to revolution your ass, right here in this country.”
Gen Blaine Holt: There’s 17 million vets hailing from World War Two, the last five, six guys to today. And most of those vets have been involved in just bullshit wars, where we’re sent off to do the King’s bidding and no concept of endstates, no concept of “What is victory like? What are we fighting for?”
EM Burlingame: And then, you’re transing our kids and generally mutilating them and flooding our communities with gangs, so that they’re showing up my teen daughter’s f@cking parties.
Gen Blaine Holt: Well, in real time, what did they do during the Biden administration? They went into the DoDDS system, overseas schools where we train our kids and they put that trans bullsh¡t and they co-opted their education while you’re serving abroad!
EM Burlingame: Correct.
Gen Blaine Holt: That’s sick!
EM Burlingame: While I’m off fighting, what I think is evil is being embedded, right home. And now we are having to deal with the detritus of it, in the form of our broken teens and young 20-year-old-and-younger kids.
You think we’re going to go f@cking fight for you in Iran? You think we’re going to fight for f@cking BlackRock’s investment in Ukraine? We are, again – and by the way, this is true, also in the United Kingdom. You have to remember the United Kingdom, NATO sent forces to all these wars also.
I know SAS guys and SASR guys and etc, and Paras and etc. They’re all in the same place. Not all, I shouldn’t say that because we got, you know, idiots in our own fricking units, etc, or guys who just don’t get it because they’re still True Believers – and I don’t mean that in a pejorative, right? They’re still loyal. And I respect that, to a certain degree.
But for the most part, you can listen there in the UK to Ant Middleton…I think he’s a little over the top, with the Tough Guy stuff, but hopefully, he’s got the full spectrum (inaudible) knowledge and experience, as well or advisors around him.
But I like what he’s saying, right? He’s speaking for the community. And I know guys in Australia and I know guys in, actually I didn’t serve with any guys from New Zealand, but I have served with Canadians, as well. There’s a huge, in the English-speaking world, there is a huge Special Operations and Intelligence Community amongst all of us.
Gen Blaine Holt: So they, I guess where I was going with the 17 million is they’ve created a monster that is going to be very unwieldy for them to deal with. Because, by and large, the cooked intel community, the Deep State part of the intel community who has helped aid and abet all their stupid narratives to go to these worthless wars, they got nothing. They got nothing.
You want to be the Deep Stater in Cubicle 55 at the NSA, fine. You got some fancy tools on your desk. But at the end of the day, that’s not really going to help you out once this Sleeping Giant, which is not so sleepy anymore, really stirs and they’re getting there. I talked to them across the nation and they’re getting there.
EM Burlingame: I think that it’s not that, so Blaine, forgive me, I don’t mean to disagree, but it’s not that they’re “getting there”. They’re already there. Everybody I’ve known, we’ve been there for 20 years. The issue is that the right command and control signal hasn’t gone out yet.
Probably, how it comes out is different PMCs emerge, and those different PMCs are backed by different funding lines, and those PMCs are sent into different parts of the world to train, to recruit, advise, assess, train, and then activate and utilize.
The point being is this, if the Financialists keep pushing, we will revolution their countries. And if they’re going to push here, they’ve already tried to break the Blue States from the Red States and all that other kind of stuff, here. That’s OK. We’ll kill them here, too.
Crypto Rich: OK. Now, you said all this as a reaction to prolonged war or going to another country to fight a war. Do you really – and I think you’re talking about Iran – right? Do you really think that Trump is going to have troops in there?
EM Burlingame: It’s not so much that – it’s not – maybe, maybe we don’t know how… I do believe very fundamentally that Joe Kent said what he said because President Trump is under duress.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah.
He is operating, functioning under duress, just like the King of England. People have got to understand how dangerous the world really is. How many world leaders get assassinated? How many of our own presidents have been assassinated?
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah.
EM Burlingame: To think that, right? To think that somehow the world’s key, you know, the key leaders in the world are not in mortal threat every freaking minute, that their families and kids are not in mortal threat every minute is a ludicrous thought process. They are, and those threats are very real, and they’re very imminent.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah. Yeah.
EM Burlingame: Right? And so there are times when world leaders – actually, most of the time – when key leaders are dealing with an in-house security threat, and it’s not so obvious as, you know, it’s, it is done the way, you know, somebody I think it was you, Blaine, or Tom said, you know, “The sign of a good intelligence operation, a good Praetorian Guard threat operation is confusion.”
But don’t, you know, don’t think for a second that world leaders are acting as these godlike figures without this unbelievable mortal threat, or destructive threat around them from all kinds of factions and all kinds of directions, internally and externally, every minute of the day. They’re not, they don’t have godlike powers. They don’t have godlike protective powers.
Gen Blaine Holt: No –
EM Burlingame: And when we’re locked in a, in a 400-year civil war that wears the face, you know, was it Skinwalker? You know, wears the face of a world war as a skin, you’re gonna have a lot of threat in there to the leaders. You’re gonna have factions that are making, that are forcing them to do things that they don’t want to do. And they’re navigating it the best that they can.
Gen Blaine Holt: I think where President Trump has a strength in this is that what I can see is he respects the assets that the British Empire has built up over centuries. He has a healthy respect for what happened to Kennedy in 1963. He has studied history and he has zeroed-in on Andrew Jackson’s experience. And so, when we look at that, you have to appreciate whether, and you’ll see wonky crazy things happen out of his press conferences, things that don’t make quite a lot of sense.
And Rich, I’ve told you this before, there’s a retail version that fits into the little boxes that mainstream media is putting out. You know, if you want to just chew bubblegum and watch the mainstream news, you’re going to be led to believe that we have a war – Iran and Israel – we’re on the side of Israel and it’s a war and we’re going to deal with this war. And there’s some factors in the war.
But that’s, that’s retail bullsh¡t, because President Trump is threading the most dangerous needle, almost ever, because he’s dealing with the assets of the British Empire – and by the way, that’s on both sides of the damn Straits. And so, as he takes this on, you’ll see, well, President Trump did something that he’s not agreeing with Bibi Netanyahu. It’s like, well, yeah, I get that.
But what all you’re getting is a tiny, tiny little peek into the stakes, the pressure, the tension in all these capitals. Because one miscalculation and you don’t have a President Trump, one miscalculation and then this determined enemy will get on it.
EM Burlingame: It’s not just Trump that’s under duress, it’s the American People, because, just as we will flood into these countries and mount revolutions in their countries, they’re already primed here to do the same. So it’s, it’s not always necessarily a mortal duress threat to the President and his family. There could be – and I guarantee you there are – mortal direct duress threats to the American people.
And so, how do you unwind this regime, this system, this insidious slaver system that’s three-, four hundred years old, without taking, without pushing the enemy to such a place that they, they revolution you and your country?
And then, it gets to a certain point of, “Well, revolution’s coming. So who’s going to do it to who first?”
Gen Blaine Holt: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
EM Burlingame: Right? That’s what I’m seeing, more and more. And I’ve started to write the second novel, so people can read ‘As Rome Burns’ and the last few chapters actually kind of touches on this. I wrote the first chapter for ‘As England Burns’ yesterday.
I’m going to start writing that out, as I’m thinking through the process. But really, at this point, I’m, I’m more and more, it’s also I’m getting quieter and I’m just backing away from things. It’s just who’s going to revolution who first?
Now, you got to take certain external threats off the table, which is happening. We did, in Venezuela. Now we’re doing, in Iran – and the region – you’re going to have to deal with Turkey somehow, right?
But ultimately, when this gets to it, it’s really going to be, is the City of London and their European Masters is going to revolution the United States before we revolution them?
Gen Blaine Holt: You know –
EM Burlingame: We’re not going to use army-on-army kind of forces,
Gen Blaine Holt: No.
EM Burlingame: Because you all don’t have them!
Gen Blaine Holt: Right.
Crypto Rich: We don’t have an army and we, I think you’re going to see you’re going to have all these vets.
Gen Blaine Holt: I think you’re going to see Europe go first. I think Europe is really where the stage is set, where we’re going to see the first real pop-offs and I just don’t think we’re immune to it here, in the United States at all, especially with what I, what I see.
EM Burlingame: No, we are back to a civilizational fight and Europe is one civilization. The English speaking people are another civilization. America is the greatest part, the strongest member of the English-speaking peoples. But when revolution comes, it’s going to be two different revolutions: One’s going to be on the continent of Europe, you know, the continental Europeans and the other is going to be in the English speaking peoples.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah.
Crypto Rich: OK.
EM Burlingame: And there’s factions, right? So there’s factional forces prepared, etc. Now, there’s one difference today than in any time in history, in any time in history – I would say anytime in the last 300 years – you know, modern history. We have a strong Russia and a strong China. And they are both world players, right?
Now, Russia was a bit of a world player during that time. That’s why America came into being, but China wasn’t a world player at that time. They are now. And so each of them has a very distinct sphere of influence, which all total equals up to something like 70% of the world’s population.
Gen Blaine Holt: And each capital has an intimate knowledge of their scar tissue. And an intimate knowledge of what they’re up against
EM Burlingame: And what we’re up against.
Gen Blaine Holt: And what we’re up against. So, the ARC [America-Russia-China alliance] whispers inside the NSS [National Security Strategy], they are real, because you can’t tell me that all of these events; Venezuela, Iran, these other things happen without coordination with DC, Beijing and Moscow.
EM Burlingame: Absolutely.
Gen Blaine Holt: They couldn’t possibly.
EM Burlingame: What did Trump just say about Xi, right? He’s going to go visit Xi, and Xi’s going to come visit him, right?
Gen Blaine Holt: But that’s good news, because what that tells me is that the Hu Jintao faction, through the loss of Zhang Youxia, that’s settling in a very nice way. That’s actually going in a direction that we would like to see.
EM Burlingame: Yes, I agree.
Crypto Rich: It also suggests to me – or I make it mean – that the war will be over before that visit happens.
EM Burlingame: Yes, in Iran. Yes, most likely. And to be quite frank, it’s not even really a war. We don’t have really forces-on-force. It’s kind of like a Special Military Operation. Not to use a term.
Gen Blaine Holt: (Laughing) We should use that term!
EM Burlingame: It’s a Special Military Operation.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah, we’ve got one of our own!
EM Burlingame: That’s really more what it is.
Gen Blaine Holt: It is.
Crypto Rich: I did ask Grok about the different rates of strikes a few days ago between the US and Israel. And what Grok said is that from the publicly-available information, the US is targeting military assets in Iran, mostly. Now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t mishaps and mistakes. Israel is the one doing all the decapitation strikes, and the South Pars Gas Field, plus other places.
EM Burlingame: Go figure.
Gen Blaine Holt: They’re very good at decapitating!
Crypto Rich: And one of the things that I wonder about is, could Trump have set up this – I’m going to use a bar fight analogy – to set up this fight so that the other person gets attacked? Because with the American bases being attacked, well, he doesn’t have to withdraw troops, anymore. There’s just no way for them to go. So they can’t come back in. And then with Israel being struck again and again and again and again, Israel’s getting slapped-down.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yes. Well, you’re going to take the balance out of the equation for the City of London, is what’s about to happen. What I mean by that is a lot of people are freaking out about “Boots on the ground. We’re going to have troops in harm’s way. They’re going to be slaughtered in Iran!”
It’s like, well, hold up. If the President’s really negotiating, not with the mullahs, but with what he’s identified with assets on the ground as the next free Iranian government that’s going to have self-determination.
EM Burlingame: We haven’t taken out the President of Iran, have we? Or any government official?
Gen Blaine Holt: That’s right. That’s right. And so, the 15 points are pretty clear, and they’re reporting they got no back sass on that. But the thing I’d key in on here is when the President said, “And they gave us a present, and it’s worth a lot of money, and we got it today.” And what I think that present is, is the United States is going to be granted control of the Straits of Hormuz.
And where I think that goes, is once the country is inert, and the mullahs have died out, and the IRGC generals got nowhere to go but pledge their new allegiance to the new government, they’re going to welcome the United States in with open arms. They’re going to ask us to help them with stabilization operations. They’re going to ask us to run the Straits.
And so, you’ve got the 82nd Airborne there. It’s not to say that they’re going into combat operations or insurgency operations. It’s “Sit here, hold your gun, hold your ground, collect the new toll. The toll is going to the United States to pay for the liberation of Iran.”
And here goes the market. Now, I want you to think about that strategically. Hold on, hold on. I want you to think about that strategically, in Tel Aviv and in London, because that’s not going to be welcome news, at all.
Crypto Rich: No, OK. The gift I understand, and I recorded a video with Susan Kokinda and Mike Steger from Promethean Action, was actually 10 oil tankers that were Pakistani-flagged. That’s what I’ve heard. Now, could it be the –
Gen Blaine Holt: I’ve just got a different take on it.
Crypto Rich: I’m just telling. I mean, it could be the Straits of Hormuz as well. The 10 oil tankers is just a little hors d’oeuvre.
Gen Blaine Holt: That’s a little tip. It’s a little pat on the ass.
EM Burlingame: You know, like with the Venezuela oil that was sold to us ostensibly, that’s not actually what happened. Everybody was like, “Oh, we took their oil.” That’s not actually what happened. We have the right to refine their oil and all proceeds of that, of the sale of that, will go back to Venezuela to assist the people in restructuring the country.
I guarantee you that same thing’s going to happen, there in Iran, where we’re given the right to process. Us, or one of our partners in the region, are going to be given the rights to process certain amounts of oil. That funding will go into some form of a sovereign wealth fund that will be used to help reconstruct and rebuild Iran.
Gen Blaine Holt: Yeah. If that wasn’t the case, if you were wrong, if that wasn’t the case, China would not be on the sidelines.
EM Burlingame: Correct.
Gen Blaine Holt: There’d be no way that that would, you’d see the Chinese Navy all over the damn Straits.
EM Burlingame: Same with Russia. Same with Russia. So we are not, we are playing by American English rules, not City of London English rules. City of London English rules is “We build up local infrastructure only to extract.” American English rules are, “We build up locally so that we don’t have to deal with your ass here. Y’all stay happy f@ckers over there. You stay the f@ck away from us.
Crypto Rich: That’s consistent with the American system –
Gen Blaine Holt: By the way, Lloyd’s of London’s going out of business. “No, we’re healthy. Look at our balance sheet!”
EM Burlingame: Well, that’s what I said in some other conversation. You can’t offer insurance for naval, you know, for a maritime trade if you don’t have a f@cking Navy!
Gen Blaine Holt: Right. That’s right. We’re the only ones with a Navy. They’ve been using our Navy and we’ve been letting them get away with it. That’s exactly right. So now we need to cut their policy.
EM Burlingame: That’s it. You don’t get to use Americans as bully boys anymore. We’re done with it.
Crypto Rich: Bloody hell. OK. Moving on. And I do think like, I think one of the mistakes that people make, and I’m referring to my friends and family, like the sort of the Left Wing, the anti-American hegemon Left Wing that may not necessarily be up to date with the role of the city of London, that they regard Trump just like any other warmongering president, that, “He’s just like Bush. He’s just like Obama; going around killing Muslims.” And I think that’s a mistake, because he doesn’t do kinetic action the way Obama did or the way Bush did – the Bushes did.
And just like what he did with Venezuela was a complete surprise, complete surprise. And I think what he’s going to do with Iran is something that’s going to surprise people and isn’t going to end up as a quagmire, like Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq. It’s just not, because it’s just not his style.
EM Burlingame: If he’s backed enough by the actual no-shit war fighters and intelligence guys, if he knows – back to Kent – if he knows that he has enough of the no-shit, most dangerous people behind him, he can do things differently with, even with all of the pressures around him to do some quagmire, etc – even with the threat of duress to the Americans. Why? Because if he’s doing the right things, we will be behind him, whatever they throw at us.
Gen Blaine Holt: Right. That’s right.
Gen Blaine Holt: And he needs to know that. Especially the (inaudible).
EM Burlingame: Correct. And no leader in a long time in the United Kingdom or here has known that, OK? Because they’ve had so much, you know – so again, I think Joe Kent message was way different and his intent was way different than what people think. I believe it was a selection mechanism and it was a signaling: “We are behind you, Mr. Trump – and team – but only under these stipulations. We will not back you for these things.
Gen Blaine Holt: Right.
EM Burlingame: And you might have some subset of us, right? Like some guys I know, you’ll have some subset of us, but that’s not enough. That’s not enough.
Crypto Rich: Which actually reinforces his position to do something different and not get stuck in a quagmire.
EM Burlingame: Correct.
Crypto Rich: And then the next thing, and it’s kind of simmering quietly in the shadows of what’s happening in Iran, is Cuba.
EM Burlingame: Yeah, that’s too easy. The blockade of Cuba. Yeah, it’s too easy. Cuba will come over.
Crypto Rich: But what is the significance of Cuba? Just leave Cuba alone!
EM Burlingame: You just remove the burr from the hound’s heels and the hound can stop braying and stop biting everything around it, right? Cuba is, you know, unfortunately, a lot of the, a lot of these places in the world that are hotspots that we have to deal with, were indirectly or directly created by us, in the first place.
Gen Blaine Holt: That’s right.
EM Burlingame: And Cuba is our problem. We created Cuba. We forced Cuba into the Soviets’ hands. We did that. We did that.
Crypto Rich: Explain now, EM.
EM Burlingame: Well, we exploited the Hell out of Cuba. We exploited the plantations, the casinos and everything. We exploited the Hell – read Smedley Butler’s ‘War is a Racket’. We created the problem in Cuba that led to Castros and it led to all of that.
And then, we doubled-down on it. We could have gone in there with Castro and the others, you know, if we’d woken up and realized our mistake, but not realized that was a, you know, City of London, you know, that was an intelligence operation from the beginning.
Crypto Rich: Castro.
EM Burlingame: We could have gone in with Castro or, you know, yes, Castro initially. We could have gone in after, well, and the conditions, I can’t remember the President’s name before [Batista], but all of the conditions in Cuba were created by us that led to Castro and Castro was backed and supported by another faction of us. We could have gone in there at any time and negotiated even with Castro and really had a fundamentally different future for Cuba.
It’s not too late to do that. And it’s interesting that our Secretary of State is Cuban. Very interesting. It’s also very interesting, if you know any of the Cuban community in Miami and a couple of the other communities elsewhere, the younger generations don’t have the same vitriolic, “We have to go and destroy Castro and his people!” kind of mindset. They’re more of the mind, you know, Cuban, the younger generation of the Cubans are more of, “Let’s fix this. Let’s figure out how to heal this problem,” and get rid of, you know, a dictatorial, you know, an unhealthy dictatorial system. “Let’s let Cuba, let’s figure out how Cuba can thrive.”
The older generation, you know, the silent and the boomer generation, and some of the older Xers are vitriolic, just “We got to go burn Cuba down. We got to go burn this regime out!” But the younger generation Cubans aren’t like that. They want the problem to go away.
They want this Cuban problem to go away. Well, when you have a broader Cuban community, which many of them are very wealthy, very connected, very political, very, you know, capable and astute. When you have a younger generation, that’s like, “Let’s, let’s actually use diplomacy. Let’s actually use economics, instead of the Intelligence Community and Special Operations and the armies and the Navy,” you have all kinds of other options open to you.
And that actually, by the way, that’s also what led to Venezuela and Iran. It’s not that, you know, the President and his team are all, they’re all, you know, his closer-level people are all Boomers and silent generation, but the people around him are Millennials and Xers, the ones that are on the execution side of things.
And our generations, particularly after the GWOT, like, “Yeah, let’s go smash stuff. Let’s go break stuff. Let’s go fight something forever.” It doesn’t work. We watched our parents in Vietnam. We went and did it, ourselves. Some of us went and did it twice over a 30 year period. And it opens up a lot of opportunities for those who are actually in leadership to choose other paths.
Crypto Rich: And we shall follow those paths that get chosen and they get walked upon and what happens. And I want to thank you both. Thank you both, EM. Thank you, Blaine. Absolutely fascinating conversation. Not quite explosive, but still pries my head open. What’s Friday?
EM Burlingame: You can rest. You can rest and recover through the weekend, my friend.
Crypto Rich: Thank you. Thank you. I so enjoy and appreciate having these conversations with you. And, you know, for those of you that are watching this, if you enjoyed and appreciate this, let us know. And if you didn’t, well, lie about it and say you enjoyed and appreciated it, anyway.
This is Rich and Blaine and EM signing out. All the best. Bye bye.