Greg Reese Report - The New World Order
Aired: 2026-05-05
Duration: 05:16


=== The New Arctic World Order (05:09) ===

[00:00:06]  The United Nations emblem uses a projection map which is centered on the North Pole.
[00:00:12]  This projection was chosen in 1945 when the UN was founded and the Arctic was strategically irrelevant.
[00:00:20]  Today it has become the world's most contested zone.
[00:00:23]  The center of the UN's map is precisely the terrain that every major power is now scrambling for.
[00:00:30]  The Russian narrative is that a coming pole shift will thaw parts of Siberia and the Arctic coastline.
[00:00:37]  Of which Russia controls approximately 53%.
[00:00:41]  The Northern Sea Route, the NSR, saves 15 days of travel compared to the Suez Canal route.
[00:00:48]  Russia has already invested over $35 billion developing this area for a future Arctic civilization.
[00:00:56]  The narrative in the United States, which has a limited Arctic footprint compared to Russia, has been more desperate.
[00:01:03]  Its story began as man made global warming, now simplified to climate change.
[00:01:08]  The US is hurrying to meet a 2030 deadline and is looking to acquire Canada and Greenland, which would give it the ability to dominate the Northwest Passage, the alternative Arctic trade route to Russia's NSR.
[00:01:22]  The European Union has expanded NATO to include Arctic states, Sweden, and Finland.
[00:01:28]  In January 2025, the EU established the European Polar Coordination Office in Sweden's Arctic region.
[00:01:38]  China's Arctic engagement can be found in their Polar Silk Road, an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative in polar waters.
[00:01:46]  China has declared itself a near Arctic state and has been investing in Russia's Arctic projects in exchange for access.
[00:01:54]  In 2025, it has completed a record number of container voyages through Russia's NSR and designates the Arctic as a strategic new frontier.
[00:02:05]  We are living through the most consequential reorganization of world power since 1945.
[00:02:11]  And the geological advantage for all nations is clearly centered in the Arctic region.
[00:02:16]  The new multipolar world order is forming, and with it, a new financial system is being built.
[00:02:23]  A new world order in which energy, food, and metals become the new reserve assets.
[00:02:29]  Each of the major players is constructing financial systems designed to function independently as well as internationally.
[00:02:37]  In the USA, there is Hedera's digital hashgraph, which is governed by institutions including Google.
[00:02:43]  IBM, Boeing, LG, and FedEx.
[00:02:47]  Hedera is not a replacement for the dollar.
[00:02:49]  It is a faster, more programmable upgrade of the US dollar system that works along with stablecoins such as USDC.
[00:02:58]  In China, there is CIPS, Cross Border Interbank Payment System, which was launched in 2015 as a SWIFT alternative.
[00:03:07]  But unlike SWIFT, which only handles messaging, CIPS handles actual clearing and settlement.
[00:03:14]  There is also the digital Yuan, which has already reached 2.25 billion wallets, more than China's entire population.
[00:03:21]  And there is MBridge, China's most ambitious project, a multi CBDC platform developed with Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE, allowing direct settlement between digital currencies.
[00:03:34]  In Russia, there is the digital ruble and the Mir card payment system, which has issued nearly half a billion cards and processes two thirds of all domestic transactions.
[00:03:44]  SPFS, System for Transfer of Financial Messages, is Russia's swift alternative.
[00:03:50]  And it is now connected to 557 financial institutions in 20 countries.
[00:03:56]  There are four emerging blocs in this multipolar world order.
[00:04:00]  The American bloc, which is looking to include all of North America, Latin America, and Greenland.
[00:04:06]  The Middle East is being fought for right now.
[00:04:10]  The Russian bloc is looking to include much of its former Soviet states, as well as parts of Africa and the Balkans.
[00:04:17]  The Chinese bloc is looking to include South and Southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa.
[00:04:23]  And the European bloc is looking to include the core EU and its surrounding periphery.
[00:04:28]  What appears to be a series of unrelated events is more likely the controlled demolition of the unipolar world order and the birth pangs of the new multipolar world order.
[00:04:40]  And through a pipeline of central banks and private think tank institutions, all roads lead to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
[00:04:51]  Greg Rees reporting.
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