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May 3, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Why the West Can’t Win – A paradigm-shattering interview with world economics author Fadi Lama
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, and I'm the founder of Brighteon.
And today we have a very special guest for you.
He's written a fascinating book that shows that he was years ahead in seeing the structural failures of Western civilization, as we would call it today, financial, business, manufacturing, industrial, and so much more.
His name is Fadi Lama, L-A-M-A, Fadi Lama, and he's the author of this book called Why the West Can't Win, From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World, and there it is on Amazon right there.
And he's also the author of this Substack page, which is fadilama.substack.com, where he writes occasionally as circumstances warrant.
So, Mr.
Fadi Lama, thank you so much for joining me today.
It's an honor to have you on.
Thank you very much, Juan.
Thank you very much.
Now, your background, as I understand it, is in engineering.
You're quite an accomplished mechanical engineer.
So give us a little bit of an introduction of who you are, and how did you go from mechanical engineering to writing this book that analyzes the structural failures of the West?
Okay.
Actually...
I was totally immersed in mechanical design and manufacturing and I set up my own company some 25 years ago, doing testing machinery and automation systems for factories, etc.
Anyhow, after the financial crash, because our equipment is used basically for the fiberglass pipe sector, And the demand for fiberglass sector depends on governments investing in infrastructure.
After 2010, this dropped greatly.
And so our supply to the companies dropped.
We developed new products, which kind of covered.
But then in 2017, we lost a lot of money and I had to figure out whether there was a structural change in the global economy or a cyclical change that will pass.
And so I approached this problem to understand this, and I used the methodology, which I had learned at Georgia Tech, basically, in writing the PhD dissertation.
So, okay, the first thing, you look at the economics, you look at GDP. When we dug into the GDP, it became obvious this is ridiculous, you know, because in Europe, you have drugs, prostitution, and smuggling, okay?
Introducing to the GDP. In the US, you have hyperinflated services.
You have a haircut in New York or you have a haircut in Mexico.
It's a totally different story.
And financialization.
All these derivatives and financial services that add to the GDP but don't produce anything.
Exactly.
And a haircut in New York is not better than a haircut in Mexico.
Right.
It's probably 50 times more expensive, you know.
Yes.
Anyhow, so we said we cannot depend on this GDP to understand really what's happening.
So we did something very interesting.
We looked at the real GDP. And by real economy, I mean the economy of real goods, tradable goods, which basically includes industry, and it includes also agriculture, mining, you know, these things.
And we looked at this over a 40-year period.
For all countries in the world.
This took a lot of work.
The data is from 1976 to 2016.
Then we looked at the energy consumption of the world.
Total energy.
Oil, gas, biomass, hydroelectric, nuclear, everything.
Renewables, everything.
And we found a shocking result.
There was a 98% correlation, okay?
R squared was 0.98.
Wow.
And R is 0.99.
What that means is that the variability, okay, in the economy is explained by 98% of the variability is explained by the variation in energy.
So now we have a powerful tool to assess economic performance.
Wait, so let me just restate that and confirm what you're saying.
So there's very strong correlation between energy production and consumption versus real GDP output in things that matter that aren't just fictional services and financialization.
Is that what you're saying?
100%.
Okay.
Exactly.
So with this tool, because getting the energy data is much easier.
Actually, BP, until recently, was publishing every year the BP Statistical Yearbook, which gave you the energy consumption, every energy consumption for every country over a historic period of time.
So this data is readily available.
Now they stopped it a couple of years ago, but anyhow.
So now, when you have the energy data, you can very easily realize what the true economy is.
I'll give you an example today to illustrate this.
If you measure the GDP of the countries in the Ukraine war, you have Russia facing the whole West, okay?
The European Union plus the US, okay?
If you calculate the GDP of these two blocks, the Russian GDP is 1.4%, okay?
So it's a pushover.
There's nothing, you know.
1.4% of the GDP of the facing blow.
But you're talking about the official GDP numbers, the way the West calculates them.
Yes, yes.
1.4%.
It's like you have a 280-pound guy facing a 20-pound guy.
No!
Facing a 3-pound guy.
You do nothing.
So, but now what we realize, what's happening, you know, the industry, the rate they are producing tanks and planes and artillery shells, what is this?
It's because the GDP's data is budgeted.
Yes.
So, you have to throw.
Once you throw it and you look at the world, you have a totally different picture.
Okay?
And then you can understand trends.
Real trends, not bullshit, excuse my language, no.
Real trends, so you can comprehend.
I'm sorry to interject, but let me just jump in here, because I believe one of the key arguments of your research, your conclusions, and your book is that because the West, even though the West may have energy resources that are rather abundant,
they are choosing to lock them up They're choosing to not access those energy resources through the whole green climate nonsense agenda, whereas Russia is choosing to tap into its enormous energy resources and then to transform that into industrial output.
Is that a fair assessment?
Yes, it's very correct.
I mention it in the book somewhere.
Western countries...
Are not sovereign countries.
Okay, what do I mean by that?
If you are, let's say, the head of a family, your concern is to take care of your family, okay?
In a sovereign country, it's very easy to figure out their policies because the policy adopted by the government or the administration is what is beneficial for the country.
But the country, what's the country?
The people, right?
Okay.
In the West, the Western nations lost their sovereignty.
Long time ago.
Because when you started having privately owned central banks, it means the monetary and financial policy is no longer in the hands of the government.
If you are the manager, Okay?
Or the head of government.
And you don't have control over these two.
What can you do?
You don't have any real power.
Okay?
So, it is...
This is what I call in the book, the money power.
And this has a very long history.
We're not talking one or two hundred years.
In the book, it's traced back to a thousand years back to the Venetian Empire.
Okay?
In Venice.
And so...
You lost, for example, the US lost its sovereignty in 1913.
Actually, the 19th century internal politics in the US was basically the struggle about having a central bank that is privately owned.
They finally succeeded in 1913.
So that's why you find decisions which are taken that are contrary to the interest.
For example, Stopping the XL pipeline project.
Exactly.
You understand?
Yes.
Okay, this is a decision which was taken to the detriment of the US economy and hence of the US population.
Well, absolutely.
I mean, a reminder to our audience, I'm filming this in Texas, right?
So this is a Texas-based studio, and in Texas, at least this is one state that still recognizes the importance of energy resources to the economy.
But most states, or at least I would say most states, Coastal states or blue states are shutting down energy resources.
And that's, as you're arguing here, that is absolutely harming the economy because it increases energy scarcity, so it raises the price of energy, which feeds into the price of food, because food is an expression of energy plus sunlight, essentially, and land, and financing, I suppose.
But then everything becomes more expensive because you don't have energy, And at the same time, by the way, that America, my belief is America, destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, cutting off Germany from Russia to hammer their energy supply.
So it's not like, it's more than just that in America we're committing energy suicide, but we're also helping Europe commit energy suicide as well, right?
Okay, actually, it's not suicide suicide.
Suicide is when a person kills himself.
When somebody else kills you, that's murder.
Homicide.
Okay, yes.
Homicide.
Homicide.
Okay.
And the people or the decision was taken.
Okay.
We must understand who's running the show.
Okay.
It's a small brief historic to kind of explain this, if I may.
Okay.
When Europe adopted Christianity, okay, first, the four pillars, okay, of power, let's call them political, ideological.
Let's say in China, you have the Communist Party, okay, and the military and the money.
Historically, let's say after 1000, whatever, the second millennium and before, you had monarchs.
You had absolute power in the hand of the sovereign.
When Christianity was adopted, the ideological power was with the church and the political power and the military were with the sovereign.
Both the church and the sovereign had placed constraints on the money powers.
Basically, because the church considered usury a crime, And it was illegal, and also the sovereign.
Okay?
Although the sovereigns and the popes did, under the table, you know, work with these moneylenders.
Anyhow.
The adopted strategy for the money powers was to get rid of the Catholic Church and to get rid of the monarchs.
And we started having this.
For example, we had Protestantism, okay, where the Catholic Church was kicked out, and a republic, for example, Ollum.
And then the money powers moved in, and that's when you had Amsterdam, the money center of the world.
The money powers of Amsterdam, and the first central bank was in Venice, then the second was in Amsterdam, the big, the modern ones.
Then the money powers in Holland, okay, they financed a Dutch prince, William of Orange, to invade London, depose the king, and take over the power and become King William III, and they call it the Glorious Revolution.
Right.
And the Bank of England was set up a few years after that.
Fine.
Then France, you also had the color revolution, if you wish, financed by Swiss bankers, Calvinists, okay?
So, you had destroyed, and here's where democracy comes, you destroy the power of the monarch, and you destroy the power of the church, okay?
And so you put a parliament, but you know, Running for election is money.
Who has money?
The money people.
So, you have eventually the money powers control.
In the US, we look for example at the medical sector.
The medical sector in the US today accounts for around 18% of GDP. It's extraordinary.
Yeah, every dollar you spend, 18 cents goes for the medical sector.
We dug into the medical sector, We found that it is totally owned by the financial sector.
Yes.
The pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies, the warehouses for distribution, etc.
Yeah, and let me interject, and I've argued this before, that the medical sector, normally when you talk about GDP, you want to talk about goods and services that improve the quality of life of the people.
The medical sector mostly, although there are exceptions, mostly harms people.
It does not, you know, solve these chronic degenerative conditions.
It creates lifetime revenue by managing people's sickness, keeping them in the system to generate more GDP. That's what we've noticed.
It's an extractive.
Instead of being a circus society, it's extractive.
Let me give you two figures, okay?
In Cuba, the life expectancy is longer than the U.S., Okay, this is one of the key performance indicators of the medical sector.
Life expectancy.
The infant mortality rate in Cuba is lower than the US. Wow.
So you have the medical sector in Cuba is better than the US. And operated at a fraction of the cost.
Not a fraction, an infinitesimal fraction.
In the US, the medical sector is just an extractive mechanism for taking wealth from society to the financial sector.
That's it.
That's right.
Okay, so let's talk about some other examples of this extraction of wealth from the people, and I would argue that the military-industrial complex is another one, because they can always scare people into supporting more wars and more conflict, and then all these billions go to the weapons companies across America.
Let me tell you this.
While we were studying this medical sector, we found that the major...
Shareholders, okay, in the pharmaceuticals, in the insurance, medical insurance corporations, etc., were four companies, four hedge funds.
Okay, fine.
Later, we were...
Doing some research on the coup which happened with the ExxonMobil, because ExxonMobil was the only major who did not conform to the ESG agenda, okay, the net zero agenda.
And surprise, surprise, we found that the major shareholders of ExxonMobil were the same as those who controlled the medical sector, health sector, healthcare sector.
So we started digging in and we found that four hedge funds control, have a major share, and are major shareholders in all companies in the US, media, banking, okay?
All this.
And these are BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and T. Rowe Price.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well, those names are very familiar to our audience because some of those are the same ones buying up now residential real estate across America, taking possession of the housing.
I wonder what's behind that move.
So there's this financial cabal, let's call it, and they've figured out a way to extract wealth from the people.
But at the same time, you also have this endless currency printing by Western governments, with the U.S. being the worst offender, now reportedly spending a trillion dollars every 100 days, which is, I mean, extraordinary.
People can't even imagine what is a trillion, number one.
And then secondly, saying that we're going to commit a trillion dollars to Ukraine over the next 10 years to continue this war against Russia.
And let's face it, I mean, we know on this show, we know that the U.S. empire, the war against Russia was ultimately designed to topple Russian control, to topple Putin, and then seize the resources of Russia, which is energy.
Yes, but hang on, hang on.
This is...
Okay.
Now you see the tension rising in the South China Sea.
Okay?
With China.
Yes.
You see the tension.
And just a couple of days ago, in China, Lincoln threatens China with sanctions.
Correct?
Oh my gosh!
I couldn't stop laughing when he did that.
Yeah.
So people say...
I mean, if there are three main enemies, okay?
Russia...
Okay, Russia, Russia.
And in East Asia, we have China.
And in Southwest Asia, we have Iran.
Yes.
If I were to attack them, I would attack them one at a time.
I'd be totally crazy to attack three at the same time.
It doesn't make sense.
Right.
A lot of things that have happened and are happening absolutely don't make any sense.
There's no chance that Ukraine can win over Russia.
There's no chance.
That's right.
Why this war?
Why this tension with China?
It doesn't make sense.
So, in the research, what I found when I looked at the real economies, I found that by 2017 China overtook the US. Hang on, let me try and get this curve.
Just give me a second, please.
Sure, yeah.
I'll just remind the audience, while you're looking at that, the book is called Why the West Can't Win.
It's available at Amazon and other booksellers.
Why the West Can't Win, From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World.
The author, our guest today is Fadi Lama, L-A-M-A. And I have purchased this book.
I have not read it yet, but I'm going to.
This is our first time talking with Mr.
Llama here today, and it's already quite intriguing.
Have you found what you were looking for?
Yes.
Okay, let me try and share it.
Oh, I'm looking at it.
A reliable economic indicator, energy, electricity generation.
Oh, I see.
USA, G7, China, and RIC. Yeah, I'm looking at it.
We'll get on the screen here.
There we go.
Okay, we've got it.
Go ahead.
This is the real economy, measured by electricity generation in terawatt hours.
In 1991, the G7 were more than three times greater than the RIC, which is Russia, Iran, China.
In 2000, you know the Chinese side.
This is a very important data point, Mark.
In 2007, The G7 economies peaked, and since then, they have been dropping slowly.
Actually, between 2020 and 2007, there was a 6% drop in actual economies of the G7 countries.
Now, in the book, we discuss the highly unequal wealth distribution.
So, the actual impoverishment of the majority of the people is greater than 6%.
Plus, you had the growth in the population in G7 of 6%.
You had the net 12% impoverishment.
Okay?
Then, the other factor, 2011, China overtakes the U.S. 2017, the RIC overtakes the G7. Wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's something.
People are aware about this, but the Ukraine war has shown.
And the Iranian strike a couple of weeks ago also showed the real capabilities.
Yes.
In 2020, Chinese economy overtook the G7 altogether.
Okay?
Now, by far.
So, actually, recent data which I got...
A few weeks ago, the U.S. real economy is 17% of China, which is just under...
Oh, what?
17, 1, 7?
Yes, 17%.
Okay.
Less than one-fifth.
The U.S. economy is less than one-fifth the real economy of China.
And I explain this in a small memo.
And I give you an example, and we go back to the military-industrial complex.
China uses in industry, the US uses in industry, 17% of the electric power that China uses.
Now, as you know, one of the leading industrial sectors in the US is the military-industrial complex.
About two months ago, There was a face-off between an M1A Brands and a T-72 Russian tank.
Which isn't even their most modern tank.
I mean, those tanks are from the 1980s, I think.
It's a 1972 Soviet model.
Oh, from the 70s.
Okay, excuse me.
Yeah, even older than I... Right, right.
Okay.
72.
72, okay.
Yeah.
With a single shot, the T-72 destroyed the...
The Abrams.
Okay.
The cost of the M1 Abrams is around $10 million.
The cost of the T-72 It's under 1.5 million.
So you have your factor of 7 there.
When you produce M1A Brands Tank, you say the industrial sector produced 10 million dollars.
When you produce a T-72, you say the industrial sector produced 1.5 million.
Actually, they are the same product, you understand.
Yeah, well, there's another great example of this, that if you look at the price of artillery, 155 artillery or similar.
Yeah, yeah.
In Russia, as I understand, they can produce one round of artillery, common round, for about $600 U.S. dollars equivalent.
In the U.S., that round is at least $6,000.
And I think you mentioned Iran earlier, similar things.
So Iran launches drones that cost maybe $10,000 or $20,000 each, and then Israel, using...
American weapons fires $3 million interceptors to destroy $20,000 drones and then Israel claims they won.
No!
Iran won that!
Iran just depleted billions of dollars of your anti-air defense systems.
Ah, my God.
Okay, good.
Now, let us jump.
I'll jump.
Here, you could already see That the gap is widening and it's irreversible.
You have a declining curve of the G7 and you have an increasing curve of the ring.
So this is fact number one.
Yes.
Okay.
The pillars of the empire are the main pillars are three.
I call them the Bretton Woods Institution or what you would say the global financial sector.
Okay?
The Fed, the World Bank, the IMF, the commodity exchanges, okay?
All this stuff, these institutions, the rating agencies, these are very important, etc.
So this is one pillar.
The second pillar I call it is the virtual reality.
And I explain the importance of the virtual reality.
And the third is the military.
So, in the economic sector, The gap is becoming very wide.
And since 2014, the rig have been imposing, for example, the war on Syria, the intervention of Iran and Russia and Hezbollah prevented the toppling of the Syrian government by all these Islamist hordes, which were collected from all over the world.
So, The rig were expanding.
For example, in Venezuela, when there were sanctions and they had a gasoline crisis, whatever, Iran sent them tankers full of gasoline and helped them repair some of their refineries so they could generate their own gasoline.
Okay.
So the footprint of the rig was becoming greater.
The Empire, or the money powers, they want total control, and they have been working towards this.
They could see that this is failing, and the military, I will just mention here, their plan, if you wish, was spelled out in Brzezinski's grand chessboard.
And the idea was controlling the energy reserves Of what he calls the Caspian Sea Basin, okay, which is Southwest Asia and specifically Iran.
I'm sure you know when this Clark, Wesley Clark, mentioned the seven nations, we're going to take out seven nations.
That's right.
Yeah, these were the nations that were in this, basically, these were the target.
Yes, right.
Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, I forgot the entire, but Iran was one of them.
Iraq, Syria, Libya.
Eventually, the last one would be Iran.
That's the big prize.
Right.
Iran comes number two after Venezuela in total oil plus gas reserves.
Russia is number three, huh?
Anyhow.
So, they started with the direct military intervention.
This failed.
Then they came with the proxy war with these head choppers, you know?
And this also failed.
Okay?
What people don't know is that in Iraq, okay, There were more military deaths than the Vietnam War.
Are you aware of that?
No, no.
Wow.
It's explained in the book.
It's over 73,000 by end of March 2007 from the Veterans Administration Report, which is corroborated with the conference on the cost of wars,
which was done at the Kennedy School in Harvard, a couple of years later, a few years later, where the total veterans requiring, with disability, were around 55% of 2.5 million.
The data and the references are all in the book, okay?
Okay.
They covered this up The number of reporting by dividing the deaths into categories in Vietnam.
Wait, dividing the deaths into what?
Categories, categories, different categories.
I will explain.
Okay, okay, okay.
Categories.
Categories, correct.
Categories, sorry.
Sorry, no, I don't mean to be rude.
I just want our audience to understand.
Yeah.
Categories.
Correct me whenever you find necessary, please.
My apologies.
Go ahead.
Vietnam War, if you go to Vietnam and you're dead there, then you're considered dead, okay, in the war.
In the Gulf, they made a new category or category, which is ERA, which is undeployed.
And then they had another category, Death in theater.
Let me explain this.
Let's say we're 10 guys, and a missile comes and hits me, and I'm pulverized.
And the other guys, one guy has his head chopped off, another is cut into two or whatever.
They can throw these guys into an ambulance or a helicopter ambulance, And I'm pulverized.
They consider me only the only guy dead in the theater.
The other guys, they died while not deployed.
They died in the hospital or they died in the hospital or whatever.
So they use this to minimize the casualties reporting.
It's like creation account at NROM. You understand?
Yeah.
And the other thing they did They did not, for example, if you check the number of cemeteries in, let's say, Virginia, Memorial Cemetery, it didn't increase.
What they were doing?
They were incinerating the bodies and throwing them in a landfill.
And then, yeah, one lady, her husband is in the Air Force, She knew that the corpse of her husband had reached the Veterans Administration Hospital, where they processed.
And she wanted the body.
And she stayed for more than a year asking for the body.
And then the guy, or even, you know, the ashes.
Then the guy felt sorry for her.
He told her, we throw him in a landfill.
And this woman went historical and then the Air Force said, yeah, we stopped this procedure.
Now we give them Barrier Let's See.
What's Barrier Let's See?
It means they throw the corpses into the ocean.
Right.
Right.
Total disregard for the servicemen and women who sacrificed their life.
Of course.
Yeah.
And a total cover-up of the actual casualties.
Yeah.
And that's how they hide the actual numbers.
They tell you 3,000, 4,000, these are what they consider dead in the theater.
Actually, what brought my attention to this was a guy, I forget his name, but his list is definitely the reference in the book.
He explains all this stuff, you know.
And he gave a link to the Veterans Administration Report, which was issued May 2007 and covered the period until the end of March 2007.
Anyhow, the point was, you have lost the economic war, you have lost the military war, and the credibility Of the virtual reality created by the media has been shaken.
For example, look at you here.
What we're talking here cannot be seen on the mainstream media.
That's right.
This couldn't have been possible before the age of the internet.
Yeah, well, exactly.
And that's why they're so viciously censoring and de-platforming shows like this.
And so we had to build our own platforms because we're good at software engineering, by the way.
To your point, they can't control the narrative any longer.
Yeah, it has weakened.
They still have power, but it's weakening.
Yes.
And Brzezinski, he called it the global awakening.
And in a discussion with Chatham House, which you can find on YouTube.
Okay, the link is also in the book and reference.
He states this.
He says...
It used to be easier to control one million people than kill one million people.
Now, it is easier to kill one million people than control one million people.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
And we're actually seeing that playing out with Israel at the moment, too, by the way.
I mean, in a horrifying way.
The pillars of power have been weakened.
So, this is the key point.
In 2014, they decided...
Okay, we cannot anymore shoot for controlling the world.
Let us split the world into two.
Okay?
A region where we have total control separated totally from another region where the rig have power.
So what the nonsense we are witnessing can only be understood by this policy.
The idea of friction with China, the ideology, okay, the ideology of the Cold War was communist versus democracy, private property, no private property, atheists versus believers in God, etc.
Now, the ideology is Russophobia, Sinophobia, and Islamo or Iranophobia.
They are working on this.
The Russia war is to develop, you know, the Russophobia.
These things with China, there won't be any war with China.
It's only to develop the xenophobia.
Okay?
Yes.
With Blinken's visit to China also trying to divide, trying to separate China and Russia, demanding that China, for example, stop selling products to Russia.
And I think the most hilarious part of that visit was when, well, Yellen first, and then Antony Blinken, accusing China of unfair trade practices with excessive production.
So if you out-produce the West, that's unfair, is what Blinken is arguing.
And how dare you export to countries that we don't like?
And why is it that the West doesn't realize that they've already lost?
I mean, Blinken's still running around like the bully, like he can just direct the whole world to obey.
The way...
It is these money powers who run the West.
You think, for example, that this guy shows his guy is working for Germany.
The guy is a puppet.
Yes, clearly.
Or this Macron, or this guy, Sunak.
Nothing.
Giorgia Meloni.
You understand?
These are mere puppets, okay?
Yes.
The objective now, okay, let's say we are competing, okay, and I don't know, let's say motorcycle racing, and you consistently beat me.
I say, okay, forget that.
I'll have another group where I'm the winner all the time.
That's the idea.
Their power is eroding for the first time in history since, okay, the first time in 1,000 years They no longer have control of the dominant military power.
That's right.
And Iran just demonstrated that decisively just weeks ago.
And also over the last two years, Russia has decisively demonstrated what happens when you have superior domestic supply chains, superior domestic industry and manufacturing based on affordable energy.
You can outcompete the entire NATO countries in terms of output.
And, you know, it's even shocking to me to see the U.S. Congress passes this this all this money for Ukraine.
And then they say, but most of it's going to the U.S. to make weapons.
And you ask the question, well, how long will it take to make those weapons?
Ah, like three years, maybe.
What are you talking about?
This thing's done before three years.
Just a small thing.
The book was published in 2023.
The research was basically done and completed by 2022, end of 2022.
This event which happened on May 13, 14 in Iran launching its attack, as you said, it was evident, you know, the power of Iran.
Actually, the power was already displayed In 2020, January 2020, when they hit the Assad Air Base, and I explained in detail that attack.
Oh, really?
Okay?
Yeah.
And I call it End of Empire.
And the publisher said, no, this is too strong a statement.
I said, fine, I will explain in detail why it's End of Empire.
Okay?
There were analysis made, image analysis made, on whether or not these missiles that Iran used were precision-guided or not.
And it was like the probability 98.3% or whatever that they are precision-guided.
Another pixel analysis was done by another researcher, and he came to the conclusion That the circular error probability, the CEP, was around 10 meters.
This is how you measure the accuracy of missiles.
It's like hitting a target.
Right, but if it's only plus or minus 10 meters, I mean, that's very accurate.
Yeah, what does this mean?
If you look at an aircraft carrier...
The Gerald Ford class you have and the more recent one is Nimitz.
They're basically the same size.
The Nimitz is about 76 meters wide, 77 instead of 76 meters.
So basically you have a target of 76 meters with And you're going to hit it with a missile that has a circular error probability of 10 meters.
Right.
So 90% probability of hitting.
Fine.
If you launch two missiles, the probability is 99%.
Yeah, exactly.
99% of one of them hitting.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
And if you go to three, it becomes how much?
9.9%.
Yeah.
And the Iranians had given a three and a half hour advance warning before hitting the base.
Okay?
In war, they will not give an advance warning.
That's right.
So what this has, it has transformed the aircraft carrier from a platform for projecting power into a platform where you have hostages.
And similarly for the fixed bases, because the fixed bases are an even much easier target than aircraft carriers.
So, at that instant, it was clear that the U.S., the empire, would no longer project power.
If you cannot project power, you're no longer an empire.
So this analysis was done.
What happened on April 13 was absolutely no surprise for me.
And may I add that what the Houthis have done with their, essentially, a naval blockade without even having a navy is a further demonstration of the obsolescence of U.S. naval dominance for the region.
I think it was...
Larry Johnson.
I think it was Larry Johnson who made this statement.
We've interviewed Larry Johnson here, yes.
Yeah, I like that.
I follow it, really, this guy.
He said that the U.S. is like fighting in the Second World War with the cavalry.
War has changed.
The whole weapon systems have changed.
War has changed.
The methodology adopted by the West has not changed.
They're still with the same procedure.
We bomb the smithereens out, then when we destroy everything, then our tanks roll.
It doesn't work anymore.
You have the missiles, you have aerial defense, you have underground storage for weapon systems in all the Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas access, you know, all this access.
So, it doesn't work.
So, similarly for the Houthis.
So, another number which is funny.
Do you know that the gross domestic product of Yemen, all Yemen, everything, the services sector, the hair cutter, the doctor, everything, is around, the number is 25 billion.
The budget for the US Navy is over 330 billion, which is more than 10 times the GDP of Yemen.
And still they could not keep this critical See lane of communication open.
That's extraordinary.
Yeah, that's an extraordinary comparison.
Because you must use your brain.
This is like getting the cavalry.
I'm finished.
The days of the cavalry are over.
Well, right.
I mean, this reminds me of the history of the invention of the rifle.
So when you had mass production of the rifle, right, the nature of warfare changed.
Power became decentralized.
The king with the armored knight was no longer immune to being, you know, defeated and shot.
Exactly, yeah.
Now it's drones.
Now it's underwater drones or airborne drones.
Soon it's going to be like mass-produced, decentralized, robotic, exploding dogs or whatever.
It's changing.
And you must adapt your war doctrine and strategy to the changing weapon systems, you know.
That's right.
Which is not happening.
They're still in the same thing.
We get the bombs.
Look in Palestine.
The Israelis are bombing, bombing, bombing.
They are killing civilians.
And because the population there is mostly children, so it's mostly children and women who are dying.
That's right.
I can tell you, based on Alistair Crook, you know, Alistair Crook was with MI6, less than 10 percent Are the casualties of Hamas and the other factions of the Palestinian resistance.
Yes, clearly.
And what are they achieving?
Militarily, nothing.
They have entered North Gaza and then the resistance attacked them.
They popped from underground.
They have caused a lot of casualties.
Then the Israelis retreat.
Central Gaza.
Now they're threatening Rafah.
The Palestinian resistance is saying, okay, come, attack Rafah.
What difference will it be from North Gaza or Central Gaza?
It can do nothing.
They have 500,000 soldiers mobilized to Hamas and all the resistance.
Nobody knows the exact number, but it's definitely less than 80,000.
Facing 500,000 with multi-billion annual budget of weapons.
Right.
Right.
The rules of warfare have changed.
Mr.
Lama, we are almost out of time here today.
I want to be sure.
First of all, this has been a fascinating conversation.
I hope we get to do it again.
I want to mention your book again, Why the West Can't Win.
It's available now on Amazon and other booksellers.
In addition, I want to bring attention to your Substack page, which is fadilama.substack.com.
And just one last question.
I've been really wanting to ask you this.
So how does this, how do you explain, and maybe we'll have to cover this next time we talk, but the West using the climate change agenda to crush energy production, how do they not know that this is self-destruction, or is that their goal?
I can say very quickly.
They are working now.
We are in progress since end of 2014.
They are working on four crises which will grow together.
Energy crisis, food crisis, monetary crisis, and economic crisis.
Okay?
And if you notice, the cost of agricultural products has gone a lot during the last couple of years.
The interest rate policy adopted by the Fed is catastrophic for the American economy.
And it also has an impact because when the Fed increases rate, the rates increase all over the world because the three rating agencies put U.S. debt as number one.
So all the interest rates in the rest of the world.
What this is doing, this is to cause major bankruptcies in global South nations, so they go running to the IMF and the World Bank, so they catch them within the Western realm.
So this is the idea.
You are collateral damage in the West.
Right.
We're expendable.
Yes, exactly.
But the money powers don't care at all.
No.
It's power.
And the power is not for money.
Money is for simple people, you know, power.
For the money powers, they print the money so they don't care.
It is having power over people.
Over a human being, over humanity.
That's the objective.
If I can't have all of humanity, let me carve my part of the world, which is mine, and I have no competition.
Well, this has been a fascinating introduction to your work, and I hope we get a chance to talk again.
You will get a very strong feedback and a lot of great comments from this video and some action on your book as well.
I just want to thank you for spending your time with us today.
I thank you.
I thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Well, yeah, no, thank you.
And let me just conclude this by saying to anybody watching, especially those of you from, you know, the deep state and the FBI, whatever, look, I'm an American, I'm a Texan.
I want America to succeed.
And this is why I'm working to bring attention to this suicide path that our country has been placed upon.
And I want Texas to succeed.
And I want us to have affordable food.
I want us to have safe families.
I want us to compete with the world in honest trade through innovation, entrepreneurship, and competition rather than coercion and threatening and economic sanctions and weaponization of the dollar.
So by having this interview today, I'm not anti-American.
I am pro-America, but I believe in the principles of free competition.
And I believe that if the American spirit can be supported and allowed to flourish, we can compete.
We have a role to play in this world without being the bullies of the world.
That's my position.
So, thank you so much, Mr.
Fadi Lama, for your time here today.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Okay, take care.
Have a wonderful day.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
All right.
Goodbye.
Folks, just a fascinating conversation there.
Thank you for watching today.
Of course, you can repost this interview on other channels and platforms as well.
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God bless you all.
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