ExitStrategy.World Webcast 7

See also our transcripts of previous webcasts by ExitStrategy.World:

ESW Webcast 1 transcript with Isaac Simpson founder of Will the Agency, April 15, 2024

ESW Webcast 2 transcript with Andres Villarroel Venezuela Insider April 19, 2024

ESW Webcast 3 transcript with Ernesto Contreras founder of Unalivio April 23, 2024

ESW Webcast 4 transcript with Michael Garfield of Future Fossils Podcast May 22, 2024

ESW Webcast 5 transcript with Legalmente.ai cofounder Doug Pestana June 11, 2024

ESW Webcast 6 transcript with Michael Yon on Weaponized Migration June 18, 2024

-- James Smith

Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, ExitStrategy.World

July 6, 2024

James Smith: And we are live on the sixth, actually the seventh, ExitStrategy.World webcast [Monday, June 24th 2024] with our CEO, V, the Guerilla Economist, also known as VJ Varghese. He joins us from the ESW studios here in the upper Midwestern United States. And we're very happy to have V on. It's been a few weeks where we've been getting the stars aligned and the schedules lined up. He's a very busy man, and we're very happy to have him on the show today.

What Makes ExitStrategy.World Unique—Geostrategic Outlook Combined with Global Offshoring Structures, Plus Fintech and Gold Vaulting Services

V the Guerrilla Economist: It's a pleasure to be on, and again, lucky number seven, right? I mean, the seventh episode of ESW podcast, and dude, I'm glad to be on. It's about time that you and I got together. We've both been busy building this thing [ESW] from a concept [last summer]. I mean, let's be honest here. I mean, this was something that we were toying about for quite some time [a few years since the Pandemic], and then the right pieces have come together to launch ESW.

V the Guerrilla Economist: And ESW, ExitStrategy.World, is so bloody unique. It's more unique than any other offshoring services out there because, unlike other players who are just looking at, you know, offshore this, offshore that, we have the ability to transport cash [globally via Bitcoin]. We have the ability to have a geostrategic, geoeconomic outlook [toward Latin America and Eurasia] that is completely lacking in the offshoring industry. And as things get more tenuous here at home in the United States and much of the Western world, a lot of Westerners who are sick of what's happening within their own respective countries are looking to get the heck out [of Australia, Canada, the US, UK and EU].

[People in these countries] they're starting to understand that as I mean historically, we've seen this all over the place James that uh, as these respective Western nations collapse their governments become the very competitors to their own citizenry. And what I mean by that is this, you know, the average citizen is right now, he's thinking, “I got to compete against so-and-so [other preppers] in order to get my preps in, in order to get my supplies in, in order to make sure I got cash and what I need for this and that and the other.” But the government becomes, the more kleptocratic a government that it is, [the more] it begins to pinch and squeeze and steal from its own citizenry. And that's something a lot of people are starting to wake up to, but they don't know where to go. They don't know where to start. But we're here to point them in the right direction, James.

The Massive Advantages for Asset Protection of Offshore Over Domestic Trusts

James Smith: Yes, that's spot on, that the government is becoming the competitor to the individual, to the corporation, to the family office. There's a lot of people who think, well, I've got my family office and I've got a Nevada or Wyoming trust, so I’m good you know, I'm safe. Everything's going to be fine. Everything's going to be OK--but everything's not going to be OK. Because if you're not going offshore and you have assets, then you're missing out on a major avenue of wealth protection and wealth preservation.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yep. Exactly correct. And people don't understand. It's like people are like, well, like you said, “I have a U.S. domiciled trust. I'm going to be all right.”

Well, if the trustee all of a sudden gets a court order to start liquidating or start handing over the assets under the threat of arrest [or on pain of disbarment if they’re a lawyer] – there goes that.

Do You Want to Simply Be Left Alone as a Lone Wolf? You’re NGMI Anon

James Smith: Exactly. And a lot of people--there's also on the other opposite extreme you know the lone wolf uh everybody's going to turn into a Rambo idea that uh fantasy a lot of people are clinging to-- that you know as you like to say I've got my uh coins from Bob's Cash and Carry, I've got my tins of cat food, I've got my gun you know my AR-15 and my…yeah, Pappy's hunting rifle. I'm going to be a Country Boy Can Survive. Well, yeah, you know that that worked out well enough for Randy Weaver [in the 1992 FBI siege of Ruby Ridge] didn't it?

V the Guerrilla Economist: Ruby Ridge--yeah exactly.

The Type of Guests We Like to Have on the ESW Webcast--

Entrepreneurs with a Latin America Focus, and Unconventional World Traveling Thinkers

James Smith: I was having this [very] conversation with Michael Yon who was, thus far has been our highest rated guest on the sixth webcast. It's hard to believe we're already at the seventh I mean we just started doing these webcasts on April 15th, Tax Day appropriately enough [considering the Founding Fathers revolted against the British Crown over a tiny fraction of the tax burdens we face today]. We had our first guest on, Isaac Simpson, who runs an agency [called WILL] out in Los Angeles. A very based [marketing] agency I should say. And we were talking about uh [a pop culture icon meets NFL star celebrity romance] Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, which seems about as far away from offshoring as you can get. But in fact, it has more to do with offshoring than you think, than you might think, because he was talking about, you know, launching an agency in L.A. of all places that actually serves people who are just based businessmen, some people on the Right, some people who are just, you know, libertarians and free thinkers.

But it was a very interesting interview because, you know, it kind of set the tone for a lot of the directions we're going in in terms of guests and…since then, what we've been doing primarily is interviewing [entrepreneur] guests from Latin America.

We've had two guests from Venezuela, which is not a coincidence, because Venezuela is a country that's gone through hyperinflation [of the Bolivar currency]. It's gone through a partial failure of [Venezuelan] statehood, a partial collapse of society. And Venezuela is currently in the process, and this was the topic of discussion with Michael Yon, of sending their criminals up here, of emptying out their prisons, their jails of some of their vilest sex and rapist offenders. And, you know, some of them, as Donald Trump says, I'm sure I assume are good people, you know, but they're not sending their best. It's like Mariel Boatlift 2.0 in Venezuela, how many future Tony Montanas do we already have at our [U.S.] borders?

And that was the topic of discussion with Michael Yon last week. We've had [as of 11 am ET June 24, 2024] 3,500 views, over 3,500 views of that show on Rumble and several hundred views on X. I mean, I've reposted several times on X, but just adding all those views up plus on YouTube.

And those I haven't even counted. I don't even tend to count how many views we get on Twitch. I'm sure it's significant.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Worldwide Globalist Assault on Self-Sufficiency, Farmers and Healthy Foods

James Smith: And, you know, the other point that Michael [Yon] made, which I thought was very relevant for very timely for this audience was our audience in particular, is that everywhere you go, people think what they're facing [from the globalist Agenda 2030 and beyond] is somewhat unique. But in fact, the pattern is similar. You have the same things going on. Population demoralization, open borders, you know, inflation of the currency, loss of faith in the future, deliberate efforts to get people not to procreate, et cetera.

A lot of these things, they're just happening all over the world, including in Japan, of all places [which used to be ethnically homogenous and still mostly is outside the major cities]. He even told me that there's been a lot of very suspicious fires of Japanese egg farms. You're like, “Oh [damn], that's happening in Japan too? Not just here in the US? In Canada?”

V the Guerrilla Economist: It's wild, man. It really is wild when you look at--you know, food processing facilities--cattle ranches, chicken processing farms, pork farms, this, that, and the other. Folks, we [the people] are in asymmetric siege warfare against a globalist elite who are just absolute psychopaths. And it's incredible to see that anybody that's aligned with the West is facing problems [including Japan]. It's the worst thing in the world. It's like, you know, we, our [true] enemy is not from without folks. And we've said this so many times, uh, James and I have in the past as well. Our enemy is not from without, from within.

#WW3byProxy is Well Underway and Has Been for the Last Few Years

James Smith: Exactly. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's not like your enemy is not your neighbor [who looks different from you] and it's not, uh, you know, uh, some dictator [brandishing ICBMs] sitting in Pyongyang. You know, the threat to your livelihood comes from this organized globalist evil and this attack it’s spiritual--it's spiritual, it's economic, it's physical, it's full spectrum warfare. And people just need to to wake up and not be woke but awake in this—in both the spiritual and mental as well as financial sense. And so what we're doing is…you know a lot of alt media they they're [into] doom and gloom, there's like “Oh my god World War III is going to start next week! Well, WW3 already kind of started [in the Red Sea, Syria and Ukraine], you guys just didn't get the memo. I mean It's well underway by proxy, except that the proxy gloves that both sides [the Eurasian Axis of Russia/China/ North Korea and Iran vs NATO and US East Asian vassals] are punching each other with in the face or the kidney shots [they’re making with body blows on each other in the boxing ring analogy] are getting very, very thin indeed.

We saw that this week [with the U.S.-programmed, US/NATO intel directed Ukrainian ATACMs missile strikes that killed Russian children on a beach in Crimea].

ESW’s First YouTube Channel Ad Campaign

We've been running a series of our first ads for ESW Services on [our friend] Stanislav Krapivnik's YouTube channel, In the Eyes of Truth. And Stanislav had an interview with Scott Ritter.

I believe he published it early this morning. And it's already getting people reaching out to us saying, “Oh wow, I didn't know what you guys were doing [moving assets to the Eurasian Economic Union countries] or I just heard a little bit about it. And now I see you're running ads already, and this is very cool.” People [emailing or DMing on X] wanting to work with us in different countries, people wanting to refer clients to us, sign up to become an affiliate.

So a lot of things are happening. And most of what we've been doing, what you folks have been seeing is just the tip of the iceberg with these [ESW and RogueNews] shows.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Right.

RoyalAmparo.com ESW’s Dubai Multi-Commodities Center (DMCC)-Based Sister Firm

James Smith: The vast bulk of what we've been doing, 80 to 90 percent of it is under the water. It's under the layers. And V can talk a little bit more about that, because now that we've got finally got the chance to sit down with V while our [worldwide] audience is listening, it's very exciting. And he can tell you about some of the things we've been doing, for example, in Dubai with our sister company, Royal Amparo DOT com. Do you want to talk about that?

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yeah, the biggest thing is this. It's like a lot of people, when they're thinking about offshoring, they're thinking about, “Okay, how am I going to move capital around? How am I going to get from asset A to asset B and then diversify into asset C, D, and F? How am I supposed to do that?” And I'm telling you right now. Out of all the firms that are out there, nobody is as proficient. Nobody has the cunning, the wherewithal, or the experience [that we can bring to the table in such a small team].

What we've launched together with Royal Amparo, and I think our new [OnceInteractive team] updated website should be up momentarily…in fact, it's actually going to be up today. So let me see if that's up.

Yeah, it's going to be up soon. So it's launching soon. So it should be up by either today, by end of day today [Monday June 24, 2024], or by tomorrow. What we're doing with RoyalAmparo folks is we actually teach you not only how to move these assets legally and above board number one, but number two: to move them and to put them into jurisdictions under your control.

In other words we're not holding anything for you [as custodians], we're not you know telling you to go park it in XYZ [financial] institution God knows where. No We're teaching you how to take control of your assets. So number one, [your wealth] is protected. Number two, you stay liquid. And number three, you have leverage. Security, leverage, and privacy. Security, leverage, and privacy.

Security, Leverage and Privacy via the LBMA Good Delivery System

James Smith: And V, you're using, let's be clear, you're using the same system that the ultra-rich and the high-net-worth [families], that wealthy people have been using for the past 200 years, the LBMA good delivery system. Let's talk about that briefly.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Sure. You know, most Americans, 99% of Westerners in general, are completely ignorant of the gold market, right?

When they think gold, they think of, you know, Jimmy John's Coin and Carry [up the street]. They're thinking about, you know, your typical dot-com [American or Canadian Eagle coin] bullion dealers or, hey, you know, you have a 401k, I want to park it [in gold coins]. And that's selling gold.

People ask me, “Am I a gold bug?” I can care less about gold [from a shiny metal aesthetic and jewelry-making perspective]. Right. I really could. I mean, it's a great place to park as a hedge against inflation, especially as the world gets more chaotic. But what I love [about gold bullion bars] is, I love liquidity. I love liquidity. If you are able. Yes. If you are able to get liquidity, if you're able to stay liquid, and that liquidity that you control cannot be usurped by an outside entity, that liquidity you control cannot be lost by a third-party or counterparty, and that liquidity you control is able to move in and out of assets anywhere in the world [to Western or non-Western countries including in the Global South] then, my friend, you are a very, very, very powerful player on the chessboard. Because that's the most important thing.

Now, at the end of the day, I can care less about gold [as a shiny metal object]. At the end of the day, I can care less about silver [despite its many non-monetary colloidal purifying and consumer electronics/EVs uses]. I can care less about Bitcoin or any other crypto. To me these are all tools, these are all powerful tools of the trade. These are all tools that are in our repertoire at RoyalAmparo.com that allows us to do what we do: move liquidity legally and above board anywhere in the world, into any jurisdiction. To have [funds] liquidated into local currency on a moment's notice and put that into control the client.

Cryptos Are Useless If They Aren’t Liquid and Cannot Be Off-Ramped to Gold or Fiat

Let's be honest here, you can be a “Bitcoin [Jesus]” billionaire, right [and still get targeted by the US government like Roger Ver]? You can be one of those crypto millionaires that you see, these young kids, right? Crypto millionaires, but they're living at home with mom because they have no way of what? Liquidating their assets, right? Okay without getting either audited or SWAT teamed or God knows what right? Because look let's be honest--anybody in the United States who tried to do crypto, anyone who tried to dabble in crypto and tried to you know they got some profits and now they're trying to you know, divest those profits and take the profits out of it, from whatever exchange they were using. They have felt the sting of their bank account being closed. You know, you're not gonna open a bank account in the United States and do a couple hundred thousand maybe a few million dollars’ worth of crypto [off ramping] and that bank account still be open. No, it's going to be closed okay?

So what we do is you know we show our clientele and what we do is ensure they are able to legally and above board in a very proprietary system, a very proprietary way, allow our clients to become liquid globally.

And that's the whole entire thing. That's the key here. Because if you're a Bitcoin millionaire or crypto millionaire and you can't utilize [your cryptos], what good is it to you? Same thing goes for gold, right? Same thing goes for gold. I mean, you're sitting on a lot of gold. How much of it can you possibly hold, right? Or silver, same thing. How much of it can you – why would you want to hold a couple million dollars of gold in your house [safe]? You're crazy. What if your house burns down? What if you have a forced entry [aka people robbing you]? Fine. You could be armed to the teeth and you could defend yourself [with guns]. But what if you have a gas leak and your house explodes?

James Smith: Exactly. And yeah, and not all [homeowners] insurance is going to cover it [the loss of precious metals due to fire or burglary]. And also just from a practical standpoint, it's not easy to move gold across borders yourself. Certainly, during the Holocaust, you know, other [dire] historic situations [such as the Armenian Genocide when Armenians were escaping the Ottoman Empire], you know, small amounts of gold secreted and small amounts of silver have saved lives, certainly. No doubt about that.

But the fact of the matter is that you know what has saved almost more lives than anything? A foreign passport or a foreign visa. That's what saved lives during the Holocaust. The ability to get out of Nazi Germany, the ability to get your family to a safer place. That's what saved [Jewish] people's lives. It wasn't just the fact that they had physical metals. Right? Because the Nazis came and took their [victims] metals away.

On the Feds Making an Example Out of “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver for Criticizing the Herding of Bitcoin and Crypto Investors into Wall Street Vehicles

So, I mean, and, you know, speaking of crypto, you've talked a little bit about this subject with, I believe, Gus Demos, one of our friends at Perpetual Playa down in El Salvador, where, you know, you had a conversation with Gus on the [May 22, 2024] Cuss with Gus program, which a lot of Rogue News listeners love to listen to about Roger Ver. What happened to Roger Ver?

V the Guerrilla Economist: Oh, Rog is a perfect example. It's like here's a gentleman who was very vocal about where he stood. He's very vocal about his [libertarian] government stance, very vocal about the [broken] monetary system, very vocal about banking and all that. And Rog is a good buddy of mine. I love Rog. He's a great guy. But he made the mistake of, number one, it's like he thought that because he's no longer a U.S. citizen [the feds would leave him alone] right?

James Smith: Yeah, he renounced his citizenship [years ago after obtaining a St Kitts and Nevis passport].

V the Guerrilla Economist: Correct. Legally. And he spent millions of dollars [on his attorneys and legal structuring] doing so. And he did it in 2014. Right. He started the process, took him about two, three years. But he renounced his citizenship. He paid a couple of million dollars. He paid all the [exit] taxes that needed to be paid, this, that and the other.

In other words, Uncle Schmuck was good. And then all of a sudden, you know, he wrote a book about who is hijacking Bitcoin, where it's a book showing you exactly what I warned everybody about in 2016--including Roger himself.

I said, “Look, man, the crypto industry made a mistake by running to Wall Street with knee pads on, hoping for a handout.” And now the entire crypto industry has been usurped. In the United States it has. I'm not gonna say in every part of the world, but in the United States it's been absolutely usurped, where the USA--it's now a very business unfriendly country in the digital asset realm. If you have a digital assets business, why the hell would you want to do business in the United States? You gotta be a crackhead to do something like that.

James Smith: Between the hostility of the SEC [and the mainline banking system to digital assets which stigmatizes their competition cryptocurrency as a vehicle for money laundering/dodging KYC-AML] and also the fact that they came after Roger retroactively. So in other words, the feds basically told him, “You didn't value your Bitcoin at fair market value back in 2014,” when Uncle Sam didn't give a shit because the feds and IRS viewed Bitcoin at that time, as sort of this novelty that was being traded online.

But suddenly, because Roger renounced his citizenship and he's been outspoken about how the crypto industry is being manipulated in the United States, how people are being herded into the Bitcoin ETFs and lured back into the Wall Street casino…the people who got orange pilled, some of them are mildly orange pilled, suddenly they are being shuffled back [into the fiat system], to where it's not really their custody [or their coins]. It's not really their cryptocurrency [not your keys, not your custody, not your coins]. It's just, “Hey guys, here's an ETF. It's doing great. Look how many Wall Street players are investing in Bitcoin by building up these ETFs.” And [powerful] people didn't like [Roger Ver criticizing] that. And the Gensler SEC didn't like it. Obviously, the Gensler SEC has been completely out of control. Even some people in Congress make [occasional] noises about it. But you notice they don't do a whole hell of a lot about it.

V the Guerrilla Economist: No, the GOP is nothing but a debate committee. That's all it is.

The ExitStrategy.World Founders’ Journey Since Inception in August 2023

James Smith: Yeah, it's token symbolic opposition. Folks, if you think Donald Trump's going to [win this 2024 election and thereby] save you and your assets, you know, you're kidding yourselves. OK, he's not going to be able to do it. He's not going to be allowed to do it even if he wanted to. OK, and we're not even getting into that. But it's just the point is--you've got to have a plan B. You've got to have a backup plan.

You've got to have an ExitStrategy. And that's why we named the company what it is—ExitStrategy.World. I sketched this idea out practically on a cocktail [bar] napkin, a series of texts, a series of cocktail napkin sketches [for V] about this time last summer, well, a little bit, a few weeks after this time last year [in August 2023]. And It's been a phenomenal journey in terms of the partnerships we've been able to establish globally, in not only pairing what V was already doing in Dubai with Royal Amparo, with his company registered in the DMCC, with his business partner who lives in Portugal, by the way, [Mike G. Pearson] is an American who's already expatriated himself and his family from Brazil to Portugal…

What Sets ESW Apart from the Competition in the Internationalization/Offshoring Space

But also, I mean...[we provide] the legal vehicles to make it legal. So you're not just moving assets across borders. You have a plan. You have a strategy. You know exactly what you're doing, what you're setting up, the structures you're putting in place in the most bulletproof jurisdictions on the planet [such as the Cook Islands] where, you know, if they try to breach those…I mean, folks, I mean, in that case the richest people in the world are going to have problems with the United States government. I mean, it doesn't get safer and more legally ironclad than this than the case law on the Cook Islands, which is an overseas territory of New Zealand [in the South Pacific]. A lot of people haven't heard of them [the Cook Islands].

You know, the case law in the Bahamas is [also] pretty good. I mean, in all these destinations and [St Kitts and] Nevis for the trusts. It's very good for Hong Kong. If you want to set up a trust that’s going to outlive you for your heirs, Hong Kong's an excellent place to set it up.

So we can offer these options, folks. I mean, this is the difference between us and, say, somebody who's only offering gold vaults or only offering some Bitcoin liquidity, but they're not offering liquidity with [over 15 of] the other [fiat] currencies. Or likewise, that somebody who's only offering the, you know, some...offshoring services, maybe they'll help you get a residency in one of the Caribbean islands or get a passport there [in St Kitts and Nevis]. Yes, there are many companies that do that, but they don't combine all these services under one roof.

V the Guerrilla Economist: No. That's the difference between them and our team [here at ESW].

James Smith: And they're not in Eurasia. They're not active in Eurasia. A lot of the places, the countries in Eurasia that are developing, that are joining the BRICS+, they want to live, they want to grow. Places like the Republic of Georgia, it might as well be terra incognita to a lot of companies. They just want to stick with the tried and true, white bread, what they've been doing for the last 20, 30, 40 years [in the Caribbean banking and traditional European offshore capital destinations like Cyprus, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Isle of Man, Jersey].

And some companies like I'm not going to name names, but the ones that are just basically CBI mills that are just cranking out thousands of passports a year, they're mostly [not] interested [in smaller clients]. They're only interested in [working with] the ultra-wealthy and working with governments. They're not interested in Jim Bob from Oklahoma who might have a couple million in the bank and some [natural] gas leases. They're not going to talk to that kind of client. They're not going to talk to other types of clients [whose dissident politics puts a target on their backs for lawfare in Western countries].

So what I'm trying to say is, that we can cover a very, even with the small team as we have, we can cover a very broad gamut of clients. V, your thoughts on that?

V the Guerrilla Economist: That’s exactly right, man. I mean, there's a type of coverage and service that we offer that is absolutely invaluable. You know, a lot of the other places like, okay, we set this up, but they're not really protecting you. Like, what is the point in the realm and the era of FATCA that we're living in, which is the Foreign Accounting and Taxation Act, right?

James Smith: Right.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Which if you're a U.S. citizen, you want to go ahead and you want to open an account offshore, you know, you’ve got to basically give your right kidney a stool sample and a blood sample. And then they’ve got to report on whatever income or whatever amount of money that you as a U.S. citizen are putting into that account offshore. What is the point of doing that, you know, and then risk confiscation? They're not protecting you really. They're just telling you to move somewhere [in Latin America without any guidance].

And that's what all these guys like Nomad Capitalist and all these other morons out there who are just telling you, hey, go move there, go do that. They're not really protecting you. They're not really offering the best [level of concierge service], and if they do protect you, it's very marginal.

Number two, [most people in this moving abroad internationalize your life industry] they don't understand banking. I come with a heavy banking background. I spent 10 years re-engineering the system that we're using for liquidity that James and I are talking about [inaudible], okay? [Ten years] re-engineering a system to get this done [for HNW clients, institutional and family offices]. Nothing else even comes close, folks. Nothing else comes close.

We're talking about real protection. We're talking about real liquidity. We're talking about real security and real leverage. That's something that nobody else can offer in this field. I guarantee you that. Because most of the time when I talk to these guys who are quote-unquote experts, I get them on the phone. I realize these guys don't know what they're talking about. You realize how ill-equipped they are. You realize what neophytes they are. Why? Because they don't have a finance background. They don't understand international banking. They don't understand compliance. They don't understand [KYC-AML and FATCA] regulations. They don't understand a lot of things.

James Smith: Correct. And they also, I would say they’re not prepared for an economically bifurcated world. Or in reality, let's call it what it really is, a world where the Insolvent Seven, as V calls them, the G7 countries, have an ever-shrinking slice of the pie, a shrinking share of the global economic pie, while the BRICS and the BRICS Plus countries are expanding exponentially.

And so what is the issue then? Well, the issue is how do you get your assets from the shrinking part of the world economy to the growing part of the world economy and do so safely and legally? How do you have the on-ramps and the off-ramps to go from Bitcoin to gold or vice versa—and make sure that you are moving your assets in a legally documented way so that nobody…you know, they can't legally come after you. I mean, they can try, but they're not going to have a lot of success, especially if you've got an overseas trustee in a place like the Cook Islands. Very good luck [to them] getting at your stuff.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yeah, exactly correct. Exactly correct. And again, you combine that with the other systems that we have in place in terms of our liquidity system, our security and liquidity system that we've built and created, you have an unstoppable combination. And that's what ESW provides.

Why BRICS+ Multipolarity Matters in the Caribbean and Increasingly, Across the Americas

James Smith: Exactly. It's about [creating] synergies, you know. And like I said, we don't we don't try to serve everybody. We're certainly not everybody's cup of tea. You know, we're very outspoken and we're not politically correct, for sure. But, you know, we can serve a very broad base of clients and not just obviously clients in the United States. Although, you know, our focus is primarily on moving assets of Westerners to the global South, to the BRICS Plus countries, to safe havens in the Caribbean that, you know, want to be part of the developing world. I mean, Dominica, let's talk about Dominica for a second. Because Dominica is a country where, you know, it's in the Caribbean. You know, what you have with a lot of these countries that are a part of the CARICOM is they are offering citizenship by investment [CBI], which goes into their national development fund. It helps build the country up. It helps [the government] provide some basic services to the population. And these places are becoming banking havens.

And where do you see the president of Dominica going most recently? To China. Why is that? Well, because, you know, a lot of Chinese are seeing that the, you know, coming to the United States as investors is really getting tricky for them. They may get denied a visa, depending on, you know, if they've got a relative somewhere….who knows. But the Chinese, they're starting to see the Caribbean and even some places in LATAM as more advantageous to come into to get access to the U.S. market from the South, rather than try to come into it directly.

And I've talked to – our attorney [that we work with] in Mexico City about this. And you know he's very bullish on the BRICS+ investment in Mexico for similar reasons, because you've got all these tariffs you've got all these attempts to build a Fortress America or not really even a Fortress America, a fortress Globalist American Empire (GAE) together with the remaining [EU, Japanese, South Korean and 5Eyes] vassals, and to squeeze the vassals harder [with tariffs and policies that favor the USD over the Euro, stripping Europe of affordable energy and deindustrializing the Continent led by Germany].

And it's not going to work. It's not working folks. It isn't working economically because all the U.S., all Washington and London are really doing increasingly is isolating themselves [from rising Eurasia and the Global South where China not the USA is the dominant trading partner across ASEAN and Africa]. And all these countries, even some countries that are very staunch members of NATO, like are looking at the exits and are starting to wonder, you know, this isn't working. Where's the president of Poland, for example, this week? Well, guess what? He's in China. You know, what's up with that? Okay? You know [the reasons why]?

V the Guerrilla Economist: This is what a lot of Americans don't realize, man. It's like Americans think that their country is like the Shining City on the Hill. That's all Hollywood bullshit. OK? It's Hollywood bullshit. And I'll tell you why. The United States of America makes [next to] nothing. It produces nothing [in the manufacturing space anymore]. The biggest exports for the United States of America are trash and recyclables. That's our biggest exports. Alright?

Why China Dominates Electronics and Other Global Supply Chains—

It’s Not About ‘Cheap Labor’

So you look at it [China]. There's a reason why, like I said, the G7 is the Insolvent Seven. You're talking about insolvent economies that are broken, bankrupt, that are based in the de-industrialized countries. There is nothing. I mean, people don't understand. When you start understanding and you start studying physical economies and physical economies of scale, you begin to grasp in your head how far behind the curve the United States is and the Western world is compared to the physical economies that are out there in the BRICS, [the incredible natural and human resources] in the Global South, that are emerging and that are surpassing us.

So if you want to get business done, the perfect example of this, I had a colleague of mine that went to Shenzhen, right? He once told me this, look, if I want to launch a smartphone, right, I can do a CAD design, submit it at 9 a.m. and by like 4.30 p.m. before end of day, I'll have a working model on my desk. That is the type of supply chain efficiency the United States could only salivate over.

James Smith: It's not about cheap labor, folks. It's not just so-called cheap labor. An engineer in Shenzhen can make almost as much [money] and certainly keep a hell of a lot more of his income [buying an apartment] in Shenzhen than he could in Silicon Valley, paying those California income taxes and those ridiculous California rents.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yeah, exactly correct. You know, so when you look at that, when you look at the fact that that, you know, anything that you want to get done in the bleeding edge technology folks and most people's ideas, and this is because of Western media, most people's ideas of China is like this [outdated stereotype from the Mao and early Deng years of] rice paddies and sweatshops. And let me explain something to you guys. There's a wonderful YouTube channel called Walk East. Go look at it. [Type in] @WalkEast on YouTube. And that is going through some of the major cities that are in China.

Let me explain something to you. The 17th biggest city in China is bigger than New York City. The 17th!

James Smith: Yeah.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yeah And when you start seeing the infrastructure, the technology and how people are living, this idea of [hopelessly backward] Communist China where, you know, you're thinking rice paddies and sweatshops and everything is in some sort of a gray filter. So it looks really dreary over there [like depictions in the US media of the late 1980s USSR]. And Western media has been caught doing that. You start realizing [as an intelligent, informed person] you've been lied to…

V the Guerrilla Economist’s Tagline: The Largest Transfer of Wealth in Human History is About to Take Place. Do You want to Get Paid?

[V addressing the GAE UniParty politicians, bureaucrats and contractors in Washington D.C.]. You're not the largest economy in the world. You're no longer the most powerful military in the world. In fact, you're a joke. You're a pathetic laughingstock. You're an insolvent, broke, decrepit nation that is hooked on GloboHomo. And the rest of the world's moving on without you. The question is this…The largest transfer of wealth in human history is about to take place. Do you want to get paid? That is the only question you need to be concerning yourself with.

“I was born in this land, my grandpappy owned this land, and I'm going to fight [the globalists] to the death [when they come for my land or my guns].” Well, have at it. Maybe that's you. Maybe you want to do that. But you want to know something? I like to live. I like options. And let me explain something to you. You're not going to fight a decrepit government.

You cannot fight and win against this type of government, unless they themselves collapse and some good people come in and retake it.

But you want to know something? People are so far gone. But you really want to hedge your livelihood on that hope [of a peaceful revolution taking place that saves America]? Or would you rather have an [exit] strategy?

James Smith: And how many years of your life do you want to spend fighting [this rotten system]? How many years? And even if you were willing to do that, make that sacrifice, do you have the right to make that sacrifice for your children and grandchildren?

V the Guerrilla Economist: War is for ideologues, man. War is for ideologues and morons. The super wealthy are smart. They get out of the way, and they profit from it. Chaos... and opportunity is the same character in China. It's the same word. Crisis and opportunity--it’s the same word.

James Smith: Chaos--it certainly is [as the character Littlefinger said in Game of Thrones] a ladder.

And I'm a fan of – there's a Chinese series that came out in 2010. It's called Three Kingdoms or The War of the Three Kingdoms. And there's a scene in that movie or that miniseries, and there's 95 episodes in it. I've watched all 95. It took me like two years.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Which streaming service is this?

Cao Cao, Liu Bei and America’s Own Three Kingdoms Time of Chaos

James Smith: It's on YouTube. You can find it [this long mini-series based on the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms] for free on YouTube. Just type in Three Kingdoms 2010 and you'll find it.

And there's a scene, there's a very famous scene [well known to GenX Chinese audiences] in that series where Cao Cao, the Chinese warlord, who's kind of like the Chinese Machiavelli before Machiavelli, you know, centuries before Machiavelli [wrote treatises on politics and exercising political power in Renaissance Italy] And China is going through civil war. And Cao Cao says to Liu Bei, who's sort of like this more traditional Confucian guy, you know, he's more “trad” [in the traditional Chinese historiography], he's more socially and politically conservative [than his future rival warlord, the feared and hated Cao Cao].

And Cao Cao says to Liu Bei, “You know, It's too late to restore order, in my opinion. We cannot restore the empire, the great Han empire as it was. All we can do now is create a new order. And we create that new order by recruiting talented men. And once talented men see other talents flocking to a particular banner, then they join. And then through talent, you get strategy. And with superior strategy, you attract more talent and you achieve victories.”

And this is what we're saying to people. This is what we're saying to people now. The U.S. it’s going through chaos. It's going through trouble. A lot of it's deliberate. A lot of it's being generated behind the scenes. There is a plan to take down this country from inside [the internal enemies of the USA that President Nayib Bukele alluded to in his first interview with Tucker Carlson one year ago]. I don't have to go into all the details about who [is doing it] and why. Everybody who's watched alt-media for years and years and years and not just viewed it as entertainment understands this.

On Turning the Other Cheek and a Christian’s Response to Evil

So the question is: What do you want to do? Even from the Christian perspective, some people say, “Well, what about turning the other cheek and loving your enemies?” Well, the command of Christ was to people as individuals, to people as his followers, to be exemplary. But they didn't have the right to turn the other cheek and watch the innocents [their children] that depended on them get butchered. That's different. That's something completely different, right? You could turn the other cheek personally as a Christian, but do you have the right to allow the government take your child from you if you don't agree to puberty blockers as a Christian?

V the Guerrilla Economist: Right.

James Smith: Right? I would argue no. You have an obligation to get your kid the hell out of this country, if at all possible, even if they're going to try to throw you in jail to do it. That's my strictly personal opinion on that.

On How Nothing’s Been Fixed Since the 2020 Election

V the Guerrilla Economist: Let's just dispense with all of that and just focus on what is to be done, folks. What is to be done? And that's why we created this company.

James Smith: That's why we've had a steady number of people contacting us saying, you know, I've got these assets. I've got this. You know, we're getting referral momentum now. There's still a lot of things we're going to be doing. We're not even really doing a lot of email marketing yet. I mean, folks, we're running shows. We have the social channels, the main social channels on Telegram and X [plus TikTok]. We're not really, you know, we're not on Facebook. We're not on Instagram. They don't like crypto on Instagram [so social channels that promote it get banned quickly on IG]. You know, we're not on a lot of platforms yet. But I’ve got to tell you, folks, people are already approaching us. People are already word of mouth is strong. Word of mouth is very strong. We get referrals. We’ve got people, a small but steady stream of people coming. And I like to tell the folks we're talking to, you know, who are already looking to work with us as affiliates. It's a trickle right now, but it's going to become a stream, a wide stream, especially after this November 2024 election [and the likely post-election chaos].

And, you know, if the U.S. continues on its present path in the next several years, it's going to be a mighty river of talent flowing to the South [and East].

V the Guerrilla Economist: Exactly.

James Smith: And here's the other question. So like, what happens if Trump loses? What happens if they steal it from him again? Or they just throw him in jail. Let's say he wins [on November 5th], but then they just throw him in jail anyway. Imagine that plot twist. Imagine that plot twist, right?

V the Guerrilla Economist: I mean, let's be honest here. Did they fix anything, from the 2020 election? Did they fix anything in terms of the problems that led to the discrepancies [between the polls and late night counting stopped for dumps of mail-in ballots in multiple cities from Milwaukee to Detroit to Atlanta], the problems that led to the obfuscation of what was actually happening? Did they fix any of that? I don't think they did.

James Smith: Nothing's been fixed. In my opinion. I mean, there are going to be more poll watchers, maybe. There's going to be some states that have passed [legislation to reduce the number of mail-in ballot boxes]. Well, what's a poll watcher going to do? Nothing's been fixed with the mail-in ballots in the key swing states.

Stanislav Mishin’s Warning: “The Proud American will go into slavery beating his chest”

V the Guerrilla Economist: Exactly. That's how you know things are still kind of screwed up and something stinks in Denmark, right? That's number one. Number two, it's like, what's a poll watcher going to do when you've been kicked out of the [ballot counting] room and they put pizza boxes up on the windows and you can't see through those pizza boxes? Then what? It happened in Michigan.

And people say, you know, there's going to be [repercussions] – lead will fly. Ain't no shit going to happen. I remember reading back in the early aughts this Russian author. I forget his name, but he –

James Smith: Dmitry Orlov. I think it was Orlov.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yes, it was Orlov who said the American will go to his – will go –

James Smith: No, I'm sorry. This is Igor Panarin. Excuse me. This is Professor Igor Panarin that you're quoting [actually Russian blogger Stanislav Mishin] right now.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yes, that's who it was. Right. He said, “The proud American will go into slavery beating his chest, screaming about how free he is. And the rest of the world will look and snicker.”

Hard Times Make Strong Men—Post 2008 Crash Edition James Smith

James Smith: Yeah. I'm sorry. That was another, that was a different Stanislav, not our friend Stanislav Krapivnik. It was a third Russian. Sorry. I keep thinking it's either Orlov or Panarin, but it was actually a guy who had a blog named Stanislav [Mishin] who kind of just, that's it [disappeared from the Internet after his 15 minutes of fame thanks to Glenn Beck]. Like he had said all what he wanted to say. He said that and it went viral. I think Glenn Beck read it on his show. That was around 2009, 2010. Obama had just come in. All the Obamanomics stimulus was starting. know that you had Cash for Clunkers and Obamacare, and all this stuff was being rolled out and by the way I was, not having a very good time economically in my personal financial life at that time.

I mean it [the post Dubya-era Great Recession] was it was pretty bad for me…I'd been on I'd worked at a major Wall Street firm [before getting laid off at the end of 2008]. Things were not great, you know, at that time. And I remember reading all this stuff and I ended up going abroad, going to Eurasia, [to the capital of] a very large country in Eurasia, because I really could not find work in a suitable field here in this country. I mean, more than, you know, minimum wage stuff [to support myself and my young wife]. And it was it was a pretty, pretty rough time in my life. But I learned a lot from it [hardships and setbacks], too. I mean, a lot of things that happened, you know, because I realized that--what people need to succeed, they need systems. They don't just need [banal] ideas and they don't just need the willingness to work hard.

You know, a lot of your parents told you, hey, work hard, work your 9 to 5, you know, get the college degree, get the good job, buy yourself a house, be frugal and live happy ever after. And obviously that advice does not work in a highly inflationary environment. And, you know, Robert Kiyosaki [the Japanese-American Marine Corps veteran], who started buying houses right after he came back from Vietnam in the 1970s, when the inflation was just, you know, taking off the Stagflation-ary era, you know, he's ridiculed Dave Ramsey. He’s said [not just during the post 2008 crash or COVID money printing but] for decades: savers are losers. You know, if you're taking Dave Ramsey's advice, the government's already ripping you off way more easily. What you think you know--the official inflation statistics are lies. You all know that!

V the Guerrilla Economist: Exactly.

James Smith: We're in 20% [and soon up to 30% or even 40%] inflation depending on which part of the country you're in each year. We're not in you know a single-digit inflationary environment anymore and you know that's funny because the people from LatAm, the people who uh who've seen inflation who've seen uh kleptocratic failing states they get it. The people from the former Soviet Union who are more street smart who've seen a superpower collapse--they get it. A lot of mainline, white-bread Americans, conservative or liberal, they don't get it, V. They really don't.

V the Guerrilla Economist: No, they don't because they're under the delusion, James. They're under the delusion. that America is perpetually forever, that somehow, it's exempt. Somehow, the USA is exempt from history. Somehow, it's exempt from any of the bad things that could happen. And it's not because they think that America is chosen by God. This is all brainwashing by the Hollywood morons, by even religious Evangelical leaders themselves. Just using bad hermeneutics and bad [Biblical] exegesis. You know, just, I mean, I've never seen a country that's been theologically and historically and sociologically completely brainwashed by such a grand design.

I mean, historians, after the United States collapses [like the late Roman Empire], historians are going to be picking apart the rudiments and the things and the nuances of what occurred, what caused this. Yes, idly speaking--where people just are completely absolved, they have no impetus in getting involved they have no impetus in in really getting their hands dirty. They're looking always to someone else, a leader, a figurehead, somebody to lead them out like a bunch of sheep. And that is problematic, man.

On American Delusions Including in the Realm of Military Science

The American experience [since WW2 and the Depression years] has been a very soft experience. It's not like the Russians who suffered through World War I, suffered through [the total war on their soil of] World War II, suffered through Communism, suffered through a lot of things. It's a different experience. A hardened people, a tougher people, they have that social and societal discernment and wherewithal and real grit to endure.

The [21st century normie] American, on the other hand, is so far removed from that real grit that the only connection this American has to it is Hollywood movies. It's crazy to me, man. It's crazy to me.

James Smith: And that Hollywood bubble also creates this this unreality that it's never going to touch me. We're invincible. You know, we can fire attack [cluster] missiles at a beach, a crowded beach in Sevastopol, Crimea and kill and wound [Russian] kids. And somehow that's never going to blowback on the US anywhere, in other parts of the world, much less in Ukraine.

I mean, it's, it's bizarre. And the level of delusion that people have, you know, I was I was watching a video by a guy, I forgot his name, Ryan, something [Ryan McBeth a], YouTuber, who probably did, you know, four years in the US Army, and then he got out and became an IT guy in suburban Maryland. And he's sitting there [in this video] and he's trying to answer questions from his audience, his YouTube audience about, “Is America ready for war with Russia? Is America ready for war with China [over Taiwan]?” And he's saying, well, I talked to all these guys in elite units and I've been around Green Berets and 82nd Airborne, all these blah, blah, blah, blah, blah [elite soldiers]. And it's like, “You are so detached Ryan, incredibly detached from, from reality.”

And you've, I doubt because we we've just passed the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the Soviet counterattack and Operation Bagration in 1944, where they basically [wrecked the Wehrmacht]...it was the most crushing defeat that the German Army or probably any European army has suffered in single battle through centuries of European or world military history. It was a masterpiece of a ground war campaign and a deception [maskirovka] campaign before it.

But the main point I'm making is that these people have never so much as cracked a book about the Great Patriotic War, World War II, and the suffering that the Russian people [by the millions] were willing to endure to win that war. Because I just tell people, you know, my favorite military philosopher isn't Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz. My favorite military philosopher is Mike Tyson. You know what Mike Tyson is famous for saying? “Everybody's got a plan.” Everybody has a plan.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Right. Exactly.

Andrei Martyanov is Correct: U.S. Delusions About Peer-Level Conflict Are a Byproduct of the Peculiar American Experience Insulated from the Worst Suffering and Ground Combat of WW2

James Smith: These people all have their plans and how awesome. And, you know, these Wunderwaffen are going to win the war. You know who also thought Wunderwaffen was going to win the war for them? And if they just killed enough Russians, they could win the war. Nazi Germany, that's the last power [that thought that way]. They thought if they just killed enough Russians and they had all these Wunderwaffen [Tiger tanks, V1 or V2 missiles and the first jets] coming out, they could still somehow win. Think about that, folks, and how they ended up [in 1945].

V the Guerrilla Economist: And here's the other thing here, right? Here's the other thing here. The Russians are masters of combined arms warfare at a level that the United States could only dream about, number one. Number two, the U.S. never won a [peer-level] war, period.

James Smith: Not since 1945, we haven't.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Yeah, and we didn't even win World War II. Let's be honest, it was the Russians. We won the Pacific Theater against a broken [Imperial Japanese Army and Navy]...which is a big freaking deal. The Japanese were already, you know, with their supply chains stretched thin, the lack of fuel, the lack of armament. They were going to lose that war to begin with, right?

James Smith: Yeah. They were losing the real war to the Chinese already on the ground [in China]. Exactly. Exactly correct.

So the Japanese, the ones [the USA defeated] in the Pacific Theater, right, which we think it's, again, Hollywood brainwashing here, right? Hollywood brainwashing. which again is we think it's some sort of great thing. Oh, “We won World War II” [because of Saving Private Ryan and other movies]. No, we didn't, okay? Eight out of 10, folks, eight out of 10 German soldiers died at the hands of Russians [in the main theater of the European war, the Eastern Front]. Eight out of 10.

James Smith: Yeah.

V the Guerrilla Economist: I mean, America claiming victory in World War II is the equivalent of a Super Bowl game where the opposition team is getting smoked 40 to nothing. And the backup quarterback comes in and doesn't turn the ball over.

James Smith And the backup quarterback's MVP, right?

V the Guerrilla Economist Yeah, exactly. The backup quarterback comes in, and with five seconds on the clock, he takes a knee.

James Smith: Look, I don't want…to be clear, okay, for the World War, anybody who's a son of a World War II veteran, we're not denigrating anybody's sacrifice or service. I mean, a lot of people suffered. There were big battles, [such as the Invasion of] Normandy, D-Day.

But let's just be very clear. There would have been no D-Day. There would have been no Battle of the Bulge. There would have been no anything, no Band of Brothers [book and HBO miniseries], anything you've seen in all the Hollywood films and miniseries, you know, without the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Battle of Kursk, period. Those [Anglo-American victories over Nazi Germany] would not have happened. And even you could make an argument that Japan, the Pacific world probably would have dragged on an extra year because the Japanese were ready to fight to the death before the Soviets basically curb stomped them in Manchuria. Where they, you know, encircled, routed a million-man army in the span of a few weeks in August 1945, which incidentally, coincidentally seemed to create a certain urgency [on the part of the Americans] to drop the atomic bombs in Japan [and compel a swifter Japanese surrender before the Soviets could move south from Sakhalin Island to occupy northern Hokkaido in spring 1946]. Just saying.

#WW3byProxy Involves Ordinance Flying in Both Directions--

The U.S., UK and NATO Are Facing Payback for What They’ve Done in Ukraine in the Red Sea

So look, I've, I've had this discussion with, with Michael Yon, who who's in Japan now and, and, he's a really fascinating [character]. He loves Japanese culture. He loves their food. He's got a friend who's a young Japanese journalist, Masako [Ganaha]. And we were talking about this, this very topic, where I said to him, you know, do people think it's a coincidence that all these attacks on the shipping in the Red Sea lanes, which used to be one of the most vital sea lanes in the British Empire, was a vital shipping lane [from Great Britain via Gibraltar through the Med to India and the Pacific] in both world wars. And all these attacks by the Houthis on City of London-insured shipping --because Lloyd's of London and the City of London insures the vast majority of those merchant ships out there--keep increasing.

These Houthi attacks [on merchant vessels and occasionally US or allied navy ships] keep increasing in sophistication and frequency and in their over the horizon targeting [capabilities]. We're talking about a sea drone that's hitting a ship that is way outside of visual range. There's nobody on shore with a pair of binoculars guiding it to the target. How about satellite guidance [to the maritime targets] there? Do people think all that is happening by coincidence [with what’s going on and the WW3 by Proxy between NATO and Russia in Ukraine]?

V the Guerrilla Economist: Well, the flat earthers will challenge you on that one, James [laughing].

James Smith: Well, I'm just saying, do people think all these Houthi attacks intensifying or what's about to happen with Israel and Hezbollah…you know, that conflict is getting worse and worse for Israel. Do people think that all this happening is totally coincidental and has nothing to do with the Ukrainian theater? No. Wake up, folks. It's not coincidental, OK?

There are going to be consequences. There is going to be payback on [the post-Western governments and their forces]. Just because it doesn't happen today or tomorrow or next week doesn't mean that, you know, there isn't going to be hell to pay down the road for all this stuff that that people [in Washington and the State Department and Pentagon] are doing [in our names] and all this B.S., and the fact that those ATACMs, those HIMARS, those Patriot batteries especially the ones that have been destroyed [in Russian drone-guided missile attacks]. They're operated by Americans folks. they're not operated by Ukrainians [acting alone] let's be clear?

V the Guerrilla Economist: Correct and nobody's fooled [by the DoD denials that the Pentagon is not directly involved in Ukraine’s war including targeting pre-war Russian territory].

James Smith: Putin said it everybody in Russia knows who's operating all these systems and when a bunch when one of them kills a bunch of kids whether it was intentional or not it doesn't really matter, you're firing a cluster [missile into a city full of holiday-goers in broad daylight]…Scott Ritter made this point. You're firing cluster missiles into a city with a holiday, with beachgoers. You know, full well it’s packed with summer tourists. That's a war crime, folks.

V the Guerrilla Economist: It is a war crime and cluster munitions are banned according to the Geneva Conventions. It's a banned weapon. It's banned by 100 countries.

James Smith: Not in the Geneva Conventions, but it is a banned [weapon] according to 100 countries have signed the treaty banning the cluster munitions, precisely because they leave behind these bomblets, and they end up being like landmines [long after the fighting is over]. People [civilians] step on them. People – farmers are tilling the fields, and they get blown up on them. And people are still dying from landmines and Agent Orange and all the crap that was left behind in Southeast Asia, in Vietnam [50 years after the war ended].

V the Guerrilla Economist: Oh, you mean by the exceptional country, the exceptional country that's the biggest impediment to world peace in the history of the world? You mean that country who's been leaving bomblets and chemical agents and this, that, and the other all over the place?

James Smith: And depleted uranium in Iraq and Serbia.

On Washington and London Wanting No Part of a Ground War Against the Houthis in Yemen

V the Guerrilla Economist: Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, you mean that country, the exceptional one, the city on the hill? Yeah. Look, I'm going to tell you right now, folks, America is way overdue for an ass-kicking, and it's about to get its ass kicked. And all these schlep rocks who say, “I'm a former 82nd Airborne. I'm a Green Beret. I'm a Baby Seal. I'm a Delta [Force veteran]. These guys got chewed up by goat herders. in Afghanistan, if you read the memoirs of SEAL Team 6 and SEAL Team 2, you read the Green Beret guys, they were marveled at how ferocious the Taliban were. They marveled that these guys were moving in quick [on their positions]. They hit us hard. Look, the baby SEALs had a little taste of the Houthis. Do you remember this [incident], James? Do you remember this back in 2017 when the first day of Trump being in office, he wakes up and finds out the three SEALs were killed in Yemen?

James Smith: I remember that raid, yeah, a little bit about it.

V the Guerrilla Economist: And then the Americans were all sitting there [asking themselves afterward], how did they know? How did they [the Houthis] know we were coming? “We hit them at a pre-dawn raid. How did that happen?” They got a little taste. Why do you think the most vaunted Navy in the world, quote-unquote, is literally pulling its aircraft carriers out of the Red Sea. How come they're not going after the Houthis?

And how come the mouse that roared, which is the UK, right? How come [the Brits] they're not going after the Houthis? How come the U.S. Marines are not on the ground facing the Houthis? Because they know what's going to happen. Facing the Houthis is going to be like facing Hezbollah.

You're going to talk about a vaunted military force, a vaunted guerrilla force that's going to chew you up spit you out and give you a body count that will make you shit your pants. That's what's going to happen. It's really…

Why NATO is Escalating with Cruise Missiles Striking Targets Inside Russia Now:

The Real Fear that It Cannot Mobilize Men to Directly Fight the Russians in Ukraine

James Smith: I mean, folks, again, war is not just about how much punishment you think you can dish out and how badass you think you are. It's also about how much pain you as a military, your logistics, and your society is willing to absorb, especially in a peer-to-peer conflict. Let me say that again. War is not just about how much punishment you can dish out, but how much pain your society is willing to absorb. And I don't see a lot of people, regardless of whether they've got a blue and yellow flag, you know, a Ukrainian flag out front of their business or a sticker on their car, whatever. I don't see them stomach[ing mass NATO casualties in Ukraine]. I don't see the appetite when Ukraine runs out of Ukrainian men and they're already running out of them for NATO, whatever.

Who is “NATO” anyway? For American, Canadian, British, Polish troops to go in there and fight and die alongside the Ukrainians…there’s no appetite for that. And that's really why you're seeing all this escalation [involving missile strikes on Crimea trying to cause the Russians pain and bring them to the negotiating table] now, because Ukraine is running out of manpower, and they know it [at NATO headquarters and at the higher echelons of the DoD]. So that's why [the Ukrainians and their top neocon sponsors], they're trying to goad Putin into doing something that they think will somehow [justify] bring[ing] NATO [overtly] into the war, to rescue them, because they've internalized their own propaganda or they believe their own BS, or they just realize this [direct and overt NATO intervention] is their only shot [at victory]. And if they don't do that, then Zelensky might as well pack up the suitcases, the 20 suitcases, and hop on the private jet and go to his mansion in Miami Beach.

V the Guerrilla Economist: Exactly correct, man. And here's the other thing when you look at it this way. Zelensky is going to get deposed. They're going to get rid of him. He cannot stand in power much longer. the idiots in Washington DC are running out of options and a lot of morons who are uneducated idiots--which you have a plethora of in the United States and much of the Western world.

You're talking about…folks let me explain something our countries are run by the bottom of the barrel, they're run by midwits and halfwits, right? Midwits and halfwits.

James Smith: They're people who are credentialed but not educated.

V the Guerrilla Economist: They're credentialed…yeah, exactly, credentialed. And they're smart enough to pass a test, but that's about it, right? They're not, they have no real-life [real world] experience [in business or war]. They're deluded. They all, they all are [living in] echo chambers [in the Beltway, Brussels and London]. They're all a bunch of circle jerkers. They sit around and jerk each other off on their stupid grandiose plans. It's all bullshit, right? It's all fake.

On the Increasingly Decrepit State of the American Strategic Nuclear Triad

And let me explain something to you, right? These guys, these midwits who think that we can somehow have a nuclear response [to Russian advances in Ukraine], it's idiotic. Because I remember one of my clients who was part of, during the [last] Cold War, the nuclear triad of the United States, which is ICBMs, bombers, and the naval [component], the [Trident ballistic missile] submarines, right? That was the nuclear triad. And then he went on to play a very vital role in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the NRC.

And one of the things that this gentleman told me before he retired was, he doubts…he doubts that even 20% of our nukes [the missiles in the Dakotas and Wyoming silos] even function. And look, the Minuteman III, which is the latest nuclear missile we have, was built in 1973 man. It's a joke. It is nothing compared to [the brand new] Russian hypersonic Sarmats and their hypersonic nuclear-tipped missiles that we have no defense against.

James Smith: Exactly. We have nothing against that [in terms of air defense either land-based Patriot PAC-3s which have failed in Ukraine to intercept Russian hypersonic missiles or sea-based AEGIS SM-3/SM-6 systems].

V the Guerrilla Economist: We have nothing that can stop that. The Russians are about two and a half generations, maybe even three generations ahead of us. in terms of hypersonic weapons. It's a game changer. And this is the thing here, folks. There's Hollywood and there's real life. In real life, it's not about how bad the United States will lose, because the United States will lose very badly in a war against Russia or even [worse, versus] China. It's how quickly we will lose. And most experts who actually look at this, we'd probably last about two and a half weeks [before most of the US Navy in the Western Pacific and bases are destroyed].

James Smith: And the side that will turn to tactical nuclear warheads in desperation would almost certainly be the United States of America, not the Russians or Chinese [would be the ones] to use them first. And this is the thing that people don't understand and don't want to understand. But I'll just conclude by saying – following up on what you said about the gentleman who was – you know, very familiar, very intimate with the nuclear triad, with the ICBMs, you know, during the Cold War years.

Closing Thoughts on the Last Cold War and U.S. Casualties and Aerial Losses in Vietnam

My grandfather, on maternal side, was a SAC officer. He was in Strategic Air Command. He flew B-47 bombers during the early Sixties. Height of the Cold War, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa [Florida]. So front line, if the conflict [with the Soviets], you know, went hot.

And, you know, he told my mother, he said, you know, “Never forget that the Russians love their country too”. And this was 1962, you know, he said this and, the type of military officer we had and the competency levels and the qualifications they had [during the Cold War] and the understanding the realities of war…because they talked to the World War II vets, they talked to the Korean War vets, and a lot of them had been in Vietnam. They'd seen at least a proxy, a highly scaled proxy [war preview of what conventional warfare with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact would’ve entailed].

We lost 10,000 aircraft in Vietnam, folks, 10,000 helicopters and planes in the Vietnam War. People don't realize that. We didn't just lose 59,000 Americans and more than that. That's just the ones that were official casualties. It was probably closer to 70,000 or 80,000 American dead, if you count all the [civilians and] contractors [killed in Vietnam]. We lost 10,000 aircraft, overwhelmingly to who? To Soviet-designed, Soviet-shipped, and in a few cases, Soviet-advised North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns, but mainly just AA guns [that we the predecessors of 21st century Russian and Chinese air defense systems]. I mean, people think about that. I mean, in terms of just not the pain and punishment that can be dished out [but what losses we’re prepared to take] in a peer-level fight. And that was a near-peer war in Nam. That wasn't a peer, a true peer war [at that time or today]. That was a near-peer conflict. So I'm just trying to get people to deal with reality and focus on their plan [for an exit strategy].

V the Guerrilla Economist: James, I have to run. I have a hard stop coming up [at the top of the hour]. But I want to thank all you guys for checking us out. And log on to Exit Strategy DOT World. Thank you all. Alright, goodbye now.