A pre-recorded interview I did with Wally Rashid on his channel, recorded on 3 September 2026.
In this interview, we dive deep into the geo-financial reality of the Middle East, focusing on a major theme: the privatization of Israel. Israel’s economy is decoupling from its stock market, which remains at all-time highs due to military, tech, and banking stocks.
However, the state is being laden with corporate debt, and state defense companies are preparing for public listings (IPOs) to sell off state assets. In my view, Netanyahu is acting as a puppet to power, serving the interests of major military contractors, global financial investors, and technology companies. At the highest levels of capital, ideology does not drive decision-making—rational self-interest and capital preservation do.
As the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) begins to retreat from the Middle East to find other war zones, Israel is being transitioned from being funded by the Pentagon to being funded by private corporate debt. If power no longer needs Israel as a destabilizing node, the financial markets will force a regime change.
I encourage you to watch both parts of today's broadcast to see how these two pieces fit together.
0:00 Intro
5:40 How long will the collapse of the U.S. Empire take?
8:48 Israel vs. the Financial Industrial Complex in the Iran war
17:12 Will Iran be able to maintain a long-term toll on the Strait of Hormuz
19:26 What is the point of the latest Iran war escalations?
22:10 How long will the Iran war continue for?
25:45 What role does the Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan defense Mecca agreement play?
30:16 How the Israel/Palestine conflict will be solved via pressure from global financial markets
34:14 When will Israel be controlled by global financial markets?
37:49 How will settler violence will be contained by global financial markets
41:22 How will the Military Industrial Complex shift focus to the United States and Europe?
44:54 How the Military Industrial Complex is implementing the AI Surveillance State in the West
46:20 How the Military Industrial Complex will destabilize the West
49:48 How can young adults financially prepare for a multi-polar world?
53:18 What role will gold play in the future as the dollar declines?
57:38 How betting markets like Polymarkets and Kalshi represent a sign of a declining empire
1:02:28 How declining empires push degeneracy on their poorest citizens
1:05:18 Why it’s important young adults take control of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
1:07:55 Why everyone needs to have their own decentralized AI model
1:11:24 What open source AI model does Simon run?
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