Folks, the war in the Middle East is sending shock waves around the world in ways that you never expected and in ways that few are talking about. This contagion is spreading fast and those with money and power are positioning for a great escalation. They are positioning to reap the rewards from this and they can read between the lines. Right now, it is so important not to just look at what is being said, but to actually connect the dots as to what everything means.

Yes, you are seeing the conflict headline across nearly every major media Outlet 24/7 But what you aren't seeing and what no one is talking about is how this event is being used to force the latest division amongst countries You see. folks, world leaders are using this as an opportunity to pledge allegiance to their individual sides as President Biden flew to Israel to show us support amid the conflict. Guess where Russian President Putin flew well to China. These players are flying to their respective spots in order to show and to send a clear message of unity.

It's a game of West versus East. You saw this after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and now you are seeing this with Israel. Now why is this so important to watch? Well, because this geopolitical game is a massive Global chess game with two main players and in order to understand what those main players are planning on doing next, you have to understand how they're moving the chess pieces around. We've been showing and breaking down the receipts about how big money here in the United States is moving their money and how they're repositioning themselves in accordance to what they see coming in the coming months and years.

But the trend is so clear everywhere. it's like the big elephant in the room right now. folks. global leaders are using these conflicts in Israel and Ukraine as test conflicts to see who is going to have their back when they pursue their own political interests.

Next being China's invasion of Taiwan China as of right now, has a record number of fighter jets flying around Taiwan And let me tell you, they aren't doing this for funsies. In today's video, I'm going to present you with the latest. We're going to talk about how you can both protect yourself and hopefully make some money in this environment like the Big Money is doing. and we're going to do our best to keep you informed.

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Okay, let's get to So right now we are at a point where we are essentially waiting for the next step in the escalation. Every day, more strikes hit into Gaza and we get closer to what is likely to be a full-blown ground offensive. Now here's the thing. Every single second that this conflict escalates without resolution, it SWS More and more Rifts between world powers as well as politicians here at home as well as citizen populations.

and this is exactly what Big Money and Global interests are banking on. they are using this to their advantage. I'm not going to speculate and say they want this to happen, but at minimum they certainly are using this to their advantage now. Obviously horrible situation for all the innocent civilians caught up in both sides of the conflict in the Middle East it really is.

Unthinkable I Hate hearing all of these horrible tragic stories that are coming out of the region. but again, for those in power, the competing powers in DC in Beijing in Moscow in Toron, and those behind the scenes with the big money and influence in those countries, while they're essentially playing this like a game of chess, they do not see this situation as human lives. They see this as a board game to gain power and influence and that they are doing. Let's talk about how China is using this to advance their own geopolitical interests.

On October 16th, 2022, President G of China said at a party meeting it will never announce its right to use force over Taiwan On March 13th of this year at the National People's Congress in Beijing President G called for reunification with Taiwan He stood and proclaimed to several hundred of the most powerful Chinese heavyweights that he was going to get it done. Now now it is October and President G is preparing to do exactly what he promised. He's not so subtly increasing military presence and pressure on Taiwan. As reported by NPR, a record number of Chinese fighter planes, 103 of them flew around Taiwan in just one day.

Why are fighter planes flying around? Taiwan Is there some new threat that Taiwan has to the mainland to? Mainland China Of course, there isn't. The reason they're doing this is because China is testing the waters for a future fullscale. Invasion And this is how you do it. You slowly start increasing that presence just like how Russia did it.

China right now is studying intensely how the world reacts as they increase their presence and they are preparing to deal with the ramifications of a full-blown Invasion. This is from Reuter's quote in a war with the Us over Taiwan China would need to create a Global Network of companies under Us sanctions, seize American assets within its borders and issue gold denominated bonds according to Chinese government Affiliated researchers studying the Western response to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine Now here's the thing folks. China can't come right out and invade right now because they know that if they do, the US and the rest of the world will react and they can't afford that reaction just yet. They aren't prepared yet.

It's a long process to prepare. you. Look at China's most important trading partners. you've got the European Union and the United States and guess what? An invasion of Taiwan would piss the hell out of both and risk a sanction reaction at minimum at minimum, which would look much, much worse than what happened to Russia and would do much, much, much more damage than what happened to Russia.

From Reuter's quote, the sanctions against Moscow have prompted hundreds of Chinese economists, Finance years, and geopolitical analysts to examine how China should mitigate extreme scenarios, including LW of access to US Dollars according to a Reuters review of more than 200 Chinese language policy papers and academic articles published since February 2022. So in other words, China can't invade just yet. So what they are trying to do is slowly move the board the chess board pieces in their favor so that they can be in the future in a more appropriate position when they do decide to strike. And how are they moving the board pieces around? What exactly are they doing? well by building closer ties to enemies of the West? Over the past few decades, China and Iran have developed a broad and deep partnership centered on China's energy needs and Iran's abundant resources as well as significant non-energy economic ties, arms sales and defense cooperation, and most importantly, geostrategic balancing against the United States.

And folks, if you do some research on this, well, guess what? This cooperation is paying big dividends for Iran's geopolitical interests from the NY Post In the wake of the bloody, weakened Te attack on Israel, China has effectively thrown its lot in with Hamas, a clear indication it sees its interests in the Middle East as bound up with those of Iran China even refused to acknowledge the fact of an attack on Israel in the first place. However, at the same time, China has repeatedly condemned Israel for reacting to these Te attacks. So what is the goal here? Well, it's pretty damn clear it's to play geopolitical Frenzy games with Iran and in return China gets a coalition built against the United States. But there's also other upside for China in making sure not to bash Hamas and not to side with Israel, They want to avoid upsetting the rest of the Arab world, which is a ripe group of countries who are more than happy to unite against the west and side with China.

So in other words, if China plays the game and doesn't condemn Hamas, they can avoid pissing off all the countries that don't recognize Israel and don't like Israel and then later on, they can use those countries to back them in whatever kind of geopolitical Interest they want to pursue, like a full-blown invasion of Taiwan, They can build an entire wall of trading partners, geopolitical allies to counterbalance the massive influence that the United States has. and the more power China has, the less power the US has to enforce anything at all. This is all part of a broader strategy that China has in order to get away with whatever they want and go on for more. Global Dominance.

This is what Brics is all about. This is what Partnerships in the Middle East are all about. This is why China is trying so hard and investing so much in developing countries. They are buying influence and power all across the world to counterbalance the US's influence and power.

and quite frankly, they're doing a pretty good job at it. Now let's talk about positioning, which by the way, make sure to position yourself in front of that first link down below at 8:00 A.m. Eastern if you want to have our latest trade idea and report. But the biggest winner of this new Middle East crisis in my view and in the view of markets is likely to be oil and energy and to a large extent is likely going to drive a new round of inflation.

Here's the thing: even before the attack on October 7th markets were already selling off, you'd have to be blind to not have seen that the FED removed the recession from their forecast at the end of July. And since then, the S&P 5 Hundo has lost about 3.5 trillion bucks. We are now just 1% shy away from a recession, and before this crisis, you could have made the argument that okay, well, markets are just kind of selling off. They're cooling down because if the FED is going to keep rates higher for longer, well, that means that there's not much for markets to rally on.

However, now you're in a completely different situation where not only are we going higher for longer, but at the same time we have a whole new wave of inflation drivers that are just just over the horizon. Today's Middle East crisis has a lot has a lot of parallel to the world that we had in 1973 that sparked the oil shock that caused the last big inflationary spiral you see. on October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel which of course is in sync with the Hamas attack on Israel that happened on October 7th, 2023. It happened October 7th, 2023.

the other one happened October 6th, 1973 about 50 years apart. The reason they did it one day later was because it was a Jewish holiday. Again, there are no coincidences with pre-planned geopolitical events Hamas And really, Iran are sending a message that it's time to unify once again against Israel and the West Again, it's time to build a coalition against the West. But anyways, on October 6th, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.

The Soviet Union supplied the Arab Nations and the United States backed Israel on October 16th. With the war going badly for Egypt and Syria, a group of Arab oil producing countries retaliated, raising oil prices by 177% and announcing production cuts. The oil crisis had begun. on October 19th, the organization of Arab petroleum exporting countries proclaimed an embargo of oil exports to Nations supporting Israel.

By the end of the Embargo in March 1974, the global oil price had quadrupled from $3 per barrel to nearly $12 per barrel. Us prices were significantly higher. Now again, listen to that. by the end of 1974, Global oil prices had quadrupled.

Now this time around, you have no Soviet Union. But a lot of the other players are the same. and now we have China in the mix as well. And if China invades Tai Onean, you can expect not just higher oil prices, but Mass scale shortages of many everyday items that we rely on.

China for the supply chain Of an invasion, of course, would prompt a drastic reduction of trade between the US and China and its allies. And since it's cheaper to make most products in China which is why we do that in the first place, Well, that means we are going to be paying substantially more for everything. And of course, at the same time, oil prices will continue skyrocketing, causing an inflationary spiral everywhere. If China doesn't invade Taiwan, you still have that spiral from oil, which is enough to cause very, very elevated pricing pressures.

But if China goes and invades Taiwan o that is going to be a rapid, massive disaster. And quite frankly, interest rates are already up quite a lot. so there's not going to be a lot the FED can do. and you're going to have shortages of things that you need every single day.

You're going to have mass panics in the streets. It's going to be a disaster. So again, when you're looking at the overall positioning from the market and you're trying to figure out why are markets going so risk off so consistently, why are they positioning in things like oil and hedges and other types of contracts? Well, the reason is because they are increasingly trying to factor in this outcome. When you think more global conflict, you have to think New Waves of inflation New Waves of oil price appreciation, new uncertainty in markets and that is what's going to motivate markets over the coming weeks and months.

Now let's move on to trade ideas. So again, we have a small cap trade idea dropping at 8 a.m. Eastern tomorrow morning with that link down below. But remember also in this coming environment, the plays that Big Money are playing are very, very clear: Ovx which tracks oil volatility AKA Oil hedging took a dip today on its overall uptrend entries tend to be better at the beginning of a dip recovery.

I'm expecting this to see another day or two of a dip and then another uptrend. As you start getting another escalation or more, news comes out of another escalation. Almost every single time a new Middle East escalation comes out. You see Ovx go another leg and then and then all of a sudden things get quiet.

It goes down, and then another leg. So again, if you think that we're not going to have peace tomorrow or the next day, well, Ovx is going to be something that you're going to want to watch very very closely. If you want to play Leverage Gold UGL is also on a path. A moonshot path in my view.

We'll see how that goes. That one could be a little bit more laggy and uvxy of course, which tracks and leverages. Vixs is on an overall breakout as well. Now again, a lot of people have criticized and say, you know what.

Charlie I Think that world peace is coming in a week or two and all of these are going to go back down. I Disagree Unfortunately, and if you also disagree, that means that you got to have these at top your radar. Unfortunately, that is what I see the big money doing. That is what we see evidence of everywhere.

and that is what history backs up. Unfortunately I believe that things are going to get way worse before they get better. and I think that it helps to be prepared. Anyways, folks, that caps off today's video, make sure to hit that ravishing like button and subscribe if you found value in it, and we will see you in the next one.