Steven Bartlett

Let's just trade amongst ourselves.

And then what they can do is they can build a Eurasian railway system connecting Russia, Iran, and China together.

And then what this would do is negate American sea power because it's American ships that patrol and protect the oceans.

And then what happened is the world, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East Asia, would look at this trading bloc and think to themselves, wow, these guys, the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese, they use gold.

as their medium of exchange.

Gold is valuable.

The Americans, on the other hand, use US dollars as the medium of exchange, which is not valuable.

So am I better off with the American system or this new BRICS system?

What's BRICS?

It's an acronym.

It stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China.

South Africa, China.

That's correct.

Right.

So by attacking Iran, certain things happen.

The first thing that happened is that China is now cut off from Middle East energy.

China receives anywhere between 50 to 60 percent of its energy needs from the Middle East.

Not just Iran, but also Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

A lot of people say that China today, it's reliant on renewables, solar, wind.

And that's true to a certain extent.