Tom Bilyeu

Russia and China are already aligned.

Russian energy, Chinese manufacturing, two of the three legs of a potential heartland alliance already connected.

The US knows that.

The thing Mackender spent his entire career warning the world about is already half built.

Iran is the third leg.

Geographically, Iran is the keystone.

It's the bridge between Russian energy to the north, Chinese manufacturing to the east, and the oil fields of the broader Middle East to the south and west.

It anchors China's Belt and Road Initiative, the network of land-based trade routes that Beijing has been building for years specifically to reduce dependence on, you guessed it, sea lanes, sea lanes that the US Navy controls.

But Iran is far weaker than the other two.

So if you're the US and you're looking for a target, your eyes go right to Iran.

But if they could secure a nuclear weapon, they would no longer be the weak link.

A nuclear-armed Iran that can shake off US sanctions, bully the region, and cooperate with Russia and China is a force powerful enough to potentially unite the heartland and relegate the US to a far less dominant role on the global stage.

When you're the reserve currency, that is existential.

This is exactly what Mackinder spent his career warning about, a connected Eurasian landmass that routes around naval power entirely.

And with a land-based alternative in place and a weaker U.S., the GCC no longer benefits from the protections that the U.S.

is currently providing, and that would render the petrodollar meaningless.

Once that structural demand for the petrodollar disappears, the US's power is weakened even further.

That is why the United States launched an attack on Iran.

A nuclear-armed Iran is not only a danger to the US, Israel, and the GCC countries, but it's also the final piece in a completed heartland alliance that is truly an existential threat to the entire architecture that gave birth to American power.

But if Jiang's framework is correct, it's already too late, and the U.S.