Tom Bilyeu

That's the trap.

America enters a war that its closest allies helped engineer against an enemy that believes it's fighting for its very survival in terrain that neutralizes almost every advantage the US military has once they go in on the ground.

Jung notes this kind of thing has happened in history before.

In 415 BCE, Athens assembled the most powerful naval expedition the ancient world had ever seen and sent it to conquer the much weaker Sicily.

The Navy was so dominant and so confident that defeat genuinely seemed impossible.

Sound familiar?

However, every ship that left never came home.

The expedition was annihilated, and the Athenian Empire, the greatest military force of its age, never recovered.

For the trap to work, Iran doesn't need to win.

They just need to drag the U.S.

into a war of attrition like we got drug into in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, this is something Trump swears he'll never do, but only time is gonna tell.

Welcome to part four, the part that's gonna make you mad.

Now, I warned you about this section because here's where Jiang's framework stops being a geopolitical history lesson and starts being a story about your money, your job, and your future.

The old world doesn't end with a single catastrophic explosion.

It ends through a chain of connected failures, each one making the next that much more likely.

And in no small part, due to the war with Iran, that chain reaction is already in motion.

Imagine it.

The war drags on.

The Strait stays closed or just too dangerous for normal commercial shipping for an extended period of time.