Tom Bilyeu

All right, let's pick up where we left off.

Do not let Mackinder's heartland get united.

Then it keeps everything on the seas.

And when you're the US and you're far away from Asia and you're far away from Europe, now all of a sudden you keep everything on the oceans where you with your major Navy can control the entire globe.

Now with that in mind, look at the BRICS partnership.

Look at Iran and China through that lens.

Look at Venezuela and its Chinese oil shipments through that lens.

Look at Trump's attempts to seduce Russia away from China through that lens.

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.