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 Very articulate. I would just add a few points for Color to this. 

1 Market cycles determine the Israeli ability to wage war in the region. If you look back over the past 30 years, Around this time every ten years conflict has erupted, And it is around the boom and bust cycle of the Fed. Clinton with Yassir Arifat, Then again with Obama and the Arab spring, And now With Biden and Ukraine. The Fed plays money changer to the world like the Jews did in the temple with the romans leading up to the Bar Kochba revolt. 

2 Washington is secular, But the central banks to have religious loyalties, However are not outright traditional. The traditional values of the Saudis are not reflected in a central bank, But they are in a private family. The Herodim have a far more decentralised store of wealth, And the notion that Jews control central banks is far more dispersed than the Islamic brotherhood. It will be interesting to see the traditional values influence culture and finance over time, But that will definitely take generations, And I think China is the most significant partnership for the Saudis, And we see how much China likes Islam (Uighurs).

3 another end times perspective is the restoration of the pyramids with the return of the gold capstone. I am not so familiar with this conspiracy, But I think there is a cohort in Washington that uses Christianity to try and bring about the end times. I think these ideas have roots in Rosicrucian occultism and it all gets very doom and gloomy. It’s pretty hard to see how things will actually progress, But I don’t think just moving to El Salvador is going to prevent anyone from dying in a global religious apocalypse, However I do think there is a good chance financial markets are polarising, And many people with religious paranoias could be limited by financial conditions. It will take more than four years for a mass exodus of Jews to the holy land, And if Netenyahu is trying to bring about the apocalypse he better hurry up. 

Very insightful post, I look forward to hearing more in the future.