The Iran War Just Created a Giant Hole in the Sky

Oh, since we last spoke, the world now has a 3,000mi continuous war zone. The conflict in the Middle East has opened up a giant hole in the sky. There are now reports of US military commanders telling service members that Trump has been anointed by Jesus to cause Armageddon in Iran. The Supreme Court in America has ruled that AI material cannot be copyrighted. and Trump is beginning to turn on US allies over the war in Iran. All of that and so much more. Do not forget to subscribe because these are some of the most important news stories we've spoken about in a long time. So, let's stop the yapping and let's go. So, kicking it off today, we've got a lot of updates from the war. And as you can see, these colors do not change until the war is over. Starting with the sheer scale of what's become the conflict in the Middle East. Now, I don't know if many of you guys realize, but the world now has a 3,000mi continuous war zone. See, if you currently look at the map and you tracked all of the countries that are now either being dragged into the war in one form or another, whether they've been targeted by Iran or are actively involved in the attacking themselves, you could technically start at Cypress and it stretches all the way down to Pakistan and Afghanistan who last week declared an open war. So, Cyprus, all the way down to the edge of where India starts. That's 3,000 miles plus of continuous war zones. That is crazy. Now, I heard this originally from journalist Richard Angel from Sky News, and he explained it very well. >> There was now war from Israel all the way to India. >> For perspective, that is a longer stretch of distance than the entire width of the United States. And I mean to clarify, this doesn't mean that every single one of these countries are an active battleground. But all of these nations and areas, they have been under some sort of alerts because of the conflicts in the region. I mean, we're seeing numerous countries, including the UK, Spain, France, trying starting to prepare evacuations of their citizens from a lot of these areas, bro. And they said that 2026 was going to be the new 2016, bro. As if maybe 2036. Moving on. Oh, and guess what? Because this war is developing so rapidly since I recorded that last update, the 3,000mi war zone may have just extended for the first time into Asia. But we're unlocking new parts of this damn map every day. So 87 people are dead and dozens more are missing after a US submarine sank an Iran Navy ship with a torpedo in the international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka. Now really important point that is the first time America has sunk an enemy ship with a torpedo since World War II. It's never great when you're breaking World War II records, is it? And if you guys want to understand where Sri Lanka is, this is roughly. Alex is showing you an image. Everything from the 3,000mi war zone usually stopped around here. You know, the edge of uh Pakistan. Now we're entering the Indian Ocean territory, Asia. Now, this was confirmed by the US Secretary of War Pete Hegth, who then hinted that quote, "Many and more larger waves are coming. We are just getting started." Now, 180 people were reportedly on that ship. So, 32 people have been rescued, 87 have been confirmed dead, and the rest are still missing. But it doesn't stop there because on the same day, we actually had a major escalation as well because NATO officially got involved for the first time after a member state, it appears, was attacked or at least targeted for the first time. So according to Turkeykey's defense ministry, NATO air defense systems had to shoot down an Iran missile that was traveling towards Turkeykey's airspace. Now a fragment of a preventative missile has fallen into a southern area of Turkey. But fortunately for the escalation of this war, there was no loss of life or no injuries reported. Cuz just imagine if there was a NATO member sustained death or injuries from this conflict. boy, we could be talking about something very differently today. Now, since then, Iran has actually come out and denied that they targeted Turkey. Now, some are claiming that this attack may have come from Hezbollah in Lebanon, but the claims, we don't have any confirmation yet. So, we don't know if it's Iran. We don't know if it's Hezbollah. It's got to be one of them, right? Also, a NATO spokesperson came out and they said that they condemn the Iran's targeting of Turkey. So, NATO believed that it was Iran and that they stand firmly with their allies. and Turkey's defense minister said that we reiterate a we reserve the right to respond to any hostile direct attacks against our country. Now this is believed to be the first and let's hope last involvement that NATO has had in this war. Wild stuff. But let's continue with the updates. Moving on. Also, another point that I don't think many people have realized is the economic fallout coming our way because this war has now created a giant hole in the sky and we are going to be paying the price literally. You see, if you open flight radar today, which is something only niche individuals do, uh you will see something pretty astonishing. A giant hole where one of the world's busiest aviation crossroads, Key Point, used to be. Several countries have entirely closed their airspaces, causing thousands of cancellations globally. It's caused major disruption at airports. As I mentioned earlier, thousands of people have been stranded in the Middle East trying to get home. And crucially, and this is where it's going to affect us most majorly, is there is a sharp increase for the airlines who are now having to take longer routes that obviously burn up more fuel. And also, these routes are a lot more congested, causing delays, cancellations, just chaos. And I mean, if the prices go up for airlines, they're pretty kind souls, aren't they? They they would never, I don't believe, pass down the cost of the customer, they they'll just front the bill, won't they? Yeah. But it's not just the hole in the sky that's bound to make a hole in your pocket. There's also now a hole in the ocean, too. And a hole in my heart. God. Because similar to the airspace in the Middle East, there's now a giant gap where one of the world's busiest oil shipping lanes used to be the straight of Hormuz. You've probably heard that name a lot over the last few days. And that is because not only does a staggering 20% of the world's natural gas and oil flow through this tiny little corridor, which Iran technically owns. So yeah, but also 34% of the global fertilizers uh which obviously affect crops, large amounts of methanol, pharmaceuticals and many more. So a lot of disruption. I did hear the latest just before I was about to record. Guess who is being allowed to to kind of ship through there? China. So China's chilling. China's chilling. The rest of us are billing. We're paying. Sorry, Alex. Save me by cutting that one out. Now, not only did Iran close the straight of Hormuz, but they actually vowed to attack any ships that are not China that are trying to pass. As a result, as many expected, the price of oil and gas has sharply risen and will continue to do so as long as these holes exist. And it's not just oil and gas. the price of many things broadly speaking will rise because once the the cost of oil and gas rise inflation and as I mentioned many other things in fact some experts like JP Morgan are predicting that oil could reach $120 per barrel right now it's about $80 which is still quite high um and that could happen for the first time in years it hasn't been 120 in years so the big important question is how long because The longer it goes on, the the worse things get. Well, Trump revealed for the first time last night that the US military initially expected this war to last around four to five weeks. Now, he did say we are ahead of schedule. However, he also did leave the door open by saying >> we're already substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes, we have capability to go far longer than that. And I mean, predicting the length of a war is kind of like predicting the time or the cost of building something. It always stretches past longer than you expect. You think about the UK Ukraine war. Most experts and analysts said that it would be over for Ukraine in a couple of days, maybe weeks. Four years later, still fighting. And I mean, think about it. If it was four to 5 weeks, we've only got 4 months before the World Cup kicks off. and one of the host nations is at war with Iran which is participating in the World Cup. Will they still participate? There will almost certainly be economic fallout from that. You know, when Trump initially announced these strikes, he said this, >> "But we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future." And it is a noble mission. >> But right now, the future is looking pretty expensive. And it was already expensive before this. So, not great. MOVING ON. ALSO, other updates on this war is the very interesting divide that we're now seeing between the countries willing to get involved and those drawing that red line because Donald Trump has been harshly critical of the countries who were not immediately supportive of the US operations in Iran specifically. And this the the two countries that he's most kind of cracked down on is Spain and the UK. last night while speaking at a press conference at the White House, uh Trump ripped into Spain for their uncooperation and even said that he is cutting off all trade with them. He said, "We don't want anything to do with them." Now, this was actually in response to Spain denying US forces access to use their bases to strike Iran. Now, on that point, he did say something that I was like, whoa. When I watched it, he said they didn't need Spanish bases, but you know, if they did, they could just fly on in there and use them because no one's going to tell them not to. Play clip. >> Spain uh actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We don't. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it. Now, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made it pretty clear on X that Spain rejects the unilateral military action by the US and Israel and that they call for deescalation and full respect for international law. In response, Trump said this >> like Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. >> But he did kind of contain this to the Spanish leadership and he said that the people of Spain, they're great. Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people. They have great people, but they don't have great leadership. >> But the US and Spain, that's one thing, but the US and the UK, that is a whole another relationship because the question is now being asked, has the UK still got America's back when kicks off? Well, Trump doesn't seem to think so. This week he actually publicly criticized Kia Starmer saying that he has not been helpful at all and that he never thought he'd see that from the UK. He said we are certainly not in the times of Winston Churchill giving a throwback to World War II when kind of the real bond of the US and and and America was really forged. And he went even further saying that it's very sad to see the relationship is obviously not what it was. >> They ruin relationships. It's a shame. It's uh and and that country UK and I love that country. What they're doing with energy and what they're doing with immigration is horrible. >> Now, that is a pretty big thing to say because over the last 80 years plus through multiple multiple wars, they became some of the closest military allies on the planet. You know, the UK was described by the US's own Congress as America's closest and most reliable ally. So close in fact that during World War II they even created a formal joint command body essentially creating this two militaries one brain effect like you've got to be so freaking close to to kind of and obviously they've got huge shared values and culture but this time around Trump told the Sun newspaper that quote all other countries like France have been great while the UK has been much different. Now Kama responded to this by telling his government on Monday that he does not believe in regime change from the skies and his chief secretary said that the UK will only commit British armed forces when there is a legal basis to do so and when it is in the interest of our country. Now they haven't been completely reserved. Uh you know they initially said the US you can't use our bases but then they said yes you can use our bases in Cyprus and now they're even deploying a warship to go and protect those bases. So, it's not like they're completely reserved, but it's certainly not what everyone would expect. But, I mean, the big question is, what do you guys think? Is it good that the UK isn't following the US into every war? Or is the UK slowly losing ties with their most powerful military ally? Let me know your thoughts in the comments, but we've got a lot more updates. Moving on. Okay, this next one is pretty surreal, and there's a lot more that we could talk about with it, but let's just give you the the top line. So, according to a recent complaint by a non-commissioned officer, US commanders are allegedly telling their troops to not be afraid of the war in Iran because it is part of God's divine plan and that Donald Trump has been quote anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark Jesus's return to Earth. Bro, just war alone is is is enough for us to deal with and try and fit in our brains. Are we really now talking about Armageddon and Jesus's return before GTA 6? Now, this is according to a Nobel Peace Prize nominated foundation called the Military Religious Freedom Group, and their purpose is as a watchdog to monitor religious rights in the US military. Now, they claim that they have received over 200 calls from more than 50 military installations across all services, and they say that they were reporting similar announcements from their commanders. So, essentially, they're suggesting that this may not be one or two commanders saying these sorts of things, but it's a widespread rhetoric. And obviously, this opens up the very serious question of how much of this war is being fueled or justified by religion. How much is how much of religion is influencing this? And I mean on all sides, you know, we've got the US, we've also got Israel and Iran. Let me know your guys' thoughts. But for now, next. Now, on top of all of that, we could see yet another escalation in this war in a matter of days. CNN are now reporting that the CIA are working on a plan to arm opposition groups and the Kurdish leaders in Iraq, which are obviously neighbors to Iran, so that they can have boots on the ground and start an uprising and disempower the Iranian regime. Now, this is according to insiders familiar with the plan who spoke with CNN. And they also report that Donald Trump has been in direct communication with one of the opposition groups, specifically the president of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Now, if this does turn out to be true, it's currently believed that a ground operation will be launched in Western Iran in the coming days with support of the United States. So, yeah, obviously if that does happen, that's significant because it's not just, you know, attacks from the sky. It will be boots on the ground. Of course, I will keep you updated as usual on all of the developments. Um, but for now, we got to move on. And then moving away from the Middle East, but sticking with the US military because despite all that they're doing in the Middle East, uh, they are now doing side quests in South America as well. So, we're just learning that the US has now launched an anti-drug trafficking military operation in Ecuador in collaboration with their government. That's a lot of countries that they're It's been a busy 26, man. Now, we don't have a lot of details yet apart from just the fact that the US Southern Command posted on X saying, "Together, we are taking decisive action to confront Norco terrorists who have been long inflicting terror, violence, and corruption on citizens throughout the hemisphere." However, the Ecuador defense ministry said that the details of this offensive operation were classified, so we don't know a lot. Ecuador's president, Daniel Naboa, announced a new phase of the country's war on drug cartels. They state that a staggering 70% of the world's cocaine now flows through Ecuador's ports. Now, of course, we've seen that Trump has offered military support to other countries like Mexico to, you know, take out their cortels. So, this is probably something that is being offered to Ecuador by the United States and they've accepted. But that is all the updates that we have for the Middle East. We've got one more story that I thought was just so interesting that it had to be thrown into this. Moving on. So a very consequential update for the entire AI industry was announced today. AI generated art content and material in general without significant human creative input cannot be copyrighted at least for now. And the implications for that is going to be very interesting to see. And this all actually started with a computer scientist named Stefan Feller. He is a United States citizen and he's been trying to get his digital artwork copyrighted which he's obviously created using AI. Now what's interesting about this is that he even used his own AI technology which he is called Dabus to generate this image. Now I guess because he created his own AI and he created this he was like right let's get this copyrighted. However in 2022 that was denied but guess what he didn't give up. He's been contesting this ever since. But the lower courts upheld this decision because they quote, "It did not have a human creator." Now, if you're wondering, the current US copyrights office stance on this is that works created with AI assistance can only be trademarked if there is quote sufficient human creative input. And for this one, they felt like that wasn't the case, which is very interesting because most people are just using, you know, chat GPT, you know, nano banana, whatever it might be. So, if even this didn't have enough human creative input, then I think they're kind of screwed. Now, Fowler was not giving up and he took this all the way to the United States Supreme Court. But on Monday, they actually declined to even hear the case. Now, that sets a huge precedent for future legal action and cases like this. So, for the foreseeable future, it's looking like it's going to be very difficult, if not impossible, to copyright your AI generated material. And if you can't copyright something, then you don't own it technically. And if you don't own something, that makes it a lot harder to monetize. And that reduces the incentive to create these things. I mean, if it has no owner, then the AI, which has taken inspiration from pretty much everything to create this now, now we all own it, right? So let's say you generate something like music or whatever it might be that is so good that even people wanted to buy it. Well, how long does that last before someone else looks at that said, "All right, let's just run that through a prompt and create the same thing and start selling it as well." You can't go to them and say, "Hey, that was my idea." No, no, no, no. That's everyone's idea now. But I mean, there's going to be a lot of developments. I don't think that this is where it stands for many years because AI is rapidly developing. It's going to be changing a lot of stuff. So, so too will the laws have to rapidly develop. But let me know what you guys think. Should there be copyright on AI generated work? Should there not be copyright? Let me know your thoughts in the comments as always. But I think that is a wrap. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I will see you on Saturday and let's start the year. Now, for those who have stuck to the very end, I want to show you this glorious image. Yes, that is the Empire's new and improved whip heading to the HQ today. Once it delivers, my rule will be so fierce, it's unprecedented. The fear that this is going to strike into the hearts of these little lambs, these sacrificial lambs, IS GOING TO BE CRAZY. LET'S GO.