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@Simon Dixon today
Good question—especially if you’re new to how geopolitics actually works beyond the media cartoons.
In simple terms:
Benjamin Netanyahu represents the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC).
Donald Trump represents the Financial-Industrial Complex (FIC).
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—led by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, & Oman—has spent almost $3 trillion aligning itself with the FIC.
The goal has been to persuade the MIC to abandon the “forever war” model by making regional stability more profitable than perpetual conflict.
Affinity Partners, the investment fund established by Jared Kushner, was designed to make it personally profitable for Trump to execute this alignment between the FIC & the GCC.
It effectively served as a financial bridge between US capital interests and Gulf sovereign wealth, ensuring that both sides benefited from a post-war regional order.
Meanwhile, BRICS—led by China and Russia—seeks de-dollarization.
As part of that broader strategy, China facilitated the Iran–Saudi Arabia normalization, helping to reduce regional resistance and pave the way for a multi-polar balance of stability.
It’s important to note that Saudi Arabia’s official position has been consistent for over two decades:
there will be no normalization with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
This stance has never changed.
Western media often distort this reality, portraying the GCC as traitors or subservient to Israel—a narrative that conveniently strengthens the FIC’s leverage and justifies continued Western dominance in the region’s economic affairs.
Now that most regional actors are moving toward stability, the MIC, through Netanyahu, is using leverage tactics—including genocide and starvation campaigns—to extract better terms for the FIC’s eventual exit from the region’s militarized economic order.
It’s a continuation of the MIC’s historical playbook: use chaos and suffering to negotiate from a position of power.
This dynamic creates a win–win for both complexes:
If the situation escalates into a regional war, the MIC profits immensely and may gain stronger bargaining power for the FIC—though at the risk of derailing the broader stability deal.
If the GCC ends up directly confronting the MIC, it risks being pulled back into the forever war paradigm that has drained the region for decades.
Saudi Arabia & the GCC have also strategically used their economic clout to influence Europe, particularly by buying the European Union toward recognizing Palestine.
This exerts additional diplomatic pressure on the MIC and its Western backers.
Now, Trump & the FIC are executing their final squeeze—extracting maximum profit from the transition to regional stability—while the GCC works to maintain autonomy.
The Gulf states are essentially playing a high-stakes game with what could be called the FIC mafia, a risky partnership that could backfire if they concede too much control to Western financial powers.
It’s like asking why a powerful mafia lieutenant doesn’t simply kill the boss—versus negotiating a profitable exit without being killed in the process.
That’s what you’re witnessing right now.
This moment is only possible today, unlike in previous decades, because the GCC is now aligning both ways—with BRICS in the East & FIC in the West as US debt is spiraling.
This dual strategy represents the most significant geopolitical & financial rebalancing since the establishment of the post–World War II Bretton Woods system.
The stakes are high.
The world is witnessing the largest structural shift in global power & capital since 1945.
Now to get why it’s not as simple as it seems?
@Simon Dixon
17.10.25
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Good question—especially if you’re new to how geopolitics actually works beyond the media cartoons.
In simple terms:
Benjamin Netanyahu repre...