The Great Game with michael Yon
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Michael Yon the "Great Game": Chokepoints, Hydraulic Warfare, and Where Conflict Spreads Next
The host interviews Michael Yon from Japan as he prepares for his baby's imminent birth, briefly discussing Japanese traditions around the kiri (paulownia) tree, then shifts to geopolitics and Yon's view of a global "great game" centered on routes, resources, and information warfare. Yon says the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed and argues conflicts are interconnected, predicting flashpoints including the Falklands/Malvinas involving Argentina, possible spillover into Brazil and Uruguay, and wider fighting affecting Europe and the North Sea. He emphasizes hydraulic warfare, describing how dams on the Nile (GERD in Ethiopia), Euphrates (Atatürk Dam), Tigris (Mosul Dam), and China's Three Gorges could be used for famine and destruction. He also discusses Tibet/Nepal flood events, chokepoints like Suez, Gibraltar/Ceuta, Bab-el-Mandeb, Panama, and Malacca, plus language, migration, intoxicants, music, demographic, and economic warfare.
00:00 Morning Intro in Japan
00:32 Baby Due Soon
01:38 Kiri Tree Tradition
04:16 Hormuz and Global War
05:48 South Atlantic Flashpoints
08:15 Nepal Disaster and Tibet
13:24 Hydraulic Warfare Explained
15:13 Egypt and the Nile Dams
29:45 Turkey Iraq and China Dams
34:28 Prayer Wheel Spycraft
36:35 Local Flood Risks and Drought
38:53 Ceuta Flashpoint
39:32 Gibraltar Chokepoint History
41:16 Phosphate Power Politics
41:43 Global Chokepoints Strategy
45:05 Florida And Brazil Predictions
48:22 Ceuta Migrants As Weapon
51:32 Language Warfare Morocco
56:27 Books Burned And Forecasts
59:17 Safe Havens And Zionism
01:02:49 Cults And Empire Origins
01:05:51 Warfare Taxonomy Explained
01:12:36 Corporate Superstructure Wrap
01:15:01 Closing Thanks And Anecdote