#730: Trump's Geopolitical Poker Game with Tom Luongo

Tom Luongo joins Marty Bent to analyze recent US military actions against Iran as part of Donald Trump's broader strategy to assert American interests over entrenched global financial networks. Luongo frames the conflict not as a neoconservative war or religious crusade, but as a targeted disruption of illicit money flows that have long disadvantaged the US, drawing on precedents like the Venezuela operation and last year's 12-day war.

Layers of Global Money Control

Luongo breaks down opposition to Trump in three layers. The first is public funding of NGOs, which Trump cut immediately upon taking office, ending direct taxpayer support for activities harming US interests. The deeper challenge is the "organized crime" layer: a colonial-era system of illicit flows—drugs, trafficking, protection rackets—centered in the City of London, with outposts in Davos, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Singapore, and others. This network relies on complicit banks in Canada, the UK, and the US to move massive sums untouchably.