The United States, together with Israel, just launched a massive attack on Iran. And if you've been paying attention, something inside you changed. You felt it.

What I'm about to say will challenge how many of you see politics, Trump, and the system ruling over all of it.

After more than five years of doing this, I've learned one thing: the most important thing I can offer you is honesty. Honest when I'm wrong. Honest when new information shatters my assumptions. Honest even if that honesty pushes some of you away.

Here is the hard truth about where we are right now as a nation.

I'm not going to give you a detailed analysis of Middle Eastern geopolitics. I can tell you that it smells like the same formula we've been fed before. Country X is a 'dangerous threat' in the Middle East — Libya, Syria, Iraq, you know the list. Country X isn't part of the Rothschild central banking system. Country X has had its regime overthrown by the CIA. Country X is threatening the petrodollar. But country X has dangerous weapons they want to kill Americans with, so we are going to wipe them off the face of the earth. And when those regimes have fallen in the past, the vacuum was filled with more terrorists, more instability, and ultimately more death. It's a pattern that you can't unsee once you see it. And it's not hard to see.

Much of what we're seeing in Iran—and even Venezuela—is part of a larger proxy war with China and the BRICS nations. That larger game almost certainly influenced Trump's decision.

There's also a large chorus of people saying that Netanyahu controls Trump, and that the Epstein files release was a warning to Trump that he better keep in line, or else. Could there be truth to that? Perhaps. But I think it's still missing the point. That viewpoint in and of itself is still looking at things from within the cage, from within the system. What do I mean by that? The system that controls this world is so much bigger than even presidents and nations. I honestly believe that even world leaders are pretty low on the pyramid of power that runs this world. And to say, this nation caused that nation to do X, or this leader made that leader do Y, I think it's still not seeing the whole picture. I want to zoom out far enough to see the structure behind that picture.

Last Sunday, I was talking about how I was no longer going to put my hope or my energy into believing that politics would save our country. During the Q&A afterward, someone asked me a question. It was a simple question. "Seth, are you going to vote?"

And I paused.

I didn't have a clear answer. And that bothered me. Because I've always had an answer. For years, I've had an answer. Vote. Get involved. Hold your representatives accountable. That's what we do. That's what we're supposed to do.

But something shifted in me recently. And I suspect some of you feel it too, even if you don't have words for it yet.

So here's the question I want to wrestle with today. And it's a big one. And I'm going to go deep into history to try to understand it. So if you're ready, let's dive in. Here's the big question.