Barbara Boyd argues that warnings of a 1979-style oil shock after President Trump’s call for Iran’s unconditional surrender are a manufactured panic pushed by the City of London’s financial press and anti-Trump figures to trigger an economic crisis and swing the Midterms.
Citing Karoline Leavitt’s definition of surrender as eliminating Iran’s threat, Boyd revisits the 1979 Iranian Revolution, describing the Shah’s industrial and nuclear modernization, opposition from Anglo-American financial interests, and a strategy of “Controlled Disintegration” associated with the Council on Foreign Relations’ Project 1980s.
She claims the Shah was overthrown via a human-rights campaign and the Muslim Brotherhood, leading Khomeini to cancel modernization and enabling an oil shock that benefited London banks.
Boyd says the same playbook is now aimed at Trump’s pro-worker economic program, but that U.S. energy strength and security measures reduce oil-shock risk; she concludes that ending the Khamenei regime would remove a long-standing economic weapon and ultimately stabilize energy markets.
Chapters
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Intro
02:39 The Shah's Vision and His Fatal Flaw
05:51 The Same Playbook Today - Stopping Trump's Economics
09:34 Unconditional Surrender Is Not the Cause of Economic Chaos, It's the Cure
Snapshots and Notes
On Friday (6 Mar), President Donald Trump demanded unconditional surrender from Iran.
His enemies have seized on that statement to sow panic, predicting a new economic blowout that will deliver the midterm elections to the Democrats.
Karolyn Leavitt explains war to the jackals in the media....
“What President Trump means when he says unconditional surrender is when he, as Commander in Chief of the United States military and the leader of the free world, determines that Iran can no longer pose a threat to the United States of America and to our troops and our personnel in the Middle East.
“We’re already well on our way to achieving the objectives of Operation Epic Fury, and when the president determines that Iran no longer poses that threat, that’s when that unconditional surrender will take place.”
The City of London’s financial press is showing financial panic, claiming that we’re headed for a 1979-style oil shock, once again caused by events in Iran, if the war isn’t stopped immediately.
Bloomberg News on Friday said that $100 oil is just about here…
The Wall Street Journal this morning carries the headline …
And the Financial Times leads with the question …
The lead anti-Trump economist Paul Krugman gleefully predicts the same gas lines, rationing, and stagflation that America experienced from the Iran oil shock in 1979 ...
They’re all wrong, and their evil intentions are very clear.
That oil shock was not the product of market forces, and neither is the panic they’re trying to create today.
Barbara Boyd has studied the imperial grid game for decades, including the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the oil shock it caused.
What the globalists want is simple: an economic crisis they can pin on Trump to deliver the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
And once again, the mullahs are their instrument, just like 1979.
Here is what will be covered in this segment...
The Shah’s Vision and His Fatal Flaw (02:39)
To understand why they destroyed Iran in 1979, you have to understand what Iran was becoming and how it defied the globalist plans.
By the mid-1970s, the Shah of Iran was using oil wealth to build a modern industrial nation, and he was moving very fast.
More than 30 nuclear power plants were under construction or in planning with France and West Germany, as well as a massive steel industry.
His explicit goal was to make Iran one of the world’s top industrial powers, independent and sovereign, and no longer dependent on raw-material exports.
And it wasn’t just Iran.
France and Germany were laying the groundwork for a new international monetary system that would reform the IMF and finance industrial development across the entire developing world.
For British Petroleum and the Anglo-American financial establishment that had controlled Iran’s oil since the 1950s, this was an existential threat.
The Council on Foreign Relations had already mapped out the future world economy in its Project 1980s, commencing in 1975.
They called for a complete halt to exactly this type of industrial development, starting right here in the United States.
It became the current administration’s policy.
Just listen to their own words.
Controlled disintegration.
That was the policy, and they had the perfect weapon to deliver a major blow.
They overthrew the Shah by weaponizing his fatal flaw, the SAVAK, his brutal secret police, trained by MI6, the CIA, and the Israelis.
The SAVAK made Iran an easy target for a worldwide human rights campaign, and the Muslim Brotherhood, a tool of British intelligence going back to the 1920s, was deployed to run the color revolution that brought the Shah down.
When Khomeini took power, he canceled every modernization project, the nuclear plants, the steel mills, all of it, denouncing them as, quote, Western and, quote, anti-Islamic.
The resulting oil shock, caused by supply disruptions from Iran and panic chatter in the financial press, shattered the economies of France, Germany, and the United States.
And it worked exactly as they planned it.
The City of London’s banks profited from the speculative oil spot market and from control of insurance and settlements for all energy and raw materials worldwide.
The City of London engineered the crisis, and they cashed in on it.
That is the history they don’t teach.
You might have already thought about the fact that this is the same enemy playbook being run now, it’s just a different decade.
The Same Playbook Today - Stopping Trump’s Economics (05:51)
So now you know what happened in 1979, the question is, why are we talking about it today?
Well, it’s because the same people, the same institutions, the same imperial establishment that engineered the controlled disintegration of 1979 are running the identical playbook against Donald Trump’s economic revolution right now in the United States.
Their calculation is straightforward.
Iran’s counterattacks on Gulf oil infrastructure create a new oil shock.
The economic crisis delivers democratic victories in the midterms.
And Trump’s economic renaissance, well, it dies in the cradle.
When Trump returned to the office, he brought an explicit program:
tariffs to rebuild manufacturing
energy dominance to drive down costs
deregulation to unleash industrial investment, and
a sovereign wealth fund to finance national development
He revived Hamilton’s American system, the very system that the CFR’s Project 1980s attacked by name.
The parallels to what The Shah was attempting are not coincidental, but there is a very critical difference.
Trump’s program puts the prosperity and security of the American worker at the absolute center of everything.
Not Wall Street, not the globalists, the worker.
His national security strategy says it plainly.
American policy will be pro-worker, not merely pro-growth, and it will prioritize our own workers here.
And Trump is the first president since Roosevelt to be unafraid to exercise the power of our unique American heritage.
He knows exactly whose shoulders he’s standing on.
Here he is right after the war started, pausing at the statues of Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, which he has recently installed outside the White House.
While the globalist press screamed about oil shocks and stagflation, the President of the United States was standing with the men who built the most powerful economy in history out of a post-revolutionary war bankruptcy.
That is not a coincidence.
Our oil and natural gas supplies are at a peak under Trump’s policies, and we have taken steps to use our own programs to ensure ships going through the Strait of Hormuz and to offer naval escorts.
There is absolutely no real reason for an oil shock precisely because of Trump’s policies.
Trump also came in with an explicit security doctrine:
end open borders
end the drug trade
exit the permanent wars, and
prioritize our own hemisphere
The Middle East was not explicitly a major security target; that’s the first time in years.
But the red lines were clear for the Middle East:
Gulf energy must not fall to an outright enemy
the Strait of Hormuz must remain open
the region must not export terror against America, and
Israel must remain secure
Iran, with a nuclear weapon, hits every one of those red lines simultaneously.
Not one voice in the anti-war chorus will tell you the regime Trump is destroying was a British intelligence installation.
Not one will tell you the 1979 oil shock was deliberate economic warfare.
Not one will mention the controlled disintegration of the economy because they were for it then, and they are for it now.
The difference between 1979 and 2026 is one man, and they know it.
Unconditional Surrender Is Not the Cause of Economic Chaos, It’s the Cure (09:34)
The CFR, the economists, the Wall Street economists, the anti-war crowd, they all agree: Trump must stop, negotiate, accept a ceasefire, because if he doesn’t, economic catastrophe follows.
They have it exactly backwards.
The Khomeini regime was installed in 1979 as a permanent weapon against the American and world economy.
It was designed to do exactly what it is doing right now:
threaten the Strait of Hormuz
attack the Gulf energy infrastructure
weaponize oil against the West
That is not a side effect of the mullah’s ideology; that is their primary function, and that’s what they were built to do.
The cure is not a ceasefire; the cure is unconditional surrender.
Think about what the day after looks like.
Iran has the third-largest proven oil reserves on Earth.
Under the mullahs, those reserves have been deliberately withheld and weaponized.
A post-Khamenei Iranian under a government aligned with its own people’s interests doesn’t just stop being a threat; it becomes one of the world’s great energy producers as intellectuals and professionals who fled the mullahs’ prosecutions returned to help build their nation.
A Middle East that is developing and prospering does not produce terrorism, it does not weaponize oil, and it does not serve as the British Empire’s permanent destabilization instrument.
That is Trump’s actual strategic vision.
And when you understand it, the entire global manufacturing financial panic makes perfect sense.
They’re not worried about the American economy; they’re worried about their own survival.
In 2026, the man in the White House is finishing what the CFR started in 1979, but in reverse.
He is not disintegrating; he is rebuilding.
And a major step in that rebuilding is removing the weapon they installed 47 years ago.
Unconditional surrender is not the cause of economic chaos; it is the cure.
