Commodity Culture, Released on 10/2/25 (Recorded on 10/1/25)

Simon Hunt joins the show with a shocking revelation, the recent meeting of top military brass in the United States was a distraction from the real plans being hatched outside of the public eye: a joint attack in Iran with Israel in a bid to capture territory and assert dominance over the Middle East. Simon lays out why he thinks this attack is imminent, how China and Russia will react, and how the Trump administration will sell this war to the American public.

00:00 Introduction
01:13 Geopolitical Risks are Everywhere
03:20 China and Russia Natural Gas Deal
08:54 America Versus Venezuela
10:32 Gaza Peace Deal
15:34 US is Preparing to Strike Iran
18:28 How Will Russia and China React?
21:57 Will EU Troops Enter Ukraine?
23:48 Crossing Putin’s Red Lines
26:22 Historic Times for Gold
33:33 What’s Driving Copper?

Simon Hunt founded Simon Hunt Strategic Services in 1996. The focus of the company’s work is to provide strategic advice including geopolitical and financial developments as well as structural and tactical changes within China in order to produce a balance outlook for the supply of and demand for copper. Increasingly the work involves understanding the shifts taking place in the balance of global power including how BRICS+ will change the dynamics of the world and how these changes will impact the copper industry. Simon is also the author of the ‘Frontline China Report Service marketed by the TIS GROUP. He is also on the Board of Directors the Great Eastern Gold Company in Australia and Copperman in Chile. Follow Simon at his website https://www.simon-hunt.com/

  middle-east, simon hunt, Trump, war