If the Cold War was a grand chessboard, today’s geopolitics resemble something closer to a high-stakes game of Jenga: stacked with fragility, disguised as stability. In his recent interview with GoldCore TV, strategist Simon Hunt offers a view of the current global order that is not just provocative, but bracingly contrarian. According to Hunt, we are not witnessing a realignment of power, but the attempted suppression of one. His argument is that the United States, long the architect and beneficiary of the post-war unipolar order, is now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to prevent the rise of a multipolar alternative led by the BRICS bloc.
At the centre of this thesis is Iran, which Hunt calls the weakest link in the China-Russia-Iran triangle. Far from containing Iran through economic pressure or proxy war, he claims that Washington and its allies are seeking nothing less than regime collapse. “Kill off Iran,” Hunt says flatly. Yet he also notes that this strategy has already backfired. Attacks aimed at destabilisation have instead consolidated national unity under Iran’s Supreme Leader. The law of unintended consequences, it seems, still applies.
Hunt warns that this tactical miscalculation may not deter further escalation. Rather, it risks dragging the region into a wider conflict, especially given what he alleges is full U.S. backing of Israeli operations in Syria and Lebanon. The idea that American and Israeli interests are not merely aligned but intertwined is not new, but Hunt goes further. He suggests that Greater Israel is still very much an active geopolitical project, one that dovetails neatly with Washington’s desire to fracture emerging Eurasian power centres.
The inclusion of Pakistan in Hunt’s warning list is arguably the most disquieting. A recent skirmish, he claims, saw Pakistani fighter jets outmatch India’s French-supplied Rafales using Chinese radar systems. To Hunt, this technological upset has not gone unnoticed in Washington. The implication is that any nation perceived as a Chinese military outpost could be considered strategically expendable.
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Ukraine, for Hunt, is the other live wire. He contends that America’s long-standing objective has been to “dismember” Russia and carve up its vast resource base. Far from being a defensive war, Hunt suggests Ukraine is a pretext. With Putin now “taking the gloves off,” the conflict could spill further into Eastern Europe. Hunt believes Moscow is preparing not for ceasefire negotiations but for a full takeover of Ukraine. The possibility of France, Germany, and the UK deploying troops by year-end, which Hunt raises, would mark a dramatic pivot. A pivot that could transform a proxy war into a direct confrontation between nuclear powers.
What makes Hunt’s argument compelling is not its novelty but its internal consistency. He does not predict a neat transition to a new world order. He foresees chaos, disorder, and eventually, war. His forecast of a global military conflict by 2028 is chilling not because it is inevitable, but because it fits a pattern of escalation that few in Western policy circles seem willing to reverse.
This is not a story of decline, Hunt might argue, but of refusal to cede dominance. In this reading, America’s foreign policy is no longer about global leadership but about staving off irrelevance. Whether one agrees or not, Hunt’s voice cuts through the ambient noise. In a world that increasingly rewards outrage and oversimplification, he offers something more valuable: a coherent, if unsettling, diagnosis of the fracture lines beneath the surface.
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