'Unprecedented' Global RESET Coming - Here's What Elites Are Planning: Simon Michaux
Commodity Culture Jul 24, 2026
Summary
The guest frames a coming global reset as a contested transition in money, energy and food supply, driven by those who control capital.
He argues BRICS is building a commodities-backed currency to replace the US dollar, with oil and gas traded as political leverage.
Cutting Middle East sulfur supplies removes about half the world's fertilizer needs, and one planting season has already been missed.
He claims sanctions on Russian gas and oil function as economic warfare that deepens Western debt rather than isolating Moscow.
His proposed exit is a parallel system built on thorium reactors, physical-asset-backed money and locally sourced resources.
Simon Michaux's takeaways
- Top takeaway The guest's central claim is that a structural reset of unprecedented size and scope is already under way, with two factions arm-wrestling over whether the Anglo-petro-dollar financial system survives or gets replaced, and commodities used as the bargaining chip in that fight.
- He argues the Iran war is better read as a distraction inside that contest than an end in itself, and says the real target may not be Iran at all but China's access to Middle East oil.
- On resource supply he says the Iran conflict has cut off Middle East output including roughly half the world's fertiliser sulphur needs, so at least one planting season has been missed and the wheat crop is the smallest it has been since 1970, on a far larger world population.
- On Ukraine he argues the conflict was deliberately provoked, pointing to declassified information on US-backed bioweapon labs, the 2014 Maidan coup and the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, and says it is now draining Western munitions stocks and deepening debt saturation while Russia waits for the West to collapse under its own economic weight.
- He is cautiously optimistic, expecting small parallel systems that are hard to control to grow as the old one breaks, built on thorium molten-salt reactors he is currently researching, a new currency he expects to be crypto backed by physical assets such as gold and silver, and decentralised manufacturing and resource sourcing.