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Sept. 12, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Sep 12, 2022 - Ukraine's cities go DARK; Russia poised to declare WORLD WAR
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All right, welcome to the Situation Update from Monday, September 12, 2022.
Mike Adams here.
And the weekend saw crazy escalation on the part of Russia.
And of course, a lot more attacking on the part of Ukraine with Western weapons and long-range weapons and artillery.
And so on.
And as of right now is the time I'm recording this, there are blackouts being reported across Ukraine, power outages.
The second largest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv, is currently in total darkness.
And that's because of Russian missile strikes on the power generation infrastructure of Kharkiv and other cities across Ukraine, including some Western cities.
Let's see.
Thank you.
This is a very dangerous escalation, and it is going to be followed by a declaration of war by Russia against, it looks like, NATO. That is expected to occur within the next three days, And if it does occur, it's going to put us quite rapidly into World War III.
Again, electricity and water supplies, that is civilian infrastructure, have been disrupted across Ukraine.
In some cities, it's a complete blackout.
And this follows what is largely considered to be a rather successful Ukrainian attack, a counterattack on Russian forces that required Russia to withdraw its forces in order to make sure that they were not encircled, by the way.
So tactically, it's actually a very smart decision on Russia's part to pull its men and equipment back so that they were not slaughtered by being encircled.
But in doing so, they gave up territory.
So I'm going to give you more analysis of this here today.
That's the big story, actually.
I had a lot of other stories ready to go because there's a lot going on over the weekend.
But this is obviously the biggest thing because where it leads us is a very dark, dark place.
So it's currently about 47 days, give or take, until Halloween.
Remember, that's the window of opportunity for the globalists to carry out some kind of really crazy attack, false flag attack.
I ran a survey of my followers on Telegram over the weekend asking them what they thought would be the most likely form of a false flag attack before the end of this year.
I just want to share the results with you on that.
It's about 5,000 people answering that poll.
44% said they thought it would be a power grid takedown.
34% thought it would be a financial infrastructure attack.
15% thought it'd be a mass shooting.
14% cyber warfare.
12% nuclear terrorism.
12% a stage bombing.
And there were some other options there.
And by the way, we allowed people to choose more than one.
So if you add up all the numbers, it can be over 100.
But I'm not reading you all the answers.
Nevertheless, the largest one was 44% believe a power grid takedown is the most likely kind of attack.
And then shortly after that poll, boom, power grid takedown happened in Ukraine.
But That's not a false flag attack.
That's just a missile attack, which, again, we'll get into that.
But we are looking at an agricultural wasteland across California because of the lack of irrigation water.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of rice production are now, quote, an agricultural wasteland.
All right?
We've got a collapse of metals and steel production in Europe that is so bad that a group representing the metals companies has sent out a crisis letter calling for immediate intervention By European governments, or else things are going to get far worse very quickly.
That letter, well, it's from Eurometal, Metals at the Heart of Europe.
And it's regarding the following.
This is the subtitle.
Quote, From spiraling or caused by spiraling electricity and gas prices.
So they're now warning about, quote, permanent deindustrialization.
Now, you've never heard this term used in an imminent warning like this.
You need to understand what that means.
Permanent deindustrialization means that Europe's industry would be offline for good.
That it cannot be brought back online.
They've said that right now, 50% of the EU's aluminum and zinc capacity has been forced offline.
That's just so far.
And more are closing every day, by the way.
And we've covered the shutdown of steel foundries, iron ore operations.
There's also copper smelting.
We've covered ammonia shutdown, fertilizer shutdown, all of that.
Well, it's about to get far worse because of the escalation with Russia.
I'm going to try to lay out the scenario for you here in this podcast of where I think this is headed.
Also, we're going to bring in our interview today is with Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show.
I'm going to ask his opinion of what's happening as well.
So we're going to get to all that, but I promised everybody...
I think I promised this on Saturday on social media.
I promised everybody that I would...
I would give you a tip of how to protect the privacy of your online purchases of firearms and ammunition because there's a new rule that's been introduced now or a new category among credit card merchants.
And this is because of the Gabby Giffords push and all the gun control zealots.
So they're having this new category where if you buy guns or ammo online, Even though, of course, guns have to be shipped to an FFL for a legal transfer, not an illegal, I said a legal, L-E-G-A-L, transfer through an FFL dealer.
But that purchase can show up on your credit card.
So I have a solution for this.
I'm going to share it with you right here.
I'm going to try to keep it brief because this is not the main story today.
I just want to say up front, I didn't want to share this publicly, but So early, I was hoping to do more testing, and I've tested it for several months, I don't know, four to six months, something like that, and it's a service that's been working really well, but I didn't want to go public with it at this point.
Nevertheless, I have no choice because, well, you need a way to protect your privacy.
I should also say that the solution I'm about to mention here is an online company.
They are not a sponsor.
I don't earn anything.
They don't even know that I'm going to talk about them.
In fact, they might prefer that I don't talk about them.
I don't know their philosophy.
I don't know if they're anti-gun, pro-gun, pro-liberty, anti-liberty, whatever.
I really don't know.
Maybe I'll find out soon if they reach out or something.
But the product works, okay?
And it's called privacy.com.
And that's the website, privacy.com.
It's kind of a clever idea.
You sign up there.
You link your account to your bank account, like your checking account.
And then they generate virtual credit card numbers for you in your account that you can use to go online and make purchases.
And so you're using virtual credit card numbers.
And then for every purchase you make, then they just take the money out of your bank account.
Like ACH, automatic deduction.
That's it.
That's pretty much how it works.
But it's got a lot of great features.
Like you could set up one credit card number for each merchant that you buy from.
And you can set monthly limits.
So if a credit card number gets stolen, then fraudsters can't keep charging that card.
You can just cancel that one virtual card.
And then, boom, it's done.
Or you could set monthly limits, like no more than 50 bucks a month on this other card.
And you can create a huge number of virtual cards.
I've created, I don't know, a couple dozen different virtual card numbers.
And the other cool thing is these card numbers work automatically everywhere.
I mean everywhere online.
So you don't even have to use your name.
So you can go online to, let's say, an ammunition company or even like a gold company.
Let's say you want to buy gold and you don't want gold purchases on your credit card card.
statement because you don't want, I don't know, the government or whoever or your bank knowing that you're stockpiling gold or silver or ammo for that matter or sewing supplies, whatever.
Maybe you're afraid you're going to get teased.
But through this system, the statements, there are no credit card statements because you're just you're using this online service and they're deducting it from your bank account.
And then your bank account shows deductions from privacy.com.
Or for an extra fee, you can have it say something like, I forgot what it was, like Bob's Hardware or something.
And so it's all private.
And those can be purchases for all kinds of things.
Gold, silver, ammo, extra fertilizer for your plants or whatever you need to stockpile to get ready for the total collapse.
The only drawback to the service is that when you first join, I think they limit it to like $400 a day and $1,000 a month or something like that.
Or maybe it's $2,000 a month.
I forgot.
But if you use the service, you keep using it a bunch.
And I've done this.
And then you go back to them.
You ask their support like, hey, up my limits.
And then they will.
And then you can spend more money at a time.
And I've been using it for months.
So far, so good.
Everything's been cool.
And it gives you incredible privacy.
You can even order stuff in other people's names.
So let's say you're buying gold coins or something.
And you want it shipped to your house, but not in your name.
You could just go online and order in any name you want, frankly.
Or you could do that with ammo or whatever.
You could use any name, any address, and the order will always be accepted.
But of course, you're going to pay for it out of your checking account.
So you might want to ship it to somewhere that you have control, but you don't have to use your name.
So that's another thing.
See, one of the things that the government likes to do to surveil people is they'll go to big online retailers or – well, a couple of things.
They'll either go to retailers and try to find your account and look at the history of what you bought or they'll pull up your credit card statements because they can do that by your social.
And then they can look at a history of everything you bought on your credit card.
Boom.
Oh, look at this.
Sporting goods, ammo.
This is going to be the new category for guns and ammo.
So using privacy.com, technically, you can go to some new browser and set up a new browser and you can then go to your favorite online retailer like gunsrus.com or whatever and you can legally purchase a firearm.
have it shipped to your FFL dealer, and go there and pick it up from your FFL, and there's no record on any credit card statement of that purchase.
It does not exist.
All that shows up is on your bank account, there's an ACH deduction from privacy.com.
Okay?
So credit cards are going to lose a ton of business by pushing this new red flag category for guns and ammo purchases.
And then other companies like privacy.com are going to do tremendous business by just allowing people to make legal purchases using a pro-privacy type of instrument like this.
And by the way, everybody that I know that's buying guns and ammo and body armor, they're all either like law enforcement, sheriff's deputies, a lot of the military guys that I train with, special forces, U.S. Marines, army intelligence, whatever.
Or just concealed carry people, law-abiding citizens, surgeons, attorneys, you name it, who just want to protect themselves.
So it's all legal.
You know, these are legitimate purchases.
It's just we don't want government and banks snooping into what we're buying.
It's none of their damn business if we want to load up on, you know, rifle ammo or whatever, or gold coins or whatever you're into.
Maybe both.
Okay, I'm going to move on, but just again, a disclaimer, I can't 100% vouch for, I don't know the founders of privacy.com, I don't know what their philosophy is other than privacy, and I don't know how successful their service is going to be in the long run, but so far, it's worked for me.
It's been great, and I've run, I don't know, quite a lot of prepping supplies through privacy.com.
So it's a good choice as far as I'm concerned.
And by the way, isn't it weird that we live in a nation where the wrong things are red flagged of what you're purchasing?
Like if you went online and purchased, I don't know, like a demonic pentagram bondage leather vest, like that guy that the monkeypox ambassador that works for the Biden administration.
Like if you had gargoyle shoulder pads in leather or for your animal friend, you bought like a puppy dog leather face mask for the furry sex rituals or something like that.
Like the credit card companies, oh, that's totally normal.
That's just, you know...
But then if you want to buy rifle ammo because you need to protect your chickens from coyotes, for example, so you need AR-15 varmint ammo, they're like, oh my god, you might be an extremist.
No, the extremist is the demon bondage puppy dog leather butt mask person.
That's the extremist.
That's weird.
Buying ammo is totally normal.
But I'll tell you, some of the images that I had to publish in my story on Friday about the White House monkeypox ambassador satanist demon man, some of those images will never be able to be cleansed from my retinas.
I may have to take eye shots of chlorine dioxide.
I mean, I'm joking.
Don't do that.
That probably hurt your eyes.
But I'm just...
The level of cleansing necessary, you know, metaphorically speaking, I'm going to need a full retinal scrub just to get all the leather bondage Satan images out of the back of my eyeballs.
My God!
That's stuff I never want to see ever again, and I can't erase it.
And yeah, there was a puppy dog leather face mask on one dude in one of those photos, and I just...
It's highly disturbing.
Folks, you are watching end of days with each passing day.
Seriously, end of days scenarios.
That's the phrase, by the way, that's being used to describe the new law that's going into effect in Illinois, I think at the first of the year.
Yeah, January 1.
Illinois is eliminating cash bail for people who are charged with murder, And many other insane violent crimes as well.
That includes aggravated battery, arson, drug-induced homicide, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, intimidation, aggravated fleeing.
I think that describes everybody who lives in Illinois right now.
They are aggravated and they are fleeing.
But also drug offenses and threatening a public official.
So all these people who are arrested and charged with these things, again, murder, battery, arson, homicide, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, they're going to be let free without any bail.
No bail.
Why?
Well, Democrats, of course.
Democrats, they're just begging for total chaos all over the streets of Chicago and other cities of Illinois, I think St.
Louis as well, and so on.
No bail.
So this is called the Safety Act.
S-A-F-E hyphen T. Safety Act.
And one of the state attorneys named James Glasgow of Will County, he said this is going to be, quote, end of days.
He says they're not going to be able to detain murderers and arsonists.
And rapists, he says, quote, the safety act will destroy the city and the state of Illinois, and I don't even understand how the people who support it can't realize that.
Well, they do realize it.
They want chaos.
This is The Purge.
Remember that movie series, The Purge, where one day a year it's legal to go out and murder everybody?
You've seen or you've maybe heard about that movie series.
It's not worth watching.
They're very violent movies.
I started to watch, I don't know, one or two.
I was like, this is insane.
But in the movie, it was one day a year.
Well, in Illinois, it's every day.
365, 24-7.
Purge is on.
So if you're a criminal in Illinois, you can murder somebody on Monday, get arrested on Tuesday, get let free on Tuesday night, murder somebody on Wednesday, get arrested Thursday, go murder somebody again on Friday, and the Democrats are all supporting it.
And in the meantime, you can also set fire to buildings.
You can be an arsonist.
You can be a kidnapper.
You can be a burglar.
A robber?
You can intimidate people and kill people.
And they'll just keep kicking you right back out onto the street.
And they'll just give you court dates.
Oh, well, you've got to show up, you know, in July of 2023 for the first murder that you did.
And then you've got to show up in September for the arson.
And then next Thanksgiving for, you know, the kidnapping charge and so on.
They'll just give you court dates to show up for you.
Do you think these people are going to show up?
They're murderers!
They're not going to show up for court.
People, people, this, it's becoming completely insane.
If you're listening to this and you're in the state of Illinois, you might want to engage in, what was that called again?
Aggravated fleeing.
Yes.
All right, we're going to jump into the Ukraine slash Russia portion of today's podcast and then bring in Dave Hodges a little bit later.
This is a difficult topic to cover, but I'm going to try to give you my best interpretation.
I've been watching videos, reading headlines, news analysis from both independent and some mainstream media over the weekend, watching videos of Russian reports translated into English and trying to take my best guess of what has been happening.
So let's start with a couple of facts.
Fact number one, Ukraine has been running for, I think, over a week now, a very, very aggressive counteroffensive that is successfully attacking some of Russia's front lines in one particular area.
I don't know how wide it is.
It's like maybe 30 miles wide or something in the front.
And they have penetrated successfully into territory previously held by Russia, which is Ukrainian territory, as Ukraine would say, including the town of Izyum, I-Z-Y-U-M, I guess a small city.
And this encompasses something like 40 small villages, maybe up to 50 small villages and towns in this area.
So those are all facts, I think, that are confirmed by both sides.
Another fact is that Russia has pulled back from this area, pulled back equipment and men and so on.
In fact, Russia has retreated from this particular area, creating kind of a bulge.
You may be familiar with the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. This might be Ukraine's Battle of the Bulge.
So Ukraine has kind of penetrated in with this bulge going inside what had been Russia's front lines.
So those are the facts so far.
Let me bring in another couple of facts before I get into analysis that might be controversial.
So another fact is that a lot of Western military artillery and some missile strikes preceded this advance, this counteroffensive by Ukraine.
So it is the Western weapons such as the HIMARS systems and the precision artillery munitions with laser-guided weapons Whatever, that cost like 200 grand each, a whole lot of those were raining down on civilian towns, which were the Russian front lines before the big push from Ukraine.
So, yes, Russia lost some men and some equipment, but apparently in this push, Ukraine has lost a whole lot more because they were the attackers and they're getting a lot of artillery in return as the Russians are retreating.
Of course, it's always disputed how many people died or how successful things were.
We'll get into more of that in a second.
The other thing that's undisputed at this point is that Russia has launched a barrage of missiles against electrical infrastructure in Ukraine.
So I mentioned that earlier.
Kharkiv is completely without power at the moment.
Reuters and others are reporting this.
This is the first time that we know of that Russia has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure such as the power grid.
Until now, most of Ukraine, at least outside the direct battle zones, most of Ukraine has continued to function in terms of bandwidth and electricity, water systems.
Trains and transportation have been kind of spotty.
Some of the train electrical substations were hit with missiles a couple of months ago.
But other train tracks are still operating and roads are still operating, especially in western Ukraine.
Well, it seems like all that is changing from here forward.
So now let me give you my interpretation of what's happening and you can decide if this makes sense to you or if you disagree with it or what have you.
Here's my interpretation.
So Ukraine is desperate for a propaganda victory.
They needed to show some kind of progress in order to continue to call for more funding, which is more money laundering, and more weapons from Western nations.
So they needed a PR victory.
In my opinion, Zelensky was willing to sacrifice thousands of Ukrainian soldiers' lives in order to get the PR victory.
And that's what he did.
He threw thousands of Ukrainian troops, all trained by Western governments, including the United States, the British, Germany, and so on, and heavily equipped by Western nations.
He threw these forces at the Russian front lines in an attempt to encircle a large number of Russian units, to circle behind them and cut them off, and to force a mass surrender, which reminds me of what Russia and to force a mass surrender, which reminds me of what Russia did to Germany in World War II in Stalingrad, encircling the So Ukraine was trying to do to Russia what Russia did to Germany.
And by the way, that was a decisive victory on Russia's part.
It was part of the major defeat of Germany's eastward expansion.
And I keep forgetting what year that was.
I'm thinking it's either...
I think it's 1943, is my guess.
But it was a cold, cold winter.
The Germans were way far extended to the east.
They were trying to take Stalingrad, which is a city on a major river.
The river was a barrier to crossing.
And the German soldiers had frostbite.
It was cold, it was wet, they were running out of food, heat, and diesel, and their tracked armor equipment, tanks and so on, were all getting bogged down, they could barely move, and the Russians, who had almost no ammo themselves, were able to encircle the entire 6th Army, cut off its supply, and force the surrender of the 6th Army.
I think that Germany was trying to flip history upside down and force a major surrender of Russian units.
However, they failed.
Russian units ran what I think can honestly be called an organized retreat.
Which is to say, hey, let's get out of here and bring our equipment with us.
Unlike what Joe Biden had the U.S. military do in Afghanistan in Kabul, which was, ah, everybody run!
Leave all the equipment behind!
Leave the tanks!
Leave the helicopters!
Leave all the rifles and the artillery and the night vision equipment!
Run for your lives!
That's what the U.S. military did not long ago in Kabul, in Afghanistan.
But the Russian retreat was like, okay, we're going to reorganize over there.
We're going to move back 25 kilometers or whatever it is.
We're going to reorganize, build a new resistance front back there.
We'll go ahead and give up this terrain right now because...
What do we care about the terrain?
It'll still be there to take back later.
We have to preserve our men and our equipment.
So the Russians, in my assessment, are being intelligent about this, saying we're not going to sacrifice every living man just to hold every inch of ground.
We need to keep our men and our equipment.
We will retreat from this attack.
We will maneuver.
We will adapt.
will fall back here, let Ukraine extend itself, and then Ukraine will create a bulge.
And then that bulge will allow Russia to encircle the Ukrainian forces that got caught in the bulge.
And I think that's exactly what's about to happen.
In my assessment, Russia is about to encircle the Ukrainian attacking forces that are now in this bulge.
And so what Ukraine tried to do to Russia to encircle and cut off supplies and force a surrender, this is exactly what Russia is about to do to Ukraine.
But remember, the Western media needed a propaganda victory.
They needed to say that, oh, Russia is retreating, which they did from this particular location.
They needed to say that Russia is being defeated.
It's almost over for Russia, which is nonsense.
And Russia is simply adapting and maneuvering, which is the first thing you need to do on a battlefield.
You need to maneuver in order to maintain or protect your forces.
Whereas Ukraine is just throwing men to their deaths, like, attack the Russians at all costs.
Russia is saying, hey, save the men, move back, give up these towns right now, we'll reorganize, we'll re-strategize, and we'll readdress this a few days or weeks later.
So, I think that Putin knows exactly what he's doing.
The Russian commanders know exactly what they're doing.
And also, by the way, the buildup of Ukrainian forces for this attack had been happening for a very long time.
This was not something that took the Russians by surprise.
Not at all.
The Russians were expecting this.
And it's almost like a Sun Tzu, as people say in English, that Russia appeared to be weak in that location to draw in a counterattack and to allow them to penetrate deep into Russian lines while Russia was bringing in reinforcements, all kinds of tanks and such, in order to then encircle those Ukrainian forces and cut them off.
And again, that's where I think this is going next.
So the real question is not, did Ukraine take this territory back from Russia?
Yes, they did.
They took these 40 or 50 little towns and villages, whatever they are.
The real question is, can they keep it?
And I think the answer to that is no, not going to be able to keep it.
And I feel sorry for the people who live in those towns because you're having front lines sweep across your front yard two or three times with all the artillery strikes and everything else.
I mean, that's devastating to the poor people who live there.
Just horrible to be caught in a crossfire of a war zone, obviously.
Nevertheless, this retreat by Russia, I think, has been very embarrassing to Putin.
There's been a lot of effective kind of psyops or propaganda that has, I think, convinced a lot of Russians that they're losing when clearly they're not losing on an operational level, not losing at all.
This is one tactical battle in a much larger theater of operations.
But I think there's a lot of domestic pressure in Russia and even in the Donbass region, for example, to try to get Putin to escalate this war in order to bring in more regular military forces.
So you got to understand that so far, This, quote, special military operation has not been using Russia's main military forces.
It's been using, and I hope I'm getting the term right here, but what in America we might call more reserve forces.
Not the frontline battle groups, but reserve forces that have been rotated in and out of this theater.
In other words, it's not Russia's best military units, at least as I understand it.
Maybe there's somebody who knows more details better than I, but this is my understanding.
Now, in order to bring in the full military into this, quote, special military operation, Putin would need to declare war.
He would need to declare war in order to have the domestic power and leverage for full-scale military deployment and also military activation and recruitment.
So basically a military draft.
And there are rumors that Putin is about to declare this war.
I don't know if it would be declared against Ukraine, just Zelensky, or against NATO or all of Western Europe, which is a possibility.
But again, this is a necessary administrative step by Putin in order to be able to deploy the forces that he needs to go full force against Ukraine.
Now, if Putin declares war, and it wouldn't be just Putin, it would be his other decision makers.
I don't know what all the titles are, cabinet members and so on.
Basically, it would be a group of people in Russia, the highest power officials, all declaring war.
If that were to happen, from that day, history changes.
From that day, it means that Russia intends to go all the way across Western Europe and to destroy all the way to the UK. It means that Russia has decided it cannot coexist with NATO on the Western European continent.
Okay?
So...
It would mean that Putin is going to attack all of Ukraine.
They're going to wage war against the continent.
I mean, Eastern and Western Europe.
And it would necessitate the escalation of much more aggressive weapon systems, including hypersonic missiles and possibly tactical battlefield nuclear weapons.
And we could end up in a nuclear war very quickly.
This escalation would likely be countered by declarations of war in response from the U.K., other EU nations, NATO nations, and so on.
Probably everybody in Western Europe would say, okay, we're at war.
And then that would justify, in their view, officially deploying U.S. troops and German troops and Polish troops and so on, British troops, all of it, French troops in Ukraine directly against Russia.
And by the way, if this were to happen, this would absolutely devastate Ukraine.
Because then the weapons that would be used by both sides would be far more devastating and aggressive and destructive.
And there would be a lot more fighting, fierce fighting there, with both sides tending to escalate weapon systems.
Now, here's the problem for NATO. Russia has more missiles than anybody in the whole region.
Russia's got short range missiles, medium range missiles, and of course all kinds of ICBMs.
Russia has the ability to launch nukes on its medium range missile systems, including hypersonic systems.
If there were any real buildup of war of, let's say, Western or NATO troops heading into Ukraine, Russia would undoubtedly strike those troops with maybe a hyperbaric bomb, large-scale fuel explosives, or maybe battlefield tactical nuclear weapons.
It means that we would all be on the verge of a deadly global escalation that would spiral very rapidly into probably global thermonuclear war, World War III. It also means that people in Western Europe would very quickly find themselves entering a cold winter with no functioning infrastructure.
So it wouldn't just be, oh, you're not allowed to heat your house above 19 degrees Celsius.
It would be The electric utility company got blown up.
That's going to be the kind of scenario.
It's not like, oh, there's a limit on how much water you can use.
It's that there is no water because the water system got blown up.
That's what we're talking about here, folks.
We're talking about Western Europe being thrust back into the Dark Ages for a harsh winter under bombardment with large-scale weapons, potentially nuclear weapons, We're talking doomsday scenarios.
And Russia's got nuclear submarines.
Russia's got land-based missiles with global reach.
Russia's got ICBMs out the wazoo.
And as we've said before, Russia has anti-ICBM missile defense systems.
Russia also has a culture of being able to survive in hardship and the military belief that they can absorb and survive a retaliatory nuclear strike.
Because they have a lot of underground concrete bunkers and things like that in all the major cities where in the US, not so much.
And in Western Europe, not so much either.
So there's an incentive even in this scenario for Russia to launch a first strike attack.
And Russia has said just this year that they would do so if they face an existential threat.
That is a threat to their existence.
While Russia may perceive this aggressive Ukrainian offense, this counterattack that was clearly carried out with the help of Western nations, Russia may see that as right there an existential threat.
That could be the justification of Russia launching nuclear weapons against Western European cities.
It could happen literally tomorrow.
Now, not only would this thrust Western Europe into total chaos and World War III, but then the United States would be thrust into a...
What's the right way to say this?
Let's see.
Yeah, a financial apocalypse.
The banking systems would all go down because of the exposure to Europe.
The declaration of World War III and the launch of nuclear weapons would cause...
A total collapse of the banking infrastructure, as we know it, among Western nations.
And it would unleash what I'm going to call global force majeure.
Now, force majeure, as you know, means act of God.
And it's a way to invalidate or to nullify your contractual obligations, especially in the world of finance.
So if we end up in World War III... Let me give you an example.
Let's say you've been paying out on a life insurance policy to some life insurance company, and then whoever's the insured person dies after war starts with Russia.
Well, a life insurance company can just say, well, we're not paying claims anymore, force majeure.
It's invalidated, the contract.
The obligation is wiped out.
The federal government in the U.S. can say the same thing about paying out benefits to pensioners or even Social Security benefits for that matter.
If there's a banking system collapse, the dollar collapses, they just say, well, force majeure, act of war.
It was Russia.
Russia did it.
Russia launched the nukes.
Therefore, we're no longer going to pay any obligations, no entitlements, nothing.
No Social Security, Medicare, not even state level, Medicaid, no pensions.
Even the Treasury debt would just be wiped clean.
Total reset.
Force majeure.
And every contract or obligation in America could just be, boom, force majeure.
Oh, did you prepay half the money to build that house?
And then war broke out?
Oh, force majeure.
Your money's gone because we can't finish the house because we're in war now.
You see, war invalidates...
I mean, look this up historically.
Look what happened in World War II. War invalidates contracts because of force majeure.
So...
When France was invaded by Germany in World War II, this is exactly what happened in France.
Oh, contract is invalid now, force majeure.
So this is how war in Europe, or starting with Russia and Ukraine, can also bleed not only into Western Europe, but can bleed into America and all of the Western world and can cause financial Armageddon across the Western world.
And it would even allow governments to wipe out their debts and have a reset and then start over.
They could even wipe out their currencies and they could even arrange for, you know, Putin to nuke Washington, D.C. or something or some U.S. city, maybe New York City, and then say, well, looky there, you know, gosh, force majeure.
Took a hit from a nuke.
Financial system went down.
All financial obligations are now considered null and void.
Well, think about that when you pull a dollar out of your pocket and look at it because that dollar is a financial debt instrument.
It's an instrument of obligation.
It's backed by what?
Oh, the full faith and credit of the United States government.
That's it.
It doesn't have any intrinsic value.
So all that fiat currency can go to zero because of force majeure.
Oh, we no longer have an obligation to honor that debt note.
It's actually called a Federal Reserve note, which means a debt instrument from the Federal Reserve.
They can just say, no longer honored.
Now you just have a piece of paper with some numbers on it.
Good luck with that.
Whereas if you had physical goods that we've been talking about, gold and silver and food and ammunition and what have you, then you've got something real, something intrinsic, something that actually will have value no matter what else collapses around you.
So that is a key differentiation to keep in mind.
Oh, by the way, there's a tweet about the situation between Russia and Ukraine.
A tweet from, what is this, Victoria...
Vojtsitska.
Quote, Kharkiv is in blackout, talking about the missile strikes.
Russia has expedited the strategy of Kolodomor, which, if you know history, you should understand the Holodomor, which was the forced mass starvation of millions of Ukrainians back in World War II. You know, forced famine, weaponization of food scarcity, the Holodomor.
Anyway, this is the Kolodomor.
Which means leaving citizens of big Ukrainian cities without electricity or water and non-functioning sewage systems, which reminds me of California, by the way.
Russia was planning on implementing this strategy closer to winter, but Ukraine counter...
Offense has hurried Russia.
So that's a tweet.
You can decide whether to believe that or not.
But I think that makes sense.
Russia was going to use the harsh winter as leverage to really punish Western Europe and to punish parts of Ukraine.
And now apparently they've moved that timetable up.
So things are escalating very, very quickly.
And this can all lead to global financial ruin, especially among Western nations, if the nukes start getting deployed.
And it seems like we are now closer to that than ever in our lifetimes since, let's say, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
But Russia's got a lot more nukes than Cuba ever was planning to have, by the way, by far.
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Welcome, folks.
And in this interview, we're talking to Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show.
His website is thecommonsenseshow.com.
The topic today is, well, we're going to start with Europe, Ukraine, Russia, the new, well, over the weekend, missile strikes that are happening, hitting power infrastructure in Ukraine, and Russia's strategic retreat, Welcome to my show!
Absolutely.
I know you talk to a lot of people.
You get a lot of military contacts, State Department contacts.
You are watching the situation very closely.
You and I have talked previously about the risk of China launching an actual invasion of the United States, which is still in the works.
But what is on your radar right now as the most immediate risk to Americans?
Absolutely.
Well, I want to start with what it isn't because I think it really identifies what it is.
The European leaders appear to be willing to sacrifice millions of lives on the altar of climate change with what they're doing with energy.
But at the end of the day, I don't think it's going to matter because what's coming to Europe could potentially be so devastating that whether you can heat your home or cook food is the least of your worries.
They could be involved in an all-out war.
I don't know how far this is going to go.
I want to be really clear though what I've been told.
I've been told the missiles that drove Russia back and forced them into a strategic withdrawal and led to a successful counteroffensive by Ukraine, they are long-range missiles, and they're not being fired from inside Ukraine.
Some of them have been fired from neighboring nations, and that is a game changer, because now you have a direct attack from one NATO nation upon Russia.
And Putin has to respond.
He doesn't have a choice.
Well, that would explain why this immediately went into an escalation of Russia firing so many missiles in retaliation.
It's like he's saying, well, if we're going to play the missile game, here we go.
Yeah, I just don't know how far Putin's going to go, how restrained he will be.
And it's not just Russia we've got to worry about.
Let's say Russia pulls the plug and they decide to go all out.
The neighboring nations are in danger of being invaded.
Belarus may enter the fray and send their tanks into nearby countries.
Then you have to look at China.
The conventional wisdom that I've talked to so many people on this is The conventional wisdom is if Russia escalates and it looks like it's going to be a direct war, not a proxy war, between NATO and Russia, China is going to take advantage and make a move on Taiwan and possibly on Vietnam and possibly on shipping through the South China Sea.
We would find ourselves in that scenario in just a rapid World War III, a truly global war in no time.
Hours.
This would take hours.
So, let me bring in a couple other things, just to bring our audience up to speed here.
Over the weekend, it has been rumored that Putin is about to declare officially war, probably against NATO. And that...
That declaration would cause NATO to have to respond with its own retaliation of a declaration against Russia, and then we would be truly in a world war at that point.
Yeah.
Ships doing humanitarian aid in the Black Sea would be vulnerable.
Civilian populations on border countries to Ukraine will be vulnerable.
I agree with you.
This is a huge game changer.
And what's this mean for the United States?
Well, for Russia to reach out and touch us, it has to go nuketer.
But it won't come from inside of Russia.
It'll come from their submarines.
Yes.
Right.
And we're talking, you know, with coastal cities and about 80% of our populations on the coast, east and west, you have about a three minute window.
Right.
This is how quick it's going to happen.
You're 100% correct.
And it's even shorter than that for Russia's nuclear missiles to reach Berlin, Paris, London, and other Western European countries.
And as you recall, Dave, that was threatened, I think, by...
Medelev?
I forgot.
Is that his name?
Oh, Mveded, yeah.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
All these Russian names are tough for us.
But I think he was the defense minister or whatever the correct title is.
But he's been talking about striking Western European cities.
And he was bragging about how quickly it can happen.
I think it's under three minutes for those strikes, even out of Russian territory.
Because, you know, those are hypersonic missiles that can carry nukes.
And ICBMs are, of course, by definition, hypersonic as well.
Well, I talked to a high-ranking British officer, and I don't know if he wants to throw my name into this, but I talked to him on the phone about it.
It was right around the time of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and he told me, That the top brass in Britain have been telling their soldiers all along, get ready for war.
This is something that's well known.
The Chinese have told their people, get ready for war.
There's no question.
But Mike, I think there's a third variable that I'd like to bring up here.
I think these European leaders can be so reckless with the lives of their population, both with energy and coming into a winter and Putin's going to cut them off, and also with the aspect of being attacked, probably with tactical nuclear weapons.
I think they can be so brazen to sacrifice their populations because they've made plans to survive and be out of harm's way.
And I think this all goes back to the World Economic Forum.
They want Western civilization destroyed.
Yes.
They absolutely want it gone.
And something happened, though.
Remember, Putin was once trained by Klaus Schwab in that global leaders program that we know so much about.
And Putin, I do not believe he is in any way supportive of what's coming.
He doesn't want digital.
He's gotten gold-backed ruble.
And here's what's interesting.
Nations that don't even approve of what he's done in Ukraine, like in Latin America, they're lining up to get a piece of this gold back, particularly like Mexico.
Yeah.
By 2030, Mexico will be the leading silver exporter in the world.
They're not going to accept the digital that's coming to the European nations, mostly NATO, Canada, and the U.S. And I think Klaus Schwab and Harari are probably looking at this and saying, a war is a good thing.
We'll build back better from complete devastation of an economic collapse, just as well we would if they have a tactical nuclear war, and we'll rebuild from that.
I don't think he cares how the planet gets destroyed and de-civilized.
Yes.
I think that he's happy that it's just going to happen one way or the other.
In fact, I'll say one more thing that really boosts what I'm talking about.
The war in Ukraine, and I've been saying this for months, has become a conflict of one monetary ideology, digital, total enslavement, precursor to Mark of the Beast, and gold-backed.
And listen, I don't support Putin, but on this issue, he's totally right.
It's best for his people.
It's best for the world.
It's a return to the old style of mercantilism where you can legitimately trade.
Your money is worth something because it's backed by gold.
And these two systems are colliding in Ukraine.
Well, I think Klaus Schwab is happy to have Putin be destroyed.
Yeah.
So, I agree with what you're saying that these two systems are colliding, but I would maybe modify that and say the digital system is getting steamrolled.
I mean, the Western banking financialization system is imploding, while everybody who's paying attention in the world is giving preference to commodities-backed systems, because we're now in a global commodities scarcity scenario, as Western Europeans are finding out.
So...
This winter, even if there's not a declared war between Russia and NATO, even if more missiles don't fly, Western Europe is going to be devastated, almost like World War II, with very little available energy, very little heat, you know, infrastructure collapse, starvation, food scarcity, fertilizer running out, steel plants shutting down all over Western Europe.
Yeah.
While Russia and China and India and Turkey and other commodities rich nations are going to do just fine this winter.
So the world is seeing this and saying, well, wait a second.
Do we want to sign up for central bank digital currencies and freeze and starve to death?
Or do we want to do business with Russia and have toasty warm pizza nights or whatever?
Well, I think with Europe and the United States and Canada, Trudeau is in Klaus Schwab's hip pocket.
Schwab brags about what an obedient servant he is.
Biden and his people aren't much different.
And I think that at the end of the day, We'll wipe out all debt.
We'll negotiate some of these other programs like drilling for oil and so forth.
And I think they're going to have to make a deal to bring the digital in.
But this is non-compromising.
I mean, Obama's already signed an executive order, 14067, that has said we will shift from the paper dollar we have to a digital dollar, which means everything we do is tracked.
They can cut you off.
They can keep you from getting gas five miles from your house.
They can do anything to you that they want.
I don't think they're going to go away from that.
They'll do whatever deal has to be done.
And if we're desperate enough, let's say our economy collapses around us.
Here comes digital with promises of, hey, we'll give every American so much digital credits.
Just go along.
This is your savior.
I look at them to try to make a deal to make this come in.
Well, you've hit upon a key area there, which is public acceptance.
I think now more than ever in the post-COVID era, the public, at least the vast majority of Americans, do not trust the institutions they once trusted.
Now, you bring up a good point.
They can leverage people into it by saying, here's free money if you use the digital wallet.
It'll be a universal basic income, but only if you sign up for Mark of the Beast.
Yeah.
But it seems like there's going to be a lot of resistance to this because people know the systems are gamed, that people know not to trust the government with surveillance over your money.
People have watched the weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI against conservatives and Christians and so on.
Don't you think there's going to be a strong rejection of all of this?
I'll just say it this way.
MAGA is fascist.
MAGA is the worst threat than domestic terror.
We're seeing that from Democrats all day long.
They're comparing 9-11.
They say that was not as bad as the terror we faced from MAGA. And so what they're doing, this is the first stage.
Have you ever looked at Stanton's We're on about stage six right now.
And the extreme labeling that's going on, the marginalization, the shutting you up, firing you from your job, that's about stage six.
I think they're building towards, shall we say, FEMA camps, purges.
I think this is coming.
And they have really set the stage with their rhetoric.
They've identified who their enemies are.
If you voted for Trump, okay, you're an enemy of the state.
They have as much as said that already.
And I think to get compliance back to your question, it will have to be a purge, and they hope that purge will be severe enough that everybody else will be afraid to speak out.
By the way, they have a problem, though.
You're right.
One-third of the Democrats polled, I just saw this today, would vote to impeach Joe Biden.
Yeah.
Yeah, but it doesn't mean that those same Democrats won't also approve of lynching conservatives.
Yes, that's true.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
I mean, I think, yeah, they would replace Joe Biden with a worse tyrant who is more cognizant as an authoritarian ruler.
Like, that's what they want.
No, you're absolutely right.
But I actually almost think that if they begin the purchase, there is going to be civil disruption.
I think it'll be more guerrilla warfare.
And they practiced that Jade Helm 16 and in Robin Sage last year in North Carolina.
And clearly, the Democrats are fearful of this happening.
And I do think that with 400 million guns, and you probably are looking at about 120 million Americans when all said and done that would oppose this regime, I think that the war would be significant.
It wouldn't be so much front lines and so forth.
It'd be guerrilla warfare, be a little bit like Vietnam.
But I also know about the Kigali principles, and I should bring this into it.
If we de-evolve into this massive civil conflict, there's something called the Kigali Principles that Biden and John Kerry illegally signed us onto.
It was a treaty not passed by the Senate in December of 2016.
And basically it says to the UN, based on your say-so, health reasons, insurrection, civil war, or war, you can bring your troops in.
This is how you get Chinese soldiers on American soil.
This brings us full circle back to Russia, because it seems to me that any kind of a declaration of war with Russia, especially if Biden's team or globalists or whoever can manage to get a Some kind of a nuclear detonation in the continental United States that they can blame on Russia.
Then that would allow them to invoke UN occupation, peacekeeping forces, canceling elections potentially, confiscating firearms, suspending the Constitution, full-blown martial law.
So it's like they want America to get nuked because they can sacrifice a city if they gain total control over everything else.
I would agree with that entirely.
The other thing, too, that we might want to be cognizant of is this, is China may stay out of this by design.
If Russia and America could be provoked into a nuclear war along with Europe, if that happens, China just sits back and then they take on the winner that will be greatly diminished.
And then there you have your world policeman who answers to Klaus Schwab.
Again, completely agree because China and Russia long term, they're going to have to fight it out and determine who's on top.
I think that's a real probability.
But I have written about this, though, too, Mike, for many, many years, going back to about 2013.
I wrote an article that said, can our M-16s prevail against their F-16s, meaning, you know, the takeover of the government?
And I was referencing the Obama administration at that time.
And I likened it to North Vietnam, where you had a culture that was at war for over three decades against the Japanese, the French, and then the Americans.
And I said, it may happen.
And if people don't have enough to eat and they don't have basic housing needs, it probably will happen.
If people have enough to eat and they can still watch Sunday football, it's not going to happen.
And we'll just roll over and accept what's there.
And I think that's the decision the power brokers have to make.
How much do they want to devastate America?
Because I think the worse they go, the more they're going to feel the wrath of 400 million guns.
So you think food is the crucial tipping point of this?
If there's too much scarcity, then people will burst out of their comfort zones?
Yeah, judge a man by what he does, not by what he says.
And since Biden's taken over, over 100 food processing plants have burned down or been destroyed in some other fashion.
And then we have the railroad strike that could be coming up September 16th, and they're not making progress.
I hear from the railroad people all the time.
And on September 16th, the rank and file will be able to strike.
Now, this is one thing that people don't know, Mike, and I'm finding this out as I put this stat out.
This is from the Department of Transportation.
28% of all freight moves by rail, but 62% of all food and agriculture does.
That would be an instant food shortage producing spot locations of famine.
Yeah, you're not kidding.
And a lot of that that's moved by Ray is grain for meat production.
But there you go.
Exactly right.
The grain is part of it.
Of course, you know, the humanitarians from the World Economic Forum and whoever can get to do their bidding will be all too happy to dispense bugs, fake lab meat and aquatics.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, and the other thing is, rail is at maximum capacity right now without a strike.
It's even one of the reasons why they all voted to strike, because they're being forced to work 60-hour work weeks.
I'm sure you've heard that from people, too.
And so they're overworked.
They don't feel like they're fairly compensated.
And also, in some ways, it's a dangerous job.
There are risks associated with connecting and disconnecting trains and running the rail hubs and so on.
So...
If they don't get an agreement, even for just, let's say they're on strike for just two weeks, you know it'll take six months to catch back up with the lost capacity for just two weeks of shutting down because every car they can possibly run is already prearranged.
It's already pre-contracted to deliver food and fertilizer and coal and all these other things.
It'd take half a year to catch back up.
Yeah, and there's another factor, too.
My gas and diesel are back on the rise.
And when diesel was exploding in cost, I put out an all-call to truckers who might listen to me or read my articles.
And I said, tell me what your break-even point was.
And I categorized them.
And this is not scientific, but I think it's a good indicator.
What I found was the larger trucking companies can absorb about maybe $9 for diesel per gallon.
But the independents...
The smaller operators, where they may only have like six or seven trucks, they can't take $8.
They'll be out of business at $8 a gallon.
And here's the thing people don't realize.
Your gasoline is brought by diesel-powered trucks to your gas stations.
And also, too, that means the end of your food shipping entirely.
So it won't be just 62% that won't come by rail.
The other 38% that comes by trucking could be in jeopardy as well.
This is a well-orchestrated attack to starve America into submission.
Well, see, Europe, I think that Western Europe, the takedown of the infrastructure is a foreshadow of what's coming to America.
So we're seeing really the shutdown of metal smelting operations, aluminum, copper, zinc.
The vast majority already shut down in Europe.
Ammonia plants, like 70% shut down.
Steel plants shutting down everywhere.
Iron ore.
And then, of course, energy companies in Europe are all going to go bankrupt if they're not bailed out.
So the government's going to have to step in and take those over.
So I think, Dave, part of what this is, is a way for governments of the world to go communism and to nationalize key elements of infrastructure.
I think transportation in America could easily be nationalized in order to, quote, save the country.
And then we end up with a centrally planned economy, and we know where that goes.
I think it could be internationalized.
I really do.
I think this could be internationalized because I thought this went through about a week ago.
At one time, we had NAFTA, three nations.
Then we had CAFTA, Central America, and then, of course, Canada and the U.S. And then you had the Free Area Trade of the Americas.
Where everything from the tip of South America all the way up to the North Pole would be one free trade agreement.
And there were plans.
This is what brought me into the business because they wanted to put a CAFTA highway, a Canamex highway through my area and steal my property rights.
And that's why I got into this business because I started to go on the radio to oppose John McCain who was against it.
And I did this for eight years and eventually I got offered a radio show.
So this is a topic I know really well.
And what I can tell you is the infrastructure has been planned and has been laid out, and some of it has been built, like the I-35 corridor in Texas is an example of this.
And they have the potential infrastructure they can build on to make the free trade area of the Americas a reality.
In fact, AMLO the other day in Mexico, about two weeks ago, he called for one large America, all the American states under one house.
And so I know this is being discussed.
Trudeau has referenced this as well.
And when you say they'll nationalize transportation and resources and so forth, I agree.
But I think the potential to internationalize it is...
And if you ever look at technocracy, technocracy with a smart grid goes North America, South America, Central America together.
And Pat Wood is just an expert on this.
Europe has their own smart grid that's evolving.
And then they have treaties between the two different nations, or continents, I should say, to coordinate the European smart grid with the American smart grid.
As far as I know, they haven't done anything with Asia yet.
But to me, when you talk about taking resources and putting them under one house, I think that house is a lot bigger than what we're seeing.
I don't think it's going to be national.
I think it's going to be international.
You bring up a really great point, and I have.
I've interviewed Patrick Wood on this topic as well.
You're right.
He's brilliant on this.
Let me bring in this piece just to kind of underscore what you said.
The elimination of national sovereignty in the process of a global one world government also achieves a key and necessary reset for nations like the United States.
And that is a global force majeure against all national debt.
So they can wipe out the debt.
They can wipe out also entitlement obligations to all the people of the former United States of America.
So federal workers collecting pensions, boom, force majeure.
You don't get it anymore.
Even treasury debt, boom, wiped out because the USA doesn't exist anymore.
So they can just kind of reset the nation, clear all the debt, hand us over to globalist control, print a new fake fiat currency, maybe a digital version, and just start the whole scam over again with us even less free than before.
It seems like that's the plan.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, and I'll tell you, there's precedent for what you're saying.
What you're saying is right on the money, because Trump, no one ever talks about this, but when Trump came into office, he canceled the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
And what that was going to do, and this is one thing that just is amazing to me, this isn't front-page discussion, especially in the alternative media, but the TPP was going to have, I think it was about a 23-person business council meeting.
And they could override every government decision from all three branches of government.
So whatever the government of the United States said, the TPP could override that.
And the other 11 nations that signed on to that, Australia was probably the big one, they said they'd do the same thing.
So what this was, was basically a fascist corporate takeover of America.
And when Trump came in, he canceled it.
Yes.
This is what you're talking about.
This is exactly what you're talking about.
And I think this is why the establishment was so infuriated by Trump's presence, because he was also taking us out of the Paris Climate Accords and also erecting some trade punishments against China for their dumping operations and so on.
I mean, Trump was really excellent on protecting national sovereignty.
Too bad that He wasn't so great on vaccines and Operation Warp Speed, but he did a lot of good things in certain areas.
And I think that's what infuriated these globalists to try to remove him from office.
Now, do you have a comment on that?
No, I think you're right.
I think Trump's mistakes with a vaccine were mistakes made of good intentions, but trusting the wrong people.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Well said.
So What does the near future look like for the typical American?
I mean, let's talk 2023.
What do you think it's going to look like in America just like one year from now or even less?
Well, I put my money where my mouth is.
In my business endeavors, I'm selling storable food, water, gold, go down the list.
All the things I think people need to survive, and there's probably about 50 things on the list.
You can get outside the system for a while.
Daisy Luther does a great job teaching people how to farm, actually raise crops inside your living area on a limited basis.
There's things we can do to prolong our survivability and stay outside the system.
Thank you.
military and they'll rise up and strike back, although they will be besieged by the UN nations from that agreement I mentioned with the Kigali principles.
But I talked to Adam Hartage, and he was a black op, high-ranking black op, and I asked him this question.
I said, I said, Adam, will the military follow directions and haul us off to concentration camps?
He said, absolutely positively in the beginning.
And he says he thinks the good officers that would have stood up and said no are gone.
And they've been purged.
And his fear is that they would do this without question.
I've asked this to other questions.
A former RSOF general who talks to me, and I asked him that question.
He goes, Dave, it's 50-50.
He said, if they could relocate units to different parts of the country where they're not victimizing their own, their families, their friends, their neighbors, he said, you'll get pretty good compliance.
He said, that's one of the reasons why they move FBI agents around so they can pull their shenanigans on people they don't know.
So that's a niffy thing, but the only chance we have to defeat this permanently, I think, is a prolonged guerrilla war from the people that they can't suppress, no matter how hard they try.
That's one, and we can wear them down, but we're talking a generation or two, and I don't know if anyone wants to go down that road.
The other thing that we could look at, though, is that the military rises up and it will be the world war of all world wars.
It'll be UN forces basically coming out of the World Economic Forum under control of them fighting against the United States.
We'll be invaded by Canadians, by Mexicans.
It'll be ugly.
But I believe Americans are already targeted for genocide anyway.
If you look at the speech that was given by Weifang in 2017 to the CCP's Central Committee and it leaked out, he talked about race-specific bioweapons that would spare the 14 million Chinese that are here but would virtually kill everybody inside this country.
I don't know if that's the way they're going to go, but the Chinese will not come here as colonizers.
They're going to come here as exterminators.
Well, it seems like all they have to do right now is sit back and wait for the vaccines to fully kick in with the clots and people just drop dead and then the economic collapse.
And, you know, I think the Chinese will come in as the cleanup crew, actually.
They may not have to do much.
I agree with what you're saying.
I think that's really possible.
You notice, too, that this new vaccine for Omicron, and I love what Fauci said.
They said, Fauci, why didn't they test this on human beings?
And he said, quote, there wasn't time.
Right.
Right.
Isn't that amazing, Mike?
Yeah.
But here's what the Bible says, and I've defaulted a lot to Revelations at this point.
I can't say we're close to the Tribulation, but a lot of signs are there.
And at the end of days, people can take heart in this.
Well, there's one thing that they need to be concerned about and one thing they can take heart in.
The thing we should be concerned about is in the book of Revelations, it says, even the elect will be fooled by the Antichrist.
And I think it'll be part of this digital system that will end up being the precursor to the mark of the beast.
And even, you know, good-meaning Christians can be fooled.
But on the other side, you know, the Bible's really clear.
It says, if Jesus doesn't come back, no one would be left alive.
Well, the message is Jesus will come back.
But that tells you how bad it's going to get, Mike.
That's my take from this.
And it tells you whose side you need to be on if you want to survive this, that's for sure.
Be on the side of Jesus.
Every day, Lord, let me do your will.
And that doesn't mean that we're not going to get tested.
And we are the enemy of the globalists because the Constitution, our creativeness, our weapon systems that could be revised.
I mean, we could straighten out our military in six months if we had time.
if we had the right people in charge.
And the world is afraid of that.
The world leaders that want to take America down, they're afraid of our military.
Yeah.
And they're afraid of our 400 million guns, which is why Biden's doing everything he can do to chip away at our gun ownership.
Indeed.
Yep.
A lot of ATF action coming later this year against gun owners in America.
Well, I think the IRS is going to be part of this.
I think they're going to be a multifaceted group.
I don't think they're just, they're not training them to kill people, which is what they're doing, because they want to audit your taxes.
I've never heard of such a thing.
I think they're going to be multi-agency and they're going to give support to other groups.
And I'll tell you why I think it's happening.
The FBI and DHS and the military can't violate posse comitatus technically, and that might make the military rise up if they were made to go against posse comitatus.
The IRS is not bound by posse comitatus rules, so 87,000 armed IRS agents could be a perfect force to haul people off to concentration camps, and they're not in violation.
I've made that exact same point as well, 100%.
They can use administrative private police forces, in essence, or paramilitary forces.
And you know this, but our audience may not know this, the EPA has armed agents with body armor and rifles and so on.
Yeah.
And the IRS. As Doug Thornton says, my broadcast partner on the Doug and Dave Intel Report, former DHS, former Marine combat veteran, he said this on the show the other day, every federal agency has been weaponized against the people.
Everyone.
There's not one that hasn't.
Well, we're going to have to wrap it up there, Dave, because we're out of time for today, but...
I wish we had better news for the listeners.
Give us quickly, what can people do about all of this?
Just get ready?
Pray and prepare.
Pray and prepare.
A lot of this is out of the hands of the people other than controlling your immediate environment.
Yeah, right.
Big global forces at work.
And we've got to be able to survive this to get to the other side of it.
I do believe this, Mike, and I'll say this from a spiritual point of view.
We're a nation under judgment.
We've killed 70 million babies.
We've got people that want to kill babies after they're born.
California has a bill right now to kill babies a week after they're born.
We're under God's judgment right now.
There's no question.
But God is a forgiving and merciful God, and He will forgive us if we repent, have a revival, and then I think He could move mountains.
Remember, He is sending Jesus back, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're in the end times.
He may spare us from a lot of these things, this not being the end times, if we change our ways and we repent and then bow down to His authority and not the authority of Joe Biden.
Yep, yep, exactly.
All right.
Well, Dave, your website is thecommonsenseshow.com, and you're on a lot of different video platforms as well under the same channel name.
Any other channel or site where people can reach you?
Well, we have a good TV show at thecommonsenseshow.tv.
Love it.
It's growing like crazy, and we have a team of experts there.
I'm really proud of that.
And in our podcasts, if I can brag, Mike, you're in the top one-tenth of one percent for podcasting.
Congratulations.
I trail you slightly where I'm in the I think you're the standard bearer right now for people following podcasts.
I don't think there are many or any that are ranked higher than yours right now in the alternative media.
So you're doing a tremendous job informing people.
Gosh, well, I mean, I appreciate the compliment, but I think I'm so heavily censored that They've got me down to 1% of who I would be reaching organically, and the same is true with you.
Frankly, you, Dave, should have as big an audience as Joe Rogan, but you're heavily censored, whereas Joe gets a $100 million deal on Spotify.
So that's the environment in which we operate right now.
Yeah, it is.
And we have to take the hand that we're dealt and do the best we can do.
And that's all we can do.
Amen to that.
That's exactly what we're doing.
All right, Dave.
Thank you so much, especially for joining me in the late evening.
And God bless you.
And keep up the great work.
And we'll talk again soon.
Reach out if you've got any intel that we need to jump on.
Okay.
Thanks, Mike.
Proud to be on.
Okay.
Thank you, Dave.
Take care.
All right, fascinating interview there with Dave Hodges.
He's got a lot of good intel resources there.
And by the way, as I'm recording this, I'm just checking the news.
More missile strikes are taking out more power infrastructure across Ukraine.
The power outage is now affecting Moldova, a neighboring country, and Poland also.
Parts of Poland are Are affected and internet connectivity has just plummeted across Ukraine.
So it's very likely that we're going to have a very hard time getting good information out of that area, at least from citizen journalists or alternative media.
For example, some of the people you know, like, doesn't Gonzalo Lira, doesn't he live in Kharkiv, I think?
Or is it another city?
Anyway, He's probably offline, probably in the dark, you know, lighting candles right now.
And that's coming for most of Western Europe, is what it looks like.
So, the summary of where we are right now is we stand at the verge of global thermonuclear war, World War III. I probably haven't emphasized it enough here in this podcast.
I'm a little bit numbed, frankly.
I can't quite...
I can't voice the level of horror of what we're facing because I don't know if I've just grown numb to so much of the insanity of the world.
It's bad.
It's way worse than what my voice would imply here, frankly.
But it's looking like this is going to escalate into World War III in the coming days.
And if it does, it's almost certain to involve the use of tactical nuclear strikes.
Probably first strikes initiated by Russia, for the reasons I previously mentioned.
And so within a matter of days or weeks, we could find ourselves in World War III, you know, thermonuclear World War III. So that might answer the question of wondering, what was that German lawmaker talking about September 24th?
He said that's a day we're all going to remember forever.
Like, what's going to happen on September 24th?
Well, now the question is, do we even make it to September 24th without World War III breaking out?
Because it seems like we're on the verge of that right now.
And then the other summary to share with you, although I said this before, is that the spillover effects of this, if Western Europe starts to get hit with nuclear weapons, or even if its cities just start getting thrust into the dark with conventional hypersonic missile strikes...
Taking down Paris or London or what have you, then we're going to have a global Western banking Armageddon.
I should have mentioned this sooner.
This is going to be the straw that breaks the back of the derivatives debt bubble.
Because this kind of black swan event, this level of risk was never figured into the system.
So this is going to be something much bigger than the big short.
This is going to be a global financial catastrophe, at least among Western nations, that is simply initiated by nuclear missile strikes, frankly.
And that means that You and I may only have days or weeks in a functioning economy, frankly.
I wish I had better news, but hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong and this is going to get de-escalated and everybody's going to come to their senses and all the gas is going to get turned back on and all the steel plants turn back on and everything's cool and all the farmers go back to work planting food and everything's good.
I hope that's the case, but I doubt it.
The most likely scenario?
Is that we only have days or weeks for things to function well, and then the accelerated collapse of Western civilization kicks into high gear.
And I'm sorry to arrive at that conclusion.
I even found myself thinking, in terms of my preparedness, like, what do I need that I could still get, you know, shipped or delivered?
Like, more ammo, for example.
Because you can never have enough!
What can I get now?
Or even from the grocery store, what do you need now?
And I don't want to contribute to anybody's panic, because I'm all about preparing so that you have confidence in these situations, so that you're not afraid, you're not panicked, you're just prepared.
But The fact that Russia is launching missiles now against civilian electrical infrastructure all across Ukraine, this is an indication that a major escalation has begun.
There's no other way to interpret this.
You don't launch missiles and take out your enemy's electrical infrastructure in order to negotiate peace and resolutions and get back to normal.
That's the kind of strike that you do if you're planning to go to full war.
Which seems to be where this is going very, very quickly.
So, folks, military units are going to be deployed from the U.S., from the U.K., from all European countries.
There's going to be more call-ups, more deployments.
We're about to head into a global military scenario here that has very few outcomes that are positive.
In almost every possible outcome here, Western Europe is decimated.
And likewise, in almost every possible outcome here, the Western financial and banking system is decimated.
I can't think of easy solutions that keep everything intact and everybody keeps all their wealth and everybody has enough food and energy to stay warm.
No.
In fact, I don't see any scenario where that happens at all.
Do you?
I mean, is there some silver lining I'm missing in all of this?
Is there somebody out there like, no, it's good that the missile strikes have begun.
It means that Putin wants to negotiate peace now.
I don't know how anybody gets to that, because I don't see that, but who knows?
It's war.
Anything could go.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that if anybody in the US, like some group, wanted to cancel the elections, guess what?
It's going to be a perfect opportunity for them to do that using a power grid takedown false flag blamed on Russia.
That's right.
They just take down the power grid sometime in September or October, and they just say, oh, Russia did it.
Look, it's Russia.
And I guess the elections are canceled because nothing works.
There's no electricity.
How convenient.
Don't be surprised if that happens as well.
Don't be surprised if the internet goes down.
Don't be surprised if the whole system, power grid, goes down.
Banks are all frozen.
Holiday.
Don't be surprised.
Between now and Halloween, roughly about 47 days.
Hold on to your hats for 47 days.
If we make it through this, that's going to be something.
If we get to Halloween and we're not in World War III, then count your blessings.
We're in a very dicey scenario here.
I'm curious what other alternative media people are going to make of this, but I don't have a positive interpretation or positive outcome for any of this.
These are ominous signs, folks.
Bad times have arrived.
And I'm not sure how Western civilization survives this.
So if we were to talk about solutions for just a few minutes, I would say get out to your grocery store.
Get more food.
Stock up more.
Package it in buckets and use the Use the hand warmers as the oxygen absorbers and so on.
I think I've talked about that before.
Maybe I should do a video about that.
You're going to need tools for self-defense.
You're going to need, you know, fully functioning firearms.
You're going to need ammunition.
You're going to need, well, you know the drill.
You're going to need body armor, especially in Illinois now, it turns out.
It's like, well, you're a murderer?
I'll just let you back on the street so you can carry out robbery and kidnapping.
Folks, it's becoming...
I did a podcast over the weekend.
I said America's cities are all going full grand theft auto.
And just look at it.
That's exactly what's happening.
Things are getting more and more chaotic.
People are becoming more and more desperate.
All the risks in society are getting far worse with each passing day.
This is not a good situation.
I'll just say this.
Monitor the Ukrainian situation very closely.
Watch for escalations.
For those of you who have a bug-out plan, and you've been waiting for the sign, like, when should I leave LA, exactly?
I would say...
That decision might be close at hand.
You need to watch this.
Have your bug-out ready, your bug-out vehicle, your bug-out bag, your bug-out cash or whatever you've got.
Get extra fuel if you've got fuel containers for extended travel.
Your SAT phones, your bivvy sticks, all your emergency comms.
Get it all ready, folks.
Just double-check everything you've got.
If there's any holes in your preparedness plan, you know, shore up those holes.
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That's all I can say.
The chaos can come, boom, just like that.
Just overnight chaos.
Could be right around the corner.
And we warned the world that this day was coming.
We knew this was coming.
The window of opportunity to prepare, like I said, over the summer, it's closing.
You might only have 60 days, 90 days, whatever, and now here we are.
We're down to just maybe a few days.
We don't know for sure, but it's not looking good.
So get yourself squared away while you can.
We can make it through this.
I don't mean to instill fear in anybody at all.
We can make it through this.
And we're not in the direct war zone between Russia and Ukraine, unless you're listening in Europe, in which case you are.
But America can also be struck by nukes.
America will have a devastating social collapse when the banking system goes down.
Oh, and also, check this out.
The Belgian Prime Minister says, quote, a few weeks like this and the European economy will just go into a full stop.
And he says there's going to be a, quote, severe risk of social unrest.
Oh, and that was before the weekend, by the way.
That was last week, just based on energy prices.
And he said, this was on Bloomberg News.
This guy's name is Alexander de Creux, Belgian prime minister.
He said the risk of that is deindustrialization and severe risk of fundamental social unrest.
Yeah, chaos in the streets.
People rising up because they're starving and freezing.
That's what he's saying, essentially.
He says you've got to have massive government intervention.
And remember what we read earlier, that statement from the metals group, Quote, to prevent permanent deindustrialization from spiraling electricity and gas prices.
They're calling for emergency EU action.
So what do you think the emergency EU action is going to be, given that they don't have the gas?
They can't just whip up natural gas.
They don't have the energy.
What are they going to do?
Just print more money, right?
Print money and call it good.
And that's not going to work this time.
We're looking at the last desperate throws of Western Europe and I think even the Zelensky regime for that matter.
How many soldiers does he have left after throwing thousands of them into the Battle of the Bulge grinder right there?
He lost thousands of troops doing that.
Just to take 40 towns and villages that don't strategically matter.
This is not – it doesn't lend confidence to the long-term viability of the Ukrainian military.
I'll say it that way.
Ukrainian military is about done.
That's why NATO is probably going to get involved and just start throwing German troops right at the Russians.
Nothing looks good about this, folks.
Nothing...
This is going to be the hardest winter we've ever lived through, I would imagine.
All of us.
All over the world.
So just prepare accordingly.
That's all I'm saying.
I just pray to God the whole system works through, you know, the end of the year so we can continue, all of us, to prepare more.
We could gather more supplies.
We could get ready.
We could test our preparedness strategies and all that.
I mean, we need to use every single day, every weekend that we have.
We've got to use it now getting ready for what's coming.
So use your time wisely.
Do what's right for you.
Do your own research, obviously, especially on financial issues.
Decide what's right for you.
I think the risk of losing money in the banks is a very high risk.
That's my personal opinion.
I think the banks are going down.
But even I have money in the bank for my business, you know, because you have to function.
And I know I'm going to lose that money when the day comes.
In the meantime, I got to stay in business.
So What do you do?
I don't know.
I don't have all the answers on that.
Make your own choice, but assess the real risks of these Black Swan events because they're coming.
I mean, they've already begun.
All right, with that said, that's the podcast for today.
Sorry it wasn't more positive overall, but I hope it was informative.
I'll be back with you again tomorrow.
In the meantime, you know, get prepared.
God bless you.
Thank you for your prayers and your blessings, and thank you for all your support of our operations and what we do here.
We're trying to keep humanity informed and prepared and save lives and get people ready for what's coming.
And we know it's only a tiny percentage of the population that's even going to heed the warning.
There aren't very many Noahs out there who are going to listen to God and build their arcs.
But there are a few of us, like you and I, but not everybody.
They're going to get swept away.
So we'll talk to you again tomorrow, if we can.
Let's see what happens to the world over the next 24 hours.
Probably not going to be good.
Talk to you then.
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