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Sept. 24, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, 9/24/22 - Rumors of massive troop movements + Russia's doomsday nuclear weapons

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	All right, welcome to the special short situation update for Saturday, September 24th, 2022.
	Mike Adams here.
	I've got a couple of things to run by you that appear to be very, very important.
	And also, I've got an interview that's going to be part of this podcast with Michael Yon, Y-O-N. Michael Yon, who is a war correspondent slash analyst, a world traveler, A pretty amazing individual.
	I interviewed him two days ago as he had just finished traveling through Germany.
	He speaks German.
	And he's been to a lot of countries over the last 20, 30 years, and he reads a lot of books, including books about famine and war and pandemics and what he calls human osmotic pressure, which is waves of refugees leaving areas torn apart by war and famine and collapse and things like that.
	So you don't want to miss that interview.
	I hope to have Michael Yon back on again soon as well.
	He's done some pretty amazing work.
	So that's coming up here shortly.
	Now, in the meantime, the situation has only gotten worse in terms of the worldwide risk of global warfare, nuclear war, breakdown.
	Let me run a couple of rumors by you here, which I normally don't like to do this until I can confirm them through more sources.
	However, there is some activity happening in China in particular that I think you need to be aware of.
	Now, let me just tell you the process that I've gone through.
	To try to find out if this is true or not.
	And again, I've not been able to confirm this, but some alternative news sources are reporting that President Xi or dictator Xi, whatever you want to call him, is under house arrest.
	This is the rumor.
	And that...
	6,000 domestic flights have been canceled out of Beijing Airport.
	Ticket sales of high-speed rail transport have also been suspended, and there is reportedly a very long military convoy that's been spotted on highways moving into Beijing.
	And so there is speculation that there may be, and again, this is unconfirmed, but there may be something of a military coup taking place in China right now that maybe the dictator of China perhaps is being overthrown or replaced by more hardline military types.
	The good news is that I've got people in my operation that can read Chinese, right?
	And even though I speak some of it, I can't read it because you have to memorize 20,000 characters.
	Anyway, which I have not taken the time to do.
	I've had some folks read the tweets coming out of China In Mandarin Chinese.
	And it's pretty much what I said to you, which is that this is a rumor.
	It's unconfirmed.
	Nobody knows if this is true, but there are troop movements taking place in China around Beijing right now.
	That part we know is true.
	We just don't know why.
	So I'm trying to either confirm or refute this.
	So far, haven't been able to at this hour.
	And I think you deserve the right to hear that this is a possibility because of other things that are happening.
	And let me bring in, well, a couple other things, okay?
	And again, some of this is unconfirmed, but it kind of matches up with what we're seeing, so I want to run it past you.
	First is that you saw previously that Germany, the government of Germany, declared that they were going to deploy Troops are not exactly troops, not exactly police.
	I don't know what the right term is, but some kind of maybe National Guard would be the closest description in our language, you know, in our terms.
	But Germany is deploying some kind of troops on the streets in anticipation of riots and mass social uprising because of what's happening with, you know, collapsing infrastructure, collapsing industry, which is going to lead to mass joblessness and so on.
	So we've already seen that officially announced in Germany.
	Troops on the streets of sorts.
	Again, not exactly military, but something close to that.
	Well, there are rumors circulating in the last few hours that there are thousands of troops being deployed in London right now.
	And Hal Turner posted a video on this, although we haven't been able to confirm that this video is from today.
	Sometimes people find videos that seem to be really impactful and then you find out, oh, that was a video from six months ago or that was a video from two years ago.
	So I don't know yet, but I have seen videos that appear to show large numbers of troops moving into the streets of London.
	So if any of you are listening from London, I would love it if you could confirm or refute this information.
	Either way, we want to know what's happening, and you can post comments in the comment section beneath this video on vrytown.com.
	Also, this video is, of course, being posted on BitChute as well as Rumble.
	And we've also just opened up on Band.video, which is the InfoWars website.
	So each of my daily podcasts are also going to be posted there, along with some other places as well.
	In any case, if you know what's happening, please let us know.
	If you have direct eyes on the streets of London, let us know what's happening because I'm getting kind of concerned about this pattern.
	And it really dovetails with what I said yesterday and in my natural news story yesterday, which is that World War III has begun.
	It's just that the world leaders aren't telling the people.
	And it's very clear to me that world leaders are positioning their governments, their militaries, their cities, everything, their police forces.
	They are positioning for a sudden outbreak of world war.
	Which, again, I would say it's already begun.
	But we're talking a massive escalation, perhaps a nuclear exchange of some kind.
	And I do want to talk about Russia's secret nuclear weapons here in a second.
	We need to talk about the Poseidon and the Skyfall.
	Because these are two weapon systems that could be absolutely devastating to Western nations, both the UK and the United States, by the way.
	And both of these weapon systems exist.
	So we'll get to that in a second.
	But my point is, with 200,000 Chinese troops rumored to have been mobilized on behalf of Russia with their supplies, I mentioned yesterday it was railroads, but I failed to mention it starts in containers.
	So China ships all these supplies in containers, and then the containers get put onto the railroads.
	And remember that Russia's railroads are wider than Western Europe's railroads.
	So Russia's railroads can actually handle wider loads.
	British trains, by the way, or even American trains for that matter.
	And Ukraine uses the old Russian railroad track widths, which means it has wider wheels.
	And so they can handle shipping containers that are just loaded without tipping over.
	It's actually the Russian railroad system is a more stable system than the West.
	So China is rumored to be deploying 200,000 troops on behalf of Russia.
	There were also rumors that North Korea was going to send troops for some reason.
	I don't know if that ever panned out, but that's another rumor out there.
	And then Russia itself, and this is not a rumor, has initiated a partial mobilization of 300,000 troops.
	So, and that's mainstream media.
	That's mainstream media.
	That's been confirmed.
	So, think about this, folks.
	We're talking about half a million troops, potentially, between the new Russian mobilization and the Chinese troops.
	Half a million troops, which is far larger than the total number of troops that Russia even used for its special military operation.
	And I don't recall the exact number of that, but it was something, I think it was something in the, maybe around 200,000 or something in that range.
	Sorry, I don't have the exact number.
	But now we're talking 500,000 troops getting ready.
	They're not ready yet because it takes a couple of months to mobilize 300,000 reservists and get them back in the system.
	You know, remind them to lose a few pounds so they can fit in their old military uniforms and things like that, right?
	And, you know, take them out to the range and make sure they can still shoot a rifle and all the things they do.
	So that's going to take a couple of months.
	But this is ramping up.
	This is ramping up and then you start to see, whoa, what's this, maybe this troop movement happening in Beijing?
	What's going on there?
	What's going on in London?
	What's going on in Germany?
	What's going on in Russia?
	And then also this desperation in the United States where the deep state is just going insane, trying to arrest and silence everybody that is associated with Trump as if they're on some kind of a desperate timetable to do this before whatever.
	So things are really accelerating.
	And it's interesting to me that a lot of the things I just mentioned happened on September 23rd.
	Yeah, even though today is the 24th, but the 23rd was talked about as a day that something major would happen.
	I wonder what happened behind the scenes that seems to have unleashed all of this.
	Maybe World War III was really initiated full force yesterday on September 23rd, or maybe it's going to happen today or maybe in the next week.
	Again, I don't know for sure, but it's worth paying attention.
	Now, let's talk about Russia's secret nuclear weapons because these are game changers.
	I've spoken about the Poseidon weapons before, and these are underwater drones that carry massive nuclear warheads.
	I mean massive.
	Some of them are, what, 5,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
	So we're talking 100-plus megaton warheads, and I was told that they can even carry 200 megaton warheads, which really seems like overkill.
	But maybe that's the point.
	Now, these Poseidon drones, which Russia has, and I've been told that Russia has already deployed them.
	These are the nuclear submarine drones, again, unmanned, but they burrow into the edge of the continental shelf under the ocean a few miles offshore, wherever that continental shelf happens to be.
	You know, depends on the geography.
	But they've got these nuclear drones, these Poseidon drones.
	Reportedly, Russia's got these already burrowed into the continental shelf off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, Washington, D.C. area, also west coast, off the coast of Los Angeles.
	Angeles, and then in addition, off the coast of the UK.
	And I don't know what's the most strategically valuable location for Russia to put that, because I'm not that familiar with the geography of the UK, frankly.
	But the UK is an island.
	So everywhere you go, there's oceans, sooner or later.
	So there are lots of opportunities for these Russian nuclear drones to sit off the edge of the UK.
	Now, the way these things work is they're listening constantly for satellite communications, which is a ultra low frequency ULF, as it's called the an ultra-low frequency ULF. A command sequence that can penetrate deep into ocean waters.
	The low frequencies penetrate water.
	And it's looking for a sequence of commands from Russian satellites that would initiate a detonation.
	And each of these drones has its own unique detonation code, obviously.
	So Russia can decide which ones to detonate at any particular time.
	When they detonate, they unleash a massive radioactive tsunami of ocean water that inundates...
	The shoreline and inland for tens of miles, maybe not hundreds of miles, but certainly tens of miles, devastating ports, devastating cities, and more importantly, dropping radiation as the water inundates those areas.
	They're all turned into radioactive hot zones.
	So within seconds, just by giving commands through a satellite, Russia can launch these, not launch, but detonate.
	These weapons, and they can, you know, devastate the East Coast, devastate the West Coast, devastate London, or anywhere else they have them parked.
	It is a doomsday weapon system.
	And the size of the explosion is horrendous.
	Now, this might be a last-ditch weapon if Russia is on its last legs or something and facing a massive incoming nuclear strike.
	Maybe they would hit the button on this, but make no mistake, folks.
	Russia has the weapons in place right now to completely annihilate the United States and the United Kingdom.
	That's already in place.
	Now that's in addition to the medium range nuclear missiles that Russia has deployed in its own land on the western edge of Russia that can reach Germany and Poland and France and Spain and also the UK. through a different route.
	You know, those are ICBMs or medium-range nuclear-capable missiles, some of them with multiple re-entry vehicles, some of them with hyperglide vehicles, and so on.
	So Russia's got a massive nuclear arsenal that can wipe out both the United States of America, which, because if you destroy most of the East Coast, you know, I mean, think about it, folks.
	If you take out Washington, D.C. and New York City and Boston and Maybe even Miami, too, all at the same time with a massive nuclear strike.
	You've taken down America.
	You've taken down the government.
	You've taken down the central bank.
	You've taken down the financial system.
	All of it is done.
	Well, Russia can also launch missiles against European cities, and those missiles cannot be stopped.
	There's no defense system that exists in the hands of NATO that can stop these missiles.
	Now that's kind of the summary of the Poseidon system and a little bit about the medium range nuclear missiles.
	Russia also has another secret doomsday weapon system called Skyfall.
	At least that's the name that the West gives to this system.
	The Skyfall missile system is not yet believed by the West to be fully operational.
	It has been tested and developed for many years.
	There was a test, I think, that failed, or at least that's what the media reported in 2018.
	And I was really mesmerized by the reports of this failed test because I learned at that time that the Skyfall missile system, it is kind of like it's an ICBM... With loitering capability that's powered by a nuclear reactor rather than chemical rocket motors, okay?
	So it doesn't have rocket motors.
	It's probably air-launched, is my guess, and it uses its own onboard nuclear power...
	Generation system to provide thrust in order to stay airborne for months or years.
	So it has the capability of loitering for months or years in the sky.
	It can literally fly all over Russia.
	It can fly across the planet.
	It can just fly around because it's a nuclear power system in a missile.
	And it's also got a nuclear warhead, by the way.
	So whenever it gets the right command, it can say, oh, let's switch from loitering mode into destroy mode.
	And then it just goes down onto the target, maneuvering, you know, turning to the left, to the right, up and down, changing elevations, you know, evading anti-air defense systems.
	And then, boom, strikes the target, nuclear detonation.
	And what's the size of that nuclear detonation?
	Well, reportedly something in the area of maybe less than a megaton.
	So not a massive warhead, but certainly enough to take out naval vessels, government military installations, even many underground bunkers and so on.
	I mean, you don't need 100 megaton bombs to do a lot of damage.
	You can do a lot with a 1 megaton.
	Because remember, that's already, what, 5 or 6 times bigger than Hiroshima was.
	No, whoa, no, wait.
	That's 50 or 60 times bigger.
	What am I saying?
	Yeah, that's...
	1 megaton is like 50 to 60 times bigger than Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
	So that's still a very big bomb.
	Now, the thing about the Skyfall Doomsday Weapon System...
	And it's being called also a Flying Chernobyl, because again, it carries its own nuclear power plant.
	And by the way, that's not a crazy concept.
	In fact, every U.S. nuclear, well, every aircraft carrier is nuclear powered in the United States Navy, all of them.
	They're nuclear-powered, and they only have to change out their nuclear fuel, what is it, once every 25 years or something?
	I think they're only—or maybe it's 30 years.
	They only have to change their nuclear fuel twice in the lifetime of the aircraft carrier.
	So U.S. aircraft carriers don't have to refuel with conventional fuels.
	Otherwise, that would make them— We're out of fuel again.
	We've got to find a place to get some fuel because you're always cruising around, burning electricity to run the ship and the propellers and everything.
	So they have a massive nuclear power plant.
	Actually, they have two nuclear power plants on the aircraft carriers, two of them for redundancy.
	And this generates all the power that the ship needs.
	But what Russia has done is they've taken that concept and they have miniaturized it into a cruise missile.
	So this is a cruise missile that can fly around for years.
	Which means it can fly all over the world, checking things out, taking pictures, whatever.
	It can maneuver.
	It can drop down to low elevation, climb to higher elevation.
	And it's all being powered by its onboard miniaturized nuclear power plant.
	That's called Skyfall.
	And that system, which is not yet believed to be operational by the West, it may very well indeed be operational.
	It's just that Russia hasn't talked about it yet.
	Because why would you?
	If you've got these doomsday weapons, sometimes you don't necessarily want to advertise that you've got them.
	And I believe that this is operational.
	I believe that the Poseidon system is operational.
	I believe that Russia also has exotic electromagnetic weapon systems that can disable U.S. naval vessels and U.S. fighter aircraft like the F-35.
	And what this means to me is that if Russia decides to strike the West, it will do so with overwhelming surprise, power, and devastation.
	With weapon systems that the West's Cannot even anticipate.
	Has no defense against whatsoever.
	And just for starters, the West has no defenses against Russia's hypersonic cruise missiles.
	They can't stop them.
	And if you think they can, then ask yourself, well, why didn't the West stop them in Ukraine?
	How is Russia launching cruise missiles and even the hypersonic missiles?
	I think one of them is called the Kinzhal.
	How is Russia launching those in Ukraine and striking targets if the West has anti-air defense systems?
	Good question, right?
	Well, it's because the West can't stop them.
	Can't.
	So imagine this combination of surprise doomsday weapons like, you know, kaboom off the coast of Washington, D.C. and a 5,000-foot tidal wave that's also radioactive coming at you at the speed of sound.
	Is there any point of an evacuation?
	No.
	Everybody's dead.
	Everybody's dead.
	Even if you somehow survive the flood, you don't survive the radiation.
	You're gone.
	Okay?
	There's no defense against that.
	There's no defense against the Skyfall weapon system.
	There's no defense against the hypersonic missiles.
	America's defenses are based on the 1970s.
	It's based on Kind of really dumb ICBMs, which are large missiles that carry nuclear warheads that just follow a predictable trajectory.
	They don't maneuver.
	Old school ICBMs, they don't maneuver.
	They just follow a trajectory.
	They go very fast and very high.
	They leave Earth's atmosphere.
	I mean, they go into outer space, and then they're moving at many, many times the speed of sound, and then you can tell from their path where they're being aimed, and it's a very clean, predictable arc, right?
	So you can intercept those because they can't maneuver.
	I can't change their course.
	Again, old school ICBMs.
	Well, that's what America has, but Russia has moved at least one to two generations ahead of that.
	Now, Russia has been working on maneuverability for its ICBMs and advanced reentry vehicles, as they're called, which is nuclear warheads that are on hyperglide vehicles that can maneuver.
	And they are supersonic themselves.
	And they can fly around.
	They can move.
	They can carry the nuclear warhead to its final destination.
	So Russia's ICBMs are very, very advanced.
	And they still have old ones too, but they have a lot of these new ones that the West can't stop at all.
	So if Russia actually decides to do this, there's no defense against any of these things.
	And yet the West keeps pushing Russia to try to...
	It's almost like the West is begging to be suicided by Russia.
	Even the economic sanctions against Russia were a form of suicide sanctions.
	That Western Europe decided to inflict upon itself for some reason.
	Like, hey, let's figure out a way to destroy Germany's industry.
	Here we go.
	Let's figure out a way to make millions of British citizens freeze and starve to death and have mass famine across Europe.
	Oh, how do we do that?
	Well, let's cut off all the natural gas.
	Yeah, genius.
	Pure genius.
	That's what they did.
	NATO nations saying, let's have economic sanctions against Russia and make it really hurt for Russia.
	Let's crush Russia's economy.
	Let's crush Russia's currency.
	And then what happened?
	The Euro got crushed.
	The Western European economy got crushed.
	It's so bad now that Germany is having to bail out The energy companies to the tune of tens of billions of euros slash dollars, since it's about at parity right now, those two currencies.
	But the euro is going to continue to fall, and Western Europe is in a world of hurt.
	And by the way, in the interview coming up here with Michael Jan, that's what that's all about, is what's going to happen to Western Europe, because he's looking at it firsthand.
	But in analyzing this, my conclusion is that the best case scenario is mass famine, freezing, starvation, exposure, unemployment, destitution across Western Europe.
	That's the half-glass-full scenario, folks.
	The half-glass-empty scenario is radioactive dead zone.
	And that's a possibility now as well.
	And Putin may be just...
	Inching toward that button, you know?
	Should we launch?
	I think Putin right now is probably sitting back and saying, no, let's let winter kick in first and see what happens.
	Let's see how the Europeans do without any energy.
	But you do understand, again, the best case scenario is mass famine and starvation.
	And that is inevitable.
	That's already baked in.
	That's coming to you like clockwork.
	Nothing can stop that.
	Worst case scenario is the complete annihilation of Western civilization.
	The end of the United Kingdom.
	The end of Germany.
	The end of the United States, even.
	I don't mean just taking a hit and recovering.
	I mean, it's over.
	Russia has the capability to do that.
	So why would you keep pushing Russia A nation into a corner when they have the ability to utterly destroy your own civilization.
	Why would you do that?
	Again, the West has some kind of suicide wish.
	It makes no sense.
	Well, unless you realize that they are the Antichrist civilization, as Alexander Dugan said.
	The West is run by demons and Satanists.
	They are the Antichrist civilization.
	They want to see everything destroyed, you see.
	And this is actually In accordance with their plan, mass suffering, death, and destruction.
	And it's a very weird thing to say, but if we are going to be saved from this devastation, we're not going to be saved by the leaders of the West.
	The only way we can be saved at this point is actually literally being saved by Putin refraining from engaging in nuclear war.
	You know, Joe Biden's not going to save you.
	Liz Truss isn't going to save you.
	You know, all the Western European countries are on a suicide mission.
	Our only hope is that Putin resists the escalation and says, no, I'm not going to launch all these nuclear weapons and destroy Western civilization.
	And that's a very frightening place to be, frankly, for all of us, isn't it?
	We can't even trust our own leaders to do what's right for us, that our only hope rests with America's so-called enemy, which of course was the ally in World War II, as we all fought the Germans, the Nazis, which have only since then further infiltrated Western society.
	You do realize that the West is run by Nazis, right?
	You do realize that?
	I mean, even in my interview yesterday with Grossman, He was talking about Operation Paperclip and the Nazi scientists that went into the biowarfare program under the USDA at Plum Island.
	If you missed that interview, you've got to check that out.
	Well, the same program, Operation Paperclip, recruited Nazi scientists not only into bioweapons but also into rocketry, telemetry, material sciences, aerospace, weapon systems, all of it, and also ultimately computer science as well.
	The West has built on Nazi technology.
	And it's run by actual Nazis.
	And Germany already destroyed Europe twice.
	And it seems to be wanting to do it again.
	Germany destroyed Europe in World War I and then again in World War II. And now Germany's trying to push us into World War III, well, at least with the help of the UK and the USA. But Germany is...
	Who was it that I interviewed who said Germany is a psychopath nation?
	Was that Gonzalo who said that?
	I think it was.
	No, no, no, I'm sorry.
	It was the economist, Tuomas Malinen from Finland.
	He's the one who said it.
	He said Germany is a psychopath nation.
	Which makes perfect sense, because the only thing you can count on from Germany is a suicidal posture for total destruction.
	It's like, haven't the Europeans learned to stop letting the Germans run their lives and run their civilization into the ground over and over and over again?
	How many times is Germany going to destroy Europe before people have had enough?
	There's a question for you.
	And I don't mean the German people.
	I'm talking about the...
	The Nazi German government leaders, because just like everywhere else in Europe or America or around the world or even in Russia, the people are mostly good people.
	The people mostly just want to have an honest living, run a business, grow some food on a farm, have a family, and be left alone.
	It's these sociopath lunatics, these demon-infested monsters that want power and they end up in government.
	And they run the government of Germany and the government of the USA and the government maybe of most countries around the world, certainly the government of China and so on.
	And you could argue that some of these psychopaths are in the high levels of government of Russia as well.
	I mean, there's no government that is innocent in this, even if the people are innocent.
	But Germany's leaders have a history of really causing a lot of suffering and death, mass murder, Holocaust, you name it.
	And for some reason, they just want to keep doing it.
	There's never enough death and suffering for the German leaders, is there?
	They're at it again.
	All right, let me mention one more thing, and then we'll go to the interview with Michael Yan.
	So, I think I've finally figured out the point of Russia's cruise missile attacks on Ukraine's electrical infrastructure a couple of weeks ago.
	As you recall, there was one day that the lights went out in a lot of cities across Ukraine.
	The power grid had been taken down temporarily by these missile strikes.
	My belief is that that was a probing and mapping operation for Russia to observe a couple of things about Ukraine.
	They're creating a map, essentially, a map of which electrical grid infrastructure areas provide power to what other areas and also provide communications capabilities.
	And the way that Russia can map this is knowing that a lot of Ukrainians are visiting Russian websites.
	Russia can monitor the IP traffic from Ukraine coming into Russia.
	And in real time, as the missiles land, they can watch which IP addresses, which can be geolocated using simple algorithms, they can watch which IP addresses go offline as the missiles hit different areas.
	And through that kind of probing operation, they can map out the telecommunications infrastructure of Ukraine and the power grid infrastructure in preparation for a far more devastating attack that Russia would likely they can map out the telecommunications infrastructure of Ukraine and the power grid infrastructure in preparation for a far more devastating attack that Russia
	Now, in addition, through that attack, that again, probing attack, Russia was able to find out how quickly can Ukraine restore electrical capabilities following a grid down scenario or, you know, following failures of components.
	So they were able to observe how many hours it takes for Ukraine to bring certain, you know, electrical utility infrastructure back online and then they could easily see, oh, these IP addresses are back online accessing Russian websites once again.
	Boom!
	It's a map.
	Russia just did to Ukraine what a geologist might do when they have little explosions underground or even on the surface.
	They'll have an explosion and then they'll have monitoring of the echoes of the explosion.
	By monitoring the waves of Kinetic energy returning back to the surface some distance away, let's say 500 yards away or one kilometer away or whatever, they can then map out the density of the underground structures, which is the rock and soil layers and so on.
	And this technology, and I don't recall the name of this, but this technology is used for, of course, oil exploration, natural gas exploration, and so on.
	And it's like a ground-sensing...
	Man, I wish I knew the name for this stuff.
	Some of you probably work in this field, so you know what I'm talking about.
	But, you know, you set off a little explosion and then you listen, or you have electronics, listen to all the echoes and you can map what's underground.
	Well, Russia just did that to Ukraine's power grid and to its telecommunications infrastructure.
	So Russia gathered intel that they could not get easily any other way just by using a few cruise missiles.
	And also kind of sent a message to Ukraine.
	Like, hey, we're still here.
	We haven't run out of missiles.
	And we have chosen to allow your power grid to function for the moment.
	But we can turn off the lights at any time.
	That's a message that Russia sent to Ukraine.
	Whether you like it or not, that's part of the message.
	So the bottom line here is Russia is not in any way out of this fight.
	Russia has not lost Russia.
	Russia is actually still, from an operational theater point of view, Russia is still winning this battle.
	But more importantly, even though they did lose territory all the way to Izum, Russia has exotic weapon systems with ramifications far outside of Ukraine.
	And this is on top of the thermobaric weapons, you know, the fuel air explosives that are almost nuclear in their effects.
	But Russia has weapon systems deployed and in place right now that can take out the United States of America or the United Kingdom.
	Or they can use other hyperglide reentry vehicles to take out, frankly, Germany.
	And if Putin were going to pick a time to carry out that strike, guess when it would be?
	Right in the worst part of winter.
	Because that would have the most devastating effect.
	So there's a question for you.
	Is Russia waiting for cold weather to escalate its total war against Western Europe?
	That is a reasonable strategy assumption.
	But again, it is an assumption.
	We don't have any super secret intel that that's what he's doing.
	But Putin is known to be a patient person.
	He's a strategist.
	He is very careful.
	He doesn't lash out.
	He doesn't just issue spontaneous barking orders out of an emotional rage.
	He carefully, carefully plots his moves and then waits for the appropriate time to unleash them.
	We know that about Putin.
	And then the greater risk to America in all of this is not only the nuclear fallout possibility, which would affect soils and crops for years to come, Or decades to come, but also the economic implosion that would happen when the first nuclear weapon detonates.
	So you do realize that we are one nuke away from probably total panic, total collapse of the stock market, of the banking systems, which would collapse the zombie economy that's barely hanging on by a thread anyway.
	And the financial exposure of American banks and hedge funds, investment companies and pensions and so on to financial risk in Europe is very, very high.
	In addition, so as Western Europe is annihilated or potentially so through these actions, the United States will suffer economic devastation as a result.
	And in summary, I think that all the world leaders know that this is exactly where this is going.
	In fact, I think a lot of world leaders are trying to put it there.
	They want America destroyed.
	I mean, think about Joe Biden and the Democrats.
	They're shipping all our munitions to Ukraine.
	They're using up all the strategic petroleum reserves.
	It's almost gone.
	They have taken active weapons out of the hands of domestic military.
	They have made sure that we don't have a secure border.
	And then you got psychopathic hair gel Newsom in California doing deals with China to let them do an actual wartime beach landing or port takeover of California so they can unload hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in California, by the way.
	That's also something that's already been done.
	You got...
	It's deliberate that they want to weaken America.
	Oh, and then the Epoch Times did a story.
	I don't even have time to cover this today.
	162 researchers, it says, from a top U.S. nuclear facility are now working for China.
	So China has come in and they have hired away nearly 200 of America's top nuclear researchers.
	Should that concern anyone?
	I mean, we've been infiltrated by the CCP and taken over at every level.
	I mean, even including the Biden crime family.
	They work for China, folks.
	They work for China.
	And Biden's entire goal is to weaken the United States and make it vulnerable to a literal assault and occupation from China.
	And maybe that's what's happening in Beijing right now.
	Telling Xi to step aside because they're getting ready to attack, not Taiwan, but the United States.
	And maybe that's being coordinated with Russia because, you know, Russia and China have carried out joint military drills in the last few months.
	And I saw this the other day, too.
	China saying, like, we're all in with Russia or something.
	I don't have the right words, but we're all in this together.
	We're going to work together.
	We're going to cooperate.
	They're on the same team.
	So wouldn't it make sense from their point of view strategically for China to attack America's West Coast while Russia attacks Europe?
	I mean, do the math.
	It's kind of obvious, actually, at this point.
	America is defenseless because of Joe Biden.
	America has no energy reserves.
	America has shut down its petroleum infrastructure.
	America is practically on the verge of a civil war because of the media's race baiting and hatred and intolerance of Christians and conservatives and Trump supporters and so on.
	They're driving us into a collapse scenario.
	And all it takes is one little trigger event, such as one nuke going off somewhere in Europe or somewhere else, and boom, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
	And that can happen at any moment, any day here, even before the election, which I think is what Democrats prefer.
	So that's the summary of, I think, where we are right now.
	This is the most dangerous time we've ever lived through.
	And I can't even tell you enough how urgently you need to keep preparing in every way you can.
	This is becoming, you know, life or death.
	Actually, civilization ending scale events.
	Okay, that's what we're looking at.
	With that said, let's talk to an optimist, Michael Young.
	You know, actually, he's got kind of the same conclusions that I do.
	And he, like I, I mean, he's an American.
	He wants America to survive.
	He wants the American people to do well.
	And he cares about the people of Europe as well.
	He wants all people to do well.
	But he also recognizes the extreme dangers in which we now find ourselves.
	So let's jump to that interview.
	And folks, heed all of his words carefully as well.
	And thank you for listening.
	If necessary, I'll have an update for you tomorrow on my channel page on brighteon.com.
	If not, I might take a day off.
	But even then, I'll be back with you Monday morning.
	So use the time wisely.
	Pray to God for protection.
	Pray for peace.
	And thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	Welcome to the interview today, folks.
	I am joined by Michael Jan.
	This is the first time we're getting a chance to talk with Michael Jan.
	He's been known as a kind of a war correspondent, but he's an analyst.
	He's been through Germany, much of Europe.
	He's been through South America.
	He's been at the border of the U.S. He's tracking migrant flows out of the Middle East and into Western Europe and so on.
	Very informed individual.
	He understands what's going on with food and fertilizer and all of that.
	I can't believe we didn't talk before, but Michael, thank you, sir.
	Thank you for joining me.
	It's an honor to have you on.
	It's a great honor to come on your show, and I'm very happy that you have, because like I said, about half of my I've been in Europe this time for about three months.
	I was down in Mexico three months ago, tracking the migrant flows, watching them come across into Texas and that sort of thing.
	And then I saw how the Dutch farmers were getting very riled up.
	So I jumped on the airplane and flew to Netherlands.
	And so for the last three months, I've been in, you know, Netherlands and also in Germany and Luxembourg, Belgium.
	I just got back from Hungary and Austria and Germany again.
	Just rolled in here to Amsterdam because I got to meet up with Jordan Peterson.
	I'm about to spend two days with him.
	Recently, I was on Jordan Peterson's show and we did about two hours talking about food and fertilizer and energy, something I've heard you talk about with great accuracy.
	And so after I talked about that with Jordan on his show for a couple of hours, it kind of lit a fire and he wants to spend a couple days with me here.
	So that's why I just rolled in and he's flying in and I'm going to take him out to see some farmers and that sort of thing.
	Very cool.
	The big story of our entire lifetimes, or many generations at least, would be the energy supply right now because the energy issue is a kill shot.
	As you know, nitrogen-based fertilizers are largely created using the Haber-Bosch process, which you've talked about before.
	In fact, I was just over at the BASF plant I've been there twice in the last couple of months, but BASF is a huge chemical company, and they started They started making nitrogen-based fertilizers in roughly 1914.
	I think they started their first plant there, and it was doing, I don't know, 200 pounds an hour or something.
	I don't recall.
	It was based on Fritz Haber.
	He wrote a book on thermodynamics in 1905.
	Describing certain chemical processes wherein he could make ammonia, right?
	So Fritz Haber, who later got the Nobel Prize, I think in 1918 for this, but he developed the original process.
	And then Karl Bosch, also a German chemist, was then hired by BASF, and Bosch took it corporate, right?
	So they could actually make large amounts of the fertilizer, and that's why it's called the Haber-Bosch process.
	And so this Haber-Bosch process...
	Well, let me interject.
	For background, for those listening, this process that you're describing, Michael, feeds about 4 billion people.
	So without this process, half the planet would starve, literally.
	And that this uses hydrocarbons, the actual hydrogen that's in the ammonia molecule, NH3. The H comes from natural gas.
	Okay, I just want to provide that background.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so the Haber-Bosch process is like...
	The Suez and the Panama Canal times 10.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is on the criticality to the population on Earth.
	Most of us would not be here without the Haber-Bosch process.
	And so if that process, if the process of creating nitrogen-based fertilizers is seriously interrupted, then we're going to see massive famines, which is something I've been warning about since January of 2020.
	So this is more than two and a half years later.
	I've been warning about it practically every day since January 2020.
	That's amazing.
	You and I must have been some of the very first people to be sounding the alarm on this because I remember, I think it was in late 2020 that I was on InfoWars and I did a whole show on this.
	And a lot of people were like, what are you talking about?
	Why are you talking about harbor and fertilizer?
	I'm like, people, this is coming.
	Let me offer something else.
	I'll turn it back over to you, Michael.
	The harbor process requires, I think, 200 atmospheres of pressure, and you have to pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere.
	So you have to have a massive facility to do this under intense pressure and intense heat with all the hardware that goes along with that.
	And you have to use a lot of electricity to run that plant in order to strip the nitrogen out of the air and in order to strip hydrogen off of the hydrocarbons.
	So when Germany doesn't have both natural gas and affordable electricity, you can't run this process, period.
	Am I right?
	Oh, yeah.
	That's why I'm here.
	I mean, I was just over at the BASF plant, which was the original, you know, plant that started.
	That thing's 10 square miles, Mike.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	When you go in there, it's like, you know, futuristic horror movies.
	Sawyer Green is made there.
	So I went right by the original plant from 1914.
	I think it actually started in 1913, but they started producing in 14 or 15.
	Not that that matters, but that's still there, actually.
	And so I asked, as you know, Nord Stream 1 is cut off right now, and Nord Stream, you know, that feeds BASF. And there's 26 plants that create this ammonia-based fertilizer around Europe, and they're all either shut down now or mostly shut down.
	My guess, and it's very difficult to find accurate numbers on this, so part of this is Kentucky windage, but about 70% of it appears to be cut off.
	But this is a guess.
	It's an educated guess, but it is a guess.
	Well, and whatever they're running on right now is stored natural gas that is not getting replenished.
	So there's really no plan for For these plants to be able to return to normal capacity that I can tell within years.
	Mike, they're not going to.
	They're not going to.
	I mean, you can see the writing on the wall.
	I mean, you clearly see things way ahead of most people.
	Your headlights are quite bright, you know?
	And I just drove from Budapest up through Austria and then all the way across Germany to get here, right?
	So it just took two days.
	And you wouldn't believe how much forest is being cut down.
	It's like...
	So much for green.
	I mean, in the shadow of all these, you know, monstrous windmills, a lot of them are not even turning.
	They're cutting down massive amounts of German forests to stay warm this winter.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	For firewood.
	Yep, yep.
	Oh, wow.
	Now, you speak German, too, don't you?
	You speak German.
	What's that, Mike?
	I just did an interview down in Austria that was only in German.
	And the reason I speak German is because I was a Green Beret and I went to a language school for it in California.
	And then I lived in Germany four years and lived in Poland for two years.
	So I picked up a lot of German in the process.
	When I went to Austria, they asked me if I would do an interview, which I just did about maybe five days ago, and it went viral by Austrian standards.
	Because a lot of the Austrians didn't realize it was happening, but they realized something was wrong.
	They knew something, but nobody had put together the Haber-Bosch, all the different things, all these...
	You know, there's Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, which is basically the two arteries in your neck, you know?
	And Nord Stream 2, of course, has never been opened.
	And Nord Stream 1 is now completely off, right?
	And so, in addition to that, Germany is just making things worse.
	It's like Germany's committing suicide.
	I mean, Germany continues to provoke Russia, like by nationalizing one of their refineries a couple of days ago, which there's no oil for it anyway.
	But but it's just all these there's all these moves that Germany is making and the United States that are going to put Europe into a very cold winter.
	And I mean, people I mean, like I would bet money that a lot of people are going to freeze to death in Germany this year.
	And as you know, when Germany is the powerhouse for the EU, 26 countries in the EU, which will almost certainly fall apart, I would say I'm going to guess next year that the EU will collapse, right?
	Because, you know, for instance, Italy is already some of the More crass economists call them the pigs nations, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain, pigs, because they're the lowest fruit on the EU resiliency scale.
	And Germany, and especially Germany, but also France has been keeping them afloat.
	But meanwhile, Germany is cutting its own throat on the energy.
	Nord Stream 1 is closed, of course.
	Russia did it, but Germany provoked it.
	And because Germany wants, I mean, Russia wants to sell that gas.
	Russia has encouraged Germany many times to open Nord Stream 2.
	And the United States has told Germany not to do it and that sort of thing.
	But, of course, Trump warned years ago, as you're well aware, if you basically put your neck into Russia's noose sooner or later, they're going to own you, right?
	But anyway, long story short, natural gas, obviously there's not enough.
	So Germany's draining its tanks right now, its stores.
	And meanwhile, Germany has said they're going to close their three remaining nuclear plants, right?
	And now a lot of people say, no, no, Germany then said they're going to keep them open again.
	That's true.
	But then Germany again after that said, no, we're going to close those and we're going to keep two of them on hot standby, which means they...
	Continue to use energy to stay hot standby, but they're not going to produce any, right?
	And meanwhile, they're cutting down the forest all over Germany, Poland, Romania.
	They're cutting down these forests.
	I'm seeing log trucks all over the roads and just forest-cleared hills as I just drove all the way across Germany.
	Germany is being denuded of its forest.
	I'm really curious what it would look like from a satellite when I just saw that from the Autobahn for two days, right?
	Well, I'm sure the greenies must be thrilled that we're not burning coal and natural gas and that people are chopping down forests instead, right?
	I mean, obviously that's very green.
	Yeah, they're going to have to hug the trees before they throw them in the fireplace now because they're being chopped down.
	Let me bring something else in here that you're just talking about.
	So Germany, as of yesterday, Germany is now nationalizing their natural gas utility company called Uniper.
	And the government of Germany is pumping $8 billion into it.
	Which is on top of 15 billion euros, which is roughly equivalent to the dollar right now, folks, if you're wondering what that equals.
	So that's 23 billion dollars going into this natural gas company just to prevent it from having kind of like a Lehman style collapse, like a too big to fail collapse.
	But the question is, Who else does the German government have to bail out?
	And how much money can...
	I mean, how many euros can Germany just come up with?
	Because they have to essentially take them out of the entire European Union system.
	So isn't there a limit, Michael, to how many games they can play with this before just music stops?
	Yeah.
	Oh, the music is definitely stopping now.
	In fact, I would say we're in about the last two months of good times in Europe for at least a generation, if not more.
	I mean, they are literally de-industrializing at this point because, you know, you can print money and that sort of thing and you can nationalize and you can do all these sorts of things.
	But at the end of the day, it's going to get cold.
	And they're not going to have the physical energy.
	And then next year, they're not going to have the physical food that it requires to feed people.
	I mean, so they're going to literally, they'll probably run out of energy and roughly, they won't actually run out, but they'll really get into dire circumstances, certainly by February or January, right at the peak of, you know, when winter is really getting serious.
	And then as we go into next year, they're just not going to have the fertilizer.
	And so we're looking at famine.
	You know, I keep telling people white people famine.
	And the reason I say white people famine is I want to make it crystal clear.
	We're talking about starving to death.
	We're not talking about food crisis.
	We're not talking about high prices.
	We're talking about dead, right?
	And there's just not going to be enough food, period.
	And one of the things that you get from famines for those, I would suggest everybody read right now at least five books on famine.
	I won't tell you which ones.
	That way I'm not loading the deck.
	But once you read four or five, six books on famine, you'll start to see a lot of patterns, right?
	You said previously Red Famine was one.
	Red Famine's a good one.
	Another one is, well, I just said I wouldn't recommend it.
	No, but I did.
	I said it for you.
	Red Famine.
	Red Famine's a good one.
	I read three on the Irish.
	I've read about 20 on famine.
	And I've read about 60 on pandemic and hundreds on war, of course, as a war correspondent and spending years in wars.
	But, you know, three things that go together.
	The triangle of death.
	Pandemic, famine, war.
	Pan for war.
	That's like the triangle of death.
	And then there's a tent pole in that that would make it a pyramid, and that's hot.
	Human osmotic pressure, the push and pull of migration.
	So that's why I'm out here tracking migrants all over the place, that human osmotic pressure, the push and the pull, and I'm tracking the food and the energy and the pandemic issues.
	Because pandemic, famine, war, they go together...
	I was doing one interview about a year and a half ago or two years, and one of my longtime readers, a lady, told me afterwards, she said, you know, you talk about pandemic famine war as if you made that up.
	I said, I did.
	And she goes, no, it's right in the Bible.
	And she said, you know, think about it.
	The Four Horsemen.
	I was like, you know what?
	Source amnesia.
	That's probably where I got it from when I was a kid because it's clearly in the Bible.
	And they knew about it 2,000 years ago and were already setting it down.
	So if you get a big pandemic or you get a big famine or you get a big war, you'll always get the other two and you'll always get that push and pull of migration.
	So this is really critical.
	And I know you talk about this a lot, but A lot of our audience, this may be the first time they're hearing that, so I want to dig a little deeper into this concept.
	What you're saying, if I can paraphrase, is that If you get one of these, you're going to get the other two.
	So, you know, we started with this worldwide pandemic, and then that caused a lot of industrial shutdowns and lockdowns and so on, and then the whole economic sanctions against Russia and so on causing famine stemming from this war, which is also an economic war.
	You're saying all these three things go together, and you talked about human osmotic pressure, which means Basically, people fleeing regions for different reasons.
	Maybe fleeing war or fleeing famine, correct?
	That's right.
	Or fleeing pandemic.
	You know, when you really study pandemic, and I would also recommend everybody read at least five or ten books on pandemic, you'll start to see a lot of patterns.
	And you'll start to see why I stayed way back from taking any experimental drugs.
	Because...
	Having read five dozen books on pandemic, 40 before this pandemic, and about 20 during, I just, I see it, the pattern's clear.
	Something happens, they rush these things out, and people die, right?
	And so, I mean, it's just a very clear, I don't need to follow the science.
	Science is in the rearview mirror.
	Science is when you're looking at the body.
	Science is forensic.
	You know, that's studying why the building collapsed, right?
	History is headlights, right?
	Reading history constantly and voraciously, something I learned in the military is read history constantly because it really does rhyme heavily.
	And you can see that when you get a big pandemic, even if it's a pandemic, that's why I started warning in January 2020.
	And Bannon called me up back then and he goes, hey, do you think...
	This is a real pandemic.
	And I'm like, well, I'm not a virologist, but I am wearing a mask.
	I was in Hong Kong at the time until they kicked me out.
	But of course, then later on, we figured out that the mask thing was a sham itself.
	But the bottom line is...
	When I saw that I thought that it probably was a pandemic, I started warning people, stock up on food.
	And I can't tell you why, because I don't have any specifics.
	I just know that these things go together, you know?
	And just like I know after it rains, the rabbits come out and I go rabbit hunting.
	And so I started stocking up more heavily in January 2020.
	And then as time went on, then you start to see the other pattern where they're literally cutting down our energy supplies.
	And it's clear that this is a systematic attack on our systems, right?
	And so It's clear that we're going to go into the most epic famines that have ever been seen in human history.
	It's all about conditions.
	Amateurs are always asking, what will the spark be?
	And I'm like, it's not about sparks.
	It's all about conditions.
	If you have a firework factory blow up in a rainforest, it doesn't matter.
	It'll just go out.
	Mother Nature will put it out.
	But if you have somebody throw out a cigarette in a dry forest, well, you know, you can burn down half the state.
	So it's all about conditions.
	And it's the same.
	Now, talking about conditions, and this is one of the reasons that famines lead to pandemic is let's say you have 50 million people that are malnourished.
	In this case, it'll probably be more like in the billions.
	Then you have a population-sized AIDS where people are malnourished and their immune systems are compromised.
	They're eating things they don't normally eat.
	Usually, in the first few months, you'll have what they call famine fevers.
	We'll pop up like typhus and I'm tracking typhus.
	I see more and more typhus cases already popping up in my alerts and you'll start getting relapsing fevers and that sort of thing.
	And then you'll start getting more waterborne illnesses like cholera because people are drinking bad water and that sort of thing.
	But so one of the often...
	Well, typically in famines, more people die from disease than they actually die from starvation, right?
	Because by the time you're weakened enough to actually starve to death, you're probably going to die from something else, like tuberculosis, right?
	Something else is going to knock you down.
	One of those, you know, Monty Python, I'm not dead yet, you know?
	And so...
	And so, you know, so typically most people don't starve to death.
	They might, a lot will, but then you'll start to spread the pandemic and then also different pandemics will take hold, right?
	And then this hop, the human osmotic pressure, causes people to move to other places and to carry diseases or pick up diseases in other places.
	So there's a reason why all these things go together.
	And there's really interesting aspects about famine that people can benefit from reading their own books about this and in quiet and thinking about what they're seeing and what they're hearing.
	For instance, you'll realize that actually hunger can create famine, which may sound kind of crazy.
	Hunger can create famine.
	You might say, well, famine creates hunger.
	But actually, it's interesting.
	For instance, When people are very hungry, often they're hungry because they just don't have the money to buy food, right?
	And maybe there's hyperinflation because of the economy, you know, Weimar Germany type thing, right?
	And so people start stealing, right?
	So they start stealing food from the stores and the warehouses, the trucks and the boats and the trains.
	And then the stores and the warehouses stop stocking the food.
	People start robbing the farmers.
	And now the farmers stop growing or they go bankrupting.
	And governments in every case, in all 20 or so books I've read on famine, the government always takes from the farmers in every single case.
	Yeah, I want to come back to that, but go ahead and finish your thought.
	Oh, and so, yeah, to finish that, then once people start, you know, well, that inhibits the distribution of food and it inhibits the production.
	And therefore, you'll start to see that, you know, you can get that first part of the famine is actually just a lot of people hungry.
	People start moving around, human osmotic pressure.
	Often they're not in their homes, by the way.
	That's a pattern.
	You'll see more people on the streets because they're hungry.
	And then as they steal more and more, there's less food to steal because there's less produced and less is moving.
	And then they actually go into actually profound famine.
	And now you start getting these whatever sort of pandemics take hold and huge migrations and that sort of thing.
	So, yeah, it's very interesting.
	There's real dynamics that if you study these things enough, you'll start to be able to anticipate what's likely to happen and be ready for it.
	This is what I want to ask you.
	So, about price controls and rationing, and then government confiscation, and typically the criminalization of so-called hoarding, which is just people who are planning ahead.
	So, can you talk about those things?
	Again, price controls, rationing, government confiscation, and, quote, hoarding.
	Hoarding.
	Yeah, go straight to hoarding because there was a German show on television two days ago yesterday, maybe.
	And this German news lady, she had a cart.
	You know how big American grocery carts are, but the European ones are often like one-third that size.
	So she's got this one-third size, what we would call a micro cart, like halfway filled.
	And she's like...
	I have enough food here for 10 days.
	And she's like, what could lead to such hoarding?
	I'm like, 10 days?
	Are you kidding?
	In the Army, we carry that much in a rucksack.
	And batteries and ammo.
	Maybe not 10 days, but you know what I mean.
	But the bottom line is hoarding.
	Now, when the governments start to get into dire straits, they always do price controls and they always fail.
	in every case.
	You can do price controls that will work as long as your economy underneath it is strong, right?
	But when your economy is collapsing, like Weimar Germany happens all the time around the world, then the price controls like Panama is doing right now with almost 100 items, eventually it will collapse and fail, right?
	And so, but then the governments always start robbing from the farmers and then the farmers stop producing, right?
	So it exacerbates the problem.
	And the government will always accuse people of hoarding, right?
	So they'll actually, like Stalin said in 32, 33, and a lot more in Ukraine, he's like, go take it from the neighbors.
	They're hoarding.
	You know, the farmers are hoarding.
	You know, look for people that have smoke coming out of their chimneys at night.
	You know, follow them, find where they have hidden it in the woods, you know, paying the neighbors like a third or whatever of the food that they can help find.
	And Mao, of course, was a student of Stalin.
	Mao did the same thing.
	And there's a great book on that called Mao's Great Famine.
	One of the things you see in famines, too, which is kind of strange, is fires.
	You'll see a lot of fires and famines.
	Like in the book Red Famine, you'll see a lot of fires in there.
	And Mal's Great Famine, they describe thousands of fires.
	And you see a lot of fires happening in the United States now.
	You're talking about fires at food facilities in particular, correct?
	That's right.
	Yeah, food facilities.
	And one of the reasons that, I mean, there's different theories on why there's so many fires, but one is the people that work at the food facilities may be stealing food or that just comes up short and they don't want to get hanged for it.
	So they, you know, let's say you and I run a food facility and we got to feed our family and our village.
	So one night we take a ton, there's 100 tons there, but to cover it up, we burn the other 99 tons, right?
	Right.
	And so there's this, some of it's just covering for criminality and some of it's, well, is it criminality when you're starving to death?
	You know what I'm saying?
	Well, I mean, they're burning down the food, though, that other people could benefit from.
	Yeah, that's criminality.
	That's straight up criminality.
	Now, one of the things that's interesting, too, is I've noticed two major types of famines.
	One is like the hunger venture that happened right where I'm sitting now in Netherlands.
	It happened in 1944 and 45.
	And that's when the Nazis rolled in.
	It was a very cold winter and the Nazis started hitting the resistance.
	They were hitting their food storage and their distribution ability.
	So basically you had people that had enough, not a lot of food because there was a war going on, but they weren't starving to death.
	The Dutch were resisting.
	So the Nazis interrupted their food supplies.
	So they went into that sudden famine.
	I call that a light switch famine because there's no language for this.
	So I have to make it up.
	So I call that a light switch famine.
	So you had enough food to eat.
	And then next week, hey, where's our food?
	The Nazis cut it off.
	Right.
	So you went from fed to unfed nearly instantly.
	And then that went on for about six months.
	The United States was parachuting in food.
	Some of our planes were getting shot down and stuff.
	But, you know, our guys were trying hard.
	And the Swedish were trying to get food to the Dutch.
	And not as much success, but they were trying hard.
	And then finally, you know, Market Garden and our grandparents came in and, you know, kicked the Nazis out and started feeding the Dutch.
	So it sort of switched on and switched off.
	It lasted for roughly seven months, and it was quite terrible, but it came on and came off.
	But most of the famines that you see, they're more gradual.
	They have a slow flash to bang, which is the kind that we're going into now, where people who are perceptive or who know what to watch for can say, hey, there's a famine coming.
	It might not even hit us for two years, right?
	But you can see the conditions building for it.
	You can see All the things lining up and then, you know, here come the locusts, you know, then you have the normal additive pressures.
	It can be hurricanes, it can be droughts.
	And then, you know, finally, you slowly go into this famine.
	That's what we're going into now.
	Most famines that I've read of only last for about two years, but a lot of them can last 10 years or more.
	And the way that this one is building would be a lot more than two years, Mike.
	Yeah, yeah, because that's exactly what I wanted to ask you.
	So what we're seeing now is a de-industrialization of the infrastructure that provides the inputs to farming.
	So, you know, not only fertilizer, like what we've talked about in nitrogen, but think about petroleum, diesel fuel.
	Diesel engine oil, additives, parts for agricultural equipment.
	So the supply chain for parts for tractors, devastated, right?
	A lot of that, microchips coming out of Taiwan and China and so on, can't get them.
	And a lot of these modern farming implements and tractors, especially tractors, I own a couple of John Deere tractors, but I only buy old ones built in the 1970s.
	The newer ones, They have all these microchips and software updates and permissions, like it has to talk to the John Deere server to make sure you paid your loan payment before you can start the tractor, that kind of crap.
	You don't even own the tractor.
	You have to have permission to start it, right?
	So all of those factors are coming into play as well.
	So this is going to be, I think, the biggest global phenomenon Food production collapse since the beginning of modern mechanized agriculture, I would say.
	I'd say since the beginning of ever.
	I mean, I haven't, in all of my studies of war and famines and pandemic, I haven't seen anything that would even come close to this.
	I mean, this is going to require a new chapter in the Bible.
	I mean, it's like a new chapter.
	Revelations Part 2.
	I'm serious.
	I talked to some of my friends.
	You know Chuck Holton?
	You know Chuck?
	I don't know Chuck.
	Did you say you know Chuck?
	No, I don't.
	Oh, he listens to you sometimes.
	He's a serious war correspondent.
	I was just chatting with him today.
	And sometimes he preaches too as well when he's not off at a war.
	I was joking with him.
	We've gone down to the Darien Gap together in Mexico tracking migrants and all that.
	And he spent a lot of time in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
	But I was joking with Chuck.
	I was like...
	We're going to have to co-author another chapter here because this is...
	I mean, I'm a war correspondent.
	I'm not going to get all depressed and down about it.
	I'm just going to do my job and I'm going to soldier on.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But I am warning everybody as much as...
	I spent two days recently with a former ambassador to Netherlands named Pete Hoekstra.
	And at first, he's like many people that he's like, the United States couldn't go into a famine.
	I'm like, hold on, sir.
	And he started sharpshooting me with a lot of questions.
	And about 30 minutes later, he's like, you know, he could see it.
	The light came on and now he's been preparing.
	And that's only been, you know, in the last month that we had those two days together.
	So there are people that you can still reach.
	But the problem is a lot of people are so busy in their life.
	They got whatever going on and they haven't been paying attention.
	Right.
	And so it's not.
	But if you get their quality time, the light bulb comes on and then they start getting their family ready.
	Right.
	Mm-hmm.
	Right.
	So I will consider that a win with him.
	Yeah.
	Definitely.
	He messages sometimes.
	You can tell he's getting ready.
	And the same with Jordan Peterson.
	When I went on his show recently a couple of months ago, you could see the light bulbs going off.
	And now he's been preparing quite a lot.
	I'm about to spend two days with him here with a Dutch farmer and some other people talking about the energy issues here in Netherlands.
	More to the point on the tractor that you talked about, the smelting facilities here in Europe are closing down.
	That's right.
	Steel and copper.
	I mean, you know where that leads.
	Aluminum, zinc, manganese, all of it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you know exactly where the parts are going to come from.
	They're just not, right?
	So the people with the old tractors like you, I mean, those are going to be golden.
	Those are going to be golden.
	In fact, I just bought a 1992 diesel truck.
	It took me a long time to find that truck.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Well...
	Yeah, and a lot of these older vehicles and tractor equipment and so on, you can still hand fabricate parts if you have a lathe, you have machinists nearby, you can still make the parts.
	But a lot of these newer systems, you can't make them yourself.
	But let me ask you this.
	A lot of people listening to this are, of course, in America.
	They may be Canadian, they may be American citizens, what have you.
	They're in North America, typically.
	Yeah.
	They're going to be asking the question, hey, how does this affect me?
	I mean, we're talking about Europe.
	We're talking about Germany.
	Yeah, it's going to get cold.
	People are going to starve and freeze.
	It's going to be horrible.
	And we haven't even talked about Russia and Ukraine yet.
	We've got to get to that.
	But what would you say to an American listening?
	He says, no, we're going to be fine.
	I was just at the store.
	There's bread.
	We're all fine.
	What would you say to them?
	I would say stop what you're doing and read When Money Dies.
	Read that book.
	Right.
	And then look around you while you're reading that book.
	And then read Red Famine.
	First read When Money Dies and then read Red Famine.
	And, you know, when you're reading, then you have quiet time and you have time to think about it and look around and go, hmm, wait a minute here, you know.
	I'm seeing some similarities here that are quite strange.
	Strong, actually.
	And you don't have much time, actually.
	One of the things about these sorts of situations is they typically vary.
	There are some famines that happen sort of suddenly, right?
	But mostly, you kind of gradually go into it.
	Until the very end, and then it's bang, it goes vertical, right?
	And because suddenly everybody gets scared and they start scarfing up, then you actually get real hoarding, you know, whereas, you know, like one rich guy comes and buys up everything he can get, you know, but for us, millions of us who are preppers, that's not hoarding.
	We got it when it was cheap, you know?
	That's right.
	When it was readily available, just picking it up a little bit at a time over a year.
	We got it when the beans were 29 cents on sale, right?
	Right.
	They couldn't sell them.
	Well, they could sell them to me.
	So that's not hoarding.
	And then once you get into it, you'll find, too, the more you read about famine, you'll see that suddenly food...
	It's worth more than anything.
	I mean, people buying grand pianos for, like, three potatoes and that sort of thing.
	You'll see that in the book, I think, Red Famine and quite a few other, you know, whether it's the Irish famines or whatever, you'll just see suddenly, you know, and putting it in modern language, you know, a case of MREs might get you a Tesla, you know?
	I mean, seriously, I'm not even joking.
	No, no, I'm right there with you, yeah.
	I'm familiar with the history of Taiwan because...
	My wife's family escaped the Communists of China and went with Chiang Kai-shek over to Taiwan, and then there was Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and there was mass famine.
	And so I've talked to people in Taiwan, people who have since passed away, but I talked to them because I speak enough Chinese, and I talked to them about this, and one of them told me that at one point during the occupation by Japan, And they were under martial law, that they were able to trade a duck for a hotel.
	Like, they had an extra duck and they got a hotel building in exchange.
	I mean, I was told that.
	Oh, you'll see stories like that in every famine book.
	Every famine book.
	You'll be like, you know, bag of potatoes.
	And then I got this whole, you know, like, you know, store and a house and everything else, you know?
	Yep.
	And yeah, I mean, it's like it goes on and on and on every time.
	And go ahead.
	Well, no.
	So finish that up, please.
	I don't want to ask you about Russia and Ukraine and all that.
	But yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah, so definitely hide your food.
	Learn ways to hide it.
	There are many ways it can be done.
	One guy, actually an intelligence guy of all things, he sent me ways to hide it around your house.
	I'm like, listen, brother.
	If you're hiding it around your house, trust me, it ain't hidden.
	I mean, there are ways to hide it under the garden type thing.
	You've got to garden out back to cover for the digging or something like that.
	It's funny because the KGB and the GRU, actually, if you read Red Famine, you'll see that they actually stemmed.
	They were born from Stalin creating an intelligence operation to find people, how they were hiding food.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Because first you get the easy stuff like, you know, hiding it in your roof or in the furniture.
	Of course, they catch all that.
	And, you know, and then, you know, then they find it hidden out in the forest and he starts paying neighbors and stuff.
	And then finally, they actually started an intelligence organization for finding food.
	And eventually, that's where actually KGB and GRU were born out of that.
	Interestingly, as you know, again, Mao was a student of Stalin, and he had the same problems because he was trying to confiscate everybody's food as well.
	And at one point, Mao was like grudgingly respectful of the peasants and their ability to really hide food, you know?
	And so, you know, of course, he was a student of Stalin, and he used his techniques.
	And, you know, if it's like two years into the famine, and you've still got some fat around your belly, you're going to bring some suspicion, right?
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely true.
	True.
	And by the way, the people I talked to in Taiwan said that they used to do guerrilla gardening and they would grow specifically.
	And this one individual told me that he ate so many sweet potatoes because that was the one crop that they could grow successfully all over the forest that couldn't be easily spotted.
	He ate so many sweet potatoes to stay alive during that time.
	He would never touch a sweet potato again in his life because, you know, the old Taiwanese still call the old Taiwanese sweet potato.
	They call them that.
	Is that right?
	I didn't know that.
	Your wife might be too young to know that because usually it's only like the people are like 80.
	They'll know it.
	If she asks her grandparents, they'll probably know.
	Well, first of all, Taiwan is shaped like a sweet potato, right?
	Which is the same shape as a taro, right?
	Right.
	And so the old-timers, they called the mainlanders who came over in the 40s, right?
	They called them Taros because they were tart and sour, you know?
	But you know how the Taiwanese are.
	I love Taiwanese.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They're great folks.
	They've got such a...
	I don't know.
	I just like Taiwanese.
	For some reason, I'm in Taiwan, and I don't know what I'm doing.
	One old guy, he's like nine years old.
	I'm in this restaurant, and I didn't know how to eat certain food.
	He just came and sat at my table.
	He didn't speak English.
	I didn't speak Mandarin.
	But he's like, Sitting with me, helping me with the eggs and stuff.
	I love that place.
	Yeah, Taiwan people are super friendly.
	They just sit at the table with me.
	They see me eating alone because, you know, sometimes they'll just be like, oh, we'll sit with you.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	All right, so let's move over to Russia and Ukraine.
	I also want to be mindful of your time here.
	But Russia and Ukraine, as you know, the recent situation there, Putin announcing the partial mobilization, 300,000 reservists being called back to active duty.
	We've got, I think, the four regions there that are about to vote on a referendum to join the Russian Federation.
	If that goes through, and then if Russia recognizes them, then Russia would say that these Donbass republics are now part of the Russian Federation.
	Where do you think this is going?
	Because you've covered a lot of war.
	You've seen patterns of history.
	In your best estimation, where is this headed?
	It's very complex.
	And as you know, when these wars kick off, you know, you see a lot of people doing analysis like this is how it's going to go because they got this many tanks and they got blah, blah, blah.
	You're going up against a sophisticated enemy here.
	And there's a lot of variables that are beyond tanks and radars and all that.
	Like, shut off Nord Stream 1 and wait, right?
	And shut off the oil, right?
	So, I mean, you know, I think one of the things that Putin has in his favor is just time, if he just doesn't lose, right?
	Because Europe is clearly melting under my feet here.
	And this winter is going to be rough, and then they'll almost certainly go into a famine within about a year or so.
	Certainly, I would say by sometime in, if not 2023, then 2024.
	It's kind of hard to imagine how they will get out of this without a famine.
	And so, of course, you know, in the 1840s, they call them the hungry 40s.
	Because there was such food scarcity across Europe.
	So in 1848, there were revolutions all across Europe.
	So it was called the Revolutions of 1848, which is why I call this Global 1848, the conditions we're in now.
	So what's going to happen with...
	I just don't know.
	It's too complex.
	He certainly hasn't lost, and Russia often gets smashed in the face and comes back and fights to a win, or they fight and still lose, right?
	But they're clearly not giving up.
	As you can see, he just called for a Quote, unquote, limited draft and 300,000.
	We'll see what happens.
	But he's very smart.
	He knows that Putin, to my knowledge, did not threaten to use nuclear weapons.
	That's been our side has been talking about nuclear weapons the whole time.
	To my knowledge, Putin said that they would respond But he didn't say anything about preemptive strikes with nuclear weapons.
	No, you're absolutely correct.
	The preemptive strikes are being discussed by the West, which is a very, very dangerous game theory type of escalation, because if your side starts saying, hey, we should nuke Russia first, then obviously you're motivating Russia to preempt the preemptive strike.
	Exactly.
	You know how this goes.
	Yeah, he's looking at his gun.
	I should go for mine first type thing, you know?
	And, you know, of course, you know, Putin can destroy Ukraine without nuclear weapons anyway, if he's willing to go that far.
	I mean, they've got, you know, thermobaric weapons, fuel air bombs, of course.
	I mean, he can, you know, interrupt their food supplies and, of course, you know, drive millions more people out of Ukraine into the...
	Into Poland and into Germany and other places, right while these countries go into severe energy, it's not really a crisis.
	We're talking about death blows here.
	I mean, we're talking about people freezing to death literally in Germany.
	And of course, if Germany does this, which is what it's really looking like, my guess is that you're going to have Germans freezing to death within a few months from now, certainly by January or February.
	It's kind of hard to imagine it's not going to be happening.
	Remember Russia's missile strikes just, I don't know, 10 days ago or something on the electrical grid infrastructure?
	And it took it down for one day.
	And you know what I think that was now in retrospect is I think it was a probe to determine the resilience and redundancy of Ukraine's existing power grid in anticipation of actually taking it down when it's very, very cold.
	They're very smart.
	He's patient.
	He's a patient player.
	And he's very smart.
	Patience is a high virtue in warfare.
	And he has it.
	He has strategic and tactical patience.
	The West does not.
	They're immature.
	They're not serious people, but they have serious weapons.
	And, you know, the biggest threat...
	I told Bannon this recently.
	And I said, you know what?
	The biggest threat, it appears to me, to Europe...
	It's not actually Russian.
	And not that Russia is a great, you know, I spent a lot of my army time training to parachute into Poland and fight Russians.
	It's not like they're my buddies, right?
	I'm an American.
	I grew up in Florida, right?
	And so, but it looks to me like the greatest threat to Europe is actually Germany.
	And I'm not saying that with any hyperbole.
	I'm deadly serious.
	The greatest threat to Europe appears to be Germany.
	The decisions that Germany is making, for instance, shutting down their nuclear plants, even while they continue to provoke Russia by nationalizing their refinery a couple days ago, and then Uniper as well, which is separate.
	And then, you know, provoking Russia to cut off Nord Stream 1 and the oil, right?
	They're just doing things that they basically bought the rope, tied it into a noose, and jumped on the chair and put it around their own German necks, which is going to take Europe with it, right?
	Which, of course, means China, Japan, the United States, because all of our economies, as you know, we're...
	We're sharing blood flow here.
	There's nobody going down alone with this.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Well, and we've already seen the euro as the currency getting really, really crushed.
	But a lot of people fleeing the euro into the dollar, making the dollar look temporarily strong.
	But that's only artificial because the dollar is considered the least horrible currency at the moment because the tidal wave hasn't hit yet.
	You know what I mean?
	The dollar is not going to escape this unscathed either.
	Yeah.
	I'm not a financial analyst, but I am a war correspondent, and I have a very good track record.
	Just randomly pick any of the stuff that I've written in Iraq or Afghanistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, just throw a dart and pick one of the old dispatches and tell me if it turned out to be accurate or not, right?
	Because I spend my time on the ground constantly.
	I'm constantly out, whether it's Lithuania or Morocco or Colombia, I'm down in the jungle in the Darien Gap.
	I was warning about what's happening in the Darien Gap right now with Venezuela.
	I've been warning about that for quite a while, that our main migration flow is likely going to come from Africa and Asia and South America right through Panama, and that's what's happening now.
	You can see it if you're down there in the ground and sussing it out.
	I said that all the preamble to say Based on my studies of famine and pandemic and war, I wouldn't be holding on to a lot of extra American cash, certainly not in the bank, not in the bank.
	And then I wouldn't keep too many dollars anyway, any more than I needed to keep the electric bill on and the payroll or whatever.
	But I would keep it in other things that you can convert to other things, like food to ammo or gold to food or something.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I totally agree with your perspective on that as well.
	Well, I look forward to being able to talk to you again, perhaps in person, if you make your way to Texas at some point.
	But, you know, this has already been fascinating.
	I want to give people details on how they can reach you.
	In addition to michaelyan.com, and that's spelled Y-O-N, you've got a locals.com website as well?
	I'm on locals every day.
	And then I'll be spending a couple days with Jordan Peterson.
	When he gets here, he's flying in soon.
	That's why I just got here about an hour ago, just before we went online, actually.
	And then as soon as I'm finished in the Netherlands, I may go to Ireland, then I'm flying straight to Texas.
	So then I can come see you, actually, when I'm in Texas.
	Okay, well, let's get together then and maybe do an in-person interview and talk about some other stuff and, yeah, things that we maybe can't talk about on the air here as well.
	Yeah.
	Got some other intel to share.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I want to talk about things like old tractors and how you use...
	Like, I was listening to an interview you did with Seth, and you talked about how you would use the tractors to generate electricity as opposed to other...
	I thought that was ingenious.
	I never had heard about that before.
	So I started looking on your website, and next thing you know, I'm buying stuff that you're talking about.
	You're costing me money, man.
	Well...
	See, but I've done a ton of research on this for a long time, and also remember that the most efficient way to move water, if you have to move it artificially, is to convert diesel to water movement by a PTO-powered water pump that sits on the back of your tractor.
	See, if you use diesel to generate electricity and then electricity to power a pump, Your efficiency goes down to like 50%.
	But if you burn diesel to turn a PTO to move water, it's almost 100%.
	So there's all kinds of things like that that I've studied and that I use in my rural environment on my ranch in Texas, but we can talk about all that stuff.
	I want to see you do it.
	I want to physically see how you do it and all that.
	Because I'll come and spend time with you until you kick me off the ranch.
	Because I'm totally...
	These skills are important.
	How I got kicked off the Health Rangers Ranch, you know, part two.
	Oh my gosh.
	Burning through too much ammo.
	Yeah, that would get you kicked off.
	I'm just thinking about how much stuff that I learned from my grandfather, you know, like, you know, hunting and fishing and all this stuff.
	And I'm like, you know, I haven't done it in a long time, but we used to do it a lot.
	And I'm thinking, you know, all that stuff, when I went to survival and special forces, I'm like, my grandfather taught me all this stuff.
	You know what I mean?
	And suddenly that can come in handy, you know?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Well, we'll have a lot to catch up on.
	Safe journeys in the meantime.
	Let me know when you're going to be in Texas.
	We'll get together at that time.
	And thank you for joining us today.
	I know it was kind of impromptu.
	And folks, I just texted Michael.
	I was like, hey, man, can you just do an interview right now?
	And he said, yeah.
	So that's how we made this happen.
	So thank you, Michael.
	I really appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	It's been a great honor.
	I'll see you in Texas soon.
	Maybe even like 10 days or something.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	Well, keep me posted.
	Stay safe and let the Germans know what's coming if they believe you.
	I hope they believe you.
	They should listen.
	It's for real.
	Some do.
	Some don't.
	All right, brother.
	I'll see you soon.
	All right.
	We'll see you later.
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