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Jan. 5, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Israel desperately trying to ROPE THE USA into WAR with Iran
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Welcome to this special report update on the situation with Israel, Iran, the Middle East, Hezbollah, Lebanon, you know, the whole deal.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me today.
Now, I know that everybody gets all emotional when it comes to talking about Israel or anything related to the Middle East, so I'm not going to invoke that.
This is a top-down, strategic, theater-of-war analysis of what has just happened and what the implications might be.
And yes, that was a reference to idiocracy right there with President Camacho.
So, the notable events that have just occurred in the last several days.
Israel has used a drone strike to assassinate, I believe, two different Hamas leaders, plus some other surrounding personnel, inside of Lebanon.
This is designed to absolutely enrage Hezbollah.
And Nasrallah, who is at the moment trying desperately to keep his troops under control because they're completely outraged and they want to just, you know, bomb Israel right now if they can or launch missiles.
Nasrallah is trying to sort of keep them in line.
And we'll get back to that in a second.
There was also this huge bombing of this remembrance event in Iran that was remembering Soleimani who was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike back in, I believe, 2020 under President Trump.
Soleimani was one of the key Iranian military logistics experts who had a big role in sort of readying Hamas for its current war with Israel.
Soleimani is the guy who taught Hamas a lot of the things that it has currently achieved, including many techniques of building tunnels, but mostly logistics for weapons supplies and so on.
So Trump takes out Soleimani years ago.
There's a remembrance event for him.
And then there's, well, multiple explosions.
The current reports say there were four bombs.
I had initially read there were two bombs, but apparently that's four if I'm reading it correctly.
Whatever the case, however many bombs it was, it was more than one.
And they bombed civilians who were just gathered at the memorial, essentially.
And initially, the death reports were over 100.
Then I saw a number recently that said there were 70 that died, so it's not clear, but it's a lot of people.
It's, let's say, around 100.
Now, at first, when that happened, almost everybody in the Middle East blamed Israel.
They said this is a Mossad bombing.
Because it's classic Mossad type of behavior.
To try to provoke Iran into a counterattack against maybe US or Israeli military assets.
And it was believed, and I believed it too, that this was designed to pull the United States into a war with Iran.
But in the hours since, ISIS has publicly claimed responsibility for that bombing.
And I'm not sure what to make of it.
You know, trying to sort out what's happening in the Middle East is always a nightmare.
And you don't even know if ISIS actually did the bombing or if they just want to take credit for it.
You know, maybe Mossad did the bombing, but Mossad doesn't want the credit for it.
And ISIS says, well, we'll take the credit.
You know, it's always difficult to know who's lying because usually when it comes to violence in the Middle East, usually everybody's lying.
But the upshot of this is that Iran, well, the people of Iran are absolutely outraged, and, you know, justifiably so, for this mass slaughter of innocent people who were just gathered at a memorial.
And this is escalating the calls for war.
And so what you're actually seeing right now is the officials of Iran and also Hezbollah, and to some extent Turkey as well, all of these officials desperately trying to hold back their armies, their people, their militias, or in the case of Iran, the IRGC, trying to hold back these people.
And to try to not give the West what the West wants, which in the case of Israel, Israel wants to be attacked in a major way by Iran or Hezbollah so that the U.S. is compelled to get swept into a greater war in the Middle East because Israel wants the U.S. to do its fighting for it.
You know, Israel by itself is not a very powerful military force in the Middle East, let's be honest.
They don't have a lot of soldiers.
The soldiers they do have, especially the reservists, are not that impressive.
The one thing they do have is nukes.
Everybody knows they have nukes, and frankly, if they didn't have nukes, Israel would have already been overrun at this point, no question about it.
It's the nukes that are the deterrent.
And Nasrallah knows this in Lebanon.
He knows that if Hezbollah were to do a full-scale assault on Israel, which they are capable of doing, that Israel would nuke Beirut and other areas, probably, of Lebanon.
And a similar story with Iran.
Of course, Iran wants to destroy Israel, but Israel would nuke major cities in Iran.
And So that is functioning as a deterrent, but under the cover of that, Israel is provoking an escalation of conflict with all these other countries.
And ultimately, that provocation is probably going to Stir up some things in Turkey, because Turkey is like 96% Muslim, maybe 98%.
And Turkey, even though it's a NATO member, eventually even Erdogan can't hold back the wave of anger from his own people.
Now, here's something else you need to know.
I was told from a source from Lebanon that Hezbollah...
It does not want to engage Israel yet.
Hezbollah is actually building up its missiles, its military.
Hezbollah receives a lot of funding, some of it from Iran, perhaps most of it.
Some of it maybe from Qatar.
I'm not sure exactly where all its funding sources are.
But Hezbollah needs a couple more years in order to really build up its weapons base.
And once it has that, it plans to attack Israel and to even just destroy Israel.
And Hezbollah also has tunnels, an extensive tunnel network that goes underneath the border, you know, southern Lebanon border, northern Israel border.
That tunnel network will be used as part of the eventual invasion or attack on Israel from Hezbollah.
So, the tunnels aren't just in Gaza.
And it doesn't involve just Hamas.
And remember that Hamas and Hezbollah don't necessarily get along.
And in fact, Hamas, by attacking Israel on October 7th, which was also a provoked attack, Hamas kind of screwed up Hezbollah's timeline.
Hezbollah didn't want to be engaging with Israel yet.
They wanted more time, but they're kind of forced into the situation at the moment prematurely before they are fully ready to wage full-scale war with Israel.
Now, all these Arab countries, and even Persia, Iran, they all say to themselves, and they all know that Israel, and this is from their point of view, that Israel has got to go.
That Israel cannot be allowed to continue to exist in the Middle East because Israel is incompatible with peace in the entire region.
So they all, in their minds, they have a plan to completely obliterate Israel.
Iran, for example, former Ayatollahs and so on, have talked about nuking Israel.
That as soon as Iran gets nuclear weapons, they're going to nuke Tel Aviv and wipe Israel off the map.
There have been repeated threats of that.
And of course Hezbollah, which does not have nukes, not that we know of, not at the moment, they plan to overrun Israel through conventional means, you know, rockets and missiles and men and anti-tank weapons and things like that.
But Israel depends on the U.S. Navy in particular to come to its defense.
Israel cannot defend itself against these other Arab nations and Iran because the advancement of weapons technology has been so rapid in places like Iran and also in Turkey, which is actually building its own fifth-generation fighter, that these weapons systems are now eclipsing the weapons of the West.
So 20 years ago, The United States and Israel had a really strong advantage on weapons systems and naval presence and so on.
Today, that's not the case.
Today, the balance of weapons superiority is no longer strongly in the West's favor.
But one of the things we all witness during the war in Ukraine is that the West no longer has the military dominance that it once possessed.
In other words, you know, the U.S. was just defeated by Russia and Ukraine.
I mean, there were U.S. personnel, U.S. weapons systems like HIMARS and so on, U.S. satellites, U.S. intelligence, U.S. analysis, U.S. training, U.S. targeting systems, you know, U.S. satellite imagery, whatever.
And still it wasn't enough.
And there were German tanks.
You know, the leopards.
And by the way, all the leopards have been destroyed.
They're damaged or destroyed, in other words.
So, you know, the very best weapon systems of the West are no longer enough to, you know, to have dominance over the battlefield.
And the Middle Eastern nations have no doubt taken note of this very important dynamic.
They realize this.
They know what's happening.
They know that the West can now be defeated in ways that were not possible 20 years ago or certainly 30 years ago during Desert Storm.
The U.S. Navy in particular is a lot more vulnerable today because of anti-ship missile systems.
And those missile systems are possessed by Hezbollah, by the way, as well as, of course, Iran.
But even Hezbollah can take out U.S. naval ships.
And my prediction is that the next escalation you're going to see in this war, and very likely, by the way, This might be the intention of the United States, is to put out a bunch of naval vessels as bait,
hoping for one of them to be severely damaged or even sunk, so that the U.S. can then declare a much wider war and can get public support for bombing Iran, for example.
And so Iran's game in this, its leaders have no doubt figured this out, The only way they win is to not respond to the provocations, to not escalate, to not attack naval ships,
and instead to allow the passage of time to continue to weaken America, which is exactly what's happening, especially in terms of the dollar, global de-dollarization, the rise of BRICS nations, and the collapsing U.S. currency.
So, you know, in six months, most of the world will be trading in non-dollar denominated currencies.
That dynamic is already well underway with BRICS nations or BRICS plus nations, including the Saudis at this point.
And the US is just losing dollar dominance.
At the same time, the US is falling further and further behind in military technology.
Because there's so much corruption in the military-industrial complex in the United States, so much incompetence, so much wokeism, that the U.S. as a nation is now incapable of innovating effective new weapon systems.
It's just incapable.
Can't build hypersonic missiles that work.
Can't build new aircraft carriers that function worth a damn.
I mean, the USS Ford is plagued with problems.
I mean, the elevators didn't work for six months on that thing.
Cost overruns galore.
And not to mention the F-35, which...
It's basically just a flying electronic countermeasure target that can be brought out of the sky at any moment by Russian electronic warfare, by the way.
That's when the F-35 is even able to fly and when it can even get spare parts.
The bottom line is...
Time will defeat the U.S. empire while all the other nations of the world become more technologically advanced and more economically capable.
I mean, Russia's economy is stronger than ever.
China is building up a massive navy.
Iran continues to innovate weapon systems.
Turkey is innovating a lot more very high-tech weapon systems.
And by the way, you know, autonomous drones that are just light years more advanced than anything the U.S. has ever come up with.
And Iran is building drones as well.
So the U.S. and Israel are trying to circumvent the passage of time by bombing or provoking or false flagging nations like Iran and Lebanon.
Whereas the leaders of Hezbollah or the leaders of Turkey or the leaders of Iran, they have to try to not be provoked into this escalation.
And that's the dynamic.
So you're going to see...
More Israeli attacks.
Now, maybe ISIS did this most recent bombing in Iran, but you're going to see Mossad carry out a lot more sabotage.
You're going to see the U.S. attempt to provoke.
You're going to see drone strikes against more Hezbollah leaders and Hamas leaders and potentially Iranian leaders.
You're going to see Mossad assassinations of Iranian scientists and physicists probably and industry leaders and politicians and so on.
This is all part of the provocation pattern.
Now, with that said...
Should the provocations succeed?
And should the entire Middle Eastern region erupt into more wars?
Should Iran be swept up into it?
Which, let's hope that doesn't happen.
But if it does happen, the implications for the United States are quite severe.
First of all, some significant portion of the world's energy exports make their way through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Strait of Hormuz is located right there, kind of like the southwestern portion of Iran.
And Iran, of course, has complete control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran could deny any ship passage through that strait.
And what that means is that at its choice, Iran can shut down both liquid natural gas exports and oil exports to both Europe and the United States or anywhere it wants.
So what you're seeing with the Houthis in the Red Sea right now, which is the targeting of cargo vessels for drone strikes and some sort of simple low-tech rocket strikes, You can see that in spades if Iran decides to essentially blockade the Strait of Hormuz and block the shipment of energy out of that region.
Now, that would, of course, anger very much many of the other nations there, the other Arab nations.
You know, the Saudis wouldn't want to go along with that, and Qatar probably wouldn't either, and Iraq probably, I would imagine, isn't on board with that, and Kuwait and so on.
So, you know, the conflict gets very, very complex, but Iran does have the capability of blocking off the Strait of Hormuz or harassing transport vessels, thereby disrupting the world's energy supply.
So one of the things that we should all anticipate in the United States and Western Europe, wherever you're listening, we should anticipate energy supply chain shortages and significant price increases in energy prices.
Now, that will, of course, have a devastating impact on Western economies.
So as energy prices go up, then, of course, food prices go up, transport prices go up, consumer goods, all of it.
Everything becomes more expensive.
This will lead to more inflation.
So a lot more people will notice that it's costing a lot more money to buy food and so on, even way beyond what it currently is.
And you might say, you might realize that, hey, this is going to be bad for Biden's re-election.
And indeed, it would be.
And that's why there is an element inside the Biden administration that does not want war in the Middle East.
That element is currently fighting with the pro-war element, you know, the John Boltons and so on, the Lindsey Grahams, some of the neocons and so on, who want war at any cost, no matter what.
So you could even say there's kind of a civil war inside the Biden administration about whether to go to war with Iran.
And you hear the voices like, you know, Lindsey Graham.
Saying, it's time to bomb Iran!
Bomb Iran!
And he's singing the songs and everything.
Whereas a lot of other people are like, no, you know, pull out of the Middle East because we're losing the Muslim vote, which is exactly what's happening.
The Democrats have lost the Muslim vote because of the support for Israel's bombing of Gaza.
Right?
So again, this gets very, very complex.
Now the money is in war.
The money is in war.
The military industrial complex makes so much money and they have bribes and payoffs and kickbacks and, oh, we're going to fund your child's think tank, whatever.
They do that to all the senators.
So there's a lot of money in war.
So if we go into a war, yeah, thousands of Americans will die probably, but you think Lindsey Graham gives a crap about that?
No, of course not.
These senators are going to make a lot of money because war bankrolls the military industrial complex.
So if we go to war, that bankrolling will be contingent upon more money printing.
That's right.
Trillions of dollars in new money will have to be printed in order to fund that war.
And that money printing will cause more inflation or dollar devaluation, and it will only accelerate the rest of the world moving away from the dollar and choosing BRICS currencies.
So the faster the US provokes war and goes to war, the faster the dollar gets abandoned by the rest of the world.
And the bottom line translation of this is that The U.S. dollar will be the casualty of the escalation of war in the Middle East.
And as the U.S. dollar becomes more and more of a casualty, it means gold and silver will skyrocket probably in price denominated in dollars because the dollar is getting weaker.
So, the bottom line here.
Gold and silver will probably...
Fall if there's peace in the Middle East.
Gold and silver will probably rise if there's war in the Middle East.
Energy will get a lot more expensive if there's an escalation of war in the Middle East.
And there are very powerful elements inside the United States government, including the State Department, that are pushing aggressively for more war in the Middle East, plus the entire military-industrial complex and the entire woke military leadership, which is incompetent But, you know, they want war so they can be more important.
So right now, if I were to have to bet on this, I would bet that the war provocateurs are going to succeed.
They're going to get the war they want.
And we're going to be thrust into a major escalation of war in the Middle East, which eventually will involve Russia.
Russia will be forced to respond to defend Iran and perhaps China, but most definitely Russia, because Russia is not far away right there.
And Russia has many, many interests, trade interests and so on, and strategic interests with Iran and energy interests.
So this will pull Russia into the war, and Russia will probably end up using Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to sink US naval vessels, and then it's on.
And then who knows at what point nukes start to fly.
So we need to be prepared for this.
We need to be prepared for the rapid collapse of the dollar, the rapid hiking of energy prices, and also the rapid escalation of war in the region.
So some of the things that we can look at, of course, gold and silver.
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Because they're such small, precise denominations.
So that's something to consider.
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You know, garden seeds and everything that you need to be prepared for more chaos because that's probably the direction in which this is headed.
So thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, naturalnews.com and brighteon.com.
Take care.
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People will hold on to these and they'll see the value rise as the value of gold rises because these contain physical gold.
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And who knows in how many years what these will be worth versus the increasingly collapsing dollar.
So I don't encourage speculation, just to be clear.
I'm not saying speculate in it, but just to hold on to value that you have right now, just to kind of freeze your savings.
I don't trust that the dollar is going to be here 10 years down the road.
I mean, I know the dollar is not going to hold its own value.
But I have absolute certainty that gold is going to continue to hold value.
And as dollars drop, that means the price of gold in dollars will be rising, even if gold itself is still worth the same in terms of purchasing power.
But in dollar denominations, gold will appear to be going up in terms of dollars.
So that's something to keep in mind.
Now, do your own research.
I'm not your financial advisor, obviously.
Do your own research.
Get your own experts.
Do what's right for you.
Only you know your financial situation and your risk and so on.
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Well, if gold goes down, these will go down in value.
If you think gold's going to go down...
Over the next 10 years, then, you know, maybe you can buy Apple stock or something.
I don't know.
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And thank you for supporting us also.
But more importantly, you know, thank you for protecting your own assets.
We're going into some very interesting times in the years ahead.
Thanks for watching.
I'm Mike Adams for brighteon.com.
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