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June 18, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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HISTORY of collapsed world reserve currencies reveals the DOLLAR has run out of time
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In order to know where we are in world history, especially with currencies here and the end of the dollar, it's important to be able to look at the full map of the history of world reserve currencies.
This is something that the corporate media never does.
They want you to just zoom in and focus on the now and all the spin and lies.
There's no inflation.
Everything's fine.
Money printing doesn't matter.
Well, that's interesting because if you look at the big map of history, it tells a very different story.
And by the way, remember when malls used to exist and you would walk into a mall to do some shopping?
I know some malls are still around, but nobody uses them anymore.
Anyway, there would be a map of the mall, right?
And there'd be a red dot usually that says, you are here.
And you go, oh, that's where we are, because it was always confusing.
Like, where are we?
And that's like watching CNBC. It's like, where are we?
Nobody knows.
But I'm going to give you a red dot of you are here.
Now, in order to understand this, let's start with, let's see, an announcement from the BRICS nations.
BRICS nations now say they're in the final stages of completing their de-dollarization program.
Okay, so the economic ministers of leading BRICS member countries have announced they're in the final stages.
I'm reading from Watcher.guru.
A story, BRICS makes major de-dollarization announcement.
And of course, this was before we learned that Malaysia wants to join BRICS. And also, I think before Thailand said they're going to join BRICS. And of course, Turkey has announced they're going to join BRICS as well.
But the bloc's goal is for its multipolar international monetary system to mark the end of the U.S. dollar as the sole global reserve currency.
A new payment system has been rumored and discussed for a significant time, but now the BRICS alliance has officially confirmed its development and its first target, the U.S. dollar.
So let's look at the map, shall we?
Okay, the U.S. dollar has been the world reserve currency since about 1921.
So you could say, well, over 100 years.
That's pretty amazing, actually.
You can say, well, the dollar's been the world reserve currency for about 103 years, give or take.
But what was the world reserve currency before the dollar, before the U.S. currency?
What do you suppose it was?
Well, those of you who know a little bit about history will, of course, immediately recognize it was the British pound.
So Great Britain had the world reserve currency.
And how long did they have it, by the way?
Not a lot of people think about that.
Turns out they had the World Reserve Currency status for about, well, 105 years or so.
From 1815 to 1920 is what's generally recognized.
So, again, the dollar is at 103 years at the moment, or 104 if you include the bookends of it.
And the British pound lasted about 105 years.
And then, of course, it was replaced by the dollar.
But if the British pound became essentially the world reserve currency in 1815, what was the world reserve currency before the British pound?
Well, it turns out that it was France and its currency, although there were several different currencies throughout the 18th century in France, but I think the most popular one was called Livre.
L-I-V-R-E. Livre.
Livre.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
Livre.
We'll just say it's Livre.
So the Livre was the world reserve currency from 1720 to 1815.
So 95 years.
Are you beginning to notice a pattern?
Hmm, interesting.
So everything was done in the known modern world in the French Livre.
But what was the currency before France had the world reserve currency status?
Huh?
Well, it turns out that the Netherlands had the dominant currency throughout most of the 17th century and into the early 18th century.
It was the world reserve currency from 1640 to 1720.
So what is that, 80 years?
They didn't even make it to 90 years or 95 years.
I think the collapse of tulip bulb mania had something to do with that.
Otherwise, maybe they would have lasted 95 years or maybe 100 years.
Who knows?
But of course, the obvious question here is, okay, before the Dutch had World Reserve Currency status, and remember the Dutch were very successful in the 17th century, and they occupied a lot of different countries and lands and had claim to all kinds of lands and natural resources and so on, but that ended.
But who was in charge of the World Reserve Currency before the Dutch?
Well, if you guessed Spain, You nailed it.
So Spain had dominance from 1530 to 1640 with the Spanish Real.
So they had 90 years of dominance with the Spanish currency and of course that was during a time when there was a lot of Ocean-faring exploration and trade to India and, of course, the Americas, which is ultimately why Native Americans in modern-day America were called Indians because, right, the explorers thought they had landed in India?
As in, like, India!
We are in India!
But it turned out it was not India.
It was the United States of America.
And they did not speak Hindi.
Hindi.
Or any other languages.
All the many different dialects spoken in modern day India.
Aren't there like 500 of them?
It's like, who can keep track?
But anyway, so Spain had the real, and that was the dominant currency.
And then, of course, before 1530, now this is a really tough question.
I had to look a lot of these up myself, of course.
It turns out it was Portugal.
From 1450 to 1530.
So Portugal had the World Reserve currency status for about 80 years, and their currency was also called the Real.
Alright, so starting from, let's start in the mid-15th century.
Let's start with the year 1450.
And let's start there and kind of fast forward to the present, okay?
So Portugal, let's see, 80 years with the Real, right?
And then we have Spain with the Real for 110 years.
That seems to be a record.
Good job, Spain.
The Netherlands with the Gilder that only lasted 80 years.
And then we have France with the Livre in mostly the 18th century that lasted, what is that, 95 years.
And then the British Pound that lasted...
105 years, and now we have the US dollar that is currently at 103 years.
Are you noticing a pattern?
Now, in each one of these cases, the collapse of the world reserve currency status was accompanied often, well, it was caused typically by fiat currency mass printing.
This is what Spain did.
This is what France did.
This is what Great Britain did.
The Netherlands had their tulip bulb mania fiasco that caused a tremendous amount of economic chaos.
And then of course intertwined in this history is the East India Company.
Which became a British public company, a stock company, that suffered a catastrophic, you know, Ponzi scheme type of collapse.
And looks like it was dissolved in 1874, but it was founded in 1600.
So during the large reign of the British pound, This East India trading company or shipping company was a big part of the bubble and the expansion of credit, actually, that led to, ultimately, collapse.
Now, in terms of the US dollar, COVID It was an event that was accompanied by a massive expansion of credit.
I forgot the exact number, but in the last three and a half to four years, something like 70% of all the money that's ever been created in the history of the United States of America was created just during that time.
So COVID was an emergency that allowed the US government to do a massive monetary expansion to try to keep this ship sailing as long as possible.
But the clock is running out.
We're at 103 years.
And the longest in the history that I just mentioned was Spain at 110 years.
Great Britain had 105 years with the British pound and the U.S. dollars at 103 years and not looking good.
Especially with bricks, you know, hot on the heels and bricks ready to essentially make the dollar obsolete.
Now, you may wonder, why?
Why did any of these currencies fail?
Because today, if you ask people, especially in the media or on the streets of America, it's like, do you think the dollar will still be the world reserve currency forever?
Yeah, of course it will.
Why wouldn't it be?
It's always been world reserve.
I mean, this is what they think.
Even people in Wall Street, Like, do you think the dollar will be fine here like 100 years from now?
Oh, of course!
The dollar is always going to be the world reserve currency.
Nothing can change that.
Everything is traded in dollars, they'll tell you.
All the bonds, all the stocks, all the treasuries, all the futures and all the commodities and this and that.
Except that's not true.
All kinds of commodities are traded in things other than the dollar, and of course Saudi Arabia just said they've abandoned any renewal of the dollar denomination agreement, so now they're selling oil in non-dollar currencies.
But then again, in every one of these cases, the countrymen and women who lived in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, they did not know their currencies were going to collapse either.
Maybe a few, a tiny few people, maybe like the Dutch version of Ron Paul was kicking ass and he was like holding up guilders and like, we gotta audit the Dutch Fed, you know?
And the population was like, boo!
Boo!
We want easy money, Dutch Ron Paul!
And so they shouted him down and there was probably like a French Ron Paul, I am the Ron Paul!
We must audit the central banking of France!
And all the French people...
They even say boo with a French accent.
And so they shouted him down.
Anyway, you get the idea.
And so the truth never came out in any of these countries.
And then in every case, they collapsed.
And after each one of these collapse events, which, again, were relatively sudden...
They took people by surprise.
People lost everything.
They lost their retirements.
They lost their pensions.
They lost their bank savings accounts.
I mean, yeah, they still had currency, but the currency became worthless.
Why?
Because the other trading partners around the world said, we don't want the Real anymore.
We don't want the Dutch Gilder.
We don't want the Livre, whatever.
We don't want the British pound.
Why do we want a British pound?
And then what happened in every case...
It was a decline of naval power.
Interesting, isn't it?
A decline of naval power.
What is it that made Spain so successful in the 16th century?
Was it land colonization?
No.
It was Spain's navy.
Well, ocean exploration, trade route development by sea.
That was the secret.
To Spain's economic miracle, which gave rise to its currency dominance, much the same was true with the Dutch.
How do you think the Dutch guilder became so popular?
Because people, other countries and investors and businesses needed to buy Dutch guilders in order to buy the goods that were brought back to the Netherlands by the Dutch traders who were sailing the Dutch ships because the Dutch could build some damn fine ships.
Never get in a shipbuilding competition with the Dutch.
You will lose.
To this day.
So, this is what happened in every case.
Same thing in France, right?
Same thing in Great Britain.
If you wanted to trade in 1852 or whatever, you had to have the British pound.
The British pound ruled the world of economics and the British Navy ruled the seas.
There was no Navy that could compete with the British Royal Navy.
Now compare that contrast to today when, you know, the Queen Elizabeth's propellers don't work.
And I'm talking about an aircraft carrier, not anything weird about her anatomy.
Now, fast forward then to the United States.
Since really the end of World War Two, especially the United States Navy has been the dominant naval power of the planet.
This naval power has been used to protect the sea trading routes, which gave the US dominance over allowing, in essence, allowing which countries to export, which countries to import, which ships could use the sea lanes.
And over the years, the United States Navy has harassed anybody that it didn't want to allow to traverse the open seas.
The U.S. Navy has, for example, attacked ships from Iran.
And right now, it's constantly harassing ships from China near Taiwan.
And, of course, the U.S. has been involved in the sinking of some Russian vessels in the Black Sea as part of this conflict, the current conflict.
And, of course, the U.S. also was in the Baltic Sea blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, but that's different.
That's a different thing.
But what's happening now is that the U.S. Navy is losing its dominance.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, China has by far the largest dry dock shipbuilding capability of any nation on the planet.
It is currently 200 times larger than the United States.
200 times more dry dock capacity.
That's interesting.
The US Navy is no longer able to project power over trade routes, and guess who just proved this?
The Yemeni military.
The Yemeni military, they have now successfully sunk two cargo vessels that were en route to dock at ports with Israel.
Those ships are at the bottom of the Red Sea.
Because the Yemeni's army, they have figured out how to use drone boats and airborne drones and rockets and missiles to take out ships.
And the U.S. Navy cannot protect them.
What was it called?
Operation...
Freedom Force or something.
It was a few months back.
Sorry, I don't remember the name.
Freedom Trade or whatever.
The U.S. said, we're going to go to the Red Sea and we're going to send all our destroyers there and we're going to float some aircraft carriers and we're going to protect all these cargo ships.
Remember that?
I wouldn't blame you if you don't remember it because the White House hasn't talked about it since then because it was a total failure.
And then remember when the U.S. bombed the crap out of Yemen just a couple of months ago, spending about a billion dollars just bombing, I don't know, like goat farms or something.
What do they bomb?
Like wooden huts?
It's like, I don't know, children's playgrounds?
I don't know what they were bombing.
They said they bombed a bunch of military sites and logistics centers and planning centers and like super secret military hubs.
And then two days after that so-called massive bombing, The Yemenis all came out of their holes in the ground with the rockets and like, we're Iraq!
And they just kept launching rockets at ships, you know?
So the U.S. spent a billion dollars and didn't even stop the Yemenis at all.
Which means, so that trade route, the Red Sea trade route, the entire U.S. Navy cannot defend it.
The U.S. military, which has nearly a $1 trillion annual budget, Versus the Yemenis that have never seen a trillion dollars, not even a billion, I mean, they're operating on a few million dollars.
I mean, and one million dollars is one millionth of a trillion dollars, okay?
Just to be clear.
So the Yemenis military is operating on millionths of the U.S. military budget, and yet the Yemenis military...
Is able to nullify the entire United States Navy, Air Force, Army, Marines, all of it.
Wow!
What does that tell you?
Does that remind you of any history, like when Great Britain, suddenly its Navy, wasn't the most powerful in the world anymore?
Especially after World War II. What happened to the British Navy?
What happened to it?
Oh, the German submarines sank all the British naval vessels, didn't they?
And they sank a good number of, you know, American cargo ships coming across the Atlantic as well.
The Germans bombed the crap out of British naval yards, shipyards and transportation and resources and everything else, and cities, of course.
At least they tried to.
You know, the V2 rockets, they weren't really guided precision munitions.
It was kind of like a fire and forget type of weapon.
But the Germans, had they not been stopped, they would have absolutely destroyed everything in Great Britain.
So thankfully, the Germans were stopped, mostly by the Russians, it turns out.
Great Britain helped a little bit.
The US helped a little bit more.
The Russians did most of the heavy lifting and defeated the Third Reich.
But out of that, Great Britain was burdened with so much debt and so much economic destruction and so much loss of life, which is still small compared to what Russia lost.
Russian losses were, what, 20 to 40 million people, which is a huge number.
For the 1930s and 1940s, by the way, huge.
But because Europe was mostly destroyed, America was the remaining world power.
And, well, Russia, which I'm using synonymously with the Soviet Union in this case, but it was the Soviet Union at the time, you know, they were devastated economically and demographically from World War II. Almost all of Europe was decimated.
China was still pre-Industrial Revolution at that time.
China had no technology in the 1940s.
Japan was, of course, heavily damaged because of the two atomic bombs that America dropped on them.
A lot of Southeast Asia was decimated.
The Philippines were not advanced or capable at that time.
Taiwan had been occupied and was suffering from post-World War II. Basically, America became the world leader because everybody else was almost destroyed.
So America was like the last man standing, so to speak.
And there's only one reason for that.
It's called the Atlantic Ocean.
So the ocean created this geographic barrier that gave the United States this massive advantage in being able to send supplies to Europe, but not to be subjected to land attacks by the Blitzkrieg Third Reich of Nazi Germany but not to be subjected to land attacks by the Blitzkrieg Third Reich
So the fact that America had this unique geography gave it, it was like America inherited this amazing gift from God, you could say this gift of being isolated enough, you know, long, big, vast ocean separating America so that America vast ocean separating America so that America could manufacture things domestically because American factories were churning out the goods in the 1930s and the 1940s.
and then they could ship those goods over the ocean to America.
Great Britain or France or Normandy landings or wherever they needed them to go in order to support the European effort to defeat Germany.
And in the 1930s and 1940s, early 40s, America's industry was humming along.
Why?
Because of cheap energy.
Cheap energy and a strong work ethic.
Oil was already hard at work.
The combustion engine had been invented and Henry Ford had made cars relatively affordable.
You still had some steam-powered engines driving belts for belt-run factories, these large massive belts that would run like textile sewing machines and things like that.
But those very quickly got converted over into combustion engines, which provided the power for a massive amount of manufacturing.
And of course, you know, the rise of electricity and the electrical grid spreading out more and more over time, you know, not all at once, but There was more industrial capability in the United States.
So remember this important fact because I'm going to tell you why this is shifting.
In the 1930s and 1940s, America inherited world reserve currency status because it was the last country standing after World War II devastation.
And it had very strong domestic manufacturing and export capabilities, and it was protected by these vast oceans on both sides, the Atlantic and the Pacific.
And nobody else could really mess with America using the technology of the day, okay?
Now, fast forward essentially almost 100 years to today, 2024.
Now, in 2024, America's industrial base has been lost.
It has been exported and repositioned in China and in Mexico and in Indonesia and other countries all over the world.
So America no longer is a manufacturing base.
Now, the geography of America works against it, whereas the oceans previously were barriers to stop the Nazis from attacking America or to stop the Japanese from being able to successfully invade the West Coast.
Now, geography is working against America because the U.S. Navy can no longer project power and protect the sea trade routes.
This is exactly what happened to Great Britain.
As it lost its global reserve currency status.
Same thing with France.
France's navy was very strong in the late 1700s.
But as France suffered economic decline, and of course a lot of internal corruption, all kinds of schemes and revolution and so on, France lost its naval power and could no longer protect its trade routes.
And that's when Great Britain Really became much stronger and took that over, you see.
So now America is losing its naval power and the geography of the world works against America because America has to import everything from somewhere else.
It has to import its engines, has to import its clothing and textiles, electronics, computers, telecommunications gear, medical gear, prescription, pharmaceuticals from all over the world, mostly China.
But other places, India in particular.
And as a result then, when the U.S. loses its naval dominance and loss of influence over the sea trade routes of the world, as those routes are taken over by Islamic countries such as Yemen, asserting control over the Suez Canal and the Red Sea,
and also now Malaysia and Indonesia, largely Muslim countries, Malaysia joining BRICS now, With the Strait of Malacca there, 25% of the world's shipping traffic, commercial shipping traffic, goes through the Strait of Malacca.
25%.
So now you have the United States, which has been dependent for its economic growth on these markets.
Highly efficient, cost-efficient international sea lanes and international trading partners.
Now the U.S. is losing that status to the BRICS nations and to other stronger naval powers, such as the rising power of China and the rising technology of Russian subs.
Now, Russia doesn't have anything of a real surface aircraft carrier fleet.
They don't even try.
What Russia has is the world's most advanced nuclear submarines that can fire, what, 16 to 20 ICBMs each.
And those subs have the world's most advanced technology, which I don't have time to get into here.
But suddenly the U.S. finds itself in a situation where the world doesn't want U.S. vessels to be able to pass through these key areas.
That is the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, coming up soon the Strait of Malacca, which gives access to the Indian Ocean and the Philippines and the Southeast Asia, Vietnam and South Korea and so on.
And then the Panama Canal is heavily threatened by China.
Right.
So if the U.S. loses its ability to navigate its military vessels as well as commercial vessels through the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Malacca, the U.S. is done as the world trading power.
Actually, it's already done for different reasons, but you see my point.
All these trade routes are being cut off, and the U.S. Navy can't do anything about it.
On top of that, Iran has control over the Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant portion of the energy products that are produced in the Middle East are exported to, well, to Europe, but other countries as well, including to some extent U.S. and U.S. allies.
So the Strait of Hormuz also indirectly affects the price of oil.
Because if Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, which they could do, the price of oil would skyrocket to $200, $300 a barrel, maybe higher than...
Nobody knows exactly.
But that would cause so much cost inflation in the United States because of the road miles put on food, farming operations that use diesel fuel, transportation, and so on.
So Iran can cause an economic earthquake around the world all by itself by cutting off the Strait of Hormuz.
Although...
It would probably be very reluctant to do so without great support from its Middle Eastern allies because cutting off that strait would of course deprive its allies of significant sources of revenue that they use to fund their own operations.
So it is a complex issue.
Nevertheless, I hope you see the nature of the dynamic here.
So most of these currencies have lasted, what, 95 years on average, let's say?
Some 80, some 105, some 110.
Let's say 95 to 100 years.
That's about it.
The U.S. dollar is at 103 years.
And in every case throughout history, when countries, when they controlled world trade, they did so with a sense of arrogance and greed.
I mean, in the early 17th century, the Spanish leaders were the most arrogant bastards in the world.
And They would just take what they wanted and they would use economic leverage and essentially what we would call today economic sanctions in order to pummel their trading partners and secure monopolies over trade routes and raw materials, which is exactly what the US is trying to do with Ukraine and Russia.
I mean, not much has changed, folks.
And the other thing, by the way, is that in World War II, the United States was not reachable by enemies because of the vast Atlantic Ocean and the vast Pacific Ocean.
Guess what?
Today, Russia's ICBMs can reach any target anywhere in North America, and so can China's.
And North Korea even has missiles that can reach the West Coast, and North Korea has diesel-electric submarines, by the way, that can carry nuclear missiles and can launch them, and they can hit targets very far inland from the West Coast.
Like, North Korea can nuke Colorado, by the way.
And Russia can launch land-based missiles from its own territory, and they have such incredible range that they can fly south.
They can traverse the South Pole and come up from the south and hit targets in the United States of America after flying over Central America.
And the U.S. has no...
Let's say over-the-horizon anti-ballistic missile radar capabilities that are looking south.
Now, the U.S. does have satellite technology that can detect launches and things like that, but the U.S. isn't prepared for an attack of missiles from the south.
Russia can do that, too.
So the Atlantic Ocean is no buffer any longer, not against nuclear war.
The Pacific Ocean is no buffer.
And by the way, I mean, China can just send a bunch of shipping vessels and load them up with like 50,000 drones each, and then park them off the coast of California, just open up the top, and it out flies like drone swarms, and those drones can just rock right into San Diego and Los Angeles and wherever and just start blowing up everything.
And there's nothing that America can do to stop that.
Nothing.
Except, I guess, at some point, Maybe try to start sinking those vessels with submarines, but because they're cargo vessels, they can sneak right in.
And by the way, also China and Iran and Russia, they have nuclear missiles that can be hidden in 40-foot containers.
So they could just load up a ship with a bunch of containers and say, yeah, this is just cargo.
You know, this is filled with tennis shoes or whatever.
Speaker parts, headphones, and then it gets close to the coastline and it just opens up, launch missiles.
Time to impact?
150 seconds.
Something like that.
And you're done.
You're done.
America gets nuked into oblivion, especially the coastal targets such as Norfolk, Virginia, the naval base, Washington, D.C., New York City, right?
Los Angeles and the ports on the West Coast as well.
You realize they could cripple America without even attacking much inland.
It's like, you don't even need to hit Chicago.
Chicago's almost a post-nuclear apocalypse every weekend, all by itself.
Nuking Chicago might not make it look any worse than it is right now, at least in terms of potholes and road repair.
I mean, it's bad.
Or Seattle.
It's like, quiz time.
Seattle got nuked over the weekend.
It's like, really?
We can't tell.
It looks like that all the time.
I can just see the White House saying, like, Seattle gets nuked, right?
The White House will probably announce, those are all fake videos, just like they said that all the videos of Joe Biden wandering off into nowhere.
And they're like, those are deep fakes, according to the White House press secretary.
She says those are deep fakes.
Really?
Roll out old Joe right now and prove to us that he's cognizant.
How about that?
So when an American city gets nuked, they'll probably just say, it's fake.
It's fake.
It'll be fact checkers.
Fact check.
Seattle was not nuked.
And everybody's got videos with Geiger counters, like hazmat suits, like, we're in the fallout zones!
And, you know, NBC News will say, it's fake.
It never got nuked, and there's no inflation, and men can have babies.
Of course, they would be mutant babies if they're having babies in the fallout zones.
But then again, if you think men can have babies, there's something wrong with you to begin with.
So the bottom line in this is that currencies rise and fall.
Currencies fail.
And they fail about every hundred years, at least in the Western world, that we keep track of the other currencies that failed in the history of China.
And in the history of, you know, Southeast Asia and the history of South America, boy, you want to have a museum of currency failures, just look at South America.
That's fascinating.
But currencies fail, even world reserve currencies fail about every 100 years.
Other currencies fail even more often than that, by the way.
But world reserve currency is about every hundred years.
So we are overdue, actually, for the collapse of the dollar.
And the U.S. is accelerating this by the way it behaves.
By sanctioning hundreds of businesses and dozens of countries and probably tens of thousands of individuals all over the world.
Economic sanctions.
Weaponizing the dollar reserve status.
The Western nations cut off Russia from the SWIFT system, and then they stole $300 billion worth of Russian assets held in Western currencies.
And now they're going to issue a loan to Ukraine of $50 billion, and they're going to pay for the loan using the seized interest earned on the seized $300 billion that the West looted from Russia.
As Putin says, theft is theft.
And he's right.
So this is what happens when empires become arrogant.
They think that they are not held to account, that they have no repercussions, that they are the kings of the world and they can do whatever they want because they got away with it up till now.
They've been getting away with it for a hundred years.
Why should anything be different?
Well, what's different and what happened in most of these cases is There was either, there was like an investment collapse, like Tulip Bulb Mania, or the East India Trading Company.
There was an internal revolution or revolt, which some people believe is sort of trending in Western countries right now anyway.
People are angry in France again, by the way, and people paying attention in Germany are not happy with their government.
I mean, same thing in the UK, same thing in the US, same thing in Canada.
Not that the Canadians ever revolt really that much, but hey, the truckers did.
You got to give them credit.
But in every case in history, there was a significant event.
Often it was war, like in World War II. Often it was revolt.
Often it was an internal conflict.
But it always ended the empire of arrogance that dominated at the time.
And today, right now, we actually have nearly 100 countries that are openly allied against the dollar and against the United States, and those are called the BRICS plus nations, and there are more nations that are joining BRICS every single day.
So, you know, when power shifted from the British pound to the U.S. dollar, the U.S. wasn't really at war with Great Britain.
They were supposed to be allies, right?
Right.
But today, the BRICS countries are in an economic war against the United States, and they actively want to see the dollar demolished.
And they're going to succeed.
Because the BRICS nations, especially now that Turkey is joining and the Saudis are joining and so on, the BRICS nations, which includes China, obviously, control...
They represent the vast majority of the world's population.
They control about half of the world's oil supply at this point, or energy, not just oil, but natural gas exports.
And in addition, if you do honest accounting about what is GDP, these BRICS nations in the aggregate have a higher GDP than the United States.
Now, the U.S. lies about its GDP by counting, you know, all kinds of fakery and, of course, inflation makes everything more expensive and all the medical billing.
It's like, you know, you need to buy a medical chair.
And it's almost $50,000.
What?
I could buy a chair that's almost exactly the same at Costco for $150.
Oh, but this one's a medical chair.
We're going to build Medicaid for this, right?
So it's $50,000.
Because it's doctor approved, right?
So that counts as GDP, even though it's the same damn chair that you can buy at Costco, the non-medical version, but it's exactly the same.
I forgot which economist said this, but, you know, a haircut in New York City is essentially the same as a haircut in Costa Rica.
You get your haircut, right?
Okay?
In New York City, it's $100.
In Costa Rica, it's $4 or whatever, $2.
I don't know what it is in Costa Rica.
I guess it depends on which city, but you get the point.
The U.S. GDP is wildly exaggerated because of inflation and super high prices, but the U.S. isn't actually producing an equivalent amount of goods and services.
Okay?
My point is that the BRICS nations have, they've got the population, they've got the energy, they've got the GDP, they've got the industrial output, the productivity, also the military output, and now they have the military might.
Russia's got super advanced drones, hypersonic missiles.
Anti-air defense systems.
China has super advanced naval shipyard efficiencies.
They haven't yet caught up to the U.S. on aircraft carrier technology, but they're going to be able to outproduce the U.S. I mean, they have aircraft carrier factories now that can churn out an aircraft carrier about every one to two years.
The U.S. can't do that.
Are you kidding me?
U.S. can't build anything in one to two years.
Even the Baltimore Bridge is probably going to take a decade if that thing ever gets built back, which I doubt.
Anyway, Russia's got advanced submarines.
Russia's got orbital nuke platforms.
You know, China has advanced submarine sensing technology using orbital platforms.
It's pretty clear where this is going.
So, the conclusion in all of this, in my opinion...
Is that the dollar's done.
We have probably...
Okay, in the slowest scenario, we have a couple of years, maybe.
But the dollar will lose value the entire time.
So now let's talk about solutions.
In each one of these cases throughout history...
There was a strategy that got people through the collapse of one currency and then into the new world reserve currency as it took over.
That strategy is very simple.
It's called precious metals.
Okay, you know, Bitcoin didn't exist until relatively recently.
What, 2011 or something like that?
I mean, Bitcoin hasn't lived through one global currency collapse here, not a world reserve currency.
But gold and silver have always made it through.
They've always held value through all of this.
Whether we're talking about, you know, Spain, Netherlands, France, Great Britain, when the British pound collapsed, gold and silver, of course, held value.
And as the dollar collapses, gold and silver will also continue to hold value.
For a number of reasons.
They are immutable.
They're on the table of elements.
They've been recognized as value.
From the beginning of known human civilization, they have numerous industrial uses, but there's also a very natural set of properties about gold and silver that people are naturally attracted to it.
Most importantly, no government can counterfeit gold and silver.
So the U.S. government can counterfeit dollars.
The Brits counterfeited the British pound.
In France, they counterfeited the livre.
I'm talking about money printing.
And the Dutch counterfeited like crazy.
Nobody can run a printing press like the Dutch.
Well, I guess technically the dollar is way worse than what the Dutch did.
So I guess that credit goes to Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve.
But anyway, the point is gold and silver held value.
So the smart people now know...
That the strategy is to get out of the dollar before the dollar collapses, and you won't have a warning sign, except the things I'm telling you about right now, but it's not like the bank or the government or the corporate media is going to send out an alert.
Like, the dollar will be worthless next Tuesday.
Everybody get out.
No.
It'll just be on Tuesday.
Surprise!
Bank holiday.
You're toast.
So you've got to get out of the dollar before that day happens.
And that means getting into gold and silver.
And of course, I have a couple of companies that I recommend that are sponsors.
And you should shop around.
You should do your research.
You can compare.
And you can talk to your financial advisors, but do what's right for you.
But I do want to let you know who I recommend.
It's the Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
You can find them at metalswithmike.com.
And they are incredibly well-trusted.
They offer insured, discreet, guaranteed delivery of physical gold and silver in your hands.
And they have coins very competitively priced from all over the world.
You know, the different recognized mints.
Plus, U.S. Mint, if you want to pay that premium for U.S. Mint, you can do that.
But personally, I avoid U.S. Mint coins most of the time, and I go with, like, Australian kangaroos or, you know, the Philharmonics or the Britannicas or the...
South African Krugerrands or what have you.
There's a Japanese mint that's really good too.
There's a lot of different mints all over the world that are well recognized.
So you can reach them at metalswithmike.com.
Just go there, metalswithmike.com.
It'll take you to their page.
You can check their prices.
If gold and silver are right for you, then that is my recommended place to get it.
The other option is if you want very divisible gold embedded into these goldbacks as they're called, you can go to verifiedgoldbacks.com.
It's like goldbacks instead of greenbacks, you know, but it's not like a replacement for the dollar because goldbacks contain real gold.
They're not just paper.
And they're not currency.
It's just a form of gold that is kind of easy to carry and easy to count because you can get them in one one-thousandth of an ounce or five one-thousands or ten one-thousands or whatever.
And these goldbacks are absolutely gorgeous.
And the story about goldbacks was so amazing that at first I didn't believe it.
And so I said to the founder, I said, Jeremy, you know, send me a couple of goldbacks.
I'm going to test them.
And I did.
I tested them in my lab.
I had to buy a kiln and I melted them down.
I extracted the gold and we weighed the gold on the analytical balance.
And it turns out their goldbacks deliver 102 to about 107% of the claimed amount of gold.
There's actually a little bit of extra gold in there.
And then I took it to my lab for the ICP-MS elemental analysis.
Because, you know, we've got mass spec instruments in our labs, and we use nitric acid or hydrochloric acid to dissolve the gold into the liquid.
We fed the liquid into the ICP, and we looked at the composition.
It comes back.
Wow, it's better than 24 karat gold.
We can see exactly how much of the other elements are in there, a little bit of nickel, a little bit of copper, a little bit of iron, but better than 24 karat gold.
So the goldbacks are not only...
What's considered pure gold, 24 karat purity, that's a grade of purity, but also more than the claimed mass of gold is in the bills.
So the thing about goldbacks versus like some currency is you don't have to have faith in a government.
All you have to do is understand that gold has value.
The gold is in the goldbacks.
They make great gifts, by the way, and I like to tip waiters with them because everybody freaks out.
They're like, this is amazing.
It's the best thing I've ever had.
So again, check that out at verifiedgoldbacks.com if that's an option for you.
One disclaimer is, you know, I'm not your financial advisor.
I don't know exactly when the dollar is going to collapse.
I just gave you the map of the timeline of history.
I think the dollar has collapsed.
Personally, I think it's less than a couple years away.
It could be months.
It could be weeks.
I do not know exactly.
But I don't think the dollar exists much longer.
It's very clear to me.
I'm looking at the signs and it's obvious.
And the weaponization of the dollar has caused the world to accelerate de-dollarization.
And so watch my interviews with Andy Sheckman, by the way.
He explains this very well.
He's been talking about this for years.
People used to mock him just a couple years ago.
Like, what do you mean, de-dollarization?
That's so stupid.
It's never going to happen.
What are you talking about, BRICS? You know, B-R-I-C-S, BRICS. And Andy Sheckman stuck to his guns.
He does an amazing amount of research, and he knows what he's talking about.
And he laid it out, and he's been right.
And the other guy that knows what he's talking about is Gerald Salenti.
And Gerald Salenti is the publisher of the Trends Journal, which is the best financial newsletter in the world, as far as I'm concerned.
He puts out an issue once a week.
I've interviewed him a couple of times.
I'm going to have him back on, I think, next month.
Boy, is he going to blow his top.
When Gerald gets angry about what's happening in the world, man, just don't interrupt him.
That's all.
Just let him go.
But I'll have him back on, and he's extended a discount to our audience.
So if you go to trendsjournal.com and you subscribe to his journal, it's a couple of bucks a week, okay?
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So those are the best financial resources that I know.
Get gold and silver.
Or consider goldbacks in a format if that works for you.
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If you do these things, I think you will be relatively safe compared to most people, even compared to most people throughout history, that got absolutely financially decimated by these major transitions as one world reserve currency collapsed and a new one rose out of the ashes of economic destruction.
But, again, you look throughout history.
How many people got wiped out by the collapse of the British pound?
How many people got wiped out by the Dutch Gilder collapsing, right?
How many people got wiped out by the Real, the abandonment of the Real by world traders?
People got clobbered.
They're going to get just decimated when the dollar collapses.
My goal, personally, is to have the minimum exposure in the dollar.
I have to have a certain amount because I'm running a business.
I have to meet payroll.
I have to pay suppliers for raw materials and farmers and so on.
We have bills to pay, so unfortunately, they only accept dollars.
That's going to change soon.
I wish they would accept Bitcoin, frankly.
It would be so much easier.
But currently, they only accept dollars.
Until the dollar collapses, you've got to have dollars around, so we'll all lose something.
I'm just trying not to lose everything.
And depending on how much you want to lose, I guess that's how much you should leave in the dollar.
Really?
I mean, that's the most blunt way to say it.
So check all that out.
Get yourself prepared.
Do your own research.
Talk to all your advisors.
Call up all your 50 advisors.
Gather them in a room.
What do you think I should do?
And watch all your advisors say, you should stay in the Western banking system because it's never going to fail.
The dollar will be the world reserve currency forever and ever and ever.
That's what all your advisors will probably say.
And then they will all become penniless when the dollar collapses.
So, you know?
It's your choice.
Your assets, your money, your dollars, your future, whatever.
I mean, your future is determined by who you listen to, I guess, or what information you get and how well you assess what's happening.
I will tell you this.
I know a lot of wealthy people.
I know several billionaires, actual billionaires.
They are not sitting on dollars.
I can tell you that there are no billionaires with rooms full of stacks of $100 bills.
Doesn't exist.
And most people who actually earned money, not just inherited it, but people who earned money, you know, successful entrepreneurs and so on, They're getting out of the dollar as quickly as they can.
They're getting into all kinds of other things.
Sometimes it's gold and silver.
Sometimes it's crypto.
Sometimes it's investments.
Sometimes it's land.
Sometimes it's commodities.
You know, sometimes they want to buy like an oil company and just own a percentage of the oil that comes out of the ground.
I get it.
Okay, energy will be in demand for a long time.
As long as there's people, they're going to need energy.
So I get it.
Some people are buying mines, like they want an aluminum mine.
I mean, personally, I don't want a mine because I don't like the environmental impact of mining operations, but the world does need aluminum, so I get it.
Some of those people, that's what they choose to do.
Anyway, do your own research, make your own decisions, understand where we are in history.
Red dot, you are here.
You are at the end of the dollar.
Plus or minus a couple of years.
That's about it in my assessment.
You're at the end of the dollar.
What's next?
Bricks.
So it's going to be the Bricks currency from, let's say, 2025 to 2125 or 2130.
And then after the year 2130, I mean, if humanity even lives that long, if we don't nuke ourselves into oblivion, then, you know, Bricks will collapse.
It'll be something else.
I can't even imagine what that would be at that time.
It'd be like exotic alien, you know, bioelectric currency, like crypto in your cells or something.
I have no idea.
We're not going to be around for that anyway, so we don't have to worry.
But thanks for listening.
Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger, founder of Brighteon.com.
Read my articles at NaturalNews.com and watch all my interviews and special reports at Brighteon.com.
And by the way, the most reliable way to hear from me that will work even in a nuclear war, even if the internet kill switch is activated, even if domain names are seized, the most accurate way to reach me is go to Brighteon.io.
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It's run entirely by distributed nodes just like Bitcoin, except it's a content platform.
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So check it out, brighttown.io.
And I'm at HealthRanger.
That's my username there, HealthRanger.
So you can follow me there.
And if everything else goes down, brighttown.io will be the last reliable way to hear from me in a global emergency, which I think is coming.
So make a point to do that.
Check it out, brighttown.io.
Sign up.
Again, you can just use it through a browser if you want, or you can download the app and run it from the app.
And if you run it from an app, then it does not need domain name resolution, so then it's immune to domain name confiscation at that point because it's running on peer-to-peer IP traffic through the app.
So check it out.
And thanks for listening.
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But get prepared.
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