Mike Adams warns the Strait of Hormuz closure and Qatar’s LNG shutdown—slashing 20–30% of global supply—will spike U.S. food prices 8–15% by year-end, Europe 12–20%, with fertilizer costs (70–90% gas-dependent) cutting crop yields 10–20%. Steel, chemicals, and aluminum face shortages as gas shortages ripple through industries, while Iran’s blockade risks famine in Gulf states. Adams blames U.S.-Israel escalation—driven by Netanyahu-Trump ties—for triggering this crisis, dismissing inflation claims as propaganda, and urges stockpiling food, iodine, and survival gear ahead of potential nuclear fallout or economic collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
Okay, welcome to this special analysis of global food inflation that has been set into motion by Trump and the United States waging a war on Iran, which of course caused Qatar to shut down its natural gas production because of course it was being struck by Iran, some of the infrastructure there.
And also the Strait of Hormuz is now closed.
So there's no liquid natural gas moving through the strait, which means that anywhere from 20 to 30% of the global supply of natural gas has been cut off for an undetermined period of time.
Well, now for people who are just kind of, I don't know, Super Bowl rah-rah, like watching the war and eating popcorn and, you know, rooting for Trump and everything, those level of low IQ people, they don't think about the long-term ramifications of what this war has just set into motion.
But you do listening to this.
And so you want me to look forward and to do the research and to bring you credible numbers about what it means.
And that's exactly what I have done.
So I unleash a swarm of AI research agents, multiple models doing multiple things earlier today.
And we brought back the final answer on how much food prices will go up in 2026 in the United States and in Europe based on what has happened so far and also some projections about 2027.
So let me show you this graphic first here.
It's a projected global food price crisis 2026, 2027 and beyond.
And through AI reasoning, which the reasoning models are very, very good right now, I pulled in about 45 sources of information, including historic information, about what other crises have caused in the past and in terms of nitrogen shortages or fertilizer shortages, crop yields, etc.
And so let me walk you through this infographic.
Although, if you want to jump to the bottom line, it's that in the United States, probably by the end of this year, food prices will rise 8% to 15% with a six-month lag.
So it's not going to happen tomorrow, right?
It's going to be about six months.
And then in Europe, prices of food will go up 12% to 20%, also with a six-month lag.
And then in 2027, they're going to continue to rise even more in Europe, whereas in the United States, it could be another 3% to 5% of price increases in 2027.
Now, that doesn't even take into account the continued decline of the value of the dollar.
So money printing will make these numbers effectively worse in terms of what prices you have to pay at the grocery store.
But at the very least, where we are right now today is 8% to 15% price increases of groceries in the United States.
And that tells you something.
Something critical.
You need to learn to grow more of your own food if you can.
And also, quite literally, stockpiling food right now is going to be the discount price version compared to where it's going to be in six months.
That's just a reality of where this is going.
Even our own costs at our store, healthrangerstore.com slash survival.
We've got all our food products there for you to help you stock up for the storm that's coming.
And there's no way that our prices are going to go down.
As our inputs go up, the prices of everything that we offer there, the food buckets, the number 10 cans, the freeze-dried fruits and vegetables, lab-tested, certified organic, everything, all those prices are going to go up.
No question about it.
And that's even assuming that the Suez Canal is operating.
We're not even sure about that.
So let's start with step one.
Let's go back to the beginning here.
Start with step one of this infographic.
And to my editor, if you could just show step one, kind of zoom in on that, or maybe step one and step two together.
Step one is the energy shock.
So Qatar, or really a company called Qatar Energy, has shut down all liquid natural gas production.
That's done.
That was announced yesterday.
Strait of Hormuz is closed.
Global gas prices are spiking.
And the historical precedent says there will be plus 54%.
We're already seeing gas prices spike over 50% in Western Europe.
Not in the United States because the U.S. has its own domestic gas supply.
The U.S. actually has much more gas abundance compared to Western Europe because Western Europe shut down their gas fields, citing climate change.
Well, as a result, they're going to starve or, well, they're going to pay a lot more for food.
Let's put it that way.
All right, then moving on to step two.
So gas is responsible for 70 to 90% of the cost of ammonia, which of course is the primary input into nitrogenous fertilizer.
So fertilizer production costs now surge.
As a result, farmers will reduce applications of fertilizer either voluntarily or involuntarily, as in we just can't get it or we can't afford to put the normal amount on these crops.
Remember, farmers are always in a poor cash flow situation, and many of them have to turn to financing from one season to the next.
So any higher cost of inputs will really hurt them badly and in many cases will cause them to use less, use less nitrogen.
So as a result of that, then if you go to step three, it shows that the yield impact is devastating.
Reduced fertilizer causes a 10 to 20% yield decline in staples like corn, wheat, and soy, et cetera.
even alfalfa and animal feed products.
So that causes a shrinking of the global supply of these staples.
And remember that what we grow in America, much of it is exported to other countries.
And importers include China, for example.
China imports a huge amount of its food because it can't grow enough to feed its population.
But also the Gulf states, think about Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc., Kuwait, Iraq.
They import a tremendous amount of their own food.
And as the Strait of Hormuz is blocked, by the way, they won't be able to import food.
They're going to face a whole different level of potential famine or food scarcity there.
But even in so-called food-abundant America, you know, we've got cornfields and we've got natural gas and we've got oil.
But even in America, the reduced yields of the crops is going to result in, of course, a smaller volume of availability.
And then because this is a global phenomenon where nitrogen fertilizer will be in short supply everywhere around the world at the same time, you're going to have reduced yields everywhere, which means other countries will be buying whatever they can find and buying off much of the U.S. supply, causing price increases in the United States.
That's right.
You're going to be paying much more for your glyphosate crackers and glyphosate breadloaf for real.
Okay, and then step four, inelastic demand plus supply shortfall causes inflation that extends through 2027.
So inelastic demand means, of course, everybody has to eat.
And regardless of the price of food, you have to buy it.
So it's not like you're going to buy much less if food gets way more expensive.
Although you might shift from brand name foods to more generic brands if you're buying that kind of processed food.
Or you might shift from one crop to another.
You might choose to have more rice meals, for example, if rice isn't hit by this as much.
Yeah, have fun with that one.
Very few people will eat less, is my point.
They will just, they'll still buy something.
Now, let's go to the bottom of this graphic now called critical risk factors and assumptions.
And these assumptions were the assumptions I fed into the reasoning AI engine that came up with this infographic.
Fertilizer availability.
Clearly, the shutdown of liquid natural gas is going to cause long-term deficits in fertilizer availability.
That's obvious.
Geopolitical contagion, broader petroleum disruptions, spike transport costs.
Well, that's also valid because what we're witnessing is a global phenomenon.
In other words, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the shutting down of gas in Qatar, this affects everybody in the world in one way or another.
It's not just a regional impact.
It might be a regional kinetic war, but it's a global economic impact.
This affects almost all the countries in Asia, for example, including China, including Japan, including Korea, etc., even Taiwan.
And what you need to remember is that natural gas is used for so many things.
It's not just fertilizer.
It's used for aluminum smelting operations.
And as a result, by the way, I think there's an aluminum manufacturer also in Qatar that has shut down.
It's used in creating chemicals.
So remember BASIF in Germany that would create about 40,000 different chemicals based on hydrocarbons.
Well, natural gas, that's the feedstock for the hydrocarbons.
So if you don't have natural gas, you don't have 40,000 chemicals that are using everything from paint and food dyes to medicine and technology and solvents and whatever else.
Adhesives in the medical field, everywhere.
It all starts with natural gas, or much of it does.
In addition, the steel industry uses natural gas typically in order to fire up the large-scale kilns or whatever they are, to melt the iron ore and blend in the carbon and the other minor components for your, you know, for your steel alloys.
Yeah, you're heating that with gas.
You're not heating it.
It's not a wood fire and it's not a coal fire.
They're not shoveling coal.
They're heating it with gas because it's clean and easy to work with.
Well, with all this gas gone now, guess what?
Steel industries are going to go into a shortfall.
And so steel prices are going to go up, which is going to raise the price of commercial construction and automobiles, ships, you name it, anything made out of steel.
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That's a lot of things.
So the conclusion of this infographic is that this is a perfect storm for global agri-food systems to suffer significant inflationary pressures through 2027.
And we've only just begun, actually, this is just getting started.
This picture can get a lot worse depending on where this goes.
For example, if someone starts rolling out nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which is a possibility, then we don't know where the nuclear weapons are going to end and how much damage they may do to the region, rendering areas semi-permanently unusable for anything.
Now, it's pretty obvious that there is nobody in the White House that is thinking about second order or third order effects of their war on Iran.
They just want to destroy Iran to appease their masters who are the Israeli leaders like Netanyahu.
And they're not thinking about the fact that this is going to cause food inflation.
And remember last Thanksgiving when the White House went out of its way to tell you that all the costs were going down.
There's no inflation.
That your Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper now, even though they were substituting everything with like no-name brands and they reduced the portions and they reduced the number of servings and everything.
It was all just deception, of course, to try to convince stupid people that they're paying less for groceries when everybody can go to the grocery store and they can realize, no, these prices are higher.
The prices are going up.
We can see it.
But imagine how much harder the White House is going to have to work to lie to you when your food prices go up 8% to 15% by the end of this year.
And then maybe even higher next year.
And that's, again, that's on top of whatever dollar devaluation takes place between now and then.
And since there's all kinds of money printing underway, we could be looking at food inflation this year of 20% or by next year, it could easily be 25, 30%, something like that.
Don't be surprised if it hits those numbers.
And so what then?
What kind of BS narrative are we going to get from the White House at that point?
Oh, you're not paying more for food.
You should eat what do they say?
Like a tortilla, a piece of broccoli, and a piece of chicken or something.
And they were saying it's less expensive.
What are they going to tell you in the future?
Soylent green is very affordable or some nonsense like that.
But they have unleashed all of this by starting this war with Iran.
Remember, Israel struck first with the United States.
But by starting this war, Trump, because this wouldn't have happened without Trump, Trump has unleashed second order and third order effects across the world that will cause food scarcity, poverty, Famine in some areas, malnutrition in other areas.
That's just part of the cost of what Trump and the Zionists are extracting from the world because they are, you know, insane warmongers who just want to kill everybody that doesn't bow down to them.
So these are some of the costs that are going to be experienced by the world, including you.
You will pay more for food because of this.
So you can thank Trump when you're shopping this Thanksgiving or shopping for food this coming Christmas.
You can thank Trump for the new high prices that you'll have to pay.
Now, finally, this analysis did not even consider the higher energy transportation costs.
Because of course, the Strait of Hormuz being closed off means that oil will also go up in price.
We're already seeing oil markets spike, and that threatens to get a lot worse.
Now, remember, Trump has said, oh, don't worry, don't worry.
We'll cover the insurance for all the ships to go ahead and sail through the Strait of Hormuz.
The problem, and by the way, he's pledging your taxpayer dollars to cover the replacement costs of ships that are sunk by Iran, that are destroyed.
The problem with that plan is that that doesn't bring back the oil or the gas if the tanker is destroyed.
You know, I mean, and also, what if there's a large gas tanker trying to move through?
That thing's like a floating mega-bomb.
If you strike a natural gas tanker with a missile, do you have any idea the level of destruction that that would set off?
I mean, it would be almost like a small nuclear bomb went off, and that ship would be disintegrated.
So even if you can write a check for the insurance, it doesn't bring back the gas, does it?
Doesn't bring back the oil.
So, you know, Trump is realizing the hard way.
You can print dollars.
You can't print natural gas.
Otherwise, they would have been doing so this whole time.
The other plan from Trump is that we're going to have the U.S. Navy escort all these other ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
Well, good luck with that because that's going to bring the Navy just within a few miles of the southern Iranian shoreline and the southern Iranian mountain ranges there from which Iran can fire all kinds of missiles to harass the ships and damage U.S. naval vessels.
Plus, Iran has underwater drones and mines and air drones as well as air missiles and anti-ship missiles.
You know, they've got lots of things to harass ships, including U.S. naval ships.
And the U.S. Navy itself is going to run out of air defense munitions pretty quickly.
They've already been firing, you know, hundreds, if not thousands of them, which means they only have a few more days of ammunition left, probably.
And at that point, then what are you going to do?
You know, then your naval vessel is just a giant floating target out there in the middle of the strait, which isn't very wide.
So your ships can't sail very far away from Iran if they're going to go through the Strait of Hormuz.
This is a geographic choke point that Iran just happened to inherit just, you know, by history and geography, etc.
So since you can't change the geography, you got to sail through the strait.
And right there, you're a sitting duck.
And Iran is just going to start sinking ships until there comes a point where the ship captains say, no, I'm not sailing through there because I don't want to lose my ship.
I don't want to die.
Which seems logical.
So in other words, Iran is in the driver's seat on this, and Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed as long as they want, and they can keep the natural gas production closed in Qatar as long as they want.
And so Iran is using this as an asymmetrical global economic leverage point.
This is really economic warfare.
Iran is going to cause mass disruptions to the global energy markets that typically trade in U.S. dollars.
And this will reduce dollar demand, and it will cause extreme pain to both Gulf state nations and Asian nations, some of which are U.S. allies, such as South Korea and Taiwan and Japan, but also extreme pain to Western Europe.
Extreme pain.
Western Europe's going to get the worst of this.
I'm talking about France and Spain and the UK and Germany, etc.
So probably what's happening right now, this is my guess, is that all of those nations I just mentioned, every one of them, and maybe on top of it, China too, are calling the White House and screaming and saying you have to stop this war because we cannot survive this economically.
Our industries are threatened.
Our farmers are going to be threatened.
how are we going to get the fertilizer that we used to get how are we going to get the how are we going to create steel or even in france you know they have glass industries there and in germany they have optics industries well how do you melt glass you use natural gas obviously i mean you you use heat ovens that use gas to melt glass that's how you create optics well without the gas you can't do it so We're talking about a shutdown of industry across Western Europe.
So these countries are no doubt demanding that Trump find an off-ramp, but Trump doesn't listen to them.
He listens to only one foreign leader, and that's Netanyahu, who is completely controlling Trump, pulling all his strings.
And Netanyahu says, keep bombing and keep dying for Israel.
And Trump says, okay, we'll throw U.S. soldiers.
We'll do everything.
We'll do everything for Israel because the Trump administration is Israel first, America last.
Americans can pay higher prices for food.
Americans can starve for all he cares as long as the Zionists are happy.
You know, the billionaire donor class of Zionists.
As long as they're happy, then, you know, Trump is happy with himself for keeping his loyalties to the Zionists while betraying America.
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That's where this is going.
So if you don't want to pay through the nose for groceries later this year, you should maybe join our efforts in trying to demand de-escalation, demand peace, stop this insane war, which was started by the U.S. and Israel, and resume the shipments of energy.
Otherwise, we are all going to pay the price later on this year and all the way into next year as well.
All right, if you want to see this infographic in more detail, well, where can you see it actually?
Oh, I posted it on Brighteon.social and on my Telegram channel as well, which is RealHealthRanger.
You can also read my articles at naturalnews.com, and I do have infographics in those articles as well.
And finally, you can watch more of my videos like this one, podcasts and interviews at brightvideos.com.
So thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
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