Health Ranger - Mike Adams - US Military Mirage SHATTERED as U.S. Can No Longer Protect its Allies Aired: 2026-03-13 Duration: 26:50 === The End of American Dominance (11:14) === [00:00:04] Okay, you're watching history pivoting right now. [00:00:08] This is the end of the American military dominance of the world. [00:00:12] It's the end of the American Empire, or at least the beginning of the end. [00:00:15] And we're seeing just a daily humiliation of the U.S. military empire. [00:00:21] For example, just in the last day, a KC-135 Strato tanker, that's an in-air refueling aircraft, very large aircraft with, I believe, six crew members, was shot down over Iraq. [00:00:35] And of course it was shot down, even though the U.S. military always says, because they just lie constantly, they say, no, it wasn't shot down. [00:00:44] It just crashed. [00:00:46] Oh, wow, it just crashed, really? [00:00:48] Hmm. [00:00:49] Just like they said the F-18 Hornets over in the Red Sea last year, they said, oh, they rolled off the deck of the aircraft carrier. [00:00:56] Yeah, right. [00:00:57] Or when F-15s have been shot down in this current conflict, we're always told, oh, it was friendly fire, friendly fire. [00:01:05] Well, no. [00:01:07] Actually, all these aircraft are being shot down by either Iran itself or Iranian militia groups that operate in countries like Iraq. [00:01:18] So this KC-135 aircraft is toast. [00:01:23] And I think that's a $60-plus million dollar airplane all by itself. [00:01:27] And other similar planes are evacuating that area now, obviously, because, well, there is air defense functioning there. [00:01:35] But you're never told that. [00:01:37] But look, what's emerging here is the fact that the illusion of U.S. military protection for its allies has just been shattered by Iran. [00:01:50] Again, the illusion of U.S. military protection has just been shattered permanently. [00:01:57] And it's thanks to Trump and Pete Hegseth and others that they've just destroyed all credibility of the U.S. military, where everyone in the world used to think that the U.S. could protect its allies. [00:02:10] And now they realize, oh, it cannot. [00:02:12] It's just like I said a couple of weeks ago. [00:02:15] The U.S. military is a paper tiger. [00:02:18] You can go back to my podcast. [00:02:20] I said that exact thing. [00:02:21] And now they are proving it every single day. [00:02:24] They are proving that the U.S. military is a paper tiger. [00:02:28] Think about it. [00:02:29] The U.S. can't protect its allies in the Gulf, can't protect Qatar, can't protect Iraq, even Kuwait, UAE, you name it. [00:02:39] Can't protect Bahrain, obviously. [00:02:41] Can't even protect the Fifth Fleet headquarters. [00:02:44] The U.S. also can't protect Taiwan. [00:02:48] That's obvious. [00:02:49] Can't protect South Korea. [00:02:51] Force South Korea to pack up and ship over the high-altitude anti-air defense system, the THAD system, as it's called. [00:03:00] Send that over to Israel, I think. [00:03:03] So the U.S. can't protect them either. [00:03:05] The U.S. can't protect the Strait of Hormuz. [00:03:08] The U.S. can't protect its own shipping vessels, the tankers, because in the last, what, 36 hours, three different ships have been attacked and set on fire by Iranian forces. [00:03:23] Some of those are tankers, of course. [00:03:26] The U.S. simply cannot protect its allies. [00:03:31] And that was one of the main selling points of the U.S. to say, hey, let us put a military base in your country because if you have a military base, you'll be protected. [00:03:42] We will protect you against an uncertain world. [00:03:46] Turns out, actually, if a U.S. military base is in your country, then you become a target. [00:03:51] That's what Qatar is learning right now. [00:03:54] So here's the upshot of this. [00:03:57] The U.S. is about to be kicked out of the Middle East. [00:04:02] Nearly every one of these nations that previously had a U.S. military base, they are about to change their minds, including Saudi Arabia, by the way. [00:04:10] They're about to change their minds. [00:04:12] Behind the scenes, they've already done that. [00:04:15] But publicly, they're about to change their minds and say to the U.S., no, thank you. [00:04:19] We don't want your military bases here. [00:04:21] We don't need your so-called protection because it doesn't work. [00:04:26] And just as importantly, Taiwan is going to say something similar. [00:04:30] Taiwan, with the Kuomintang party, the KMT, which is a pro-mainland Chinese party there, in contrast to the DPP, which is more about Taiwan independence, but the KMT is currently winning the argument. [00:04:49] And there's a very strong push for Taiwan to simply negotiate a way to join mainland China to have the protection of China because the U.S. can't protect Taiwan. [00:05:02] U.S. can't even protect Qatar. [00:05:04] The U.S. can't even protect its own airplanes, its own navy, its own military bases. [00:05:09] Think about it. [00:05:10] The Iron Dome doesn't work. [00:05:14] Ted Postal, I think is how you say his last name, MIT, engineer, weapons expert for decades, Ted Postal. [00:05:23] He's done a lot of interviews lately. [00:05:25] He says that the actual interception effectiveness of the Patriot missiles or interceptors is at best 5%. [00:05:34] That means 19 out of 20 incoming missiles or more are able to bypass the Patriot missile defense. [00:05:43] Yeah, he's right. [00:05:44] I mean, if you see any of the videos, you see that the interceptors launched from the ground in Tel Aviv, let's say, or from the U.S. military bases, etc., they're not working. [00:05:56] The U.S. doesn't have air interception technology that works against missiles. [00:06:03] Now, it works against aircraft, to be clear, because aircraft typically move much more slowly and are bigger targets, easier to track, etc. [00:06:11] But those systems don't work against incoming missiles. [00:06:16] And Iran has missiles, not aircraft. [00:06:19] Iran has drones. [00:06:21] And the drones are getting through. [00:06:23] And U.S. military radar installations have been obliterated across the entire region. [00:06:29] The U.S. Navy doesn't even dare come close to the Strait of Hormuz because the naval commanders, they know that their vessels will be destroyed. [00:06:40] The USS Abraham Lincoln was already struck. [00:06:43] Yeah, you're not hearing that in the news either. [00:06:46] And then, isn't there a story about, oh, the USS Ford just caught on fire, but it wasn't from enemy fire. [00:06:53] It was just a fire. [00:06:55] But don't worry, we put it out. [00:06:57] You know, we're being told all these fake stories by the Pentagon. [00:07:00] The truth is, the U.S. military is obsolete. [00:07:05] It does not work in the way that it has been promised to us. [00:07:10] Air defense doesn't work. [00:07:12] Bombing campaigns don't cause regime change, not in Iran. [00:07:17] The Navy can't secure the Strait of Hormuz. [00:07:22] Just can't do it. [00:07:23] And U.S. artillery that was deployed in Ukraine did not defeat Russia. [00:07:28] U.S. tanks, the Abrams, did not defeat Russia. [00:07:32] The High Mars missiles did not defeat Russia. [00:07:36] None of it works. [00:07:37] None of it works. [00:07:40] And what you realize is that the U.S. military has been a racket of financial fraud. [00:07:46] The military-industrial complex functions as a money laundering operation to launder money into the pockets of manufacturers that then they pledge a percentage back to senators and other important members of Congress, etc. [00:08:04] It's a giant money laundering racket. [00:08:07] That's why we fire interceptors that cost $4 million each against an Iranian drone that might cost $25,000. [00:08:18] And even if our interceptor hits the drone, we still lose because we've just blown typically $8 million because we usually fire two because the hit rate is so low. [00:08:29] Yeah. [00:08:30] Do you think that America's ICBM interceptors would work in a nuclear war? [00:08:37] The answer is no. [00:08:39] They wouldn't work either. [00:08:41] So the U.S. has no defense against nuclear war. [00:08:44] Russia has a working defense system. [00:08:48] Russia has, what are they, the SA-400s or whatever they're called? [00:08:55] I don't recall all the numbers, but advanced anti-air defense systems that can also take out low-level satellites as well as ICBMs, as well as aircraft, as well as drones, you name it. [00:09:07] Not with 100% effectiveness, by the way, but with some effectiveness, whereas the U.S. technology has near zero effectiveness at intercepting missiles or ICBMs. [00:09:18] And certainly, U.S. technology can't intercept hypersonic missiles at all. [00:09:23] And we've seen that in Ukraine. [00:09:26] And we've seen that also in Israel lately as well, because Iran is launching occasionally, it seems to be launching these crazy, insane hypersonic missiles, some of which change direction and rapidly accelerate in the seconds before impact. [00:09:45] I've seen some videos that are just seemingly mind-blowing. [00:09:50] No one is talking about what these weapons really are because we've never seen this before. [00:09:56] Maybe Ted Postel probably is the best expert who is analyzing this video footage. [00:10:05] But I haven't yet heard him talk about those last stage accelerations. [00:10:08] Maybe he will, or maybe he has, and I've missed it. [00:10:11] Anyway, he's a good guy to follow, by the way, if you want to get up to speed on the tech. [00:10:16] So here's the bottom line, is that the illusion of U.S. military dominance has been shattered. [00:10:23] The U.S. cannot protect its allies. [00:10:25] The U.S. cannot protect Israel. [00:10:29] And the U.S. actually, for the last several decades, has functioned only as a bully, a kind of big-talking bully that asserted power through threats and coercion. [00:10:42] And that's Trump. [00:10:43] Trump functions as a gangster, Pete Hegseth, also, a gangster. [00:10:47] And they thought it would work. [00:10:48] They thought if they just made bigger and bigger threats that Iran would surrender. [00:10:53] And what Iran has shown is that if you stand up to the bully, the bully runs out of ammo and their systems don't work and their planes can get shot down and their ships are vulnerable and they're weaker than they look. [00:11:08] Again, this is the first time in history that this has happened. [00:11:11] That is in the history of the United States of America. [00:11:13] This is the first time. [00:11:15] Everything changes from here. === Global Geopolitical Reconfiguration (05:34) === [00:11:18] Think about it. [00:11:18] Number one, this emboldens China. [00:11:22] China is watching this and realizing, hey, we don't have to be intimidated by America if it comes to the situation with Taiwan. [00:11:30] America's weak. [00:11:33] The Navy is incompetent. [00:11:34] The Air Force doesn't know what they're doing. [00:11:37] Russia is also paying attention and realizing, if they didn't already, that Russia is 10 to 20 years ahead of the U.S. military in terms of technology. [00:11:46] Way ahead. [00:11:46] You know, Oreshnik missiles, Kinzal missiles, Iskander missiles, hyperglide vehicles, you know, stealth submarines, you name it, electronic warfare, air defense systems. [00:12:00] Russia is more advanced than the U.S. in every one of those areas that I mentioned, and many others. [00:12:05] China has over 200 times the shipyard, dockyard, whatever it's called, capacity compared to the United States. [00:12:15] China can produce 200 times more naval vessels per year than the United States. [00:12:21] That's not an exaggeration. [00:12:23] That's where we are. [00:12:26] And China's building a lot of ships now, and they're going to keep building aircraft carriers, etc. [00:12:34] And, yeah, China's aircraft carriers that are coming out, they're not as advanced as the USS Ford, but the USS Ford doesn't even have toilets that work. [00:12:42] So for all the billions, what was that? [00:12:46] $12, $13 billion or something that was spent on the USS Gerald R. Ford, and the toilets don't work. [00:12:54] Yeah, I bet you that China's aircraft carrier toilets will actually flush. [00:12:59] I'm just guessing. [00:13:01] Because it's not just some giant money laundering operation. [00:13:06] They're actually building weapons for defense of their nation. [00:13:10] Whereas in America, we have an industry that exists just to launder money around and to pretend that we have systems that work when they largely don't. [00:13:19] So again, this is where history changes. [00:13:21] So the ramifications of this are, of course, enormous. [00:13:25] It means that more and more countries around the world are going to distance themselves from the United States. [00:13:33] This will likely include Taiwan soon. [00:13:35] I would imagine that Taiwan is going to find a way to rejoin with mainland China officially. [00:13:44] Because, well, they need the protection. [00:13:47] They need the opportunity of working with China, which is a country that is positioned toward the future, versus working with America, which is a country of loser leaders that's living in the past. [00:14:01] Japan, similar situation. [00:14:04] Japan is going to have to make a choice. [00:14:06] If Japan wants a future, it's going to have to reject the U.S. military presence there, which would be a huge deal because the U.S. has dominated Japan since the end of World War II and the surrender, 1945. [00:14:19] But if Japan is going to have a future, it needs to invite the U.S. to leave. [00:14:26] Same thing with South Korea. [00:14:28] South Korea realizes it cannot defend itself against North Korea. [00:14:32] North Korea also has nuclear weapons. [00:14:35] And South Korea is just watching jaw-dropping episode of the U.S. pulling equipment out of South Korea that the country needs for its own defense. [00:14:48] So, I mean, look around the world. [00:14:53] Everybody that's a U.S. ally is either being tariffed or sanctioned or bombed. [00:15:00] Well, maybe not everybody, not yet. [00:15:03] Well, is Australia being tariffed? [00:15:05] Yeah, probably. [00:15:06] All of Europe is being tariffed or was. [00:15:09] Taiwan's being hit with Section 301 trade sanctions. [00:15:13] Japan's hit. [00:15:14] India is hit. [00:15:16] Again, if you're a U.S. ally, you know, you're being sanctioned or tariffed or bombed, typically. [00:15:23] And why? [00:15:24] For what benefit? [00:15:25] No benefit. [00:15:26] There's no benefit to be an American ally at this point. [00:15:30] Trump has made sure of that. [00:15:32] Besent has made sure of that. [00:15:34] There's no benefit. [00:15:34] In fact, there's a cost to be a U.S. ally at this point. [00:15:39] This is a reconfiguration of the global geopolitical chessboard. [00:15:44] Many of these countries will start to choose BRICS nations. [00:15:47] They will actively seek out trade protection from China. [00:15:52] China recently announced the elimination of all tariffs from all African nations. [00:15:57] Did you know that? [00:15:59] That's to encourage trade back and forth with Africa. [00:16:02] The U.S. instead runs around the world slapping punitive tariffs on everybody to discourage trade. [00:16:09] More and more these countries will side with China because China wants to build marketplaces. [00:16:18] China wants to engage in trade. [00:16:20] China is very forward-thinking on innovation and technology and automation. [00:16:26] China needs markets, and a lot of these other countries around the world, they need technology. [00:16:32] China now has the technology. [00:16:34] China is the leader in technology across most areas that exist of technology, you know, from robotics and drones and rare earth, minerals extraction, advanced applied materials, etc. [00:16:46] Chemistry, you know, you name it. [00:16:48] Physics, optics. [00:16:50] China leads in almost everything. === Domestic Upheaval and Scarcity (02:50) === [00:16:53] So this is the moment that I've been warning about. [00:16:56] I talked about this really for years. [00:16:58] How many times have I said this is you're watching the end of the American Empire? [00:17:03] And here we are. [00:17:04] Now you see it's abundantly obvious from a military perspective. [00:17:10] The U.S. is losing this war. [00:17:12] The U.S. can't defeat Iran, can't protect its allies, can't secure the Strait of Hormuz, and can't defend Israel, can't defend its own airplanes, can't defend its own navy, can't defend its own radar installations, can't defend its own Fifth Fleet headquarters, for God's sake. [00:17:31] What can the U.S. defend? [00:17:34] I don't know. [00:17:36] It's not clear that the U.S. can defend anything. [00:17:40] So this is going to accelerate. [00:17:42] This is the pivot point. [00:17:44] This was the worst mistake that Trump could have possibly made. [00:17:48] And this will have ramifications for the American people. [00:17:50] It will make the dollar ultimately collapse as more and more countries abandon the dollar. [00:17:56] Why would you want to hold dollars when the empire backing the dollar is itself obsolete and collapsing? [00:18:03] So things are going to get more expensive for the American people. [00:18:07] Inflation is going to explode. [00:18:10] There will be a lot more money printing. [00:18:12] There will be probably an age of extreme censorship and tyranny from the Trump administration. [00:18:18] We're going to see a lot of domestic chaos, a lot of disarray. [00:18:23] We might not have elections this fall. [00:18:25] Who knows? [00:18:26] Depends on the state of war and what Trump tries to do. [00:18:29] We're going to have probably some domestic uprisings here and there on top of energy shortages, food scarcity, famine in America. [00:18:39] Plus, who knows, elements of civil war in certain areas. [00:18:44] Because some people, I suppose, are going to get so tired of this that they might, for whatever their reasons are, they might decide to do something about it. [00:18:53] Who knows? [00:18:53] I mean, I hope not. [00:18:55] I always call for peace and stability. [00:18:58] I want abundance. [00:19:00] But Trump took all that away from us by launching this war by choice. [00:19:04] He initiated it. [00:19:06] And he initiated it at the command of Israel, not the voters. [00:19:13] Trump doesn't answer to the voters. [00:19:15] He answers to Netanyahu and Israel. [00:19:17] As a result, he sacrificed America and he showed the world that America can't protect its allies, that America is weak. [00:19:27] Economically, currency, trade, education, manufacturing, military, medicine, you name it. [00:19:37] America is weak in almost every area you can think of. [00:19:41] This is the end of the American Empire. === Preparing for Nuclear Survival (07:05) === [00:19:44] And of course, people like you and I will have to survive the collapse and then hopefully help rebuild whatever comes next. [00:19:56] Something hopefully based more on freedom and abundance and honest money like gold and silver with a much smaller government. [00:20:03] But look, the dollar collapse is coming. [00:20:06] And these events in the Middle East are only accelerating the collapse of the dollar. [00:20:11] So the most important thing that you and I can do right now is simply to be prepared. [00:20:16] We can't stop this. [00:20:18] You know, we tried, right? [00:20:19] We tried. [00:20:20] We warned. [00:20:22] Few listened. [00:20:24] So what we can do is get prepared. [00:20:26] And that means you've got to be prepared for food to become more scarce and a lot more expensive. [00:20:30] Energy scarcity, a lot of economic disruptions on top of the AI job replacements, too. [00:20:37] More chaos, more lawlessness, more authoritarianism and tyranny domestically. [00:20:43] More censorship, for example, and fewer job opportunities. [00:20:49] So it's going to be tough. [00:20:51] But in order to be prepared, you know the drill. [00:20:54] Decentralize as much as you can. [00:20:55] Have backup supplies. [00:20:56] Right now, healthrangerstore.com slash survival. [00:21:00] We have our survival selection there with all of our long-term storable number 10 cans. [00:21:06] Those are steel cans that are sealed containing certified organic, lab-tested, freeze-dried fruits and vegetables. [00:21:14] Most of them American-grown, by the way. [00:21:17] And many different formulations, plus our buckets, our ranger buckets, mini buckets, mega buckets, durable, rugged, packed for long-term storage, vacuum-packed into bricks that we call them, that go into the buckets. 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[00:22:20] By the end of this year, we're going to face more food scarcity and food inflation than anything we've seen for many, many years, maybe anything we've seen in our lifetimes. [00:22:30] It just kind of depends on how long the Strait of Hormuz stays closed. [00:22:35] And right now, we're at just about two weeks. [00:22:39] So it wouldn't be the end of the world if somehow, you know, peace were negotiated right now and the Strait reopened, we could make it through this. [00:22:48] But if it stays closed for two months, three months, oh, oh, man, things start to look very bad with the lack of liquid natural gas, the lack of oil, the lack of sulfur, the lack of urea, the lack of fertilizer. [00:23:04] My God, this world doesn't function without all those things. [00:23:09] You block that straight for two or three months. [00:23:12] Our Western system falls apart. [00:23:15] It collapses. [00:23:16] Cascading financial collapse. [00:23:21] So get ready in every way that you can. 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