Mike Adams warns that Middle Eastern energy infrastructure destruction is collapsing the petrodollar, triggering bank bail-ins, capital controls, and a forced shift to surveillance-heavy CBDCs. He predicts a U.S. invasion of Iran will spark a multi-year quagmire causing global defaults, soaring energy prices, and severe food shortages. To survive anticipated supply chain failures and potential Strait of Hormuz closures, he urges self-custody via physical gold, silver, and survival stocks like seeds and iodine, framing this financial cascade as a crisis surpassing the 2008 subprime meltdown. [Automatically generated summary]
As war spreads, financial risk also spreads, and we're already beginning to see several different investment companies, large companies, large investment funds, limiting withdrawals.
Why?
Because they don't have the liquidity that they promise to have.
So some of them are saying you can only have 5% out for a given period of time, maybe 5% a year, maybe 5% in a quarter, whatever.
You don't get to just get all your money back.
That's happening and it's going to get a lot worse.
Why?
Because, well, the destruction of the energy infrastructure in the Middle East is, of course, collapsing the very thing that provides support for the petrodollar.
And as wealth is destroyed through the destruction of energy infrastructure, the cascading effects will impact financial institutions, investment funds and banks and even central banks and currencies eventually, although we're not there yet.
What this means is that in order to protect yourself, you need to get out of these vehicles as quickly as you can.
Although, as a disclaimer, don't take this as financial advice.
I'm not your financial advisor.
So do your own research.
But whatever you have in the system, in the investment funds, in the banks, is at risk of being frozen, essentially.
Bail-ins, the great taking, frozen funds, capital controls.
That's going to get a lot worse.
This is why the mainstream media doesn't want you to own gold and silver because that gives you liquidity, it gives you choice.
It gives you control.
Instead, they want you to be dependent on their system, the system that they control, where they can limit your withdrawals or they can just take all your assets in a giant bail-in.
And then they can force you into a CBDC with a bailout.
For example, saying, hey, we have your money, but you have to sign up for the CBDC system that you don't want to sign up for because it's a surveillance system.
So we are now in the early phases.
The early warning signs are here.
If any of you thought, oh, I'll keep my money in the banks or in the stock market or in the bonds or whatever until there are warning signs, there are now warning signs.
So you've been given fair warning that it's time to take possession, self-custody.
Everything else is subject to extreme risk.
And as this war continues, you're going to start seeing, for example, energy producers, the Gulf states, are about to mass declare force majeure.
And when they declare force majeure, that means that they're defaulting on their energy delivery contracts.
When they default on those contracts, then that causes the manufacturers that had depended on those energy inputs to themselves declare force majeure.
And many of those industrial manufacturers or investment companies involved in that space, many of them have investors or even investment funds investing in their operations.
And then they will declare force majeure, which means the investment funds are just left holding the bag and eating all the losses, which means you, if your money is in those investment funds.
So you see, there's a domino effect here.
It ripples throughout the system across the world to the point where everything gets impacted.
manufacturing, medicine, military, you know, food, obviously agriculture.
We might call this the era of force majeure because we're going to see so many different institutions and organizations defaulting on their obligations and throwing up their hands and saying, well, there's nothing we could do about it.
It's war.
Nothing we could do about it.
They bombed our natural gas facility.
Nothing we can do about it.
The Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
And legally, that is their defense.
They can declare force majeure.
It's already starting to happen.
In South Korea, a chemical manufacturer has declared force majeure as well.
In Taiwan, they're about to run out of natural gas.
In Taiwan Semiconductor, they're about to run out of helium.
That's not going to last forever.
In Japan, they're already selling off U.S. government treasuries because Japan's currency and central bank is in deep trouble at the moment.
In Europe, energy prices are already beginning to skyrocket, in some places, more than double.
That's going to force closure of many industries, including automobile manufacturing in Europe.
I mean, again, the domino effect of this is going to be felt worldwide.
So your strategy, in my opinion, let me just put it this way.
My strategy is to reduce my exposure to systems that will crater.
Reduce my exposure to the banks.
Reduce my exposure to the stock market.
I actually don't own any stocks, so that's easy.
That's already zero.
Reduce exposure to investment funds, you know, anything, hedge funds, whatever you're into.
All of that has counterparty risk.
Only gold and silver has zero counterparty risk.
Everything else has the risk, and that risk is about to skyrocket.
So if you want to get physical gold and silver, I think the price is still being suppressed artificially, which means it's still a relatively good deal compared to probably where it's going.
You know, because Trump is sending in 2,500 U.S. Marines for a ground invasion of Iran now.
That's not going to go well.
And this is the beginning of the escalation.
This is the Vietnamization of the Middle East.
Trump's going to get us into a multi-year quagmire with potentially tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers dying.
Not hard to imagine that happening now.
What do you think that's going to do to financial institutions and the dollar currency and derivatives?
I just recently interviewed Mitch Vexler about much of this.
And he warns that the collapse that's coming will be larger than anything any of us have ever witnessed.
Much larger than the dot-com collapse, much larger than the subprime mortgage collapse in 2008.
This will be the big one.
And frankly, it's all shaping up for a perfect storm in terms of conditions to be absolutely catastrophic.
I don't want to see a collapse happen, but I can't deny that we're headed straight for it.
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And you can have it in your possession or they have vaulting services if you want to use that.
That's possible too.
So there are a number of ways that you can do this.
In terms of other things that you need to have your own possession of, make sure you have your own supply of garden seeds.
Do you recall that during COVID that some of the stores closed off access to the garden seeds?
Do you remember that?
They would not sell them.
They actually blocked those off because they said that too many people would stand around the garden seeds and they would infect each other, you know, with COVID.
It was all nonsense.
It was just a test to see if they could close down garden seeds so they could block people from growing their own food.
And it worked.
So they could easily do that again.
The seed supply could crater.
Well, we've got seeds for you right now at healthrangerstore.com.
Just search for garden seeds and you'll see the collections that we have there.
Non-heirloom seeds.
You can practice seed saving, save them and replant them generation after generation, unlike hybrid seeds, obviously.
So that's going to be important.
The food scarcity is going to get very bad along with the financial collapse that's coming.
Now, the only thing that can turn this around is the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
And we should hope for that.
We should hope that the Strait is open for business and all the ships can sail.
Except, I don't see that happening without Iran's consent.
And Iran has been very clear that they will keep it closed.
In fact, the new common, you know, the son of the one who was killed, assassinated by Israel, he has said we're going to keep it closed.
And we're going to make demands of the West.
And they've laid out those demands.
And those demands include ending all economic sanctions and reparations for the damage caused, etc.
Those demands are not going to be met by the United States, nor Israel.
And I don't see Iran budging on its demands.
And so what does that mean?
Well, it means the Strait of Hormuz is going to remain closed for business because no ships can transit the strait if Iran is promising to bomb them or hit them with drones or set them on fire or whatever.
Thus, Iran controls the situation.
And I don't care how many U.S. Marines you send in.
Number one, most of them are going to get killed.
And then, secondly, they're still not going to be able to stop Iran from launching drones and missiles and mini submarines or whatever they've got to harass ships trying to go through the strait.
So I don't see the Strait of Hormuz opening anytime soon unless something dramatically changes, but I don't see that happening.
I hope I'm wrong.
But we should plan for the Strait to remain closed for a long time to come.
Months, maybe the rest of the year.
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