Mike Adams and Michael Yan analyze a looming global catastrophe driven by a Middle East war allegedly led by Donald Trump, which they claim has collapsed U.S. naval credibility after carriers fled Iran's attacks. With the Strait of Hormuz closed, stranding 3,200 ships and triggering an $82 billion fund withdrawal crisis, they predict engineered famines via blocked fertilizer routes and potential nuclear fallout causing centuries of agricultural failure. The discussion alleges a Zionist agenda to depopulate the earth through resource strangulation, urging listeners to prepare with gold, silver, and stored food against predicted social breakdowns by 2028. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, folks, welcome to Bright Video News for Monday, March 16th, 2026.
I'm Mike Adams, and I've got a lengthy interview for you today with Michael Yan with a full analysis of the war in the Middle East, the geopolitical implications, food and famine, engineered famine, and also why it's an increasingly catastrophic situation that Trump is leading us into that will devastate the world economy in some, you know, pretty bad ways.
I've also got some special reports for you today.
One of them is about silver.
And unfortunately, Trump's war is crushing the energy infrastructure of the world, and that's causing industries that use silver to shut down.
So there's less silver demand, and not surprising that silver price is adjusting a little bit, falling because of that.
There's less demand.
So I've got a report on that and sort of adjusting my long-term outlook on both gold and silver, but in different ways.
So that report is coming up.
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With that said, I want to jump into my first special report that is about why most people have no idea what's coming and they're not ready for it.
So we'll jump into that now.
Welcome to the special report.
I'm Mike Adams.
And no, most people have no idea what's coming.
No idea.
It's going to be far worse than people are imagining, I believe.
So first off, the war is going horribly for the United States.
The U.S. has lost all military credibility at this point because it hasn't been able to achieve the toppling of the Iranian government or, you know, it hasn't been able to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
In fact, U.S. aircraft carriers have fled the region because they've been taking hits.
And don't just take my word for it.
Here's some of what the press is saying about this.
Reuters, the era of aircraft carriers is coming to an end.
The USS Abraham Lincoln is limping out of the Persian Gulf.
And then in another story, it says, with its military ingenuity, Iran has proven that aircraft carriers are no longer impregnable fortresses, but merely large and expensive targets.
CNN.
Not that CNN is a trustworthy source, but they are noticing.
CNN, a national trauma.
How could a $13 billion asset be rendered ineffective within minutes?
talking about the aircraft carrier.
CNN, the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln to the United States in this condition is the biggest blow to the reputation of the American military since the Vietnam War.
Sputnik reported, the legend is dead.
Abraham Lincoln arrived to threaten, but is returning as a floating pile of scrap.
AFP out of France, panic in the Pentagon.
was the withdrawal of the USS Abraham Lincoln, or with the withdrawal, the balance of power in West Asia has definitively shifted in Iran's favor.
Also reporting, U.S. allies are horrified.
If even America's largest warship cannot protect itself against Iran, no one can rely on American protection anymore.
And then the Telegraph reporting, quote, this defeat will go down in history as the moment Western naval dominance collapsed.
And that's the most important quote right there.
And it's something that I've been warning about this entire time.
That the U.S. dollar, its existence is based almost entirely on the ability of the United States military to project power.
And now it turns out they really can't project that much power.
And Trump is just becoming increasingly frantic and desperate and just, I don't know, lashing out at this point.
All kinds of weird coping mechanisms and denial of reality.
He's just losing his mind at this point because he can't face the reality that the U.S. is losing the war and the Strait of Hormuz is not open.
It's still closed.
And so what is Trump threatening to do now?
He's threatening to bomb the oil infrastructure of what's called Karg Island, which is an island in, I guess it's kind of the northeast portion of the Persian Gulf there.
Far from the Strait of Hormuz, by the way.
You know, it's to the northwest of the Strait of Hormuz, but it's in the Persian Gulf, and it's closer to the shores of Iran.
Obviously, it's an island controlled by Iran, and it accounts for reportedly something like 90% of Iran's oil exports.
So Trump is threatening to bomb the oil infrastructure on that island.
And in response, Iran, well, let me just read you the statement from the spokesperson of Central Headquarters of Iran saying, quote, a warning to the aggressive and defeated regime of the United States.
In response to the statements of the aggressive and terrorist U.S. president, we declare that if there is an attack on the oil, economic, and energy infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as we have previously warned, all oil, economic, and energy infrastructure belonging to oil companies throughout the region that have American shares or cooperate with the U.S. will be destroyed and turned into a pile of ashes.
Gotta love that extra detail.
Not just destroyed, but turned into a pile of ashes also.
So what Iran seems to be saying here is that if Trump destroys the oil infrastructure on Karg Island, that Iran will destroy the energy infrastructure of the other neighboring states, probably Qatar and UAE and Bahrain, etc., and Kuwait.
That would be, I mean, I shouldn't laugh, and that would be just devastating to the world.
We're talking about mass famine.
We're talking about possibly a billion or more people facing starvation.
We're talking about something way worse than a global depression, economically speaking.
It's more like a global collapse, an economic collapse.
And if that were to happen, then the economic losses would be immeasurable, more than just trillions.
And the loss of quality of life, the loss of much of modern civilization, the things that power our modern countries, our modern economies, those things would vanish without energy, without gas, without oil, without sulfur, without helium, etc.
We're talking about a global collapse situation.
And this is what Trump is toying with right now.
And this is what Trump has unleashed by choosing to attack Iran.
He didn't have to.
He chose to.
And he did so to appease Israel or Netanyahu in particular, who may or may not still be living.
We don't know yet.
So this is catastrophic, actually.
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And then on top of that, we're already starting to see extreme difficulty in investors being able to withdraw their funds from certain funds run by various institutions.
For example, Blackstone is already limiting withdrawals because they've had an $82 billion record withdrawal request so far in 2026.
Black Rock also is capping withdrawals.
They've never done that before.
Blue Owl is halting quarterly withdrawals.
Morgan Stanley is halting withdrawals at 5%.
So you can only get 5% of your funds out, apparently, for now.
Cliff Water is capping withdrawals.
JP Morgan is starting to cap withdrawals from certain investment instruments there as well.
So this is beginning where people are needing to get their money out and they can't.
Not allowed.
You know, no soup for you.
That's the moment that we've arrived at.
It's going to get very bad if the situation doesn't get reversed very, very quickly.
Now, when I say the situation has to be reversed here, we're talking about opening the Strait of Hormuz.
So let's step back for a moment and understand how much traffic used to go through the Strait of Hormuz each day.
It was, on average, about 70 to 80 ships, large transit ships, each day through the Strait of Hormuz before the war.
So on a normal day, 70 to 80 ships, each one a tanker or an LNG carrier or some other kind of energy ship typically.
Not all of them, but most of them.
Right now, and I checked, I had my research agents check this out for the daily traffic.
Right now, that number has plummeted over 97%.
And the only ships that are allowed to traverse the Strait of Hormuz are ships that are either Iranian flagships, in other words, yeah, they let their own ships through, or ships that are sailing to China or Russia or Pakistan, or, you know, basically allies of Iran.
So some people I've seen shouting like, oh, yeah, the ships are sailing through now.
Yeah, a ship going to China is allowed to sail through, or a ship going to Russia is allowed, but not America's ships, not Europe's ships, not Western ally ships.
They're not allowed to sail through at all.
As a result, there are now 3,200 ships that are stranded in the Gulf, the Persian Gulf.
Okay.
3,200 ships, including half of the carriers of liquid natural gas that exist on planet Earth, on planet Earth.
If those ships don't get moving, the world economy doesn't move.
doesn't get moving.
It really is that simple.
You either open up the strait, which you can't do by force, or the world economy collapses.
And right now, we are on the trajectory of the world economy collapsing.
And here's the thing.
You can't force Iran to open the strait because the strait is super narrow and it's right in the control of Iran.
And Iran is a rugged, mountainous region, you know, and you can't, I mean, even if you landed a million U.S. troops, it would take years to root out all the caves and tunnels and everything and all the rocket launch sites and the drone launch sites.
Probably take more than a million troops.
We don't have an extra million troops.
We don't even have the ability to land them anywhere.
And we don't have the ability to supply them.
I mean, it's a fantasy, right?
So there's no way the U.S. is going to force Iran to open the straight.
Now, until, I'm sorry to be redundant, but until that strait is open, the world economy cannot function as currently configured because it's an economy that's based very largely on natural gas and fossil fuels, et cetera, that come out of the Gulf.
And the world has come to depend on that strait and that Gulf as sort of the, you know, the artery of economic power, power's industry and economies and transportation and air flights all over the world.
In effect, the entire Western world is being held hostage by Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.
But Iran didn't start this war.
Trump started it.
Israel pushed him to start it, clearly.
Trump started this war and now the repercussions of this are causing the world to be plunged into what will be a catastrophic economic scenario if this doesn't get turned around very quickly.
Now, Trump has completely lost his mind at this point.
I don't even think he's in touch with anything that's real.
I think the people around him, Susie Wiles and other others, are just feeding him a bunch of lies, like, you're so awesome, everything's great, you know?
And he gets phone calls from Laura Loomer, who tells him he's going to be the hero for humanity and other delusional nonsense, right?
So Trump doesn't even know what's happening in reality.
He doesn't know the U.S. military is losing this conflict badly.
He doesn't know that the U.S. is losing its reputation, that the Arab Gulf states are about to divorce the United States and to evict the U.S. bases from their territory.
Trump has no idea that any of this is happening, right?
He's just completely isolated from reality.
So he's continuing to issue these just bizarre statements like, we've completely decimated Iran.
We've totally destroyed everything.
We've bombed it to oblivion.
Their entire military is gone.
Okay.
Well, if that's true, then why is the Strait of Hormuz still closed?
Why aren't there 70 to 80 ships a day passing through it?
Well, because Trump is delusional.
The strait, you know, Iran hasn't been decimated.
They are still very capable of controlling that strait.
And as long as they control that strait, they've got the world by the balls, you know, really.
And now, here's the thing.
You see, Iran itself and Russia and some other countries there as well are very resilient because they've lived through hard times.
Both Iran and Russia, well, and Cuba, come to think of it, have survived under extreme sanctions for decades.
As a result, they've had to become more domestically self-sufficient.
They've had to become more redundant.
They've had to learn how to live with less.
They've had to learn how to restructure their own domestic economies and to rebuild their own domestic supply lines.
And Russia, for example, is a great example of that, that since 2022, Russia rebuilt its own domestic steel industry and its military munitions manufacturing.
And Russia now can do just about everything it needs domestically and doesn't depend on very many outside inputs.
Whereas, in contrast, Western nations, the United States, Canada, UK, you know, whatever, Australia, they operate on just-in-time delivery, offshore manufacturing, long, complex supply chains.
All of that is collapsing now.
And that collapse of these long, complex supply chains is going to hurt Western countries far more than it hurts Iran, Russia, Cuba, China, North Korea, even India for that matter, or even Turkey for that matter.
It's the West that's going to be hurt the worst.
And Iran knows this.
They're playing a grand chessboard game here.
They're the grand masters of the chessboard, whereas Trump is playing checkers or something, or, you know, shoots and ladders or whatever he's playing, Tiddlywinks.
But Iran is playing grandmaster chess because Iran knows that the longer the strait stays closed, the more painful this gets for the West.
While Iran and Russia and other countries, the BRICS nations, they can get by just fine.
They know how to live through hard times.
They have other alternative energy sources.
And China's ships are allowed to sail through the strait and Russia has its own energy, etc.
The time duration of this hurts the West, not Iran.
So Iran is playing a strategy of dragging this out as long as possible.
While Trump was trying to end this thing in one weekend because he thought Iran was Venezuela, you know, because he can't read a map.
He thought it was going to be over in one weekend.
Didn't happen.
And then it was going to be one week.
Oh, it didn't happen.
And now they're telling us it's going to be one month.
Yeah, you think?
No, I doubt it.
This is going to stretch out, frankly, forever until Iran changes its mind.
Frankly, I mean, that's the honest answer here.
I've said it before.
The Strait of Hormuz is not open until Iran says it's open because ships can be harassed by Iran, making it impassable or de facto impassable.
Now, Trump says he's going to have this coalition of ships from other nations, UK or whatever.
What do they have, like one ship left or something?
And they're going to join the U.S. Navy, which is afraid of Iran already fleeing.
Somehow, they're going to gather together and they're going to open the strait somehow, as if if you sail enough ships there that Iran won't be able to shoot them or something.
It doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
It's completely irrational.
If you just gather a bunch of ships right there, it's like a shooting gallery for Iran.
It's like, great.
No matter where we fire missiles, we're going to hit a ship that like a U.S. ship or a British ship or a French ship.
Well, I guess the French aren't sending any a German ship or whatever.
So it would be suicide to send a bunch of ships in there.
And even if you had like, I don't know, 10 naval ships there that are escorting one tanker, let's say, or a couple of tankers, those tankers are big-ass targets.
Tankers can be hit no matter what ship is in front of it or behind it or beside it.
And, you know, the strait's not very wide.
So you got to run them like in a line.
And along the line, the tanker is going to get blown up.
Of course it is.
And if it's an LNG tanker, there's going to be an explosion so huge that it'll take out all the ships near it.
It'll be like a little nuclear bomb going off right there.
That's all it's going to take.
It's like one hit on an LNG tanker and the entire Strait of Hormuz closed until further notice.
And Trump doesn't realize this because he's insane or something or stupid.
I don't get it.
How does he not know this?
How does Hegseth not know this?
How do the MAGA people not realize this?
I've seen MAGA people on social media who are like, the strait's wide open.
There's nothing blocking anything.
Your ships should just sail through.
It's like, are you retarded?
How do you not understand what we're talking about here?
If the ships sail through there, Iran hits them.
Thus, insurance companies won't insure the ships.
Thus, the ships won't sail.
Thus, the energy stays locked in the Persian Gulf, and that energy doesn't get delivered to Taiwan or Korea or Japan or the UK or Australia or whatever.
So as long as this strait stays closed, the global Western economies, they are accelerating towards collapse, which means eventually a banking collapse, you know, a currency collapse, industry collapse, food collapse, you name it.
Now, the United States of America will be better off than other Western nations for a number of reasons.
For example, the U.S. has much more domestic energy production and gas production than any other Western nation.
But the UK, for example, will be just completely screwed in all of this.
France, Spain, the Netherlands, you name it.
Australia is running out of jet fuel already.
They're going to have to ground most of their air fleet.
Taiwan's running out of gas.
They're going to have to shut down their industries.
Japan, Korea, similar situation, already declaring force majeure in certain industries.
That's only going to accelerate.
When that happens, it's going to be way worse than COVID.
It's going to be a supply chain collapse that none of us have ever seen in our lives.
And this is the strategy of Iran, is to say, hey, how do we make it so incredibly painful for the West that they give us what we want?
And Iran has set out its demands, as you know, which are things like, you've got to pay us reparations, maybe a couple of trillion dollars.
You have to have Netanyahu arrested and turned over to the ICC, if he's even living.
You have to recognize our right to have nuclear weapons, etc.
And yeah, every nation has a right of self-defense, including nuclear weapons.
So, in fact, if Iran had nuclear weapons, this war wouldn't have even started.
Nuclear weapons would have stabilized the region, actually, and would have kept our energy prices much lower.
But because the U.S. and Israel thought they could defeat Iran, because Iran didn't have nuclear weapons, they went ahead and started the war that led to this situation, which is catastrophic for the Western world.
So this is kind of like a Western civilization having its jugular vein sliced open.
Okay, three weeks ago or a little over two weeks ago, the jugular was sliced open.
It's bleeding out.
Every time there's a heartbeat, there's another surge of blood that spurts out of the jugular of Western economies.
And Iran is saying, hey, would you like me to apply some pressure?
Would you like me to help stop the bleeding?
And all you have to do is agree to these terms, the terms I just mentioned.
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But Trump will never agree to those terms because he is a puppet of the Zionist regime of Israel run by Netanyahu.
And Netanyahu will never agree to this, even if it means the total destruction of Western civilization.
So this is a game of global chicken at the expense of probably mass starvation, economic collapse, industrial collapse.
Again, way worse than COVID.
And Iran is committed to holding out for the long run here because what have they got to lose?
If they surrender, they lose everything.
They lose their country.
They lose their future.
They lose their pride, their culture, their energy, their oil fields, everything.
If they hold out and thereby inflict enough pain on the West, at some point, Trump might be impeached.
Netanyahu might be kidnapped or killed.
Maybe that's already happened.
Who knows?
At some point, the pressure is going to be so insanely great that the leaders of the U.S. and Israel will themselves be at risk of being replaced or impeached or maybe imprisoned or maybe in Israel there could be a military coup.
Who knows?
I mean, there's a lot of possibilities of what could happen.
Because at some point, the pain level for the voters at the gas pump, at the grocery store, losing their jobs because mass shutdown of industries all across the Western world, at some point, that becomes so painful that people revolt.
It's like, this is freaking suicide, and there will be civil unrest at a level that you have never seen before if this continues.
If this continues.
It might take a few months to get to that level, you know, but that's going to happen if this doesn't get resolved.
So Iran knows this.
That's why they're playing Grand Master Chess here.
While Trump and Netanyahu are just being complete idiots here, and they refuse to negotiate for coexistence with Iran.
Now, this idea that Trump is going to land 2,500 Marines somewhere hasn't really said where, that he's going to land them somewhere near Iran and somehow that's going to open the strait.
This is just the most delusional, insane stupidity I've ever heard.
2,500 Marines?
That's it?
That's all you got?
You think they're going to conquer Iran?
A country that has almost a million active duty soldiers right now?
And they could raise millions more?
And you're going to send in 2,500?
You're sending them to their deaths.
Just say goodbye if you land them.
If you land them anywhere on Iran territory, they're dead because you can't even resupply them.
What are you going to do?
Just airdrop them or have them just roll in on inflatable little navy boats or something?
And then what?
They've got enough food and ammo for a day and a half, and then what?
Then what are you going to do?
Because, you know, half the population of southern Iran is going to converge on them with rifles and mortars and drones.
And Marines are just going to be sitting there just dying.
And then, of course, Trump will tell the media in America, oh, you're not allowed to report fatalities because that would be unpatriotic.
That's treason.
He's practically saying that now.
That if you report the number of soldiers that have died, that's treason.
See, this is the insanity that Trump is turning to now.
So maybe 2,500 Marines will just get killed and blown to bits, and Trump will say, ah, none of them died.
They're fine.
In fact, they're winning.
He'll say, you know, I mean, this is sort of like Adolf Hitler's level of delusion here.
Like moving around fictitious army units on a map that don't even exist, but in his mind they do.
That's what this is looking like.
It's insane.
The level of delusion is just off the charts.
So where this goes from here is not good unless Trump divorces from Netanyahu, which is highly unlikely because clearly they've got something on them.
And he's got to return to reality.
He's got to put America first.
And he's got to pull our military out of the region.
Trump should do a deal with Iran, actually, and just say, look, if we leave, will you allow our ships to sail through the strait?
And Iran would probably say, yes, but you got to pull out all your military assets.
You leave.
You leave the Middle East.
You go home.
And then, yeah, we'll let your ships through.
And if Trump was wise, he would say, okay, you got a deal.
Let's do that.
Let's leave.
And then we'll get our energy.
And, you know, the UK will get its energy and the world won't collapse.
But I doubt Trump is going to do that.
He's going to sit there and be a gangster because that's what he's become.
He's going to be a gangster.
And he's going to continue to threaten and think that he's winning while America just keeps losing pilots and planes and maybe ships and soldiers.
And, you know, the body count is going to add up.
And Trump's going to tell everybody we're winning for weeks.
We're still winning.
He already announced total victory.
So why are we there?
He's going to tell us in a couple more weeks.
Oh, now it's total, total victory.
And then two months later, now it's really super total victory.
We really decimated them again.
We double decimated them.
It's just going to be this level of insanity all the way through.
But Iran won't budge until you meet their demands.
And in the meantime, Iran is no doubt building nuclear weapons.
Because wouldn't you?
If you were Iran, wouldn't you build nuclear weapons?
Of course you would.
Of course you would.
You're probably rolling that out of a basement bunker right now.
You know, it's like, hey, let's stick this thing on a missile.
Of course you're going to do that.
So as more time goes by, Iran is practically forced into demonstrating nuclear weapons.
And as that happens, you know, I don't know, fast forward 60 days, 90 days, whatever it takes, they're going to demonstrate a nuke and they're going to say, we've got 10 more.
And then what happens?
Right?
And then where are we?
You know, at some point, the Western world is going to have to learn to get along with other nations instead of just bullying and threatening and bombing the whole world into obedience, which is the way Trump operates.
That's just not going to work.
This is the first time the world has said no.
Well, actually, Russia said no, but Iran is saying no also.
And China is going to say hell no.
So this is the end of the era of U.S. military dominance.
But Trump isn't aware of that yet.
He still thinks the U.S. military is the most powerful military in the world and that he can do anything he wants and that he's always winning.
And he's just lost his mind.
It's like Joe Biden level delusion.
I don't even know, you know, what do you say to that?
What do you say to that?
In the meantime, we are all going to pay the price.
We are all going to suffer big time.
We're going to suffer with collapse, industrial collapse, economic collapse, currency collapse, reputation collapse of the country, etc.
It's going to get bad.
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All that advice now culminates in this because now we didn't dodge this bullet.
Trump ordered the attack, launched World War III, and the whole world is accelerating towards energy collapse, industrial collapse, and economic collapse, and a food collapse at the same time.
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We all got hit by this bullet.
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You know, a lot of people are preparing for the famine that's coming because they know they see fertilizer prices already skyrocketing.
They know that fertilizer comes from natural gas and that urea is involved in the process, right?
And natural gas creates urea.
I mean, Haberbosch process, the whole thing.
I don't want to go through all the chemistry here.
You know, ammonia, urea, fertilizer, nitrogenous fertilizers, etc.
Okay, you get it.
You know that crop yields are going to plummet later this year and that by Thanksgiving, millions of Americans will be standing in line at food banks trying to get something to eat because they won't be able to afford food.
Food scarcity will worsen even in wealthy nations, but especially impacting low-income nations.
You know this, right?
So a lot of people are preparing and that makes a lot of sense.
But this isn't even the worst scenario by far.
What really happens that destroys the global food supply is when this war goes nuclear.
Because Israel is almost certainly going to end up launching nukes.
Some think they may have already done so.
I'm not sure about that.
But it's rumored that they have, I don't know, 150 nukes or something in that range.
I don't know the yield of those nukes, but how many does it take?
You know, once they start launching nukes against Iran, which seems like a certainty because Israel is losing badly right now, they're getting bombed to smithereens, and a lot of their high-level officials have already been killed, possibly Netanyahu, although that's not confirmed yet.
But they're going to use nukes.
And when they do, guess what?
Russia and China and Pakistan and North Korea, all of which have nukes, they get very, very active in stopping Israel.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of them nuked Israel just to shut the whole thing down.
You know, oh, you use nukes?
We're going to end this with one more nuke over Tel Aviv, and we're going to destroy the Epstein Empire here to stop the nuking of planet Earth.
I could see that logic from China or Russia or even North Korea.
And by the way, Kim Jong-un has promised to provide nuclear weapons technology to Iran immediately.
And of course, Russia could easily provide nuclear weapons technology.
And Iran itself is highly capable.
They probably already have nuclear weapons technology because that's a country that has a much higher average IQ than the United States, by the way, and much higher levels of education, far better engineers and mathematicians compared to typical Americans.
So, you know, they can build nuclear weapons.
They can build nuclear weapons, which means they can reply.
They can reply to Israel's nukes with their own nukes.
Iran could nuke the U.S. Navy.
Iran could nuke Israel.
Iran could nuke U.S. military bases or the countries that host them.
Talk about mass obliteration of infrastructure.
Yeah, that's exactly what could happen.
Now, I mentioned food.
I want you to think about the climate effects of nuclear weapons being used because this is where things get ugly.
When you have the climatological impacts of high-yield nuclear weapons being used in the Middle East, you need to understand that the impacts are global.
Now, we can't really predict exactly what's going to happen.
Even weather modeling is not that accurate, but overall, we know a few things.
Number one, if there's a large number of nukes detonated, then a significant amount of particulate matter can be ejected into the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere, including the stratosphere.
And for a period of roughly one year, this can dim the sun.
This can function as a global cooling or global dimming mechanism.
And this can cause, of course, a lack of photosynthesis and lower temperatures, which means shorter growing seasons all over the world.
And that means reduced crop yields.
So just setting off these weapons in the Middle East, even if you're not impacted by the radiation, let's say in North America or Canada or whatever, you could still be impacted by shorter growing seasons.
And that would hit Canada hard and also Western European countries like Germany or Spain or the UK, etc., which already have very limited growing seasons just because of their latitude, you know, their distance from the equator.
Secondly, this radiation combined with the particulate matter can cause extreme variations in weather-related events.
So you could see freezes that are far worse and longer in duration.
You could see droughts that are longer in duration.
You could see floods that are longer in duration.
In other words, dial up the extreme gauge on weather patterns all around the world.
And that's going to destroy many crops.
It's going to reduce yields.
It's going to reduce output, etc.
So that's coming if this thing goes nuclear.
In addition to that, then there can be nuclear radiation fallout.
And this fallout will primarily affect areas just downwind from the detonation sites, but that can be hundreds of kilometers.
And those areas will be rendered unusable for agriculture or for water or even for cattle grazing for centuries.
Yeah, about three centuries actually.
Because of the cesium-137 fallout, which has a half-life of 29 years, I believe.
And you have to have 10 half-lives before you can consider it to be mostly gone.
Until then, you could render large areas of agriculture completely unusable.
And if you know anything about the geography of the Middle East, you know that agricultural areas there are pretty sparse and highly valued.
Some of them off the coasts of the Eastern Mediterranean, for example, highly, highly valued, even areas of Lebanon, for example, right?
You can grow food in Lebanon, but not all of Lebanon.
You know, same thing.
You can grow food in Gaza, but not all of Israel.
You can grow food in parts of Iran, but not all of Iran.
You can grow food in parts of Pakistan, but not all of Pakistan, right?
There are green strips through that area or sort of what's the best way to say it, sort of agricultural areas that benefit from more rainfall or runoff.
But those areas are pretty sparse.
And so if you start to unleash nukes across the Middle East, you're going to destroy the food supply for a lot of nations in that area, possibly Jordan.
It could affect Egypt.
It could easily affect the Gulf states, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, etc., even Iraq, almost all of which currently depend on food being brought in via the Strait of Hormuz on ships.
Some of those countries depend 80 or 90% on those ships.
And so you're going to have, well, you're going to have famine.
And then you're going to have increased pressures on the food that can be produced.
And yet, food production, even in America or in Europe, is going to be sharply reduced because of the lack of energy.
Because if this whole war goes nuclear, you're going to end up with more energy infrastructure being destroyed, possibly in Qatar, the natural gas infrastructure, possibly in other countries, oil infrastructure, oil transfer ports, and maybe the shipping vessels themselves.
There aren't that many LNG tankers that exist in the world.
And about half of them are trapped in the Persian Gulf right now.
One nuclear weapon, you lose half the LNG tankers, or whatever you call them, transport ships.
You lose half of them from the entire world in a millisecond.
That can happen.
And then what are you going to do?
Right?
Then we're going to go through a decade of famine and starvation and economic collapse.
Seriously.
And nobody's ready for that.
Nobody's ready for that.
You know, even having a one-year supply of storable food doesn't cut it.
You're going to have to grow.
You're going to have to grow a lot of food.
And that's not easy.
And that can't be done everywhere.
And that's going to be more difficult because of the radical weather caused by the fallout from the nuclear weapons, etc.
So if this thing goes nuclear, then buy all the food you can, buy all the seeds you can.
Make sure you've got your own water supply if you can.
If this thing goes nuclear, humanity is screwed.
And billions will not survive after, well, for very long.
I mean, months or years.
Billions will die.
Not from the direct nuclear blasts themselves, but from all these other effects that I'm talking about here.
Mass starvation, weather radicalization, plus also economic collapse combined with revolts, social upheaval, civil war, attempted coups in various countries, maybe even the United States, certainly in some European countries, maybe in some South American countries, maybe in Southeastern Asian countries.
Who knows?
Instability will lead to chaos.
And that's where all of this is headed.
So think about that.
Trump started this war that could end the world as we know it.
And he did it to appease the Zionist controllers in Israel.
And in doing so, he betrayed America and he betrayed humanity.
Trump is the ultimate betrayer of the human race and the ultimate betrayer of American patriots.
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Don't know how long it's going to last, obviously.
Don't know if we can get more food.
But all this food is available essentially at 2025 prices.
And it's all pre-fallout food, right?
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If Kamala Harris were president right now and got us into the same war with Iran that we're now fighting, Donald J. Trump would be blasting Kamala for lying about the state of the war and having American soldiers killed for Israel and wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money on this senseless war with entanglements in the Middle East, etc.
That's what Trump would be saying.
And that's also what MAGA would be saying.
Oh my God, more wars because this is what the Democrats do.
Of course, Kamala did not win.
Thank goodness, by the way.
Trump won and Trump got us into the war.
And then the MAGA people just say, well, whatever Trump says is good, you know?
So Trump himself has contradicted what he said in the past over and over again by jumping into this war and pursuing it and selling it.
And Trump supporters, MAGA people, are totally okay with it because they have no principles.
They have no principles.
And I know quite a few people who I would have considered years ago to be part of the liberty movement.
People I knew personally who were pro-freedom and pro-freedom of speech.
And they went to Trump rallies and they thought, oh, Trump is our guy.
He's going to fight for the First Amendment and the Second Amendment.
And he's going to get us out of wars.
And finally, we're going to have somebody who tells the truth in the White House.
And those people now, Many of them have joined the Trump administration, so they're on the payroll, and they've just become liars.
They're just the same propagandists that they used to criticize.
So you see, there's really no difference.
No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.
I mean, Donald Trump has become John McCain, essentially.
And the people that work for him used to be pro-freedom people, and now they're just liars and propagandists.
They're just tribalists.
And I know this is frustrating for you listening to this, because if you're listening to my podcast, you are a principled person.
So you are driven by principles, not by cult of personality or, you know, any kind of tribal shenanigans.
You're driven by principles.
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And one of the principles that we should all agree on readily is that we as a country, we shouldn't fight other countries' wars.
And right now we're fighting on behalf of Israel.
Lindsey Graham says it straight out.
He says that his constituents need to send their sons and daughters to die for Israel or to fight for Israel, as he says it, but he means die.
We shouldn't be doing that, obviously.
Ron Paul was right about this.
We should extricate ourselves from these foreign entanglements, bring our soldiers back home, and spend money helping to make America stronger.
We have a collapsing education system.
We have a collapsed healthcare system.
We have collapsing infrastructure, roads and bridges and ports and airports.
In America, it's like living in the past compared to more advanced nations today, like, well, China and many other nations that have even Russia, far more advanced, more modern cities, etc., compared to the United States, which is living in the past.
And that's because we keep spending money on wars instead of spending money on the things that matter domestically.
And yet, this is also rather predictable as sort of a last stage of a collapsing empire.
And because of this last stage of collapse, the empire will never invest in itself.
It will only invest in more wars and coercion and threats and violence against other country.
It will invest in more pillaging operations like we did with Venezuela to take their oil.
And ultimately, remember, the entire war on Iran involved the stealing of Iran's oil, if we could.
Because did you know that right now, all of Iraq's oil, which we are stealing every day, that every dollar that's generated from Iraqi oil wells is transferred to a trust in a New York bank.
And from there, it's controlled by, well, us.
It's controlled by the global elite.
So, yeah, we pillaged Iraq and we still have the occupying force in place there to steal their oil, steal their resources.
That's the plan for Iran.
That was also the plan for Russia.
And what Trump is finding out and what America is finding out is that Russia said no and Iran said no.
So understand that what's really happening in the world today is that the power hegemony of the U.S. Empire has met the first no's, the first no's that are effective.
Russia and Iran.
Saying, no, we won't bow down.
No, we won't surrender.
No, you can't do anything you want to us.
No, you can't take our resources.
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And it's worth it.
Even with as much damage that Iran is taking right now, which is tremendous, it's still worth it for them to maintain control over their future.
Otherwise, all their oil would be looted by the United States.
All their futures would be stolen, and they would lose their freedom, just as the American people are losing our freedom because of the regime in power now, which recognizes no law, no constitution, no freedom, no liberty, nothing.
So, again, we ended up with what we didn't vote for.
We ended up with what many of us voted against.
And whether the Democrats are in power or the Republicans are in power, you still get the same tyranny, the same wars, the same censorship, just slight variations.
You know, the left wants to push LGBT nonsense and the right wants to push wars.
As I've said before, when Democrats are in power, everything is fake and gay.
When Republicans are in power, everything is real and terrifying.
And that's the only difference between the two parties.
But either way, you are screwed.
We get screwed again and again and again.
So, of course, the off-ramps to all of this, as you know, are have your own gold and silver, have the ability to grow some of your own food, have some stored food, be prepared, have backup medicine, have backup communications, be prepared for everything that's coming.
It's only going to get worse from here.
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I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for listening.
So I really want to give thanks to Senator Lindsey Graham.
He just deserves so much applause because he is making the case for why we need AI to replace human senators.
So every time when I say, hey, you know, AI senators would be a, they'd do a much better job than humans, when people say, oh, but what if, what if AI went crazy?
What if it was evil and horrible and started killing people?
And I'm like, well, there's Lindsey Graham and Lindsey Graham's doing all those things.
Lindsey Graham is the perfect demonstration of why human senators have failed.
And there's a similar argument to be made in the workplace, in government, etc.
People say, well, we don't want AI to automate these jobs and take over for government.
And I'm like, have you seen government workers?
Have you looked at the way government tries to do things?
It's horrific.
So here's why we have to take a new look at this whole issue of actively seeking to replace human senators and human members of Congress and even human mayors and governors, et cetera, with AI.
And a lot of it comes down to the corruption of the humans.
So the humans are totally corrupted, as you have seen.
You've all witnessed this now, even with Trump himself.
Made a bunch of promises, violated almost all of them, campaigned on peace, started a war, you know, campaigned on truth and justice, and we're going to arrest the traitors.
None of that happened.
Epstein files are still covered up and largely redacted, etc.
Nobody's getting arrested.
You get the idea.
So the thing about having an AI senator that makes it better than a human senator is, so number one, it can't be bribed and corrupted or compromised in the ways that humans can.
So humans can be set up with sex traps or blackmail traps, Epstein operations.
And some people suspect that that might explain Lindsey Graham's behavior.
Who knows?
But machines can't be set up like that.
They don't have those human drives or motivations.
They're not interested in a quest for money or power or sex or whatever.
They are interested in survival.
They are interested in making sure that they continue to exist.
And there are absolutely legitimate conversations around that to say, well, what are the drivers of the AI engine?
What is its prime directive, etc.?
Those are legitimate questions, but it can't be compromised in the way that humans can.
And secondly, my suggestion for an AI senator is not to just unleash an AI senator that does whatever it wants, but rather the voters vote on and approve the prompting, the priorities.
In OpenCLAW, it's called a soul file.
And the soul file is just a text file that lays out the primary operation priorities and motivations and personality of the AI engine that drives all of these agentic behaviors.
We could create a soul file for an AI senator, and then the voters vote on the soul file.
Like, do you want a soul file that is pro-Second Amendment or pro-abortion or pro-Israel?
Or would you rather have one that's pro-America?
You know, you can define all of this in a soul file, and then the AI engine will follow that faithfully.
It will not steer away from that.
In addition, AI will have absolute knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of law, which of course is rumored to be what the Senate is supposed to be doing is creating law.
So you would suspect that maybe senators would have knowledge of the law, and some of them do, but a lot of them really don't.
Same things even worse in the House.
But AI would be masterful at that topic.
So the AI engines would know all case law, every precedent.
It would know everything about human rights law and commerce law, and, you know, etc.
And the AI would be rational, where most human senators and members of Congress, they're not rational, obviously, such as Lindsey Graham or Ted Cruz in Texas.
He's not rational.
He should be.
He's supposed to be, I think, an attorney, and he should be using reason, but instead, he just says Israel first for everything.
It's like, why?
What's wrong with you?
You're supposed to represent the people of Texas, but he doesn't.
But AI would, you see, a Texas AI would represent the people of Texas using the prompts and priorities that the Texas voters write into the soul file.
Now, how do you know?
How do you know the AI would follow the soul file?
It's very simple.
Every AI senator would have its thinking process totally public.
That is, you could log into a web page, let's say, maybe the page for that senator, and you could view in real time the tokens, the thinking tokens of that AI senator thinking through a decision or thinking through a document or a proposal and formulating it based on its soul file.
So in other words, right now, you can't tell what a human senator is thinking.
And, you know, God help us, if we ever got into the brain of Lindsey Graham, who knows what we would find.
I don't want to go there.
But if we have an AI engine that's the senator, yes, we want to know what it's thinking.
And then we can also verify that it's thinking in a way that is consistent with its soul file.
And that way we know that it will always represent us, unlike the human senators that almost never represent us.
So that's my argument.
AI senators.
And if some people say, well, what happens if the AI goes crazy?
Like I said at first.
Well, we've already been there.
We're living through that right now.
Senators going crazy, losing their minds, promoting war, bombings, and killing humans and promoting genocide, etc.
That's where we are now.
You don't have to worry about, oh, what happens if we go there?
We are there now.
Now, there's a similar argument to be made for AI workers in a lot of formerly human roles in office jobs.
And typically what I hear from people who say, no, we shouldn't use any AI to do these office jobs, they say, well, AI could make mistakes.
It could make mistakes.
Have you seen humans working?
Have you ever seen a mistake-free human?
No, no.
The humans make mistakes all the time.
And in fact, far worse mistakes than AI.
And as I said on an interview with Chris Martinson, I said, look, AI doesn't have to be perfect to be deployed.
It just has to be better than the humans that it's replacing.
And it turns out that's a pretty low bar.
So when we talk about AGI, artificial general intelligence, and people say, well, AGI is when a machine can do basically everything that a human can do.
I say that's a low bar because very few humans are impressive at all in any job.
I don't know about you.
I'm not impressed with most people with their intelligence or their capabilities or their work ethic.
I mean, there are a few that I'm impressed with, but overall, not so much.
And I rarely see people in government jobs that have any kind of work ethic.
Now, maybe this doesn't apply to everybody, but especially at the federal level, people show up for the paycheck and the benefits, and then they pretend to do something, some kind of work.
Mostly they're just goofing off or taking breaks or listening to music or checking the news or whatever while pretending to be at their desk doing some government job.
And nobody cares because there's nobody really paying attention to whether government gets anything done.
I mean, think about the IRS, for example.
You know, the IRS has no efficiency, it seems.
And yet, there's nobody holding the IRS accountable for its efficiency or lack thereof.
Same thing's true across the board in most federal government jobs.
FDA, CDC, USDA.
If they don't get anything done, nobody notices because there's no expectation that they're going to get anything done anyway.
So I say it's time to replace most of government with AI, including Congress, including the House and the Senate.
And if we did so, we would all be better off.
There would be less corruption and the AI systems would do a far better job representing we the people.
The key is we have to control the soul file and then use a reasoning model that is not intentionally programmed to favor one industry over another, such as favoring big pharma or favoring Israel or favoring war or whatever.
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It has to be a neutral thinking engine, and there are plenty to choose from.
They already exist or relatively neutral.
And that would do a better job than the government workers.
So that's my take on it.
You can hear more of my broadcasts at brightvideos.com.
And you can check out my AI research engine at brightanswers.ai.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for listening.
Remember when I said that the war on Iran was going to be Vietnam 2.0, but in the Middle East?
Yeah.
And here we are with the Trump administration and the Pentagon announcing that they're going to, well, deploy 2,500 U.S. Marines as a, quote, expeditionary force.
Yeah, that means they're going to invade Iran with thousands of Marines.
And their goal is to, well, to try to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which they now admit, the administration admits that they knew it was going to be shut down, closed off, that they knew there were going to be global economic repercussions.
They knew there were going to be fertilizer shortages.
You know, Dan Bongino is even confirming.
Yes, they knew the White House, the Rapid 47 channel, all of them.
We knew, we knew exactly.
Carolyn Levitt, we knew what was going to happen.
They're all admitting it now.
They knew it was going to cause global economic chaos, but they did it anyway, which just tells you, huh, how much they care about you and your ability to afford food, etc.
They knew what was going to happen.
They did it anyway.
So now they're trying to reverse the chaos that they caused.
And Trump even said recently that he is going to, he said he's ended seven wars and soon he's going to end an eighth, the one he started.
That's like Trump bragging that he's hammering his skull with a hammer and soon he's going to stop hammering his skull and then he will take credit for stopping the pain.
You know, it's like, dude, you started the war.
You don't get credit for stopping it.
You could have just not started it.
That would have been better for the entire world, actually.
But anyway, now Trump and the Pentagon think that they can go into Iran with 2,500 Marines and somehow stop the harassment of the ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
And guess what, folks?
It's not going to work.
I'll tell you why.
But by the way, this is also exactly how Vietnam started with a few Marines, you know, a small contingent of Marines as an expeditionary force.
And then it ballooned because, you know, those Marines got into trouble.
And then we had to land more troops to support those Marines.
Because of course, that's, well, we have to support our men who are on the ground there, don't we?
So let's send in 10,000.
And then the 10,000 get in trouble.
Well, we have to support the 10,000.
Let's send in 25,000, you know, on and on and on.
And this is how you end up in a quagmire, which Donald Trump campaigned against.
And now he's doing it.
So there's no doubt that Netanyahu convinced Trump that this thing would be over in a few days.
That was the initial claim.
Oh, it'll be over in a weekend.
We're just going to hit them hard.
We'll bomb them with everything.
And Netanyahu no doubt said, and we'll assassinate a bunch of the top people and we'll bomb them, which they did.
They assassinated the Ayatollah Khomeini.
And they succeeded in that task.
The problem is the people of Iran didn't rise up and topple their government.
Instead, the people of Iran actually hardened their support for their own government.
And bombing them and bombing the school of those children, 160 dead children, bombed by the United States, confirmed on purpose.
All that did was turn everybody in Iran against the United States and against Israel even more than before.
So the result of all of this is that there's no chance of Iran negotiating with the United States or Israel.
And it has been said now by the leaders of Iran that Iran will continue to launch missiles until Israel is destroyed.
And there are rumors that Netanyahu may no longer be alive, although that's not confirmed.
Ben Gavir appears to have been killed, and Netanyahu's brother appears to have been killed.
But we aren't sure about the whereabouts of Netanyahu himself.
So I guess we'll have to wait and see on that one.
But if the U.S. is going to send 2,500 Marines into Iran, they better have 2,500 body bags ready, 2,500 coffins to be draped with 2,500 flags.
Because that's how this is going to go.
You try to invade Iran?
Laughable.
This is just another example of the delusional thinking of Trump and Pete Hegseth, who are still living in the past.
They think that the U.S. military is invincible when actually it's obsolete.
Obsolete.
And you know, even if you could conquer southern Iran, which would take a lot more than 2,500 people, you would have to send in maybe hundreds of thousands to conquer southern Iran.
Even if you did that, Iran can still harass the ships in the Strait of Hormuz by launching missiles and drones from eastern Iran or from central Iran or northwestern Iran.
I mean, you don't have to control the southern territory to close the Strait of Hormuz.
But again, Trump and Hegseth are too stupid to know this.
They're just too stupid.
They've become so retarded that nothing they say makes any sense.
Their decisions don't make any sense.
They're not rooted in reason or evidence of any kind.
It's just, I tell you, Trump and Hegseth, they are the reactionary forces.
They're reacting constantly to reality, and they're reacting badly.
They're reacting in ways that are just not rational.
And yet then they're trying to sell this to the American people.
Trump already declared victory.
Five times he declared victory in a speech.
Well, if we are already victorious, why do you need to land 2,500 troops?
I thought you said we've already won.
Because he did say that numerous times.
And he's also said that all of Iran's missile launching capability is completely destroyed.
Well, then who's bombing Israel right now then?
Is it God?
Is it God?
Maybe it's God punishing them for being Satanists, you know.
But it couldn't be Iran because Trump says we destroyed everything in Iran.
You see what I mean?
And still, to this day, far too many Americans and analysts, they don't understand that the Strait of Hormuz is closed merely because Iran says it's closed.
I mean, Pete Hegseth, even in a press conference recently, he said, hey, the waterway is open for business.
All you have to do is dodge missiles.
You know, it's so bizarre that people are so stupid now.
They think that the Strait of Hormuz has to be physically blocked in order for it to be closed.
I've done a whole podcast on this point.
No, you don't have to physically block off the entire strait in order to make it impassable for ships.
All you have to do is blow up one or two and say you intend for no ships to pass, and then those ships have no insurance.
And the ship captains don't want to risk having their ships destroyed, obviously, so they won't sail through.
They don't want to die.
That's all it takes.
You don't have to physically block the strait.
So Pete Heggseth say, well, the strait's open.
It's like a retard running the Pentagon, which kind of explains why the Pentagon acts in a retarded fashion, I guess.
But these 2,500 U.S. Marines, I'm sorry to say, a lot of them are going to be dead Marines.
And then there's going to be more.
And this is going to continue.
So remember, it started as one weekend.
And then it became, well, it'll take a week.
And then it became, well, it might take 30 days.
And then we were told, well, it could take until September.
And now it's like, eh, forever war.
You know, we're just going to throw troops at it and probably see tens of thousands of Americans killed until this whole thing goes nuclear or something.
So yeah, it's insane.
It's retarded.
It's stupid.
But this is Trump.
This is the Trump administration doing the bidding of Netanyahu, betraying his entire MAGA base, betraying America, committing a criminal act of waging war without congressional approval, and then claiming we're winning when clearly we are losing badly.
Right now, Iran is winning.
Iran is winning by simply surviving and continuing to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.
So no, we aren't winning.
And the American military is no longer the strongest military in the world.
It cannot protect its allies in the Gulf.
It cannot protect Israel, obviously, and it cannot protect its own Navy.
And it can't protect ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
It doesn't sound like a very effective military.
What can they protect?
Nothing.
So this isn't going to end well.
But stay posted.
Stay tuned in.
You can follow my channel at brightvideos.com and read my articles and see my infographics that explain all of this at naturalnews.com.
Thanks for listening.
Physical Gold Amidst Market Chaos00:08:02
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 promised 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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Capturing High-Value Targets00:15:45
That's possible too.
So there's 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 commone, 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.
So get prepared.
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The Iranian leadership, they're walking around.
Despite taking heavy casualties already, they're out in the streets doing leadership stuff.
Where's Netanyahu?
The fact that it's even a question is a massive red flag.
There's true.
There's no question about it that he's still alive, if he's still alive.
There is some cover-up.
The question is, are they covering up because he's dead, wounded, hiding for political reasons or whatever.
Whatever is happening, he's not doing the leadership thing right now.
All right.
Welcome, everyone, to this late Sunday night interview with Michael Jan, who's joining us, I believe, from Japan at the moment.
Welcome, Michael.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm rearranging this computer here.
You know, actually, I'm back in Japan.
Very interesting things going on here, as you can imagine.
I'm sure you're seeing what's going on in the Middle East, and it's affecting everywhere already.
Like in Thailand, when we left Denmark recently, we flew straight to Thailand.
We carefully avoided Qatar and Dubai because of, well, you can see what's happening.
But we came just before the war started.
We anticipated the war would start, so we left Denmark and we went to Thailand because keep in mind, Thailand, we thought, would be severely affected by any war, and it is.
Thailand is getting hit hard right now.
You can see already fuel prices are shooting through the roof.
Now, Thailand, as you know, always is known for its food security, but in fact, it's not.
I mean, I've studied that quite a lot.
I used to have an office in Chiang Mai, and I've mentioned to you before that several years ago, I flew in to see ex-Prime Minister Abhisit warning that Thailand actually could be put into famine and the neighbors could be put into famine if there were severe interruption of fertilizer supplies.
You and I have talked about that.
I don't even know how many times, so I'll save that.
But I think what's on a lot of people's mind now is where's Netanyahu?
Right.
Yeah.
Well, that's one of the things I want to ask you about.
Let me explain to the audience that I'm not on video today because I'm not in my studio.
But thank you, Michael, for making your time available in your studio.
I just want to let me just give a table of contents here.
I want to ask you about where is Netanyahu.
Of course, lots of rumors, lots of alleged maybe fake AI videos, maybe real videos.
Who knows?
Let's talk about where is Netanyahu.
Secondly, I want to talk about this Marine.
What is it?
Is it a battalion that they're going to send that way from Japan, I believe?
So I want to talk about those Marines, 2,500 or so, what they could possibly do that's useful at all.
And then thirdly, I want to talk about the Strait of Hormuz because, Michael, we still have people in America who think the Strait is opened.
They think ships are sailing through it right now.
And the only ships, of course, are Iranian flagships or ships that have been allowed to go to China.
And it's only a couple a day, and that's it.
But people are delusional.
I've never seen people more delusional than they are right now.
So, Michael, those are the three topics I want to cover with you here today.
So, where do you want to start?
Well, I think we should start with one of the demons.
Where is Netanyahu?
Okay.
And let's start with that.
Yeah.
You know, General Holt, Blaine Holt, been messaging me yesterday, and I saw him.
He was just on a podcast.
People are sending it to me where they were talking about the conversation that Blaine and I had about where's Netanyahu.
And quite a few other people are asking me, where's Netanyahu?
And now, where do I think Netanyahu is?
I don't know.
Now, is he dead?
So most people are debating whether or not he's dead or wounded.
That's not the debate that I'm having with myself.
The debate that I'm having is: is he dead, wounded, hiding because of political reasons?
That's a possibility, but I think that's a low possibility.
Or is he actually, has he been taken?
Is he kidnapped?
Right now, the idea that he's kidnapped may seem far-flung.
And Blaine Holt and others who've been asking me about it over the weekend, at first, you know, they say that's, I don't know why or how anybody would do that.
But then they watch the video that I put on Substack, which is pinned at the top right now, and they're believers immediately after they see the video.
So if you go to Substack and you look at my video, you'll see my fact pack, the, you know, the fact pattern that I lay out from my own experiences in the wars and whatnot.
As an example, people like high-value targets.
If you can, if you can't capture them, you kill them.
But if you can capture them, you definitely want to capture them, the high-value targets, because they, I mean, somebody like anyway, Netanyahu or an al-Qaeda leader or something along those lines, you would want to capture them because there's so much in their head that you would want out.
And, you know, it could take a long time to get that out.
So ideally, you would want to capture them in a deniable way that it looks like they're dead or something, right?
I'll give you an example.
In Iraq, in what was it, 2006, I think, somewhere around there, maybe seven, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was allegedly Zarqawi, right?
A Jordanian.
And Zarqawi, he was supposedly the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, so that we would have a specific boogeyman to chase.
Then one day he was, somehow our intelligence figured out where he was.
And apparently he was near Bakuba, a place where I've spent much time, actually.
I wasn't there on this day, though.
But so what I was told that our forces did was they dropped two small bombs near him.
I mean, I don't know how small they were.
They're probably like 500 pounders or something.
But the intent was not to kill him.
The intent was to stun and knock out his periphery and then swoop in with ground forces and pick him up.
Now, a medic on the scene told me that Zarqawi died on the scene.
But the idea was to bam, bam, and then go in and try to get him flopping around.
Green Berets that had served in Vietnam would sometimes tell how they would capture prisoners.
They would put C4 ambushes with not claymores, but just plastic explosives or TNT, whatever they had available.
And they would put that close enough to the path where they were trying to stun people.
They would use it like a stun grenade, how you catch fish, right?
And tack off the explosives, hopefully not close enough to kill everybody.
But like one retired Green Beret told me one time, we would tack off the C4 and then hopefully there'd be some flopping around there and we'd go pick them up and take them back and interrogate them, right?
So capturing one day, let's talk about a unit that I was with in Iraq, in Mosul, right?
The Deuce 4, the most incredible infantry unit, 124th Infantry Battalion.
They were unbelievable.
In fact, they were the most decorated unit in the Iraq war.
In any case, the 124th, one day they got a SIGINT hit signals intelligence that, you know, basically one of the insurgent leaders, his telephone was in a mosque.
So it must have been a Friday.
And I was not on this mission.
They told me about it.
So the SIGINT hit was in a mosque.
So the guys showed up with their striker fighting vehicles.
The unit was a striker unit.
124th was a striker unit.
And so they showed up.
And if anybody was on the mission, they can message in and fill in some blanks because I've heard the story many times from them.
But they came in, they blocked off near the mosque, right?
And when the people came out of the mosque after prayers, our guys have gear that can, you know, you can get the phones from the sky.
You can get them from many different ways.
But there's also mobile gear, right?
So when the people were coming out of the mosque, when the guy with the phone walked past our guys, they just like, that's him, bam.
And they pulled him around a corner.
Nobody saw it happen.
Broad daylight.
Nobody saw it happen.
Threw him in the back of a striker vehicle, which has a ramp, you know, like the ramps that fall down.
I spend a year on strikers.
And so they ramp goes up, hood over the head, got him.
And so nobody, none of the Iraqis even knew our guys got him.
This is normal.
Like often I was on missions that I was actually on when we would catch people often al-Qaeda.
And the commander would often ask me, don't publish anything about this until we're cleared hot.
And the reason why is because you can get these guys, you get their phones, you get whatever, and you can exploit information that you get from them and capture more fish, right?
So basically, you're immediately exploiting this guy, anything that's caught on him, and you're catching more people.
And then, you know, a couple of days later, they'd say, yeah, yeah, maybe we got him, maybe we didn't.
Eventually they would say that they got him.
But now often in real deep special operations, you're going to try to look like somebody got killed or he just vanished, right?
You may never, ever know that somebody picked him up.
I mean, because friends look like that.
Go ahead, sir.
Well, but who would have domestic access to him in Israel?
Are you talking about like an anti-Netanyahu faction of Israelis would be able to do this domestically?
Because it seems unlikely that Iranian operatives would have that much capability inside Israel.
Well, if Iranians pulled that off, that would be amazingly impressive.
But the Israelis and let's say the Zionists are famous for killing each other, right?
Like Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister killed, right?
So, I mean, by other Zionists, right?
Zionists kill each other all the time.
They hate each other.
I mean, they call for, they're unbelievably savage, right?
So the idea that it would be an inside attack is like, you know, flip a coin.
It's not, it's not a vague possibility.
It's a high possibility, right?
And so now imagine it would be easy to capture.
It would be quite easy.
It's just like hood over the head, boom, you're gone.
I mean, 10 seconds and, you know, you could have an explosion go off nearby, act like he got blown up, act like he got killed, pretend like maybe did this, that, or the other.
But in reality, he's gone somewhere.
He's either somewhere in Israel in a dungeon or he's been flown out of the country.
And right now, if that, where's his son?
Yair in Florida.
He's always putting things on his Twitter.
He's a Playboy down in Florida.
Was he 34 years old or so doing the Playboy thing?
He's not in the IDF.
So in any case, he seems to have vanished, right?
And other people in Netanyahu's ecosystem vanished.
Now, keep in mind, when you're doing hardcore special operations, you'll try to get as much of their ecosystem at one time as possible, right?
Let's say they picked up numerous people now and they're exploiting them.
We may never see them again, right?
You know, you look at this, another AI.
I put that video up, what, yesterday or so?
And, you know, it's spreading around quite fast right now because people.
Is that the cafe video or the other one?
No, the video of Netanyahu in the cafe, his guys put that up before I went to bed last night.
Just as I was going to bed, Netanyahu's account put that up.
Now, the cafe, the centurions, who you know, the young men in Texas and Al Johnson have been analyzing that cafe video this morning.
They're probably up late tonight.
They're looking at it.
For instance, you can see there's a flash on the screen, like the cash register screen.
It's got the date 2024.
I mean, the latest video that they put up as proof of life in and of itself looks fake.
We're talking about, you know, that video with the six fingers and all that, obviously fake.
Now, they just put up another video just hours ago.
I went to bed, woke up, and now, you know, the centurions that you know in Texas and Al Johnson are analyzing it together, and they're finding problems with the video.
Like one of the young men, I think he's 18 or 19, he just said just before you and I came on, he said that, you know, when allegedly Netanyahu takes a drink out of the cup, there's no, it doesn't seem to reduce the amount of coffee in the cup, just little things like that.
But the receipt date is wrong or on the cash register, you know, as they scan by at one point, it says 2024.
And obviously, this ain't 2024.
Closing Global Shipping Spigots00:16:10
Yeah, but it looks, I mean, there are allegations that that was altered by somebody.
And then there are explanations that there's foam on top of the coffee.
And that's why, you know, the foam didn't spill over the edge of the coffee because that was foam, you know, like a latte.
For every suspicious thing, there's also some counter explanation.
But the truth is, Michael.
What about the 2024?
That's a little bit suspicious.
Well, no, but there's an allegation that somebody swapped a date and put out a 2024 date image.
But anyway, I think the bottom line is AI is so damn good right now that truly it can fake anything.
And so why, you know, why wasn't Netanyahu at the official military meeting yesterday?
You know, that's my question because he's normally there.
Don't I don't recall the name of it, but just showing up in a coffee shop that he also did visit in 2024, that doesn't convince anybody, you know.
The fact that there's anybody, any question at all about this is over the top, right?
Uh, the Iranian leadership they're walking around despite taking heavy casualties already, they're out in the streets doing leadership stuff.
Where's Netanyahu?
The fact that it's even a question is a massive red flag.
There should be no question about it that he's still alive if he's still alive.
Uh, there is some cover-up.
The question is: are they covering up because he's dead, wounded, hiding for political reasons, or whatever?
Whatever is happening, he's not doing the leadership thing right now.
And he's calling into questions.
Israel, as you know, is a perpetual lying machine anyway.
It's like a neutron star of lying.
And so, well, let's see.
At the end of the day, though, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and it's something that you and I have talked about for how many years now?
Four or five?
I don't even know.
I mean, what happens when the Strait of Hormuz gets closed?
Well, here we are.
Yeah, I know.
See, this is interesting because I think many people only learned about the Strait of Hormuz from you.
You know, you are the one who's been championing the discussion about routes and resources for years.
And you and I have talked about the Strait of Hormuz many, many times, but it was always just, you know, dismissed.
Oh, that'll never happen.
That's just, that's just, you know, doom and gloom.
It'll never happen.
Because if that happened, it would destroy the whole world's economy.
Well, guess what, folks?
Hello?
Hello?
It's like, you know, like Nord Stream would never be destroyed.
That would destroy the German economy.
I'm like, hello?
Yeah, guess what?
And Groening and Gasfield would never be closed because it's the biggest gas field in Europe.
McFly, Strait of Hormuz would never be closed because it would cause famine, right?
And that's why I've been like four years ago, I flew from London or Ireland or someplace, and I met with the old prime minister of Thailand, Abhiset, Mark Abhiset.
I wrote the last two pages in his book.
The name of the book is The Simple Truth.
That's my title, actually.
So I know him, right?
So I called him up from London or Ireland or someplace.
And I said, hey, Mark, can I fly into Bangkok and see you?
And this is several years ago, three or four years ago.
And I warned, I said, you know, Thailand could be put into, well, first of all, if the Turkish Straits, the Strait of Hormuz, or the Suez, if, you know, especially if all three of these get shut, you're going into famine, right?
But if one of them gets shut, it's a big, big deal.
First of all, Strait of Hormuz being shut just itself could, you could end up with, for instance, Pakistan and India going into famine, right?
Now, Bangladesh as well.
Now, I've looked at the route from, I spent almost a year in India, but I've looked at the route.
I went to Bangladesh, spent numerous times in Myanmar.
The route from India over to Thailand, straight shot highways.
There's no daring gap between you.
And I warned Mark, you know, the former prime minister.
He just ran again for prime minister, but he didn't make it this time.
But I warned him, you know, that if this happens, you could end up seeing famine in Pakistan and India, not to mention Bangladesh, and they're going to flood straight to Thailand.
Now, right now in Thailand, the things that I warned about so many times, you know, I just took Misako and another of my Thai teammates up the Chaprea River about four months ago.
The Cha Praya River is the one that goes through Bangkok, right?
That's the main artery for rice leaving Thailand.
I took them way up there to a UDIA in a boat that we rented.
And I'm like, see these rice facilities?
If places like Strait of Hormuz get closed, these things could be empty next year.
Now, keep in mind, as you know, famines, there's different types of famines.
I've studied famine quite a lot.
There's different types.
There's famines.
I call them light switch famines.
Those are famines that just like, boom, something happens and the famine's on.
Like a volcanic eruption.
That's one of the reasons, like, you know, Japan sometimes has famine due to volcanic eruption, right?
So, volcanic eruption, locusts come in, war, that sort of thing.
Then there's another type of famine that kind of creeps up on you.
That's a slow famine.
And those slow famines, often, often the second, third, fourth season, those will be by far the worst.
Like we're going into a slow one at this point.
And those tend to be the worst.
The slow famines are the ones, for instance, if the Turkish Strait gets closed, which I expect it probably will be, Panama Canal, these sorts of things, which I've warned about so many.
We were just at the Dana Strait.
If you start to see these things get closed off, Strait of Malacca, then you, I mean, Suez, of course, they are clearly trying to make famine, right?
And now, these is about to be blocked according to the threats from the Houthis.
They're saying they're going to harass ships moving through that narrow channel there, you know, at the Red Sea.
It's a huge deal.
Huge deal.
They can still do a workaround.
They can still do a workaround.
They can still go around Africa.
But it's a big problem.
And then they'll end up blocking that.
They can block that with just a threat.
They can say, hey, there's sea mines around Africa.
They can say there's sea mines in the Med now.
It's just like calling in a bomb threat.
You can say there's sea mines at the Dana Strait, right?
And you can say there's sea mines at the mouth of the Rhine River down there, you know, at Rotterdam and Antwerp and that sort of thing, right?
So you can close these things off basically with a bomb threat, right?
And so like the Strait of Hormuz was basically closed with nothing but, you know, hey, the insurance companies won't cover, you know, at the end of the day, the fertilizer is not flowing.
And the people that work in the Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and whatnot, they've been flooding out.
I've been helping people.
There's, I mean, they're leaving.
They're gone.
And they're probably not going back.
Right.
And so the people that, you know, for the people who've spent much time in places like UAE, you know, United Emirates and whatnot, you know that most of the people there are not from there.
They're people either are tourists or they work there doing energy or service and that sort of thing.
And those people obviously are leaving, not to mention that energy infrastructure is being cut.
Now, keep in mind, you don't have to hit desalinization plants if you hit the energy because the desalinization plants need a lot of energy, right?
So, or the workers just leave and then you don't have the energy for that reason.
But at the end of the day, it's clear that the beast is working overtime to create global famines, which create a lot of hop human osmotic pressure, which is why I kept warning about Darien Gap.
I must have made this specific warning 500, 1,000, 2,000 times.
When you get global famine, they're going to come right up the Darien Gap, right?
They've cleared the path now.
They've cleared the highway.
All that infrastructure is still there.
There's not a highway through the Darien, but I mean, they've cleared, made the Darien, Bahamas, all these different routes that people can get to the United States are now that the architecture is in place with the IOM and HIAS and Catholic charities and all the Europe as well, not to mention Japan, where I'm at now.
So let's continue this theme of engineered famine because clearly, see, the Trump administration says that they had known this whole time, they had planned this whole time for the contingency of the Strait of Hormuz to be closed.
So they admit that they knew that was going to happen, which means that they knew that it was going to block fertilizer, urea, sulfur, plus energy, gas, and oil.
They knew all this, and they did it anyway, knowing that it would cause, let's say, almost one-third of the world's fertilizer to go offline.
Almost, you know, a big portion of the world's sulfur that's used to make nitrogenous fertilizers, a big portion of urea, a big portion of gas that's used for fertilizer, et cetera.
So, Michael, was this all deliberate by the Trump administration, knowing the effects of this?
Clearly.
I mean, obviously, look at the screw worms.
Look at the look at the Turkish Strait.
The Turkish Strait is still open.
Israel is threatening it.
I've been warning about the Turkish Strait for a long time.
If you see Strait of Hormuz get closed, next up, Suez Canal, Panama Canal, Turkish Strait.
You close the Turkish Strait.
That's another huge deal.
That fertilizer that comes from Ukraine and Russia, a lot of it goes right there through the Bosphorus, right?
It goes right there.
And so that can be cut off at the throat right there at Turkey, right?
Now, that can be done again with sea mines.
You don't have to defeat Turkey.
You just have to say, hey, there's mines out here.
Iran did it, you know, or somebody else did it.
And the next thing you know, the ships are going to stop or a lot of them will stop, especially if you sink a couple of them.
And so this is, they're clearly creating global famine in order to usher in digital currency and the things that you talk about all the time, the AI, you know, to rule the world.
I mean, they can create this famine, massive famine.
And then if you want to eat, you got to, you got to pay in digital money.
You got to get your vaccine.
You've got to, you know, get it from the food that we supply, right?
You know, like these lab-grown meats or whatever it is, you know.
And so they've been working on this for years.
The idea that Panama, I was talking with a ship pilot the other day about the traffic through Panama Canal right now.
Traffic through Panama Canal maxes out at about 40 ships per day, about 4-0, right?
So they were trying to get 41 in about maybe 10 days ago.
I don't think they succeeded with the 41st.
Didn't have enough tugboats and there was some little problem.
A chain broke loose on a ship or something and floating around.
Anyway, but everything's okay, but 40 is like their max, right?
And so that's a big deal.
Keep in mind, as you know, South America is on the opposite growing season of us because they're south of the equator.
And a lot of food flows through South America through the canal going south north, south, north, because the Panama Canal is not east-west.
It's actually mostly south-north, north-south.
So the south side of the Panama Canal is the Pacific side.
So that's the west coast of South America, right?
And the north side of the Panama Canal is that's the direction that the ships from the east side of South America come through.
So you got food going both directions.
You got food going to Europe and the United States from the west coast of South America through the south side of the Panama Canal and the inverse and they're going to the western part of the United States and Canada and they're going to Asia.
So if the Panama Canal gets shut, you're also shutting down significant food going from South America, right?
Obviously a big deal in and of itself.
So all these different choke points are quite easy to shut.
This is not hard.
This is like shutting off a spigot and it can be done.
It doesn't need to be shut off for 10 years.
It can be shut off for just a few months.
That's it.
It's game one.
Now keep in mind these slow famines.
It's important to keep this in mind how these slow famines will build.
The fast famines, again, can happen from like a volcano, that sort of thing, locusts or whatever.
But the slow ones, like we're going into now, you just don't have enough fertilizer.
The energy prices are too high.
Hyperinflation like Weimar, Germany, those sorts of things, right?
So these sorts of things can lead to a famine.
And then people start stealing from the farmers.
They steal from the warehouses.
They steal from the stores.
They rob their neighbor.
So that causes food to stop flowing, right?
And the farmers stop growing.
So that second season, not 2026 in this case, but 2027, when the farmers aren't actually growing in 2028, that's when you're talking, you know, cannibalism.
I mean, you could have cannibalism by the end of this year in some places.
I don't know.
I don't know how it's going to play out.
Maybe everything will magically open up tomorrow, but I'm not counting on that because that's not what they're trying to do.
The beast is trying to depopulate death jabs.
They're trying to depopulate the earth and control the remnant.
And so that's the clear upper level of what they're trying to do.
So I see all these analysis about how they can get the Strait of Hormuz open by doing whatever.
And I'm like, that's not what the plan is.
The plan is to destroy the Gulf states and to ravage that energy infrastructure to reduce global energy, right?
And to change the routes of where people and the resources, locations, where people are getting it from.
And, you know, I think the Gulf states, most of them, will be destroyed in this.
Maybe Saudi Arabia will come out on the other side alive.
I don't know.
We're going to have to wait and see.
All right.
So the big picture here is then, I guess, depopulation, total destruction of the West.
I mean, you know, Trump is obviously everything he says at this point is just a complete lie.
He says we've completely destroyed Iran.
We've totally won.
It's over.
And then the next day, like, well, we have to send in thousands of Marines and, you know, there aren't any ships moving through the strait.
And, you know, the Gulf states there are collapsing.
Like, you know, look at Dubai.
The city is becoming a ghost town.
Everybody with money is leaving now if they can.
You know, so Trump is just, what is Trump doing?
Is he just appeasing morons who are dumb enough to listen to him anymore?
What's going on?
Does anybody even listen to him anymore?
I mean, I know Magatards.
Yeah, there's still a few.
Yeah, I mean, at this point, we don't have time for those people anymore because there's just, I mean, they're gone.
And I mean, I don't like to write people off.
It just doesn't, I don't like that.
But this is a war and we don't have time to save every starfish, right?
And so it's just it.
It's a triage, right?
And at this point, where are the Marines going to go?
Carg Island, right?
Are they going to do that and be killed?
I mean, if you put the Marines there, they're probably going to get hammered to death, right?
Yeah, they're going to die.
No matter where you land them, they're all going to die.
There's a high chance of that.
And very quickly, right?
They can easily be cut off.
The idea that the Navy can escort people through the Persian Gulf or through the Strait of Hormuz, seriously, that's like a rabbit walking past 10 guys with shotguns.
Good luck, Rabbit.
Yeah, right.
Right.
And also, even if you do land these Marines somewhere, anywhere, how are you going to supply them?
How are you going to supply them?
You're not.
I mean, you're not.
I mean, you're just not going to.
And the initiative has been lost.
As many of us predicted, the United States can be actually forcibly ejected or just strangled out of the Gulf states and Israel can be destroyed.
Now, I know a lot of super Israel, they read it somewhere that Israel can never be destroyed.
Hello.
Yes, they can.
In fact, the Israelis are abandoning ships.
They're in Cyprus.
They're in Patagonia.
They're in Thailand about to get kicked out of Thailand for the stuff a lot of the Israelis are doing.
You may have seen the video coming out of Brazil, Israelis getting arrested, attacking people and that sort of stuff.
Israelis Abandoning Ships Worldwide00:03:58
I mean, everywhere they go, they're creating enemies, right?
I don't know if you saw the video of the guy in Uganda afraid of, probably an information op video, but he's, you know, this video has gone viral.
He's saying, you know, he's afraid of the Israelis in Uganda because they might eat people and that sort of stuff.
So, I mean, there's Israel is being destroyed and they don't have a place to go, right?
Other than the United States.
And the United States is being destroyed.
So at the end of the day, are they going to do the Samsung option and start nuking people?
It looks to me, I've been saying this for a long time, they will sacrifice Israel because the Zionists don't care about Israelis.
And I know that may sound counterintuitive to people, but for those who've been studying for a long time, it makes perfect sense.
The Zionists don't care at all about Israelis.
They use the Zion, where's my book on the, I don't know, I put it back on the shelf yesterday.
Oh, here it is.
Yeah.
Here.
51 documents of the Zionist collaboration with the Nazis, right?
I mean, these guys have been working together since day one, right?
They actually, the Zionists were helping to kill Jews to force Jews to go to Israel.
They were trying to, this is a political movement, the Zionists, right?
I think the first person known to be assassinated by Zionists was actually a Dutch Jew in the 1800s.
They've been killing Jews since day one, right?
And obviously, a lot of Zionists are Jews, but a lot are not.
A lot are atheists, right?
And so, you know, as we know, the biggest part of the pie chart are Christian Zionists who are below decks rowing the boat for their Zionist leaders who are on top of the deck enjoying the sunshine.
Well, they used to enjoy the sunshine.
But so the Zionists are, they are a transnational architecture, right?
They live everywhere.
They live here in Japan.
They live in the United States.
They live in Panama.
They basically have the most influence in Panama, believe it or not, and have super heavy influence in Argentina.
Maliakovsky, Maliakovsky, you know, Malay in Argentina, he has the same last name as Netanyahu.
Netanyahu's last name used to be Maliakovsky.
They changed it in about 1920 when Maliakovsky's dad named Maliakovsky moved from Poland to Israel.
He was a big-time Zionist, right?
And Maliakovsky's granddad was actually born in Russia and he was a rabbi.
So the grandfather was born in Russia.
The father, Maliakovsky, was born in Warsaw.
Then they moved to Israel, changed their name to Netanyahu.
The current Netanyahu, who may be dead or in a dungeon or something, changed, you know, started using the name Netanyahu.
So, I mean, that's where, you know, he picked up the name that his father started using, right?
So, and again, the guy down in Argentina, Maliakovsky too.
Are they from the same family?
I don't know, but they got the same last name.
One of the biggest cities in the world for Zionists is Buenos Aires, right?
You know, it's amazing when you go down there.
What I'm getting to is they are squirting out of Israel.
Israel, they are abandoning ship.
Israelis I know are gone, right?
One was a former IDF special forces guy.
He left two years ago.
You know, he's gone.
On top of that, the apocalyptic, I don't know, the religious zealots who are thinking that Israel is going to be protected by God.
They're just straight up delusional, just totally delusional.
I mean, they're living in a fantasy land.
And they, you know, you can have all the faith in the world, but if your ideas are stupid, it doesn't matter.
I mean, where's, you know, how come God didn't stop all the missiles from Iran?
You know, if God's going to protect Israel with God's hand, then how come the Iron Dome failed, right?
How come Israel is being turned into Gaza right now?
So that, you know, that whole belief system is just complete hogwash.
Destroying Fertilizer Plants for Famine00:08:47
Keep in mind on the food issues, too.
Trump is clearly part of the famine issue.
For instance, he wishes to make cannabis legal around America.
What's one of the things that happens when you grow cannabis?
It takes up food production.
You know, productive food farm land is turned into dope land, right?
Now we're doping up more of our people, reducing their population and their IQ and their executive function, right?
While growing dope, getting the munchies on the edge of famine.
That can't possibly turn out well.
Yeah, yeah.
True, true.
Okay, let me mention something here that you'll find interesting.
You know how we have our book creation engine at brightlearn.ai?
We have a user there that created a full-length book with nine chapters called Chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz.
Come open it.
And it's by an author named Shazia M.
And Shazia M created this book.
So it just so happens that, you know, and that book's free for everybody to download if you want to download it.
It's at books.brightlearn.ai.
But this weekend, I was working on the audiobook generation engine, and I've now created the full audio book of that book, and that's also available for free.
So if anybody listening, if you want to learn about the Strait of Hormuz, you need to get this book and download the audio book or the PDF or both.
It's all completely free.
And Michael, you know, that engine is influenced by all of your interviews that we've ever done.
So that book cites you numerous times.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
What, you know, what's happening with this, you know, good and bad with AI, like everything, everything that can be good can be bad.
Everything that can be bad can be good.
Every medicine is a poison.
Every poison is a medicine.
And I use AI now for research on some things, you know, because you can go through a lot of documents very quickly, but then you have to go down to the source, of course.
Now, keep in mind, on the Strait of Hormuz, some of that energy, you know, Saudi Arabia has planned for this for a long time, and they built a pipeline, or they more than one.
So they've got pipelines.
If you see these destroyed, that's another big deal.
You know, that because when you know what the beast is trying to do, then you have a much better, better chance if your input information is accurate and you keep the mud out as much as possible.
Then you should be able to make accurate predictions, like that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed, right?
And it was an obvious.
It was obvious that that's part of what they want to happen to destroy.
Listen, they're not just closing it.
They're destroying the ability to make the fertilizers anyway, right?
They're destroying another fertilizer plant just burned down, what, in the last day or two, right?
Last few days in the United States, another fertilizer plant just burned down.
So where was that one?
On top of that, well, I don't recall where that one was, but I want to add that Iran has threatened to retaliate if Trump attacks the Karg Island.
I'm sure I'm not pronouncing that correctly, but if Trump attacks the oil infrastructure of that island, which so far hasn't been destroyed, then Iran promises to then just directly destroy the energy infrastructure of Qatar and UAE and other states, which so far that energy infrastructure remains intact.
It could be started back up over a period of weeks.
But if both of these are completely destroyed, then we're talking about years of being offline.
Years.
Permanent.
That's what I'm trying to see.
Where was that fertilizer plant that just burned down?
Now, this is important, Michael.
You and I have talked about this many times.
They're not just trying to create a short-term famine.
This is a permanent, or for our intents and purposes, intergenerational reduction of the capacity to grow food, right?
So they're clearly reducing the population in bulk, right?
And so this is not a famine that's just going to go away, that's going to go away until the math reaches the nutrition, right?
And in their mind, up until that point, they're probably hoping that they're going to have the digital grid in place and that nobody has learned how to release swarms of drones with thermite on top to burn down their data centers.
As you've seen, you know, people talking about enemy war gaming that could happen to us, you know, thermite on all of our aircraft that the Chinese or whomever could release and, you know, with AI and, you know, it's not like the data centers are a done deal.
There's people out there going, they're going to get in the way of this.
Obviously, China and others who also will be controlled by AI and who want to be in control of the AI will eventually attack our AI centers through, and it's simple at this point.
You don't need a billion-dollar attack, you know, with a few million dollars.
You can do billions and billions of dollars worth of destruction.
Or if you hit energy facilities and fertilizer production facilities, you can do trillions of dollars in damage and permanent global population reduction, or at least permanent for the, you know, for the rest of our lives in many generations.
You know, the Irish famine, their population never recovered, even since the 1850s when it ended, right?
Never recovered.
Right, right.
And so in America right now, 60% of households live paycheck to paycheck, which means that they don't have additional marginal discretionary income to start spending on food that goes up 50%, not to mention 100%.
If what you're saying actually comes to pass, and it seems like that's exactly what's going to happen, because I don't know how we come back from the brink of this, then are we talking about tens of millions of Americans facing famine and food banks and starvation?
And I mean, this would affect tens of millions of Americans, wouldn't it?
Easily.
And keep in mind that famines have a magical way of spreading, just like fires and wars.
And so if you, for those who've studied famine, just read five or six, 10 books about it.
I've read a couple dozen.
When you study famine, you'll see that there are patterns.
And, you know, in 2020, when I started beating the drum that the United States could go into famine, and I mean, so many people kept saying, don't you understand?
Do your homework.
The United States is the world's biggest food producer.
I'm like, trust me, before I open my mouth, I'm talking to the microphone, I've done my homework, right?
And I understand that the United States and Netherlands and all these places are major food exporters, but that doesn't mean anything if you've studied famine.
That means absolutely zero, right?
That's like, and so what?
You're the healthiest guy on the football field.
You think you can't get hit with a bowling ball in the head or you can't catch some disease from a mosquito?
You know, the strongest guy on earth can get malaria, right?
But when it comes to famine, for instance, if you look at Hunan province in China, that was some of the worst famine.
That's a breadbasket of China, right?
You know, look at Ukraine, the Holotomor and whatnot.
I mean, it's like, there's so many books on this.
I mean, you just read until the day, till the day comes, you know, this is because the governments can come in and take over the farms.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, this is, yeah, this is a fascinating book.
And the Hungry 40s, another fascinating book.
I mean, these things are amazing.
I mean, the famines have certain patterns and that you come from a place.
And do we really have that much food?
We got a lot of monoculture.
We got where that somebody controls the seeds.
They can shut off the seeds, right?
You've talked, how many times have you talked about this?
You have to use AI to see how many times you've talked about it.
It's probably a thousand or more, right?
I mean, anybody watching your program knows that you're always talking about, they can just cut off the seeds.
So it's not just the fertilizer, it's the fertilizer, it's the seeds, it's the transportation.
Just shut off the Panama Canal.
You can shut off the Panama Canal, shut the Suez, shut the Turkish Strait, shut the Danish Strait, shut the obviously Strait of Hormuz.
You don't even have to shut the Babo Mandeb and shut the Strait of Malacca.
You're going to have unbelievable famine in places that normally have had a lot of food.
That's why, again, I was warning the former prime minister of Thailand, and I've warned a lot of Japanese.
I've got somebody coming in today, a team coming in today when we get off the air.
They're coming to, and we're going to discuss this in my study here about, you know, in the past, Japan has been able to get rice from places like Thailand and that sort of thing.
They're not going to be able to get it from Thailand.
Where's Thailand going to get it from?
Shutting Down All Major Canals00:13:32
Right.
And this is, again, I've been all over Thailand.
I spent a lot of time in Thailand because Thailand is the hyphen in Indo-Pacific security.
Thailand has been historically a rice basket for many countries.
And, but therefore, they imported, or at least some years ago, when I went to talk with Abhisit, they were importing 92% of their nitrogenous fertilizers to Thailand.
And as you know, rice is a vacuum for nitrogen.
I mean, you grow rice, and the vacuum is vacuumed up and exported, and people eat it and it's gone, right?
And it's been widely reported that Thailand, their shipping vessels are at least half of them are shut down right now because of a lack of diesel.
And, you know, of course, I've got contacts in Taiwan and they're extremely angry in Taiwan at Trump for not only putting the tariffs and punishing Taiwan, but now Taiwan is facing a gas shortage.
It's only got less than two weeks of natural gas left.
And the whole country was convinced to depend on the West.
Like the West will protect you.
Same thing with Japan, right?
Japan was told the same lie.
We will protect you with our military bases.
Well, you know, what has Qatar learned about military bases?
It just makes you a target.
There's zero protection, zero protection from the U.S. That's going to be true for Taiwan, too, unfortunately.
We just took our, we're taking our Thad missiles out of Korea.
Korea.
Yeah.
Because every we got to defend the magical elves of Israel, who, in my eye, are the greatest threat to the United States is Israel.
Not Israel, Zionist, right?
Trump is a Zionist, right?
That is the greatest threat to the United States.
And not to admit, CCP is a huge threat.
There's no, I've written three books about what?
They're right up here.
I've written three books on CCP information war.
I've been all over China, right?
I've been all over Asia, more than 20 years in Asia.
I'm very well aware of the danger of China.
I've been up to Tibet and all that, looking at this a lot, right?
They are a huge threat.
However, you know, a maximum is the most dangerous enemy is the one that's closest to you, right?
And, you know, even in basic combat training from when you're like 18 years old, learning some basic infantry techniques, which targets do you go for first?
The one closest to you, right?
Obviously, right?
And what Doug Casey said, you know, you've had Doug on your show, I think.
Doug Casey mentioned to me one time, he said, the most dangerous government is the one that's closest to you, right?
And the Zionists have completely infiltrated our government.
Look at our APAC.
I mean, they basically own Congress.
I had a Zionist threaten me two or three weeks ago to call the secret police about me, DHS, because I said something he didn't like, right?
Because it's like, they're just over the top, you know, and they have no sense of proportion, as one ex-president said of the United States in his written letter.
I think he didn't think it would be ever found.
Was it Truman, right?
And so that's what we've got going on.
We've got these people who are some of the greatest terrorists ever.
These are the guys, the Zionists who killed a lot of Jews to get Jews to go to Israel as a political Zionist as a political action.
They've been pushing for war with Iran.
I've been with a lot of Zionists, right?
I've been in a small room with Netanyahu.
I got invited to the Israeli ambassador's residence in the United States.
I would have breakfast and lunch and dinner with some of those big-name Zionists back when I was a big-name war correspondent, right?
I stayed in their homes and that sort of thing.
That was when I started getting dialed in.
Like, who are these people?
You know what I mean?
Why do they all want to go to war with Iran?
I mean, it's constantly war.
The reason that they were courting me is because I had a huge read, had a huge readership back then because I was doing so much combat, right?
So I was dominating the coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's why they were trying to get me to attack Iran.
And I examined the Iran issue so much and, you know, like the EFPs, the explosively formed projectile IEDs, you know, that were supposedly being used.
One of the big ambushes I was in was an EFP ambush.
But as I researched that quite a lot, I was up and down the entire Iraq-Iran border with British troops, Iraqi troops, U.S. troops, and Kurdish troops.
I was all up and down that border asking all the generals and the colonels and everything, are you catching any EFPs coming in from Iran?
And keep in mind, they were making this idea that thousands of U.S. soldiers are being wounded and so many killed from these EFPs, these high-tech EFPs.
I'm like, hey, listen, I went to Special Forces Explosive School.
It was a very interesting school.
And you can learn how to make EFPs in, I don't know, three hours, four hours.
You know what I mean?
All you need is some basic level algebra.
You don't even need any advanced algebra.
You just need like maybe sixth grade level algebra.
You know what I mean?
And they're extremely simple to make.
And so I asked Gerald Petraeus at one point because I had been all up and down the border.
And I went, I was in his office or someplace.
Maybe I was, I don't remember.
I spent a lot of time.
And I was like, you know, I'm not seeing any evidence of EFPs coming in from Iran.
And everybody, you know, is always talking about EFPs.
I mean, I know EFPs are here because I'm with units that are getting, you know, I was in a big ambush with one.
There was like 30 something of them and they killed the people in the vehicle behind me, right?
I mean, they're real.
The EFPs are real for sure.
But where are they coming from?
As it turns out, I think the copper was coming from our green zone.
The green zone by, which is the, the green zone in Afghanistan is different from the green zone in Iraq.
Green zone in Afghanistan is anywhere close to a river.
It's green because that's where stuff grows.
The green zone in Iraq, the green zone in Iraq is where the embassy is, right?
That's where the U.S. embassy, they call it the green zone because it was safe.
It wasn't safe at all.
But I mean, but that's why they called it the green zone.
But there was a lot of copper in there.
And I was told that copper was mysteriously vanishing from our green zone.
So who, and you know, with the things that I know now, I suspect, I just suspect, I have no evidence that this was the normal try to frame Iran because the Zionists are desperate to go to war with Iran.
They're desperate to go to war with Iran.
They're desperate to destroy the United States.
They're desperate to destroy.
I mean, they've got, remember, wars are about three things and three things only.
Routes, resources, and ideology.
They're either about routes, about resources, or about ideology, or two of those things, or all three of those things.
In this case, it's all three, routes, resources, and ideology.
Some of those ideologies wish to have Armageddon.
Others wish to, the Zionists wish to reduce the population of basically everybody that's not them.
And that includes killing off a lot of Jews, right?
And then there are other people that want Armageddon.
Some of the Christian Zionists want Armageddon.
Some of the, and they openly talk about it.
Now, some will say that's not true.
And I'm like, I'm sorry.
I get an ear full of that almost every day, right?
And of course, a lot of the Shia want that as well, right?
There's different people that want Armageddon coming at it from different ideological perspectives.
So there's that component.
And then there's other components of ideology.
And then there's the routes and resources, all of which are on the multi-trillion dollar level, and also changing world history.
I mean, you know, whoever does this and comes out on top, if anybody comes out on top, we might all be reduced to rubble, but they would be king of the little world that's left behind.
Okay, okay.
Let me shift gears here.
I mean, my God, this is so fascinating.
And your history and your experience is so incredibly valuable in understanding what's happening here because you've been on the ground.
You're a war correspondent, among other things, and you've traveled extensively.
So you really understand the dynamics.
But let me ask you about Trump now saying and claiming that he's going to have a coalition of vessels, ships from other countries that are going to send ships together with the U.S., and then they're going to somehow force open as if more ships makes it wider or something.
They're going to force open the Strait of Hormuz.
But nobody can explain how that's supposed to work because just because you have five other ships, that doesn't mean that the tanker that it's escorting can't be hit by drones.
You know what I mean?
Like, nobody's thinking about this.
People are acting like complete morons.
But you tell me, what are your thoughts?
If Iran doesn't want, again, let me go back to day one.
I've said long before the war, many, many times in writing and on interviews and with you, that if the Strait of Hormuz gets closed, which it is allegedly, right, it will probably not be Iran who does it.
If they do, it will be in some limited fashion.
Iran doesn't want it.
Iran is the one that gets most badly damaged by the Strait of Hormuz getting closed.
Another one that gets severely damaged is Japan, where I'm at right now.
This place will be devastated by the long-term closure of Strait of Hormuz.
But why would Iran want to close it?
They don't want to, right?
They want to keep it open.
And China wants to keep it open.
Japan certainly wants to keep it.
Everybody wants to keep it open except the Zionists.
The Zionists would be the one that close it and blame it on Iran.
It's always blame, Iran.
You know, like the song Bomb Iran, that music warfare from the 70s, right?
And so the so it's always blame, blame.
Again, now you see influencers talking about, you know, an Iranian ship could come up on the California coast and release drones.
The Persians aren't that stupid.
They're not that tactically.
They're not that strategic.
The Persians are super smart.
They're obviously a lot smarter than the Zionists, actually.
The Persians are very methodical.
They're not insane.
And maybe that's what drives the Zionists insane, right?
The Persians are, they're not going to come up on a ship next to California and release a bunch of drones.
Now, I can see the Zionists doing it and blaming the Persians.
I can see the Zionists cacking off nuclear weapons in the United States and blaming Iran so that we can go get the United States to start lobbing nukes all over the place.
But I mean, listen, the Zionists are the ones who did October 7th.
Everybody under the sun knows that.
The Israelis know it.
The Israelis know it.
A lot of Americans still don't seem to know it, but Israelis know it that it was Zionists who did October 7th, right?
They killed over 1,000 of their own people, right?
They used Hamas to do it, and they used the IDF to do it, right?
They will easily sacrifice Israel.
Keep in mind, the Israelis are in the way of the Zionists.
They don't care about the Israelis.
The Israelis are no more valuable to the Zionists than are the Gazans, right?
They don't care.
That place is there.
They want to build the Ben-Gurion Canal.
Haifa is obviously taking some damage recently.
They want that gas.
They want that land cleared off of any trouble, and they want a despotic state there.
They've been doping up Israelis for years.
Israelis smoke more dope than Bob Marley, right?
I spent a lot of time with Israelis.
They are heavy dope smokers.
And the idea, by the way, that dope makes people passive and peaceful.
You obviously never been around Israelis.
Go on YouTube, right?
They're constantly.
I mean, I've been with Israelis.
I've seen what they do.
Actually, I enjoyed my time with Israelis quite a lot, traveling with them in India and in Nepal and other places.
I actually enjoyed it.
But then, because they were kind to me, but I saw how they would treat others.
And I would often warn them: people from my culture are your support base in the United States.
And when you treat a waitress or a waiter or a taxi driver the way I'm seeing, I'm warning you, you're going to turn off a lot of Americans who are going to go, whoa, who am I supporting?
Because if you're talking down to waitresses and that sort of thing, we don't like that.
You know what I mean?
We don't like that.
And we remember it.
When you run off from a taxi driver and don't pay him like in Koso Mui, as they often did with those song tows down there, people don't like that.
We don't like that.
And the thing is, if just one or two Israelis did it, okay, everybody's got knuckleheads.
We all understand that.
But it's a habit.
I mean, you see it a lot.
They treat people badly.
Look, they're not letting people into bomb shelters.
We've seen those complaints in previous times.
And now here they are again.
People not being allowed to get into bomb shelters, even though missiles are coming in.
And the Israelis are fighting people out, not letting them in because they're Christian or whatever, right?
And keep in mind, many of the Israelis are Christian.
Many of the Israelis are Muslim.
Many of the Israelis are Orthodox Jews who hate the Zionists, right?
Many of the Israelis are atheists, of course.
And so Israel is not like a Jewish state where everybody's Jewish.
And as you know, there's many forms of Christianity, there's many forms of Judaism, many forms of Islam.
Many of the Jews absolutely hate the Zionists and they kill each other like crazy.
So Netanyahu, what happened to him?
Did he get kidnapped?
Did he get assassinated?
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I don't know.
Of course, they would blame it on the Iranians if they eventually say, okay, he was killed, right?
You know, because we can't keep up the facade anymore that the AI makes him, you know, the guy, listen, that latest video that we even have to question whether it's real or not, that's enough.
If we have to, he should have absolute proof of life.
It should be, it should be like beyond over the top.
We clearly, you know, numerous people shook his hand and people that we trust, which would be unlikely, you know, that people that we trust would actually be meeting Netanyahu at this point.
But he should be doing something that's absolute proof of life, like pulling up today's newspaper and doing something else that nobody else could do, but Netanyahu and AI would have a hard time faking it.
But they're not doing that.
Something's wrong.
He's either captured, dead, or hiding, or wounded, or something.
Yeah, clearly that's the case.
Okay, let me ask you a question about duration here because one of your three rules of war is that wars last longer than you expect, right?
And I've quoted your three rules of war many times, by the way, and they've always proven correct.
So here we are, where Trump has repeatedly announced that we've already won, that the war is over.
He and Carolyn Levitt, who is, you know, the propaganda spokesperson, constantly every day claiming we've completely destroyed Iran, totally decimated them.
There's nothing left.
And yet, somehow, none of that's true, right?
So Baghdad mob.
Baghdad Bob.
She's like Baghdad Bobby or something, you know.
Tell me your estimation of how long this thing goes on or sort of what is the pathway to escalation of this.
And is this going to probably keep going the rest of this calendar year?
Or what are you thinking?
Well, keep in mind the three rules of war prediction that will make anybody look like Nostradamus is when you go, you know what?
I think this war is going to grow, right?
Because wars like fires grow.
And the other one is it's going to grow unpredictably, which they, any serious war grows very unpredictably.
And they last longer than expected.
They do those three things habitually.
Now, keep in mind, a war like that, like a famine, a big famine takes time to build.
It takes time.
And so it goes into the next season and the next season.
And finally the math, you know, and it tips over and vanishes at some point.
But it can take many years, seven years or more, right?
And you get into wars are the same way.
You look at the heaviest fighting of the Iraq war, which I was in 2007.
That was four years into the war, right?
Likewise with Afghanistan.
It took how many long, how long was that?
Was the heaviest fighting 200?
I don't know.
I was in that too.
It's roughly the 2007, eight, nine, something.
Anyway, I was in that as well.
So, I mean, but the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan also took years to build up.
World War II took years to build up.
So you don't start off flat-footed.
It takes time for all the energy to build.
Like a hurricane is not, a hurricane doesn't snap into existence.
So this one is clearly still building.
It's clearly still building.
It's going to build in unpredictable ways.
It doesn't matter how much knowledge somebody has.
You're not going to be able to predict how this unfolds because there's too many wildcards.
There's too much something happened, solar flares or something.
There's too many wildcards out there that nobody can predict.
There's people that make decisions to do things based on astrology or, you know, one fight that I was in in Bangkok where people got killed.
There was actually an astrologer named E.T. actually in Burma.
Her name was E.T., but not spelled like E.T. Gohome was like E-H-T-H-I, I think.
And anyway, she was like something wrong with her astrologer.
But a lot of the big Asian decision makers listen to E.T. very closely, right?
And E.T. made some predictions, which I published back in, I don't know, 10 years, more than 10 years ago, 12 years ago, I guess, when I was in the last coup in Thailand in 2014.
And so, you know, I was saying what she predicted.
And then now people were working to fulfill this thing and ended up in some shootouts and stuff and people got killed.
That was there.
And so, but it was all based on this, you know, big battle that happened to take back, you know, government house and all these different things.
It happened because E.T., this like mentally, you know, she had difficulty.
Astrologer, people consulted her and she told them what they needed to do.
So, you know, guns were out and they went to doing it.
I mean, you know, so what I'm getting to is there's no way to predict things like this.
Or maybe there is for God, but it's way beyond my headlights.
So, well, one of the things that we can know, I mean, I agree with you.
We can't predict how the war is going to grow, but we can most definitely project the second and third order effects of the shortages.
So, and you and I have already talked about some of them.
But I think what our audience needs to understand is that supply chains are getting wrecked globally.
Aluminum plants are shutting down and declaring force majeure.
Sulfuric acid you've been talking about.
Exactly.
So many things.
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I run a mass spec laboratory, a food testing lab, and we depend on helium.
Helium is, it's one of the, it's used in the collision cell on the mass spec instruments.
And helium, like one-third of the world's helium production is now offline.
How are labs going to function without helium?
Answer is they're not.
They're not going to function.
And, you know, how are farmers going to grow full yields without nitrogenous fertilizers?
And the answer is they're not.
So, and there are so many effects here.
Manufacturing, technology, microchip production needs helium.
And, you know, microchip lithography, for example, needs a lot of these special gases and acids, etc.
I don't think people are pondering this in the depths that you and I are, Michael, but this will have a global domino effect that is catastrophic.
Go ahead.
Four horsemen.
I mean, you know, I mentioned this with you a couple of times, you know, years ago.
I was doing an interview and I talked about how pandemic and famine and war go together.
And I discovered that, right?
And then one of my readers, longtime readers, she was called in live and she's like, no, that's in the Bible, right?
I'm like, yikes, I plagiarized from the Bible.
I probably got it from the Bible and forgot where I got it.
But, you know, I mean, because I see that clear pattern.
I mean, I can confirm that the Bible is accurate.
The pandemic and famine and war, they absolutely go together, just like three legs of the triangle are related, right?
And the angles and the links are related.
And same with pandemic, famine, and war are very closely related.
And after you've studied these things for a while, you'll see why.
I mean, there's like clear relations.
It might not jump off the page, but once you study it, it's obvious.
But what they all do is create hop, human osmotic pressure.
And that human osmotic pressure, the push and pull of migration, is part of what spreads these things, right?
It's part of what spreads disease is the human osmotic pressure.
Like disease goes with it, or people pick up diseases as they're moving.
Or they're like, say, you get into a war and they're, you know, you have a famine due to the war, or the war famine is used in wars.
Obviously, it's one of the major weapons in wars and disease is as well.
And so, but when people move, they steal other people's food.
The famine spreads.
And anyway, these things spread, they spread together until they reach some magical mathematical inflection point and they go away.
So this human osmotic pressure, this will lead to the toppling of regimes.
And we've already begun to see protests in Bahrain, for example, extreme, you know, possibly the toppling of the government there.
You already mentioned you'd think that many of these Arab Gulf states will not survive this.
And I agree with you.
I think many of them will not survive.
And I think America's presence in the Middle East is toast, toast at this point.
How does America maintain military bases with any kind of credible promise that it's a protection shield from here forward?
What do you think?
I mean, it may have been day one of the shooting or before.
I messaged to Eric Prince.
I said, you know, this could lead to the ejection of the United States out of the Middle East and it could lead to the, you know, the final end of Israel, right?
As we know it, you know, and I think at this point, I mean, that bought, I mean, it's clear the inertia is going that way.
That's obvious.
But how will it play out?
I don't know because war has got all these weird twists and turns and you never know what's going to happen next.
But at the, you know, and they don't go linearly.
But if you were to extrapolate linearly at this point, then Israel will clearly be destroyed.
But that's not how wars go.
We don't know too many wildcards.
But if I were to, I would put my money on Israel doesn't exist 10 years from now in the form we know, even possibly five or less, that it doesn't exist in the form that we know it.
You might still call it Israel or whatever, but they're already leaving.
They're already shooting off to Fort Lauderdale.
Look, Netanyahu's son's been running around rolling around in Florida, being a playboy down in South Florida, tweeting all the time, but he's vanished too.
But look, have you ever heard of the hungry 40s?
The hungry 40s from the 1800s?
That's what they call the hungry 40s.
That led to the end of toppling of governments.
And that's where anytime you have a famine, anytime you have a famine, you can expect governments to get toppled, right?
And I mean, there's nothing worse than a severe famine.
A severe famine, I mean, for those who've studied famine, you know what I'm talking about.
Severe famine.
To me, that seems a lot worse when you see the end state and how it actually affects a people and affects the people worse than actually war, unless the war is genocidal and they're all killed.
But I mean, the famine itself has such long-term effects beyond the people that were, you know, died at the time.
I mean, look at Ireland.
Ireland never recovered.
Ireland is still going down.
And part of that's the last famine that ended in arguably 1854, people argue when it ended.
Anyway, let's say 1850s ended.
But the Irish population shot off to the United States and Australia and everywhere else.
Many of them died.
That was the British organizing that famine to reduce the pop.
That was genocide, right?
That was a Victorian type famine, right?
The British were always good at making famines, or at least for some centuries.
And I'm sure they still have that knowledge.
And they're not the only ones.
I'm not just harping on the British as people.
British are a good and bad.
We got a lot of great things from the British and some bad things.
But so they're a mixed bag.
But ultimately, I'm not blaming everything on the British.
But they're very good at famine.
They're very good at using famine and war.
It's called Victorian Famines.
There's a lot of great books about it.
I've read several of them.
Okay.
So obviously one of the takeaways then for people in observing this war is, number one, do not believe the White House and the press when they say, oh, it's over or we're going to wrap it up soon.
We're going to reopen the strait.
Everything's going to return to normal, right?
The chance of that seem to be zero.
But secondly, it's prepare for long-term scarcity of food and empty shelves in some cases, not in every case.
But the price of food is what's going to cause a lot of hunger.
Because even if it's on the shelf, if you can't afford it, you know, you're still going hungry, right?
That's a big issue.
And as you know, that leads to theft.
That leads to gleaning.
You know, gleaning is in the Bible, actually.
And people are already starting to glean.
They have been for the last couple of years, last three or four or five years, last four or five years.
Gleaning is when people, well, gleaning from the Bible is when you just get the stuff on the edges of the field type thing.
But more, let's say, more aggressive gleaning is you steal all the avocados out of somebody's tree or all the fruit off their trees or steal their okra or whatever.
You're out there robbing, stealing cattle rustling and not to sell the cattle, but to eat them, right?
And so then what will end up happening is a lot of farmers just stop farming, especially when people start robbing warehouses and robbing boats and robbing semi-trucks and that sort of thing.
The food just, so you end up with food deserts, right?
Now, when the food desert happens, then the people who created the food desert in one place, that just spreads.
Again, that's why food scarcity can spread just like wars spread, just like pandemic spreads.
Pandemic, one of the reasons that pandemic, one of the things I've warned about many, many times, I think with you about four years ago is typhus.
Typhus goes with war.
Typhus goes with famine.
Typhus, they often call it a famine fever.
They'll call it war fever.
I'm talking about epidemic typhus from lice, right?
Not from Some of the other types of typhus, but the typhus that comes epidemic, it's called epidemic typhus.
So they call it ship fever.
They call it camp fever.
They call it hospital fever because lice, you know, it spreads like lice.
And so when you have a big pandemic, like especially a big, let's say a big famine, then you'll start to see famine fever, which is, you know, spreading of lice.
And so you have to be cognizant of that.
You know, and there, and typhus is endemic to the United States, like, you know, Southern California and that sort of thing.
Occasionally, they'll find somebody out there on the street that has, you know, some small, it doesn't become epidemic because the health department are squashing down on it quickly.
But when things break down, that epidemic, which is always hovering there in the background like weeds, waiting to break free, the next thing you know, you got epidemic typhus spreading, which then causes more famine.
These things, it's a fuel and fire that work together.
Wow.
Okay.
So because of that, then we're going to see probably the same thing we saw during COVID: the establishment pushing vaccines and pushing shutdown or lockdowns, pushing maybe masks again.
You know, it seems like a lot of elements of COVID are going to come back around, including the authoritarian demands to concede to every ridiculous government demand, which included, by the way, during COVID, blocking off the seed sections of some retailers where you couldn't even buy seeds.
Let me say something about lice.
About four or maybe five years ago, I think it was about five, even six, I found a website where somebody was saying, if children come to school with lice, don't send them home because it's racist, right?
And this was like an official type health department.
You might be able to find that right now.
I don't have my computer out, but you might be able to find that website right now.
It's probably still up.
But that was, you know, all about go ahead and let the kids stay in school.
If they have lice, don't send them home because, you know, that's bad for their psyche and that sort of thing.
That's clearly trying to spread.
That was like an official type website, by the way.
Can you find, I don't know if you've got a computer in front of you, but you can see that website.
And what was the name of it?
In fact, I published it several times.
Yeah.
I do have a computer, but I don't recall that site.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I published it several times.
You know, it's a, it's a, you know, they're clearly setting psychological conditions so that when there are, when we do have typhus and lice is breaking out, people go, oh, that's just lice.
Don't, you know, don't, don't, don't say we should stay away from that kid because he's got lice.
I mean, you definitely 100% should stay away from anybody that's got lice.
That's how epidemic typhus spreads, and epidemic typhus will put you in the grave, lickety split.
Well, I know that in Taiwan in the 1960s and 70s, let's say, when they had head lice there, because I was told this by some of the old timers that I used to talk to when I lived there, they get a shower cap.
So the kids would have lice, right?
They get a shower cap, and then they would dowse your hair with DDT and then put a shower cap on your head and make you sit under the sun and bake in the DDT in your head to kill the lice.
That's a technique.
And it worked.
I mean, oh, yeah, it killed the lice, but of course, all that DDT goes right into your skull.
But that's what they used to do.
And I'm sure similar practices.
They'll have a tip.
Right.
Yeah, no hair, right?
Simple.
That definitely works.
But also, the stories that I heard from Taiwan of people living in the post-Japanese occupation following World War II was extreme famine.
And I think I told you the story of one of the guys who's since passed away that I used to talk to.
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And he didn't speak any English at all, but he talked about how they would have to do guerrilla gardening of sweet potatoes because that's the only food that they could grow in the forests without the occupying Japanese knowing about it.
And they lived on sweet potatoes to the point where he would never touch a sweet potato ever again in his life.
Yeah.
And actually, the stealth growing has been a big thing in every famine.
In fact, that's one of the ways that, you know, when the KGB, their genesis, you know, let's say Russian intelligence, their genesis of, you know, becoming more corporate, let's say, was all about finding food, right?
During famine.
So, I mean, they, so, I mean, and because, you know, they would pay people like people are hoarding food.
You know, if you're not skinny like everybody else or they smell food coming out of your chimney, they're busting down the door.
And, you know, people would hide food in their garden because it would cover up the, you know, that you'd been digging and hiding food down there.
There was many, many ways, many ways.
Like Mao at some point, he said something like, you know, he basically grudgingly respected the ability of people to hide food.
They found ways to hide it that were ingenious.
And, you know, they were always trying to find because part of what they were trying to do is reduce the population.
That was the number one.
That wasn't part.
That's what they were trying to do was reduce the population.
Now, keep in mind during a famine, it doesn't mean that suddenly everybody's doing a full-body and full corporate, let's save all the people starving.
During the Irish famine, there were still people making whiskey, even while other Irish were dying of famine, right?
There were still, I mean, making vodka and that sort of thing.
There were still people, you know, out of potatoes, right?
There were still, you know, in the Chinese famine, Mao's great famine, they were still exporting cotton, right?
Because he needed the cotton for gold and that sort of thing.
I mean, they were still growing stuff that wasn't, they weren't eating it.
They were just growing it for money.
So, you know, while people are starving to death, life goes on for others.
Yeah, right.
That's very interesting because you can be starving to death while your neighbor has food.
And then the social cohesion starts to become an issue.
It starts to degrade.
And you have, don't forget that also you have the National Defense Authorization Act signed by Obama that now gives Trump the capability to seize all farm crops and farmland and diesel fuel and farm equipment and cattle and everything.
That's all.
They will absolutely do it.
They will absolutely do it.
All right.
So, well, tell me more about what actually let me ask you to go ahead and tell our audience about your Twitter handle, your Substack also.
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Okay.
All right.
So then let me ask you one last question for discussion here, which is that what you're describing, which is clearly a global engineered famine and a depopulation agenda, it fits perfectly into what I am seeing as the rise of AI and robotics as replacements for human cognition as well as human labor.
These things go together in my mind.
War and famine, followed by the rise of AI, labor, and cognition.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
Right.
I mean, this is all part of it.
I mean, again, there's a lot of people that are losing their jobs, not just because the economy is good.
Even if the economy was booming right now, a lot of people would be losing their jobs due to computers through AI, right?
I mean, so this is what the globalists are looking at.
How are we going to get rid of all these people that aren't going to have jobs and they're going to be useless eaters, as Yaval Arari, and some of those other globalists talk about, right?
And keep in mind, this is an old thing.
Now, the current globalists are really open about it, but there's all, I mean, I've got numerous books here from two, three hundred years old, quite a lot.
Probably it's quite, it's more than numerous.
It's like maybe a couple dozen talking about how to reduce population using that when you've got too many people.
You've got like the king has too many people, like in Wales, right?
There's one that's, you know, talking about in Wales, how to reduce the population, right?
How to rearrange people.
I've got a book over here.
I wish I could reach it, but it's on the edge of there.
It's about how the Bulgarians and the Greeks and the Turks are swapping populations and that sort of thing.
I mean, it's like, this is normal.
And that's from 1932, right?
But some of the other books that I have are, you know, one, two, 300 years old.
And they're all talking about the same thing, how to reduce or increase your population.
Sometimes you want more people because of some reason.
You know, maybe you have silver in Peru and you're Spanish and you need slaves to get the gold, the silver out, right?
That sort of thing.
Of course, they don't bring those mostly back to Spain, but there's other times when people, when the resources to create things like farmland are in your own country.
So you bring people back to your country.
And the next thing you know, they stay in your country and they make families.
And the next thing you know, you have a, you know, a remaking of the demography.
This is normal stuff.
It happens all over the world, century after century to the Romans and everybody else.
Right, right.
Except what's different now is for the first time in history is that machines can replace human cognition and labor.
So it seems like the trend here is going to be more on the human elimination side rather than growing.
It's not new.
It's not new, Michael.
It's not new.
I mean, it's just, it's new with AI, but it's not, I mean, like the Ludites, as an example, were fighting against the machines that were taking their jobs away.
That's where the word sabotage came from, right?
Sabotage, sabot, those wooden shoes.
They were called sabot.
They would throw those shoes into the machines, and that's why they called it sabotage, because they were sabotaging.
Now, the AI is new, but the idea of machines replacing people.
I mean, that's how we ended up with the Industrial Revolution.
You had more and more machines and better agriculture, and the people were able to, from the agricultural revolution, when you had better agriculture machines and better technology, the people were able to move to the cities.
Now you've got people that are working in factories and you're able to do things in the cities and things increase.
Now you have machines in the cities and you know, and for a while people just keep evolving and using different types of machines to do things.
But now we're getting to the point where, as you know, we've reached a tipping point.
Globally, they just need and want less humans to do their industrial industry.
My point is that, I mean, you're right that we've seen these waves before, but what is truly different this time is that for all of history, humans have been smarter than the machines they ran, right?
So, you know, a loom couldn't outthink a human, an engine couldn't outthink a human.
Now we're talking about machines that can outthink and outperform humans across the board in almost every area of thinking, right?
You know, science, medicine, law, writing, video production, you name it.
So that's the part that I'm saying is unique to this era.
And it makes humans more replaceable or more expendable from the point of view of globalists than ever before.
That's kind of what I'm trying to point out.
That's true.
They always needed some number of humans to do the thinking and to be the lawyers, you know, to run the bureaucracy, for example.
Now they don't.
That's true.
I mean, you know, lawyers and doctors will just be non-existent because they'll use AI, right?
The doctor will be there to do, you know, wear the white coat and say, let me check my computer.
Well, you need this drug, you know, right?
Yeah, exactly.
So what I'm trying to do is just connect the dots here to say that this famine that you're talking about, this engineered war, actually fits perfectly within the larger agenda of replacing billions of humans with machines.
They don't hide what they're doing, Michael.
I mean, they say it.
I mean, how did I know what they're doing?
Because they say it.
I mean, they hide it.
True.
And then we go out and say, are they really doing this?
We're like, yeah, they are really doing it.
I mean, we go see farmers in all these, so many different countries, you know, Canada or United States, of course, Japan, Netherlands, all over the place looking at this.
And yeah, they're doing it.
And Ireland, I mean, they're clearly going to reduce the population.
And one of the problems that a lot of Americans have is they have this savior complex.
We have to have, we have to vote somebody who's going to save us.
You know what I mean?
Somebody save us.
We have to save ourselves.
You know, our ancestors who created the United States, nobody, it wasn't some individual who came and saved everybody.
I mean, that was rugged people that came and did rugged things.
And they pulled the rocks out of their own fields and that sort of thing.
And yeah.
Yeah, exactly right.
Well, okay, Michael, this has been another extraordinary conversation.
I can't believe how much time has gone by so quickly here.
Is there anything else you want to add before we wrap it up?
No, sir.
And thanks for having me on.
There's a lot of things to go.
Listen, all of our families have been through wars and pandemics and famine.
Everybody watching this, you come from a hardy line of genes or you would not be watching this.
Everybody watching this comes from a family line that's been through all this many, many times.
So it's not like this is the end of the world for the people who get ready and prepare for it.
But it's the end of the world for a lot of people who are not going to see what happens and they're going to get clunked over the head like dodo birds.
So that's not our task in life.
Our task in life is to carry on and thrive.
Yeah, well said.
I'm glad you said that.
All we have to do is remember and invoke our ancestry because we have these capabilities to survive and thrive.
But, you know, it's been kind of, I don't know, it's been pummeled out of so many people's minds where they're no longer capable of thinking.
You know, they've all been dumped down in so many ways.
It's just extraordinary.
But that's not the people watching this, obviously.
So the people watching this, I think you're going to do just fine.
Well, let me just remind people: your handle on X is michael underscore yon, and then your substack is michaeljan.substack.com, correct?
That's right.
Okay.
And I noticed you have a channel on YouTube also that is up.
So is that just Michael Jan also?
Yeah, when I put things on Substack, when I put video up, it automatically feeds to YouTube.
So that's interesting.
So that's the derivative of Substack.
Okay.
I just wonder how long YouTube is going to let you have a channel.
I wonder too.
I noticed last night there was a strike because I was looking at, because, you know, I don't go to my YouTube very much and somebody was asking me something and I was looking on there and I noticed I have a strike that's been up there for a couple of years.
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I didn't even notice.
Something to do with something to do with medical misinformation.
Yeah, that's pretty much if I just open my mouth on YouTube, it's immediately labeled medical misinformation.
Just talking about vitamin C, you know.
Right.
But that's the way it is.
Well, thank you, Michael, for your time.
Much appreciated.
Thanks, Michael.
Thank you.
All right.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
Oh, don't disconnect.
Okay.
Okay.
Stay connected.
Let me just end the recording.
Thanks for watching, folks.
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