Health Ranger - Mike Adams - Mike Adams on InfoWars: Hormuz Crisis Triggers Global Energy Shock, Supply Chain Collapse, and Famin
Aired: 2026-03-18
Duration: 01:02:34


=== Strait of Hormuz Closure (15:22) ===

[00:00:00]  And Michael Yahn has predicted accurately and repeatedly that in a war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz would be closed.
[00:00:07]  And that when that happened, there would be catastrophic effects, including engineered global famine.
[00:00:13]  He said it numerous times.
[00:00:15]  He held up books about famine numerous times.
[00:00:18]  Trump didn't listen.
[00:00:20]  Trump should have listened to Michael Yan.
[00:00:23]  If he had, he wouldn't have started this war.
[00:00:25]  And we wouldn't be facing the potential starvation affecting billions of people potentially around the world if this thing continues for months.
[00:00:35]  We could be seeing food scarcity at a level that you've never witnessed, really impacting aggressively the countries that have marginal families that are just barely scraping by, just barely have enough to eat.
[00:00:50]  When you raise their food prices 50% or 100%, or you reduce crop yields by 20 or 30%, which is exactly what's about to happen, as I've got in my research report here, I'll share that with you.
[00:01:03]  Then you start driving many people, marginalized people in these countries into extreme poverty and food scarcity.
[00:01:11]  Food insecurity then breeds civil unrest.
[00:01:14]  And that's when you start to get, well, revolts, upheavals, and revolutions.
[00:01:20]  And by the way, right here in America, 60% of American households are just living paycheck to paycheck.
[00:01:29]  They don't have an extra stash of money to cover doubling of food costs.
[00:01:35]  And they don't have stored food for the most part.
[00:01:37]  I mean, you watching this, yeah, you have some amount of stored food, but the average American does not.
[00:01:43]  And that means that when their food prices start to really skyrocket, which will happen in the fall, you know, here we are in the planting season right now.
[00:01:51]  So obviously there's a buffer delay of crop yields to work its way through the system.
[00:01:55]  Right now, you're eating the food that was grown mostly last year, okay?
[00:01:59]  That is in the northern hemisphere.
[00:02:02]  But in the fall of this year, you'll be eating the food that was grown now.
[00:02:07]  And that food is not going to have the same yields that it did last year.
[00:02:11]  So that means that American families are going to be lining up at food banks like never before.
[00:02:16]  They're going to be suffering higher food prices, reduced food supply.
[00:02:22]  And there we go, 45 million homes at risk if Iran war continues, 45 million more at risk, excuse me.
[00:02:29]  I would say that's a very small number compared to what my research shows.
[00:02:34]  We're looking at potentially, if this goes on long enough, billions of human beings across numerous countries, including India, that will face food scarcity.
[00:02:45]  And the situation is going to become dire.
[00:02:51]  All right, welcome back.
[00:02:52]  Hour three of the Alex Jones show.
[00:02:54]  I'm Mike Adams here coming to you from our studios near Austin, Texas.
[00:02:58]  And I've got quite a lineup for you here, although Robert Barnes just did an outstanding job with his analysis.
[00:03:04]  And I have to agree with his conclusion.
[00:03:06]  It is clearly time for Trump to divorce the Israel First lobby and put America first because we're running out of time.
[00:03:14]  This war is becoming a disastrous Vietnam 2.0 in the Middle East.
[00:03:19]  And frankly, the U.S. is losing the credibility of its force projection of its navy as carriers had to essentially flee.
[00:03:28]  That's what's happening now.
[00:03:30]  And as much as Trump bragged that the war was already won numerous times, Strait of Hormuz is still not open.
[00:03:38]  And that's a problem for the entire world, but especially Western countries.
[00:03:42]  And that's what I'm going to get into today.
[00:03:44]  So here in this segment, just a little table of contents of what I'm about to cover.
[00:03:49]  I'll be covering the economic consequences of a prolonged shutdown of these critical resources, including not just natural gas, obviously, and oil, but also sulfur and helium, and then downstream effects such as sulfuric acid shortages, the aluminum industry, and much more, fertilizer and food crops and what that means for food yields over the next couple of growing seasons.
[00:04:15]  Because you see, what's been set into motion right now can't be fixed.
[00:04:19]  It can't be turned around, even if there's peace tomorrow.
[00:04:22]  Many of these systems are shut down in a way that will require weeks or months to bring back online.
[00:04:30]  And that's true with natural gas in Qatar, for example.
[00:04:32]  Qatar Energy already declared force majeure, and they've shut down their energy production.
[00:04:37]  And because of that, it will take at least one month for them to bring that back online.
[00:04:42]  And as you're going to hear in my analysis today, that helium production will take months to come back online.
[00:04:48]  Now you say, well, so what about helium?
[00:04:50]  What's the deal with helium?
[00:04:52]  Well, you know, in addition to being very useful for talking like Ben Shapiro, it also is used in microchips manufacturing and in laboratory analysis.
[00:05:04]  Without helium, Taiwan's semiconductor can't make the microchips that power so much of our Western technology.
[00:05:11]  And helium has been cut off.
[00:05:13]  We're about to go into an extreme global helium shortage.
[00:05:16]  So we're going to talk about that.
[00:05:19]  Sulfuric acid is used in the production of fertilizers and phosphate fertilizers.
[00:05:24]  And urea also is another critical commodity that's in very short supply right now because a significant portion of it comes out of the Persian Gulf.
[00:05:34]  And think about it.
[00:05:35]  Right now, the Strait of Hormuz remains essentially closed.
[00:05:38]  It is de facto closed.
[00:05:40]  And I don't know why it's so difficult to get this through the thick skulls of some people who say, well, no, it's open.
[00:05:46]  It's not blocked.
[00:05:48]  Well, okay, it's not physically blocked.
[00:05:51]  But if you try to go through without permission, as a tanker just found out last night, you get bombed and set on fire.
[00:05:58]  You get hit by drones.
[00:05:59]  And, you know, Trump brags about how, oh, we've destroyed the Iranian Navy.
[00:06:04]  We've destroyed their Air Force.
[00:06:06]  Okay, well, then why isn't the Strait of Hormuz open?
[00:06:09]  Because Iran doesn't need a Navy in order to harass ships going through the region.
[00:06:14]  And I've said this before, that the Strait of Hormuz is not open until Iran decides it's open.
[00:06:22]  And there's nothing that you can do to force it open.
[00:06:25]  And remember, just recently, Trump tried to get all these other countries, you know, European countries and Australia and Japan, send your ships, send your naval vessels, help us reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:06:36]  It's basically Trump begging for a military bailout from the very countries that he mocked as having weak militaries and countries that he punished with punitive tariffs also.
[00:06:47]  And now all those countries have said, no, no, thank you.
[00:06:51]  We're not going to get involved in your war.
[00:06:52]  We're not sending ships.
[00:06:54]  And besides, if it were so easy to open up the Strait of Hormuz, why hasn't the U.S. military done it?
[00:07:01]  And the answer is because it's not that easy.
[00:07:04]  It's basically impossible without Iran's consent.
[00:07:08]  And that's why Iran has set out its terms, terms like reparations and recognizing Iran's intrinsic right to develop nuclear energy technology and to enrich nuclear fuel, for example.
[00:07:22]  And until those rights are recognized, the strait will not be open.
[00:07:25]  So when we come back here for the rest of this hour, I'm going to walk you through the dire consequences of what this means for America and the rest of the Western world if that strait stays closed for a few more weeks or months.
[00:07:36]  So stay tuned.
[00:07:37]  We'll be right back.
[00:07:38]  All right.
[00:07:38]  Welcome back.
[00:07:39]  Mike Adams here with the third hour of the Alex Jones show today.
[00:07:43]  And as I promised, we're going to be walking through the dire consequences of the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:07:49]  And also during the break, Matt Bracken had sent over this tweet from an observer, Radigan Carter, who talks about how there's a specific turn in the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:08:03]  And if you could bring up the straight map there again, there's a turn there that exposes ships to 270 degrees of fire control in layered systems from the surrounding high ground.
[00:08:16]  Basically, it's a suicide run if you try to run through that strait without permission.
[00:08:23]  And thus, there is no one in the world.
[00:08:25]  There's no technology in the world.
[00:08:27]  There you go.
[00:08:27]  That map shows, you see where you have to make that sharp turn and those high islands on both sides of you are flanking both sides of your ships.
[00:08:34]  Now, think about this.
[00:08:36]  Even if the U.S. Navy will escort, let's say, tankers through that strait, all that's doing is exposing the tanker and the U.S. naval ships to unlimited fire, unlimited fire.
[00:08:48]  They will both be destroyed.
[00:08:50]  In fact, I think it was one of the high-level Iranian officials who said that they will allow any tanker safe passage if they can convince a U.S. naval vessel to escort it.
[00:09:00]  I mean, that's a sense of humor because, of course, the U.S. naval vessel would be destroyed and sunk right there in the middle of the strait.
[00:09:10]  And as much as Trump keeps announcing total victory and total decimation of Iranian military forces, none of that matters if you can't reopen the strait, does it?
[00:09:19]  And again, Iran doesn't need a navy to open the strait.
[00:09:22]  So, as I said, the strait is not open until Iran says it's open and also until the insurers that insure these vessels will allow them to sail.
[00:09:34]  And you can bet that all these insurers, including Lloyds of London and whoever else does all the insurance policies for these vessels, not only have they raised their rates for ships that are allowed to move around, but they've said no insurance for you if you're trying to traverse the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:09:48]  So without insurance, they're not sailing.
[00:09:51]  And that's why there are over 3,000 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf right now with no exit.
[00:09:57]  Only they can exit with permission from Iran.
[00:10:01]  That's why, for example, a Chinese-bound oil tanker was allowed to transit.
[00:10:06]  That's why Iranian flagships are allowed to transit.
[00:10:09]  But you've got these morons on social media that are saying, oh, ships, ships went through.
[00:10:13]  It must be open again.
[00:10:15]  No, it's open if you have the permission of Iran.
[00:10:19]  If you don't have permission, you don't get to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:10:24]  And see, so it's a selective, it's not just mining the waters with old dumb mines that blow up every ship.
[00:10:31]  That hasn't happened.
[00:10:33]  And that was never an accurate claim.
[00:10:36]  This is about certain ships are allowed to pass and other ships are not.
[00:10:42]  And right now, the only ships allowed to pass are ships that are bound for friendly countries that is friendly to Iran.
[00:10:47]  Could be Russia, could be China, could be Pakistan, maybe even North Korea, for example.
[00:10:51]  And that's it.
[00:10:52]  And that's equating to a couple of ships a day right now, down from a typical volume of something like 80 or 90 ships per day is what used to transit the strait before this war began.
[00:11:05]  So if you hear anybody saying, well, well, there's ships still going through.
[00:11:09]  Yeah, that's because they have permission.
[00:11:10]  All right.
[00:11:12]  Here's the other thing.
[00:11:13]  Right now, let's talk about LNG tankers, liquid natural gas.
[00:11:17]  And if you could show a picture of some of those LNG tankers, they're the ships that have the giant domes on them because that's where you have the pressurized, liquefied natural gas that, of course, drives much of the world's economy and much of the world's industry.
[00:11:33]  And those ships are like, you know, floating bombs, actually, if they were to be attacked.
[00:11:38]  I mean, look at that.
[00:11:39]  That is compressed, liquefied natural gas.
[00:11:43]  The amount of energy that is stored in those domes is tremendous.
[00:11:49]  You do not want that released all at once, right?
[00:11:52]  And you do not want those under fire from any kind of drones or missiles or anything like that.
[00:11:57]  You wouldn't dare get those close to a war zone.
[00:12:00]  Well, out of all of those tankers that exist on planet Earth, half of them are currently stuck in the Persian Gulf, half of them.
[00:12:09]  Which means that even if you had other sources of natural gas, and for example, the United States is a producer of natural gas.
[00:12:17]  There are other gas fields around the world, although the Middle East fields are by far the most prolific out of Qatar in particular.
[00:12:25]  But even if you had other sources, you don't have the ships in existence to meet world demand for natural gas right now.
[00:12:34]  The ships just don't exist.
[00:12:35]  And how long would it take to build those ships?
[00:12:37]  Well, years, obviously.
[00:12:39]  So forget it.
[00:12:41]  The only way that our world gets back on track in terms of industry, in terms of output, and also like we're going to talk about microchips and automobiles and anything that our friendly allies make in Japan or Taiwan or in Western Europe or even Australia for that matter, the only way that this gets back online is if the strait is opened and you can't open it without Iran's consent, period.
[00:13:07]  I don't care if you land 5,000 Marines on those islands.
[00:13:11]  Doesn't matter.
[00:13:12]  You know why?
[00:13:12]  Even if you take the islands, Iran can still harass ships from inland.
[00:13:17]  Iran can launch drones from northeastern Iran because the drones have a 2,000 kilometer range, by the way.
[00:13:24]  So it doesn't matter if you take the islands.
[00:13:27]  The only thing that has to happen for the insurers to shut down the ships is for Iran to publicly claim we will attempt to damage ships that pass through the strait without our permission.
[00:13:39]  They don't even have to actually do it.
[00:13:42]  All they have to do is say they're going to do it.
[00:13:44]  And that's it.
[00:13:45]  The strait is closed.
[00:13:46]  All right.
[00:13:47]  So all of the threats from Trump, all of the bluster, all of the claims of total victory and total decimation, it doesn't mean a damn thing to Iran.
[00:13:59]  Iran is just laughing at the moment and saying, yeah, you know what?
[00:14:03]  You lost.
[00:14:03]  You lost because we control the Strait of Hormuz, which means we, Iran, we control the Western world's economies.
[00:14:13]  We control the price of energy.
[00:14:15]  And the price of energy determines the success or failure of your economy.
[00:14:19]  So until Trump realizes that, the West is going to keep losing big time, no matter what happens militarily.
[00:14:27]  Doesn't matter how many buildings you blow up in Tehran, right?
[00:14:30]  You still can't allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:14:33]  So what Trump should do, kind of like what Robert Barnes said in the last segment, in my opinion, is he should divorce the mistress of Netanyahu, you know, alive or dead, whatever his state happens to be.
[00:14:46]  Trump should divorce from the Israeli lobby and the Zionist control over his administration.
[00:14:52]  Trump should make peace with Iran and reach a negotiated deal that allows Western industries and economies to come back from the brink of total destruction, which is where they're headed right now.
[00:15:06]  The problem with that is America burned its credibility when it comes to negotiations, because for the past two times that the U.S. has, quote, negotiated with Iran, last summer, the U.S. then murdered the negotiators.

=== China's Strategic Oil Crisis (10:57) ===

[00:15:22]  And in this last round of negotiations with Witkoff and Jared Kushner, I believe, in those negotiations, the U.S. started bombing again, even though the negotiations had progress.
[00:15:35]  And I believe Oman was helping with those negotiations, and they were at the verge of having an agreement, and Iran had already made some concessions.
[00:15:43]  But Trump went ahead and ordered the attack anyway.
[00:15:45]  Why?
[00:15:46]  Because Netanyahu told him to do so.
[00:15:49]  So the only way to save America, I mean, forget about just, I mean, we have to go beyond the concept of just making America great again.
[00:15:57]  We need to save America now, save America from this disastrous war.
[00:16:02]  The only way to save America is to divorce Israel and put America first instead of Israel's interests.
[00:16:09]  That's what has to happen for Trump to have any kind of chance of saving his presidency, saving the GOP in the upcoming elections, and saving America from the economic destruction that I'm about to describe for you.
[00:16:22]  And of course, I've unleashed a bunch of AI research agents to pull together a report that I'm going to be reading from here.
[00:16:30]  I won't be showing you the report, but I just want to let you know I didn't manually do all this research myself, but I pulled it up.
[00:16:35]  And let's just start walking through some of this because here's what we're going to cover.
[00:16:40]  We're going to cover not only the oil export situation, liquefied natural gas and why that's so critical, but global helium supply, the sulfur supply, because not a lot of people are thinking about the sulfur, fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizers, urea, ammonia and phosphate inputs that are used for agriculture around the world.
[00:16:59]  And then I've got some food supply and crop yield projections for you, as well as petrochemicals and plastics, copper and aluminum, and a list of different organizations around the world that have already declared Force Majeure.
[00:17:12]  And it's a growing list.
[00:17:13]  And when they declare Force Majeure, it means they default on the contracts.
[00:17:18]  So whatever contracts they had about a commitment to deliver a certain amount of natural gas, let's say, natural gas to Taiwan for Taiwan to run its industrial economy, because Taiwan is a very prolific manufacturer.
[00:17:30]  Well, they're down to less than two weeks, I believe, now of natural gas supplies.
[00:17:34]  That island nation is in dire trouble right now if the gas doesn't flow again.
[00:17:40]  And by the way, China has banned all exports now of refined fuels.
[00:17:45]  So China will not export diesel or kerosene or jet fuel or gasoline to anybody, including Australia.
[00:17:54]  And Australia's airlines normally rely on China's exports of jet fuel.
[00:18:00]  So even in Australia, the airlines are going to have to start shutting down or they're going to have to find some other source of fuel, which is highly unlikely unless they start offering to pay double, triple or quadruple the price.
[00:18:13]  Similarly, India just recently begged China for urea supplies so that India could continue to operate its fertilizer production facilities so that India perhaps wouldn't suffer through famine and starvation because India has obviously, what, almost 1.4 billion people, something in that range.
[00:18:32]  And many of them, not all of them, but many of them live near the poverty line, which means they don't have a lot of extra income to throw down if food prices double.
[00:18:44]  Well, guess what?
[00:18:46]  China said to India, sorry, we can't help you.
[00:18:49]  And then China banned all exports of fertilizers and urea to everyone.
[00:18:55]  Why?
[00:18:56]  Because China realizes what's happening.
[00:18:58]  China's ahead of Trump on this by far.
[00:19:00]  China's like, hey, we better conserve our fuel, our diesel, our oil, our fertilizer, urea, you name it.
[00:19:08]  We better conserve it because there's about to be a global freaking famine here, a global famine that is an obvious effect of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:19:19]  And I got to give credit to Michael Yan, who I will have on this show on Thursday, by the way.
[00:19:25]  So be sure to rejoin me here on the Alex Jones show, third hour, coming up two days from now on Thursday.
[00:19:31]  I'm going to have Michael Yan as a guest.
[00:19:33]  And I've interviewed Michael Yan dozens of times over the last several years.
[00:19:36]  I've had him on this show as well.
[00:19:38]  And Michael Yan has predicted accurately and repeatedly that in a war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz would be closed.
[00:19:46]  And that when that happened, there would be catastrophic effects, including engineered global famine.
[00:19:52]  He said it numerous times.
[00:19:53]  He held up books about famine numerous times.
[00:19:57]  Trump didn't listen.
[00:19:59]  Trump should have listened to Michael Yahn.
[00:20:01]  If he had, he wouldn't have started this war, and we wouldn't be facing the potential starvation affecting billions of people potentially around the world if this thing continues for months.
[00:20:14]  We could be seeing food scarcity at a level that you've never witnessed, really impacting aggressively the countries that have marginal families that are just barely scraping by, just barely have enough to eat.
[00:20:29]  When you raise their food prices 50% or 100%, or you reduce crop yields by 20 or 30%, which is exactly what's about to happen, as I've got in my research report here, I'll share that with you.
[00:20:41]  Then you start driving many people, marginalized people in these countries into extreme poverty and food scarcity.
[00:20:50]  Food insecurity then breeds civil unrest.
[00:20:53]  And that's when you start to get, well, revolts, upheavals, and revolutions.
[00:20:59]  And by the way, right here in America, 60% of American households are just living paycheck to paycheck.
[00:21:08]  They don't have an extra stash of money to cover doubling of food costs.
[00:21:13]  And they don't have stored food for the most part.
[00:21:16]  I mean, you watching this, yeah, you have some amount of stored food, but the average American does not.
[00:21:22]  And that means that when their food prices start to really skyrocket, which will happen in the fall, you know, here we are in the planting season right now.
[00:21:30]  So obviously there's a buffer delay of crop yields to work its way through the system.
[00:21:34]  Right now, you're eating the food that was grown mostly last year, okay?
[00:21:38]  That is in the northern hemisphere.
[00:21:40]  But in the fall of this year, you'll be eating the food that was grown now.
[00:21:46]  And that food is not going to have the same yields that it did last year.
[00:21:50]  So that means that American families are going to be lining up at food banks like never before.
[00:21:55]  They're going to be suffering higher food prices, reduced food supply.
[00:22:00]  And there we go, 45 million homes at risk if Iran war continues, 45 million more at risk, excuse me.
[00:22:08]  I would say that's a very small number compared to what my research shows.
[00:22:13]  We're looking at potentially, if this goes on long enough, billions of human beings across numerous countries, including India, that will face food scarcity.
[00:22:23]  And the situation is going to become dire.
[00:22:25]  Let me get back to the report here.
[00:22:27]  All right.
[00:22:28]  So let's talk about the basics here.
[00:22:30]  20 million barrels of oil a day is now blocked by the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:22:35]  That's a 1970s scale crisis.
[00:22:38]  You know, Jimmy Carter, 1979, the oil crisis then.
[00:22:43]  I remember that.
[00:22:44]  People were lined up at gas stations all across America trying to get fuel.
[00:22:48]  There was rationing.
[00:22:50]  And it was a crisis, but it was nothing compared to what's about to happen.
[00:22:54]  20 million barrels of oil a day is significant.
[00:22:59]  It's about 20% of the global supply of oil.
[00:23:02]  And the thing is, oil prices, you know, if you need oil, you're going to pay almost anything for it.
[00:23:09]  If you need energy, you're going to pay almost anything.
[00:23:13]  So this is a unique situation where you have to have the oil to keep the lights on.
[00:23:18]  As Cuba is finding out right now, no oil, no power, no power grid, no country.
[00:23:26]  So Russia is benefiting from this by being able to sell more energy.
[00:23:30]  And China is doing relatively okay because they had far more stockpiles of oil than did the United States.
[00:23:36]  And also, China can get ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:23:40]  So you see, China is going to be fine during this crisis.
[00:23:44]  America's allies are not.
[00:23:45]  America's allies are in deep trouble.
[00:23:48]  All right, let's go to liquefied natural gas.
[00:23:51]  Oh, and by the way, a long-term closure of the strait will just decimate any kind of extra supply of oil, strategic reserves, anything like that.
[00:24:00]  That'll be decimated in less than two weeks.
[00:24:03]  So that's not going to save anything here.
[00:24:05]  And by the way, America's strategic petroleum reserve wasn't refilled before the war, which seems like an incredibly short-sighted decision.
[00:24:15]  All right, liquefied natural gas.
[00:24:17]  So right now, about 20 to 25% of the world supply of LNG sails through the strait.
[00:24:24]  And again, Qatar Energy already declared Force Majeure, so they are offline.
[00:24:29]  112 billion cubic meters of this gas annually is what comes out of just Qatar.
[00:24:38]  There are no alternative pipelines for those exports.
[00:24:41]  They do not exist.
[00:24:43]  I've seen people, you know, draw a line across the peninsula.
[00:24:47]  Oh, we could just, you know, let's just have trucks, just take it this way.
[00:24:51]  Let's just build another canal right here.
[00:24:53]  Okay, great.
[00:24:54]  Yeah.
[00:24:55]  You know how long it takes to build a canal?
[00:24:58]  Look up your history.
[00:24:59]  How long did it take to build a Panama Canal?
[00:25:00]  Huh?
[00:25:01]  You know, this is not something you can do overnight.
[00:25:04]  And by the way, good luck building a canal while you're getting bombed by Iran.
[00:25:09]  You know, good luck transporting on trucks across the land while getting bombed by Iran.
[00:25:15]  So that's not going to work.
[00:25:16]  I don't know why people aren't even thinking about this.
[00:25:19]  So look, 72% of the energy of Bangladesh comes from the Persian Gulf.
[00:25:29]  53% of India's energy comes from the Persian Gulf.
[00:25:32]  That's why they're in a crisis.
[00:25:37]  Wow.
[00:25:37]  Okay.
[00:25:38]  Japan only has 4.4 million tons in reserve.
[00:25:42]  South Korea only has two to four weeks in reserve.
[00:25:46]  Taiwan, as I said, is about a two-week supply.
[00:25:51]  If the liquid natural gas doesn't get restarted, U.S. allies in the Pacific, East Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, even Vietnam, for example, major manufacturers and exporters of all kinds of goods, from semiconductors to home appliances to scientific instruments, telecommunications, computing, you name it, they're all going to be offline because they have no energy.

=== Helium Shortage Halts Chips (02:40) ===

[00:26:20]  And Iran can just sit there and say, well, let us know when you're ready to make a deal.
[00:26:27]  And I believe that Trump's ego is going to cause him to never be willing to make a deal because Trump wants to win.
[00:26:34]  He wants to be seen as the winner, even if the whole world loses in the process.
[00:26:38]  And that's exactly what's happening.
[00:26:41]  All right.
[00:26:41]  So the natural gas situation is dire.
[00:26:44]  And when you process natural gas, one of the byproducts that you get, by the way, is helium.
[00:26:50]  Helium, second lightest element, right?
[00:26:52]  Look at the table of elements.
[00:26:54]  Helium, 30% of the global commercial production comes out of just Qatar.
[00:27:01]  30%.
[00:27:03]  And it has to be hauled in special cryogenic containers.
[00:27:08]  There is no alternative pipeline for helium.
[00:27:11]  It doesn't exist.
[00:27:13]  Helium cannot be substituted in semiconductor fabrication.
[00:27:18]  It cannot be substituted in MRI machines, their cooling magnets, in arc welding, in rocket propellant pressurization.
[00:27:26]  And also, as you know, I own and run a mass spec food science lab.
[00:27:31]  And most of my lab instruments require helium.
[00:27:34]  Helium is used in the collision cell of the mass spec because of its unique physical properties.
[00:27:39]  And so without helium, we can't test food.
[00:27:43]  We can't test water.
[00:27:44]  Without helium, nobody can make microchips.
[00:27:48]  Have you looked into UV lithography equipment and why helium is used in that?
[00:27:52]  Why it's critical, why it can't be replaced?
[00:27:56]  So right now, you know, you talk about the importance of Taiwan Semiconductor, and you would lose most of their output if helium remains offline for much longer.
[00:28:07]  And it is offline.
[00:28:08]  It's my goodness.
[00:28:10]  Spot prices of helium have already surged almost 100%.
[00:28:15]  And that's going to continue if the strait stays closed.
[00:28:19]  Helium will undergo a cascading effect of force majeure cancellations.
[00:28:25]  And so Samsung, which of course has promised all these microchip fabrication facilities in the United States, Samsung would be strongly impacted by this.
[00:28:35]  They would have to start shutting down microchip facilities everywhere around the world, not just in the U.S., but elsewhere as well.
[00:28:42]  Taiwan Semiconductor, like I said, and other companies.
[00:28:45]  So, you know, good luck with your microchip supply.
[00:28:49]  Good luck with, I don't know, anything, frankly, that is made from microchips, your GPU, you know, your AI GPU.
[00:28:57]  Forget it.
[00:28:58]  You're cooked.
[00:28:59]  Okay.

=== Download Free Survival Books (02:57) ===

[00:29:01]  And then we get to sulfur.
[00:29:03]  Sulfur is one of the most consequential elements that is blocked by this closure of the Strait of Hormuz because of Trump's war, a war of choice, a war of aggression that he did not have to start.
[00:29:15]  But because of this, sulfur is used in creating fertilizers as well as sulfuric acid.
[00:29:23]  Sulfuric acid is probably the single most important industrial chemical in the world.
[00:29:28]  As you know, for example, you can't make car tires without the process of vulcanization, right?
[00:29:35]  What does that use?
[00:29:36]  It uses sulfur.
[00:29:37]  Oh, so good luck getting car tires and truck tires and good luck with all your transportation infrastructure if you can't get sulfur.
[00:29:45]  And sulfuric acid is used in phosphate production for farms and crops.
[00:29:49]  And without sulfuric acid, there is a long cascade of industrial processes that absolutely crater and that they shut down modern industry.
[00:30:00]  Your modern civilization cannot survive without the Strait of Hormuz being open.
[00:30:06]  We're going to take a break.
[00:30:07]  And after this break, I'll continue with more analysis.
[00:30:09]  This is the Alex Jones show.
[00:30:10]  Mike Adams here.
[00:30:11]  I'll be right back.
[00:30:12]  All right.
[00:30:12]  Welcome back, folks, to the Alex Jones show.
[00:30:14]  I'm Mike Adams here filling in for the third hour today, continuing our analysis of the powerful and devastating repercussions of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:30:25]  And, you know, look, if you need to learn more about the Strait of Hormuz, let me mention a free resource that my team made available here.
[00:30:35]  As you know, I built a book creation platform.
[00:30:40]  It's all free.
[00:30:41]  It's called Brightlearn.ai.
[00:30:43]  And we have just released the free downloadable full-length audio book, completely free.
[00:30:50]  It's called Chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:30:52]  So if you just go to books.brightlearn.ai, you can download that book, click on audiobooks, you can download that audio book completely free.
[00:31:00]  And there are also, go to books.brightlearn.ai.
[00:31:05]  That'll bring up the actual audio books there.
[00:31:07]  You can download them all for free.
[00:31:09]  Okay.
[00:31:09]  This will tell you everything about the Strait of Hormuz and why it's so critical to understand.
[00:31:16]  But we are going to live through the most difficult lockdowns and shutdowns, far worse than COVID, based on what has happened already.
[00:31:25]  Yeah, click on audiobooks there, and then you're going to see it.
[00:31:28]  Yeah, it's called Choke Point.
[00:31:30]  There's an audiobooks tab.
[00:31:31]  There you go.
[00:31:31]  There it is.
[00:31:32]  Right there.
[00:31:34]  So that's where you can download completely free.
[00:31:37]  So I've been using my data center to generate audio books, by the way.
[00:31:42]  So that's just one of the ways that we give back to everybody.
[00:31:45]  There's a bunch of books on, you know, survival and what have you, which seems incredibly important right now.
[00:31:51]  But continuing my analysis here, we talked about sulfuric acid and why that's critical.
[00:31:56]  But here's what a lot of people don't know.

=== Fertilizer Collapse and Plastic (08:49) ===

[00:31:58]  Yes, sulfuric acid is critical for phosphate fertilizers that feeds most of the world, but also it's necessary for battery cathode materials and mining leaching operations.
[00:32:10]  So if you want to mine things like copper and zinc or aluminum or other rare earths, you're going to use sulfuric acid.
[00:32:18]  Why?
[00:32:18]  Because sulfuric acid will strip the ions out of whatever element is in the rocks.
[00:32:26]  It will put that into solution, into the acid.
[00:32:29]  And then you can process that further to take those purified minerals out of the sulfuric acid solution.
[00:32:35]  So without sulfuric acid, we don't have much of mining.
[00:32:41]  And think about what happens if we don't have mining.
[00:32:43]  Aluminum, copper, zinc, I mean, nickel, tungsten, right?
[00:32:50]  Cobalt that's necessary for lithium batteries, you name it.
[00:32:54]  The world's battery manufacturing capability begins to suffer dramatically if we don't have sulfuric acid.
[00:33:00]  So it's not just fertilizers, it's also commodities and metals.
[00:33:06]  Now then, we got to get to urea.
[00:33:09]  49% of global urea seaborne exports are now at risk because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which, as I said in the last segment, Trump cannot reopen by force nor by words.
[00:33:23]  That has to be done with Iran's consent.
[00:33:26]  So here we go.
[00:33:28]  One ton of urea now costs U.S. farmers the equivalent of 126 bushels of corn.
[00:33:34]  Last year, it was only 75 bushels of corn equivalent.
[00:33:39]  So if we don't get urea, which comes from natural gas and ammonia, by the way, if we don't get urea, then we're looking at about a collapse anywhere from one-third to one-half of the global nitrogenous fertilizer supply, which means that whatever fertilizers that farmers can get right now, well, that's last year's supply chain.
[00:34:01]  And they're lucky if they can get it now.
[00:34:03]  A lot of farmers won't be able to get it.
[00:34:05]  And if you look at crop yields and where this is going, corn, critical level.
[00:34:12]  It's the most nitrogen-intensive crop in our world.
[00:34:16]  So Midwest planting is happening now.
[00:34:20]  And urea prices are doubling, which means that farmers are going to grow a lot less corn.
[00:34:25]  They're going to shift to crops like soybeans that don't use as much fertilizer.
[00:34:29]  So now you're going to have a corn shortage.
[00:34:32]  Wheat, also vulnerable to input shocks.
[00:34:37]  So you're going to have reduced yields of wheat anywhere from 20 to 30%, most likely in 2026 harvests.
[00:34:45]  Rice, Southeast Asia will be impacted by this.
[00:34:48]  We already mentioned India.
[00:34:50]  And if India doesn't grow a lot of food very cheaply, then a lot of people begin to starve in India and other nations in Southeast Asia.
[00:35:00]  Sugar and soybeans also have some exposure.
[00:35:03]  Soybeans, not as much.
[00:35:04]  So you're going to end up with a lot more soy and a lot less corn and wheat.
[00:35:08]  Hope you like drinking your soy lattes because that's the only thing that's going to grow with less nitrogen.
[00:35:14]  Okay.
[00:35:15]  So good luck with that.
[00:35:16]  All the soy boys out there will rejoice.
[00:35:20]  All right.
[00:35:20]  In addition to that, we've got ammonia and phosphate inputs.
[00:35:24]  Are also impacted.
[00:35:26]  And now petrochemicals, metals and industrial supply.
[00:35:30]  So polyethylene exports 85 of the polyethylene exports out of the Middle East flow through the Strait Of Hormuz polyethylene.
[00:35:39]  What do you make out of that?
[00:35:41]  Bottles lids, you know barrels, anything.
[00:35:44]  The pe is is possibly the most useful polymer of all, and so if you're purchasing even you know, even from Alex's Store, if you're purchasing uh supplements, if you're purchasing uh superfoods, if you're purchasing, you better get it now, because we don't even know if we're going to get the bottles.
[00:36:03]  We don't know if we're going to be able to get the lids, much less the food that goes into it.
[00:36:08]  That's going to go up in price, like whatever you can buy right now from Alexjonesstore.com.
[00:36:15]  Whatever you can buy right now, you should get it now because essentially, you're paying last year's prices for it, whereas you do not want to end up paying 2026 prices for it by the time the closure of the Strait Of Hormuz makes its way through this system.
[00:36:29]  And you know i'm i'm not, I don't have inside information that there's for sure going to run out of bottles.
[00:36:35]  I'm just saying that overall, the polyethylene global supply will be drastically impacted.
[00:36:40]  It will affect the ALEX Jones Store, it'll affect my store.
[00:36:44]  It'll affect, you know, retail.
[00:36:46]  It'll affect everything you see at the grocery store.
[00:36:48]  So the effects of this are going to be widespread there.
[00:36:52]  It is plastic supply chain, collateral damage in Iran War and I know times are tight, but believe me when I say that whatever you can stockpile right now you're getting it at the best price that you're going to see for a long time to come.
[00:37:07]  A long time shortages will elevate automotive components, synthetic rubber and consumer goods.
[00:37:17]  And then we have copper and aluminum.
[00:37:19]  Copper prices are already surging for reasons i've mentioned here, and aluminum.
[00:37:24]  Well Aluminum, Bahrain has already declared force majeure, so there's no more aluminum coming out of that plant.
[00:37:31]  And then there are scalebacks at other aluminum plants that are happening in the Middle East and elsewhere.
[00:37:38]  Pharmaceuticals also, 47 of generic prescriptions come out of India.
[00:37:45]  Not that i'm a fan of prescription medications, but the Strait provides the energy that India uses to manufacture the pharmaceuticals.
[00:37:55]  So we're going to start seeing shortages of any kind of generic drugs and many other things.
[00:38:01]  A lot of things come out of India, for example, turmeric right, so even from the ALEX Jones store, the turmeric.
[00:38:10]  You know India is the largest global grower of turmeric and even if you don't get it from Turmeric.
[00:38:16]  India's shortage of it will affect the global supply.
[00:38:20]  So it's going to get even worse if the Strait Of Hormuz i'm sorry, if the Suz Canal gets closed off because of the Houthis harassing ships at that choke point in the Red Sea.
[00:38:31]  So now we're talking about and they promised to do that, by the way, in solidarity with Iran if that gets blocked, if ships can't traverse the Suz Canal, then you know, my goodness.
[00:38:44]  Now we're talking about a real domestic I mean global crisis.
[00:38:50]  Yeah, pu resin prices skyrocketing there, that's exactly right.
[00:38:54]  So you know uh, I get turmeric from India and that may not be possible after a period of time, who knows, as long as this strait stays closed.
[00:39:06]  I'm talking, i'm saying the second and third order effects here are going to be almost unimaginable.
[00:39:12]  So, all right, let's talk about force majeure.
[00:39:15]  I'm going to give you a list of the companies that have already declared force majeure.
[00:39:19]  Qatar Energy, as I mentioned, there goes, you know, 20% of the world's natural gas.
[00:39:26]  Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, well, can't guarantee shipments.
[00:39:32]  Babco Energies, they're down.
[00:39:35]  Declared after a drone strike on one of the refinery complexes.
[00:39:40]  Shell, LNG Trading, declared Force Majeure, because, of course, it can't deliver on the commitments of LNG.
[00:39:48]  Total Energies LNG, OQ, Oman Trading, SABIC, Agri-Nutrients, S-A-B-I-C, fertilizer shipments to South America and to Asia.
[00:40:00]  Force majeure.
[00:40:02]  You may have ordered the fertilizer.
[00:40:04]  You may have put a down payment on it.
[00:40:06]  You're not going to get it.
[00:40:08]  Aluminum, Bahrain.
[00:40:10]  Saudi Aramco declared Force Majeure.
[00:40:13]  There's a major company, a major presence in the Middle East.
[00:40:16]  Refinery operations shut down.
[00:40:21]  ADNOC from the UAE, ADNOC from the UAE, refinery operations also shut down.
[00:40:28]  Qatalum, that's aluminum production out of Qatar.
[00:40:32]  Petrochemical Corp in Singapore has had to declare force majeure.
[00:40:37]  Chandra Asri Petrochemical out of Indonesia, force majeure.
[00:40:42]  Yeochun NCC in South Korea.

=== Global Financial Cascade (15:46) ===

[00:40:47]  Force majeure on Naphtha cracker operations.
[00:40:51]  That's not a racial slur.
[00:40:52]  That's a process for Naphtha.
[00:40:56]  Aster Chemicals, South Korea.
[00:40:59]  Cracker is only running at 50% capacity.
[00:41:02]  Sumitomo Corporation in Japan, Force Majeure.
[00:41:06]  The fifth Asian chemical company in a single week.
[00:41:09]  Why?
[00:41:10]  No Naphtha.
[00:41:11]  Oh.
[00:41:12]  And in India, there's also other Force Majeurs taking place here as well.
[00:41:17]  Other companies impacted by this.
[00:41:19]  The bottom line is the situation is dire.
[00:41:23]  And unless this gets back online, you are not going to see Western civilization function.
[00:41:31]  Here's the reality of this.
[00:41:33]  We have built a civilization on a pipeline that was always vulnerable, but it only functioned with the consent of Iran.
[00:41:44]  Iran, before Trump launched this war on Iran, Iran wasn't in a position to have, let's say, to have goodwill from much of the rest of the world if it initiated a war.
[00:41:59]  In other words, if Iran had invoked strikes on U.S. military bases in the UAE or Qatar or Saudi Arabia, et cetera, if Iran had initiated that, then Iran would have been globally condemned, obviously.
[00:42:14]  But when Trump launched the attack, the attack and initiated it, and then Iran responded to it, now there's a lot more sympathy for Iran around the world because Iran is the victim of a war of aggression that Trump launched.
[00:42:30]  Trump initiated it, despite the fact that he says, oh, Iran has been at war with us for 47 years.
[00:42:36]  And I think he said that Joe Biden or Barack Obama started the war with Iran like 47 years ago.
[00:42:45]  It didn't make any sense.
[00:42:46]  I don't know what he was trying to say.
[00:42:48]  Didn't make any sense.
[00:42:49]  But the truth is that the U.S. initiated this war, not Iran.
[00:42:54]  Iran was negotiating in good faith, even as the U.S. was negotiating in bad faith.
[00:42:59]  And thus, when Trump initiated this war of aggression, this illegal, undeclared war of aggression against Iran, then when Iran retaliated against the Gulf state nations, now a lot of the world looks at that and says, well, can't blame them.
[00:43:15]  Can't blame them because they were attacked first.
[00:43:18]  Now Iran has been put in a position by Trump where Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and will continue to harass ships until Iran is offered a deal that allows it to meet its terms.
[00:43:36]  And that wasn't possible before Trump attacked Iran.
[00:43:38]  So in essence, Trump fell into a trap of putting Iran into arguably one of the most powerful positions in the entire world, where Iran has the balls of Western civilization in its grip and it's squeezing.
[00:43:54]  And all these Western countries, many of them I just mentioned from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, U.S., Canada, the UK, France, all of them, they're going to be headed for industrial and energy collapse if the strait stays closed.
[00:44:09]  Now, the U.S. is more resilient than the other countries because the U.S. has its own domestic energy supply.
[00:44:15]  Thank goodness for that.
[00:44:16]  We do need domestic energy.
[00:44:18]  But there will be so much pressure on the cost or the price of those commodities.
[00:44:24]  And oil is priced globally.
[00:44:26]  It means that American consumers are going to end up paying much more for domestic oil, even though it's our own oil.
[00:44:34]  The prices are going to go through the roof.
[00:44:36]  Oil could easily hit 200, 250, even $300 a barrel if this closure continues to exist.
[00:44:45]  And that's exactly the path that we are on right now.
[00:44:49]  So in summary, we built a civilization on a supply chain that now is in the hands of someone that we made into an enemy, which is Iran.
[00:44:59]  We made them into an enemy.
[00:45:02]  And at the same time, Trump, through his punitive tariff operations, he turned other allies into potential enemies as well.
[00:45:11]  He punished India.
[00:45:13]  He put a 50% tariff on India saying, you know, you can't buy oil from Russia.
[00:45:17]  The same oil that Trump now says, oh, you're allowed to buy oil from Russia because I changed my mind because now there's a global oil shortage because I started this war with Iran.
[00:45:27]  So now Russian oil is okay, but a few months ago, you get punished for buying Russian oil?
[00:45:32]  See, there's no consistency.
[00:45:34]  There's no plan.
[00:45:35]  There's no foresight in this.
[00:45:37]  You know, the White House says, well, well, we considered the implications of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:45:42]  No, you didn't.
[00:45:44]  Or if you're admitting that you did, then you knew you were going to put the American people and all of our allies through this economic hell on a global scale.
[00:45:55]  You knew that and you did it anyway.
[00:45:56]  That's even worse than not knowing.
[00:45:58]  It's more innocent to say we didn't know.
[00:46:00]  We didn't consider these things.
[00:46:02]  At least that's understandable.
[00:46:03]  If you did consider these things and you did it anyway, then you thrust the world into a horrific situation that will impact billions of people, but will more strongly impact, in fact, the United States and its allies.
[00:46:18]  And the ultimate upshot of this is that, number one, the U.S. is going to be driven out of the Middle East.
[00:46:25]  Iran has already destroyed most of the military bases in the Arab Gulf states there, including the Fifth Fleet headquarters.
[00:46:33]  It's rubble or largely rubble at this point.
[00:46:37]  And secondly, the petrodollar is no longer carrying the weight that it once did.
[00:46:42]  So all these nations around the world that had relied on the U.S. for protection, which includes Taiwan, by the way, and included Qatar and included the UAE, et cetera, what's their conclusion now?
[00:46:55]  Well, the U.S. can't protect us.
[00:46:57]  And South Korea is realizing, hey, when the U.S. wants to, they're going to come take our air defense systems away and hand them over to Israel to help defend Israel.
[00:47:07]  And then what are we going to do here if there's a war with North Korea, right?
[00:47:11]  So everywhere around the world, the message is very clear that the United States of America cannot and will not protect you.
[00:47:18]  And that having a U.S. military base in your country only makes you a target from Iran or perhaps some other country that is very capable of overpowering the U.S. military.
[00:47:31]  In doing this, Trump has shattered decades of diplomatic efforts that tried to establish U.S. leverage in the Middle East, leverage over energy, leverage against Iran, and the presumption of U.S. projection of power through its naval dominance.
[00:47:52]  And that presumption is what backed the U.S. dollar, because the U.S. dollar isn't backed by anything else at all.
[00:47:58]  It's not backed by gold or silver or oil or anything other than basically the threat of force, largely by the U.S. Navy and its aircraft carriers.
[00:48:06]  The very same aircraft carriers that are limping out of the region now.
[00:48:10]  One of them set on fire.
[00:48:12]  The Ford was set on fire, apparently by its own sailors who have to now sleep on the floors and tables.
[00:48:20]  And it's basically not battle worthy at this point.
[00:48:23]  And besides, they're giant floating targets anyway.
[00:48:25]  So all of that has been shattered.
[00:48:27]  So what does that mean for the future of the petrodollar?
[00:48:29]  It means the petrodollar is toast.
[00:48:32]  It means we are now witnessing the beginning of the end of the American empire that we have all known for our entire lives.
[00:48:40]  It's over because it relied on forcing everybody around the world to use the dollar because if you don't, we're going to bomb you, we're going to kill you, we're going to assassinate you, et cetera.
[00:48:49]  Iran just showed that if you take a stand and say no and hold your ground, the U.S. military is just a paper tiger, can't actually control the Strait of Hormuz, begging other countries to come in and help save our Navy.
[00:49:05]  And the other countries are saying no.
[00:49:07]  And actually, years earlier, Russia arrived at the same conclusion.
[00:49:11]  Russia said no, because of course, the West wanted to pillage Russia, wanted to overthrow Putin and basically rob that country of its natural resources.
[00:49:22]  Russia is sitting on the largest reserves of energy of any country in the world.
[00:49:27]  Russia is massive.
[00:49:28]  It's a massive, you know, geopolitical state sitting on a massive supply of energy and also aluminum and fertilizer, all kinds of other things.
[00:49:40]  We wanted to steal all of that.
[00:49:41]  That was evident from U.S. leaders.
[00:49:43]  They said, we want to destroy Russia and go in and take all their energy, pillage the country.
[00:49:48]  That's been the plan for Iran all along.
[00:49:50]  We want to overthrow their leadership and go in and pillage their country.
[00:49:54]  And now Russia and Iran have said, no, we won't let you do that.
[00:49:59]  We don't care how much you try to bomb us.
[00:50:01]  We don't care how many soldiers you throw at us via Ukraine.
[00:50:05]  We don't care.
[00:50:06]  And yes, they're showing a story there.
[00:50:08]  Will the Iran war trigger a dollar crisis?
[00:50:10]  Absolutely it will.
[00:50:12]  Because folks, wish we had more time.
[00:50:16]  The force majeure that has been declared that I just mentioned, that is going to spiral into the financial sector.
[00:50:27]  And we're already seeing record defaults in private equity.
[00:50:30]  Private credit is hitting massive defaults right now.
[00:50:34]  We're already seeing limits on withdrawals from lots of financial organizations, you know, BlackRock included and others.
[00:50:42]  This is going to cascade through the system.
[00:50:45]  And because the Western financial system is already highly leveraged with derivatives and money backed by nothing and a lot of currency printing that will cause continued devaluation of the dollar, then where we're going to end up here is in a cascading financial collapse of the Western banking system and Western currencies.
[00:51:05]  Japan is already on the brink of a currency collapse.
[00:51:09]  The EU also in deep trouble right now.
[00:51:13]  And the dollar, although it may be the most resilient, it doesn't have permanency in this world without the continued threat of force projection by the U.S. Navy.
[00:51:23]  And that's been shattered as well.
[00:51:25]  The bottom line of where all this is going, I'm sorry to say, I didn't want this.
[00:51:30]  I opposed the war from the very start.
[00:51:33]  I mean, before it started, I was saying, don't do this.
[00:51:35]  This is a bad idea.
[00:51:38]  But the American people are going to end up impoverished.
[00:51:42]  The American people are going to lose their ability to afford food in many cases.
[00:51:47]  They're going to lose many of their investments.
[00:51:50]  We will see bank failures.
[00:51:51]  We will see bank bail-ins and we will see the great taking accelerate.
[00:51:56]  And people will lose everything that they once worked for and saved.
[00:52:01]  And as all of this is happening, Trump will never take the blame for it.
[00:52:06]  He will blame someone else.
[00:52:07]  He will say, oh, it's Russia's fault.
[00:52:08]  It's Iran's fault.
[00:52:10]  It's whoever's fault other than himself, even though he made the call.
[00:52:14]  So when you are poor and starving and homeless because you can't afford rent, Trump will tell you it's your fault because you didn't support his war.
[00:52:25]  Think about that.
[00:52:26]  That's how crazy it's actually getting here.
[00:52:29]  So look, what can you do?
[00:52:31]  What can you do to insulate yourself from all of this as much as possible?
[00:52:36]  Number one, I already mentioned stockpile some food if you can.
[00:52:40]  Learn to grow food.
[00:52:41]  Become as self-reliant as possible.
[00:52:44]  Get off the grid as much as you can.
[00:52:46]  And in my opinion, although don't take this as financial advice, I think you need to get out of the banking system.
[00:52:52]  Whether that means gold and silver or private crypto, whatever is your choice, that's up to you.
[00:52:56]  That's your research.
[00:52:58]  That's your decision.
[00:52:59]  But if you stay in the banking system with a lot of excess cash, if you stay in the stock market, if you stay in bonds, in my opinion, you're going to get decimated as this wave continues to accelerate.
[00:53:12]  These are going to be the most dire consequences that Western civilization has ever felt.
[00:53:17]  And sadly, we have an incomprehensible president right now who is absolutely committed to the path of total economic destruction of the United States of America.
[00:53:29]  That's just a fact.
[00:53:31]  And he's doing it in order to appease a foreign nation.
[00:53:35]  He's putting Israel first and throwing America under the bus.
[00:53:39]  And if he cannot reverse course on this, then in my opinion, he needs to be removed from power through impeachment or 25th Amendment or some other process.
[00:53:50]  Otherwise, the American people will suffer drastically for years to come.
[00:53:54]  And we could end up in a situation of domestic civil revolts, mass hunger, food insecurity, even kinetic uprisings in certain areas of the countries, especially the blue cities, for example.
[00:54:09]  So let us pray that that doesn't happen.
[00:54:10]  Let us pray that Trump comes to his senses.
[00:54:12]  And if he doesn't, we need somebody else at the helm because this isn't working.
[00:54:17]  What he's doing is not working.
[00:54:19]  But those are my conclusions and my opinions.
[00:54:22]  And I say, God bless America.
[00:54:24]  I want America to do well, but we're on a bad track right now.
[00:54:26]  So thank you for watching.
[00:54:27]  And Mike Adams here on the Alex Jones show.
[00:54:30]  God bless America.
[00:54:32]  Take care.
[00:54:33]  Mike, I'm listening to you as I drive.
[00:54:35]  Your analysis is dead on and I'm learning a lot.
[00:54:38]  Can't wait till Michael Yan is on Thursday.
[00:54:40]  He's an expert, as you know, on global choke points.
[00:54:43]  So they're predicting this.
[00:54:44]  But if you look at the globalist above Trump, obviously he's been manipulated a useful tool here.
[00:54:50]  Just like Lutnik, Microcosm Sons, running his company bet against the tariffs that Ludnick wrote for the billions of insurance money.
[00:54:59]  The globalist have wanted a great reset.
[00:55:00]  They want a global crash.
[00:55:02]  And so they released COVID to D. Real Trump's last administration.
[00:55:06]  Now, this war is definitely that.
[00:55:08]  I predicted it.
[00:55:10]  So we need to study all the investments that the insiders have made at the White House and really expose that because there's no doubt that the higher-ups knew what was happening.
[00:55:18]  They were warned by Tulsi Gabbard and by Joe Kent and others in the months and weeks before.
[00:55:24]  So how do we get that message out to the American people and to Trump and pull back from this, something that was designed to empower Israel, the greater Israel, but basically employ the United States in the end, which is part of Israel's larger plan, their own admissions.
[00:55:36]  Mike Abs, thanks for hosting.
[00:55:38]  Please give me your take.
[00:55:41]  All right.
[00:55:41]  Thank you, Alex, for that question.
[00:55:43]  And you're exactly right.
[00:55:44]  So this is being engineered as a great taking.
[00:55:48]  So remember that all these commodities will cascade into the financial reset and a financial collapse that will cause most Americans to lose some significant portion.
[00:55:57]  But who gains that?
[00:55:58]  It's those who are positioned to take advantage of the financial collapse situations, you know, like what George Soros did to the UK years ago.
[00:56:09]  Somebody profits from a financial collapse or even a currency collapse.
[00:56:13]  And what I'm saying to people at a grassroots level is there are methods to avoid getting severely harmed.
[00:56:19]  There are ways to avoid losing your life savings in that.
[00:56:23]  That's one level.
[00:56:24]  So gold and silver, maybe private crypto, et cetera, or just owning land, owning actual physical things like diesel fuel will become extremely valuable.

=== Avoiding Currency Destruction (02:11) ===

[00:56:34]  But to answer Alex's question at the higher level, yeah, this is engineered and it's sad that Trump fell into it.
[00:56:42]  I think Trump was given bad intelligence.
[00:56:44]  Obviously, it was crafted to deceive him, to say that Iran was an imminent threat when clearly it wasn't.
[00:56:53]  Joe Kent has confirmed that with his resignation letter today.
[00:56:56]  Tulsi Gabbard has also previously confirmed that as well.
[00:56:59]  Iran never posed an imminent threat to the continental United States, but Israel and other globalist sources, of course, they fabricated intelligence.
[00:57:08]  And so they managed to convince Trump that he had to order this attack.
[00:57:12]  So I think, Alex, what we're suffering from here is that Trump has once again allowed himself to be surrounded by bad faith actors who are insulating him from reality.
[00:57:22]  And I think Robert Barnes would agree with this as well, that his inner circle doesn't let him interact with the real world or what used to be MAGA or go on social media.
[00:57:33]  Instead, Trump is fed a specific diet of bad information that says, Trump, you're the hero.
[00:57:41]  Keep bombing.
[00:57:42]  It's going to make you the most popular president ever, which hasn't worked out.
[00:57:46]  And secondly, that if you don't destroy Iran, that we're all going to be destroyed within a matter of weeks.
[00:57:54]  But Israel's been saying that for decades.
[00:57:56]  It's the same claim, decade after decade.
[00:57:59]  So yeah, this is a giant trap.
[00:58:01]  Trump fell into it.
[00:58:03]  He went along with it.
[00:58:04]  He didn't have to.
[00:58:05]  He made a choice to order this war.
[00:58:08]  And as a result, now we are all about to fall into a trap that has been set by the globalists for massive, massive confiscation of financial assets.
[00:58:19]  And the level of destruction here, I mean, I wish I could get Aaron Day on too to talk about CBDCs because the level of destruction here is going to, people are going to panic into the CBDCs in order to get government bailouts.
[00:58:32]  That's what's going to happen.
[00:58:33]  And then they're going to roll out the surveillance grid with the CBDCs.
[00:58:36]  Hey, you're going to get this free money to help you with your food bills because food prices have doubled, but you're going to have to sign up for the CBDC that tracks and monitors everywhere that you spend your money.

=== Shop for Nuclear Preparedness (03:49) ===

[00:58:45]  And then, if you post something that we don't like on social media, then you'll be locked out of your wallet and you won't be able to buy groceries.
[00:58:51]  That's where this is going.
[00:58:53]  So, it's all been engineered.
[00:58:55]  Alex is right.
[00:58:56]  It's all been engineered from the globalist level to trap people in a system of total enslavement.
[00:59:00]  And the big picture, which I'll talk about on Thursday, is this is a human replacement agenda for the rise of the AI robots to replace human cognition and human labor.
[00:59:11]  Ultimately, this is mass culling of humans on planet Earth, massive depopulation.
[00:59:18]  So, there you go.
[00:59:19]  Thanks for the question and stay tuned, folks.
[00:59:21]  One minute break, and then the show continues.
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