BVN, Mar 18, 2026 - Trump Regime Begins to Unravel as Ill-Planned War Devolves...
Mike Adams argues the Trump regime is unraveling as an ill-planned war against Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a global supply chain collapse involving sulfuric acid, urea, and helium shortages. He alleges Joe Kent resigned due to Israeli pressure, claims U.S. forces are collapsing, and predicts DeepSeek AI will disrupt tech stocks while engineered famines cause civil unrest. Adams concludes this crisis is part of a "human depopulation agenda" designed for a financial reset, urging listeners to stockpile essentials and reject the administration before inevitable criminal prosecutions occur. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, welcome to Bright Videos News for Wednesday, March 18th, 2026.
I'm Mike Adams, and I was invited to host part of the Alex Jones show, which I haven't hosted in a while, but apparently Alex is traveling.
And so I was able to say yes, so I hosted the third hour of the show just by myself.
I didn't have any guests.
But they've asked me to come back and host on Thursday also, and I'm going to have Michael Jan as my guest.
But basically, in the show, and I'm going to play it for you here today, I went through the economic and supply chain impacts of Trump's war of choice against Iran, and the fact that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, obviously, and that as long as they do, Western civilization cannot function because we need all the energy and the sulfuric acid and the urea and the fertilizer and all these other things,
natural gas that comes out of the Persian Gulf.
When we don't have those things, our system collapses.
And that's exactly where we are headed.
So I explain all of that in today's show, again, when I was hosting for Alex Jones.
And what was kind of fun about that is I didn't realize that Alex was listening.
He was apparently driving.
I don't even know.
I have no idea where he's going.
I didn't speak with Alex.
I was just talking with his producers.
But I don't know where he's going.
But anyway, he was listening to the show.
And he had a question.
And so he filmed a question and sent it over to the producers during the hour.
And then I was able to answer that question also at the top of the fourth hour.
And that question was really concerning who are the globalist puppets or what is the globalist play to try to manipulate Trump into this war that leads to a global financial reset so that the globalists can basically confiscate everybody's wealth, you know, the great taking.
And so I answered that question as well.
And that was a very valid point in all of this because it's not just the war.
It's not just the supply chain collapse.
And it's not just that Trump has betrayed MAGA, all the MAGA values that he campaigned on, or most of them anyway.
It's that this is part of a global effort to carry out a reset with, well, a couple of nefarious end goals.
One of them is to steal everybody's assets and leave most of humanity impoverished.
But the bigger goal, which I'm going to cover on Thursday on the Alex Jones show, is the human depopulation agenda.
The replacements, you know, the robots replacing humans on a large global scale.
Because for the first time in human history, you know, robots have cognition.
Well, I should say AI has cognition and then the robots have the labor.
But when combined, they can replace legitimately a very large percentage of currently living human beings.
And in fact, I have a special report today about one of the key pieces of technology that is about to be released that is going to absolutely crush human employment in desk jobs, middle manager jobs.
At least this is what I believe to be the case.
This new model hasn't been released yet, but its release is imminent.
In fact, it's late and it's about to be released.
So we'll see where that goes.
I've got a number of special reports for you today, and that's just one of them.
But I've got some other things to show you here.
First, Greg Reese has put out a new report that I want to play for you here.
And then following that report, which is about five minutes in duration, it's very good, by the way, I've also got part two of Master Fukoff.
And I forgot to play part two for you because Master Fukoff has a multi-part series.
Or at least I'm creating the multi-part series.
And anyway, episode two is ready for you today.
So let's go to the Reese report, followed by Master Fukoff episode two.
Here we go.
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis00:03:46
Despite having the world's most powerful navy, the United States cannot force the Strait of Hormuz open, which every U.S. military expert knew would be closed if Iran was attacked.
This is why the U.S. Navy is miles away, and it is why America's NATO allies are refusing to participate.
The Iranians may have suffered the brutal shock and awe of the United States military, but they have been preparing for decades.
And as the U.S. is already running low on weapons, Iran has plans for a long-term asymmetrical war, a defensive fight for their very existence.
Iran has the moral high ground, and they're holding practically all the cards.
By his own admission, Trump expected a quick, decisive victory.
He ignored warnings from experts and instead listened to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
With a smile on his face, the President of the United States has said that it's fun to kill the Iranians and that they are genetically inferior.
By any historical standard, America has never had a president speak in such a manner.
It has been confirmed that the United States has murdered almost 200 schoolgirls with Tomahawk missiles fired at an elementary school.
Trump said he can live with it, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said there would be no quarter, no mercy.
While ongoing U.S.-Iran nuclear talks were taking place in Geneva, Israel launched major airstrikes against Iran, followed by the U.S. Iran and the U.S. began negotiations again in Geneva early last February, and Iran agreed to degrade its nuclear stockpiles.
Two days after negotiations ended, Trump attacks Iran.
Deceptive diplomacy has been used to attack Iran twice in the past year.
It would be unreasonable for them to trust anything that the U.S. and Israel have to say.
And it only encourages Iran to develop nuclear weapons, which they have yet to do.
During the Korean War, the United States targeted the civilian population, killing approximately 20% of them, and destroyed nearly every major city in a scorched earth strategy, which included targeting dams to destroy the agricultural economy.
This resulted in North Korea developing their own nuclear deterrent, a predictable outcome to an existential threat.
And Trump recently admitted what the whole world already knows, that Israel has their own nuclear weapons.
So why on earth would Iran not want to build their own?
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Joe Kent, just submitted his letter of resignation.
He wrote Trump that it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful lobby, and illustrated how, early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran.
This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory.
This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands.
He ended his resignation by writing, I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran and who we are doing it for.
Living in an Era of Deception00:05:15
The time for bold action is now.
You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos.
You hold the cards.
On the subject of Israel, the U.S. public discourse has changed dramatically.
How this can overcome AIPAC's influence over an Epstein-compromised Congress is yet to be seen.
But our founding fathers would certainly argue that a government of criminal child rapists should be abolished rather than allowed to drag the entire world into chaos and war.
Trump is not known for being a reasonable man when it comes to humility.
And as Alexander Dugan recently wrote, Trump is now totally free.
Nothing can destroy his reputation more than it is destroyed already.
No publication of Epstein files concerning his alleged criminal actions can make his image worse.
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Okay, continuing with other news, you are probably aware that Joe Kent resigned from the Trump regime.
Joe Kent, the director of counterterrorism under the DNI office with Tulsi Gabbard, he has resigned and he showed real moral courage.
And it, of course, he's being immediately attacked by all of the pro-Israel Zionist puppets in the Trump administration.
But that's expected.
And by the way, have you noticed that the more aggressively someone supports Israel, the more nasty of a person they are?
Just the more hideous of a personality they have.
And for some of them, it even shows on their faces, too.
You're like, oh my gosh.
Are you just filled with rage?
Or did a surgeon make a series of mistakes on your face?
Like, what happened to you, right?
I've seen some examples of that.
Kind of sad.
But what is it about Israel and Zionism that just attracts the worst possible dark-hearted people?
Whereas pro-humanity people, happy people, compassionate people, people who are filled with love or Christ-like energy, they are all unanimously opposed to Israel today.
Without exception.
At least what I've seen.
And the only ones promoting Zionism and genocide and Netanyahu are just the most evil, wicked demons.
Some of them pretending to be Christian pastors or pretending to be Christians or what have you.
But it has become very, very clear now.
I mean, look at Mark Levin, you know?
It's like, what?
I mean, you can't find a better example of just a demented, evil parasite who's, you know, pro-Israel and anti-America than Mark Levin.
And he demonstrates it every single day.
He's just filled with hatred constantly.
Just unbelievable.
There's something to be learned in that.
Yeah, if all the people supporting Israel are also really evil, nefarious, angry, hate-filled personalities, maybe that says something.
You know?
Something, there's a pattern there.
And even Alan Dershowitz has become just super nasty and hate-filled.
And I interviewed Alan Dershowitz years ago, before all the Epstein file stuff.
And when Joe Kent resigned, Alan Dershowitz posted, quote, neo-Nazi Jew-hating Israel basher quits administration, good riddance to bad garbage.
Why Sail the Aircraft Carrier00:04:31
Okay.
All right, Alan.
A little out of control there.
Kind of revealing.
And by the way, Maria Z, who I've interviewed several times, including recently, she is now reporting that Australia is warning of possible fuel rationing and that New Zealand is also reviewing emergency laws that could restrict how often you're allowed to drive.
She says this is COVID 2.0.
She's right.
Lockdowns.
You know, just call it the Strait of Hormuz lockdowns this time.
Because Australia and New Zealand don't have a lot of backup sources of energy.
And Australia, for example, buys a lot of its jet fuel from China.
And China just restricted all exports on jet fuel.
So good luck.
I guess you're going to get to drive across Australia.
And for those of you listening who live in Australia, you know how big that is.
Although most Americans do not.
Americans think Australia is about the size of like Kansas.
It's a continent, folks.
It's a whole freaking continent.
And it's massive.
Good luck driving across Australia.
So anyway, I want to play some special reports for you here.
And yeah, like a lot of you, I'm increasingly disgusted with the direction that the Trump administration is taking.
And I'm criticizing him publicly in the hope that he might reverse course.
That's what we desperately need right now.
I'm not sure we're going to get that.
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So we're going to jump into some of these special reports, but I do want to just say to President Trump, why don't you just take the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and just sail it right through the Strait of Hormuz to prove to the world how powerful you are and how the strait is open and to prove that, in fact, the U.S. military can do anything it wants at any time and no one can do anything to stop the Navy.
Just take that, just sail it right through the Strait of Hormuz.
Show the world your true power.
He will never do that because, of course, it would be destroyed.
But he talks like a big man who thinks he can do anything he wants.
But, you know, the admirals or commanders or whatever their titles are who run aircraft carriers, you can tell I've never been in the Navy, but whoever they are, they're like, we don't want to die.
So no, we're not going to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.
So no, Strait's not open.
It's still closed.
And if it's closed, so is most of Western civilization.
So anyway, here we go with the special reports and the special broadcast where I hosted the Alex Jones show.
So enjoy the rest of the show.
So Joe Kent, a top counterterrorism official in the Trump administration, resigns in protest, writes a letter smashing Trump and saying that basically the Trump administration is run by Israel and that Iran posed no real threat to the United States of America.
He's right.
He's right.
Trump Administration Spirals Downward00:08:07
He resigned.
God bless him.
Amazing courage.
And this will be the beginning of many resignations yet to come.
Why?
Because the Trump administration is spiraling.
Trump himself is imploding.
He's lost his mind.
He's delusional.
He's arrogant.
He's sometimes incomprehensible.
I mean, 25th Amendment comes to mind.
Trump is beginning to look a lot like Joe Biden right now in terms of his loss of mental faculties, but his judgment is just completely destroyed.
And he's totally run by Israel.
That's obvious at this point.
He's abandoned his own support base.
He's abandoned MAGA.
MAGA is nothing but Roadkill.
Now it's dead and gone.
And Trump has no connection to reality at this point.
And the Trump administration doesn't reward its people for being rational or being effective or good at their jobs or good for America.
They're only rewarded and judged by their loyalty to Trump.
They have to worship Trump, the man.
Otherwise, they're not allowed to have any power or any voice within the administration.
Because Trump believes he is always right, never wrong, even though he's obviously totally wrong about this war, a war that he announced victory multiple times, and yet we're still losing.
The U.S. is losing badly, but Trump doesn't see it because, again, he's completely delusional.
And his administration is made up of war criminals like Pete Hegseth, who brags about the total destruction of civilian infrastructure and the mass slaughter of non-military personnel in target countries.
He openly brags about it.
And mark my words, people like Pete Hegseth are going to be criminally prosecuted for war crimes and also violating various U.S. laws.
Trump himself has violated U.S. law.
He has waged a war without congressional approval.
For one thing, that's just for starters.
What Trump is doing is illegal.
What he's approving are war crimes, crimes against humanity.
And anyone who stays with him much longer is probably going to be added to the list of those who will be criminally prosecuted once the Democrats sweep back into power, which now looks inevitable.
I mean, think about it.
Trump had a mandate from the American people.
He won the election.
He claimed to put America first.
He was going to get us out of these wars.
He's going to reinvest in America, bring back jobs and industry and so much more.
And what did he do instead?
He threw it all away to appease Israel, who probably has blackmail material over his head.
He threw it all away.
He sacrificed America and the MA movement in order to appease Netanyahu.
And as a result, Trump has destroyed not only his own legacy, but also the GOP for many elections yet to come.
He has basically handed America over to the Democrats.
And from day one, the minute Democrats sweep into power, they're going to dismantle every single thing that the Trump administration put in place, including border protection.
They're going to open up the borders, invite millions of people to come right back in.
And on top of that, the Democrats are going to criminally prosecute ICE officials and Trump administration officials.
And you know what?
I will not defend Trump administration officials.
I will not defend ICE officials.
I'm no fan of the policies of the Democrats, but these Trump officials, they are criminals.
And they absolutely need to be indicted.
They need to be thrown in prison.
And if the Democrats are going to pursue that, I won't protest it.
It actually needs to be done.
Not that the Democrats themselves are completely innocent of everything, you know, insider trading, but the crimes of the Trump administration make the crimes of the Democrats look pale in comparison.
I mean, yeah, sure, Nancy Pelosi, a bunch of insider trading.
But Trump, you know, his administration is a bunch of insider trading while committing genocide and starting new wars that might ultimately kill millions of people.
That's a whole different level of criminality.
And yes, they all need to be prosecuted.
So I will watch in awe as the Democrats prosecute dozens of top Trump officials, and I will absolutely applaud it.
I mean, I went to bat for Trump so many times over the last decade, so many times.
I sacrificed so much of my own reach, my own business, in order to try to defend Trump.
And what did we get in return?
We all got bitch slapped in the face by a traitor who sold us out for Zionism.
That's what we got.
So, yeah, I'm done.
I'm done defending Trump or any of his officials.
They should all go to prison, as far as I'm concerned.
And there's nothing that Trump can do to bring that back around.
Nothing at this point.
He's done.
His administration is spiraling.
We're going to see more officials leave.
Probably Tulsi Gabbard next, because how can she remain part of this war criminal empire?
She'll probably leave.
And there will be others.
And one by one, they will walk away from this because they can see what's coming.
They can see that mass criminal prosecutions are awaiting anybody who stays in the Trump administration and continues to take part in these war crimes and also crimes against America.
Because what Trump is doing is blatantly illegal domestically, not to mention internationally.
So there's a lot of people who don't want to go to jail over this and don't want their reputations ruined.
There's a lot of people who might want to run for public office in the future, like Tulsi Gabbard.
And right now, the best way that she can add credibility to her name, because she is a good person, I mean, legitimately, she's a person who has morals and values.
And I don't know how she's remained silent so far through this.
But if she wants to run for office, the best way to add credibility is to denounce the Trump administration and walk away.
That would make Tulsi Gabbard a hero and put her in line for the presidency in 2028.
Because JD Vance doesn't have a chance.
Not anymore.
He's going down with the Trump Titanic here.
Marco Rubio, always a joke, always a neocon.
And Tulsi Gabbard could have a shot at this.
There's even talk of Tucker Carlson, but I'm not sure that Tucker Carlson wants that kind of heat of running for president or something.
I would rather see Tucker Carlson just remain America's best journalist because he's the best at what he does.
No question about it.
And he's got a very valuable role to play for years to come.
As do we all in one way or another.
And I encourage you to join me in denouncing the war crimes of the Trump administration.
Can AI Run on 32 Gig RAM00:15:04
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We are probably now just days away from the release of DeepSeek version 4, which is it's almost certain to be the most impressive frontier model that's open source in the world.
It is, of course, released by the Chinese company DeepSeek, which shocked the world a little over a year ago by releasing DeepSeek R1, which was called the Sputnik moment for reasoning AI.
And R1 was really remarkable.
It was the first AI that did thinking tokens.
It would reason through problems.
And it just showed the innovation of the DeepSeek team led by some really talented and innovative engineers.
And now DeepSeek has been working for the last year on building this new multimodal model that can, apparently, it can do images, it can do, of course, text and reasoning, but also video.
I don't know that I believe it until I see it, but it's supposed to be able to do video and images and other modalities.
In addition, it's supposed to have 1 trillion parameters as a model size, which is very large.
And it's supposed to be a mixture of experts engine that has 32 billion parameters active at any given time or for any given token, let's say.
So 32 billion parameter active mixture of experts model that is 1 trillion total parameters with a 1 million context window or 1 million tokens as a context window.
Now, if you don't know what that means, it's a game changer.
See, a context window is how much stuff you can put into the model in your prompt.
And right now, most of the world's models are limited to something like, well, maybe 256,000 tokens.
That's actually on the high end.
A lot of them will only support 128K tokens or the older ones, 64K or even 32K.
So to go to 1 million tokens means that you could put in a massive amount of context.
You could put in, you know, an encyclopedia almost.
You could put in, I don't know how many lines of code, but hundreds of thousands of lines of computer code probably.
You could put in multiple book texts, you know, memory context, all kinds of things.
And it would process all of that efficiently.
Now, DeepSeek is the company that came up with DeepSeek Sparse Attention, which is a special algorithm that routes tokens and problems through its internal structure, its internal neurology in a way that only activates the necessary tokens while avoiding activation of all the tokens, which means faster throughput, lower compute costs, lower inference costs, etc.
Lower electricity usage per unit of cognition, etc.
Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with all the specs because they may or may not be meaningful to you.
My point is that as an AI developer myself, who's built numerous successful online platforms, and as someone who has created AI engines and worked with AI now for two and a half years, I can tell you that if the rumors are true, this is a game changer for human civilization.
This is a game changer that will be so disruptive that the effects of it are not well understood, I don't believe.
I'm going to try to discuss some of those with you here.
One of the effects will be probably a stock market crash in the US among high-tech stocks, like maybe even Google, Microsoft, you know, Meta, et cetera.
Because once DeepSeek version 4 comes out, I think it will be obvious to people that China has by far the world's best technology.
And that even OpenAI can't compete.
And that this technology is being given away to the world for free where you can download it and run it locally on your own hardware.
And thus, you don't need to pay a subscription to OpenAI or Google or whoever in order to get really great coding or great answers or great whatever.
Now, I'm not yet convinced that the image model capabilities of DeepSeek will be world-class.
I'm doubtful.
I don't think they'll compete with models like Flux, for example.
I also don't think that the video capabilities of the engine will compete with, let's say, LTX or something.
I'm doubtful, but I'm open to the possibility.
It's just that I can't imagine how DeepSeek could create a world-class frontier engine with the best image generation and the best video generation and the best text generation all at the same time in one year.
I'm just skeptical of that.
I do believe that DeepSeek version 4 will be the best coding engine, certainly the best coding engine available in any open source model.
I have no doubt that that's true.
Will it beat Claude Code?
Maybe.
It's rumored to beat Claude code.
If it beats Cloudcode, then Anthropic is in trouble.
And hopefully Anthropic is scrambling to put out a better model.
I mean, their model is already amazing, Opus 4.6.
It's amazing.
I use it every day.
But they better get ready for Opus 5.0 or something if DeepSeek 4 launches.
And if DeepSeek 4 beats Opus 4.6 on the SWE bench for writing code, then, you know, Anthropic is going to be scrambling.
But here's the thing.
Even though I'm a user of Anthropic and I love the Anthropic Cloud Code features and functionality, it's written most of the code that runs my sites.
I would still switch to DeepSeek if it's better.
And especially if it's free.
I mean, I don't really mind how much I pay to Anthropic because it's worth it.
You know, it's a very valuable code writing engine.
It's incredible.
It's hard to imagine not using Anthropic.
But if DeepSeek is better, I'm going to switch to DeepSeek and I'm going to run it locally.
That's if it's better.
And I'm not the only one.
Everybody in the world who writes code, especially all these software companies and the corporations that have internal code and finance and everything.
Of course they're all going to switch to the best model.
If that best model happens to be DeepSeek version 4, they're going to run it.
And they're going to stop using Anthropic or stop using Google Gemini or stop using whatever.
Why wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you want the best cognition?
So that right there could put incredible downward pressure on the revenues and profits of companies like Anthropic, which is already suffering under the U.S. government maliciously designating it to be a security risk or something.
That's all absurd.
Now, on top of that, though, you see, DeepSeek version 4 is a reasoning model with apparently a very high level of internal reasoning.
And what that means is that it can think through problems and it can offer incredible detailed problem-solving capabilities that will allow it to through problems like a business manager.
It will be able to function like a middle manager in a corporate environment.
It will be able to make decisions about supply chains, logistics, manufacturing, scheduling, whatever, in the same way that humans do, or maybe even better.
As a result, this is the first model I believe that is going to begin mass replacement of middle manager jobs, white-collar jobs in the corporate workplace across the world.
DeepSeek version 4 could wipe out more human jobs than any AI model that ever came before.
And yet, at the same time, it could also add benefits to humanity at a scale that's never been witnessed before because it will do these jobs better than humans in many cases.
Perhaps in most cases.
We'll have to see.
But, you know, it's not just the engine itself.
Also, using engines to replace human jobs requires very clever prompting and programming and automation by capable humans who know how to work with AI.
So it's not automatic.
It doesn't mean it's going to happen instantly.
But if the model is capable, humans in the corporations are going to figure out how to deploy it in order to cut costs, which investors have repeatedly said makes your company more valuable.
Every time these companies cut jobs and say that they're being replaced by AI, Wall Street responds by hiking their stock price even more.
So there's going to be a financial incentive for replacing humans with DeepSeek version 4.
Now, it's going to be so dramatic that the federal government will likely at some point, Trump may announce, that DeepSeek version 4 is not allowed on government computer systems.
Okay.
They just don't want government to be efficient, obviously.
They don't want to replace the government workers, you know, because they've got a cushy job going there, benefits and pensions and vacations.
And every once in a while you show up and pretend to do something, you know, government jobs, especially federal government jobs.
But in the private sector, that's not going to fly.
In the private sector, you either replace or die.
That is, as a company, if your competitor is replacing 10% of the workforce with AI effectively and thus cutting costs without cutting quality or performance, then you have to do the same thing or you risk being obsolete, right?
So you as a company, you have to consider that.
And any company that's not using AI is going to be obsolete either way.
So the race is going to be on to implement and deploy AI as quickly as possible with the best engines possible, which is probably going to be DeepSeek version 4, which is also free.
Now, I said before it's a 1 trillion parameter model that is also 32 billion parameters active at any one time.
It's rumored that there's a version of this that's going to be able to run on a consumer grade 5090 GPU.
And I've got a few of the 5090s, but they only have 32 gigs of RAM.
I am very skeptical that you can run a 1 trillion parameter model in 32 gigs of RAM.
I don't think it's possible.
There is the 6000 Pro Blackwell GPU that has 96 gigs of RAM.
And I would suspect that, yeah, maybe you could run it there with a aggressive enough quantization.
But on a 50-90 card, I'm highly doubtful.
I guess we'll see.
Maybe there's a super light version that they're going to release at the same time that does fit on a 50-90 card.
We'll have to see.
But it wouldn't be the flagship version.
It would be something kind of scaled down.
Well, guess what?
NVIDIA just announced that systems integrators like Dell and HP and others, MSI, I think, are now beginning to ship the NVIDIA Spark Stations.
These are sort of enterprise-class workstations that have the GB300 chipset, the Blackwell chipset, on an integrated motherboard with, I think, 496 gigs of RAM built in.
I think that's what it is.
And these systems are going to cost.
I don't know if it's $40,000 per system or $50,000 or I don't know.
They're going to be pricey.
Dell is apparently shipping these right now.
I've got my staff calling Dell to find out what they cost.
I don't yet have the answer.
HP is going to be shipping them next month.
MSI and other companies will be shipping these also, you know, maybe April, May, June, whatever.
NVIDIA, see, okay, let me back up.
NVIDIA is going to do well because NVIDIA sells the hardware that will run the DeepSeek version 4 full-size model.
Because if you have 496 gigs of RAM on your motherboard, that is, I'm talking about unified memory, high-bandwidth memory for the GPU, you can run DeepSeek version 4.
And so every one of these corporations, once they realize that DeepSeek 4 can replace even one person, it's going to be worth $50,000 to go out and buy one of these systems from Dell or whoever that has huge profits for NVIDIA.
I don't know how much NVIDIA profits per one of these workstations, but it's probably like 10 grand or something.
There's a lot of profit.
NVIDIA is a very profitable company.
Because if you're a corporation and you're replacing even one human who costs you $150,000 a year, let's say, is that worth a one-time outlay of $50,000 for the workstation?
Yes, of course it is.
China Dominates Microchip Production00:05:51
And probably this can replace more than one human.
So the race is going to be on for these corporations to go out and buy these NVIDIA spark station systems, as many as they can, and load DeepSeek onto it, the new DeepSeek.
And then human jobs start dropping like flies everywhere.
So effectively, the Chinese company DeepSeek will both clobber the U.S. tech stock market for the AI companies, including Google, Microsoft, et cetera,
but will boost up NVIDIA's valuation dramatically, while also causing widespread unemployment in middle-level middle manager jobs in corporations across America as this cognition becomes more widespread and universally deployed.
And again, any company that doesn't deploy this cognition will be left behind.
I want to deploy this cognition.
I want to run DeepSeek version 4 on a full-size SparkStation.
But again, I don't even know how much it costs yet.
I guess we're going to have to find out.
But this isn't, you know, a gamer on a desktop PC that costs a thousand bucks.
These are serious machines, $50,000 machines, I'm guessing, that can run human-level cognition, that can do thinking, that can solve problems, and that can think faster than humans.
They can do math and science and reading and writing and, you know, editing and freaking everything.
One workstation in a corporation will be able to serve an entire department of 25 people or something like that, depending on the usage patterns.
And it's going to make employees that aren't fired more valuable and more efficient, more effective in whatever it is they do.
So this is the trend of where all of this is going.
Is human jobs just keep falling like dominoes month after month as more and more capable engines get rolled out.
NVIDIA keeps making more billions of dollars of profit.
The US AI tech companies become increasingly obsolete.
And China increasingly emerges as the world leader in AI technology.
And I believe all of those things are about to happen when DeepSeek version 4 is released.
Because I've seen people's comments who use the engine and they're blown away.
Incredible people who have used it.
They're blown away.
Is there a chance that DeepSeek would be disappointing?
That it would suck?
Yeah, okay, there's a chance.
I doubt it, though.
I don't think that's what's going to happen.
Because some of the best science papers on AI technology have come out of the DeepSeek engineers.
Like, what is it, manifold-constrained hyperconnections?
There's a training method that constrains the manifold between layers of the model in order to maintain coherence and reduce escalating noise factors.
Yeah, read that science paper.
When you understand that the DeepSeek version 4 engine was trained using that method, oh my God, that means it's going to be 10 times smarter, maybe, than other engines trained with the old techniques.
On top of that, did you know that the DeepSeek engine was trained entirely on Chinese microchips?
I think largely Huawei.
So this wasn't trained on Western chips from NVIDIA and H100s and H200s or whatever.
This was trained almost exclusively, is my understanding, on Chinese chips, Huawei chips.
And what this means is that all the microchip export controls from Trump and the White House that say to China, oh, you're not allowed to buy NVIDIA chips.
You can't have the H100s.
China is like, yeah, who cares?
We make our own microchips.
They may not be as advanced yet, but we can make a lot more than you can.
We can just scale it.
And that's what they're doing.
And by the way, China is also inventing their own UV lithography microchip fabrication technology, which means that within a couple of years, they won't even need chip fabs from anywhere else in the world.
They'll be entirely, domestically self-sufficient.
They'll be able to make their own microchips and build their own AI models and do their own lithography, you name it.
And when they do that, combined with their abundant domestic energy and lower energy prices and strong skills in industrial output, China's going to become the microchip factory hub of the world.
And before long, it won't be that the U.S. will threaten China with sanctions like, you can't buy our microchips.
It's going to be China telling the world or telling the U.S., you can't buy our microchips because ours are better and we have a lot more of them.
You just do the math on this, connect the dots.
China will have more data centers, more electricity by far, more microchips, more engineers by far, better science, better math, better AI models.
China is going to dominate this.
And I think the pivot point is the release of DeepSeek version 4.
The U.S. will suddenly realize, holy crap, we are behind.
We are no longer the world leaders in AI technology.
Yep, that's about to happen.
U.S. got lazy and complacent and stupid, while China got smart and clever and self-reliant.
Thousands of Marines at Risk00:16:18
Sound familiar?
Yeah.
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Well, the Trump regime is starting to unravel.
We now have the resignation of Joe Kent.
He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, part of the DNI office working with Tulsi Gabbard.
And he posted a letter, a resignation letter that has been read by tens of millions of people now online.
And it starts out, President Trump, after much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.
Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
And it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
Wow, right there, he could have just signed it, and that's really all he needed to say, except he goes on to remind everybody that he is a veteran who was deployed to combat 11 times.
And he's a gold star husband because his wife, Shannon, was killed in what he calls a war manufactured by Israel.
She was killed years ago.
And he says, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.
So, I mean, there's more to the letter.
I'm not going to read the whole thing.
You can find it online.
So immediately, the Trump administration and whatever remaining MAGA influencers who are all being paid at this point, have no morality at all, immediately they began attacking Joe Kent.
And they spent the entire day just attacking Joe Kent and calling him everything under the sun because he's the one person who is taking a stand based on principles.
You know, the principles of MAGA that Trump campaigned on but then betrayed.
One of those principles being get us out of wars in the Middle East.
Yeah, principles like that, you know, kind of important.
So the Trump administration is now resorting to just outright lying every day, worse than Obama, worse than Joe Biden, just outright lies, and attacking anyone who is disloyal to Trump,
even as Trump himself is totally delusional, seemingly has lost his mind, and is completely disconnected from reality, and also is extremely arrogant and is just living in an artificial reality where he thinks that he can do anything he wants and there's no one who can stop him.
And what's dangerous about this situation is that there are opportunities for Trump to negotiate with Iran and actually resolve this, but Trump won't take those opportunities because he wants a win for him and a loss for Iran.
Remember the Trump negotiation technique that's been in his books and all throughout his life is that I win, you lose.
The more you lose, the more I win.
You know, that's the way he thinks.
He can't have a win-win situation.
He believes that the only way to win is to dominate the other party and to make them suffer.
He does the same thing in real estate.
He does it in politics.
He does it in finance.
And now he's doing it on the geopolitical stage.
The problem is we are all suffering as a result.
Food prices are going to go up for all of us.
Fuel prices are already skyrocketing for all of us.
And it's going to get a lot worse.
Global supply chains are collapsing for all of us.
So Trump's ego will not allow him to do the right thing here.
He won't do it.
He's just, his psychology will not allow him to do the right thing for America.
He has to win, which means Iran has to lose.
But Iran actually is in the position right now of holding all the cards and controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
And if that's not opened, then Western civilization suffers essentially an energy collapse and an industrial collapse and a food and farming partial collapse, etc.
Trump would rather see the world collapse than for his ego to be damaged.
And Joe Kent decided he wants no part of this.
That's pretty smart on Joe Kent's part, actually.
Because Joe Kent, by resigning, he has avoided being criminally prosecuted by the next administration.
Because, you know, Kent said, I'm out.
I can't be part of this.
Trump and his cabinet now, whoever's still there, they will be criminally investigated and probably charged, indicted, and prosecuted.
And I'm not talking about just being impeached by the House starting next year as the Democrats take the majority.
I'm talking about when the Democrats take the White House, that is, you know, if we still have elections and if America still exists, if the dollar hasn't totally collapsed and cratered by that time.
If the Democrats get back into power, they will criminally indict everybody in the Trump administration who stayed with Trump on this.
Pete Heckseth in particular, because he's a war criminal.
And he openly admitted to being a war criminal multiple times, just bragging about how we're just going to slaughter all the civilians and destroy the infrastructure and make it so they can never rebuild their country just over and over again, bragging about it, not realizing he's confessing to war crimes again and again and again.
And then you have Caroline Levitt, who is justifying the war crimes.
She's the Josephina Goebbels of the Trump administration.
And then you have so many other people inside the Trump administration who are going to be criminally prosecuted, who are on the record conducting war crimes, including Trump himself.
And by the way, you don't have absolute executive immunity from acts of treason and acts of war crimes, as history has shown, by the way.
So that's important to keep in mind.
Now, Tulsi Gabbard, she put out a statement seeming to support President Trump.
What has she lost her guts here?
What's going on?
If Tulsi Gabbard chooses to stay with Trump, her career is destroyed.
She will have zero credibility.
Right now, she could resign and she could follow Joe Kent and do something that has courage and morals and values.
And she could be a top contender to run for office in 2028.
But at the moment, it doesn't look like she's going to do that.
She's going to go down with the Trump Titanic, I guess.
She's going to commit political suicide or career suicide with this, both.
And that's just sad, sad to see.
Because I saw Tulsi Gabbard speak at the Ron Paul birthday party.
She was right there in front of me.
And I loved what she said there because she opposed wars.
Now that she's the DNI, what's going on?
I honestly expect better from her.
Maybe she'll change her mind here.
We'll see.
But right now, what she's doing is not good, in my opinion, not good.
But here's the truth about this situation.
In my view, the Trump regime is now unraveling and it's headed for implosion.
Trump has clearly lost his mind.
His decisions are erratic.
They are irrational.
They make no financial sense.
They make no military sense, no strategic sense, no economic sense, nothing.
He is reactionary and egotistical and delusional at this point.
Very sad to see that.
So his presidency is imploding, and this is only the second year.
I don't think he'll make it through four years, frankly.
I really don't.
I think he'll be removed from power.
He'll be impeached.
He'll be forced to resign.
Something will happen.
Because the things that he is doing right now are blatantly illegal under the War Powers Act.
He needs an act of Congress to declare war on Iran.
But they're also catastrophic, catastrophic for the U.S. economy and for U.S. soldiers.
And they're covering up the actual number of soldiers that have been killed.
It's easily hundreds at this point.
And they're covering up the fact that so many U.S. warplanes have been destroyed by Iran or Iranian militia groups, shot down out of the sky or blown up on the tarmac.
It's all being covered up.
We're always told, no, no, it was friendly fire.
The plane just spontaneously combusted in the air for no reason.
You know, we're told that constantly.
It's ridiculous.
But where this is going is going to be so catastrophic.
Trump is apparently going to try to land thousands of U.S. Marines on these islands in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.
It's maybe two or three different islands there that oversee the strait from the highest points and that have the best fire control that is firing positions over the ships moving through the strait.
That won't open the strait, even if U.S. soldiers manage to take those islands and completely control them.
Because Iran can continue to fire drones and missiles from its mainland.
It doesn't need the islands.
It can harass ships from a thousand kilometers away.
But I don't think taking those islands is going to be a walk in the park anyway.
Trump's going to try it because, again, he's delusional.
He thinks that the U.S. military is invincible.
And what's actually going to happen is probably a couple of thousand dead U.S. Marines, bodies blown up, shredded.
And how much you want to bet the White House will tell us that didn't happen.
No, they're all doing fine.
They will lie to us.
They won't tell us the truth about the casualties, of course.
Because everything coming out of the White House today is a lie, every single thing.
This is part of the implosion.
It's part of the last sad, pathetic chapter of a collapsing empire.
An empire run by a con artist with a fake counterfeit currency, fake news media that is nothing but a giant global bully that threatens and attacks and bombs and assassinates in order to get its way around the world and even attacks its allies.
That's what the U.S. has become under Trump.
Believe it or not, the U.S. had more credibility under Joe Biden.
How shocking is that?
The U.S. had more credibility under Joe Biden than it does under Trump.
Because Trump has destroyed its credibility and any remaining legitimacy of the U.S. Navy, for one thing.
The U.S. Navy.
Where sailors sleep on the floors that sometimes are rolling in poop because the toilets don't work.
And the sailors are basically prisoners.
They're kept on the ship as prisoners of war, essentially, kept long after their normal deployment, months after.
And, you know, it's very likely that those sailors are the ones who set the USS Ford on fire, which apparently destroyed the bunks of 600 of the sailors.
And that's why they have to sleep on the floors now.
You realize how big that fire had to be if it destroyed 600 bunks?
That fire almost consumed the ship.
Can you imagine if the USS Ford went down in flames?
$13 billion aircraft carrier where the toilets don't work and the laundry room catches on fire and the sailors don't want to be there and is limping back to Crete, I think, now.
Yeah, completely useless piece of hardware in the modern era of drone warfare.
But Trump doesn't know that yet.
He's still living in the 1980s.
And that's why he's demanding all the other countries in the world bail him out.
Send your ships.
You open up the Strait of Hormuz because we can't do it because the U.S. Navy is ineffective.
I mean, it's an admission.
Trump doesn't put it that way, but it's a blatant admission that the Navy has failed, that the U.S. has lost the war, that the U.S. cannot control the Strait of Hormuz.
And again, if Trump lands these thousands of Marines, he's sending them to their deaths.
And I wonder, will 2,000 dead Marines, will that be enough for the American people to decide that they will protest against this war?
Or will it take 5,000 dead Marines, 10,000, 50,000?
Vietnam 2.0.
That's what is happening.
And Trump's ego won't let him de-escalate, won't let him negotiate with Iran in anything resembling good faith.
And that means that Trump is putting the entire world in danger because of his fragile, pathetic, childlike ego.
That he has to feed his ego with a victory that means everybody else has to lose.
So that's where we are.
It's not leadership.
It's psychopathy.
I mean, this is not normal, healthy leadership by any stretch of the imagination.
This is a madman running a country into the ground because he wants a win on his scoreboard, in his mind.
He's willing to destroy the country that he claims to represent in order to appease a foreign country, Israel, that is giving him orders.
The Empire Collapses Under Pressure00:07:17
And by the way, a lot of people are suspecting that Joe Kent resigned because he may have known that there's a massive false flag coming to America to blame Iran and to get domestic support for a bigger war.
And so Joe Kent didn't want to be the head of counterterrorism in the middle of a giant 9-11 false flag.
That's just speculation, but it makes sense.
That could be a reason.
We'll see.
And it's also clear, by the way, the last desperate MAGATARD influencers are still pushing.
Oh, you have to trust Trump no matter what, no matter how crazy, no matter if he betrays everything he ran on, you have to trust Trump.
They're just pathetic losers at this point.
I mean, all of them, from Roseanne Barr to Dom Lucre to, what, Tim Poole and Stephen Crowder, you know, all of them just pathetic losers who have no integrity.
They have no intellectual honesty at all.
It's clear that a lot of influencers are just being paid by the White House.
That's, you know, there are really only two categories of people left in MA now.
It's the people getting paid and the people who are retarded.
That's it.
I mean, everybody else with a brain is saying, what?
Why did why should we support Trump when he betrayed us?
When he went against the very things that he campaigned for.
As Robert Barnes reported, Israel has conducted a coup against the United States and is now in control of the White House.
Israel's running all of this, and of course they're paying off all the people who are still pushing, you know, MAGATARD memes or, you know, narratives.
It's actually pretty easy to tell who's getting paid, you know, who's on the propaganda payroll, because they're the ones whose accounts are allowed to proliferate.
They're allowed to have huge followers on X or YouTube or wherever.
Instagram, Facebook, you know.
But truth tellers are just suppressed everywhere, just silenced by orders of the White House, of course.
The same thing that Joe Biden did.
Same thing.
So nothing is really different at this point.
Just more censorship by the White House.
But it also means that the more censored someone is, the more you can trust them because they're actually telling the truth.
Think about that.
So the bottom line in my view on this is that we're going to see more resignations as Trump continues to spiral into fairy tale delusion land and as more U.S. Marines die and as there's more economic damage on a global scale and as food prices skyrocket and fuel prices skyrocket, etc.
We're going to see more people jumping ship because they don't want to go down with the Trump Titanic.
And Trump's fall from power is going to be truly historic.
This will be one of the most disturbing chapters of our constitutional republic.
Historians will look back at this in amazement that someone like Trump could have risen to power and told so many lies on the campaign trail and then utterly turned against the very people that elected him and sold out his own country, betrayed America in order to appease a foreign nation that had blackmailed dirt on him.
Like this, this is unprecedented in history as far as I know.
Unprecedented.
And sadly, there's a lot of damage that's already been done that cannot be reversed.
But the sooner more people bail and the sooner that there's a no confidence posture towards Trump, you know, the sooner more people stand up and say, no, we won't go along with your insane, delusional end of the world apocalypse scenario, the better off we are, you know, if they do it more quickly.
So the number one thing that we can all do right now is to stand up and tell the truth and push back against the paid propagandists who are still trying to push, you know, MAGA, which is already roadkill at this point.
Push back against them, demand that the president resign or be removed from power via the 25th Amendment or impeachment.
And if that's not possible, then I suppose you have to pray that there are going to be elections again.
And I mean, it's almost insane to try to put hope in anybody being elected that will be honest.
So I don't think that's a solution.
I don't think there's some hero out there that's going to be elected that's going to save us.
You know, Trump was supposed to be that guy, and he betrayed America.
So I don't think there's a political solution to this, actually.
I think that the empire collapses.
And from there, well, you know, there could be a thousand different outcomes.
But I think the empire collapses.
I think we're going to go through a very difficult time of financial collapse, of civil collapse.
And it won't be the United States of America much longer, sadly.
But perhaps something better will come out of the ashes of it.
There'll be a new nation or a new series of nations, and then we can push hard for things like honest money and decentralized power and, you know, AI senators instead of the corrupt retards that we have now.
I still believe open source AI would be a better senator than Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey Graham is the argument for why we need AI senators.
But anyway, that's another topic.
In the meantime, hold tight.
It's going to get wild.
This war is going to get worse.
The supply chain collapse is going to accelerate.
The lies are going to get more intense.
The propaganda is going to be more psychologically twisted.
Everything that you can think of that matters is going to get worse for probably many, many months to come, maybe throughout this year and next year as well.
So mentally hunker down and get ready for insane levels of chaos at every level in society.
And it's very sad because we wanted Trump to succeed at doing what he promised to do.
We wanted him to put America first.
We wanted him to make America great again.
That's what MAGA promised.
And instead, he threw America under the bus.
Wow.
He had every opportunity to make history.
Instead, he made himself into a total fool, wrecked this constitutional republic, and put America on a path of total self-destruction.
That's like having everything and then somehow turning it into total disaster, nothing.
Betraying America's Core Principles00:03:16
How do you do that?
How do you do that?
Well, I guess if your ego is so large that you can't get it out of the way, that's what happens.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, of course, I don't trust Mark Levin either, but I think that's assumed.
Nobody does.
Just another screaming authoritarian lunatic.
Be cautious.
Be cautious about who you believe, who you listen to.
I've seen so many people disqualify themselves recently, having zero judgment.
So be cautious.
And you know, the bottom line is when you're looking at anybody, if their only prominent trait is their loyalty to Donald J. Trump, then that person is a pathetic loser who should be rejected from your sphere of influence.
You know, loyalty to a human being, almost cult-like obedience to a failed human, that's not a sign.
That's not a good sign.
It's a sign of failure.
That's a failed judgment.
You should be loyal to principles.
You should worship principles and, you know, worship God, worship our creator.
But here on planet Earth, focus on being loyal to principles.
Don't be loyal to people because as we're seeing here, those people will let you down and they will be extremely manipulated or they will become dishonest or they will sell you out, whatever the case may be.
That's what we're seeing now.
And loyalty to Trump is a sign of stupidity, not character.
That's just the way it is.
So there you go.
I will continue to bring you the truth as I see it, obviously, even though I'm one of the most censored voices in the world and continue to be so.
Because of course, you know, A, there's no administration that wants you to hear the truth about anything, whether it's the Democrats or the Republicans.
They're all rooted in lies, as you can clearly see.
So truth tellers are not welcome in any party tent.
That's why I'm just universally censored no matter what.
But that's okay.
I will continue to bring you the truth as I see it.
I will continue to exercise the values that I demand others express.
And I pray that we have a country remaining when all this is said and done, because I'm not sure how this ends.
It doesn't look good at the moment.
All right.
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Ships Stuck Without Permission00:15:06
And Michael Yan has predicted accurately and repeatedly that in a war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz would be closed.
And that when that happened, there would be catastrophic effects, including engineered global famine.
He said it numerous times.
He held up books about famine numerous times.
Trump didn't listen.
Trump should have listened to Michael Yahn.
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.
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.
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.
Then you start driving many people, marginalized people in these countries into extreme poverty and food scarcity.
Food insecurity then breeds civil unrest.
And that's when you start to get, well, revolts, upheavals, and revolutions.
And by the way, right here in America, 60% of American households are just living paycheck to paycheck.
They don't have an extra stash of money to cover doubling of food costs.
And they don't have stored food for the most part.
I mean, you watching this, yeah, you have some amount of stored food, but the average American does not.
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.
So obviously there's a buffer delay of crop yields to work its way through the system.
Right now, you're eating the food that was grown mostly last year, okay?
That is in the northern hemisphere.
But in the fall of this year, you'll be eating the food that was grown now.
And that food is not going to have the same yields that it did last year.
So that means that American families are going to be lining up at food banks like never before.
They're going to be suffering higher food prices, reduced food supply.
And there we go, 45 million homes at risk if Iran war continues, 45 million more at risk, excuse me.
I would say that's a very small number compared to what my research shows.
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.
And the situation is going to become dire.
All right, welcome back.
Hour three of the Alex Jones show.
I'm Mike Adams here coming to you from our studios near Austin, Texas.
And I've got quite a lineup for you here, although Robert Barnes just did an outstanding job with his analysis.
And I have to agree with his conclusion.
It is clearly time for Trump to divorce the Israel First lobby and put America first because we're running out of time.
This war is becoming a disastrous Vietnam 2.0 in the Middle East.
And frankly, the U.S. is losing the credibility of its force projection of its navy as carriers had to essentially flee.
That's what's happening now.
And as much as Trump bragged that the war was already won numerous times, the Strait of Hormuz is still not open.
And that's a problem for the entire world, but especially Western countries.
And that's what I'm going to get into today.
So here in this segment, just a little table of contents of what I'm about to cover.
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.
Because you see, what's been set into motion right now can't be fixed.
It can't be turned around, even if there's peace tomorrow.
Many of these systems are shut down in a way that will require weeks or months to bring back online.
And that's true with natural gas in Qatar, for example.
Qatar Energy already declared force majeure, and they've shut down their energy production.
And because of that, it will take at least one month for them to bring that back online.
And as you're going to hear in my analysis today, that helium production will take months to come back online.
And you say, well, so what about helium?
What's the deal with helium?
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.
Without helium, Taiwan's semiconductor can't make the microchips that power so much of our Western technology.
And helium has been cut off.
We're about to go into an extreme global helium shortage.
So we're going to talk about that.
Sulfuric acid is used in the production of fertilizers and phosphate fertilizers.
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.
And think about it.
Right now, the Strait of Hormuz remains essentially closed.
It is de facto closed.
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.
It's not blocked.
Well, okay, it's not physically blocked.
But if you try to go through without permission, as a tanker just found out last night, you get bombed and set on fire.
You get hit by drones.
And, you know, Trump brags about how, oh, we've destroyed the Iranian Navy.
We've destroyed their air force.
Okay, well, then why isn't the Strait of Hormuz open?
Because Iran doesn't need a Navy in order to harass ships going through the region.
And I've said this before, that the Strait of Hormuz is not open until Iran decides it's open.
And there's nothing that you can do to force it open.
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.
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.
And now all those countries have said, no, no, thank you.
We're not going to get involved in your war.
We're not sending ships.
And besides, if it were so easy to open up the Strait of Hormuz, why hasn't the U.S. military done it?
And the answer is because it's not that easy.
It's basically impossible without Iran's consent.
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.
And until those rights are recognized, the strait will not be open.
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.
So, stay tuned.
We'll be right back.
All right, welcome back.
Mike Adams here with the third hour of the Alex Jones show today.
And as I promised, we're going to be walking through the dire consequences of the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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.
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.
Basically, it's a suicide run if you try to run through that strait without permission.
And thus, there is no one in the world.
There's no technology in the world.
There you go.
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.
Now, think about this.
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.
They will both be destroyed.
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.
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.
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?
And again, Iran doesn't need a navy to open the strait.
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.
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.
So without insurance, they're not sailing.
And that's why there are over 3,000 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf right now with no exit.
Only they can exit with permission from Iran.
That's why, for example, a Chinese-bound oil tanker was allowed to transit.
That's why Iranian flagships are allowed to transit.
But you've got these morons on social media that are saying, oh, ships, ships went through.
It must be open again.
No, it's open if you have the permission of Iran.
If you don't have permission, you don't get to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
And see, so it's a selective, it's not just mining the waters with old dumb mines that blow up every ship.
That hasn't happened.
And that was never an accurate claim.
This is about certain ships are allowed to pass and other ships are not.
And right now, the only ships allowed to pass are ships that are bound for friendly countries that is friendly to Iran.
Could be Russia, could be China, could be Pakistan, maybe even North Korea, for example.
And that's it.
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.
So if you hear anybody saying, well, well, there's ships still going through.
Yeah, that's because they have permission.
All right.
Here's the other thing.
Right now, let's talk about LNG tankers, liquid natural gas.
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.
And those ships are like, you know, floating bombs, actually, if they were to be attacked.
I mean, look at that.
That is compressed, liquefied natural gas.
The amount of energy that is stored in those domes is tremendous.
You do not want that released all at once, right?
And you do not want those under fire from any kind of drones or missiles or anything like that.
You wouldn't dare get those close to a war zone.
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, which means that even if you had other sources of natural gas, and for example, the United States is a producer of natural gas.
There are other gas fields around the world, although the Middle East fields are by far the most prolific out of Qatar in particular.
But even if you had other sources, you don't have the ships in existence to meet world demand for natural gas right now.
The ships just don't exist.
And how long would it take to build those ships?
Well, years, obviously.
So forget it.
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.
I don't care if you land 5,000 Marines on those islands.
Doesn't matter.
You know why?
Even if you take the islands, Iran can still harass ships from inland.
Iran can launch drones from northeastern Iran because the drones have a 2,000 kilometer range, by the way.
So it doesn't matter if you take the islands.
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.
They don't even have to actually do it.
All they have to do is say they're going to do it.
And that's it.
The strait is closed.
All right.
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.
Iran is just laughing at the moment and saying, yeah, you know what?
You lost.
You lost because we control the Strait of Hormuz, which means we, Iran, we control the Western world's economies.
We control the price of energy.
And the price of energy determines the success or failure of your economy.
So until Trump realizes that, the West is going to keep losing big time, no matter what happens militarily.
Doesn't matter how many buildings you blow up in Tehran, right?
You still can't allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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.
Trump should divorce from the Israeli lobby and the Zionist control over his administration.
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.
Saving America From False Flags00:13:09
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.
And in this last round of negotiations with Witcoff and Jared Kushner, I believe, in those negotiations, the U.S. started bombing again, even though the negotiations had progress.
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, but Trump went ahead and ordered the attack anyway.
Why?
Because Netanyahu told him to do so.
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.
We need to save America now, save America from this disastrous war.
The only way to save America is to divorce Israel and put America first instead of Israel's interests.
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.
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.
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.
And let's just start walking through some of this because here's what we're going to cover.
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.
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.
And it's a growing list.
And when they declare force majeure, it means they default on the contracts.
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.
Well, they're down to less than two weeks, I believe, now of natural gas supplies.
That island nation is in dire trouble right now if the gas doesn't flow again.
And by the way, China has banned all exports now of refined fuels.
So China will not export diesel or kerosene or jet fuel or gasoline to anybody, including Australia.
And Australia's airlines normally rely on China's exports of jet fuel.
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.
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.
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.
Well, guess what?
China said to India, sorry, we can't help you.
And then China banned all exports of fertilizers and urea to everyone.
Why?
Because China realizes what's happening.
China's ahead of Trump on this by far.
China's like, hey, we better conserve our fuel, our diesel, you know, our oil, our fertilizer, urea, you name it.
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.
And I got to give credit to Michael Yan, who I will have on this show on Thursday, by the way.
So be sure to rejoin me here on the Alex Jones show, third hour, coming up two days from now on Thursday.
I'm going to have Michael Yahn as a guest.
And I've interviewed Michael Yan dozens of times over the last several years.
I've had him on this show as well.
And Michael Yan has predicted accurately and repeatedly that in a war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz would be closed.
And that when that happened, there would be catastrophic effects, including engineered global famine.
He said it numerous times.
He held up books about famine numerous times.
Trump didn't listen.
Trump should have listened to Michael Yahn.
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.
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.
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.
Then you start driving many people, marginalized people in these countries into extreme poverty and food scarcity.
Food insecurity then breeds civil unrest.
And that's when you start to get, well, revolts, upheavals, and revolutions.
And by the way, right here in America, 60% of American households are just living paycheck to paycheck.
They don't have an extra stash of money to cover doubling of food costs.
And they don't have stored food for the most part.
I mean, you watching this, yeah, you have some amount of stored food, but the average American does not.
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.
So obviously there's a buffer delay of crop yields to work its way through the system.
Right now, you're eating the food that was grown mostly last year, okay?
That is in the northern hemisphere.
But in the fall of this year, you'll be eating the food that was grown now.
And that food is not going to have the same yields that it did last year.
So that means that American families are going to be lining up at food banks like never before.
They're going to be suffering higher food prices, reduced food supply.
And there we go, 45 million homes at risk if Iran war continues, 45 million more at risk, excuse me.
I would say that's a very small number compared to what my research shows.
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.
And the situation is going to become dire.
Let me get back to the report here.
All right.
So let's talk about the basics here.
20 million barrels of oil a day is now blocked by the Strait of Hormuz.
That's a 1970s scale crisis.
You know, Jimmy Carter, 1979, the oil crisis then.
I remember that.
People were lined up at gas stations all across America trying to get fuel.
There was rationing.
And it was a crisis, but it was nothing compared to what's about to happen.
20 million barrels of oil a day is significant.
It's about 20% of the global supply of oil.
And the thing is, oil prices, you know, if you need oil, you're going to pay almost anything for it.
If you need energy, you're going to pay almost anything.
So this is a unique situation where you have to have the oil to keep the lights on.
As Cuba is finding out right now, no oil, no power, no power grid, no country.
So Russia is benefiting from this by being able to sell more energy.
And China is doing relatively okay because they had far more stockpiles of oil than did the United States.
And also, China can get ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
So you see, China is going to be fine during this crisis.
America's allies are not.
America's allies are in deep trouble.
All right, let's go to liquefied natural gas.
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.
That'll be decimated in less than two weeks.
So that's not going to save anything here.
And by the way, America's strategic petroleum reserve wasn't refilled before the war, which seems like an incredibly short-sighted decision.
All right, liquefied natural gas.
So right now, about 20 to 25% of the world supply of LNG sails through the strait.
And again, Qatar Energy already declared force majeure, so they are offline.
112 billion cubic meters of this gas annually is what comes out of just Qatar.
There are no alternative pipelines for those exports.
They do not exist.
I've seen people, you know, draw a line across the peninsula.
Oh, we could just, you know, let's just have trucks, just take it this way.
Let's just build another canal right here.
Okay, great.
Yeah.
You know how long it takes to build a canal?
Look up your history.
How long did it take to build a Panama Canal?
Huh?
You know, this is not something you can do overnight.
And by the way, good luck building a canal while you're getting bombed by Iran.
You know, good luck transporting on trucks across the land while getting bombed by Iran.
So that's not going to work.
I don't know why people aren't even thinking about this.
So look, 72% of the energy of Bangladesh comes from the Persian Gulf.
53% of India's energy comes from the Persian Gulf.
That's why they're in a crisis.
Wow.
Okay.
Japan only has 4.4 million tons in reserve.
South Korea only has two to four weeks in reserve.
Taiwan, as I said, is about a two-week supply.
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.
And Iran can just sit there and say, well, let us know when you're ready to make a deal.
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.
He wants to be seen as the winner, even if the whole world loses in the process.
And that's exactly what's happening.
All right.
So the natural gas situation is dire.
And when you process natural gas, one of the byproducts that you get, by the way, is helium.
Helium, second lightest element, right?
Look at the table of elements.
Helium, 30% of the global commercial production comes out of just Qatar.
30%.
And it has to be hauled in special cryogenic containers.
There is no alternative pipeline for helium.
It doesn't exist.
Helium cannot be substituted in semiconductor fabrication.
It cannot be substituted in MRI machines, they're cooling magnets, in arc welding.
in rocket propellant pressurization.
And also, as you know, I own and run a mass spec food science lab.
And most of my lab instruments require helium.
Helium is used in the collision cell, the mass spec, because of its unique physical properties.
And so without helium, we can't test food.
We can't test water.
Without helium, nobody can make microchips.
Have you looked into UV lithography equipment and why helium is used in that?
Why it's critical, why it can't be replaced?
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.
And it is offline.
It's my goodness.
Spot prices of helium have already surged almost 100%.
Helium Is Critical for Chips00:03:42
And that's going to continue if the strait stays closed.
Helium will undergo a cascading effect of force majeure cancellations.
And so Samsung, which of course has promised all these microchip fabrication facilities in the United States, Samsung would be strongly impacted by this.
They would have to start shutting down microchip facilities everywhere around the world, not just in the U.S., but elsewhere as well.
Taiwan Semiconductor, like I said, and other companies.
So, you know, good luck with your microchip supply.
Good luck with, I don't know, anything, frankly, that is made from microchips, your GPU, you know, your AI GPU.
Forget it.
You're cooked.
Okay.
And then we get to sulfur.
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.
But because of this, sulfur is used in creating fertilizers as well as sulfuric acid.
Sulfuric acid is probably the single most important industrial chemical in the world.
As you know, for example, you can't make car tires without the process of vulcanization, right?
What does that use?
It uses sulfur.
Oh, so good luck getting car tires and truck tires and good luck with all your transportation infrastructure if you can't get sulfur.
And sulfuric acid is used in phosphate production for farms and crops.
And without sulfuric acid, there is a long cascade of industrial processes that absolutely crater and that they shut down modern industry.
Your modern civilization cannot survive without the Strait of Hormuz being open.
We're going to take a break.
And after this break, I'll continue with more analysis.
This is the Alex Jones show.
Mike Adams here.
I'll be right back.
All right.
Welcome back, folks, to the Alex Jones show.
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.
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.
As you know, I built a book creation platform.
It's all free.
It's called BrightLearn.ai.
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It's called Chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz.
If you just go to books.brightlearn.ai, you can download that book, click on audiobooks, you can download that audio book completely free.
And there are also, go to books.brightlearn.ai.
That'll bring up the actual audio books there.
You can download them all for free.
Okay.
This will tell you everything about the Strait of Hormuz and why it's so critical to understand.
But we are going to live through the most difficult lockdowns and shutdowns, far worse than COVID, based on what has happened already.
Yeah, click on audiobooks there, and then you're going to see it.
Yeah, it's called Choke Point.
There's an audiobooks tab.
There you go.
There it is right there.
So that's where you can download completely free.
So I've been using my data center to generate audio books, by the way.
So that's just one of the ways that we give back to everybody.
There's a bunch of books on survival and what have you, which seems incredibly important right now.
But continuing my analysis here, we talked about sulfuric acid and why that's critical.
But here's what a lot of people don't know.
Global Fertilizer Supply Collapse00:16:08
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.
So if you want to mine things like copper and zinc or aluminum or other rare earths, you're going to use sulfuric acid.
Why?
Because sulfuric acid will strip the ions out of whatever element is in the rocks.
It will put that into solution, into the acid.
And then you can process that further to take those purified minerals out of the sulfuric acid solution.
So without sulfuric acid, we don't have much of mining.
And think about what happens if we don't have mining.
Aluminum, copper, zinc, I mean, nickel, tungsten, right?
Cobalt that's necessary for lithium batteries, you name it.
The world's battery manufacturing capability begins to suffer dramatically if we don't have sulfuric acid.
So it's not just fertilizers, it's also commodities and metals.
Now then, we got to get to urea.
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.
That has to be done with Iran's consent.
So here we go.
One ton of urea now costs U.S. farmers the equivalent of 126 bushels of corn.
Last year, it was only 75 bushels of corn equivalent.
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.
And they're lucky if they can get it now.
A lot of farmers won't be able to get it.
And if you look at crop yields and where this is going, corn, critical level.
It's the most nitrogen-intensive crop in our world.
So Midwest planting is happening now, and urea prices are doubling, which means that farmers are going to grow a lot less corn.
They're going to shift to crops like soybeans that don't use as much fertilizer.
So now you're going to have a corn shortage.
Wheat, also vulnerable to input shocks.
So you're going to have reduced yields of wheat anywhere from 20 to 30%, most likely in 2026 harvests.
Rice, Southeast Asia will be impacted by this.
We already mentioned India.
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.
Sugar and soybeans also have some exposure.
Soybeans, not as much.
So you're going to end up with a lot more soy and a lot less corn and wheat.
Hope you like drinking your soy lattes because that's the only thing that's going to grow with less nitrogen.
Okay.
So good luck with that.
All the soy boys out there will rejoice.
All right.
In addition to that, we've got ammonia and phosphate inputs.
Those are also impacted.
And now petrochemicals, metals, and industrial supply.
So polyethylene exports.
85% of the polyethylene exports out of the Middle East blow through the Strait of Hormuz.
Polyethylene, what do you make out of that?
Bottles, lids, you know, barrels, anything.
The PE 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 supplements, if you're purchasing superfoods, if you're purchasing anything, you better get it now because we don't even know if we're going to get the bottles.
We don't know if we're going to be able to get the lids, much less the food that goes into it.
That's going to go up in price.
Like whatever you can buy right now from AlexJonesStore.com, 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.
And, you know, I'm not, I don't have inside information that there's for sure going to run out of bottles.
I'm just saying that overall, the polyethylene global supply will be drastically impacted.
It will affect the Alex Jones store.
It'll affect my store.
It'll affect, you know, retail.
It'll affect everything you see at the grocery store.
So the effects of this are going to be widespread.
There 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.
A long time.
Shortages will elevate automotive components, synthetic rubber, and consumer goods.
And then we have copper and aluminum.
Copper prices are already surging for reasons I've mentioned here.
And aluminum, well, aluminum Bahrain has already declared force majeure.
So there's no more aluminum coming out of that plant.
And then there are scalebacks at other aluminum plants that are happening in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Pharmaceuticals, also 47% of generic prescriptions come out of India.
Not that I'm a fan of prescription medications, but the Strait provides the energy that India uses to manufacture the pharmaceuticals.
So we're going to start seeing shortages of any kind of generic drugs and many other things.
A lot of things come out of India.
For example, turmeric, right?
So even from the Alex Jones store, the turmeric, you know, India is the largest global grower of turmeric.
And even if you don't get it from turmeric, India's shortage of it will affect the global supply.
So it's going to get even worse if the Strait of Hormuz, I'm sorry, if the Suez Canal gets closed off because of the Houthis harassing ships at that choke point in the Red Sea.
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 Suez Canal, then, you know, my goodness, now we're talking about a real domestic, I mean, global crisis.
Yeah, PU resin prices skyrocketing there.
That's exactly right.
So, you know, 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, I'm saying the second and third order effects here are going to be almost unimaginable.
So, all right, let's talk about force majeure.
I'm going to give you a list of the companies that have already declared force majeure.
Qatar Energy, as I mentioned, there goes, you know, 20% of the world's natural gas.
Declared after a drone strike on one of the refinery complexes.
Shell, LNG Trading, declared Force Majeure because, of course, it can't deliver on the commitments of LNG.
Total Energies LNG, OQ, Oman Trading, SABIC, Agri, Agri-Nutrients, S-A-B-I-C, fertilizer shipments to South America and to Asia.
Force majeure.
You may have ordered the fertilizer.
You may have put a down payment on it.
You're not going to get it.
Aluminum, Bahrain.
Saudi Aramco declared Force Majeure.
There's a major company, a major presence in the Middle East.
Refinery operations shut down.
ADNOC from the UAE, Adnoc from the UAE, refinery operations also shut down.
Qatalum, that's aluminum production out of Qatar.
Petrochemical Corp in Singapore has had to declare force majeure.
Chandra Asri Petrochemical out of Indonesia, force majeure.
Yeochun NCC in South Korea.
Force majeure on Naphtha cracker operations.
That's not a racial slur.
That's a process for Naphtha.
Aster Chemicals, South Korea.
Cracker is only running at 50% capacity.
Sumitomo Corporation in Japan, Force Majeure.
The fifth Asian chemical company in a single week.
Why?
No Naphtha.
Oh.
And in India, there's also other force majeures taking place here as well.
Other companies impacted by this.
The bottom line is the situation is dire.
And unless this gets back online, you are not going to see Western civilization function.
Here's the reality of this.
We have built a civilization on a pipeline that was always vulnerable, but it only functioned with the consent of Iran.
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.
In other words, if Iran had invoked strikes on U.S. military bases in the UAE or Qatar or Saudi Arabia, etc., if Iran had initiated that, then Iran would have been globally condemned, obviously.
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.
Trump initiated it, despite the fact that he says, oh, Iran has been at war with us for 47 years.
And I think he said that Joe Biden or Barack Obama started the war with Iran like 47 years ago.
It didn't make any sense.
I don't know what he was trying to say.
Didn't make any sense.
But the truth is that the U.S. initiated this war, not Iran.
Iran was negotiating in good faith, even as the U.S. was negotiating in bad faith.
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.
Can't blame them because they were attacked first.
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.
And that wasn't possible before Trump attacked Iran.
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.
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.
Now, the U.S. is more resilient than the other countries because the U.S. has its own domestic energy supply.
Thank goodness for that.
We do need domestic energy.
But there will be so much pressure on the cost or the price of those commodities.
And oil is priced globally.
It means that American consumers are going to end up paying much more for domestic oil, even though it's our own oil.
The prices are going to go through the roof.
Oil could easily hit 200, 250, even $300 a barrel if this closure continues to exist.
And that's exactly the path that we are on right now.
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.
We made them into an enemy.
And at the same time, Trump, through his punitive tariff operations, he turned other allies into potential enemies as well.
He punished India.
He put a 50% tariff on India saying, you know, you can't buy oil from Russia.
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.
So now Russian oil is okay, but a few months ago, you get punished for buying Russian oil.
See, there's no consistency.
There's no plan.
There's no foresight in this.
You know, the White House says, well, well, we considered the implications of the Strait of Hormuz.
No, you didn't.
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.
You knew that and you did it anyway.
That's even worse than not knowing.
It's more innocent to say we didn't know.
We didn't consider these things.
At least that's understandable.
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.
And the ultimate upshot of this is that, number one, the U.S. is going to be driven out of the Middle East.
Iran has already destroyed most of the military bases in the Arab Gulf states there, including the Fifth Fleet headquarters.
It's rubble or largely rubble at this point.
And secondly, the petrodollar is no longer carrying the weight that it once did.
So all these nations around the world that had relied on the US for protection, which includes Taiwan, by the way, and included Qatar and included the UAE, et cetera, what's their conclusion now?
Well, the US can't protect us.
And South Korea is realizing, hey, when the US wants to, they're going to come take our air defense systems away and hand them over to Israel to help defend Israel.
And then what are we going to do here if there's a war with North Korea, right?
So everywhere around the world, the message is very clear that the United States of America cannot and will not protect you 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.
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.
And that presumption is what backed the U.S. dollar, because the U.S. dollar isn't backed by anything else at all.
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.
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The very same aircraft carriers that are limping out of the region now.
One of them set on fire.
The Ford was set on fire, apparently by its own sailors who have to now sleep on the floors and tables.
And it's basically not battleworthy at this point.
And besides, they're giant floating targets anyway.
So all of that has been shattered.
So what does that mean for the future of the petrodollar?
It means the petrodollar is toast.
It means we are now witnessing the beginning of the end of the American empire that we have all known for our entire lives.
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.
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.
And the other countries are saying no.
And actually, years earlier, Russia arrived at the same conclusion.
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.
Russia is sitting on the largest reserves of energy of any country in the world.
Russia is massive.
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.
We wanted to steal all of that.
That was evident from U.S. leaders.
They said, we want to destroy Russia and go in and take all their energy, pillage the country.
That's been the plan for Iran all along.
We want to overthrow their leadership and go in and pillage their country.
And now Russia and Iran have said, no, we won't let you do that.
We don't care how much you try to bomb us.
We don't care how many soldiers you throw at us via Ukraine.
We don't care.
And yes, they're showing a story there.
Will the Iran war trigger a dollar crisis?
Absolutely it will.
Because folks, wish we had more time.
The force majeure that has been declared that I just mentioned, that is going to spiral into the financial sector.
And we're already seeing record defaults in private equity.
Private credit is hitting massive defaults right now.
We're already seeing limits on withdrawals from lots of financial organizations, you know, BlackRock included and others.
This is going to cascade through the system.
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.
Japan is already on the brink of a currency collapse.
The EU also in deep trouble right now.
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, and that's been shattered as well.
The bottom line of where all this is going, I'm sorry to say, I didn't want this.
I opposed the war from the very start.
I mean, before it started, I was saying, don't do this.
This is a bad idea.
But the American people are going to end up impoverished.
The American people are going to lose their ability to afford food in many cases.
They're going to lose many of their investments.
We will see bank failures.
We will see bank bail-ins and we will see the great taking accelerate.
And people will lose everything that they once worked for and saved.
And as all of this is happening, Trump will never take the blame for it.
He will blame someone else.
He will say, oh, it's Russia's fault.
It's Iran's fault.
It's whoever's fault other than himself, even though he made the call.
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.
Think about that.
That's how crazy it's actually getting here.
So look, what can you do?
What can you do to insulate yourself from all of this as much as possible?
Number one, I already mentioned stockpile some food if you can.
Learn to grow food.
Become as self-reliant as possible.
Get off the grid as much as you can.
And in my opinion, although don't take this as financial advice, I think you need to get out of the banking system.
Whether that means gold and silver or private crypto, whatever is your choice, that's up to you.
That's your research.
That's your decision.
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.
These are going to be the most dire consequences that Western civilization has ever felt.
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.
That's just a fact.
And he's doing it in order to appease a foreign nation.
He's putting Israel first and throwing America under the bus.
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.
Otherwise, the American people will suffer drastically for years to come.
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.
So let us pray that that doesn't happen.
Let us pray that Trump comes to his senses.
And if he doesn't, we need somebody else at the helm because this isn't working.
What he's doing is not working.
But those are my conclusions and my opinions.
And I say, God bless America.
I want America to do well, but we're on a bad track right now.
So thank you for watching.
And Mike Adams here on the Alex Jones show.
God bless America.
care mike i'm listening to you as i drive your analysis is dead on and i'm learning a lot can't wait till michael yon is on thursday he's an expert as you know on global choke points for predicting this but if you look at the globalist above trump obviously he's being manipulated a useful tool here just like lutnik microcosm sons running his company bet against the tariffs that ludnick wrote for the billions of insurance money The globalists have wanted a great reset.
They want a global crash.
And so they released COVID to D.R.L. Trump's last administration.
Now, this war is definitely that.
I predicted it.
So we need to study all the investments that the insiders have made at the White House to really expose that because there's no doubt that the higher-ups knew what was happening.
They were warned by Tulsi Gabbard and by Joe Kent and others in the months and weeks before.
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.
Mike Abs, thanks for hosting.
Please give me your take.
All right.
Thank you, Alex, for that question.
And you're exactly right.
So this is being engineered as a great taking.
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.
But who gains that?
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.
Somebody profits from a financial collapse or even a currency collapse.
And what I'm saying to people at a grassroots level is there are methods to avoid getting severely harmed.
There are ways to avoid losing your life savings in that.
That's one level.
So, you know, gold and silver, maybe private crypto, et cetera, or just owning land, owning actual physical things like diesel fuel will become extremely valuable.
But to answer Alex's question at the higher level, yeah, this is engineered and it's sad that Trump fell into it.
I think Trump was given bad intelligence.
Obviously, it was crafted to deceive him, to say that Iran was an imminent threat when clearly it wasn't.
Joe Kent has confirmed that with his resignation letter today.
Tulsi Gabbard has also previously confirmed that as well.
Iran never posed an imminent threat to the continental United States, but Israel and other globalist sources, of course, they fabricated intelligence.
And so they managed to convince Trump that he had to order this attack.
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.
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.
Instead, Trump is fed a specific diet of bad information that says, Trump, you're the hero.
Keep bombing.
It's going to make you the most popular president ever, which hasn't worked out.
And secondly, that if you don't destroy Iran, that we're all going to be destroyed within a matter of weeks.
But Israel's been saying that for decades.
It's the same claim, decade after decade.
So yeah, this is a giant trap.
Trump fell into it.
He went along with it.
He didn't have to.
He made a choice to order this war.
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.
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.
That's what's going to happen.
And then they're going to roll out the surveillance grid with the CBDCs.
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.
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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.
That's where this is going.
So it's all been engineered.
Alex is right.
It's all been engineered from the globalist level to trap people in a system of total enslavement.
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.
Ultimately, this is mass culling of humans on planet Earth.
Massive depopulation.
So there you go.
Thanks for the question.
And stay tuned, folks.
One minute break and then the show continues.
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