Mike Adams and Bob Moriarty analyze a potential global catastrophe triggered by Trump's ultimatum to Iran and Israel's alleged sabotage of Qatar's gas trains. They warn that destroying desalination plants and LNG infrastructure will cause a decade-long famine, fueling civil war and economic collapse within months. The hosts claim Epstein blackmails Trump into serving Israel, predicting a "Mad Max" scenario where stockpiling gold, diesel, and food becomes essential for survival as mainstream media ignores the impending crisis. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, welcome to Bright Videos News from Monday, March 23rd, 2026.
This is an historic day for horrible reasons.
This is the day that Trump is promising to unleash an escalation in the war against Iran by bombing Iran's power grid infrastructure, which is, of course, a war crime that would thrust 90 million Iranians into darkness and would cause many deaths in hospitals and so much more.
Trump is promising to do that at 7.45 Eastern today if Iran does not agree to open the Strait of Hormuz, which means Iran surrendering its current control over the strait.
Iran, in response to that, has made counter threats against Israel and the Gulf states and U.S. military bases, etc.
I'll be covering that detail in an upcoming report here that I have for you today.
Plus, I have an interview with Bob Moriarty, who is just an extraordinary man, a veteran, a highly accomplished pilot, Vietnam-era fighter pilot, flew 800 missions in Vietnam as a United States Marine, no less.
Yes.
Bob Moriarty.
So he joins us today, and he's got a lot of interesting things to say, so we'll get to that.
I've got a couple other reports for you as well.
There's a lot going down.
The bottom line is we're on the verge of an escalation into world war that will be devastating to the economies of Western nations.
So get ready, folks.
Get ready.
It's going to get crazier than usual here, depending on how this escalation situation goes.
I'm praying for de-escalation, but that doesn't seem to be where this is going.
So let's just jump right into those special reports and watch the situation carefully this evening to find out where all of this goes, because I'm a little bit fearful of the update I'm going to be bringing you tomorrow based on what happens.
I do not have a positive outlook right now, but hopefully that will change.
We'll see.
But enjoy the rest of the show with the reports and the interview.
And there's a lot here, a lot of information, a lot of practical information as well.
So here we go.
Well, we are very nearly past the point of no return.
We're about to lose Western civilization and really most of the civilized world, depending on what happens in the next 24 hours.
Our future could be very grim.
So welcome to the special analysis.
I'm Mike Adams of naturalnews.com and brightvideos.com.
And if you've been paying attention to what's going on, I hope you have.
Over the weekend, there was a mad escalation where it started out with Iran saying that the U.S. must withdraw from the region, must shut down every base in the Middle East, all of which are mostly destroyed.
Well, most of which.
Anyway, that the U.S. must pay reparations to Iran for all of the damage that has been done, and that effectively the U.S. must end hostilities and surrender to the terms of Iran, including ironclad guarantees that the U.S. and Israel will never attack Iran again.
So basically there was terms of surrender of the United States and Israel.
And then, in response to that, Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum.
Now, this happened on Saturday night.
So, it comes due tonight, Monday night, that if Iran doesn't, within 48 hours, open the Strait of Hormuz completely, then the U.S. is going to start obliterating Iranian power plants to destroy the civilian power infrastructure of Iran.
Trump promised to start with the biggest ones first, by the way.
Okay?
So, that's, you know, that's civilian infrastructure.
Just like we've seen in Cuba with the grid down in Cuba, people are dying in hospitals because they're on ventilators.
And when you don't have power for the ventilators, well, they don't ventilate and everybody dies.
And that's what's happening.
So, Trump is promising to do that.
And that makes Trump a war criminal, by the way.
You know, you're not allowed to bomb civilian infrastructure, by the way, and hospitals, etc.
But hey, you know, it's Trump and it's Israel.
They are war criminals.
They do whatever they want.
So, in response to that, then Iran put its own response out and said, well, if you attack our power grid, then we are going to destroy all energy and water infrastructure throughout the entire Gulf region and Israel.
In other words, Iran responded by saying, you know, we'll destroy the entire civilian infrastructure that keeps Israel alive and that keeps the Gulf states alive.
Because remember, without water desalination, those Gulf states cease to exist.
And in all, there are about 100 million people in those countries from UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, etc.
Qatar, obviously.
And 100 million people depend on water desalination.
It looks like there's going to be a humanitarian crisis that we've never seen before.
I mean, maybe, I don't know, since World War II, I'm not sure.
And then following that, there was apparently a fake post by Donald Trump.
It's not really him.
Somebody faked it.
Or he's deleted it, one or the other, where he is claiming that if Iran does that, that it would be a huge mistake and that would be a weapon of mass destruction.
And if Iran did that, then, quote, we may have to respond with such weapons of our own.
I pray I never have to do it, but I will not hesitate, etc.
Anyway, that might not be real.
But Iran apparently thought it was real, and maybe it was real.
Maybe Trump walked it back.
Who knows?
Iran responded to that one more time.
And apparently, well, not officially responding, but a top-level analyst with ties to the IRGC said that Iran has the capability of collapsing the U.S. Power grid through cyber warfare, so that Iran hackers can breach much of the U.S.
Power grid infrastructure and they can bring it Down.
Which maybe wouldn't be that hard because the the US power grid seems to be on the verge of bringing itself down on any given day.
You know what I mean?
And it it does fail, or we have near failures with some regularity, it seems.
So in essence, Iran is threatening to plunge the US into a total blackout of darkness.
I'm not sure they have that capability, but that threat is emerging, although not from official channels, in response to the U.S. plunging Iran into darkness.
And Iran would plunge Israel into darkness and plunge all the Gulf states into darkness and would specifically destroy the entire power grid infrastructure, which is the bigger deal here.
This is why we're almost past the point of no return.
So, let's see.
Kuwait, 90% of all drinking water comes from desalination.
In Saudi Arabia, 70% of the water comes from that.
In Israel, it's 75% dependent on desalination.
And it goes on.
Oman, Bahrain, Qatar has about half of its water comes from desalination.
So we're talking 100 million people, 100 million people who would be impacted by that.
That would create a massive humanitarian crisis and would cause refugees to flee the area.
So to add more details to this, by sometime tonight, Trump is promising to bomb Iran's power grid, which, as I understand it, is very decentralized.
There's not just one giant power plant that fuels the whole country, of course.
It's a country of 90 million people.
It's very large.
There are a lot of different power plants and they're spread out.
So it's very dispersed.
And in order to bomb them all, the U.S. would have to put its own aircraft in high-risk situations, which maybe that's the plan.
I suppose we'll see.
But if that happens, Iran will retaliate by destroying, let's see, what is this?
The Ras al-Qair desalination plant in Saudi Arabia, the Shukaik power plant in Saudi Arabia.
They're going to hit the power grid in Qatar.
Oh, and then they're going to hit the Ras Lafan power, the natural gas plant, as we've already seen.
We've talked about that last week.
They're going to hit other, well, it's a long list here.
There's several more on the list.
I'm not going to go through them all.
But it's even going to affect Jordan, apparently.
Jordan's power grid would be largely offline because of this.
So understand that Iran is not in a position where they can submit to Trump's demands.
If they give up and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, then they lose everything they fought for.
And this is the existential war right now.
Oh, and I forgot to tell you that Iran's initial announcement also apparently had some level of official support from China and Russia.
Not quite a mutual defense treaty, but something, although I haven't seen the documents myself, but something on the order of China and Russia stating publicly that they are providing aid and support to Iran to make sure that Iran does not collapse.
Okay?
So Iran cannot give in to America's demands.
And Trump is psychologically unable to agree to Iran's demands because Trump cannot take a loss.
And if Trump gives up now and leaves the area, then Iran controls the strait forevermore.
And they will extract a toll on the strait, you know, a million dollars or two million dollars roughly per ship that wants to transit.
In fact, a tanker was allowed to transit to Japan because Japan paid $2 million, I believe.
And then some other ships were allowed to transit because they're paying for the cargo in Yuan, not the dollar.
So the petrodollar is getting hammered.
And ships are only allowed to pass if they're either friendly nations, ships, you know, friendly to Iran, or if they pay, seems like $1 to $2 million in crypto or gold or wire transfer.
I don't know.
How do you pay?
How do you pay Iran for your ship when Iran is totally sanctioned?
I guess you got to pay in crypto.
So that's a lot of crypto.
So the bottom line here is that Iran can't back down and Trump won't back down.
And Trump has lost his mind at this point.
He's mad.
And he needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment.
That's clear because he is on this escalation ladder that is going to end with the collapse of the world economy.
And he just won't back down.
He just, you know, and all the people supporting him, Lindsey Graham, et cetera, they just won't back down either.
They're all in Netanyahu, if he's even still living, which is doubtful.
Who knows?
But Israel won't back down.
None of them.
It's like they want the end of the world.
And of course, that's exactly what they want.
They want the destruction of energy infrastructure.
They want the world to go into famine and collapse because it's through that that they can initiate their great taking and they can steal everybody's assets and have an excuse for it.
Let me give you a little bit more detail of what Iran promised to do if Trump makes good on his threat to bomb Iran's energy infrastructure.
There are four main points of this that are being reported by Al Jazeera.
Number one, again, this is if Trump starts to bomb Iran's power grid.
Number one, the Strait of Hormuz will be completely closed and will not reopen until Iran's power plants are rebuilt.
So that's a multi-year process.
Good luck then to the Western world because for multiple years you won't get any energy.
And by the way, did you know that Taiwan semiconductor needs helium and natural gas in order to function?
And Taiwan is down to, I don't know, estimates or 10 days or less of natural gas energy in their supply.
It might be more like seven days.
Who knows?
I mean, we're trying to get the best information we can, but details are kind of sketchy right now.
But you realize if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, there will be no more microchips for your GPUs, your AI data centers, for computers, you know, microprocessors of all kinds.
For everything from cars to military systems and computing and telecommunications and hospital and medical systems, etc.
That will all be offline.
And at that point, GPUs for AI will become unobtainium.
No more in the pipeline.
In addition, Iran threatens to then destroy, quote, all power plants and the energy and information technology infrastructure of Israel, which means they're going to bomb Israel's remaining data centers and all of Israel's remaining power plants.
Seems like there's about 10 or 12 of them, something like that.
One of them is, I think, a nuclear facility.
Apparently, they're all going to get bombed and destroyed, according to Iran's threat here.
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Iran goes on to say that all companies in the region that have American shareholders will be completely destroyed.
Whoa.
So that means, I think they're talking about like Aramco and some of these oil companies that are in, let's say, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia that have large U.S. companies as investors like Chevron.
There's many examples of this.
I don't know all the details because I'm not in that industry.
But basically, Iran is saying they're going to destroy every company that has large American shareholders.
And then power plants in regional countries hosting U.S. bases will also be considered legitimate targets.
You got it?
So that means it's like we said, the whole power grid of the region will be gone.
Water desalination, gone.
Israel's power grid, gone.
Data centers, gone.
Energy infrastructure, gone.
You know, this would be the total destruction of Qatar energy, the destruction of Saudi Arabia's oil fields.
And if that were to happen, we would go through a decade, a decade of collapse and famine, economic collapse, mass starvation, civil revolts, uprisings.
Basically, every bad Mad Max scenario you can imagine with some countries doing better than others.
The U.S. would probably fare better than most, actually.
Europe would do horribly.
Many Asian nations would not do very well, like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, etc.
A lot of African nations, they would suffer mass starvation.
South American nations would be impacted dramatically.
Australia is already facing fuel scarcity, as you know.
Canada, of course, would be strongly impacted as well.
So we are looking at, we're looking at Armageddon, global Armageddon here, and Trump keeps escalating.
Why is Trump pursuing this?
Why is Trump pursuing this?
Because he's insane at this point.
And also, Iran threatens to cut the undersea internet cables to bring down the global internet, which is possible.
Did you know that 30% of all the world's internet traffic goes through the Strait of Hormuz?
Yep, that's right.
And 20 major cables run through the Strait of Hormuz, and the Strait is not very deep.
They had to dredge out the channels where the big ships go.
The rest of it's not that deep.
It's only maybe a couple hundred feet deep, which isn't very deep.
I mean, even human divers can go down there and plant explosives.
So Iran is going to cut the internet cables.
That means that the internet across the entire Middle East and a lot of South Asia and so on, it's all going to go down.
The banking systems, you know, crypto offline, all the Amazon, AWS, cloud services collapse.
Basically, modern civilization is stripped away from three different continents.
And it would take who knows how long to repair that.
Not just a couple of days, not a week.
You know, that region of the world could go dark very quickly.
Meanwhile, the USS Gerald R. Ford, which was said to have had a laundry room fire, I've seen some pictures.
I don't know if they're real.
You never know.
I mean, actually, I saw video.
Looked like a big part of the back end of it had burned up.
Something much larger than just a laundry room fire.
It looks like it got hit by an exploding drone or something.
Who knows?
Apparently, this ship is going to require 14 months of repairs.
14 months of repairs.
So that's out of commission.
Didn't take that long, did it?
Right.
Oh, by the way, the stock market is going to absolutely crater today, probably, almost certainly.
And insiders are selling stocks like crazy right now because they know what's going to happen.
We're talking about a global economic collapse.
We are beyond the point of no return.
It's going to get bad.
So we have been brought to the brink of total destruction of Western civilization as we know it.
And, you know, you're probably, you listening to this, you're well informed, far better than most.
Obviously, the oblivious masses have no idea what's coming.
But you know that if this threat proceeds and if all these power structures get destroyed, especially the natural gas in Qatar, then the Strait of Hormuz is not going to open potentially for years.
And the world's energy-hungry economies collapse.
There's just no way around it.
And so that means, I mean, my goodness, stock market collapse, industrial collapse, microchip collapse.
You know, there goes the so-called AI bubble.
The data centers won't be able to function.
Power grids won't be able to function.
Engineered global famine.
Potentially billions will starve to death over the coming years.
And I walked through that last week with all the details about the Haberbosch process and how to use natural gas to create nitrogen-based fertilizers and why that's critical.
So you know, this is cause and effect, okay?
This is a domino effect.
And if Trump proceeds with this, then the economic destruction costs to America will be unprecedented.
It will be, there's nothing like it in American history.
Nothing like it.
The only thing close to it in world history might be what Japan looked like or maybe what Germany looked like at the end of World War II when the U.S. firebombed Dresden, also another war crime right there, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, or when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II and the aftermath of that in Japan.
Those two scenarios are probably the only thing that could compare to what's coming, which is absolute devastation of modern economies.
Absolute devastation.
And we will go into a dark era.
Very dark.
And what that means is that most of the people in Western countries will lose everything because they don't have backup plans.
They don't have gold and silver.
And even though prices have been, of course, crashing, that's not forever.
That's going to turn around as the currency collapse accelerates even more.
So hold on to your metals.
I am.
I'm holding on to metals.
But the average person is not prepared.
They don't have backup storable food.
They don't have, I mean, they don't have much of anything, really.
They don't have emergency medicine.
They don't have off-grid anything.
They depend entirely on the grid.
And they depend on the financial system.
And the financial system is going to crater.
The petrodollar is headed for collapse.
The power grid will be unstable.
Maybe cyber attacked.
It's all going to be bad.
So let us hope that Trump is just bluffing because there's still a chance right now where he could walk back from this from the edge of Armageddon.
But you know who's pushing him in all of this is, of course, the end times apocalyptic Zionist lunatics who want, they want Armageddon, they want end times.
This is on their map.
This is on their bucket list.
They don't mind dying because they think they're dying for Jesus or something as they kill off the whole world.
So yeah, they're lunatics and they're evil.
The Zionists are Satanists and they have total control over the White House and they're leading us to the end of the world as we know it.
That's exactly what's happening.
So this deadline is supposed to be around 7.45 p.m. this evening Eastern time.
And if Iran doesn't apparently completely surrender, then Trump is going to start bombing its power plants.
And knowing Trump, even that schedule is just a cover story for what he's actually planning to do, which is something very different.
Maybe dropping nukes or something.
That's not going to go over well with Russia and China, by the way, maybe even North Korea.
So next we'll talk about what you need to do to get ready for the end of the world.
So let's talk about preparedness for what's coming.
It really is going to get bad if Trump pulls the trigger on this.
And I mean bad for years, for many years.
Worse than anything that any of us have lived through.
And, you know, there are obvious things that you can do right now.
Obviously, you know, get yourself, make sure you're squared away with water filters and garden seeds and stored food, gasoline or diesel, etc.
A lot of people are going out and buying EVs right now.
EV sales are exploding.
Trump turns out to be the best EV salesman of all time.
And that might be a good option for many people.
Just remember the insurance is very expensive on EVs.
But at least you don't have to buy gas, right?
I mean, you just get it off the power grid.
But the power grid itself may be unreliable as well.
So you need a generator.
And if you don't have a generator, you should get one now before the mad rush, you know, before the masses wake up.
Right now, very few people are aware of any of this as a percentage of the population in America anyway.
So you can still go out and get generators.
Now, as you know, I strongly advocate diesel generators.
They're more expensive by far.
They're, you know, heavier typically.
They're larger.
It might be overkill in your situation.
But the diesel fuel stores for many, many years.
So it's a much more reliable source of fuel and it's also safer to store.
So the way I run things is I have a diesel generator.
I have a diesel storage tank.
I have a diesel truck.
I have diesel ranch equipment, like side-by-side equipment.
Everything is diesel.
And, you know, a diesel tractor.
So I keep everything diesel.
I'm trying to go solar, but the battery technology just isn't available yet.
Although there was an announcement made by an American company with some unique, unique lithium-iron phosphate technology that supports rapid charging, and it's from a company out of Dallas, by the way.
I'll cover that in a separate report.
So I'm rooting for that.
But that's not being manufactured.
That's just more sort of on the pilot stage.
You can also get, of course, from our sponsor, the satellite phone store, you can get solar generators, s-at123.com, or I think they also have bready123.com.
And solar generators are a good idea.
You could lay out some solar panels.
You can charge up the device, and then that device can charge, you know, your phone, maybe a laptop.
It can run small refrigerators or small appliances, things like that.
And then, of course, make sure you've got cash.
Make sure you've got some silver coins for barter, etc.
Make sure you're squared away with all the obvious stuff.
You know, your flashlights and batteries and candles if you'd like to use those, whatever, emergency cookstove, things like that.
But that's not going to get you through 10 years.
That's only going to get you through a short-term crisis.
And if Trump pulls the trigger on this, it looks like it's going to be a very long-term crisis.
Not anything that's over even in one year.
And in the long run, it means that we have to shift our lifestyles.
We have to become more decentralized.
We have to learn to live more off-grid.
We have to grow more of our own food and make our own medicine, things like that.
And look, people are not prepared for that at all, especially not Americans.
They can't imagine that, and they're not even aware that any of this is happening.
But the good news is that if you want to get things like, you know, a pressure canner or a food dehydrator, etc.
These things are still available in the supply chain right now.
And they probably won't be very quickly once this war goes full tilt, if it does.
And I hope it doesn't.
But if it does, then people are going to go bonkers for everything.
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And don't forget that we also have garden seeds.
So it's a good time to start growing food.
Even if America isn't the hardest hit, and it won't be until the next growing season.
So right now in America, it's spring planting time.
I saw some statistics.
It looks like nitrogen fertilizers are down about 25% from where they have been in previous years.
That's significant, but it's not catastrophic yet in America.
That means we'll have some food for the next season, you know, by summer, let's say, although it will be more expensive.
It will be more scarce.
And there will be other countries desperately trying to purchase food that's grown in America, and that will drive up prices for all of us.
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But by the time the fall planting season comes around, it's unclear whether there's going to be any fertilizer at all for the fall.
And if you don't have fertilizer, your crop yields plummet by about 50% on the same acreage.
So imagine a 50% drop in the supply chain of food.
That would be catastrophic for even for America, not to mention many other countries around the world.
Absolutely catastrophic.
So it is critical to have a backup food supply, but more importantly, think about what you can grow.
Think about even sprouting, you know, in mason jars.
That's simple, and it can supplement your diet, and you don't have to dig in the dirt, right?
Because unfortunately, we don't have our weed-pulling robots yet that I've been asking for.
And so gardening is just going to be a lot of hard work.
And gosh, Americans aren't ready for that.
I don't want to do that.
I don't want to be on my knees crawling around pulling weeds every day.
That's why I want a robot to do that.
But if that's what it takes to be able to eat, then, well, you know, that's what we're going to have to do.
So it's a good idea to start planting and start growing and start visiting farmers' markets and start becoming a member if you're not already of your local CSA, community-supported agriculture or other food co-ops, etc.
You're going to have to help support local farmers so that we can all get through this together.
In terms of finances, although don't take this as professional financial advice, but I would want to get everything out of the banks or the stock market or investment funds or anything that has counterparty risk.
Anything that has counterparty risk.
I would get it out.
And I have done so, by the way.
What doesn't have counterparty risk?
Well, gold and silver and private crypto.
I wouldn't use Bitcoin.
I would only use privacy-oriented crypto.
But gold and silver are by far the best forms right now.
And with their prices really strongly suppressed because of the economic implications of this war, you know, prices are down substantially right now, especially for silver, down like 30%.
And I don't think it's going to stay in this range forever.
It may still drop a little bit more, but I think gold and silver are going to skyrocket as currency devaluation accelerates because that's what's coming.
We're going to have a massive amount of money printing for bailouts, for collapsing institutions and collapsing hedge funds, you know, etc.
And collapsing banks because of the commercial real estate collapse and residential real estate collapse.
Foreclosures are really accelerating in the United States as well.
So government currency printing is going to go ballistic.
They'll be printing currency to fund the military, printing currency to bail out banks, and the more they print, and maybe printing currency to hand out to people, but the more they print, the higher gold goes, and then it eventually yanks silver along.
Although silver will probably lag behind because of the industrial lack of demand, because of the lack of energy.
So I suspect silver will be suppressed as long as the Strait of Hormuz is closed, whereas gold isn't as directly impacted by that.
So this is actually a time when I think we're going to see gold outperform silver during this war, this Armageddon, whatever it ends up being.
But again, don't take it as investment advice.
That's just my overall idea.
But I was right saying that silver was going to plunge.
I called that correctly, and sure enough, that's exactly what happened because silver is an industrial metal in addition to a monetary metal.
So yes, silver is going to be suppressed.
However, if you want to take advantage of the lower prices, then check out our sponsor, you know, metalswithmike.com.
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But I would just make sure you don't leave currency in banks, in the stock market, in any kind of funds.
I think they're going to declare force majeure, frankly, many of them.
I think some of them are going to fail.
I think there's going to be banking bail-ins.
I think we're going to have the great taking.
And you know what the best way is for them to not take it from you during the great taking?
Is don't have it in a digital form that they can easily confiscate by typing in some keys on a computer somewhere.
Instead, if you have gold and silver in your hands, the only way for them to take it is to come and take it.
That's a much more difficult task for lazy government workers.
I'm not going to go out there and take people's gold at gunpoint.
Yeah, probably shouldn't.
That would be a bad idea.
Now, it's being reported right now that the U.S. has already started striking Iran's energy grid in southern Iran.
That's a day ahead, or almost a day ahead, of what Trump promised.
So I don't know if this is the warm-up round or what this is, but yeah, big bombs are going off right now in southern Iran that's affecting its energy grid.
At the same time, Professor Mirandi, who is an Iranian citizen, he's been well represented on a lot of interviews and YouTube channels.
He is warning residents of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the UAE to flee, to flee, because he says that if Trump makes good on his threat, that the entire infrastructure of the Gulf dictatorships that have been complicit in this war against Iran, that their infrastructure is going to be obliterated.
But I don't know that 100 million people can flee.
In fact, I'm pretty sure they can't.
So, you know, all the years that I've said, stock up, you know, stack gold and silver, stock up on food, have a backup supply, food, emergency medicine, ammunition, garden seeds, you know, backup energy.
All the years I've done the books.
I've put them out for free.
And I've done the new audio books now at brightlearn.ai.
It's all coming down to this moment that is going to be the end of the world as we know it if Trump proceeds with this.
So whatever preparedness plans that you've already taken action on, you know, pat yourself on the back because you're well situated.
Now, on top of all of this, by the way, analyst Martin Armstrong says that there's a 60 to 75 percent chance that Israel will use tactical nuclear weapons on Iran.
If that happens, Colonel Douglas McGregor has warned that Russia is promising to nuke Tel Aviv.
Wow.
To nuke Israel.
So we could see Israel nuked within the next couple of days.
My goodness.
Gold is plummeting in after-hours trading down below $4,350 an ounce.
These, in my view, are short-term plunges, really buying opportunities to get out of the system and get into gold and silver at a discount compared to where it's probably going.
But again, don't take that as financial advice.
That's just my perception of it.
Again, it could still go lower for a while, but it's not going to stay there forever.
So that's where we stand right now.
Remember that you can catch my updates, my podcasts, my interviews at brightvideos.com.
And you can read my articles and see my infographics at naturalnews.com.
And I'm wishing you all, I'm wishing you all the best at making it through this.
If the worst case happens, I don't know how long we're going to be on the air.
I don't know how long the power grid is going to function.
Do what you can now while you can, and I'll do my best to keep in touch with you.
But things could get very dark very, very quickly.
We are on the edge of Armageddon and about to fall into the abyss is what it looks like.
So we'll see.
All right.
Thank you for listening.
God bless you.
Be well.
If the American people were told the truth about the situation in the Middle East and the implications of what's about to happen and what that would mean for life in America, people would absolutely panic.
They have no understanding of what's coming.
And that's why the White House has ordered Fox News and CNN and New York Times, Washington Post, you name it, to just lie, lie, lie constantly, to say we're winning.
We've already won.
Iran has nothing left.
There's no way that they could launch missiles or anything.
And at the same time, the polling companies have been threatened that they have to rig the polls and declare that Trump has 100% support.
Otherwise, they will be investigated by the DOJ.
That comes from Robert Barnes.
He was talking about that in a recent interview.
In certain places in America, gas is $10 a gallon right now and diesel.
In other places, it's half that, you know.
But it's already reached $10 in certain areas, and that's going to continue to climb.
It's clear to me that Trump is actively deliberately pushing the world into a collapse scenario.
Because it is from this collapse that he can cancel the election.
He can declare essentially martial law.
He can make himself the king, the ruler, just like Zelensky.
And he can then confiscate everybody's assets by having a bank collapse that will be blamed on cyber attacks from Iran.
The American people won't know what's happening.
They'll believe whatever the media tells them.
And as a result, they won't prepare.
They won't be ready for the reality of what's coming.
And what is that?
It is a collapse of the Western financial system.
It's a collapse of the food system as we know it.
It doesn't mean that everybody will starve.
No, I'm not saying that.
But the level of food availability that you have lived under with the affordable pricing, the wide selection, etc., yeah, that's vanishing over the next year.
That's going to be very different from here forward.
Supply chains are going to collapse.
The price of energy is going to skyrocket.
The availability of diesel fuel and gasoline is going to be very limited.
And we're probably going to be subjected to energy lockdowns.
Right now, the IEA, that's the International Energy Agency, is which is a group that advises governments, by the way.
Supply Chains Collapse Into Rationing Chaos00:08:00
They're now saying that governments need to enforce alternating license plate restrictions, which means that if your license plate ends with an even number, then you can drive on Mondays and Wednesdays.
If it's an odd number, you can drive on Tuesdays or whatever rule they say, but you'll only be able to drive half the days, and Sundays, they say, will be for no one to drive.
Not everyone, but no one.
Right.
So they're also going to lock down air travel.
Anything that's considered non-essential won't be allowed.
They're going to reduce highway speed limits in order to bottleneck all the highways and make sure you can't really get anywhere on time.
This is going to be way worse than COVID.
The COVID lockdowns were just a practice run for this.
And Trump is playing right along with the script of the globalists to crush the economies of Western nations, force people into CBDCs, and achieve depopulation on an accelerated basis.
That's what this is.
You know, in 1986, I believe that was the year when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union suffered a meltdown.
And that power plant is located in modern-day Ukraine.
As that meltdown occurred, the Russian people that were directly downwind from the radiation cloud were told that everything was fine.
They were loaded up onto buses and told that, oh, it's just a precaution.
You'll only be gone for a day.
You don't even need to pack a suitcase.
Just get on the bus, leave your pets behind.
And they did.
They left their cats and their dogs behind.
Just you, no suitcases.
Just grab a little bit of cash and your ID and just the clothes you have on and come on the bus.
And so they did.
And the Soviet Union never told them that they were probably already dead from inhaling the radiation and that they would never return home and that their dogs and cats would die of starvation and neglect or lack of water.
And that's exactly what happened.
They never got to return home.
You see, today's United States is not that different from the Soviet Union of 1986.
Our government today controls the media, just like Pravda.
Our government lies to the citizens about what's really happening, just like Pravda, just like the Soviets.
And our government is willing to sacrifice Americans in order to achieve its own goals and to achieve its own dominance in the world, just like the Soviet Union.
It didn't really care about the citizens.
No government really does.
So today, you're not being loaded up on the buses and driven away, but you're being told that everything's fine.
And you're not being told that the world is about to run out of food and energy and that potentially billions of people could die because of what Trump is doing in the Middle East.
You're not being told anything about that.
Because if they told the American masses this information, everybody would panic and they would swamp all the retail stores.
And if you thought the toilet paper rush of 2020 was bad, that's nothing compared to what would be happening today if the government told the American people what was really coming.
That you won't be able to buy fuel.
Your bank account won't work because your bank will probably collapse.
Your dollar won't buy much of anything.
The food that you buy now at the grocery store won't be available in the quantities that you're used to.
And there will probably be food rationing.
And as part of that rationing, it'll be a digital rationing system where you have to sign up for the CBDC, right?
Mark of the Beast.
And then they will control how much food you're allowed to buy, just like we saw in years past in Venezuela.
So Trump attacks Venezuela, steals their oil, and steals their tyranny, and then will deploy Venezuelan-style food rationing in the United States.
Biometric scanning at the grocery store, strict limits on how much rice, how much beans, how much chicken that you're going to be allowed to purchase.
And again, if people knew this was coming, they'd be ransacking the stores right now and hoarding everything they could.
So the government just keeps them calm and tells them everything's fine, tells them we're winning.
We've already won.
Iran has been completely destroyed.
And the average American, if they even pay attention to news at all, they believe that.
So they do not prepare.
They do nothing.
And by the way, a lot of Americans have nothing to lose when it comes to finances or ownership of assets.
So they're not paying much attention anyway.
But a lot of other Americans, they do care about their assets and their savings and their investments.
But they're just being lied to by the mainstream media.
So we'll know soon whether this goes into a worst case scenario.
We could know as soon as later tonight or tomorrow.
If Trump pulls the trigger and attacks Iran's energy infrastructure and Iran responds with a massive attack on Qatar and the other Gulf states, and if they manage to destroy for the long run the energy infrastructure, the port infrastructure, the maritime infrastructure, the gasification plants, you know, the trains at Qatar Energy,
then you know that you had better hunker down for a five to ten year collapse.
Because depending on the level of destruction, that's what it's going to be.
Small amount of destruction, two to three years.
Medium amount of destruction, five to seven years.
Large amount of destruction, really 10 to 15 years without much energy, without much food, without much fertilizer.
And again, almost nobody in the mainstream is aware of any of this.
They have no idea what's coming.
But there's a lot more to this.
I forgot to mention.
You know, what comes from petroleum?
Engine oil, pharmaceuticals, polyester for clothing and textiles, for rope, you know.
Tens of thousands of products are made out of petroleum products Or natural gas, by the way, you know, fertilizer, ammonia, and urea, etc., being some of them.
When that pipeline gets shut down, everybody's going to get a very harsh education in which things are made from hydrocarbons.
And it's a long list.
It's most of the things that you rely on in your life.
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And people are going to have to learn how to live with a lot less because the modern industrial world will be thrust into abject poverty, destitution by this war situation.
That is, if Trump bombs the energy infrastructure of Iran and it retaliates as it promised and it keeps going.
In an escalated situation, this destroys the world as we know it.
Russia, though, will do very well because Russia is already more self-reliant.
Russia has been under sanctions for decades.
So has Iran, by the way.
Iran's been living under U.S. sanctions for what, 47 years, something like that.
So the people of Russia and the people of Iran, they know how to live under sanctions.
Americans don't.
Americans will flip out when they can't get their Starbucks, you know, frappe, latte, crape, whatever it is.
They'll lose their minds.
So all this time, you know, Americans have watched these wars be fought over there, like the war in Ukraine.
Oh, it's over there.
It doesn't affect us here.
The war now in the Middle East.
It's over there.
Israel bombing Gaza.
Oh, it's over there.
It's not our children being slaughtered.
It doesn't affect us.
What time is soccer practice?
But for the first time now, this war is about to come home in terms of the economic situation.
It's going to get extremely difficult in America economically.
For all the reasons, banking, fuel, food prices, inflation, money printing, etc.
This is going to be a psychological pivot point in a bad way for the American people who are not prepared for this.
And that's why Trump has to keep spoon feeding America good news because most mainstream Americans can't handle any bad news at all.
They lose their minds.
They don't know what to do.
They can only handle good news.
Oh, tell us everything's great.
Tell us the stock market's going to go up forever.
Tell us gas prices are going to go down forever.
And Trump obliges.
He tells them that.
And the American people are, oh, a close call.
Oh, so glad he's telling us everything's going to be okay.
Because, you know, can't miss one paycheck.
That's 60% of American families can't miss one paycheck.
So here we are.
Not only is our President Trump delusional and totally disconnected from reality, but he is encouraging the American people to remain delusional and artificially optimistic that, oh, we're going to win this war.
We're winning.
We're not winning until we control the Strait of Hormuz.
And that's impossible as long as Iran exists there.
And what are you going to do?
Just start nuking them?
Because that seems to be where this is going.
And if that happens, then it's open season on nukes, apparently, everywhere.
So be careful.
Be careful what you ask for.
Bottom line is we're being lied to.
If you know people who only watch corporate media, they have no idea what's happening.
No idea.
They have no idea where their food comes from, where energy comes from, where fertilizer comes from.
They have no idea what has already happened, much less what is about to happen.
They are ill-prepared for the reality that's approaching rapidly.
And the reason I'm telling you this is not just because you need to know, since you're a prepared person, a lot of people are going to be asking you for help, but you also need to be prepared for people to have a psychological breakdown or a psychic break.
Because, like I said, the war has never come to the shores of America until now.
And it's not like there's going to be bombs going off in America, hopefully not, you know.
But the psychological shock of banking failures, power grid failures, supply chain failures, fuel shortages, food shortages, etc.
That will come home to America.
And that will be incredibly mentally destabilizing to a large number of people.
And again, they won't know what to do because they've never had to live under sanctions.
They've lived under artificial abundance for their whole lives.
So they don't know how to get by when things aren't easy.
So get ready for a very difficult era for America and Canada, Australia, Europe.
Most of the world, actually, except for China, Russia.
They'll do okay.
And America will be better off than other countries in the sense that we have some domestic energy, we have some domestic food, obviously.
But all those prices will go higher because of global demand.
So the American people are going to suffer from higher prices, even if they still can see food on the shelf.
Oh, I can see it, but I can't afford it.
So how are you going to eat it if you can't buy it?
See, that is going to hit hard.
People aren't ready for it.
The shock of gasoline prices going up right now is already hitting hard.
And when that doubles again, as oil goes to $200 a barrel and higher, oh, the American people are going to lose it.
That's why Trump needs to cancel the election one way or another, probably by getting us into World War III and then declaring a war emergency because he will be so unpopular as the guy that dragged us into this war, that caused all this damage, where under Joe Biden, the economy was actually better.
And then under Trump, everything became unaffordable or unavailable.
People are going to remember that because they shop for groceries.
They buy gas.
That's where you can't lie to people from the mainstream media.
I mean, you can't convincingly lie because they have to go out and buy food and fuel sooner or later, typically.
So a very difficult psychological reckoning is coming for America.
And I want you to be ready for it.
So just be ready.
You can hear more of my podcast at brightvideos.com.
And you can catch my articles at naturalnews.com.
And I also have infographics there as well.
So be sure to check that out.
And thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, and I'm wishing you the best during this very difficult time.
And I'm hoping that the worst case doesn't happen.
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But that's the trajectory we appear to be on at the moment.
So we need to plan for that.
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One of the most difficult concepts for people to understand is the, or what Michael Young calls the flash to bang delay.
Flash to bang.
So this is when, you know, he was a war correspondent.
So when you're in a war and you see a missile strike or a bomb that lands in the distance, you see the flash first.
And then the bang comes at the speed of sound, which of course is much less than the speed of light.
So that delay of flash to bang tells you your distance, by the way, your distance from the site.
You know, you can count the number of seconds and roughly calculate the speed of sound based on the current ambient conditions.
And then you can figure out exactly how far away that was.
But when it comes to economic events like the ones we're seeing right now, this destruction of energy infrastructure in the Middle East, the flash to bang time is months.
And given that very few Americans in particular have any idea where fertilizer comes from, or frankly, where their food comes from, or where energy comes from, where gas comes from, etc.
Given that, you know, by and large, the masses just don't even know the origins of anything, they're not even considering the implications of what just happened in the Middle East.
And I'm referring to, of course, the destruction of two of the 14 natural gas trains in Qatar that are part of Qatar Energy.
And the fact that those have been destroyed now means there's a three to five year wait time to repair those two.
And that's going to take 17% of Qatar Energy's annual gas output offline.
And Qatar Energy itself is responsible for over 20% of the global LNG exports.
So we're talking about basically 17% of 22% of the world's LNG exports have just been taken offline.
So what is that, like 4% or something of the world?
So, and that's just the start of where this could go because Iran is threatening to utterly destroy all 14 of the gasification trains.
And that would take 22% of the world's exported LNG offline.
And then we're talking about, we're talking about Armageddon.
We're talking about Mad Max.
But there's a flash to bang delay.
So you're going to see people out there shopping at the grocery store, driving around, filling up their, you know, their trucks and cars with gas, having no idea that life is about to change dramatically within six months.
They have no idea.
The news isn't going to tell them, that's for sure.
And they just don't have the knowledge to realize where all of this is headed.
They just flat out don't know.
Now, I work very hard to keep you informed.
And since we've just seen a flash, then we know a bang is coming, even though we don't know exactly when the bang is going to arrive.
But this effort at global depopulation, this effort won't kill people as quickly as the vaccine.
It'll kill people slowly through starvation and uprisings and chaos and collapse, you know, industrial collapse, income collapse, housing collapse, etc.
Even though if all 14 of these LNG trains are taken offline, we're looking at two to four billion people starving to death.
It won't all happen at once.
It'll happen over time, over a few years.
But the economic chaos is going to start to arrive now.
And you're seeing it in gas prices and diesel prices right now.
You're going to see it in food prices in the coming months.
And then later on this year, I'm going to say around Thanksgiving, you're going to see food shortages that will be shocking.
I don't mean that every shelf is going to be empty.
It won't be like that.
But you'll have scarcity that you haven't seen since COVID.
And that's just the beginning.
Because with energy shortages and fuel shortages, and remember, the United Arab Emirates is now completely offline in terms of new oil production.
They've shut down everything.
They're at zero production of oil and gas right now.
Because of that, food's going to become much more expensive, much more scarce.
You will see that this year.
No question about it.
And when you do, you'll know at that time, hey, we saw this coming.
So there's this gap between the time that people like you and I know what's coming versus the time or the moment that the masses realize what has just hit them.
And that gap is your window of opportunity.
It's a window of opportunity to get the things that you need to get to be able to live in a more self-reliant fashion after all this hits the fan.
So even for myself, I have to think hard about this.
You know, I've been working on trying to have a home energy storage system and to go completely off-grid to where I could have enough, you know, solar and a backup generator and have enough battery storage that I could, you know, and even have an EV, by the way.
Not that I like any of the current EVs that are available, but some new ones are coming.
But to be able to have transportation from sunlight, that's a big deal.
And the battery technology that I want is not quite ready.
But I'm going to have to pull the trigger on something, even though it's not necessarily ideal.
And, you know, because it's going to be very difficult to get solar panels maybe six months from now.
It's going to be very difficult to get batteries.
You know, manufacturing will be sharply reduced.
Transportation will be reduced.
The world's gas supply that is natural gas that powers industry and powers power grids all over the world, that's going to become increasingly scarce.
And it's just going to be very difficult to get the things that you need to get.
So number one, if you don't yet have a diesel generator, think about getting that.
And if you do get a diesel generator, make sure you get 500 gallons of diesel at minimum.
And even though diesel is more expensive now, a lot more expensive than it was, you know, 30 days ago, it's going to get way more expensive.
So it's kind of a good idea to get it now.
And remember that you don't have to buy diesel at the gas station with the federal taxes on it if you're using it for just a generator.
You can buy what's called red dye diesel, which is a lot less expensive.
But typically you have to buy 500 gallons at a time or more.
So that's why I say 500 gallon tank is about the right size to start with.
And then from there, you know, food supplies, natural medicine, garden seeds, probably ammunition if you don't yet already have enough, things like that.
You're going to need all those things.
You have a window of opportunity to get them.
And that window is closing.
Now, this is unlike a lot of other previous emergencies where I had very high concern about certain things that might happen.
For example, I've expressed concern previously about, you know, false flags before an election or after an election or maybe the risk of civil war or revolts or whatever.
And those were all rooted in risk assessments, but none of those things had actually happened at the time that we were discussing the risk.
What's different about today is that this has happened.
That the energy infrastructure partially has been destroyed.
Already confirmed.
Confirmed by the CEO of Qatar Energy in an interview with Reuters, for example.
So it's already confirmed.
And what that means is that this isn't just a, you know, speculative risk assessment.
This is just dominoes that have already begun to fall.
This is cause and effect.
And there's no way to stop this.
So this is not a, you know, there's a, it's not something where there's a 50% chance that this is going to happen or 80% chance.
There is a 100% chance that the world's energy supply has taken some major hits and it is beginning to crater because that's already happened.
So there is a 100% chance that fertilizer shortages are going to worsen because it has already begun.
There is a 100% chance that crop yields are going to be lower, that food prices are going to be higher, that transportation costs are going to increase substantially, and that fuel prices will continue to increase.
Those are all certainties.
There is no question whatsoever that that's going to happen.
So what does that mean?
Well, of course, your preparedness supplies.
Everything that you've already stored away, hold on to it.
You might want to inventory your supplies.
You might want to see if you're missing anything, if you need to shore it up in any areas.
Do you have some old food that you might want to just eat and then replace it with newer supplies?
You know, we've got our supplies, obviously, and we have a sale going on.
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And there we have garden seeds as well as all of our storable foods and everything else.
So get that while you can if you don't have enough there.
I already mentioned some of the other categories as well.
This is a time to stock up.
Now, remember that the CEO of Qatar Energy says it's going to be three to five years before they can repair these two liquefaction units.
And that's because the components that they use are only built by one company.
And that company is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
And the wait time is, well, three to five years for those components.
If more of these liquefaction trains get destroyed, then the wait time increases to 10 to 15 years.
And the reason I mentioned that, although I've stated it over and over on other podcasts and interviews, the reason is because most people who are preppers think they have enough food and supplies to make it through until things return to normal.
And for a lot of preppers, that's a one-year timeline.
And they go, hey, I have a year supply of food stored.
I'm set.
I'm good.
Got a one-year supply.
Okay.
Okay, great.
What about a 10-year famine?
Yeah, right?
Because that's what we're looking at potentially if the escalation continues and if more of the natural gas trains are destroyed.
10-year famine.
Actually, 10 to 15 years.
So can your supplies last 10 years?
I doubt it.
I doubt it.
I don't think mine can.
And I'm prepped more than most by far.
So you're going to have to have a system to grow food.
You're going to have to have a system to outlast the Mad Max collapse scenarios that will happen in various countries and cities and regions all across the world.
Because that's where this is going.
And it looks like it's happening on purpose.
It looks like, you know, Trump started this war on purpose.
Israel wants it to happen on purpose.
They want Armageddon.
They want the world to burn.
And that's exactly what's happening.
The world is being decimated on purpose by Israel and then Trump being obedient to Israel.
That's where we are.
And I don't see any evidence that there's any off-ramp to this that Trump is going to take because he's obviously been blackmailed with whatever is in the Epstein files or something else.
Otherwise, he wouldn't still be obedient to Israel at this point.
So Trump's blackbailed.
That's clear.
He's going to do whatever Israel wants and he's going to set the world on fire, which means there's going to be Mad Max collapse in numerous countries all around the world.
Now, you might say, well, in America, you know, we have more energy, which we do.
We have more gas.
We have more oil.
We have more food capability in America than most countries.
And that is true.
That is true.
But that only means we're going to have Mad Max light rather than, you know, full-blown Mad Max or, you know, maximum Mad Max.
Because some countries are going to have max Mad Max.
The U.S., maybe not.
Maybe we have Mad Max Light, but that's still far worse than what anybody anticipates.
People aren't even thinking about Mad Max anything.
They're thinking, ah, it's just a war over there.
It doesn't affect us.
Things are going to return to normal after a period of time, blah, blah, blah.
And besides, you know, there's something good on Netflix or whatever, you know, I have to take the kids to soccer practice, that kind of thing.
So the average American isn't paying attention at all.
And that won't change until the bang hits.
When the bang hits, then there's going to be a lot of unhappy people who suddenly realize that they were wrong to mock preppers.
When the bang hits, that is, you know, the supply chain collapse, fuel prices will go through the roof, food prices will go through the roof.
Availability will become the most important factor.
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People will buy food at any price.
I mean, for example, if I were trying to profiteer off of food, which I'm not, but if I were, I would stop selling my food buckets right now and I would just wait six months because their value will double.
But I'm not that kind of person.
You know, I want you to get the food now ahead of time while you can at essentially last year's prices.
So you can do that.
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But understand that what you're buying now is, I'm just guessing, it's half the price that it will be, you know, maybe, I don't know, let's say by early next year.
Let's give it 10 months for prices to double.
That's a reasonable guess.
Might be more, might be less.
But within a year or so, these prices will be much, much higher.
And we might be out of business because we won't be able to acquire supplies.
At least not at the volumes that we can currently acquire.
Now, right now in the supply chain, we can still buy food.
I found out, I was talking to my staff.
I told them, get out there and buy everything you can.
And they came back to me and said, yep, we can still buy food right now.
So that's what they're doing.
That's going to change within 90 days.
Mark my words.
Within 90 days, I guarantee you, my staff is going to come back to me.
They're going to say, hey, the farmers don't have the food anymore, or they're not selling it like they used to.
Or, you know, the lots are already taken or the price has gone up 80%.
Yeah, that's what we're going to hear in 90 days.
Over and over again.
So that's coming.
Get ready for that.
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I'm Mike Adams and thank you for listening.
And I hope you're prepared.
And I hope I'm prepared.
In fact, I don't think I am prepared enough for what's coming.
So we'll all have to double down.
That's just, that's the truth.
That's where this is going.
All right.
Thanks for listening.
Take care.
World War II, the Russians lost somewhere around 27 million people.
They were still feeling the effects of World War II in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
But they had gone through tough times for 40 years and they were used to it.
Americans are fat, dumb, and happy, and they're not prepared.
And it's going to be far worse.
We are probably going to have a civil war.
There are going to be people starving in the United States.
There are people who are going to freeze in the United States because of fuel that's going to go through the roof.
The cost of food, it's going to go through the roof.
And it is the end of the empire and people are not prepared.
All right.
Welcome to today's interview here on BrightVideos.com.
I'm Mike Adams.
And today we're joined by Bob Moriarty, who is just an extraordinary man, an extraordinary American, and who has done incredible feats in his life, mostly involving aircraft and other things.
But he joins us today because he has an outlook of what's happening financially and with the energy infrastructure destruction that is taking place in the Middle East.
And Bob has warnings for you that you should pay attention to, in my opinion.
So welcome, Mr. Bob Moriarty.
It's always an honor to have you on, sir.
Well, it's an absolute pleasure.
It's been too long.
It has been too long, but I'm a fan of your work.
And I've been watching you on other interviews.
And you nail it every time.
That's why I wanted to reach out to you and get you back on.
So, give us your take right now in the context that two of the 14 natural gas trains, as they're called, they're really, you know, cryogenic liquefaction centers, they have now been destroyed of the company Qatar Energy.
They've declared force majeure on long-term delivery contracts to many countries, including European countries and Asian countries as well.
And that it will take three to five years for those two to be repaired.
And Iran is threatening to destroy even more in retaliation for Israel's strikes.
So, can we start there and give us your take on what this means for the world?
Okay, I'm going to ask a trick question.
I don't mean to embarrass you.
How old are you?
Oh, no.
This is an easy question.
I noticed you ask a lot of questions of the host on other shows.
Well, I'm in my 50s, Bob.
So, I'm in my mid-50s.
I was born in the 60s, okay?
So, that's how old I am.
Okay, you would have barely remembered it.
How much do you remember about 1973 in the Arab oil embargo?
Oh, no, no, I don't remember that at all.
I remember 79.
I remember the gas lines under Jimmy Carter and all that discussion, but I don't remember 73 at all.
Okay, I was hoping you were old enough to remember it, but basically, the Arabs looked at what was going on between Israel and the other Arab countries and the Palestinians, and they declared an oil embargo.
The price of oil went from $3 a barrel to $12 a barrel.
But the difference between then and now and 1979 and now is they just flipped the switch.
They turned it off, but they could turn it back on.
Now, it's interesting because you're one of the very few people that I know who understands those gas trains.
And I didn't even know there was such thing, but somebody sent me an article.
Do you happen to remember when you were reading that article how thick the walls are?
Well, no, I don't know the thickness of the walls, but I know that the key component are the cryogenic heat exchangers that have about a three to four-year wait time per unit.
So, if they're damaged, then that takes that train offline for three to four years.
And the Qatar Energy CEO is saying up to five years right now for two of them.
So, if 14 go offline, that's estimated to take 10 to 15 years to rebuild.
So, I call it the decade of famine.
Okay, those basically are giant gas tanks and they travel from plant to the ships, and they have to keep the LNG cold.
That's right.
The walls of the tank are seven inches thick.
Wow.
Okay.
So, you're not going to go down to Walmart and pick up.
Excuse me, I need to buy four of those trains.
It's not going to happen.
Here's what I'm going to give you a few things nobody knows.
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The attack on Iran had nothing to do with anything Iran did other than where it's located.
It was initially planned in the clean break from the peace process.
And you can go to Google, look it up.
That was 40 years ago.
And then in September, October 2001, General Wesley Clark went to the Pentagon and he met with one of his subordinates from when he was on active duty.
And his subordinate said, General, you've got to read this.
This just came down from DOD, and we are going to attack seven countries in five years.
I don't think Afghanistan was on that list, but Iran was the last one on the list.
And sure enough, it's taken 25 years, but Israel finally got around to attacking Iran.
Now, the fatal flaw to the attack is Iran didn't do anything to the United States.
They didn't threaten the United States.
They are not the terrorist country in the Middle East.
There is one terrorist war criminal country in the Middle East whose leaders are under sanctions and the UN wants to arrest them, charge them with war crimes.
And it's not Iran.
Yeah, it's another country that starts with I.
Yeah, exactly.
It's Israel.
But there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program, and that's a false flag that the Israel first keep bringing up.
It's total bullshit.
Okay, it doesn't exist.
It hasn't existed since 2003.
And basically, right out of the blue, in the midst of negotiations, United States and Israel commit another sneak attack on Iran.
Now, I'm not sure if you're aware of it or not, but I was in the Marine Corps for six years, and I was in Vietnam for 20 months, and I had over 800 missions.
I've got a lot of combat.
It only took the Iranians 30 minutes to launch the first missile.
It was a sneak attack.
Israel attacked the headquarters of the Supreme Leader, which happens to be an illegal act according to international law.
They killed him and most of the leadership of Iran.
And they believed they were going to decapitate Iran.
And it didn't work because Iran, the generals had separated the country into 31 different sections, and each section is totally independent.
So you can keep whacking the guys at the top, but you're still going to get attacked.
Now, here's what's interesting.
I'm going to tell you something.
I doubt anybody else has told you.
When you're planning and studying and preparing for war, what is your opponent doing?
Well, probably the same thing.
Exactly the same thing.
So if the Iranians looked at it and the Supreme Leader, who was 86, and he had been told, don't buy any green bananas, okay?
He knew they were going to try to kill him.
And he was prepared to be a martyr.
And he did, and it took out the entire leadership.
Are you aware that Benjamin Netanyahu's son just ended a seven-day Shiva period?
Yes, yes.
It's rumored that that's in mourning for the death of his father, but not yet confirmed.
I would say combat officer.
We had to make life or death decisions based on fragments of information.
Combat is not a courtroom.
You don't have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
You have reasonable to believe information.
Jews do not hold Shiva for fun.
Right.
If Bibi Netanyahu's son held Shiva, it means Bibi Netanyahu is dead.
But here's what I really enjoy.
Lawrence Wilkinson lived in Israel for two years, and he said the Israelis are the biggest liars in the world.
They lie about absolutely everything.
You can't believe anything they say.
They haven't said a word about Bibi Netanyahu.
They keep coming up with AI-generated videos that are obviously fake.
And Bibi has grown six fingers instead of five fingers on one hand.
But Bibi Netanyahu is dead.
Now, that's the good news, okay?
Because Bibi Netanyahu and Ben Geveer are back with their buddy Satan, and they're burning in hell.
Right.
They just went back home.
Yeah, exactly.
That's where they got.
You got the bad news?
Yeah.
What's the latest news from the Epstein files about Jeffrey Epstein?
I think he's still alive.
He is still alive.
They literally have released a document saying they switched people.
They took Jeffrey Epstein out.
I have seen videos of Jeffrey Epstein in Israel.
And I've seen a video where he said, we control Donald Trump.
And if he doesn't do what we tell him to do, we'll kill him.
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And even the name of the operation from Donald Trump tells you exactly what the story is.
Do you remember what the name of this operation is?
Well, Epstein Fury, I think is the.
Epstein Fury.
Absolutely.
Yeah, that's got to be it.
If you think about it, you probably figure out exactly what they're trying to do.
This is scary.
I was in the military.
I saw operations.
We did things.
We had hundreds of people working up plants, working on the operations.
Now, as soon as the first bullet is fired, okay, all the plans go out the window.
But the United States stepped into this, and this is like walking through a field with 200 cows in it.
It doesn't make any difference where you step.
You're going to step in a cow paddy.
Some of the things that are so absurd, There was an operation and they attacked a military base and they were using old information and a tomahawk went right into a girl scout or a girl school and killed somewhere between 165 and 171 little girls.
And of course, Donald Trump is incapable of admitting he makes mistakes.
So his first reaction was, well, the Iranians did it.
We wouldn't have attacked civilians.
And then his second excuse, after it showed that Tomahawk missiles hit the school, his second excuse was, well, yeah, it was a tomahawk, but the Iranians probably stole the Tomahawk and they bombed the school itself.
That's ridiculous.
This guy is so weird.
Yesterday, this operation hit a new, exceptionally dangerous level.
And I'll go back to your original question.
Qatar has been cut off financially for years.
Okay.
We could be talking one, two, three, four, five, ten years to get back to where they are now.
This is an existential war for Iran.
They are fighting for their survival.
And you never attack somebody who's not afraid of dying because there's no way you can defeat him.
So the United States went in totally unprepared, no plans whatsoever, no reason whatsoever for getting into the war.
The United States is having their ass kicked.
And what did Donald Trump say?
Well, okay, we finished.
We're going to go home.
Okay.
I mean, your analysis is spot on.
And I want to ask you to dig a little bit deeper, given your history.
You have flown over 800 missions, as you said, and that was in the Vietnam conflict.
And I want you to contrast the level of planning and logistics that would take place at that time, especially when U.S. Marines were put into a place where they needed to be supported.
Tell us about the contrast of the level of planning and logistics then versus now, where it seems like Trump is making this up day by day.
He's reacting.
He's reacting to Israel.
He's reacting to Iran.
He's not in control.
He's not in charge, but he's a lunatic.
I mean, he just makes things up every day.
Strange enough.
Yeah, I mean, you're actually being nice.
Okay.
He's shithouse rat crazy.
Some of the things that he's doing are so ludicrous.
Let me see if I can find a quote.
Now, you know that the Chinese vessels have passage through the Strait of Cormuz.
You're aware of that.
That's right.
And there was a vessel bound for India that paid in Yuan that Iran also allowed through.
Very good.
Okay.
Now, here's the key.
Somebody has woken up to the fact that you cannot open the Strait of Courmuz physically with air power or naval power because it's too easy to protect.
So I'll tell you flat out.
You can have 10 aircraft carriers.
You cannot open straight of Cormuz.
So The Iranians have said if you pay in Chinese currency or if you're a Chinese vessel or an Indian vessel, we'll give you free passage through.
The commander of the IRGC Navy came up with the greatest quote that I've ever heard.
Trump comes out and says, okay, we will ensure the vessels going through the Strait of Formuze and we will protect them.
So the commander of the IRGC Navy said, we guarantee the security of any oil tanker under any flag that can convince an American destroyer to escort it through the Strait of Formuz.
I was thinking the exact same thing when you were, I was thinking of that quote.
That is genius and it's hilarious.
And you notice that the U.S. Navy is not taking that bait because it would be a suicide mission.
Okay, it's been too long since we've done an interview, but do you recall from any of the interviews that you've heard of me?
Do you recall what I said about Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz?
Not specifically, no.
Okay, I said that it would take a Girl Scout troop of 15 girls equipped with four BB guns, some slingshots, a bow and arrow to close the Strait of Hormuz.
I've said that for months.
And Mike, unlike Trump, I hate admitting I was wrong.
And I said it would take 15 Girl Scouts to close the Strait of Hormuz.
And Mike, I was wrong.
It only takes one?
12. 12. 12.
Well, see, you and I have said much the same thing in different ways.
I've said also publicly many times, I said, the Strait of Hormuz is not open until Iran says it's open, because clearly they can harass or even just credibly threaten to harass ships.
And that alone is enough to cause the insurers, the maritime insurers, to yank their insurance policies.
And without insurance, the ships don't sail, period.
Now, what Iran is doing right now that I think is brilliant is, I mean, I've heard talk of this where they're going to say, we're just going to have a toll, 10% of your cargo value, and then you get safe passage because they have to rebuild all the war damage, you know?
Okay.
Because I witnessed combat, I think it's a good idea to keep a sense of humor.
And certainly Donald Trump has no sense of humor.
Pig Hankstaff is a blithering idiot.
Okay.
He's a source of humor.
No sense of humor, but you got to give the Iranians credit.
They have an absolute sense of humor.
And it said, oh, okay, we'll go ahead and screw around with us and we'll just charge 10% of the value of all the cargoes through.
And frankly, it makes all the sense to the world.
You know, I was somebody shipping oil through, and it was either ship oil through and lose 10% or ship no oil through.
Right.
I pay the 10% gradually.
Gladly.
Now, if you go back to December of 1921 and you listen to Vladimir Putin and Lavaroth, they laid out exactly the conditions for a war against Ukraine.
And they said, okay, guys, here's the deal.
You're going to have to stop attacking innocent civilians in Donbass.
You got to get rid of the Nazis and you're going to have to demilitarize.
And they have never changed that.
Now, if you listen to the Iranians, the Iranians are saying, okay, here's the deal.
We got a lot more missiles than the CIA thinks we do.
And we're going to keep attacking the United States.
And we're going to keep attacking Israel.
And we're going to do it until the United States is run out of the Middle East.
And that's exactly what's going to happen because countries like Qatar, they're going to sit, think about it, say, okay, who's our real enemy here?
Is it Israel or is it Iran?
And they're going to wake up one by one to the fact that their enemy is not Iran.
Now, have you followed Ray Dalio, where he was talking about the sixth stage of a collapse of a country or an empire?
Well, no, I don't recall that specific thing.
I've heard some of Ray's interviews, but I don't recall the sixth stage.
But tell us about it.
Okay.
Well, he wrote a book and it's available on Amazon and it's the bestseller and he talks about these six stages.
And that sixth stage is when the international order clearly breaks down and there's no rules anymore and people do whatever the hell they want to.
And in the last couple of weeks, he's come out and said, okay, when Marco Rubio went to the Munich Security Conference a month ago and he said, okay, we're the United States and there's no rules.
We can do whatever the fuck we want to take it or leave it.
And then Mark Carney got up and said, okay, there's no more rules anymore because there are rogue states doing whatever they feel like.
So the international order is broken.
Now, it's an interesting observation on Ray Dalio's part.
Frankly, I think it's brilliant.
But what comes after is more important because he said, once you get into the sixth stage, the collapse is sudden and it's a shock to everyone.
And that's exactly what happened to Rome.
I think in 388, where they wanted to go to war against somebody and country started saying, take a hike.
Now, do you recall what the Prime Minister Spain said on the fourth of this month?
I think it was that the U.S. wasn't allowed to use any of the military bases from Spain in order to launch attacks on Iran.
Exactly.
It's an illegal war.
We do not support the war, and we are not going to allow the use of any Spanish facilities to support the war.
There have been other interesting things happen.
Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland had notified Israel that should an aircraft containing either Ben Gavir or Benjamin Etanyahu ask for transit through their airspace, they would force the aircraft down and they would arrest Benjamin Etanyahu.
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And of course, they've got a sense of humor too, because what are they going to do?
They're going to arrest the casket.
Yeah, arrest his dead body, you know, charge him, charge his corpse with war crimes.
Yeah, exactly.
Probably needs to be done, you know, for history's purposes.
But I get your point.
And what's amazing to me is how all of these countries that you just mentioned, plus others around the world, have told Trump, no, we're not going to fight your war.
And in fact, I think it was one of the leaders of Germany who recently came out, a woman.
I saw her quote saying that clearly Trump had no plans for this.
Like he stumbled into this and didn't have a plan for how to get out of it.
Now, Trump had a plan for getting out of Vietnam, but not out of Iran.
Right?
Yeah, but that was Danny.
Yeah.
Right.
He actually dodged the draft seven times.
Now, there are some weird coincidences in the world.
George Bush Jr., Donald Trump, and I were born within six weeks of each other.
Each of us graduated from high school in 1964.
George Bush Jr. went to Yale.
Okay.
I went into the Marine Corps and became a fighter pilot.
George Bush Jr. graduated from Yale and gets a free ride into Air Force flight training and gets into a reserve outfit with no chance whatsoever going to Vietnam.
So while I was flying missions over North Vietnam, George Bush went down to Mexico snorting Coke.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, doesn't snort Coke and doesn't drink, but he is a draft dodger.
But he did wear a military uniform once.
Were you aware of that?
No.
Okay.
When he was in high school, he was in ROTC.
Huh?
Reserve officer training corps.
Yeah.
Wow.
So he wore a uniform and he walked around in the uniform.
And when his time came to serve his country, Daddy brought him a doctor's note saying he had shin splits.
Wow.
Wow.
All right.
So what I want to do here, Bob, we're going to, there's a second part of this interview.
And in that second part, I want you to focus, if you would, please, on the ramifications of everything that you've covered brilliantly in this part.
We need to talk about the financial implications, the global poverty that seems inevitable, the reduced crop yields, food inflation, transportation difficulties, airlines shutting down, all of this.
Can you give us a little teaser of that?
Kind of, what's your big picture overview of some of what I just mentioned there?
Okay, one of the things that I have said, well, first of all, I'm contrarian.
Okay.
So everybody wants to disagree with me because if they agreed with me, I would be wrong.
So I look at sentiment and I look at what people are saying, and then I do exactly the opposite.
So everybody wants to disagree, but I'm quite comfortable with that.
I have been calling for the demise, the crash of the Western debt-based system for years because it's obvious to me.
It's corrupt.
It's financially broken.
We have the most corrupt government in history.
I don't give a damn if people are Republicans or whether they're Democrats.
There's one snake with two heads, and they're equally corrupt.
But this literally is a turning point of 500 years of control of the world by the West, and it's ending.
Okay, this is a far bigger thing than anybody realized.
We can go into the specifics, okay, because This is easily 100 times worse than the Airbnb of 1973 or the fuel crisis 1979.
And nobody realizes it.
Yeah, yeah.
I agree with you.
And we'll get into those details in part two of this interview.
Let me give out your website.
It's 321gold.com, where people can follow your work and your many appearances on various shows that are on YouTube and other platforms as well.
So follow Bob's work at 321Gold.com.
And what's, Bob, what's the name of your very popular book again?
I got 10 of them.
No, the three of them were three of them on the Wall Street Herald bestseller last.
But there's one that I'm thinking of.
It's an investment guide that I'm thinking of.
The basic investing or basic investing in resource stocks for idiots.
That's the most popular book.
It's nobody knows anything.
And I make the point that there's no such thing as experts or gurus.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
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So, all right.
So, Bob, we're going to wrap up this part of the interview here.
And then I want to encourage our audience to find the second part of this on our video site, brightvideos.com.
And so, again, we've been speaking with Mr. Bob Moriarty, and his website is 321gold.com.
And we will continue this interview in part two, talking about the global ramifications and the turning tides of history on a grand scale, on a historic scale, in part two of this interview.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for watching part one.
And this continues in part two.
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