Health Ranger - Mike Adams - BVN, Mar 27, 2026 – Iran Will DEFEAT the U.S. Empire, as IDF is Wrecked by Hezbollah
Aired: 2026-03-27
Duration: 01:43:47


=== Trump's Taco Announcement (07:04) ===

[00:00:10]  All right, welcome to Bright Videos News for Friday, March 27th, 2026.
[00:00:15]  I'm Mike Adams.
[00:00:16]  I've got an interview with Peter Schiff coming up today.
[00:00:19]  You know, Peter Schiff from Schiff Gold.
[00:00:22]  And we've got some other breaking news.
[00:00:24]  I've got a few special reports also on what's happening.
[00:00:26]  Let me cover the big breaking news first.
[00:00:29]  So Trump is going full taco again.
[00:00:32]  You know, taco means Trump always chickens out.
[00:00:36]  T-A-C-O, right?
[00:00:37]  In case you weren't familiar with that one.
[00:00:40]  Trump is going tacos so much, he's serving up taco salad.
[00:00:44]  And his latest taco was his announcement, quote, as per Iranian government request, please let this statement serve to represent that, like, what is this?
[00:00:56]  The king's court, you know, shall, no, that I am pausing the period of energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6th, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
[00:01:10]  Talks are ongoing, and despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the fake news media and others, they are going very well.
[00:01:17]  Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
[00:01:22]  So think about it.
[00:01:24]  Trump at first said Trump said to Iran, you have 48 hours.
[00:01:29]  And Iran said, you know, F off.
[00:01:32]  And Trump said, okay, you have five days.
[00:01:34]  And Trump said, well, and Iran said, F off.
[00:01:38]  Now Trump says, okay, I'll give you 10 days.
[00:01:41]  Iran still F off.
[00:01:44]  Why?
[00:01:46]  And by the way, Iran isn't negotiating with Trump.
[00:01:49]  And I am convinced, and this is not a joke.
[00:01:53]  I am convinced that Trump is talking to an AI chatbot.
[00:01:58]  Like one of his staffers told him, this is the, you know, ambassador, the new supreme ambassador of Iran.
[00:02:06]  And this is, you know, this is the leader of UAE.
[00:02:10]  And this is the leader of Qatar.
[00:02:12]  And Trump is chatting with an AI chatbot that he thinks is these countries' leaders.
[00:02:20]  That's why Trump announced things like, they promised me a great gift.
[00:02:25]  And the great gift is going to be eight ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:02:31]  And then they added two more, so it's going to be 10 ships.
[00:02:35]  And yet maritime real-time records show that never happened because Trump wasn't talking to Iran.
[00:02:45]  Iran never promised him a gift.
[00:02:48]  Trump is talking to an AI chatbot.
[00:02:51]  It's like a teen boy who has an AI girlfriend.
[00:02:55]  She loved me.
[00:02:57]  She says I'm the sweetest.
[00:02:59]  Trump's like, they're giving me a great gift.
[00:03:02]  They asked me to be the supreme leader of Iran.
[00:03:05]  Like Trump said that.
[00:03:07]  He said that.
[00:03:08]  He said it out loud.
[00:03:09]  Dude, you're talking to a chatbot.
[00:03:13]  Chatbots are supposed to make you feel like you're always right and that you're always powerful and important.
[00:03:21]  And Trump is talking to a chatbot and he's sharing it with the world.
[00:03:26]  And the world is laughing their asses off.
[00:03:29]  Like, dude, you're not even talking to real people.
[00:03:33]  This is all in your mind.
[00:03:34]  You are delusional.
[00:03:37]  Even Daniel Davis with Deep Dive, he put out a video basically saying something similar.
[00:03:43]  It's like, Trump's lost his mind.
[00:03:46]  This is a problem.
[00:03:48]  Yeah.
[00:03:49]  He's lost his mind.
[00:03:51]  We don't know.
[00:03:53]  I mean, he's not talking to any real people with these discussions and all these promises.
[00:03:59]  just in the last day he he said that he said that Qatar and UAE and some of these other Gulf state countries gave him $6 trillion or something close to that maybe it was $5 trillion trillions of dollars like what are you talking about I mean the total GDP of those nations isn't even that number It's not possible that they gave you $6 trillion.
[00:04:29]  But Trump thinks they did because he saw it on his phone from the AI chatbot.
[00:04:35]  AI chatbot's like, yeah, of course we'll give you $6 trillion.
[00:04:39]  You demand.
[00:04:40]  And can you be the supreme leader too?
[00:04:44]  Seriously, Trump is totally disconnected from reality at this point.
[00:04:50]  And by the way, anytime Trump says that negotiations are going great, that means the attack is imminent.
[00:04:57]  The attack is coming.
[00:04:59]  So get ready for the attack, you know, the ground assault, which is not going to go well.
[00:05:07]  Now, sort of a similar topic here.
[00:05:12]  You know, how Trump and MAGA people are saying, well, Iran has no right to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:05:17]  You know, it's public infrastructure.
[00:05:20]  Like, everybody has a right to use it.
[00:05:23]  It's the ocean plumbing of the world.
[00:05:26]  Well, you know what?
[00:05:28]  Trump and Joe Biden and others have restricted what I call the Strait of Swift.
[00:05:35]  Yeah, it's the SWIFT system, which is the interbank transfer system used by the whole world.
[00:05:42]  And what Trump and others have done, but especially Trump, is to close the Strait of Swift to countries like Iran.
[00:05:49]  You know, and that's been closed for, what, 47 years?
[00:05:53]  Because that's how sanctions work, long before Trump was president, obviously.
[00:05:56]  But Trump uses the Strait of Swift to close off Russia, you know, Cuba, North Korea, and also to punish individuals, you know, and to punish companies in China, etc.
[00:06:11]  So don't tell me that Trump and America believe in an open world where everyone is free to use the infrastructure of ship transports or money flows or the routes for energy.
[00:06:28]  Come on.
[00:06:30]  Come on.
[00:06:31]  That's a childish idea.
[00:06:33]  Actually, the U.S. just wants to control the Strait of Hormuz so they can twist it onto people like they do the Strait of Swift.
[00:06:44]  Believe me, if Trump controlled the Strait of Hormuz, he would immediately block oil shipments to China.
[00:06:51]  So this isn't about open, what, freedom of navigation, they say.
[00:06:57]  That's not it at all.
[00:06:57]  The U.S. doesn't believe in freedom of anything.
[00:07:00]  The U.S. just believes in dominance and control and punishing everybody to get their way.
[00:07:05]  So as a result, by the way, since the Strait of Hormuz is closed, it remains effectively closed, except for ships that are granted permission to sail through.

=== Strait of Hormuz Crisis (09:56) ===

[00:07:15]  We have right now, that's affecting about 20 million barrels of oil a day that aren't getting delivered.
[00:07:22]  And on top of that, shutdowns of various refineries now are reportedly affecting about 8 million barrels of oil a day.
[00:07:32]  And then there are other damaged refineries because of the war.
[00:07:35]  That's about 2 million barrels a day.
[00:07:37]  So we're down about 30 million barrels a day.
[00:07:43]  What Trump is trying to do is to open up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
[00:07:50]  That adds about 2 million barrels a day.
[00:07:53]  And there are a couple other techniques that are being used.
[00:07:56]  They don't compensate for the minus 30 million barrels at all.
[00:07:59]  So we're headed for a global energy crisis, scarcity, fuel rationing, as I talked about yesterday, is coming, and much more, much more.
[00:08:15]  Not just fertilizer shortages and the coming food crop failures over, you know, later in the year, but fuel shortages now, freaking now, and gas shortages.
[00:08:26]  There's just not enough stored fuel to take care of this.
[00:08:29]  So right now, it's bad.
[00:08:34]  Sri Lanka has rationing of fuel.
[00:08:37]  I'm going to read you a list here.
[00:08:39]  Pakistan, long wait times for gasoline, and the government ordered a four-day work week so that people stay off the roads.
[00:08:47]  In India, they only have nine days of oil reserves left or fuel reserves.
[00:08:52]  South Korea, they've got less than two months of fuel remaining.
[00:08:58]  Japan, apparently, only has about three months remaining.
[00:09:03]  Oh, and by the way, Airgas, the company that supplies helium, and we are a customer of Airgas, by the way, in our lab, they just declared force majeure on helium, which I knew was coming because, what, 10 days ago, I told my lab staff, I said, you better order up a boatload of helium.
[00:09:25]  And they were like, why?
[00:09:27]  I said, trust me, order up some helium, mofos.
[00:09:33]  You better get the helium in here.
[00:09:34]  And now air gas just declares force majeure.
[00:09:37]  Well, we got a lot of helium.
[00:09:39]  I was there two days ago.
[00:09:41]  I'm like, that's a big-ass helium tank.
[00:09:44]  See, that's the advantage of knowing things before other people, which is why I think you listen to this podcast, because over and over again, you and I know stuff before other people.
[00:09:57]  So we get to buy the helium.
[00:09:59]  And everybody else is like, what happened to the helium?
[00:10:02]  Oh, so you don't know about the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:10:06]  I feel sorry for you.
[00:10:08]  You should pay attention to, I don't know, the geography of the world and where energy comes from.
[00:10:13]  I'm just saying, I'm not trying to be arrogant, but just if you depend on something like a specific, very light molecule, or a light element, second lightest element, you should know where that comes from.
[00:10:29]  But whatever.
[00:10:31]  Germany, gas prices are up 30%.
[00:10:34]  France, 30% increase of fuel prices at gas stations.
[00:10:41]  Turkey is experiencing exploding inflation and stocks are crashing.
[00:10:47]  Brazil has its own oil supply, but supply chains are hurting.
[00:10:51]  And by the way, this list was compiled by someone else on X.
[00:10:55]  I regret I don't have their account name, but I want to thank them for putting this together.
[00:11:00]  Australia, well, we've talked about Australia over the last couple of days.
[00:11:05]  Airlines are about to shut down.
[00:11:08]  Let's see.
[00:11:09]  In China, they've got 1.4 billion barrels of oil stockpiled, and they've banned all exports, and they're still getting oil from Iran.
[00:11:17]  So China's in a pretty good position here.
[00:11:20]  Why?
[00:11:21]  Because China plans ahead.
[00:11:23]  Oh, that's a foreign concept.
[00:11:28]  Must be something to do with communism or something, because Americans don't recognize planning ahead.
[00:11:36]  My God.
[00:11:37]  And certainly the European leaders don't recognize planning ahead.
[00:11:40]  What's that?
[00:11:40]  Sounds like a conspiracy theory.
[00:11:42]  Well, China plans ahead.
[00:11:44]  And as a result, they've got fuel supplies.
[00:11:46]  They're going to go through this just fine.
[00:11:49]  So anyway, that's kind of an overview of where we are right now.
[00:11:53]  Now, there's other news where the IDF now, you know, the child murdering genocidal military of Israel, they are at the breaking point.
[00:12:02]  This has come out from a recording from a leaked, well, a leaked recording from a cabinet meeting.
[00:12:09]  And the chief of staff named Eyal Zamir, he said that the IDF is nearing a breaking point.
[00:12:17]  Quote, I am raising 10 red flags.
[00:12:21]  Quote, the reserves will not be able to hold out under these dramatic circumstances.
[00:12:26]  And it won't be long before the IDF is no longer fit for even routine security missions.
[00:12:32]  And it's also reported that they lost something like 20 tanks.
[00:12:37]  What are they, the Merkava tanks?
[00:12:39]  Just recently during an attempted incursion into South Lebanon.
[00:12:45]  And, you know, the IDF is getting absolutely destroyed by Hamas and Hezbollah.
[00:12:52]  And so I've got a video for you of a mayor of an Israeli town who is absolutely ranting.
[00:13:01]  Not in English, though.
[00:13:02]  But he says, Hezbollah won.
[00:13:05]  He says it's the first time that a city in a country simply disappears, that two-thirds of the residents already fled.
[00:13:13]  If we fix the roads at 8 a.m., by 10 a.m., there's a new crater.
[00:13:18]  No one is restoring anything, and there's no protection at all.
[00:13:22]  But I thought Trump said that all of Iranians' missiles were destroyed.
[00:13:30]  So who's bombing Israel then?
[00:13:34]  Who's destroying the roads with new craters by 10 a.m.
[00:13:38]  Who could that be?
[00:13:41]  I think it's Jesus, actually.
[00:13:45]  I think Jesus is hurling rocks from space, which is what the book of Revelation talks about.
[00:13:52]  I think Jesus is up there like, you know, dismantle the Satanists.
[00:13:57]  They're hurling giant rocks.
[00:13:58]  Because clearly it can't be Iran, according to Trump, because Iran has been totally and utterly decimated, completely obliterated, and destroyed over and over again, at least 25 times, according to Trump.
[00:14:09]  So it's got to be Jesus.
[00:14:12]  And it seems only fitting, absolutely.
[00:14:15]  You know, given what the Israeli priests did to Jesus, but that's history, I suppose.
[00:14:21]  You want to watch a little bit of this video?
[00:14:25]  I mean, you might not understand it, but it is subtitled.
[00:14:27]  Let me play a little bit for you.
[00:15:21]  Wow, did you hear what he said there?
[00:15:23]  There will be no cities left in Israel.
[00:15:27]  You mean to tell me that life is miserable there and they can't sleep and they have to keep running to bomb shelters because Jesus is throwing space rocks at them?
[00:15:39]  Wow.
[00:15:41]  I mean, cosmic karma, huh?
[00:15:44]  Those conditions, it sounds rough.
[00:15:46]  It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of Satanists.
[00:15:50]  Yeah, like literally no one in the world feels sorry for these pedophiles and Satanists and child murderers and torturers.
[00:15:58]  Like literally no one.
[00:16:01]  So they what did they think they were immune to Iran's retaliation?
[00:16:08]  I guess they did.
[00:16:11]  Yeah, zero sympathy for these people.
[00:16:14]  You know, I have I have repeatedly cited and attempted to teach some of the basic principles of Jesus Christ.
[00:16:26]  And it's as I said in my sermons that I covered over a year ago, it's actually pretty simple.
[00:16:34]  It's very simple.
[00:16:36]  It's you know, it's the golden rule, really, it's treat others as you wish to be treated.
[00:16:40]  Treat other humans with respect and dignity.
[00:16:44]  And probably they will treat you with respect and dignity.
[00:16:48]  But if you if you commit genocide and you murder children and you bomb civilians, you're going to bring that back onto you.
[00:17:00]  And so these people have no one to blame but themselves.
[00:17:04]  For several years now, they have committed war crimes and genocide, and now they play the victims.

=== Warning Against Genocide (05:55) ===

[00:17:12]  Oh my God, it's so difficult for us now because Iran is shooting missiles at us.
[00:17:20]  Do you recall what you did to Gaza?
[00:17:23]  Do you recall the exploding pagers that killed children in Lebanon?
[00:17:27]  Do you recall the assassinations of Iranian scientists?
[00:17:31]  Do you recall blowing up Christian churches in Gaza and the mosques and the hospitals and the universities?
[00:17:39]  Do you recall any of that?
[00:17:41]  Does that ring a bell to any of you Satanists?
[00:17:44]  No.
[00:17:45]  No, no, no.
[00:17:46]  They only see themselves as victims, no matter what.
[00:17:51]  Whether it's real or if they have to fake it.
[00:17:53]  They're only victims.
[00:17:55]  And they think the world owes them everything.
[00:17:58]  While they are advocates of the most evil genocide that our world has witnessed, at least in our lifetimes, and possibly way beyond that.
[00:18:09]  Won't it be wild when Hamas and Hezbollah have defeated the IDF and Iran has defeated the United States of America?
[00:18:18]  I mean, who saw that coming?
[00:18:22]  You know, was that on your bingo card for 2026?
[00:18:26]  Yeah, probably not if you live in the West, because we've all been propagandized so much by the lying media and a delusional president, etc.
[00:18:34]  We've been told all kinds of lies about how we're the strongest ever and no one can defeat us and we can do anything we want.
[00:18:41]  And it's all lies and delusions.
[00:18:46]  And I would say to Trump and his people today, be careful of sending in now it looks like 16,000 US soldiers are being prepped for an invasion of Iran.
[00:19:01]  16,000?
[00:19:03]  I mean, yesterday it was only 6,000 or something.
[00:19:06]  Now it's plus 10,000.
[00:19:08]  And tomorrow it'll probably be, you know, 25,000.
[00:19:11]  And then in a week, it'll be 50,000.
[00:19:14]  You see where this is going.
[00:19:16]  I've warned many times, this is Vietnam 2.0.
[00:19:19]  Well, Iran is rumored to be preparing 1 million Iranian soldiers to stop and, well, to kill US soldiers.
[00:19:33]  And I hate to say that this won't be popular, but I'll have to whisper it.
[00:19:41]  The Iranian soldiers are in better shape than the US soldiers.
[00:19:45]  Because the U.S. soldiers are fat.
[00:19:48]  And they got lazy and complacent with their desk jobs and their Burger King.
[00:19:54]  And the 47 years of economic sanctions against Iran made the Iranian people tough and resilient and dedicated and willing to die for their country.
[00:20:06]  There's no comparison in ground combat.
[00:20:09]  I guess I can stop whispering now.
[00:20:10]  There's no comparison.
[00:20:12]  You put 100 U.S. soldiers up against 100 Iranian soldiers.
[00:20:16]  There's no question who wins that when you're in Iran.
[00:20:20]  Let me be clear, when you're there on their home turf.
[00:20:23]  There's no question.
[00:20:25]  You know, you better bring about 80 or 90 body bags for the American soldiers because that's how they're going home.
[00:20:31]  This is a suicide mission.
[00:20:33]  And, you know, it doesn't make me anti-veteran to say that.
[00:20:37]  I'm pro-veteran.
[00:20:38]  In fact, I believe the best way to help veterans is to not get them killed, not have their body parts blown off.
[00:20:46]  You know, the best way we can support our active duty and our veterans is to not get them killed in senseless wars that are actually being fought for the satanic Zionist regime anyway.
[00:20:59]  This is not even for America.
[00:21:01]  Remember, the Strait of Hormuz was opened before Trump started all this.
[00:21:05]  If Trump had not started this war, we wouldn't even have this crisis.
[00:21:10]  So everybody's screaming, oh, we've got to send in troops to reopen the Strait.
[00:21:14]  It was open a month ago, you morons.
[00:21:17]  It's only closed because you attacked Iran.
[00:21:21]  In fact, if you just back off, if Trump would just leave, the Strait would open up again.
[00:21:28]  I mean, it's, my God, the Strait would open right back up.
[00:21:32]  I mean, the ships would have to pay a toll, obviously, to cover for the war damage.
[00:21:38]  But that's affordable.
[00:21:40]  I mean, at least you're getting the energy.
[00:21:41]  It would be slightly more expensive, but, you know, you wouldn't have a mad max collapse of all these countries.
[00:21:47]  But no, Trump wants to send in all these troops.
[00:21:50]  Let's occupy the land.
[00:21:51]  Let's control the islands.
[00:21:53]  Let's kick ass.
[00:21:53]  You know, we'll move inland and we'll just conquer the mountains.
[00:21:58]  And the Iranian soldiers are, now, I don't speak Farsi or I don't know how they would say it, but they're like, no, you're not.
[00:22:08]  Giant middle finger to Trump, you know.
[00:22:11]  You're not coming through.
[00:22:13]  I mean, you know, the U.S. might land some troops for a temporary period of time, you know, for might control a little beachhead area for hours, days, or maybe, maybe weeks, although that seems unlikely.
[00:22:29]  But where are they going to get water?
[00:22:33]  Where are they going to get food?
[00:22:34]  Where are they going to get ammo?
[00:22:36]  Where are they going to get resupplied?
[00:22:39]  And how are you going to dodge bullets and artillery and drones and freaking rockets and landmines and everything?
[00:22:47]  Seriously, has Trump even thought about any of this?
[00:22:50]  No.
[00:22:51]  No, because he's texting his AI chat bot that he thinks is Iran's new supreme leader.
[00:22:56]  That's how bad this is.
[00:22:58]  Situation insane.
[00:23:02]  So yeah, the IDF is on the verge of being totally defeated, which is great news for the planet.

=== Where Will Ammo Come From (04:31) ===

[00:23:07]  And the U.S. Empire is on the verge of being also defeated, which is also great news for peace in our world because the U.S. Empire has been running around as the terror state, terrorizing and threatening and bombing everybody and assassinating everybody for decades.
[00:23:23]  And if that would end, we could all just get back to building civilization together and trading with each other instead of bombing each other.
[00:23:35]  And the only way to make that happen is for the U.S. military to be resoundingly defeated and for the U.S. Empire to be humiliated on a global scale, which it absolutely deserves.
[00:23:48]  And Trump is the perfect person who is setting that up.
[00:23:52]  Isn't that amazing?
[00:23:53]  So Trump's actually doing the world a favor in a way, in a weird way, by achieving a defeat of the U.S. Empire.
[00:24:02]  It's just bizarre.
[00:24:04]  Now, don't get me wrong, I love America.
[00:24:06]  I want America to do great, but not by stealing and pillaging other people's resources.
[00:24:14]  I'm not advocating that my country be a bunch of thieves that just threaten and steal from everybody else, but that's the way the American Empire operates.
[00:24:24]  So I don't support that at all.
[00:24:25]  I support honest global competition and trade.
[00:24:29]  And, hey, we'll sell you our oil and corn and you sell us your electronics and whatever, turmeric.
[00:24:37]  Trade benefits everybody.
[00:24:39]  War hurts everybody.
[00:24:42]  So the sooner we end the wars, which means the projection of military dominance of the U.S. needs to be shattered, which is happening, then the sooner we can get back to focusing on trade and peace on our planet.
[00:24:59]  And maybe lunatics like Heg Seth and Trump will finally be put in their place through just global humiliation.
[00:25:07]  We should be praying for that.
[00:25:09]  So, see, I think America is best served when we get along with everybody else in the world and we trade with them.
[00:25:17]  And we don't run suicide missions on our soldiers.
[00:25:21]  And we don't bomb and steal and pillage and steal ships out of the ocean and do all these horrible, insane things.
[00:25:33]  And that makes me a true American, not one of these fake MAGA Americans that don't even know the principles upon which America was founded.
[00:25:42]  I'm a true American, like many of you listening.
[00:25:45]  All right, so what we're going to do now is we're going to jump into some of these special reports that we have, followed by the interview with Peter Schiff.
[00:25:53]  And let me remind you, this is a critical time to get prepared.
[00:25:56]  I do think there's a very high likelihood that Trump will order the maybe the 82nd Airborne and a bunch of Marines and special forces to assault Iran this weekend.
[00:26:09]  Very high probability of that happening.
[00:26:13]  All hell could break loose from there, including in the stock market next week, etc.
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[00:27:13]  I forgot which item it was, but my staff told me one item just went up 20%.
[00:27:18]  Just boom, 20%.
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[00:27:23]  So yeah, prices are going to go up later this year, probably by summer.
[00:27:27]  But we'll hold prices down as best we can to keep it as affordable as we can.
[00:27:32]  So thank you for your support.
[00:27:34]  All right, with that said, enjoy the rest of the show.
[00:27:36]  Today is very informative.
[00:27:37]  Take care.

=== End Of The American Empire (12:21) ===

[00:27:39]  So the image that the United States empire is the most dominant nation in the world and that its military can do anything it wants and that our sanctions and our dollars, that we can weaponize them in any way we want, that image has now been utterly shattered twice.
[00:27:58]  First was with Russia and secondly now with Iran.
[00:28:02]  But let's back up to Russia for a second.
[00:28:05]  The plan of the West was to pillage Russia, to have a domestic uprising, to overthrow Putin, to install a U.S. puppet, which is exactly what Western forces did to Ukraine, obviously, starting in 2014.
[00:28:20]  But the plan was to do that with Russia and then pillage Russia's resources.
[00:28:26]  And you've even heard this admitted openly by senators and State Department people, etc.
[00:28:32]  And they would say things like, well, you know, as soon as we defeat Russia, we'll just take all their energy and use that to pay for the war.
[00:28:40]  That's the exact same thing we hear now about justifying the war on Iran.
[00:28:45]  As soon as we defeat Iran and we'll overthrow their government and we'll install our own leaders and then we'll just use their oil to pay for the war.
[00:28:52]  Because that's the model.
[00:28:54]  That's the model of U.S. imperialism.
[00:28:57]  And that's what happened with Iraq, right?
[00:29:00]  So all the oil that flows out of Iraq, the money for that oil goes to a trust account in New York City that's controlled by a bunch of globalist interests, etc.
[00:29:12]  You know, the who's who of corrupt officials, that kind of thing.
[00:29:16]  And so Iraq does not actually benefit from its own oil.
[00:29:21]  It doesn't get the money.
[00:29:23]  That money is held by the U.S., you know, with a promise that one day we'll let you have some of your own money back.
[00:29:29]  But of course, that day will never come.
[00:29:32]  The same model is intended for Iran.
[00:29:35]  And Iran knows this, and it's one of the reasons why Iran stood up against this and said, no, we're not going to let you just destroy our country and pillage our resources and overthrow our people and install a puppet government like you did in Iraq or what you're trying to do in Afghanistan and, you know, Syria and Libya, etc.
[00:29:58]  Not going to let you do that.
[00:29:59]  And so the U.S. was then forced into a position where it had to attempt to overthrow Iran by force.
[00:30:07]  That's the effort that's currently underway, and that effort is failing.
[00:30:11]  It's failing big time.
[00:30:13]  Sure, the U.S. can drop a lot of bombs, and they can destroy Iran's virtually non-existent navy, a bunch of small boats.
[00:30:22]  Yeah, they can destroy Iran's virtually non-existent Air Force, which was flying F-4s built in the 1970s, maybe.
[00:30:30]  Yeah, not quite the modern air force that Pete Hegset was bragging about destroying.
[00:30:35]  It wasn't a modern air force.
[00:30:37]  It was an air force from the Jimmy Carter era and barely existed at all.
[00:30:44]  It doesn't matter.
[00:30:45]  Iran's got missiles and drones, and that's all it needs.
[00:30:49]  Missiles and drones and mountains and one strait, the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:30:54]  That's all Iran needs in order to defeat the U.S. efforts to try to occupy and overthrow the country.
[00:31:03]  So now, again, that illusion of military dominance has been shattered, and this has become a battle, an existential battle for the American empire to now try to prove that it can take down any country it wants.
[00:31:20]  Because if it fails to defeat Iran, then America is finished as a global empire.
[00:31:28]  It's finished.
[00:31:29]  In fact, I think that moment has already been passed.
[00:31:33]  I think it's already been shown that America is weak.
[00:31:37]  I mean, for example, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive ship ever built, close to $15 billion, is out of commission.
[00:31:47]  It's not battleworthy.
[00:31:49]  They're going to have at least an estimated 14 months of repairs, maybe more.
[00:31:54]  So, you know, the most modern, advanced, expensive naval vessel ever built is unseaworthy when it comes to battle.
[00:32:06]  Well, it's just part of the decline of the empire.
[00:32:09]  And also, the USS Abraham Lincoln can't get close to the shore of Iran because it keeps taking, you know, drone fire, missile fire, etc.
[00:32:19]  It was damaged, and it dare not get close because it might be destroyed.
[00:32:24]  So the entire threat of dominance from the U.S. Navy and its aircraft carriers, that has been shown to be a paper tiger.
[00:32:35]  It's been exposed by Iran.
[00:32:38]  Just like America's so-called air dominance or NATO's air dominance has been shown to be a paper tiger by Russia.
[00:32:48]  Because Russia demonstrated that even with the help of everybody in NATO funneling weapons and munitions to Ukraine, that Ukraine still cannot defeat Russia.
[00:33:00]  In fact, Ukraine can't even stop Russia's ongoing advances.
[00:33:04]  And think about it.
[00:33:06]  For years, we were told that Russia's finished.
[00:33:09]  They're done.
[00:33:11]  You know, our super weapons, our high Mars missiles are going to defeat Russia.
[00:33:16]  And then later it was, oh, the Abrams tanks are going to defeat Russia.
[00:33:20]  And then it was the Challenger tanks were going to defeat Russia.
[00:33:23]  And, you know, on and on.
[00:33:25]  It was one promise after another.
[00:33:28]  And then, oh, we're going to manufacture millions of drones to defeat Russia, etc.
[00:33:34]  It all turned out to be false.
[00:33:37]  Russia hasn't been defeated.
[00:33:39]  If anything, Russia is stronger than ever.
[00:33:42]  And what's being defeated is NATO, as well as, you know, the eastern portion and southern portion of Ukraine, probably eventually.
[00:33:52]  And Russia's in no hurry right now.
[00:33:55]  They're not being squeezed by NATO because NATO doesn't pose a legitimate military threat to Russia.
[00:34:04]  Just like the United States doesn't pose a successful military threat of takeover of Iran.
[00:34:13]  Despite what you hear on Fox News or CNN or from these washed up retired war generals or analysts that say, oh, we're going to go in there, we're going to occupy, we're going to overthrow, we're going to take the country.
[00:34:25]  Don't think so.
[00:34:27]  Why?
[00:34:29]  Because, first of all, you'd have to throw millions of U.S. soldiers into Iran in order to even have a chance at occupation and takeover.
[00:34:39]  And if you throw millions, or let's say at minimum 1 million, well, Iran has 90 million people.
[00:34:47]  They can raise millions of soldiers to defend their empire, their country, their heritage.
[00:34:53]  And they will fight you.
[00:34:55]  They outnumber you.
[00:34:56]  They can outmaneuver you.
[00:34:57]  And they have the home territory advantage.
[00:34:59]  Their supply lines are all local, while America's supply lines are all halfway around the world.
[00:35:05]  And based on really crippled manufacturing output, because the U.S. can't make the weapons and munitions at a pace that would be needed to sustain a war effort if you're going to occupy Iran.
[00:35:20]  So the U.S. cannot credibly sustain an occupation of Iran.
[00:35:26]  They can maybe land some troops and they can seize, you know, a port or a town or an island temporarily.
[00:35:34]  Probably that's what's coming.
[00:35:36]  And then, you know, Trump will say, we've defeated them again.
[00:35:39]  It's a total defeat.
[00:35:40]  We've taken the island with zero casualties and 100% approval.
[00:35:45]  You know, you're going to hear that kind of nonsense.
[00:35:47]  And then over the next few weeks, those soldiers will be surrounded and killed and captured and just obliterated.
[00:35:54]  And then what's Trump going to say?
[00:35:56]  Well, we need to send in, you know, 100,000 troops.
[00:36:01]  That's how the escalation happens.
[00:36:03]  And then it's going to be 500,000 troops.
[00:36:06]  You know, so this shows the American Empire, if it had any legitimate military power remaining, the Strait of Hormuz would already be open.
[00:36:20]  And the Iranian government would already be destroyed.
[00:36:23]  And the Iranian people would have already revolted and begged for, you know, surrender terms or whatever.
[00:36:30]  That's not happening.
[00:36:30]  None of that is happening.
[00:36:32]  If anything, Trump is begging for an off-ramp here.
[00:36:35]  Please give me an off-ramp so I can look like something other than a total loser.
[00:36:40]  You know, that's what Trump is trying to do.
[00:36:41]  He's trying to figure out how he can create a win out of this obvious loss because it's a huge loss for the American Empire.
[00:36:48]  And the American Empire has, again, no credibility remaining as a projection of violence against other countries.
[00:36:59]  Except maybe small nations.
[00:37:01]  You know, yeah, you can still threaten Cuba, but you can't even occupy Cuba either.
[00:37:08]  You know, you can't just go in and take over Cuba and you can't take over Iran.
[00:37:12]  You can't take over Russia and you sure can't take over China.
[00:37:16]  All those are delusional dreams that, of course, Trump and his delusional cabinet members will be pushing, but they're all impossible.
[00:37:25]  You can't achieve that.
[00:37:27]  So more and more, modern America is living in the shadow of a once great empire that used to have total economic dominance over the world, that used to have total military dominance and geopolitical dominance, currency dominance.
[00:37:43]  All of that is slipping.
[00:37:45]  And now we're in the transition.
[00:37:48]  And over the next few years, you're going to see more and more people, well, nations rejecting the U.S. dollar and standing up against the U.S. military and saying no to the coercion, no to the threats, or building their own systems of exchange of value, such as the SWIFT, I'm sorry, the BRICS system instead of SWIFT.
[00:38:11]  And this transition is only going to be accelerated by the fact that Trump continues to punish America's allies, such as Taiwan or India or Japan or the EU with punitive tariffs and economic sanctions, etc.
[00:38:26]  This is accelerating the move away from America.
[00:38:30]  Fast forward a few years and America is a once great empire that is now in the spiral of collapse.
[00:38:39]  Currency collapse, economic collapse, military collapse, domestic collapse.
[00:38:44]  You know, I mean, well, I already said industrial, but education, civility, you know, all these things are in a state of collapse.
[00:38:56]  So this really is the end of the American empire as we know it.
[00:39:00]  And Trump is only accelerating it in a last-ditch effort to try to reassert dominance.
[00:39:06]  And it is failing miserably.
[00:39:10]  And Trump's actually the perfect caricature of a person to be the last emperor of a failed empire because he's so insane.
[00:39:21]  And he's so ridiculous.
[00:39:23]  Every time he speaks, he contradicts something he said 30 minutes earlier.
[00:39:28]  So he makes no sense at all.
[00:39:30]  It's like a large language model gone bad.
[00:39:33]  It's like you're chatting with a chatbot and the chatbot just lost its mind.
[00:39:37]  Like that's that's Trump.
[00:39:39]  That's how he talks.
[00:39:41]  And the sad thing is the American people just have no idea what's coming.
[00:39:44]  They think the American empire is forever and it's actually almost over.
[00:39:49]  So get prepared.
[00:39:51]  for the end of the American empire because it is rapidly approaching and it's not going to be a one-day thing.
[00:39:57]  It's a gradual process, but that process has already begun.

=== Betraying The Voters (10:22) ===

[00:40:01]  So stay informed, stay aware, stay prepared.
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[00:40:17]  So thank you for listening.
[00:40:20]  Be ready for uncertain times.
[00:40:22]  Take care.
[00:40:24]  So we're already starting to see MAGA people begging the rest of us for our votes in the midterms using scare tactics and blame tactics.
[00:40:33]  It's crazy.
[00:40:34]  Blaming the victims.
[00:40:36]  We are all the victims of the betrayal of Trump and the GOP and MAGA just routinely, repeatedly betraying the American people, not putting America first, putting Israel first, not halting wars, but rather starting new wars, not making things more affordable, but causing more inflation and scarcity and coming famine and fuel rationing, ICE agents in the airports, you know,
[00:41:04]  energy lockdowns coming, etc.
[00:41:07]  But we are told by Team MAGA that we have to keep voting for this.
[00:41:12]  And that if we don't vote for this in the midterms, that then the people whose policies we oppose might gain power.
[00:41:22]  And we can't let that happen.
[00:41:23]  Thus, we have to keep voting for the traitors who are betraying us.
[00:41:29]  So let me educate the MAGA tards here for a minute, which should be slightly entertaining.
[00:41:38]  Voting is a form of consent.
[00:41:41]  And voting has to have repercussions.
[00:41:45]  Voting is the only way that a typical American who doesn't have billions of dollars to throw around in campaign contributions or who doesn't own a giant industry or who doesn't control the media.
[00:41:58]  Voting is the only input they have into the system.
[00:42:02]  And casting a vote is a form of consent.
[00:42:06]  That, hey, I consent to having you in power if I vote for you.
[00:42:12]  That I support your policies and I believe your promises.
[00:42:16]  And then when that person is in power or that party is in power, they have to continue to earn that consent or they won't get the vote the next time.
[00:42:27]  It's very simple.
[00:42:29]  In other words, accountability.
[00:42:32]  Voting is the only means of accountability that exists for most people.
[00:42:38]  And yet we are told that even though the people are betraying us, that we should not hold them accountable and keep voting for them anyway.
[00:42:48]  And I'm sorry, that does not compute.
[00:42:51]  It does not compute.
[00:42:52]  And at this point, I would much rather have LGBT rainbow crosswalks than to find ourselves in a nuclear world war with engineered famine that might kill billions of people.
[00:43:06]  You see what I'm saying?
[00:43:07]  You know, all of a sudden, the whole, you know, it's ma'am, you know, all that kind of stuff doesn't seem as bad compared to what Trump has unleashed.
[00:43:18]  Now, I'm not saying that I support Democrat policies because they're insane.
[00:43:23]  And there are only two genders.
[00:43:25]  There's a man and there's a woman and everything else is delusion.
[00:43:28]  But when it comes to delusional thinking, you can't top Trump today.
[00:43:34]  Trump is off his rocker, delusional, like he's playing three dementia chess or something.
[00:43:42]  Trump is imagining that he's negotiating with Iran.
[00:43:46]  And he's imagining, he just said that Iran begged him to become the supreme leader of Iran and he turned them down.
[00:43:54]  I'm like, what are you talking about, man?
[00:43:57]  That never happened.
[00:43:59]  Nobody's talking to you.
[00:44:01]  I think Trump is talking to a chat bot.
[00:44:03]  And the chat bot is telling him what he wants to hear.
[00:44:06]  Oh, you're the greatest.
[00:44:07]  You're the most powerful.
[00:44:09]  We want you to be the supreme leader.
[00:44:11]  And Trump's like, of course you do, because I'm the greatest.
[00:44:14]  I'm the best at everything, but I can't be your supreme leader.
[00:44:18]  He's talking to a chatbot that he calls Iran.
[00:44:22]  You know, Trump is more delusional than a tranny.
[00:44:26]  Quote me on that, because it's true.
[00:44:29]  I mean, a transgender is typically a man pretending to be a woman.
[00:44:36]  Trump is a five-year-old mental case pretending to be a president.
[00:44:41]  I mean, he's literally delusional.
[00:44:45]  25th Amendment time for this guy.
[00:44:48]  Out of control.
[00:44:49]  But the idea that we have to keep voting for more delusion and fairy tales, that itself is another level of delusional thinking.
[00:44:59]  That is meta delusional thinking.
[00:45:03]  That we have to give more consent for this.
[00:45:05]  Otherwise, the alternative will be worse.
[00:45:07]  Well, I'm sorry, that is not a valid argument.
[00:45:12]  That's not a valid argument.
[00:45:13]  And besides, Trump has done so much damage.
[00:45:17]  He's pissed off so many people.
[00:45:19]  The Hispanic community is now minus 40% compared to where they were in terms of their Trump approval.
[00:45:26]  Minus 40% in the Hispanic community.
[00:45:30]  Among independent voters, Trump has something like a 70% disapproval rating.
[00:45:37]  It's 60 or 70%.
[00:45:38]  It's a high number.
[00:45:40]  And it was the independents that handed Trump the victory in 2024.
[00:45:46]  So at this point, it's already, you know, the GOP is toast in the midterms.
[00:45:53]  And Trump is, he's not changing course.
[00:45:56]  He's not making an announcement.
[00:45:58]  Oh, I made a mistake.
[00:45:59]  I went along with Israel.
[00:46:01]  They brainwashed me.
[00:46:02]  You know, Netanyahu, you know, he tried to threaten me.
[00:46:06]  And I made a mistake.
[00:46:08]  And now I'm going to correct my ways.
[00:46:09]  I'm going to turn back toward America.
[00:46:11]  And we're going to put America first.
[00:46:13]  And here's what we're going to do.
[00:46:14]  Here's my 10 points.
[00:46:16]  He's made no such announcement.
[00:46:18]  Every day, it's just something worse from Trump and more delusional from Trump.
[00:46:25]  And the idea that we are supposed to keep voting for that is absolutely batshit insane.
[00:46:32]  I will not vote for it.
[00:46:34]  Now, I can't control your vote.
[00:46:37]  You know, you listening to this, you're free to vote however you wish.
[00:46:42]  And in local politics, there might be lots of reasons to vote for one particular candidate over another based on what you know about those candidates.
[00:46:52]  But I'm not voting.
[00:46:55]  I mean, as of right now, I'm not voting at all.
[00:46:57]  I am withholding my vote.
[00:46:59]  And as far as I'm concerned, the GOP can burn in the polls because we need to send a message to them that if they put Israel first, then they don't get our vote.
[00:47:12]  I will never vote for a candidate that puts Israel over America, period.
[00:47:17]  Republican or Democrat or anybody.
[00:47:20]  Never.
[00:47:21]  If they take money from APAC, like a substantial sum, I'm not talking about just, you know, a couple thousand dollars.
[00:47:28]  That's to these guys, that's nothing.
[00:47:30]  But if they're taking like a hundred grand from APAC and it's clear from their votes that they are putting Israel first, they will not get my support at all, period.
[00:47:41]  We're done with that.
[00:47:43]  And again, it's up to you to decide however you want to vote.
[00:47:46]  And I know some people will say, well, you're going to cause Democrats to get elected.
[00:47:50]  No, Trump is causing Democrats to get elected.
[00:47:53]  Democrats are winning the races all over the country right now.
[00:47:57]  There's been like 30 races so far, special elections and some local elections.
[00:48:02]  Democrats have won every single one of those 30 races, every single one, 100%.
[00:48:08]  And some of those were in like plus 14% Trump districts.
[00:48:14]  And Democrats are winning those.
[00:48:16]  We haven't even had the midterms yet.
[00:48:18]  So don't tell me that my withholding of my vote is going to cause Democrats to sweep into power.
[00:48:24]  Democrats are sweeping into power right now because of what Trump is doing.
[00:48:29]  This is Trump's fault.
[00:48:30]  Trump put Democrats in power by betraying his own support base and betraying America.
[00:48:37]  Because that's how voting works.
[00:48:40]  If you suck, the voters will change their minds and they'll vote for somebody else.
[00:48:45]  And if you turn out to be a corrupt liar and a warmonger and just, you know, John McCain in disguise, then the voters are going to vote for someone else.
[00:48:55]  At this point, I mean, the horror show of Gavin Newsom could become president because of Trump.
[00:49:04]  Not because of me or you.
[00:49:06]  It's because of what Trump did.
[00:49:09]  I won't be voting for Gavin Newsom, obviously.
[00:49:11]  So I'm not going to offer consent to him.
[00:49:14]  But I certainly won't be voting for JD Vance or Marco Rubio or anybody that's been part of this administration.
[00:49:23]  They're all crooks.
[00:49:24]  They're all war criminals as far as I'm concerned.
[00:49:26]  And I can't wait for them to be prosecuted by the Democrats.
[00:49:31]  You know, seriously, because there has to be some level of accountability.
[00:49:35]  If you throw America under the bus and you lie on the campaign trail and you betray your own support base, there have to be consequences.
[00:49:43]  And those consequences, the only opportunity for the American people to express their speech, really, is when they vote.
[00:49:51]  Because otherwise, it's just censorship.
[00:49:54]  You know, it's corporate money overpowering their own individual voices, etc.
[00:50:00]  Voting is the one chance for the American people's voices to be heard.
[00:50:04]  So vote accordingly or don't vote at all.
[00:50:07]  That's your choice.
[00:50:09]  I'm not voting, period, because I can't support any of these lunatics from either party at this point.
[00:50:15]  You can follow more of my work at brightvideos.com and you can read my articles at naturalnews.com.
[00:50:22]  And I'm praying for America.
[00:50:23]  Thank you for listening.

=== Soldiers Unprepared For War (15:24) ===

[00:50:24]  Take care.
[00:50:25]  Well, U.S. soldiers are about to stage an invasion of Iran.
[00:50:32]  It's obvious at this point that that's what's going to happen.
[00:50:35]  And Trump is delusional, as usual.
[00:50:38]  And he thinks that the U.S. military can do anything and everything.
[00:50:42]  That's because he's been bombing from the air or missiles from the sea.
[00:50:48]  And so far, we haven't had soldiers in a face-to-face fight with Iran or Hezbollah or the military in Yemen, etc.
[00:50:59]  And what we're going to find out very quickly when it comes to all these soldiers landing on Iran and maybe 82nd Airborne falling out of the sky with parachutes, what we're going to find out is that our troops are too fat to maneuver.
[00:51:16]  They're too lazy, they're too incompetent.
[00:51:19]  And I'm sorry, I'm sorry to have to say this because our military is not what it used to be.
[00:51:24]  A generation ago, we had more manly soldiers, but since then, all the standards have been reduced, you know, the physical standards.
[00:51:34]  And you see photos of people in the military now, and they're obese.
[00:51:39]  And, you know, there are exceptions to this, obviously.
[00:51:41]  You, you still, to be a U.S. Navy SEAL, you have to pass some very rigorous physical training or, you know, to be an Army Ranger or Special Forces, you know, you're in exceptional physical shape.
[00:51:52]  That's true.
[00:51:53]  No, no question about that.
[00:51:54]  I'm talking about run of the mill, Army, Navy, Air Force, people who have, you know, big fat bellies and they're working desk jobs and they're eating Burger King all day.
[00:52:08]  And they do not, they're not in good shape.
[00:52:12]  They're not in good cognitive shape.
[00:52:14]  A whole lot of them are on, you know, pharmaceuticals, including antidepressants, etc.
[00:52:19]  They cannot function the way the military used to function, even just a generation ago.
[00:52:25]  And they're nothing compared to U.S. Marines in World War II, who were scrawny but relentless little bastards, man.
[00:52:32]  They would get shit done, excuse my language.
[00:52:34]  But when they took Iwo Jima, that was a man's job.
[00:52:39]  And they lost a lot of men doing that.
[00:52:41]  Today, our military couldn't take an island like Iwo Jima.
[00:52:45]  Not, they couldn't conquer it.
[00:52:47]  They couldn't hold it.
[00:52:48]  Nothing even close to that.
[00:52:50]  And I support our veterans.
[00:52:51]  I just, I want to be clear.
[00:52:52]  I support our veterans and their sacrifice.
[00:52:56]  And I have in many concrete ways supported veterans over the past 20 years with donations and food, you know, food donations, cash donations, and many other things as well.
[00:53:08]  Donating a van in one case for transportation, things like that.
[00:53:12]  So I've supported veterans and I will continue to do so.
[00:53:15]  What I'm saying is the best way to support veterans is don't get them killed by having them stage an invasion that they're not ready for.
[00:53:25]  And here's the thing.
[00:53:27]  You don't see fat Iranian soldiers.
[00:53:30]  Do you?
[00:53:31]  Do you?
[00:53:31]  Have you seen any fat Iranian soldiers?
[00:53:34]  No.
[00:53:35]  Have you seen fat Yemenese soldiers?
[00:53:38]  Uh-uh.
[00:53:38]  Fat Hezbollah?
[00:53:40]  Nope.
[00:53:41]  No, no.
[00:53:43]  They're tough.
[00:53:44]  They're lean.
[00:53:45]  They're adaptable.
[00:53:46]  They're mentally hardened.
[00:53:48]  The U.S. soldiers are not.
[00:53:50]  Just flat out.
[00:53:51]  For the most part, they're not.
[00:53:53]  There are exceptions, again, you know, special forces, etc.
[00:53:56]  But your average run-of-the-mill U.S. soldier, including a lot of 82nd airborne, they are going to psychologically break the moment that a dozen drones start hitting their positions or the moment they start taking incoming artillery fire, which they will.
[00:54:12]  Or the moment they step on landmines, you know, or one of their buddies gets blown up right next to them and they're like, oh my God.
[00:54:18]  I mean, I'm not saying that that's weak.
[00:54:20]  I mean, it's a normal response, actually, to psychically break when your friend is blown to bits.
[00:54:27]  You know, what I'm saying is don't put them in that situation.
[00:54:30]  But Trump is committed to sacrificing thousands of Marines.
[00:54:35]  He's committed to it.
[00:54:37]  It's like he's sending them to die.
[00:54:39]  And there's nothing that you and I can do to stop it, apparently.
[00:54:43]  But I'm telling you, these Marines or 82nd Airborne, they are not ready for this.
[00:54:48]  They are not ready.
[00:54:50]  Because for America, war has always been something over there.
[00:54:54]  And it's always been something by remote control.
[00:54:56]  Oh, we'll launch, we'll press a button, launch a missile.
[00:54:59]  You know, we'll pull the trigger, drop a bomb, or we'll fly a drone with a joystick from, you know, thousands of miles away sitting in a 20-foot container in the desert in Nevada.
[00:55:10]  And it's like a video game.
[00:55:12]  Yeah, we got them.
[00:55:13]  Yeah.
[00:55:14]  Okay.
[00:55:15]  That doesn't make you a soldier.
[00:55:18]  Does it make you a soldier?
[00:55:20]  No, it doesn't.
[00:55:20]  You go out on the battlefield.
[00:55:22]  You start taking fire.
[00:55:23]  You start taking artillery.
[00:55:25]  You start taking drone hits.
[00:55:27]  You start losing buddies next to you.
[00:55:29]  Oh, now you're in soldier land.
[00:55:32]  Now it's a whole different ballgame.
[00:55:33]  It's not remote control.
[00:55:34]  It's not a video game.
[00:55:35]  And the enemy gets a vote.
[00:55:38]  And the enemy is going to fight back.
[00:55:41]  And thousands of U.S. soldiers are going to be killed.
[00:55:44]  or captured.
[00:55:46]  And then when they're captured, they're going to be tortured.
[00:55:49]  They're going to be tortured.
[00:55:51]  And then they're going to be shown on video, all beat up and tortured.
[00:55:57]  Yeah.
[00:55:58]  And they're not going to get Burger King when they're held captive.
[00:56:04]  Yeah.
[00:56:06]  They're going to die.
[00:56:08]  And so all that tough talk, we're going to go in there and kick the ass, you know, all that tough talk is going to turn to whimpering cries of God, please save me.
[00:56:20]  What did I get myself into?
[00:56:22]  That's what's coming.
[00:56:24]  And I don't want to see it happen.
[00:56:25]  And I'm not mocking it.
[00:56:26]  I'm saying the best way to protect our soldiers is to not send them to die.
[00:56:32]  Don't send them to die.
[00:56:34]  They're not ready for it.
[00:56:36]  They're not mentally or physically prepared for it.
[00:56:38]  And I can guarantee you they don't have the nutritional density in their diets that they need.
[00:56:43]  You know, look, let me be honest.
[00:56:45]  If Trump really wanted to make our military strong, he would hire me to redesign all the meals of the U.S. military.
[00:56:55]  I would serve them superfoods.
[00:56:57]  I would make everything way more healthy.
[00:57:01]  I would help them with nutrients that enhance healing and cognition and immune defense and muscular integrity, all kinds of things like that.
[00:57:10]  I could help the U.S. military, but they're not interested in healthy food.
[00:57:15]  They're interested in the contractors making as much money off the cheap garbage that they feed the soldiers, which is actually impeding their capabilities on the battlefield.
[00:57:26]  They're feeding them crap, making them more susceptible to injury and defeat and psychosis and things like that.
[00:57:35]  So, hey, and I would redesign the military's meals for free.
[00:57:39]  I'll do it for free.
[00:57:39]  I'll volunteer that if somebody would take it seriously, but they won't.
[00:57:44]  They have no interest in that.
[00:57:46]  They would rather the soldiers die and then have an excuse to market the war to the American people.
[00:57:51]  Look, 5,000 soldiers were killed.
[00:57:53]  We have to avenge them.
[00:57:54]  We have to send in 50,000 soldiers, you know, and then it's Vietnam again.
[00:57:59]  And then it's 100,000 soldiers.
[00:58:01]  And then you got 50,000 coming home in body bags and draped coffins.
[00:58:06]  And we got to put a million soldiers and now we have to have a draft.
[00:58:09]  And if you're against the draft, you're unpatriotic.
[00:58:12]  You know, that's what we're going to hear.
[00:58:14]  So to start drafting young men across America and sending them off to die for Israel in some kind of satanic blood ritual.
[00:58:23]  That's what's coming.
[00:58:26]  So, yeah, I support our soldiers and our veterans, and I support them not being thrown away and killed by an insane, crazed administration that values no lives at all, not the lives of American soldiers or of the American people or anyone.
[00:58:46]  So my stance is really the only pro-soldier stance is keep them alive.
[00:58:52]  Don't cause young boys and girls in America to lose their fathers and mothers in battle.
[00:58:58]  That's my stance.
[00:58:59]  That's the pro-America stance.
[00:59:02]  Stop the war, stop the invasion.
[00:59:04]  Trump should admit defeat, apologize to Iran, and walk away and pay them reparations, which is really what Iran is demanding, by the way.
[00:59:17]  So that's my take on it.
[00:59:18]  But no, instead, we're going to have thousands of soldiers die, and the American people are going to be in shock when they finally learn the truth, which will be covered up for a long time.
[00:59:27]  But when they learn the truth, they're going to be shocked.
[00:59:29]  I thought we were the most powerful.
[00:59:32]  military, most capable.
[00:59:33]  I thought we had completely defeated Iran because Trump said so like 20 times.
[00:59:38]  Completely obliterated, defeated them.
[00:59:41]  They're totally defeated and we've already achieved total victory.
[00:59:44]  So then what killed the thousands of Marines?
[00:59:50]  Was it lightning?
[00:59:52]  So yeah, this is going to get very, very sad and very bloody and totally insane.
[00:59:57]  And the only people supporting it are people who are also cultists, Trump cultists.
[01:00:04]  So stay informed.
[01:00:07]  Stay alert.
[01:00:08]  Stock up on supplies.
[01:00:10]  Get ready for Mad Max because that's what Trump is engineering.
[01:00:15]  You're going to need backup supplies.
[01:00:17]  You know, you're going to need food.
[01:00:20]  You're going to need iodine if this goes nuclear, etc.
[01:00:24]  You can get all that at healthrangerstore.com.
[01:00:27]  You're going to need backup communications, you know, satellite phones, sat123.com.
[01:00:33]  You're going to need backup power, backup medicine, backup food that you grow.
[01:00:38]  You know, start growing food if you're not already or have a plan for growing food.
[01:00:43]  This is the only way that you're going to really make it through what's coming because Trump's going to destroy America's economy.
[01:00:49]  I mean, he's destroying the world economy.
[01:00:50]  He's burning down the world to appease the satanic Zionists.
[01:00:56]  I mean, Trump is serving Satan and destroying abundance in the world, literally.
[01:01:02]  And the only way to survive this is to be well prepared and as insulated as possible from all of this destruction.
[01:01:10]  But that's my take on things.
[01:01:11]  Thank you for listening.
[01:01:12]  I'm Mike Adams.
[01:01:13]  You can follow my work at brightvideos.com or naturalnews.com.
[01:01:17]  Take care.
[01:01:19]  The price of everything is going up.
[01:01:21]  I think inflation under Trump is going to be an even bigger problem than it was under Biden.
[01:01:27]  Of course, Trump is going to blame it all on the war.
[01:01:30]  That's going to be his excuse for everything going forward.
[01:01:33]  That everything was great, but we had to fight this war, which, of course, we didn't actually have to fight.
[01:01:38]  Trump decided to fight it.
[01:01:41]  But he'll be able to use it as a scapegoat for problems that would have existed even without the war.
[01:01:46]  The war will just make them worse.
[01:01:48]  Welcome to today's interview here on BrightVideos.com.
[01:01:51]  And as we are all suffering under the fact that President Trump is wrecking the global economy meticulously on a daily basis, we have a guest today who has been personally attacked by Trump because he dared to tell the truth about a number of important subjects like inflation.
[01:02:09]  It's Peter Schiff from shiftgold.com.
[01:02:11]  He needs no introduction.
[01:02:12]  Welcome, Peter Schiff.
[01:02:14]  It's an honor to have you on the show today.
[01:02:16]  Oh, thanks for having me on.
[01:02:17]  Well, thank you for being here.
[01:02:19]  And I just want to point out that I find your work, your podcasts, and your tweets to be very rational, very thoughtful, and correct, which those are three things that are increasingly rare today.
[01:02:32]  So congratulations.
[01:02:34]  Thank you.
[01:02:35]  Yeah.
[01:02:36]  Yeah.
[01:02:36]  Well, so with that as a basis, then tell us where you think this is going, especially if the engineered energy scarcity situation, the war, continues to worsen.
[01:02:45]  What does this mean for U.S. fuel prices, food prices, and the economy in the long run?
[01:02:51]  Well, the price of everything is going up.
[01:02:53]  I think inflation under Trump is going to be an even bigger problem than it was under Biden.
[01:02:59]  Of course, Trump is going to blame it all on the war.
[01:03:02]  That's going to be his excuse for everything going forward, that everything was great, but we had to fight this war, which, of course, we didn't actually have to fight.
[01:03:11]  Trump decided to fight it.
[01:03:13]  But he'll be able to use it as a scapegoat for problems that would have existed even without the war.
[01:03:19]  The war will just make them worse.
[01:03:20]  So because of the war, the government's going to have even bigger deficits.
[01:03:25]  We're going to print even more money.
[01:03:27]  And so inflation is going to be even higher than it would have been absent the war.
[01:03:31]  But inflation was still picking up before the war started.
[01:03:35]  In fact, if you look at what happened to import-export prices in February, they shot up.
[01:03:41]  Import prices were up 1.6%, export 1.8%.
[01:03:45]  You're annualizing at around 18, 19% increases.
[01:03:49]  This is before the war.
[01:03:50]  Wow.
[01:03:52]  And that's how the inflation under Biden, it first showed up in import-export prices before it made its way to the CPI.
[01:03:59]  So that's a leading indicator of what's going to happen in consumer prices.
[01:04:03]  So this was going to be a huge increase in consumer prices before the war.
[01:04:08]  Now it's going to be even bigger.
[01:04:10]  And certain prices like energy costs and food costs, they're going to be particularly hard hit.
[01:04:18]  So you're going to see much bigger increases in those costs as a direct consequence of the war.
[01:04:24]  And of course, the longer the war continues to wage, the longer the port of Hamuz is closed or semi-closed, the bigger the impact on food and energy you're going to get out of the war.
[01:04:38]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:04:39]  And since we have no clear timetable of whether or when that's going to be resolved, then the outlook is very uncertain right now.
[01:04:46]  But let me backtrack to last year when Trump was really unleashing these punitive tariffs, often against U.S. allies, such as India, for example, or Taiwan.
[01:04:55]  The Supreme Court decision pulled back on some of those tariffs, but Trump found alternative means, for example, hitting Taiwan with Section 301 sanctions, blaming them for, quote, overproduction.
[01:05:07]  Well, again, the terminology, Trump is not hitting Taiwan.
[01:05:11]  They're not hitting Canada or Mexico.
[01:05:14]  The tariffs hit Americans.
[01:05:16]  Right, right.
[01:05:17]  So the tariffs are aimed at Americans who want to buy Canadian goods or Americans who want to buy goods from Taiwan or China or anywhere.
[01:05:28]  Now, yes, there is an impact on those countries because let's say I've got a business in Canada and I'm selling products to Americans and now Trump taxes Americans if they buy my products, making my products more expensive to American consumers.

=== Tariffs Hit American Consumers (02:19) ===

[01:05:49]  American consumers who don't have an unlimited amount of money may pull back on their consumption of my goods.
[01:05:56]  So I'm not going to sell as much to Americans.
[01:06:00]  And so, yes, that's going to be a loss for me because that was a market.
[01:06:04]  I had a customer and now my customer can't afford to buy my products.
[01:06:09]  But the real target is the American customer who now can't afford to buy the products that he would have liked to buy.
[01:06:16]  Right.
[01:06:17]  Now it's a nuisance for the Canadian businessman or woman because now they have to find an alternative customer, which they eventually will do.
[01:06:28]  But yes, it is an inconvenience.
[01:06:30]  Hey, I had a good relationship with these American customers.
[01:06:34]  Now I got to find other customers.
[01:06:36]  But once they do find other customers, then the American is just SOL because now he's not there.
[01:06:43]  He can't get the products he needs anymore.
[01:06:45]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:06:46]  And I want to explain to the audience that the MAGA Trump explanation for this is that, no, tariffs are not paid by Americans.
[01:06:52]  They're paid by the other countries.
[01:06:54]  And that's false.
[01:06:56]  My own company, you know, in the food manufacturing business, we were about to purchase a $1 million automation machine from Italy.
[01:07:03]  And the invoice said, you know, a million dollars for the machine plus $300,000 for the tariff from us.
[01:07:09]  You know, so if you wanted the machine, you got to pay the 300K.
[01:07:13]  Yeah.
[01:07:13]  And we said, no.
[01:07:15]  You should send the bill to Trump and say, hey, here's it.
[01:07:18]  Who's going to pay?
[01:07:19]  I thought the foreigners were going to pay this.
[01:07:21]  Why am I?
[01:07:22]  I mean, that was a lie.
[01:07:24]  Trump tells lies.
[01:07:27]  He's actually pathological.
[01:07:29]  Almost everything he says is a lie.
[01:07:31]  He lies so regularly, so often, he repeats the same lies over and over again.
[01:07:37]  As if maybe if he repeats the lie long enough or often enough, he'll make it true.
[01:07:42]  And maybe some of the lies in his own mind are true.
[01:07:46]  But you can't believe anything Trump says.
[01:07:49]  And now that he's talking about the war, I don't believe anything he says about the war either.
[01:07:53]  I don't believe anything he says about why we went to war, what started the war, what's going on during the war.
[01:07:59]  Because if everything he says about the economy is a lie, everything about tariffs, everything about inflation, everything about his record, everything is a lie.

=== Pathological Lying President (06:23) ===

[01:08:08]  Why should the war be any different?
[01:08:10]  Well, it's clear.
[01:08:10]  A few hours ago, Trump even said that Iran was begging him to be their supreme leader.
[01:08:17]  And I, Peter, I am convinced that Trump is chatting with a chat bot that's pretending to be Iran.
[01:08:25]  Look, if you remember with the tariffs, Trump was saying that all the leaders were lining up begging.
[01:08:31]  They were calling him begging to make a deal.
[01:08:34]  That was a lie.
[01:08:34]  Nobody was begging him for anything.
[01:08:37]  Now he's saying the Iranians are begging for a deal.
[01:08:40]  I doubt it.
[01:08:41]  I don't think the Iranians are, please, oh, please, please, please, we'll do anything.
[01:08:46]  Because if that was true, they would have already surrendered.
[01:08:48]  I mean, if they were really on their hands and knees begging, the war would be over.
[01:08:53]  Right.
[01:08:53]  The fact that it's not shows they're not begging.
[01:08:56]  I mean, maybe they're negotiating and they're trying to get a good deal, but that doesn't sound like a beggar to me.
[01:09:02]  Well, exactly.
[01:09:03]  And I want to ask you then about the medium-term implications of the fact that as long as the strait is constricted or closed selectively, the exports of natural gas out of Qatar, and as you know, two out of the 14 gas production trains have been damaged with a three to five year repair time.
[01:09:21]  But 12 are still functioning.
[01:09:23]  So we're not in Mad Max yet, right?
[01:09:26]  But nobody's able to get that energy unless they pay the toll or they happen to be China or Russia.
[01:09:32]  But this is the energy that's used in countries like South Korea or Taiwan or Japan to power the power grid and manufacturing.
[01:09:40]  So talk to us about the implications of the loss of natural gas infrastructure or transportation and what that means for consumer prices.
[01:09:49]  Yeah, look, all of this is going to reduce the supply of energy, which increases the cost of energy and increases the cost of everything that requires energy.
[01:09:59]  So yes, we're going to feel the consequences of this long after the war is over.
[01:10:06]  But obviously, the longer it continues, the greater those consequences are going to be because more stuff is going to get destroyed.
[01:10:16]  And it takes a lot longer to rebuild than it does to destroy.
[01:10:20]  You just drop a bomb and it's gone.
[01:10:24]  But, you know, we don't have a bomb that does the opposite.
[01:10:26]  We don't have a bomb that replaces what's been blown up.
[01:10:30]  That takes a lot of work, a lot of capital, a lot of material, and it takes a lot of time.
[01:10:36]  Absolutely.
[01:10:36]  Absolutely.
[01:10:37]  Now, let's talk about gold because, of course, you're well known for your gold projections, which have been very accurate.
[01:10:46]  Although right now, gold and silver are down from their high.
[01:10:50]  I'd like you to explain your view of why that's happening.
[01:10:54]  But let me give out your website, shiftgold.com, is where people can find you and your company for gold as well as Europac Asset Management, EuroPacific.
[01:11:05]  It's Europack.com.
[01:11:06]  And I just want to be clear to the audience, this is not a paid appearance.
[01:11:09]  You and I don't have a financial arrangement.
[01:11:11]  I just want to be clear.
[01:11:12]  But talk to us about where gold is now and what are the reasons that there's been a sell-off by some countries, perhaps related to the war and where you think gold is headed.
[01:11:24]  Well, you know, gold, counterintuitively, really sold off.
[01:11:29]  It rallied briefly on Sunday night following the outbreak of the war on Saturday morning, and gold got to around 5,500.
[01:11:39]  And then it collapsed as low as 4,100 on Monday morning.
[01:11:45]  It's bounced back a bit.
[01:11:46]  Now it's around 4,400, 4,500, I think 4,400.
[01:11:51]  So it's gone down.
[01:11:52]  And silver, percentage-wise, has gone down more.
[01:11:55]  Silver actually got up to like 120 at one point, and now it's back down below 70.
[01:12:01]  Of course, these prices are much higher than they were a year ago.
[01:12:04]  So gold and silver are still way up.
[01:12:07]  But I think the reason that they went down is I think the markets really got off, caught off guard with how quickly the narrative on rate cuts shifted.
[01:12:22]  So that now it's not really expected that the Fed is going to cut rates maybe at all for the rest of the year.
[01:12:31]  And now there's talk that the Fed might actually hike rates.
[01:12:35]  And the market was pricing in several cuts.
[01:12:38]  And I think a lot of people believed that it was those rate cuts that were the reason that the gold price was going up.
[01:12:45]  And if we're not going to get those rate cuts, then gold should go down.
[01:12:49]  And I think the market is wrong because I don't think the rate cuts are what's important.
[01:12:55]  What's important is the real rate of interest, not nominal rates.
[01:13:00]  And if you look at what's happening to inflation, it is exploding faster than anybody thought, maybe other than me.
[01:13:08]  But so inflation is going to rise dramatically over the course of 2026.
[01:13:14]  Let's say at a minimum, we end up with 6% inflation this year.
[01:13:18]  I think it'll be quite a bit higher than that.
[01:13:20]  But going into the year, people were looking for maybe 2.5%, 3%.
[01:13:25]  So even if the Fed doesn't cut nominal rates, real rates are going to be negative.
[01:13:31]  They're going to be far lower than anybody thought.
[01:13:34]  And this is very bullish for gold.
[01:13:36]  It's very bullish for silver.
[01:13:38]  The war is going to add significantly to the U.S. national debt, to our annual budget deficits.
[01:13:46]  It's going to weaken the U.S. economy.
[01:13:48]  It's going to ultimately lead the Fed to print a lot more money than it would have printed had there not been a war.
[01:13:57]  That is bullish for gold.
[01:13:59]  Surging deficits, massive money printing, dollar debasement.
[01:14:04]  All this is what you buy gold for.
[01:14:07]  That's why you buy gold as a hedge against all that.
[01:14:10]  So I think the short-term trade is wrong on thinking that the war is bearish for gold and that the Fed being on hold is bearish for gold.
[01:14:20]  It's not.
[01:14:21]  While the Fed is on hold, inflation is going to be running away.
[01:14:24]  The Fed should be hiking and not just a little bit.
[01:14:27]  The Fed needs to hike 300 basis points, maybe more.

=== Buying Gold Amid Volatility (16:06) ===

[01:14:31]  They're not even, there's no way they're going to do that.
[01:14:33]  They're not even going to hike 50.
[01:14:36]  Well, right.
[01:14:36]  I mean, I see this week also as a gold buying opportunity.
[01:14:41]  And I bought more gold this week, by the way, just because I routinely do so.
[01:14:45]  I've done so for decades, just stacking and vaulting it.
[01:14:50]  What I see is, you know, Trump has gone out of his way to push so-called good news.
[01:14:55]  Oh, they're negotiating with us, even though Iran denies it.
[01:14:59]  And oh, they're very close.
[01:15:00]  They've agreed to almost everything, even though Iran denies it.
[01:15:03]  But it seems to me, you know, this start of Monday morning seems like an attempt to manipulate the markets, keep oil prices low, and keep the stock market high.
[01:15:12]  But what happens, Peter, if this weekend, as many people suspect, many military experts suspect that a land invasion will occur of U.S. troops landing or parachuting into Iran, how does that change the psychology of gold demand or pricing?
[01:15:30]  Well, obviously, that complicates the situation.
[01:15:33]  I mean, number one, Trump promised that there would be no troops on the ground, but there's no way to win this war without that.
[01:15:43]  We actually have to put our soldiers on the ground in Iran to take over, to take control of the territory.
[01:15:54]  We can't do that just by dropping bombs and launching missiles.
[01:15:59]  And if we actually want regime change, which Trump said he wants, you're not going to get that unless you actually take over the country.
[01:16:08]  And you can't do that, you know, again, from airplanes.
[01:16:10]  You didn't do that on the ground.
[01:16:12]  And of course, that's going to involve a lot more casualties, assuming the Iranians don't just give up.
[01:16:18]  If they put up a fight, there's going to be a lot of Americans who are going to come home with body bags.
[01:16:24]  And obviously, that's going to be a negative, certainly for the families and the individuals involved, right?
[01:16:31]  But, you know, it's not going to look well, look good here to have Americans dying in Iran for what are we ultimately trying to achieve there.
[01:16:40]  And then, of course, if we send our troops into Iran, they've got to stay in Iran.
[01:16:45]  We got to leave them there.
[01:16:46]  Now we've created another kragmire.
[01:16:48]  It's another Iraq or Afghanistan.
[01:16:51]  All right, we're there.
[01:16:52]  How the hell do we get out?
[01:16:54]  So, look, this is the forever war that Trump said he didn't, he was against.
[01:16:59]  He was against nation building.
[01:17:01]  Well, now he's saying, well, I'm going to rebuild Iran.
[01:17:03]  That's our job now is to build up Iran.
[01:17:05]  Why?
[01:17:08]  So, you know, I think it would be a mistake to send ground troops into Iran, but that's the only way to actually win the war.
[01:17:16]  Now, of course, Trump could just declare victory and leave.
[01:17:20]  He can say, we've completely demolished them.
[01:17:23]  Yes, they've still got the same regime, but they got no navy.
[01:17:27]  They got no air force.
[01:17:29]  They got nothing.
[01:17:30]  They got no nuclear program.
[01:17:31]  They're a shadow of their former selves.
[01:17:34]  They can't harm anybody because we've completely destroyed their military capabilities.
[01:17:40]  And so, mission accomplished.
[01:17:43]  This is the greatest victory in the history of war.
[01:17:46]  I'm the greatest military strategist that's ever existed.
[01:17:49]  And, you know, whatever, whatever Trump likes to say.
[01:17:52]  Right, right.
[01:17:53]  But it strikes me that, you know, the Strait of Hormuz was fully open before Trump launched this war, you know.
[01:18:01]  Well, yes, there's that.
[01:18:03]  Right.
[01:18:03]  And the only way now, apparently, based on what Iran seems to be saying through official and unofficial channels, is that Iran will not allow the U.S. to occupy and take over Iran that they are going to fight.
[01:18:18]  And, you know, it's a country of 90 million people, rugged, mountainous terrain with really, you know, religiously dedicated people who are willing to die for their country, perhaps to even more of a degree than U.S. soldiers are willing to die overseas for their country.
[01:18:36]  You know what I'm saying?
[01:18:37]  So, yeah, and we assume that all the Iranians are just real happy about this war and they think that this is great, that America is there to liberate them.
[01:18:47]  That's crazy.
[01:18:48]  Yeah.
[01:18:50]  But that may not be the case.
[01:18:52]  And I think that there could be more hatred for America in Iran now than there was a month ago before the war.
[01:18:59]  Oh, clearly that's the case.
[01:19:00]  Clearly.
[01:19:02]  And not just in Iran, kind of throughout the entire region.
[01:19:06]  But what does this mean for going on in the Middle East now?
[01:19:09]  But talk to us about if this becomes a drawn-out Vietnam 2.0 in the Middle East and this war goes on for years, which it, you know, involving hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, if not more, maybe a U.S. military draft on top of that.
[01:19:24]  Yeah.
[01:19:24]  I mean, remember, when America fought Vietnam, right, Vietnam was a tiny country.
[01:19:30]  I think Iran is bigger than Vietnam.
[01:19:33]  But we fought Vietnam and we lost that war.
[01:19:40]  We didn't win.
[01:19:41]  I mean, we actually lost.
[01:19:43]  We didn't achieve any of the objectives that we had, but we lost a lot of Americans and the war became extremely unpopular.
[01:19:53]  You know, we got a lot of good music that came out of that war.
[01:19:56]  And I like a lot of that music from the 60s, early 70s that was related to the war.
[01:20:02]  But other than that, I mean, it was a complete disaster.
[01:20:05]  And people would have thought, you know, America, we were a more powerful nation then than we are now, yet we couldn't even beat them.
[01:20:13]  You know, we were the world's biggest creditor nation.
[01:20:17]  We had trade surpluses.
[01:20:19]  We were basically still on the gold standard.
[01:20:21]  We had the kingdom.
[01:20:22]  I mean, you know, we didn't have all this debt.
[01:20:25]  The national debt was well under a trillion back in the 60s and 70s, just a few hundred billion.
[01:20:31]  Right.
[01:20:32]  Right.
[01:20:32]  So, you know, we weren't dependent on the rest of the world.
[01:20:35]  We were a more powerful nation and we still couldn't beat Vietnam.
[01:20:42]  Well, I'm glad you're bringing up that history because I want to ask you about the historical North Vietnam, rather.
[01:20:48]  Yeah, we were fighting North.
[01:20:49]  It wasn't even the whole Vietnam.
[01:20:51]  We were fighting half of Vietnam.
[01:20:52]  Yeah, right.
[01:20:53]  No, we understand.
[01:20:55]  But the projection of the strength of the dollar and the strength of the U.S. military and its ability to project power versus the strength of gold and silver.
[01:21:05]  If you go back to the 1960s or 70s, if you had just traded dollars for gold relentlessly month after month, you would be way ahead of the game today.
[01:21:13]  And I want to show you, since we're talking about history, you'll get a chuckle out of this.
[01:21:17]  I've got a collection of Lotus 123 on five and a quarter floppy disc.
[01:21:22]  Does that bring back some memory?
[01:21:23]  I threw all mine away.
[01:21:24]  How do you still have yours?
[01:21:26]  I found it.
[01:21:27]  I just, I found it.
[01:21:28]  You're a real pack rat.
[01:21:30]  I'm telling you, this is from the 1980s and it's in mint condition.
[01:21:33]  I should eBay this sucker.
[01:21:35]  But what are you going to do with it?
[01:21:36]  You don't have a player that can even do anything with it.
[01:21:38]  No, no, no, it's just a prop on my desk.
[01:21:41]  But it's fun.
[01:21:42]  You know, it's fun to think about where all this came from.
[01:21:45]  But talk to us about the projection of the dollar.
[01:21:48]  And also remember that Iran is saying to countries that if you pay for your oil in the Chinese yuan currency, then you can pass, but not if you pay in the dollar.
[01:21:57]  Yeah, they know how to hit us where it hurts.
[01:22:00]  I mean, ultimately, the best weapon that Iran has is not their missiles, but financial leverage.
[01:22:08]  It's the oil price.
[01:22:09]  It's the dollar.
[01:22:11]  It's Trump's opinion polls.
[01:22:13]  It's the level of the stock market.
[01:22:16]  They want to inflict economic pain.
[01:22:19]  That's the best way to end this war.
[01:22:21]  Because if the Americans get tired of high gas prices, high food prices, a crashing stock market, that's going to put a lot of political pressure on Trump.
[01:22:33]  And I think Iran knows that that's their best weapon.
[01:22:37]  That's their best defense is financial.
[01:22:42]  Couldn't, well, I agree with you.
[01:22:45]  And part of that, the leverage that Iran has is the restriction of energy flows that we just previously talked about.
[01:22:52]  But some of that energy, a lot of it is going into industry.
[01:22:55]  I'm talking about natural gas.
[01:22:56]  It goes into industry.
[01:22:58]  And some of those industries use silver as an input into their manufacturing, whether it's solar panels or what have you, or electronics.
[01:23:06]  Could it be that the energy scarcity that is a result of this war will suppress silver prices in the short term for that reason?
[01:23:15]  Well, I mean, silver price has already pulled back.
[01:23:19]  So, you know, I think that you're just going to have more investment demand and more stockpiling of silver.
[01:23:26]  People need silver.
[01:23:27]  People need to stock up on it.
[01:23:29]  Yeah.
[01:23:31]  I think the pullback is more liquidity driven.
[01:23:34]  It's more short-term trading algorithms.
[01:23:39]  And also, you know, there were big profits in gold and silver.
[01:23:43]  You didn't have big profits in a lot of other things, but gold and silver had big profits.
[01:23:47]  They had a big move.
[01:23:48]  But, you know, we had a big move in the 1970s.
[01:23:52]  Gold went up to $200 an ounce and then pulled back to 100 and then went to 850.
[01:23:59]  In 2008, gold hit 1,000 for the first time in summer of 2008.
[01:24:05]  Then over a four-month period of time, it went back down below 700, 600 and change.
[01:24:11]  And then in three years, it tripled to 1,900.
[01:24:15]  So gold has a history of having a sharp pullback after making a big move, only to have an even bigger move to follow that pullback.
[01:24:25]  And so I think that's likely where we are.
[01:24:28]  Makes perfect sense.
[01:24:30]  But I would still like to pursue the silver question a little bit more.
[01:24:34]  Let me add a little bit more context to that because, see, I think this is a great buying opportunity for silver as well, but that's just my opinion.
[01:24:41]  But India in particular, for example, India uses a lot of silver in manufacturing.
[01:24:45]  There's a big solar factory industry in India, not just China.
[01:24:50]  A lot of people forget that.
[01:24:51]  But India is having energy problems, serious energy problems, because of their dependence of energy out of the Strait of Hormuz, perhaps more so than China.
[01:24:59]  So given that silver is both a monetary and an industrial metal, isn't it likely that silver is currently more impacted than gold because of its industrial component?
[01:25:09]  Or am I a little bit more, although gold has an industrial component too, maybe silver a little bit more so than gold, but gold's also used in industry.
[01:25:18]  But silver has just been a lot more volatile.
[01:25:22]  Silver is swinging $3, $4, $5 a day now.
[01:25:26]  You know, I remember when 50 cents was a big move in the price of silver.
[01:25:30]  Now I see it.
[01:25:31]  Sometimes it moved 50 cents in a couple of minutes.
[01:25:34]  Granted, the price is higher now than it used to be, but there's a lot more volatility.
[01:25:39]  So this is just, you know, the war has unleashed a lot of this volatility.
[01:25:43]  And, you know, some of it is created by Trump himself with his social media posts.
[01:25:47]  You know, every time he says, he puts out a post on Truth Social, hey, everything is looking great.
[01:25:52]  We're close to a deal.
[01:25:53]  The markets move.
[01:25:55]  And then he says, forget a deal.
[01:25:56]  We're going to bomb the hell out of them.
[01:25:58]  That's it.
[01:25:59]  No prisoners.
[01:26:00]  I mean, he keeps switching rapidly and the markets react to his every post.
[01:26:05]  I mean, I've never seen a president affect the markets more than Trump.
[01:26:11]  Yeah, that is.
[01:26:12]  Normally, what they do is irrelevant.
[01:26:15]  But I mean, the main value from Truth Social now is to get the posts because that has the biggest impact on the markets is whatever Trump happens to say, even if what he's saying is a lie, because most of the time it is a lie.
[01:26:30]  Probably all the time it's a lie.
[01:26:31]  Yeah.
[01:26:32]  But it's also a very highly leveraged means of market manipulation for insiders who have knowledge.
[01:26:38]  But let me shift gears slightly.
[01:26:41]  For those people watching this who feel like this is a good time to buy either gold or silver or invest in it, tell us about Euro-Pacific Asset Management that you founded.
[01:26:51]  And how can people use your expertise if they want to leverage investments in these metals?
[01:26:58]  Well, I mean, we don't use a lot of leverage, but I think that if you own the precious metals mining stocks, you inherently are levered to the price of gold.
[01:27:07]  Historically, that's been the case.
[01:27:10]  In recent years, we haven't seen that significant an outperformance of the miners over the metal.
[01:27:17]  And I think that's because investors have been too bearish on the metal.
[01:27:21]  And so they haven't been willing to increase the valuations assigned to the mining companies.
[01:27:26]  And that just creates an even better buying opportunity.
[01:27:28]  So we have a lot of strategies, including specific gold mining stock strategies at Europe Pacific Asset Management, which is my SEC registered investment advisory company.
[01:27:40]  So we can manage portfolios in mining stocks, but we also have a lot of other strategies that invest abroad in foreign dividend paying and value stocks and in emerging markets.
[01:27:51]  And I think this is where the returns are going to be over the next decade.
[01:27:55]  Look at last year.
[01:27:57]  My international dividend payer strategy returned over 60% last year.
[01:28:02]  Wow.
[01:28:04]  That's more than four times the S ⁇ P 500.
[01:28:07]  And I think that the outperformance is going to continue because for 10 years, 11 years, the U.S. outperformed.
[01:28:15]  The S ⁇ P way outperformed that dividend payer strategy.
[01:28:19]  It wasn't until last year that we started to recover the underperformance.
[01:28:24]  And of course, we made up for several years in one year, but I think there's a long way to go as a lot of money gets sucked out of the U.S. market, which remains very overvalued and goes back to overseas markets, which are still relative bargains.
[01:28:38]  So I think you're going to see a lot more money moving out of the dollar, out of U.S. stocks, out of U.S. bonds, going back into foreign markets.
[01:28:44]  And so my portfolios are specifically designed to allow you to profit from that trend, from that rotation away from U.S. assets.
[01:28:55]  And I think everything Trump has done is pushing people out of the United States.
[01:28:59]  You know, he keeps talking about how all this money is flowing into the U.S.
[01:29:03]  It's actually doing the opposite.
[01:29:05]  The money is leaking out of the U.S. and more is going to come.
[01:29:10]  And the war is going to accelerate that process.
[01:29:14]  You know, they say, oh, look, the dollar strengthened because of the war.
[01:29:17]  It did, but only slightly.
[01:29:20]  You know, years ago, it would have strengthened a lot more.
[01:29:22]  That just shows you how weak it is in that there was a tiny bounce in the dollar.
[01:29:28]  And that's going to be reversed because I think the safe haven money is going to go back into gold, not the dollar.
[01:29:34]  And you can tell that by looking at the U.S. Treasury market.
[01:29:37]  Yields right now are the highest they've been on U.S. Treasuries since July.
[01:29:43]  We're at 4.4% now in a 10-year and almost 5% in a 30-year.
[01:29:50]  And we could be above 4.5% by next week in the 10-year.
[01:29:56]  And now we're in the same area where Trump tacoed out on the Liberation Day tariffs because the bond market was getting yippy.
[01:30:06]  Well, it's about to get yippy yappy.
[01:30:08]  So we'll see, you know, FETO is on the war the same way.
[01:30:11]  But the U.S. bond market's in a lot of trouble, which means the U.S. is in a lot of trouble because that means that rates are going up.
[01:30:18]  That means it costs us more to borrow.
[01:30:21]  Yeah, I would also add, I mean, everything you said makes perfect sense.
[01:30:24]  But on top of that, many of these investment deals that Trump announced with, for example, Gulf State billionaire investors for data centers, for example, these deals are going to get force majeured away.

=== Bond Market In Trouble (05:52) ===

[01:30:37]  Well, the deals were never really deals.
[01:30:40]  I mean, nothing was inked.
[01:30:41]  Nothing.
[01:30:41]  There was no actual legally enforceable commitment.
[01:30:45]  Right.
[01:30:46]  It was kind of like just tell Trump whatever he wants to hear so he can go back and brag about it.
[01:30:51]  You know, these guys, and now, of course, look, even if somebody was thinking about doing a deal, I think the war has got them thinking, you know what?
[01:31:01]  Circumstances are different.
[01:31:03]  We ain't doing this.
[01:31:04]  Well, clearly that's the case.
[01:31:05]  And also, you know, you think about Qatar.
[01:31:08]  You know, they thought, well, the U.S. military base in our country will protect us from Iran's missiles.
[01:31:15]  And it turns out, nope, you have no protection.
[01:31:17]  In fact, the base makes you a target.
[01:31:20]  And you just lost $20 billion a year in gas revenue as of right now.
[01:31:25]  That's been admitted by Qatar Energy.
[01:31:27]  And that's just one company in one country in the Persian Gulf region.
[01:31:32]  Because they may be looking for the U.S. to reimburse them for that.
[01:31:36]  Yeah, right.
[01:31:37]  Where's our reparation?
[01:31:38]  You want to keep your base in our country?
[01:31:40]  You better pay us this money, you know, because otherwise get the hell out.
[01:31:45]  Well, remember, they're offline.
[01:31:47]  I mean, those two trains are offline for three to five years, and that's $20 billion a year.
[01:31:51]  So we're talking $60 to $100 billion in losses that they've officially admitted to in press releases.
[01:31:56]  Wow.
[01:31:57]  That's a lot.
[01:31:58]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:32:00]  So Trump is going to be in scramble mode, it seems to me.
[01:32:04]  But like you said, every time he says something, it's either a lie or it's a contradiction of something he said 30 minutes earlier.
[01:32:12]  How do we make sense of what Trump is doing?
[01:32:15]  Is there any way to make sense at all?
[01:32:17]  Well, that's the problem when you lie.
[01:32:18]  It's easy to contradict yourself because you tell one lie and then you tell another lie.
[01:32:22]  See, if you always tell the truth, then you never contradict yourself because it would be impossible to contradict yourself if you're being honest.
[01:32:30]  It's when you're lying and you can't remember your last lie or you can't keep them straight, then a lot of times you're going to contradict a lie with another lie.
[01:32:41]  But look, Trump, as far as I can tell, it's all a big game to him.
[01:32:46]  And anything goes.
[01:32:48]  Like when you're playing poker, you don't have to tell the truth.
[01:32:53]  You could bluff, you know, or you could pretend you got a great hand when you have a lousy hand, or you can pretend you have a lousy hand.
[01:32:59]  That's part of the game, right?
[01:33:01]  You don't believe, if you're playing poker, you don't believe anything anybody tells you sitting at that table.
[01:33:07]  You just, you know, you try to figure out, you know, what they got, but you're not going to accept on face value what they say or what they pretend.
[01:33:17]  And so I think he looks at this as a game.
[01:33:20]  The way he wins the game is to be popular.
[01:33:25]  You know, I don't know, maybe to have the Republicans do well in the midterms.
[01:33:30]  But I also think he's looking at his family's wealth and net worth.
[01:33:34]  And I think he's trying to accumulate as much wealth as he can during the balance of his term.
[01:33:42]  You mentioned the midterms.
[01:33:45]  It seems like the GOP will take a lot of hits in the midterms if the American people are suffering with higher gas prices and food prices.
[01:33:53]  Well, they were going to suffer higher gas and food prices even if there was no war.
[01:33:58]  So I think Trump was already going to take a hit.
[01:34:01]  The Republicans were already going to take a hit.
[01:34:03]  Now they're going to be suffering even more, but Trump could say, well, it's because of the war.
[01:34:09]  Like everything would have been great.
[01:34:11]  We had the greatest economy in the history of the world, and then we had this war.
[01:34:15]  And as soon as the war is over, well, we'll be boom time again.
[01:34:19]  And it's going to be over soon.
[01:34:21]  So, you know, the war is going to be the scapegoat.
[01:34:26]  But it's the worst.
[01:34:28]  I initially thought the scapegoat would be the tariffs, you know, the Supreme Court or the Fed.
[01:34:34]  The Fed was too tight.
[01:34:36]  But now the best scapegoat Trump going to have is going to be this war.
[01:34:43]  Well, either way, I mean, the elections, the special elections that have taken place right now have all gone Democrat.
[01:34:51]  The Democrats are going to, look, the Democrats are going to take the House.
[01:34:54]  There's no question about that.
[01:34:57]  I mean, that would be normal.
[01:34:58]  They have a razor-thin majority now.
[01:35:02]  And the party in power typically loses seats in the House.
[01:35:06]  So that was already going to happen.
[01:35:08]  But what was probably not necessarily going to happen, but what I think will happen is the Democrats also get the Senate.
[01:35:16]  So the Democrats are going to control the House and the Senate.
[01:35:20]  The first thing the House is going to do is impeach Trump.
[01:35:23]  Now, he has to get tried in the Senate.
[01:35:26]  They're not going to have 60 votes.
[01:35:27]  I don't think they'll get 60.
[01:35:29]  I don't think that the Republicans could possibly lose that badly because only a third of the senators even come up for reelection every two years.
[01:35:36]  So there would be no way that the Democrats could actually do it unless you get some Republicans that want to impeach Trump, which would be very dangerous politically.
[01:35:47]  I don't even know if Rand Paul would want to do that.
[01:35:49]  He's one of the only few people that's willing to stand up to Trump in the U.S. Senate.
[01:35:54]  The guy who stands up in the House, Thomas Massey, I mean, Trump has vilified this guy.
[01:35:59]  I mean, he's made it his main objective is to get Thomas Massey out of the House.
[01:36:05]  And he's the best Republican we have.
[01:36:07]  He's the only Republican who even cares about the debt, who even pushes back against deficit spending.
[01:36:13]  And Trump wants to get rid of him.
[01:36:15]  Right.
[01:36:16]  And already got rid of Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned, but under pressure from Trump also for a very similar reason.
[01:36:25]  But Peter, as we're wrapping up this interview, and thank you for your time today.

=== Japan Cashes Out Dollars (03:24) ===

[01:36:30]  What's the most important takeaway from this that our viewers need to understand about, especially about metals?
[01:36:35]  And I think the U.S. is a declining power.
[01:36:40]  We're declining power economically.
[01:36:43]  This war may show that we're also a declining power militarily if we end up not beating Iran.
[01:36:49]  But I think the rug is going to be pulled out from under the dollar.
[01:36:54]  And the dollar's reserve status and its overvaluation is the cornerstone of our economy.
[01:37:02]  We have a service sector economy that only functions if the world supplies us with the goods that we don't produce and loans us the money that we don't save.
[01:37:12]  And when the world stops financing us, supplying us with goods and lending us money, our whole bubble economy deflates.
[01:37:20]  And our standard of living is going to take a huge hit.
[01:37:24]  And investors need to recognize that this is going to happen and do something before it does.
[01:37:32]  Pull their money out of overpriced U.S. dollar assets and invest abroad.
[01:37:36]  Buy gold and silver instead of holding U.S. currency.
[01:37:39]  Own foreign stocks instead of holding domestic stocks.
[01:37:42]  Own foreign bonds, not just randomly, not just any foreign stocks and bonds, but work with somebody like Euro Pacific that can help you pick the right stocks and the right bonds because we've got a lot of expert portfolio managers who are looking for the best values internationally.
[01:38:00]  I mean, you can try to do it yourself, but it's a lot easier just to hire me and my team to do it for you.
[01:38:05]  We don't charge that much.
[01:38:06]  And I think we do a really good job.
[01:38:08]  But the key is to do it quickly because you never know when you're going to run out of time.
[01:38:13]  Real quick, one last question.
[01:38:15]  Japan, is Japan going to be forced into a situation where they have to dump a lot of their treasury holdings?
[01:38:21]  I mean, they've been dumping quite a lot, but will that accelerate in your view?
[01:38:25]  Yeah, look, Japan has a big problem.
[01:38:28]  They have a lot of debt and interest rates have been rising to levels they haven't seen in 20 years or so or 30 years in Japan.
[01:38:36]  And they're going to keep rising.
[01:38:38]  And that's going to be a big burden on the Japanese government.
[01:38:42]  So they're going to either have to really raise taxes to cover higher debt costs, cut back on government services, or print a lot of money to monetize the debt.
[01:38:51]  But that's self-defeating because that will send the inflation rate even higher and ultimately interest rates even higher.
[01:38:58]  The best thing they can do to mitigate some of this problem is to unload their treasuries.
[01:39:05]  Because if they sell treasuries, then they can take the proceeds and buy back their own debt and reduce the amount of Japanese bonds that are out there.
[01:39:15]  And so they no longer have to pay interest on those because they're no longer held outside of Japan.
[01:39:24]  For a while, holding dollars gave them a positive carry because they were earning more interest on their dollars than they were paying out on their yen.
[01:39:32]  But as interest rates in Japan rise, that's not the case.
[01:39:36]  And right now, the yen is very low, almost $160 to the yen.
[01:39:41]  It makes a lot of sense for the Japanese to cash out their dollars now at this exchange rate and buy back yen.
[01:39:50]  So I think there is a real risk that Japan becomes a major seller of treasuries.

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[01:39:55]  Yeah.
[01:39:55]  Okay.
[01:39:56]  That makes sense.
[01:39:57]  Thank you for the analysis.
[01:39:58]  And thank you for your time today, Peter.
[01:39:59]  Let me give you out your websites.
[01:40:00]  EuroPacific Asset Management is at Europack.com.
[01:40:04]  That's P-A-C, Europack.com.
[01:40:06]  And then Peter's main gold website is shiftgold.com.
[01:40:12]  And check out both of those sites.
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[01:40:15]  It's always a pleasure to be here.
[01:40:16]  Oh, great.
[01:40:16]  Really appreciate it.
[01:40:17]  You too.
[01:40:18]  Keep up with the great tweets, too.
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