Mike Adams – Natural News June 30, 2026
Introduction: The Economic Shockwave We Ignored
The war with Iran is not just a military misadventure but an economic catastrophe that will rival the financial fallout of 2008. The Strait of Hormuz closure has triggered shortages in oil, gas, helium, and fertilizer, leading to rising costs and supply chain chaos. We ignored the warnings, and now we are paying the price.
The mainstream media and the administration tried to spin this as a quick victory, but the reality is far darker. As I have been warning for months, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz cuts off roughly 20% of global oil trade and a third of agricultural inputs, driving up gas prices and food costs. [1] The situation was entirely predictable: the U.S. massed naval firepower in February 2026, Iran responded by closing the strait, and the global economy immediately seized up. [2] Our economy floats on oil, as Sharon Astyk wrote in Depletion and Abundance: “Our food is grown with oil, packaged in oil, and transported to our grocery stores with oil.” [3] That oil lifeline has been cut, and the consequences are only beginning.
The Strait of Hormuz: America’s Economic Achilles’ Heel
Closing the Strait doesn’t just affect oil. Helium shortages threaten semiconductor production, medical MRIs, and the AI bubble. I have seen this firsthand in my lab, where helium supplies have been rationed by key gas suppliers and prices have skyrocketed. Critical commodities like sulfur and urea are also in short supply, impacting industries from microchips to fertilizers. [4] The administration’s spin that a quick deal will restore everything fails to account for the long-term deficit. Even if the Strait reopens, the International Energy Agency warns that it will take two years for oil and gas supplies to fully recover. [2]
Fertilizer shortages are already causing crop failures. The Al Jubail industrial complex in Saudi Arabia, which produces much of the world’s ammonia and petrochemicals, has been effectively shut down due to the conflict. [5] Without fertilizer, global food production will plummet, triggering a widening famine that will hit the poorest nations first. For some countries, their entire food system will be facing near-collapse conditions by mid-2027.
As I reported in my article “No Way Out,” the oil wells in the Persian Gulf have suffered permanent damage that cannot be quickly repaired. [6] Investors cheered when oil prices dropped on news of a deal, but that optimism is misplaced. The structural damage to energy infrastructure ensures that future price spikes are inevitable.
Meanwhile, the AI bubble that has driven stock market gains is now threatened by some of the same shortages. Semiconductors require helium and specialty gases that come from the Gulf region. The tech selloff we saw recently is just the beginning. [7] The Strait of Hormuz is not just a chokepoint for oil; it is the jugular of the entire modern economy.
How Iran Outmaneuvered the American War Machine
Iran used a decentralized, strategic-depth approach – exactly what George Washington did – turning our blitzkrieg into a quagmire. They didn’t need a large navy; they just needed to credibly threaten the Strait. Iran’s control of that narrow passage, between two islands, allowed it to dictate global trade flows with relative impunity. [8] Trump ignored military warnings and fell for Netanyahu’s promises, resulting in a conditional surrender that cedes the Middle East to Islamic powers (if Trump follows the MOU, anyway). The war cost American taxpayers over $100 billion, according to the independent Iran War Cost Tracker. [9]
Through all this, the Iranians proved rational and disciplined, while we blundered into an unwinnable war. As Middle East Eye reported, the Islamabad agreement “reads less like terms imposed on a defeated state than like a retreat from the American-Zionist project to remake the region.” [10] Another analysis concluded bluntly: “We have lost.” [11] University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi described the outcome as a “decisive victory” for Iran. [12]
This is a historic defeat for American power. Dmitry Trenin wrote that the truce “marks a defeat for American power.” [13] The US-Israeli war has ended the dream of a “greater Israel” and elevated Iran as the regional superpower. [14] [15] We are witnessing the end of American hegemony in the Middle East, all because of a reckless war that Trump never should have started in the first place.
Who Profits? The Washington War Economy
Every existential conflict enriches the defense contractors, lobbyists, and politicians in the D.C. suburbs. While Americans suffer from high gas prices and supply chain disruptions, Lockheed Martin just won a $35 billion deal to quadruple production of THAAD missile-defense interceptors. [16] The “war economy” is booming for them, but it is killing the rest of us. The collapse of trust in experts is justified: they serve special interests, not the truth. And certainly not the American people.
The Republican Party, which once pretended to be America-first, is now a vehicle for war profiteering and nihilism. As I wrote in my March 2026 article, the White House’s war on Iran is “a catastrophic failure of foresight that will plunge the West into economic ruin.” [17] The Democrats are no better; they support endless wars as long as their donors profit.
The war has also accelerated de-dollarization. Countries like China and Russia are moving away from the dollar, and the Iran deal includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund that explicitly excludes US companies. [18] The petrodollar system is crumbling, and Trump’s war is the final push.
Follow the money. The US-Israel attack on Iran was always about securing control over the region’s energy resources and preserving oil currency policies. [19] The war economy is a feature, not a bug, of the American empire. It is designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many.
Conclusion: Decentralize or Be Destroyed
The only sane response is to prepare for economic hardship by decentralizing – grow food, stack precious metals, and reject the false choice of Democrats vs. Republicans. The system is broken beyond reform; self-reliance and community resilience are our last defense. We must stop trusting leaders who sold us into war for profit and instead build parallel structures of freedom.
The war on Iran is not just a military misadventure; it is a deliberate act of economic destruction that serves the globalist agenda. As I have outlined in my survival strategies report, the time to prepare is now. Stock up on storable food, clean water, and medical supplies. And most importantly, never trust the government to tell you the truth.
The chaos we see today is by design. The only way to survive is to opt out of the system’s control and build your own fortress of health, wealth, and freedom.
Find all my Decentralize TV interviews and episodes (they’re free) at Decentralize.TV
References
- The Domino Effect: How a US Attack on Iran Could Unleash Global Catastrophe. NaturalNews.com. February 20, 2026.
- Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade Threatens Global Energy Catastrophe. Patrick Lewis. NaturalNews.com. April 20, 2026.
- Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front. Sharon Astyk.
- Bright Videos News – Interview InfoWars – Mike Adams. BrightVideos.com. March 18, 2026.
- Al Jubail – They’re Burning Down the Backbone of the Modern World, and You Don’t Even Know Its Name. Mike Adams. NaturalNews.com. April 7, 2026.
- No Way Out: Why Permanent Damage to Persian Gulf Oil Wells Begins Now. Mike Adams. NaturalNews.com. April 28, 2026.
- Futures Slide As Tech Tumbles, Korea Crashes. ZeroHedge. June 23, 2026.
- Bright Videos News – Interview with Seth Holehouse. Mike Adams. BrightVideos.com. March 30, 2026.
- US-Iran war concludes: taking the toll. RT. June 18, 2026.
- The war on Iran was a strategic disaster for America and Israel. Sami Al-Arian. Middle East Eye. June 24, 2026.
- We have lost’: Trump’s Iran pact seen as a strategic defeat in Washington. Sean Mathews. Middle East Eye. June 18, 2026.
- Undefeated: Here’s how Iran sees the outcome of its war with the US. RT. June 24, 2026.
- Trump’s Iran truce marks a defeat for American power. Dmitry Trenin. RT. June 16, 2026.
- Trump’s U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel’s Middle East dream. David Hearst. Middle East Eye. June 17, 2026.
- Is Iran the new regional superpower? Kayhan Barzegar. Middle East Eye. June 2, 2026.
- Trump’s War Economy Accelerates As Lockheed Wins $35 Billion Deal To Quadruple Missile-Interceptor Output. ZeroHedge. June 26, 2026.
- The White House’s War on Iran: A Catastrophic Failure of Foresight That Will Plunge the West Into Economic Ruin. Mike Adams. NaturalNews.com. March 6, 2026.
- Report: Half of $300B Investment for Iran Committed. The New American. June 16, 2026.
- The US-Israel Wars on Iran: Follow the Money. Reza Behnam. Antiwar.com. June 18, 2026.
- Health Ranger Report – Survival strategies. Mike Adams. BrightVideos.com. March 4, 2026.
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True in effect, though ridiculous reasoning, because Trump is an actor never in need of any realistic messages, acting in complete consonans with the sabbaten frankist mielekowski, or whatever that devils real name is.
war never creates prosperarity . I enjoy the
stupidness of our german ,french,german
warmongers plunging their economies into
desasters . they will learn since not have learned
from history because of lies .
Israelis call for Netanyahus assassination
Story by Akhtar Makoii
Anger over Nutty allowing in Hamas on october 7
is still palpable
The plan to allow them in then kill them all back fired
some jews were killed and they blame nutenyahu
taken from the net
In the run up and during w w 2
there were deep feelings in the UK about another Churchill war.
What was known about the English Resistance is that many men who fought in w w 1
felt betrayed as the promises they got before the war never materialised.
They were told ” this is the war to end all wars ” fight this and there will never be another one.
These men some peace niks some with religious convictions and some who just felt another war was a daft idea
and thought Germany and Russia should fight it out without us getting involved.
A lot of these men felt Neville Chamberlian was right to stay clear of the conflict and Joined Oswald Mosely
who also wanted us to stay out of w w 2.
These men the news papers called ” Right Wingers “who were supporting Hitler, but very few were.
In fact Mosely made the public statement that if Hitler’s forces did invade his men would be at the forefront to deter them.
The English Resistance was strongest in Shropshire and East Anglia, but Churchill
in dawn raids had these men rounded up and taken to the Tower of London where they were not seen again, he called them Traitors,
but of course the real traitor was Churchill
accepting £150.000 from Rothschild to take us into another war.
Dr David Cohen the historian said on radio
“it was the triumph of the jew to take the 2 anglo saxon nations to war
twice in one century”
With the government totally out of touch with the people again at the present time
we are witnessing the rebirth of the English Resistance, and we have seen much anger with being deluged with foreign migrants since 1948, Boris Johnston giving £300 milion of public money to ukraine while real poverty is being seen here on a daily basis, at my nephews school the teachers have all chipped in to make sure all children have a dinner.
Th English resistance is being reborn to take on an evil racist governmen
From a friend:
“I did not know there are 2 routes.
https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/from june 22nd
https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/blog/open-closed-contested-strait-hormuz/
Two Routes, Two Sets of Rules
The key to understanding the current situation is geography. The Strait of Hormuz has two navigable routes — and they are operating under completely different conditions.
The northern route runs through Iranian territorial waters, close to Larak Island. This is the internationally recognised Traffic Separation Scheme — the route that ships used before the war began. It remains closed. The central channel is still mined. Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority has published a permitting system for vessels wishing to use the northern route, but the combination of mines, IRGC control, and prohibitive insurance costs makes it effectively unusable for most commercial operators.
The southern route runs through Omani territorial waters and is coordinated by the US Navy’s Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS). Iran does not recognise this route as legitimate — it explicitly falls outside the permitting system Iran has created. But ships are using it. Fifty-five did on Saturday. CENTCOM reports traffic is flowing.
The result is a waterway that is simultaneously closed and open, depending on which route you take, which government body in Tehran you ask, and whether your flag state has a relationship with the IRGC that allows northern route passage.
Why Iran’s Government Is Contradicting Itself
The contradiction between the IRGC military command and Iran’s foreign ministry is not an accident or a miscommunication. It is a structural feature of how Iran’s system works — and it is the same dynamic that has defined this entire crisis.
The IRGC answers to the Supreme Leader. The foreign ministry answers to the elected government. These are not the same chain of command, and they do not always want the same things.
The IRGC hardliner faction has consistently used military escalation to constrain what the diplomatic track can deliver — firing on ships during ceasefires, laying mines during negotiations, and now declaring a closure that the foreign ministry immediately walked back. The pattern is not chaos. It is institutional competition between two parts of the Iranian state with genuinely different interests.
For the IRGC, control of the strait is the organisation’s most powerful strategic asset. Every day the strait is effectively open under US naval coordination — without Iranian permitting authority, without Iranian toll collection, without Iranian institutional oversight — is a day the IRGC’s leverage diminishes. The June 20 closure declaration was an attempt to reassert that leverage at the moment it was most visibly slipping.
For the foreign ministry, a collapsed MOU is a diplomatic failure that leaves Iran internationally isolated and economically exposed. Hence the immediate denial.
The Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not publicly adjudicated between the two positions. His silence is the most important signal of all — it suggests the internal Iranian debate about how to implement the MOU is not resolved.”
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A staged coordinated war with a prearranged beginning/ending, just like with Russia vs. Ukraine. When all the ‘nations’ of the world are ruled by the same supranational Semitic central banking cartel aka Moses Mafia, these are the Orwellian wars/conflicts they orchestrated to operate/administer their secret one world government.
now you know
Bible hating Nico hates the Bible but loves referring to today’s Jews as Semites.
The US and Israel expected Iran to be a easy pushover. Doubling down might mean the world is plunged into famine. That wasn’t the outcome they expected.
And having their US bases in the Gulf destroyed was also not part of the plan.
Algerian man guilty of attempting to murder children sparking Dublin riots
Story by George Bunn • 14h •
An Algerian national has been found guilty of attempting to murder three children during a knife attack which sparked riots across Dublin.
Riad Bouchaker, who is now an Irish citizen, was found guilty of the attempted murder of a then-five year old girl, who was stabbed in the heart during the attack and is now non-verbal, uses a wheelchair and cannot swallow safely.
The 52-year-old was also found guilty of the attempted murder of a five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl in November 2023.
He was further convicted of intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to the children’s care worker Leanne Flynn, who he stabbed as she intervened to protect the children.
Bouchaker, of no fixed abode, spoke to his interpreter and a speech and language support worker after the verdicts were read out at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, he .explained it was in revenge for Britians RAF being involved with attacks on Gaza, something hiden from the UK public
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JEWS ENRICHING THE WORLD with their ideas .