Natural Resource Stocks sits down with Alex Krainer for a revealing discussion on the UK’s deep involvement in the Ukraine conflict. 🕵️♂️ From intelligence operations to military support and narrative shaping, Krainer unpacks London’s strategic interests and its often-overlooked role in escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 How do natural resources, power politics, and geopolitical alliances drive this hidden agenda? This is a must-watch breakdown of Britain's stake in the war. ⚡
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00:00the main instigator of this war has been since the beginning uh great britain uh the united
00:06states was going along until trump came into power uh and the british um when the war started they
00:14they set up this thing called project alchemy uh at the british ministry of defense and it was a
00:23it's a it is or was a small cabal of uh uh academic intelligence and military veterans who
00:37um kind of uh brainstormed about uh the war and who produced a document titled something like
00:47uh ukraine the next chapter and then subtitle um exploring the strategic options for
01:00war or what you know something something to that effect
01:12good afternoon alex how's it going man it's going well andy good to join you again
01:17well thank you so much for being on and interesting and scary and exciting times
01:22all wrapped into one let's start with what happened recently in the ukraine-russian conflict or you can
01:29call it war uh they're calling it russia's pearl harbor work that out for me what's going on
01:36and how do you see this do you see this escalating even more from there or how does this get resolved
01:43diff at all okay so one thing that i need to point out is that you know the main instigator of this war
01:50has been since the beginning uh great britain uh the united states was going along until trump came into
01:58power uh and the british um when the war started they they set up this thing called project alchemy
02:06uh at the british ministry of defense and it was a it's a it is or was a a small cabal of uh uh
02:20academic intelligence and military veterans who um kind of uh brainstormed about uh the war and who
02:32produced a document titled something like uh ukraine the next chapter and then subtitle um exploring the
02:46strategic options for war or what you know something something to that effect and so basically they spell
02:54out a couple of very important things in the document the most important of which is in several
03:02times they underscore that we need to keep ukraine fighting so um their logic is that the longer the war
03:12drags on the more the russians are going to be losing legitimacy in the eyes of the global public and
03:19the more ridiculous they're going to look to the whole world and the weaker vladimir putin's position
03:26in russia is going to be and they're um and they also say that uh the longer the war goes on the more
03:33opportunity british intelligence services will have to run um you know um sabotage operation terrorism you know
03:46they even uh mentioned gladio style uh terrorist attacks on russia and so uh this what happened
03:57is what happened uh on sunday last last sunday uh was a a almost exactly something that they described and
04:10then you know when in february of this year no in january of this year kirstarmer signed a 100 years
04:19um partnership agreement with um with ukraine there was a lot of talk about them developing
04:27ukraine's defense together and there was a lot of talk of drone technologies so i think that the
04:34the the the uh the attack was planned and orchestrated and executed by ukrainian um ukrainian uh
04:45intelligence but supported by uh the the british mi6 or sas or whoever and probably rogue elements of the
04:55of the cia in the united in the united states um you know the ukrainian intelligence services are basically
05:04um pretty much the creation of western intelligence agencies uh one one u.s official even called them
05:14it's ukrainian uh you know sbu is our little baby now and so they have been they have been coddling this
05:23little baby and pretty much telling them what to do how to do it uh and we can even see that from the
05:30nature of the attacks because they went through a lot of trouble to target uh russia's nuclear um
05:40nuclear bombers if they if the sole objective was to just harm russia they could have done
05:47a whole lot of different things you know they could have targeted refineries power plants they could have
05:52targeted civilian airports they could have inflicted you know with a successful attack they could have
05:58inflicted far more damage on russia than they actually did i think that the reason why they chose
06:05specifically uh these nuclear bombers is because it crosses it crosses the line of russia's nuclear doctrine
06:15and uh by doing that i think that they were hoping that the russians would respond uh
06:21uh by launching possibly uh nuclear or maybe conventional missile attacks against western targets
06:30because the nuclear doctrine spells out that if a um if that if a non-nuclear power strikes at them which is ukraine
06:42but they're aided by a nuclear power then russia reserves the right to strike back at that nuclear power
06:50which helped in executing and planning the attacks so you know russia from its own own point of view
06:58now has justification to strike at nato britain germany maybe france i don't know and i think that this
07:06is what the attack was trying to achieve there they were trying to get the russians to fall into the
07:12provocation uh launch attacks at nato targets in western europe and then they could invoke article 5 and
07:23say like hey yeah you know it's the big war we go all together and go kill kill russia uh but i think that
07:33the russians understand this they know that this is a provocation and they will not give
07:37uh these western oligarchies the the most precious gift that they could give them right now because
07:44things are imploding in in western europe um the social economic political crisis are at a boiling
07:53point a world war three against an external enemy would be uh just what the doctor ordered for them
08:01and the fact that the russians are you know understand this implies that they will almost
08:09certainly not give them that gift okay so in my opinion and i'm not speaking for you but it sounds
08:17like you share the same opinion russia's showed remarkable restraint if you would and then um do you
08:26think that they will always be restrained here and then what exactly is it going to take and i
08:34certainly pray and hope that that this is not the case what is it going to take then to get world war
08:39three between russia and the west really nato um what's going to take to make that happen and do you
08:47think that because of the restraint that this is more or less not a not a high probability
08:54well i think that what it would take would be a successful false flag attack in in western europe you
09:04know uh last time i looked which was just a few weeks ago uh all the webcams uh around the city of
09:13london which may with maybe one or two exceptions are still dark they went dark in september of last year
09:20i don't know why they went dark but it's very bizarre that a major city with hundreds of webcams
09:26all around all of a sudden they all went dark and so to me that's an indication that they're preparing
09:35something and they could be preparing like a nuclear explosion above london or or a dirty nuke
09:42and i think that the british secret services have probably collected enough missile and bomb
09:51fragments in ukraine from russian missiles they could then spread that around london and say like
09:57hey look you know it was the russians we found all these fragments so i think that that could be in
10:03the works i don't know if they're actually going to do it but they are doing something because
10:09there is no explanation why the webcams went dark and stayed dark for months and months and months
10:17there's going to be a reason for it you know if one or two went dark or a couple of them went dark
10:21randomly but all of them that's you know that's something to pay attention to and so you know maybe
10:31that's also part of the the reason why the british are being increasingly open about their role they're
10:37no longer hiding you know at least since the kursk incursion in august last year they haven't been
10:45hiding their role they have been quite open and i think that they are maybe trying to draw a russian
10:53response and then you know they could say like oh look or or maybe just get the russians to
11:00to speak in such a way to make everyone think that oh my god the russians are going to attack great
11:08britain and the russians have to be very very careful they have not they have they have been open about
11:16yeah the brits are the chief instigator but they never suggested even even remotely that they have any
11:23intention of attacking the uk or or retaliating or launching missile strikes or anything of the sort
11:29so there have been no threats issued towards the uk so you know the brits are now kind of um grappling
11:40for straws and you know care starmer even though there has been no response from russia he's saying oh
11:48look you know the world is so dangerous and we have to we have to rearm we have to uh prepare for war
11:55um and uh they're doing it all to themselves by themselves and he's even he's even said that
12:04the rise in the cost of living is because the russians are threatening them i mean it doesn't make
12:10you know it's completely nonsensical but they are i think that they are quite quite desperate
12:16and uh i think that you know the uk is looking at a possible civil war in in not too distant future
12:26and so they're you know they're desperate for a for a foreign enemy and a foreign war and they're
12:31trying to provoke it in any which way they can and i think that they also think that if they get
12:36themselves into a whole lot of trouble that the united states would have no choice but to come to their
12:41aid and then they get their big war uh by hook or by crook but so far it's not happening that way
12:51okay so where does this leave nato and also the us um in this even though us is a part of nato
12:59does it just leave hey let's wait and see if there's gonna response or do they continually
13:04do you think do they just continually provoke uh well i think that they're going to provoke us
13:12in so far as they can uh you know these operations that they that they launched last sunday
13:19uh they took a long time to plan and execute and then subsequently they they launched a a c drone into the
13:28into one of the carrying pillars of the kirk bridge but they didn't it didn't do much damage because the
13:33russia's built um a protective barrier around them so nothing much happened there so you know will will
13:40they be able to mount something as uh well planned and sophisticated as they have done last week i don't
13:49know i don't i don't see that you can you can keep running these things one after the other because it
13:55takes a lot of time and resources to plan this and and organization to execute it properly so i think
14:02it's going to be difficult for them but one of the ways in which they are they're trying to uh
14:08exacerbate things is through through psyop through propaganda wars and so they are you know they're
14:15trying to uh they're trying to make the impression on everyone that russia i'm sorry that ukraine has
14:23still a lot of fight in them that they are capable of all these incredible uh mission impossible
14:29attacks on russia that you know they're trying to give everybody the impression that it's worth
14:34supporting ukraine that it's worth aiding ukraine by you know by maybe even putting boots on the ground
14:43and and and giving them long-range weapons and all of these things the the brits have uh you know they
14:51haven't been explicit or over about this but uh they are they have been looking to helping ukraine uh
15:00get nuclear weapons so you know they will try propaganda they will try diplomacy you know
15:09they will try to exert pressure on on the united states to rejoin project ukraine and recommit to
15:14uh providing security guarantee for ukraine uh uh you can see that they are they're going after trump
15:23because trump is in their way you know they're trying to delegitimize him to disqualify him to say that
15:30he has no control that he's uh uh he doesn't know what he's doing um they might try to assassinate him
15:37you know they've they've done it before they might do do it again but i think that you know trump
15:44understands this the russians understand this and i think that the opposition to the project ukraine in
15:49the united states is it's not just trump i'm increasingly getting impression that the opposition is far more
15:58robust and and widespread than we know because um the more you look into project ukraine the more
16:06you see that it's very incompatible in fact with u.s interests there are some people like the biden's
16:13like lindsey graham like um you know probably a number of people in the banking industry in in the
16:20you know various corporations blackrock and so on who have interest in ukraine and who would prefer
16:29a western-aligned government to stay in power in kiev but i think that broadly speaking for the american
16:39society for the american economy uh this project has been a disaster it's it's only cost a lot of money
16:48and weapons and it hasn't brought much benefit at all bulk of the benefits if if the project turns out to
16:56be successful will will go to the brits and europeans primarily french you mentioned that um this is
17:07really started by the brits but it's really because um i would involve i guess and i'm not speaking for
17:12you but my own thoughts involve most of western europe involved in this macron etc but you mentioned that
17:19western europe is imploding and britain is on the verge of a civil war is it just because of their
17:27economy completely tanking here um work that out for me that's certainly part of it but it's not you
17:37know britain is not the only one that's that's uh going in the direction of civil war it's it's france
17:43as well possibly germany um i don't know holland maybe belgium it's things are getting very tight
17:55and these things appear almost unthinkable like but you know i know that military circles circles in
18:05france actually believe that the most likely way that this crisis unravels is going to be through a civil
18:10war and they are actually preparing for it um the the huge part of the problem is economic you know
18:18you have you have we are we are on the on the verge of a very severe financial crisis which will
18:27probably not take place in the same way as uh as the last one did in 2008 you know like a lehman
18:34brother's moment and then everything uh collapses because uh at that time and then again during the
18:44you know behind the the pandemic smokescreen uh the bankers actually staged something of a coup where
18:52where they they've they've taken control of the printing presses and of the monetary policy completely
18:59so they will not allow one of their corporations or one of their banks to go under you know some
19:06small regional banks uh local banks they might go under uh you know due to market forces but the the
19:13the gsips the global systemically important banks they will be getting uh backstops from central banks
19:23to infinity so banks are not going to go under but what's going to go what's going to happen is that
19:29by by flooding the system with all this liquidity you're going to erode the the currency so you're
19:36going to have the cost of living crisis you're going to get high levels of inflation and i think that
19:42for europe and for the uk there's a there's a good chance that that inflation accelerates to a hyperinflation
19:47and that that then that's a that's collapse that's total collapse and you know if you had an evil
19:57external enemy that we all have to come together close ranks behind our valiant leaders and go and
20:04kill the enemy then you know that would bail them out yeah yeah you know you mentioned inflation
20:12possibly hyperinflation i always thought that deflation is very underrated not that i want
20:18deflation but it's very underrated inflation and in hyperinflation is what collapses an economy
20:26um yes and is that what we're seeing now in not only gold prices but a lot of a lot of
20:33industrial metals as well a lot of commodity prices with the exception of oil which i think
20:38is more than likely being manipulated um and we can talk about that but we're seeing really really
20:45high prices in gold silver copper etc is that why because that's sniffing out a possible hyperinflation
20:54uh i i i think so you know um over the last uh two or three years uh the well that's even more
21:03disturbing it's been it's been the central bankers who have been uh the main buyers of gold and uh my
21:12understanding is that most of this gold buying has been has been done privately and and um secretly
21:20and what does that tell us that tells us that the that the central bankers around the world
21:26uh no longer have confidence in their currencies and they're you know the reason why they're trying
21:34to keep it hush-hush is because they don't want us to get the wind of it and start you know dumping the
21:40currency and buying gold and precious metals and commodities and you know what have you uh so they've
21:47been they've been they've been preparing for a crash that they know is coming and i think that the buying
21:56of uh of of gold by central bank has has exceeded eight billion dollars a month so that's very significant
22:06uh then don't don't don't forget that there's a there's a 200 or 220 trillion dollar um shadow banking
22:15system where last i heard and that was just a few weeks ago okay maybe a few months ago i i i'm not
22:24100 sure but their average allocation to gold was uh i think less than one percent and you know it's
22:34gold the whole thing my understanding is worth about 20 trillion dollars the whole entire gold market
22:45but of which only a small part of it is actually being actively traded you know a lot of it is
22:50jewelry stuff that people have at home uh or is storage or you know in in vault somewhere the the part
22:58that's being uh traded is less than half of that and so if if only a fraction of so you know for your
23:07viewers the shadow banking system is hedge funds pension funds endowments charities uh insurance
23:14companies these you know financial non-banking institutions but they have a lot of investable
23:22liquid capital under their control and it would be enough for just a fraction of these money managers
23:29around the world to say oh gee look gold is going up maybe we need to increase our allocation to gold
23:37and so you know that could that could put huge upward pressure on the price of gold if they say go okay we
23:46have one percent or less maybe we want to double that maybe we want two percent allocation to gold well
23:53that would be enough to to you know put gold at five thousand or maybe maybe higher than that
24:00so i think it's uh i think it's loss of confidence and bizarrely it started you know the central banks are the
24:12ones who catalyzed this this move yeah it is um it is bizarre once you start thinking about it and once
24:22you start working through it and they've been typical uh shunters of gold or a hard assets well within the
24:28last couple of decades so there is an irony there uh work out for me a little bit um what is germany going
24:38to do specifically in all of this we've talked previously where you would saw them or i don't
24:44want to say you saw them but you you made the suggestion that they should go east and realign
24:50with russia because they don't have any good neighbors do you still see that as a potential
24:55case or is that i i think that that is a potential case uh because that would be the most logical
25:01development for uh for germany but you know the current uh the current people in power are going
25:10the opposite way and they're trying to repress the public through very heavy-handed censorship
25:19and very heavy-handed fines on anybody who is you know anybody who runs afoul of their censorship rules
25:26which are very very extensive you know like it's it's enough for you to say something pro-russian
25:32in public you get something like a 4 000 euro fine if you if you ask the question why are we supporting
25:42ukraine uh i think it's like something like two and a half thousand euro pint
25:49fine so they're trying to scare people into silence intimidate everybody
25:56into just kind of acquiescing passively and them trying to escalate the war and do as the britain
26:05britain does hope that they could get a big war evil external enemy and then you can you can shove
26:13everything under the carpet you can just tell everybody oh well you know your pensions are gone
26:17but you know it's blame the russians and there's no food well you know we have to feed the boys at the
26:23front there's no medicines well you know it's the right you know then then you could blame russians
26:28for everything not only that but under the under the under the martial emergency then you also get to deal with the opposition in the in a quick and efficient way
26:38um without the without this uh uh emergency uh you have a normal political process that is still alive
26:53and people asking questions and people say hey how come we're doing this this doesn't make any sense
26:59we don't want to go to war we don't want to we don't want our children to die for ukraine
27:04what are you people doing and so you know the government is losing legitimacy and i think that
27:10today it's very very hard to uh repress the people completely because you have social media
27:17they're trying to silence the social media they're talking about it they totally want to force the social
27:23media to police uh the discourse on on their posts but it's it's not quite working it's very difficult
27:31to police and so i think that there's a chance that there's the the current government falls it's
27:38already very unpopular even though they they only just took office and in that case you know if you got
27:45somebody in in in in in the government uh like like the if day then all bets are off and i think that
27:52they would reach out to russia they they they would uh uh probably seek uh exit of germany out of uh nato
28:00and out of european union uh and uh it would be yeah it would be a total game changer yeah no it certainly
28:09would and that's i don't see the eu surviving or the euro surviving without germany the biggest economy
28:14over in europe so it's hard for me to see i mean yeah i should say it's hard for me to see them
28:20surviving if that were to be the case um so i know that you're um as we become friends that you're an
28:29active trader you have a lot of experience in the hedge fund industry and um you write your um your
28:37you have services involving the financial services and um your thoughts and all of that i want to ask
28:44you really about bond rates and the japanese yen carry train to trade excuse me how does this or
28:53does this at all play into this um and what i mean by that it's really hard for economies
29:00to boom correct me if i'm wrong when bond rates are going up or are going up as high as they are when
29:07they have historically been lower i don't know if that is the case andy because you know there's there's
29:14actually no empirical evidence that low rates are good for economic growth and the high rates are bad for
29:25economic growth it seems um intuitive but in in actuality it isn't like that and empirically speaking
29:37there's no evidence for it at all actually there's a lot more evidence for the opposite
29:42so yeah the carry trade uh you know my understanding is that it's only partially unwind
29:50that it's only partially unwound and that it's still on and so you know that's going to potentially
29:57pressure um bond rates higher uh interest rates higher uh it's a problem because
30:07as interest rates go higher the value of bonds goes down and uh you know that for a lot of banks and
30:16corporates those bonds are the the the collateral that they that they use to fund their activities and so
30:24it's going to be yeah it's going to be a crunch time but for the fact that central banks are going
30:32to i think there's no question about it they're going to step in they're going to provide all the
30:39liquidity that's necessary for the system they're going to backstop all the bad losses all the bad uh
30:44credit on banks balance sheet and the the whole mary show is going to go on indefinitely until
30:51they destroy the currency because you know you can only flood the liquidity into the system for so
30:57long before you until you um you you trigger hyperinflation and so that's coming and i'm i'm not sure
31:06what trump administration is going to do about it it's obvious that they understand that they have this
31:11problem and that they are looking to transition to a different monetary system i've heard that
31:19they're they're thinking about a dual currency uh system so that they they they introduce a domestic
31:27dollar and a foreign dollar uh which which makes a lot of sense but you know let's find out because
31:34nothing you know they're going to have to ambush us with this you know they're not going to be able
31:40to announce it oh this is what we're going to do and it's going to be effective i don't know september
31:46one because that would cause complete panic in the markets so they're going to probably have to ambush us
31:53in some way or they're going to let the the crisis unravel or maybe even help it uh you know with
32:03insane tariffs and everything uh in order to say okay look this is we cannot carry on like this
32:09now we're going to now we're going to have a different currency system so i you know i don't
32:15know i think it's a it's a it's a lot of guesswork and we're going to find out when we do yeah how would
32:22that work with two currencies here in the us you said you have a domestic dollar and then an international
32:27dollar i'm not i'm trying to reconcile what you just said how would that work it would probably work
32:34somehow uh as as it does in china because china has that you know they have the uh the um the renminbi
32:42which is which is the the domestic circulation currency and then they have the yuan which they
32:48use for foreign trade and that that basically allows them to insulate the domestic economy from foreign
32:56shocks and as you remember in 1997 we had this uh big financial contagion across the whole eastern asia
33:07yeah so all the all the tiger economies basically collapsed and their currents uh collapsed except for
33:16china and that's because they have this dual circulation system and so i guess you know the
33:24it would make sense for the united states to do something like that particularly because there's
33:28about 32 trillion dollars in uh u.s to not in u.s denominated u.s dollar denominated assets
33:37in foreign accounts which you know if if the dollar starts to tank
33:43all of this might flood back into you know to to to sell to sell to sell it off and then that could
33:51that could crash the markets uh if you have dual currency you can you can control capital flows going
34:00in and going out you can restrict the sales you can restrict uh exports of of the you know the the
34:10the drain of of money out of the system you can do a lot of things that could help you manage the
34:17crisis uh without being completely open to to shocks from foreign markets that does not sound appealing
34:25to me and every capital uh restrictions if you would or the government controlling capital flows if you
34:31would it seems like it'd be it for the oligarchs here in the u.s that are in charge the big banks that
34:36are in charge in the government but it wouldn't be good for the uh the middle classes or the poor
34:43uh yeah but the whole point of having dual currency system is to predict to protect the ordinary people
34:49because you know people who are sophisticated in in financial markets they will have options to
34:56protect themselves you know they'll have offshore bank accounts uh they'll have hedge fund holdings and
35:03stuff like that um they they've already hedged them their bets it's the it's the it's the ordinary
35:09people that are going to suffer the worst and this is your economy essentially you know if the ordinary
35:15people lose purchasing power your economy is dead so you that's that's what you need to protect but
35:22i agree with you that this is not appealing because for the last 40 50 years we've lived and functioned
35:33in a system that seemed uh very you know um flexible not flexible is not the right word you know it was
35:44open you could you could invest abroad you could invest in the united states you could transfer money
35:49here and there without restrictions it was all open and free right free market but the the problem
35:55is that this system is unsustainable and we're just going deeper and deeper and deeper into into a crisis
36:03and so if something is unsustainable it means at some point it's not going to go on anymore
36:08and so you have to transition to something new and different at some point i think we're nearing that point
36:16now i unfortunately i agree with you um what is what is china's role in all of this in this new global
36:26economy um how are they dealing with this russia ukraine escalation here and um yeah work that out for me
36:37well china is trying to create a whole alternative
36:44system for the world not just for themselves and so they in 2013 they started this belt and road
36:53initiative um and so they're investing very heavily into that you know building out infrastructure
37:05roads railroads tipping line basically a system to facilitate trade
37:12between the nations of the world and um their strategy has been to
37:22to help economies gain prosperity you know they have lifted 850 million chinese
37:30out of poverty in the last 30 40 years
37:34uh which is creating an affluent middle class that has money to spend uh that can they can absorb the
37:45the output of the economy and i think that they're doing the same throughout the global south because
37:51you know they position themselves as a global manufacturing hub and they want to have
37:58you know billions of affluent consumers everywhere around the world so you know they have they're helping
38:07uh poor countries um build out their infrastructure uh port uh nuclear power plants things of that nature so
38:17that their local economies develop and i know one one example when when i was i was a at a conference in
38:25germany where there was a there were many delegation from african countries and from yemen and they were all
38:32very very very upbeat about uh the role of china in their countries and one young man from yemen told me
38:41here's how the chinese have done it in yemen they said they came in and they they built a support
38:46for 500 million dollars and we had no we didn't have money to pay this back and so the the deal turned
38:58out to be that the chinese said you don't have to pay us back now you you know this port will help your
39:06country's economy develop in another 20 30 years you will be able to pay us back and then we'll talk about
39:13the you know the payback so you know this this seems to be their outreach towards the world of course it
39:24completely clashes with the western colonial system which has for hundreds of years uh done everything to
39:33keep the colonies poor because they want to compete with them for the the raw materials you know if
39:43you have a if you have a very well developed economy in i don't know nigeria burkina faso cameroon
39:53then they would absorb a lot of their own output but if they're dirt poor and they need to
40:02sell everything to come up with hard cash to service the debts they have towards the western financial
40:08systems i mean financial institutions uh then they have to sell everything at the price that the west
40:16dictates because you know west had unchallenged primacy for centuries and so they were the only buyer
40:25right western corporations western institutions and so they deliberately wanted to keep all their colonies
40:34uh dirt poor uh so that is leading us to a conflict and you know remember george soros already told us
40:44that the the the conflicts were observing around the world that they're essentially the conflict between
40:50two systems of governance and so here um china is introducing something very different a lot of nations are joining
41:01bricks uh bricks uh road initiative initiative and now it's already very considerable and this is
41:10very attractive because you know everybody wants peace prosperity uh free trade uh no equitable terms so
41:19that everybody is better off rather than just somebody just one side but that at the same time is is
41:26is jeopardizing the privilege of western oligarchies that have run the system for the last few centuries
41:34and so they are you know they are desperate to destroy china to destroy russia to and to reimpose their
41:43system on everybody you'll you'll you'll own nothing and you'll be happy that's that's yes she's the model that
41:51they're proposing as the saying goes so let's uh i guess lessons with end with this is investors or
42:02what should they be on the lookout again you're having higher commodity prices
42:06slowing economies and it looks like we're going into the eye of this storm potentially i'm not saying
42:12that's where we're at but we're potentially there going into it the storm of geopolitical conflict here
42:18what should people do
42:23hang tight
42:26good answer
42:29i get this question all the time it's question yeah yeah
42:33well you know i think that um it
42:39it's it makes sense to
42:42have a couple of months worth of uh foods
42:44uh reserves it makes sense to own some gold and silver to come to cover a couple of months of your
42:53expenses to have some cash on hand to cover a couple of months of your expenses
43:01uh to learn how to grow food to learn how to cook
43:05um i always say that the most important thing is to reach out to your neighbors and get to know them
43:11because you know the day when you can't solve your problems by going to costco or or walmart or or
43:18something like that you might find out that you have a neighbor who can maybe fix your car for next
43:23to nothing or that they could fix your roof or whatever the some some neighbor has chickens and eggs and and
43:31some other neighbor grows grows potatoes and tomatoes and something and so you know your
43:39biggest boost to your resilience
43:44is to
43:46have local network of people who are capable of coming to one another's aid
43:52and who are capable to render their services to their neighbors
43:58in exchange for whatever you can
44:00give them you know
44:02buy coffee
44:04buy cigarettes
44:06hey
44:08bullets
44:10yeah maybe yeah probably that too but
44:13there are certain things you know you want to have food on in reserve
44:17yeah whiskey
44:18i know if if things get really really rough
44:23you could get
44:25a lot of favors for
44:27you know a pack of coffee
44:28yeah
44:29or uh
44:30or a carton of cigarettes
44:32yeah
44:32so you know it's it's it's good to have those items when you go into crisis
44:36you know like i lived through a through a war
44:39and believe me that comes in very handy
44:42i forgot to mention toilet paper
44:44uh toilet paper is something that it seems to me that the the people in power
44:51deliberately eliminate from from the markets
44:55because it's it's hugely demoralizing you know and they did they do it on purpose and we
44:59you know when when the when former yugoslavia started to go into a crisis and
45:04and and and and the wars of succession
45:07uh one of the first things that disappeared of the of the shelves was toilet paper
45:14but then when you know things like sugar cocoa uh toothpaste shampoo
45:19um and obviously coffee and i don't remember whether we had cigarette
45:25troubles i i i don't smoke so i didn't pay much attention to that but
45:29i know that in russia they had like a tobacco shortage and it was brutal because you know
45:36have a lot of people who are addicted to nicotine and they just went insane
45:40sorry not to nicotine they're addicted to something else i just saw some doctors saying
45:45that nicotine is not addictive that it's other compounds in the in cigarettes that make you addicted
45:51yeah you know people you know people start to have temper issues when they when they don't get
45:57their fake and you can't smoke yeah but maybe it's good to have a carton of two or a carton or two of
46:06cigarettes yeah i actually love that advice uh funny anecdotal story during covid yeah i'm in atlanta
46:14here and you couldn't find there was a toilet paper shortage using an air quotes and i uh called a
46:21friend of mine that was literally that lives literally an hour and a half away and asked him if
46:25he had toilet paper up there said yeah we just got some in and they drove up to get a case and they
46:32rationed it to me i can only buy one case at a time so interesting yeah so all these things you know are
46:41are good ways to prepare but i think that far and away the most important is to to not be isolated you
46:51know to to to really reach out to your neighbors and you know funnily enough the the authorities know
46:59this and this is why they're desperate to prevent um local communities from organizing i was a three
47:09years ago i was invited to ireland to a conference called think local and so this was five very ordinary
47:18law-abiding irish people who organized this and the whole idea was just for to for people from the
47:29local community to get together you know we created an event uh they they invited you know a couple of
47:36speakers i was one of them and the rest was you know people bringing their you know showcasing their
47:42produce whatever they do and meeting and mingling and talking to each other over meals over beers over
47:50you know stuff and it was very very difficult for them to organize this event because the government
47:58was trying to prevent it from happening and so this was february 23 and then they they managed to organize
48:06it but by by by organizing it at a at a false venue so they advertised one venue
48:16after the government canceled two venues before that so they they they they they advertised the third
48:21venue but they actually organized an event at a completely different place so somebody was at the
48:27fake venue telling people sorry it's not here you have to go there and that's how they you know
48:34uh um beat the authorities but when they tried to organize it again in july of 2023 uh the the government
48:45was able to to prevent it from happening and and they you know they already organized the whole thing
48:52and then everybody had to everybody had to disperse and leave this was in ireland this was in ireland but
48:59you know it's good to tell you they really don't want people to organize locally they don't want them
49:06to know each other they want them to talk to each other and you know that does it that's probably it's
49:14actually probably important to do exactly that yeah well alex you're a very busy man um i just want
49:21to leave uh you become a really good friend right somebody i look up to you somebody i love having on and
49:26having these discussions with um if people want to know more about you how do they find you and i'll
49:31put all of this information in the show notes on the youtube channel and the apple and spotify podcast
49:38thank you and it's uh it's my pleasure and uh people can find me uh on eggs my handle is at naked hedgy
49:46and i have two publications on substack one of them is for investors and traders a daily trend
49:52following newsletter called i system trend compass and i also have a personal um
50:01substack where i publish less frequently but i try to make it a bit more refined and more thoroughly
50:08researched uh which is called alex craner's substack that's now i have i have a website and a youtube
50:15channel and rumble channel and all this but it's easy enough to find me anywhere from from those three
50:21that i mentioned it really is alex i want to thank you again so much for your time you always make
50:26time for me and i'm so grateful for that i just really enjoy your talks thank you and it's a pleasure
50:32and uh all the best until the next time take care take care bye-bye
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