(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Many people seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding regarding where we are in the grand scheme of things. We are not living at a time of endless peace and prosperity. Instead, we are living at a time of war, famine, pestilence and major natural disasters. We really are living in the end times, and the coming year is going to be filled with crisis after crisis.
The good news is that you get to be here for it. All of human history has been building up to this particular chapter, and you are one of the lucky ones that is going to get to experience it.
According to the Institute for Economics & Peace, the number of military conflicts that are currently active is the highest that we have seen since World War II…
Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia… and so on. There are up to 56 active conflicts in the world, the highest number since World War II. Moreover, these carry an increasingly international component, with 92 countries involved in wars outside their borders. These are data from the latest Global Peace Index produced annually by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), a think tank that analyzes everything from military investment and the cost of violence to military laws and deaths in combat in 163 states and territories. “Getting the information is a challenge, but it allows us to compare dynamics. And what we see is a deterioration of peace over the last decade, especially in the last five years,” says Michael Collins, executive director of IEP.
Yes, we really are living at a time of wars and rumors of wars.
In fact, this week there were several more extremely alarming developments. For a detailed analysis, please see an article that I just wrote entitled “World War III Is Heating Up On Several Fronts, But Most Americans Have No Idea”. By this time next year, our world will look far different than it does right now. Leaders all over the globe have developed a really bad case of “war fever”, and we are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been before.
Meanwhile, hunger continues to intensify in many areas of the globe.
If you have plenty of food to eat, you should be quite grateful, because there are tens of millions of starving people that would trade places with you in a second.
In fact, there are tens of millions of people in the nation of Sudan alone that are dealing with severe hunger at this moment…
More than half the people in this nation of 50 million are suffering from severe hunger. Hundreds are estimated to be dying from starvation and hunger-related disease each day.
According to Reuters, every day one woman named Fleg walks two hours each way just to pick a few leaves so that she can fill her stomach with a “barely edible mush”…
So, every day after dawn, Fleg and other emaciated women from the camp make a two-hour trek to a forest to pick leaves off bushes. On a recent outing, several ate the leaves raw, to dull their hunger. Back at the camp, the women cooked the leaves, boiling them in a pot of water sprinkled with tamarind seeds to blunt the bitter taste.
For Fleg and the thousands of others in the camp, the barely edible mush is a daily staple. It isn’t enough. Some have starved to death, camp medics say. Fleg’s mother is one of them.
“I came here and found nothing to eat,” said Fleg. “There are days when I don’t know if I’m alive or dead.”
This is how people are really living on the other side of the planet.
Hunger is rising all over the world, but most Americans do not care because it has not affected them.
I believe that global hunger will get even worse in 2025, and I am convinced that pestilence will also be a major theme during the upcoming year.
Many of us are keeping a very close eye on the bird flu. It is being reported that the number of confirmed human cases in the state of California this year has now reached 31…
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on November 27 warned residents about a second batch of raw milk on retail shelves that has tested positive for avian flu virus, as official await the results from the latest bulk milk tank testing on the farm in Fresno County that produces the products.
In other developments, the CDPH reported two more infections in dairy workers, raising the state’s human cases this year to 31, all but 1 involving exposure to sick cows. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed those 2 new cases, pushing the national total this year to 55.
Will this be the next great public health crisis?
I don’t know.
Scientists are also deeply concerned about outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a new strain of Mpox, and Oropouch…
A warning has been issued to travelers over the spread of three diseases, including the Marburg virus. It’s a close cousin of Ebola that’s been dubbed the “bleeding eye” virus due to one of its symptoms.
Marburg, Mpox and Oropouch (commonly called “sloth fever”) are spreading in multiple countries, according to the UK Department of Health’s site, Travel Health Pro.
Marburg is a rare but “severe hemorrhagic fever that can cause serious illness and death,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says, adding that there is no treatment or vaccine for it. But, if detected early, supportive care with rehydration and symptomatic treatment improves survival, according to the Africa CDC.
I know that a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but what is eventually coming is going to be so much worse than the last pandemic.
We also live at a time when we are getting hammered by major natural disaster after major natural disaster.
In 2023, the number of “billion dollar disasters” in the United States set an all-time record, and we are very close to breaking that record this year…
With the addition of three recent Atlantic hurricanes, the U.S. has experienced 24 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year – a near-record number, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
On Thursday, NOAA’s NCEI released its assessment of the global climate, including U.S. weather disasters. Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton and one tornado outbreak were added to this year’s billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, bringing the total to 24 events as of October.
According to the NCEI, this year’s billion-dollar weather and climate disasters are second only to last year, which had 27 by this point in the year.
Needless to say, a lot of people out there just want to hear that everything is going to be rainbows and lollipops from now on.
But that isn’t the truth.
The truth is that the times that we are living in are going to be extremely challenging. In my new book entitled “Why”, I explain that God has told us history in advance and that this is extremely powerful evidence for the Christian faith. If you can show someone that God told us very specific things about the times that we are living in centuries in advance, it is going to be very difficult for that individual to ignore the gospel.
So many “experts” are giving us their opinions about what our future will look like.
But if you want to know what our future is going to look like, just read the Book of Revelation.
We are the Book of Revelation generation, and there is no other time in all of human history that I would have rather lived than right now.
Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
Things look rough now…agree…..and have looked the same in the past. However, more fear mongering is not gonna work. AND…all credibility lost when you are also trying to sell something. …don’t you know that by now??? Bird Flu lacks credibility, too….where exactly are the tests being manufactured and who exactly is testing…the USDA…ohhhh, ok! I have researched and researched….the whole epidemic reeks of lies!! Please lay off another pandemic scare tactic. The countries you mentioned at war or fighting are the same countries who have always fought….for FOREVER. Maybe it is the end of times….however, your product is not going to save us, if so!! Nor is any product. I have read Revelation…it ‘s warnings have been spot on also for past historical situations in the world, for eons. I agree times are extremely shaky now….ha, and I also love good beef. I buy from a local farmer….excellent beef. However, I doubt seriously it is going to save me during the Tribulation, if that comes!! You “cannot buy nor sell”….and what you have will prob be confiscated…if not already raided by gangs of starving thieves!! Gates/Fauci got rich by selling vaccines after they caused great fear. Please, enough of peddling fear!!
This may or may not be fear mongering, many think this will happen because too many criminals are inside our borders. Since there are no real borders anymore this country is trashed for sure. Hubby and I sat home didn’t vote for anyone because America is a fallen country without hope. Nihilism is embraced by over 95 percent of adults incl. politicians, State and local leaders, and muzzled 501c3 clergy. Comprende??https://alt-market.us/open-borders-have-created-a-terror-attack-time-bomb-in-the-us-in-2025/ It’s over folks, get your business affairs in order and prep to the max.
Avian flu virus H5N1: No proof for existence, pathogenicity, or pandemic potential; non-“H5N1” causation omitted
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7173052/
The bastards that are cultivating this crap need to be hung high for all to see.
People don’t see what they don’t know. I don’t know a single person, Christian, or not, that knows anything about the end times or any prophesy. At the same time they have a normalcy bias that can’t be explained and think the future is going to be wonderful. Of course, they are right, but they don’t know the Tribulation comes first.
https://endtimesprophesies.wordpress.com/
This person writes and writes and communicates nothing.
He fancies himself a Biblical scholar, even a prophet, but his predictions always fall short and fail.
Empty.
Hey, Bozo’s (americafirstreport)….where is my comment? Guess I must have hit on the truth!! So Censorship is on your plate, also!! Did a nerve get tweaked a little? I never cussed or called names or violated any standards.,etc….spoke the truth as I see it….and so do majority others see the truth now. C’mon….now I KNOW I will never buy your product!! Am really surprised you do not have the “guyanas” to to let respectful truth be posted. UGH!!!.
He once ran for Congress and I thought, DO NOT DO THAT. Nobody knows you and you sound like a do-gooder. Well, he ran and lost badly, so he became a blogger.
I stopped reading at sudan.
God Jehovah/Yahweh, Helps those, who help themselves.
Just as 1000 jews could have risked their lives, disarming the 20 soldiers with 5 shot rifles at the train yards, and not gone to the gas chambers, the humans in Sudan have not risked ALL,, or anything even,,, to make their lives and their country better for their children.
Those who are not willing to die for their fellow man, deserve what they get in the end.
Starving people in third world countries spend much time breeding offspring, then let them starve or die. The men can’t provide for their family and their lives are lived in limbo. They have no critical thinking skills and likely an IQ of around 50.
Michael Snyder is a Christian and does not prophesy. He knows where we are now in the book of Revelation. The 1st seal was Covid with Satan crowned king of the world, the legs of iron, Da 2:33, 7:23. The 2nd seal was the Ukraine war and the 3rd seal is famine. Now we are at the threshold of the 4th seal war, Re 6:8 war that kills 1/4th the earth. You’ll know when that happens shortly. The nuclear fallout shall destroy agriculture. Read Hab 3:17. 5th seal Christian persecution and mark of the beast, 6th seal Planet X pass-by and 7th seal fire from heaven. Then the 1st trumpet sounds beginning Daniel’s 70th week of 2520 days, 7, 360 day lunar years, and the week of the New World Order. Will DJT inaugurate the New World Order??? If he remains president for 4 years, probably, if there is a government left of the USA. Temple construction begins day #1 for 220 days. Guaranteed.
4+5 = 9
4+7 = 11
911.
You are so frustrating yes there is a pandemic coming. Likely manufacturer which means it’s not actually a pandemic.
We haven’t had a real pandemic and you referring to the covid hoax as such means you are validating liberal talking points.
We had a “pandemic” that was created by calling every death a covid death. We interfered with herd immunity by social distancing and shit downs which was the plan.
Bird Fly cases you mention as a cautionary prediction exists based on what? The same people who called flu cases covid or pushed an ineffective vaccine while covering up effective treatments?
You point to how deceived we have been and then point to the very deceivers speaking about similar concerns about what they lied about earlier and expect to be taken seriously?
How do you there any of those test runs of what they can sell are actual cases or the foundation of another phony pandemic. That would make you complicit in ushering it in. Can we start only mentioning empirical facts.
We are way farther along than most realize, but it didn’t just start with COVID. It’s been going on for a long time. The final straw (Noahs 3rd angel 120 years before the flood) for us was 1913, when Satan was officially unleashed through through the banking fraud and the form of government was fundamentally changed from a rogue republic to a pure democracy guaranteed to self destruct. Our first angel was when they unlawfully replaced the Articles of Confederation, which was Satan establishing his kingdom on top of Gods new Kingdom. The second angel was the so called civil war.
We are currently 111 years from the third warning, destruction will come after 120 years. That tell me that 2033 will be the year for Jesus to return. Is it just a coincidence that Jesus dies at 33, and the secret societies worship the number?