Since President Trump initiated strikes on Iran’s theocratic, totalitarian regime two weeks ago, members of the so-called “religion of peace” have been carrying out revenge killings across the United States.
On March 1, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie opened fire on patrons having fun at an Austin, Texas, beer garden. He killed three Americans and injured a dozen more before being put down. When feds searched the shooter’s home, they found an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders. There was a Quran in the killer’s vehicle.
On March 7, two Muslim men (an eighteen-year-old Turk and a nineteen-year-old Afghan) traveled from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and attempted to detonate two bombs in a crowd of Americans protesting the Islamification of New York City. Although no-one was hurt, the would-be murderers had pledged allegiance to ISIS and were trying to carry out an even deadlier attack than 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing (also an act of Islamic terrorism).
The terrorists had considered shopping malls and other targets that would allow them to maximize the number of Americans they could murder. Islamic terrorists have used similar bombs to kill in India, France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. New York City’s Muslim mayor — a naturalized U.S. citizen — has spent more time criticizing the American protesters than the terrorists who attempted to murder them.
On March 12, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone yelled, “Allahu Akbar,” before opening fire on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps class at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. The Islamic terrorist killed the ROTC instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, and critically injured two cadets before other class-members stabbed him to death. The Islamic State ally was allegedly trying to recreate the 2009 slaughter at Fort Hood, Texas, in which another Islamic terrorist murdered fourteen Americans and injured several dozen more. He had already been sentenced to eleven years in prison for providing material support to ISIS, was a known admirer of slain al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, and had expressed a desire to murder Americans during the month of Ramadan. The Biden administration released this killer from federal custody with years left on his sentence.
Also on March 12, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon attacked the Temple Israel synagogue and daycare in suburban Detroit — one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues — with an explosives-packed car. After ramming his car into the building, the Islamic terrorist opened fire before security guards neutralized him. He lived in Dearborn, a suburb with the notorious reputation of being the “Jihadi capital” of the United States.
Do you think we might have a problem with naturalizing foreigners unworthy of American citizenship? Is it possible that after decades of fighting Islamic extremists “over there,” we might have an even bigger problem with Islamic extremists already in the United States?
Whenever politicians or pundits observe that Islamic immigrants often refuse to assimilate to American culture and are often downright hostile to the United States (while living off of state and federal welfare programs), those politicians and pundits are denounced as “Islamophobic” bigots. Apparently, if you are unwilling to look the other way while Islamic terrorists murder Americans, you are “guilty” of being insufficiently “politically correct.” Heaven forbid that we ever have another Islamic terror attack on the same scale as 9/11. Public school teachers’ unions will insist that we deserved it. Jake Tapper and CNN will find a way to blame President Trump. The Democrat Party (and Establishment Republicans) will look for new ways to bring millions of unvetted Islamic foreigners into the United States. And NYC Mayor Mamdani will hold Islamic prayer services in Times Square.
That last prediction is hardly far-fetched. On March 13, Muslims held a “Quds Rally” (as in pro-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) in Times Square during which crowds held portraits of Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” waved Hezbollah flags, and chanted, “Shame, Shame, U.S.A.” This obscenity was put together after four Islamic terror attacks inside the United States over the last two weeks.
A reasonable American might assume that openly supporting our enemies during times of war is tantamount to treason. Imagine seeing supporters of Osama bin Laden parading down Broadway after 9/11. Or watching German Nazis or Imperial Japanese doing the same thing in the middle of WWII. Yet we have al-Qaida and ISIS supporters cheering for Islamic terrorists in the heart of Manhattan today, and Americans are expected to accept that this moral abomination is a sign of a healthy “democracy.” I have seen few public figures denounce the fifth column operating with abandon inside the United States.
A common observation holds that if you want to know what problems the United States will be facing in fifteen short years, just look across the pond to see what’s going on in the United Kingdom. I’ve always found that statement a bit depressing because it has proved remarkably accurate. I say, “depressing,” because I have watched Britain commit civilizational seppuku all of my life. During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the opening ceremony featured a troupe of dancing nurses performing some bizarre routine meant to glamorize socialized medicine. Little did I realize at the time that American nurses would be emulating their performance less than a decade later during the great COVID panic.
Once “the empire on which the sun never sets,” the British Empire was so large that it included over a quarter of the entire planet. It had trading posts, possessions, territories, mandates, protectorates, colonies, and dominions everywhere. As the empire collapsed over the last century, an unusual thing occurred: The foreign peoples of all those former colonies and territories moved into the British Isles. The United Kingdom once controlled much of the world. Now much of the world lives inside and controls the United Kingdom.
How has this geographical inversion worked out for the native Brits? Let us count the myriad ways that life has changed:
- Out of deference to its foreign “newcomers,” the British government has decided that the English, Scottish, and Union Jack flags should be considered “tools of hate.”
- British museums are “fighting colonialism” by covering up historic portraits of long-since-departed Brits accused of “racist” or “imperialist” sympathies.
- The Bank of England is similarly “fighting imperialism” by replacing Winston Churchill’s likeness on British currency with native wildlife.
- The British government is demanding that schools, councils, and workplaces monitor and report “anti-Muslim hostility.”
- Following the government’s new directives, regional councils are warning schools that children’s drawings “could be blasphemous under Islamic law.”
- And London buses and Underground Tube stations are being equipped with “deep wound stab kits” and “bleed kits” for unstated reasons.
The British government is purging the United Kingdom of its flags, artwork, and history. While it enforces Islamic law against native Brits of all ages, the government protects its Islamic conquerors from insult. At least authorities in the U.K. have supplied city buses with “bleed kits.” It’s incredibly compassionate of the government to work so hard to save the lives of Britain’s sons and daughters who get stabbed by Parliament’s protected class of Islamic terrorists.
How much of the insanity now disemboweling formerly Great Britain feels fifteen years away, and how much of it seems entirely too familiar? Just as the U.K. is paying the price for inviting the world to live inside its gates, America is paying a price, too. Four Islamic terror attacks in two weeks suggest that a civilizational war is already raging. When “Islamophobia” is described as a “bigger threat” than Islamic terrorism, we have a pretty good idea who is winning.
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.
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