Predictions 2026: Geopolitical Tensions & Global Conflicts

Twenty twenty six Prediction Series. Welcome in PBN family. Today, I want to talk about geopolitical tensions and global conflicts through the year. For many of you, this stuff probably won't really blow you away, but my opinions and I think the effects are important. You know what I mean. Let's take the lowest hanging fruit, which is Russia Ukraine going nowhere in twenty twenty six. Okay, going nowhere in twenty twenty six. If you think that the P word is anywhere in sight, and by P word I mean peace, it's going around today that they you know that the Ukrainians targeted Vladimir Putin's one of his residences. You know, that's the things that have happened just in the last week. They say nothing and look nothing like a war that's about to end. Right. One of the big things that's happening right now with Venezuela with Russia is America, Sweden and other nations are gonna join in this is they're basically taking down the shadow fleet, Russia's shadow fleet of oil transportation. And I'm telling you right now that in and of itself is gonna create problems for everybody. That's gonna create problems in the oil market. It's an insane amount of oil tankers that are funding wars, funding you know, dictatorships and regimes at the US and our allies don't get along with and we've kind of let it go for a long time. But now now it's on. You know, our embargo in Venezuela is collecting those gathering those chips up. Right. You remember Donald Trump saying the bit reported we are we gonna do with the oil? And Donald Trump said, We're keeping it. We're gonna keep it, and we're gonna keep a lot of it. And make no mistake about it. This is a direct this is a direct affront to Russia, right, It's it's a way to hurt Russia without putting any US troops on the ground, any US intervention so on and so forth, but really putting a hurting on them man. And and you know, sweet the one broke down in Sweden, one of these tankers, and they swallowed that thing up. And the Ukrainians are figuring out how to how to get their hands on them and how to blow them up. So it's this war is nowhere near ending. In other words, right, Gaza, the West Bank, you know this. The whole Middle East right now is nowhere near peace either, and largely because Iran, Iran in the United States are far from finished. I don't think that. I don't know. I don't know if it could be a full fledged war, not there would be much of a war. But I'm telling you right now, this US Iran Israel clash is going to continue all through twenty twenty six. It'll likely mess with energy costs, could effect manufacturing. It's you know, it's one of these things that it's a big area that's gonna be affected by this. And to be honest with you, I think if we push Iran hard enough, then we hasten the homeland attacks and the things that happen here. I think they're gonna happen anyway here, domestic terror attacks, domestic attacks because the United States is just hurting everyone. Right, Just think about it. Think about the nations we're pissing off right now. Right it's a lot, it's a lot. We're spreading ourselves out and making a lot of people. I'm not saying don't do it. I'm not saying back down. I'm not saying let the bad guys do illegal things and we shut up and eat our McDonald's. I'm just telling you what I think is gonna happen. Okay, I've been wrong before, but I'm another one of these people that feels like I don't know what China is waiting for now. Dave Jones taught me with Russia that you put enough military assets near a country, that's because you're going in. And China is doing that, right, China is doing that. The question I think China is weighing is not the military question. I don't think they're weighing the military question as much as they're weighing the what happens when our energy and food gets cut off. Remember, the big difference with China compared to Russia is they import more energy and more food than anybody in the world, which is such a weakness it's unbelievable. Right, So we have to see how that plays out. It does seem like a creeping issue, the China Taiwan issue that's just going to continue to grow and continue to grow, and sort of the underlying war between China and the US right now is the trade war, right, and we gotta be careful about supply chains as preppers. With that, we got to make sure that you know, I don't know electronics, medications are these are things that still haven't been fixed, right, were just still things that we're highly dependent on China for and so we got to be aware of that. That's all, you know, That's just what it is. There's more, There are more conflicts militarily right now than any time since World War Two. The world is at war right now. The world is it wore Soudan, Pakistan, Nigeria, because all kinds of places, right, Thailand and right it wasn't Thailand just going at it. So we we gotta make we have to look at the world as though it's at war and understand the effects that that has on things like ammunition, first aid in all those sort of some of those things that fall heavily into the prepper category are going to be things that are harder to get your hands on in twenty twenty six, if you ask me, or at least harder to get your hands on at the rate or at the quantity or at the specifically at the price that you're used to seeing. Right in our own hemisphere, right we have undoubtedly a war with Venezuela. We haven't This is not gonna end until Maduro's out, and that could be next week or that could be, you know, August twenty twenty six. Who knows. Who knows really right and who knows how far people go to keep him in power. Who knows If China gets involved, and you could argue they're already involved, we're gonna talk in these predictions about you know, digital disruption and cyber attacks and digital vulnerabilities in twenty twenty six. It's a huge issue, but there's no doubt about it. The United States, right, we're blowing it up in Venezuela, now, you know what I mean. We're stealing their oil, which is how they pay for their loans to China and Russia. So this ain't This ain't gonna end well, This won't end well. We're gonna reins. We're gonna install someone we like who's not gonna be allowed to have great relations with China and Russia. You know, that's part of the deal, and that's gonna take time. I don't think this guy's gonna back down very easily, you know, And I think things are gonna get really ugly in Venezuela for a little while. So as far as I'm concerned for you to take away twenty twenty six geopolitical tensions and global conflicts. The world is at war and war requires resources. War requires metals, War war requires requires materials, ammunition, first aid, right, like all of these things. I hope you have a plan to get them already, have a stockpile of them, or have a plan to stockpile them in the very near future, whatever your plan is, the deeper you get. And I hate doing this to you because I feel like I'm selling something. I'm really I'm not selling anything in terms of materials that I could even sell you. But I do feel like twenty twenty six in particular, the deeper you get into that year, the more you're gonna look back and saying, God, I wish i'd have bought that, am God, I wish i'd a bought I'll tell you right now, if ammo's your concerned, just get get to amosquare dot com. You know they're not a sponsor of ours anymore, or but I use their service every month. You know what I mean. They are. They are tremendous. They You will stockpile Ammo at the price you want, at the amount, at the investment level you want. And you know, one of the first things is gonna dry up is AMMO. Guys, that's just how it goes. You know, domestic might be you know, it might be better for the US because we produce it domestically, but eventually, if you've got you know, ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty nations firing bullets at each other, then guess what bullets, Right, They're gonna place big orders for bullets. We're gonna sell bullets to our government's gonna place big orders and sell that those big orders off to other nations. Like these are the things that are gonna happen. So keep that in mind. Right, you want to stockpile your food, water, medical supplies, your ammunition, think about fuel, be prepared for fuel shortages, increases that kind of stuff, because that's the world we're living in right now, and that's gonna be the picture for twenty two six. You know, no matter what Donald Trump says, and I'm not picking on the guy, it's just is what it is. The ending of wars is not as easy as you think. And and we're in two wars right now. You could argue three with Taiwan and China that are. There's so much hatred and the populations themselves, like the Russians in the Ukrainians, like they are vicious people. Man, do you know what I'm saying? The Middle East? I don't even need to talk about the Middle East, right, But I think we underestimated and I think Donald Trump underestimated the viciousness of Russians and Ukrainians, which are basically Russians at large, right, Russians and Slavic peoples in general, Like, these are vicious people. These are warring people. It's not this thing where they're gonna sign a treaty and smile at each other. You know, in the streets, it's gonna be ugly for a while. It doesn't look anything like peace to me. So buckle up, get your preparation plans in order. You know, at the very least, prioritize food and water. And if ammunition is important to you, if body armor is important to you, if you know medical supplies and stuff like that are important to your stockpile, then think it over. It might be time to make a purchase. Talk to you soon, folks. Stay tuned for more twenty twenty six predictions as we dig into the new year, and as I got at least what I think, I got about eight more of these to cover as we predict what's coming in twenty twenty six, talk to you soon, PBN family. Oh and don't forget the best way to support PBN so that I can hop on here and do what I do and all of our hosts can hop on and do what they do is with a membership. All right, visit pbnfamily dot com and sign up today for your membership. I do appreciate you, thanks so much. And if you want survival gear sort of cold eleminated survival kits for this tumultuous time, visit Lima tangosurvival dot com, our great sponsor,