Iran Threatens Strikes Anywhere. The 14-Day Plan for Your Home | Mike Drop Newsroom

0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered a response with no geographic limit to any new attack and about 50,000 American troops are inside the region he's talking about. [SPEAKER_00]: This geographically unrestricted, the Supreme Leader said any threat must get an immediate impactful and geographically unrestricted response, reports say he also told commanders to update their target list to include, quote, all American and Israeli assets. [SPEAKER_00]: Trump said Sunday and Iowa that at one point we're going to have to give them the hammer and said Saturday that one or two sites remain again naming pickaxe mountain as one to look at axios reports netting out who pressed him to strike right after Tuesday's election while Trump leaned toward letting talks play out.

0:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Trump has ruled out strikes before the vote and Rubio says no decision has been made. [SPEAKER_00]: Why does this matter? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, this bit of an update is from the Iranian side in terms of that kind of unrestricted threat, which, you know, to be fair, if Iran threatens a lot of things and rarely follows through, having said that, they've shown that they do have reached to, you know, well outside the region, whether it's the UK or, [SPEAKER_00]: alleged infrastructure attacks connected to some of state-sponsored entities that they control or influence. [SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, where that, I think at least, brings or leads my mind to go is here at home.

1:37 [SPEAKER_00]: There's been a lot of talk, all over social media and in the mainstream media about preparedness. [SPEAKER_00]: I've had a lot of people ask. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, what does that look like? [SPEAKER_00]: What can you recommend? [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to preface this with two things. [SPEAKER_00]: Number one is that, you know, I don't have a crystal ball. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have any, you know, inside Intel on any targeted attacks, infrastructure related. [SPEAKER_00]: But we have seen in the past, you know, airlines being attacked, state and local infrastructure is being attacked, federal databases. [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, put into a corner, [SPEAKER_00]: have the desire and the capacity to attack us in a way that does shut down power grids or make whether it's water power or other infrastructure grid like systems go down for extended periods of time it is important to to be ready and prepared to a certain degree.

2:38 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the first process. [SPEAKER_00]: The second one is this is not my lane of expertise. [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate everybody asking me. [SPEAKER_00]: I would encourage everyone to check out Clint Emerson with 100 Deadly Skills or Mike Glover with Fieldcraft Survival, both of those guys have put out a ton of good information with stuff like this. [SPEAKER_00]: But having said that, I do think I'll try to dumb it down to kind of the way I look at it. [SPEAKER_00]: There's basically two phases, which is [SPEAKER_00]: the two-week and less phase, which I would say stay at home and have enough supplies and preparedness at your current location to write out, we'll say 10 to 14 days at home with no kind of resupply.

3:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Should it go past that, I'll get into that in a minute and there's kind of a secondary location that you'd want to identify, but [SPEAKER_00]: There's really just a couple of things that I would recommend in that 10 to 14 day window. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the pretty simple, first and foremost, some sort of at-home water distiller, Amazon sells a bunch. [SPEAKER_00]: They look like kind of coffee, caraf, style ones, there's several different brands. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to recommend any, but there's a bunch of them that are high quality, a few [SPEAKER_00]: and they distill about a gallon of water every five and a half hours.

4:05 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, get four gallons and change per day, plenty for cooking and drinking. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's really the biggest, I think, or weakest link that you're gonna run into is if there's no water available, you can only have so many cases or pallets of bottled water plus it's in plastic. [SPEAKER_00]: It can leak over time. [SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, and it's finite, [SPEAKER_00]: And I think about it distillers, you can pull water from pretty much anywhere and distill it. [SPEAKER_00]: I would get some sort of electrolyte packet, bobs or element to you, or something like that, to add back in so that you're getting the electrolytes because distilled water doesn't have any.

4:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And then they also sell these little charcoal filters for those units that are super cheap, and you can stock up on. [SPEAKER_00]: That by itself is the number one thing because water going is going to end things very, very quickly. [SPEAKER_00]: In terms of how you power that, should you lose power? [SPEAKER_00]: Some sort of battery bank back up a jackery or echo flow, something like that. [SPEAKER_00]: A few thousand watt capacity and a couple of the small solar panels to recharge it. [SPEAKER_00]: That combination right there should give you almost endless water. [SPEAKER_00]: And again, you can only go a day or two before things get really, really bad with no water.

5:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the water component. [SPEAKER_00]: Food wise, I like dehydrated meals, especially ones that are meat and protein heavy. [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them out there have a ton of carbohydrates and are mostly rice or beans or pasta or something like that. [SPEAKER_00]: And don't have much protein. [SPEAKER_00]: Ideally, you have a small chest freezer with a ton of frozen meat. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to go the dehydrated route, you know, peak or mountain house or backpackers pantry, I like peaked the best, but personal preference and just try to find ones that are balanced and have a lot of protein and fat in them, because that's what you're going to need for the long haul.

6:12 [SPEAKER_00]: With the chest freezer, you know, if you get a big enough battery back up that you can run your distiller and your chest freezer, then you're in pretty good shape. [SPEAKER_00]: enough medical supplies to handle, you know, small emergencies, antibiotics are always good to have on hand. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, but that's really the gist of the food and water component and the medical supplies. [SPEAKER_00]: Beyond that, guns and ammo, if you're competent and capable and you already have firearms, I do think it's important to have at least a few, [SPEAKER_00]: some sort of rifle, some sort of shotgun, some sort of pistol and at least a few hundred rounds for each, if not, you know, a thousand plus, but you got to know how to use it and I would encourage people to train before you get stock piles of gov guns and ammo and make sure that you're competent with it so that you're not adding to the problem.

7:07 [SPEAKER_00]: The last thing, I like headlamps and candles, you know, lots of candles. [SPEAKER_00]: enough firemaking material to either start a fire, should you need to or keep the candles lit and instead of big flashlights, maybe one big flashlight that's super bright, but then a head lamp at a minimum per person in your household and plenty of batteries for them. [SPEAKER_00]: That way you can wear them around, still use your hand, their cheap, the LED ones last a long time. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and they kind of get the job done for anything in and around your house that you may or may not need to do, depending on what time of year it is. [SPEAKER_00]: If it's super cold, having enough blankets and cold weather gear to ride out, you know, no heat source in the wintertime or in the summertime rather.

7:56 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a little dice here when it's super hot, but you know, you're going to have to ride it out with open windows and I wouldn't probably waste. [SPEAKER_00]: a ton of time or resources on fans or poor belacy units and things like that. [SPEAKER_00]: I would figure out a way to get air moving through your house. [SPEAKER_00]: But so that's the 10 to 14 day. [SPEAKER_00]: I like to keep it super simple and not go crazy overboard. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, should it go past 10 to 14 days? [SPEAKER_00]: I think identifying a secondary location and here's where coordinating with friends, family, people in your neighborhood. [SPEAKER_00]: having some sort of secondary location that's outside of super populated centers where, you know, you're not threatened by other people and competing for high-demand resources, if you remember how different points of COVID were toilet paper and water and certain specific items became impossible to find and then people started gouging.

8:57 [SPEAKER_00]: you know, imagine a scenario where that's the case for everybody for weeks at a time and you can imagine where it would turn into a rap race pretty quick and things can go sideways really fast. [SPEAKER_00]: So past two weeks I would identify, you know, even if it's some sort of ranch facility or even BLM or national park, maybe not national park, state park or federal protected land that [SPEAKER_00]: figure out a network almost last of a style where they have that kind of commune where you're really planning ahead and having some sort of idea should it go past two weeks and you need to bag out of your house.

9:39 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got somewhere to go in your coordinating different skill sets, assets, resources, and identifying a location where you can get to that's not super crowded [SPEAKER_00]: That's my take on it again. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not the expert on it, but those are my opinions and how I look at it. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I would check out Mike Glover or Klein Emerson for further information. [SPEAKER_00]: They've got books and materials and run courses and all sorts of stuff, but that's my take on on that and I'll kind of leave it at that. [SPEAKER_00]: The next story is one where, you know, we've heard a lot about this.

10:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, I'm trying to get my thing, my thing, my tablet to turn back on here. [SPEAKER_00]: So, the next story is basically related to one that we talked about yesterday where, the Straits of Hormuz are still locked down. [SPEAKER_00]: We've got the blockade in place, Iran says that they're running it [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the tip for Tatol, I'll say update wise is that there are continuing strikes taking place on ships on a pretty much daily basis and often times multiple times a day. [SPEAKER_00]: Rans says it can reopen the streets, but American crews stay on station, you know, in case they need to either escort or turn somebody around, you know, what's like running a blockade when both sides say that they're controlling it, well, the reality is it's [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I think the big thing here is that Iran is demanding that the U.S. draw down the presence in the region for them to open it.

11:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we've unfortunately put ourselves in a position where kind of negotiation lies were a bit stuck in, you know, if we draw that down, it kind of, not kind of meant it for sure signals that Iran, in fact, was controlling and continues to control [SPEAKER_00]: controlling them enough with the blockade to not let them have unfettered access and control who comes and goes. [SPEAKER_00]: But we don't have full autonomy in that way either because they've been able to strike enough to prevent us from doing that. [SPEAKER_00]: So it remains to be seen. [SPEAKER_00]: But the question I would pose to you guys is should that be on the negotiation table of us drawing down?

12:12 [SPEAKER_00]: the blockade, or does that signal too much of a weakness to really be able to bring any points to bear negotiation wise. [SPEAKER_00]: The next story, and this is a follow on from yesterday, we were talking about the denuclearization drive for the G20 meeting in Atlanta and countries all over the world that are trying to [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think that's an admirable but lofty goal and then I don't see every world power that possesses them ever really giving them up entirely. [SPEAKER_00]: North Korea has flirted with the idea of either freezing or completely denooking themselves and then they went ahead and tested a cluster bomb or head with US air drills underway next door in South Korea.

13:07 [SPEAKER_00]: my assumption or what that makes me think of is a bit of an escalation poking the barrel a little bit kind of showing of force, a North Korea style of munitions testing in a way where as they're talking about denuclearization, they're also testing capability at the same time, which I guess I would say I'm not super surprised, but that's what's happening. [SPEAKER_00]: China's making its own move in the [SPEAKER_00]: China's Coast Guard patrols off Taiwan's East Coast, East Coast and radio ships, Taiwan says to Chinese Coast Guard ships on a new patrol off its East Coast are harassing, shipping over the radio, claiming what it calls fictional jurisdiction.

13:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Taiwan sent its own forces to monitor Beijing as stepped up activity there since June and Taiwanese officials believe it's practicing for a possible blockade, China also sent [SPEAKER_00]: What does this matter? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, Taiwan has been a sticking point in a point of contention or debate for years. [SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot of infrastructure by way of chips and other kind of AI or tech sector supply chain connections with Taiwan. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's, I think, [SPEAKER_00]: I'd say a bit of a piss and contest with China over Taiwan and we've made it abundantly clear in years past that that's kind of a line in the sand or a red line for action against China.

14:49 [SPEAKER_00]: They have, you know, against a flirted with kind of disaster there of testing the waters and poking the boundaries. [SPEAKER_00]: But what I would ask you guys is that, do you think our staunch support and kind of line in the sand with China over Taiwan is warranted necessary and the best use of our foreign policy? [SPEAKER_00]: You kind of blue chips. [SPEAKER_00]: I understand why we have such interest and why it's important for us to be able to rely on Taiwan, four chips and other tech sector products. [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a curious I think predicament in that, you know, our incursion into Iran, our involvement in the Middle East, you know, our support of Ukraine against Russia over the last few years, you know, and then China encroaching on Taiwan and us kind of getting into it with them.

15:47 [SPEAKER_00]: The big question I would post to you guys is, do you think it's worth it and whatever it is that Thailand possesses tech sector product wise is worth the potential conflict with China over it. [SPEAKER_00]: I know that there's been, you know, years past. [SPEAKER_00]: a historic and significant uptick in wanting to produce a lot of the things that we rely on Taiwan for here in the United States, but that takes years or in some cases even decades to build up to the point where it's manufacturing lies able to keep up with the demand here in the United States. [SPEAKER_00]: So it may be, you know, quality of life or even in some way is existential [SPEAKER_00]: how much infrastructure and quality of life we rely on from some of those products.

16:38 [SPEAKER_00]: But I would ask you guys, is it worth getting into it with China over Taiwan and you let me know what you think? [SPEAKER_00]: But last thing is, you know, the Russia gas Europe thing, I won't get too far into it. [SPEAKER_00]: But it remains to, I don't want to say, baffle, but it's definitely a precarious. [SPEAKER_00]: aspect of foreign policy when our administration is kind of getting into it with Europe. [SPEAKER_00]: They have a freeze or a strike on getting gas from Russia. [SPEAKER_00]: We're now getting in the mix. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if there's administration officials that have business ties that are trying to get in on deals or kind of what our angle is necessarily for investment and interest in Russia sending gas to Europe.

17:27 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how that pans out, but I'd love to get your guys just take on why do we care? [SPEAKER_00]: To me, it is a little puzzling that we're getting involved giving all the other irons in the fire that we have. [SPEAKER_00]: But you guys let me know what you think. [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the headlines for today. [SPEAKER_00]: We got election day coming up tomorrow. [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll keep you posted if there's anything that pops up between now and then I'll jump on here again. [SPEAKER_00]: But be real curious to see what happens tomorrow. [SPEAKER_00]: and gauge the pulse of the country and kind of where their heads at politically. [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see what happens. [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening. [SPEAKER_00]: God bless everybody. [SPEAKER_00]: See you tomorrow.