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The Phantom Ceasefire, Six-Dollar Diesel, and the Mom Crying at City Market over grocery costs.

Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. Neither Putin nor Zelensky had any idea what he was talking about. Hours later Ukraine smoked a Russian refinery. Russia responded with a ballistic missile strike that blacked out all of Kyiv.

Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, the Houthis — fighters out of one of the poorest nations on Earth — have shut down Riyadh’s international airport, killed 15, wounded 300, and the Saudi military cannot stop them. The U.S. is out of Patriot interceptors because we gave them all to Israel.

And in Steamboat, Colorado, a 30-year-old mom stood in the City Market dairy aisle with her kids in the cart and quietly cried over a $9 carton of whipping cream she couldn’t buy. Diesel is pushing $7 a gallon. Gas is $5.

This week we walk through all of it. Plus Ty’s own Baghdad chow hall story about why contractors don’t hide under plastic tables, Ben Askren’s lung-transplant GoFundMe, the student loan trap, and one open question we’re putting to listeners: what system would you build if you were king for a day?

The New Nuclear Dozen — The Series Finale

A 28 year old Russian scientist working in Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia has died from a disease of "unknown origin." The War in Iran expands as Trump and Netanyahu discuss another "shock and awe" strike on Iran, as Iran continues to hit ships militarily in the Strait of Hormuz.

Escalation with Saudi Arabia: The Houthis from Yemen continue to hit Saudi targets as they strike the capital of Saudi Arabia: Riyadh. The international airport there is now closed, and international fights are being directed away from Saudi airspace.

September 22, 2026. From the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations.”

The Union of Concerned Scientists issues a formal statement that same day: Trump’s words constitute an implied threat to use overwhelming nuclear force. Six months earlier, Trump posted to Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Amnesty International called those words apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation.

This is the finale of our three-part series on the nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026.

The pattern across both the Russia-Ukraine and US-Iran wars is now one phenomenon. Nine states — South Korea, Japan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, Iran, and Ukraine — are actively moving toward nuclear weapons acquisition. The post-Cold War non-proliferation order is dissolving in real time.

Mutual Assured Destruction, the doctrine that kept the Cold War cold, has been progressively replaced by tactical nuclear doctrine that treats limited exchange as survivable.

What this means for your family. And what you can actually do about it.

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Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran.

Pre-dawn, February 28, 2026. American and Israeli missiles strike Tehran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in his compound. So is his 14-month-old granddaughter. So is most of his family.

All 19 US intelligence agencies had assessed Iran was not building a bomb. Netanyahu told Trump otherwise in an hour-long Situation Room presentation on February 11. US envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly misrepresented Iran's offer to suspend uranium enrichment for several years — an offer that could have prevented the war.

Seven months in: 1,700+ Iranian civilians killed by documented count. 168 killed in a single Tomahawk strike on a school in Minab, mostly children, little girls. The US Navy Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain damaged. The Houthis seize Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline. Diesel at $6 a gallon. And Iran is still functioning. Khamenei's son Mojtaba now leads. Iran's parliament has introduced legislation to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Every country that has ever withdrawn from the NPT has acquired nuclear weapons. This week: how we got here, what Iran is learning, and what every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning with them.

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Two Million Casualties — The Budapest Betrayal and the Nuclear Age's New Corner,

December 5, 1994. Budapest, Hungary. Ukraine surrenders the third-largest nuclear arsenal on Earth — 1,900 warheads, 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles — in exchange for security guarantees signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation. Twenty years later, one of those guarantors invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Eight years after that, the same guarantor launched a full-scale war intended to destroy Ukrainian statehood.

Three and a half years in, the combined casualty count on both sides has surpassed 2 million, per the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Russia has suffered up to 450,000 dead — the highest battlefield death toll for any major power since World War II.

And Russia is losing. In 2025, Russia suffered 200 casualties for each square mile taken. In the first five months of 2026, 9,600 casualties per square mile. Its casualty ratio has collapsed to nearly 8-to-1 against it. Its recruitment cannot keep pace with its losses. Which is why Putin has formally lowered the threshold for nuclear weapons use.

This week we open a new series on the nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026.

What every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning.

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The Impossible Stones — Puma Punku, Tiwanaku, and the Bearded God Who Came From the Lake

12,800 feet above sea level. The Bolivian Altiplano. Near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca sits a platform called Puma Punku.

Its builders quarried 131-ton red sandstone blocks 10 kilometers away and hauled them uphill by muscle power alone. They quarried 130-ton andesite blocks — one of the hardest stones on Earth — from a peninsula 40 kilometers away, across a lake, and cut them to tolerances measured today at hundredths of a millimeter. They bound the blocks with molten copper clamps in a technique that appears elsewhere in the ancient world only in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

This week we walk through the engineering. The Berkeley experimental archaeology showing how it was achieved. And why the knowledge of how to do it at scale was lost when Tiwanaku collapsed and has never been recovered.

Plus Viracocha — the bearded creator god who emerged from Lake Titicaca, destroyed a first race of giants in a flood, taught humanity civilization, and walked west across the Pacific promising to return.

The same story we found in Sumer. In Egypt. In Mesoamerica. On every continent.

Different vocabulary. Same phenomenon.

Six Dollar Diesel — The Iran War Comes Home to Every American Kitchen Table

On September 11, 2026, diesel hit $6.05 per gallon nationwide — the highest price in American history, per AAA. Up from $3.76 before the U.S.-Israel war on Iran began on February 28. Gasoline is at $4.15, up from $2.98. Brent crude at $95-108 per barrel, up from $70.

Every trucker, rancher, farmer, and small business owner in America is now paying the war tax at the pump. A full tractor-trailer fill now costs $1,452 — five hundred and fifty dollars more than six months ago.

This week we walk through what actually happened. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis, in a lightning offensive between September 6 and 14, seized Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline including Mokha, Perim Island, and the Hanish Islands — giving Iran's regional axis operational control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as well.

The Saudi Crown Prince personally called President Trump twice on September 11 begging for U.S. military intervention. Trump declined.

Iran has now issued seven conditions to the United States for ending the war. And every American is paying for it every day.

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Special Episode — The Ten Days Before October 7

On September 9, 2026, Haaretz — Israel's oldest daily newspaper — published a bombshell investigation. The claim: roughly ten days before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed personally warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a 45-minute phone call that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation. According to the reporting, Netanyahu did not brief the Shin Bet, Mossad, or the IDF.

Within 24 hours, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett went on Israeli radio and said, in his own words, "I knew for a fact the report is true."

Haaretz also reported a second warning from Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel around the same period. Leaked recordings released by Israeli Channel 12 show former IDF Intelligence chief Aharon Haliva describing how Netanyahu had reduced his weekly intelligence briefings to twice a year.

Netanyahu denies the report and is threatening a libel suit. Haaretz stands by its reporting.

This week we walk through every source, every corroboration, every denial. Plus Netanyahu's own on-record statements about what he wanted the war to accomplish.

The question the evidence now forces.

Twenty-five years ago, the sky over New York was cloudless. By nightfall, America had changed forever. In this special episode of Black Army Radio, combat veteran Ty Bricker refuses to let 9/11 become a slogan. We remember the 2,977 stolen that morning — the firefighters who climbed toward the fire, the passengers of Flight 93 — then follow the wreckage across 25 years: the responders still dying of the dust, the troops, the 8,189 contractors nobody counts, and the surveillance state we built on our own grief. Part memorial, part investigation. Grief and scrutiny, in the same hand. Come think with us.

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The Sphinx — Water on Stone, and the CIA Document Nobody Was Supposed to Find

February 1991. A Boston University geologist named Robert Schoch walks the enclosure of the Great Sphinx of Giza for the first time. Within twenty minutes, he understands that the mainstream Egyptian chronology is wrong by thousands of years.

The Sphinx enclosure walls are eroded by water. Deep vertical fissures. The diagnostic pattern of sustained heavy rainfall. But Egypt has been hyper-arid for over 5,000 years. Which means the Sphinx was carved long before dynastic Egypt existed.

Independent geologists have confirmed the finding for three decades. Seismic surveys have detected chambers beneath it. Satellite radar in March 2025 claimed vertical shafts extending 2,100 feet down.

And in May 2026, a declassified 1952 CIA document surfaced in mainstream media. The catalog entry: "Temple under Sphinx."

The CIA has not released the referenced photographs.

The greatest single monument in the ancient world is hiding something.

A little news, and then . . . Atlantis — All the Sources, All the Locations, All the Ways They Kept It From You

1957: Sixty miles north of the Azores. A Soviet marine geologist named Maria Klenova pulls rock samples from six thousand feet below the surface — and finds atmospheric-weathering patterns. Meaning above water in the geologically recent past.

The Azores Plateau covers 400,000 square kilometers. Its crust is 20 to 30 kilometers thick — closer to continental than oceanic. UNESCO's own listing acknowledges that many of its seamounts were emerged islands in the past. The seven main inhabited Azorean islands match the exact number of Atlantic islands the ancient historian Marcellus described as preserving the memory of Atlantis.

This week we walk through the case. Not just Plato — nine independent ancient sources spanning eight hundred years. Hellanicus of Lesbos, writing before Plato was born. Diodorus Siculus, with a completely independent Phoenician tradition. Aristotle, referencing Carthaginian knowledge of an island called Antilia. Timagenes preserving the Druidic Celtic memory.

Plus the Sea Peoples — the naval confederation that appeared from the Atlantic in the 12th century BCE, contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse, and whose Egyptian chroniclers wrote came "from the countries of the sea, from their islands." Where did they come from? #blackarmyradio #atlantis #azores #seapeoples #GrahamHancock