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Navy SEAL's 2026 Warning That Nobody Is Taking Seriously | Mike Ritland
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- Julian Dorey Daily
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- Aug 26, 2026
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FULL EPISODE: https://youtu.be/WUXejVuDJw4 Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT MIKE RITLAND LINKS: - YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@MikeRitland - INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mritland/?hl=en - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MRitland?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor --- Mike Ritland is a former Navy SEAL who served 12 years including combat operations in Iraq saw action in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the single largest mission in Special Operations history and is now a three-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the Mike Drop podcast. He sits down with Julian Dorey for the most operationally credentialed and most analytically significant conversation in the series — covering the Iraq War and what it revealed about power money and the military industrial complex, politics corruption and what genuine accountability would actually require, the rule of law and what happens when government abandons founding principles, extremism authority and the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of someone who has operated in that world, emotion judgment and what the Roman Empire and Christopher Nolan films reveal about where America is heading, and the China threat the social collapse question and why Mike Ritland says the nuclear family is the most important single variable in whether America survives what is coming. The Iraq War and military industrial complex thread is the episode's most personally credentialed and most institutionally significant contribution. Ritland did not study the Iraq War from the outside. He fought in it. The specific insights he brings to the question of power money and the military industrial complex are grounde…