Editor’s Note: This story is based on legacy media reporting on the official narrative surrounding the Las Vegas attack. I’m not convinced that the official narrative is truthful and has all the hallmark’s of a Deep State psyop. With that said, Tim Kennedy’s perspective is important as we continue to learn everything we can about the attack.
New details surfaced about Army reservist Matthew Livelsberger, the suspect accused of blowing up a Cybertruck outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas. Adding a surprising layer to the story is former Green Beret Tim Kennedy, who revealed he had known Livelsberger in the past. The revelations have left many stunned, especially those familiar with Livelsberger’s impressive military track record.
The Las Vegas Incident and Letters That Followed
Authorities disclosed unsettling letters allegedly left by Livelsberger. These writings paint a troubling picture of his mental state leading up to the attack. In the letters, he criticizes what he calls “weak and feeble leadership,” accusing them of self-interest and prioritizing spectacle over substance. His disturbing message concluded with a chilling intent: using “fireworks and explosives” to make his point.
Livelsberger’s background as a highly-trained Army soldier and his transition into this violent act have baffled investigators and colleagues alike.
Tim Kennedy’s Connection to the Suspect
Former Green Beret Tim Kennedy, known for his work in the nonprofit Save Our Allies, revealed that he once knew Livelsberger personally. The two competed together on a military-themed reality show over a decade ago. Kennedy shared how seeing Livelsberger’s name and photos in news coverage left him “floored” and “speechless.”
Kennedy recalled his time working with Livelsberger and described him as a talented and competent individual. “He was fit, a good communicator, skilled in military operations—just an all-around great soldier,” Kennedy said. The shock comes from how inconsistent the current allegations are with the man Kennedy once knew.
A Brilliant Soldier With a Troubling Turn
Livelsberger’s military career was marked by accomplishments. He held roles as a Special Forces Communications Sergeant, Intelligence Sergeant, and Team Zulu member. His selection as a Green Beret alone speaks to his abilities since it’s a process that demands both mental and physical excellence.
Despite these qualifications, his recent actions and the tone of his letters suggest something “broke” in the months leading up to the horrifying event. Kennedy expressed deep concern over how someone with such skills and potential could descend to this point. He described the situation as “heartbreaking” and stressed how important it is for service members to check in with one another.
A Wake-Up Call for Soldiers and Leaders
Kennedy emphasized that Livelsberger’s case isn’t just about one individual. It reflects larger issues faced by service members returning to civilian life or dealing with the pressures of military service. The incident serves as a grim reminder that even the most trained and capable individuals can struggle in silence.
“This isn’t about a bad apple,” Kennedy said. “This is about someone who felt hurt, scared, and lost.” He called for more attention to mental health in the military, urging veterans and current service members to stay connected.
What Comes Next?
As news continues to unfold, this attack leaves many questions unanswered. What led this once-admired soldier to commit such a violent act? How was someone with Livelsberger’s training and discipline able to go unnoticed as his mindset deteriorated? The incident also raises broader concerns about how the military and society support their veterans after service.
For now, the spotlight is on ensuring similar tragedies don’t happen again. Supporting our soldiers—emotionally, mentally, and physically—has never been more critical.
Final Thoughts
The story of Matthew Livelsberger is as tragic as it is perplexing. It’s a sobering reminder that even the strongest among us can face immense struggles. As more details emerge, it’s clear this event will spark tough questions about leadership, mental health, and how we guide those who’ve dedicated their lives to serving others.
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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.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
