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Russia Tells Banks to “Shoot Down Drones Yourself”
Posted originally on May 28, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

The line between civilian society and war is disappearing completely. That is the real story behind Russia now authorizing its central bank and Sberbank to operate anti-drone systems and arm personnel to defend financial infrastructure. A country’s banking system is no longer simply processing transactions or moving money. It is now becoming part of the battlefield itself.
Russia passed a new law allowing the central bank, Sberbank, and the Russian Cash Collection Association to deploy their own drone defense systems after repeated Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory. Staff at these institutions can now reportedly be armed as well.
This is what happens when modern war evolves into economic warfare. I have warned repeatedly that World War III would not resemble World War II where armies simply lined up across borders. The entire economy becomes militarized. Banks, energy grids, payment systems, telecommunications, ports, railways, factories, and data centers all become targets because modern civilization itself depends on interconnected infrastructure.
Ukraine understands this perfectly. Their drone strategy has increasingly focused on striking oil facilities, energy infrastructure, logistics centers, and economic targets deep inside Russia because they know they cannot defeat Russia conventionally in a prolonged war of attrition.
What is extraordinary here is not merely the drone attacks themselves. It is the admission that the Russian state can no longer centrally defend everything. Moscow is effectively decentralizing air defense responsibilities and telling major corporations and financial institutions: defend yourselves. That is a major shift psychologically.
The Guardian even framed it bluntly: Russia is telling its banks to “shoot down drones yourself.”
This is precisely how long wars transform societies historically. Civilian infrastructure slowly merges with military infrastructure until there is barely any distinction left. During the later stages of major conflicts, factories become military targets, railroads become military targets, ports become military targets, and eventually financial institutions themselves become military targets because war is ultimately about resources and economic survival.
Sberbank is not some small regional bank. It is effectively intertwined with the Russian state itself. Sberbank controls roughly a third of Russian banking assets and acts as a pillar of the entire domestic financial system. The Russian central bank likewise sits at the core of wartime financing, sanctions management, currency stabilization, and capital controls.
Russia has pushed aggressively toward cashless payments, digital financial infrastructure, and central bank digital currency experimentation through the digital ruble system. But centralized digital systems become vulnerable during wartime because they create concentrated targets.
The more governments centralize financial systems digitally, the more vulnerable those systems become to cyberwarfare, EMP threats, sabotage, drone attacks, and infrastructure strikes. This is one reason governments are quietly preparing for a wartime financial environment globally.
What people fail to understand is that once banks become strategic military infrastructure, governments will justify virtually unlimited control over the financial system in the name of “security.” That is how capital controls are born historically. War always becomes the excuse for expanded government power.
The United States did exactly this during previous wars. Europe did exactly this. Gold confiscation, capital restrictions, currency controls, surveillance, transaction monitoring, frozen accounts, and restrictions on moving money abroad all emerge in wartime environments because governments become desperate to maintain internal stability.
Russia is already heavily centralized economically due to sanctions. But this trend is spreading globally. Europe is discussing CBDCs openly. Governments worldwide are building real-time payment surveillance systems. Financial privacy is disappearing everywhere because governments increasingly view the banking system as part of national security infrastructure.
Now we are reaching the next stage where banks themselves require physical anti-drone defenses. Imagine if JPMorgan or the Federal Reserve announced rooftop anti-drone missile systems surrounding Manhattan offices. That sounds absurd today, yet this is exactly where prolonged geopolitical escalation leads eventually.
Canada Moves to Destroy Encryption – Demands Backdoor Access to ALL Available Dataoriginally onCanada Moves to Destroy Encryption – Demands Backdoor Access to ALL Available Data
Posted originally on May 28, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Canada is walking into extremely dangerous territory and most people do not understand the implications because governments always package surveillance laws as “public safety.” That is how this begins every single time historically. They sell fear first, then quietly expand state power behind the scenes while claiming only criminals should worry.
Now even Apple, Google, Meta, Signal, privacy experts, cybersecurity professionals, and members of the U.S. Congress are warning that Canada’s Bill C-22 could force technology companies to weaken encryption and build government access mechanisms directly into their systems.

People need to understand what encryption actually is. Encryption is not some toy used only by criminals. Encryption protects bank accounts, corporate systems, private medical data, government communications, journalists, dissidents, businesses, lawyers, and ordinary citizens. Every time you use secure banking, send a private message, or protect sensitive data online, encryption is standing between you and cybercriminals.
The government always frames these laws as targeting terrorists, child exploitation, organized crime, or national security threats. But the mechanism itself never stays limited. Once governments establish the legal right to force “lawful access” into encrypted systems, the infrastructure for surveillance already exists. The temptation to expand those powers becomes overwhelming.
Apple warned directly that Bill C-22 could allow Canada to “force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products.” Meta warned the bill could require companies to “break, weaken, or circumvent encryption” and potentially install government spyware capabilities directly into systems. Signal reportedly stated it would rather leave Canada entirely than compromise its encryption promises.

There is no such thing as a “safe backdoor.” Once you intentionally weaken encryption for government access, you create vulnerabilities that hackers, hostile states, cybercriminals, foreign intelligence agencies, and malicious actors can eventually exploit. Government itself is composed of malicious actors for that matter.
The bill reportedly includes provisions requiring providers to maintain technical capabilities enabling authorized access while also retaining categories of metadata for up to one year. People underestimate how dangerous metadata itself becomes. Governments love pretending metadata is harmless because it does not always contain message content directly. Nonsense. Metadata reveals social relationships, movement patterns, communication habits, financial behavior, political affiliations, and entire personal networks. Modern surveillance increasingly relies on metadata because it allows governments to map society itself.
What is happening in Canada is part of a much larger global trend. Britain attempted similar measures against Apple recently. Australia passed controversial encryption-access laws years ago. The European Union continues pushing expanded digital surveillance frameworks. Governments worldwide are moving toward centralized digital monitoring systems because the financial and political pressures building globally are enormous.
This is exactly what I have warned about regarding the transition toward CBDCs, digital IDs, centralized payment systems, and cashless societies. Once governments gain the technical ability to monitor communications, financial transactions, movement, identity, and digital behavior simultaneously, you create a system where privacy itself effectively disappears.
That is how free societies slowly normalize surveillance infrastructure they once would have considered unimaginable. Governments globally are conditioning populations to accept the idea that privacy itself is suspicious. If you want secure communication, they imply you must have something to hide.
People better pay attention because once these systems are built, they rarely disappear.