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Oct 20 2025

One in, One Out – Migrant Shuffling across the UK and France


Posted originally on Oct 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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France’s Emmanuel Macron and the United Kingdom’s Keir Starmer implemented the “one in, one out” program that has become the most blatantly ridiculous migration plan in modern history. France will take in migrants who attempt to enter the UK from French waters. In turn, France will send back an equal number of migrants to the UK in an equal swap.

How does this solve the migrant crisis? It doesn’t solve the crisis—these men are adamant on keeping the borders open. France has agreed to process all returned migrants, and those “vetted” will be permitted to return to the UK. The only qualifications are that they must pass a vague security check and have no record of attempting to enter the UK in the past. The program is designed to target single males, who represent the main demographic of “asylum seekers.”

UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood deemed the measure a “breakthrough” for migration. After all, the UK claims it needs to implement digital IDs to sort out migrants. The last administration attempted to broker the Rwanda scheme to combat illegal immigration and spent 700 million pounds on the measure. The result? FOUR migrants were deported.

“Those costs include £290million payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining hundreds of people and then releasing them, and paying for more than a thousand civil servants to work on the scheme,” former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced. She dubbed the program a “asylum Hotel California” where people may come but never leave. “They just stay in the asylum system. Even if they’ve come here unlawfully for economic reasons and should be returned to their home country, they won’t be because the law doesn’t work,” she later added.

The Labour Government decided to maintain “asylum Hotel California.” The total number of “asylum seekers” returned to France under the current scheme was last slated at 26, while the total number returned to the UK is 18. The UK invested £100 million in enforcement support and will fund the majority of the program.

The UK processed 49,341 intruders within the first six months of the year, marking a 27% annual increase. An alarming 88% arrived via small boat, bypassing the once-feared British Navy via canoe. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is using France as a “safe third country” to legalize mass migration and is abusing tax dollars to repopulate the nation.

Oct 20 2025

Did Trump Force Zelensky to Back Down?


Posted originally on Oct 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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COMMENT: Marty, we realize you have no respect for the Nobel Peace Prize after they gave it to Obama for absolutely nothing.  However, we should all nominate you because we also know you have been working the back channels in Washington and Moscow. It seems like Trump followed your recommendations for Zelensky to back down from no territory to surrendering the Donbas, as you have poinently argued would end the war. I have a friend who was with an embassy in Moscow. He said what they did to you gave you more credibility than anyone else from the Russian view.

We also know you have been trying to beat your own computer. If anyone can do it, it has to be you.

Tell Scotty to hold off on beaning you up just yet.

Paul

REPLY: I have been getting that a lot lately. They will never nominate me. I am that evil white man Hillary talks about. I assume that having a bronze statue is more practical. Pigeons need a place to perch and shit.

I cannot verify that Trump took my strategy to insist that the Minsk Agreement be honored if he refused to exit NATO to force the EU to heel, and to threaten an executive order prohibiting any American funds from being invested in Ukraine. My recommendations would shift the burden to Ukraine and the EU, where it belongs.

say the EU and Ukraine will reject any deal Trump does with Putin, so her bloodthirsty coniving needs to be circumvented. By demanding that the Minsk Agreement be honored, she cannot say this is Trump, and they had no say. The EU agreed and signed this deal, and then lied and never honored what they signed. Flipping this back onto the lap of Kallas, we would disarm her from claiming the EU was not part of any deal.

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Oct 19 2025

When Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide Is Acceptable


Posted originally on Oct 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

Those who think that Israel is guilty of genocide as if that is something unique to the Middle East, are obviously blind to the the entire region of the Balkans and Ukraine. This is the motherland of ethnic cleansing and genocide that the Western Press is paid to ignore. Trying to achieve peace in the Balkans may be more difficult than getting it to snow in Hell. The Balkans’ ethnic tensions stem from a mix of historical, political, and cultural factors that have compounded over centuries. Ukraine may not be in the Balkans and is technically part of Eastern Europe, the same ethnic hatreds that dominate the Balkans including ethnical cleansing is part of the dark side of Ukraine that cannot be ignored if we hope to even attempt to craft peace moving forward.

The Ustaša regime, officially known as the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH), was a fascist puppet state established during World War II, from 1941 to 1945, under the control of the Ustaša movement. Led by Ante Pavelić, the regime was aligned with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and ruled over parts of modern-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

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The Ustaša was a Croatian ultranationalist and fascist organization founded in 1929, with a violent ideology centered on creating an ethnically “pure” Croatian state. When Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Ustaša was installed by Germany and Italy to govern the NDH. Stepan Andriyovych Bandera  (1909–1959), the hero of Ukraine, adopted the exact same policies of killing anyone who was of not Ukrainian blood to achieve the exact same result – a purged national state of pure-blooded Ukrainians the same as Adolf Hitler. The Ukrainian National Hero was far worse than anything out of Israel. Bandera carried out genocide against the Polish, and US intelligence protected him.

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The NY Times showed the Ukrainian Nazis executing a woman and throwing her child in the pit alive to die along side his mother because they were ethnic Jews. There are documented accounts of cutting babies out of the womb and sewing in a live cat that even horrified the German Nazis. It is embarrassing to be on the wrong side of history all because the Neocons, bloodthirsty vampires themselves, harbor this same ethnic cleansing for Russians inherited from Bandera.

Bandera’s legacy remains polarizing: revered by some Ukrainian nationalists as a freedom fighter, condemned by others (especially in Poland, Russia, and Jewish communities) as a fascist and war criminal. After WWII, the Soviets repeatedly demanded Bandera’s extradition as a war criminal. The U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) refused, hiding his location in the American occupation zone of Germany. This allowed Bandera to operate freely in Munich for 15 years, plotting anti-Soviet actions. While not a CIA operation (the CIA formed in 1947), it set the stage for Cold War intelligence use of Ukrainian nationalists. As long as Bandera hated Russians, it did not matter how many hundreds of thousands of Jews he exterminated, all of his crimes were forgiven only because he was killing Russians as well. The US continued to support the very policies of Adolf Hitler, they just focused on Russians instead of Jews.

Oct 18 2025

Interview: Backwardation in Silver, Rise in Gold, Capital Controls in Europe, and More


Posted originally on Oct 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

Oct 18 2025

You do not hand a Psychopath a loaded gun


Posted originally on Oct 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine will swap “thousands” of its drones to the U.S. in a deal for U.S.-made long-range missiles, which are typically launched from submarines and warships. Trump said Friday the U.S. is interested in Kiev’s drones and complimented Ukraine on its production of unmanned aircraft. However, sources have confirmed that Zelensky is NOT interested in peace, and Ukrainians hate Russians, and this is a systemic problem. The hatred of ethnic groups in the Balkans is legendary. Handing Zelensky Tomahawks will start World War III, and Russia would be entirely justified in outright nuking Kiev or handing similar weapons to both Iran and Venezuela.

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Handing Zelensky such weapons when he has openly threatened to destroy the Kremlin is like giving Hitler a nuclear bomb before anyone else. These Tomahawks can fly at high subsonic speeds and at low heights to evade radars, which would equip Ukraine with the increased range and capability to eradicate the Kremlin. The Neocons selected Ukraine because of their historic ethnic cleansing. The Ukrainian torture of Jews even horrified the German Nazis. The declassified documents showed the CIA protected them from prosecution because they were also killing Russians.

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You do not hand a psychopath a loaded gun.

I am sorry, I have ZERO sympathy for Ukraine’s leadership, the EU leadership, NATO, or our Neocons. They are all sick people who will NEVER live in peace. We are fools for thinking you can negotiate with these people. Honor the Minsk Agreements, and there would never have been a war. The EU and Ukraine are not trustworthy. They signed the Minsk Agreement to buy time and never intended to allow the people to vote on their future.

Oct 18 2025

Is Peace with Russia Possible?


Posted originally on Oct 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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QUESTION: Do you think there is any chance of peace with Russia?

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ANSWER: Europe and NATO are the aggressors – not Putin. Zelensky is meeting with Trump today. Trump has to realize who his real opponents are. Peace with Russia is easy if you do what is right. Putin warned Zelensky that the Minsk Agreement was the key. Zelensky has been taking his orders from NATO, NEOCONS, and never from his own people. I had two employees there, and I can say many people questioned if he was even legitimately elected. We have witnessed what the EU and NATO did in Romania. Do you really think they were hands-off in Ukraine? There would have BEEN NO WAR if the EU, NATO, and Neocons had not lied and honored the Minisk Agreement.

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You cannot defeat Putin and think that is somehow the answer. When Khrushchev had to back down after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a coup occurred, and Brezhnev took power, deepening the Cold War.

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Then there was a proposal that Russia join NATO when the USSR collapsed. Just as our Neocons in the CIA killed JFK to keep war on the table and rejected his peace initiatives, the Russian Neocons staged coup #2 and overthrew Gorbachev. That is when Yeltsin stood on the tank and pleaded with the military not to fire on their own people. The military stood down, and the coup collapsed. Anyone who thinks they can beat Putin and force him out of Ukraine is not just a fool; they are a dangerous asshole. You will get coup #3, and this time you will get the Russian Neocons in full power. Just imagine if John McCain had become president with Lindsey Grachm as his VP. You would probably be dead by now.

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The Road to Peace is undoubtedly attainable. Putin wants peace – not war. I was in the middle of all of that shit. The Neocons have hated Putin because their blackmail of Yeltsin failed, and he realized he was caught between our Neocons with the Oligarchs and the hardline Communist Neocons who hate the West, just as Lindsey Grachm and McCain hated Russians. We are plagued by old hatreds that one generation refuses to surrender on both sides.

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In this meeting today, I would strip Zelensky of his arrogant, greedy power. My ultimatum would be simple.

(1) You will honor the Minsk Agreement and allow the people of the Donbas to vote on their human right to remain as part of Ukraine, which hates their very existence.

(2) If Zelensky refuses, I will impose sanctions on Ukraine, and no American company will be allowed to invest in Ukraine to cut off his trillion-dollar rebuild.

(3) If NATO or the EU refuses to honor the very agreement that they signed, the US will withdraw from NATO.

(4) We cut a deal with Russia, allowing American companies to enter joint ventures in Russia to exploit the rare earths and resources.

(5) All sanctions of Russia are to be lifted, including the Magnitsky Act, with the sole exception of sanctions that were against individual spies.

(6) Agree to do a joint venture in Antarctica for natural resources.

My sources have reported that Putin publicly proposed collaboration across trade, digital, high-tech, and space exploration. I believe that Putin would entertain joint projects in the Arctic and in Alaska, offering Russian ownership of specialized technologies and reserves in minerals and energy. Sources have long suggested that Russia possesses technologies that no one else possesses, which could interest U.S. partners.

I believe that Trump had floated the idea of Russian investment in Alaskan oil and joint exploration of rare earth minerals, and the Russian side presumably saw this as a potential area of cooperation. Beyond pure economics, a trade arrangement with Russia will force NATO and the EU to heel once American companies are operating inside Russia. Such a trade proposal would serve as a means to break Russia’s isolation, demonstrating that the NATO narrative of Russia wanting to take Europe is nonsense. This would be a carrot to U.S. businesses.

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U.S. President Richard Nixon visited Beijing, China, from February 21 to February 28, 1972 (1972.142). This historic trip — often called “the week that changed the world” — marked the first visit by a U.S. president to the People’s Republic of China since its founding in 1949. It was a significant step toward normalizing relations between the U.S. and China during the Cold War and included Nixon’s famous meetings with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. It was strangely 51.6 years from that historic meeting that led our stupid Neocons in the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on Russia and withdraw them from SWIFT, which led to the establishment of BRICS. Iranically, we REVERSED all the effort to create peace in 1972.

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I will release a report on the prospects of peace being reestablished with Russia

Oct 17 2025

Russia’s Digital Draft – Reservists Called to Frontlines


Posted originally on Oct 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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A generation of men has been decimated in both Russia and Ukraine. Russia’s desperate need for additional manpower has led to a new change in law that will instantaneously ship reservists to active war zones.

Russia’s defense ministry is seeking to send reserve troops to active war zones both domestically and abroad without the need for an official declaration of war. Russia never officially declared itself to be at war despite three years of battle. Moscow insists that its military is preforming “counter-terrorism” operations rather than waging a war against its neighbor. The Kremlin does NOT view Ukraine as an enemy. The entire conflict began after the Minsk Agreement—which would have provided the Donbas the ability to vote—was ignored. Ethnic Russians living in the region were forced to abandon their language and culture. Putin repeatedly stated he views Ukrainians as brothers.

If Putin were backed into a corner where he was forced to declare a declaration of war, the enemy will not be Ukraine. Ukraine is akin to the wayward son who lost its way under Western neocon influence.

The new law provides Russia twith he ability to send smaller groups of reservists to the battlefield rather than organizing full-scale mobilizations. There is no escaping the draft. Russia implemented a digital draft system that contains the names of all citizens in a centralized government database. Men are not permitted to cross the border or attempt to flee the draft. The government’s online portal, Gosulugi, sends out instant notification to men when they are selected to serve.

Men must report for duty within 27 days of receiving notification, or they’re deemed a draft evader. Evaders will have their driver’s licenses instantly revoked, and they cannot move within the system to any capacity. “People are summoned supposedly to verify their personal data, but in reality they’re immediately drafted,” said Timofei Vaskin, a lawyer affiliated with the School for Conscripts, a Russian human rights organization assisting those subject to conscription. “This practice is especially common in Moscow,” he added. This is the reality of an ongoing conflict. Those cheering for NATO to fight Russia fail to realize that it would result in their own men facing compulsory military service.

Moscow stated it will need 135,000 additional fighters from October 1 to December 31, marking the largest draft autumn since 2016. There are two annual drafts, one in autumn and one in the spring, where all men aged 18 to 30 may face compulsory service.

There are simply not enough men to fight this ongoing war. Russia is recruiting from African and Latin American nations discreetly, and North Korea is sending its small population on an as-needed basis. China has not sent soldiers, but it is providing aid, and the LAST thing NATO wants is for China to join because by then any possibility of peace would be off the table. Russia does not report the official number of casualties but it is believed that at least one million soldiers have died since the start of the “war” or “counter-terrorism” operation that was entirely preventable had Europe honored the Minsk Agreement.

Oct 17 2025

Poland Asks Ukraine not to Decimate its Steel Industry


Posted originally on Oct 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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European Union members must sacrifice their own economies for Ukraine. The unelected bureaucrats in Brussels repeatedly side with Ukraine on every trade dispute because their agenda is for an elite few to prosper rather than whole of Europe. Slovakia and Hungary pleaded for Ukraine not to decimate their energy sector—Brussels overruled their wishes. Farmers throughout the EU pleaded for Ukraine not to override their goods with duty-free imports—Brussels overruled their wishes. The examples are endless, but the outcome is always the same.

Poland is the latest nation to plead for Ukraine not to override an entire sector as tariff-free Ukrainian steel floods the EU. Ukrainian steel imports to Poland rose 27% in the first six months of the year, according to Polish steelmakers’ lobby group HIPH.

“We have a huge increase in imports of Ukrainian steel that is deeply pressuring our steel industry,” Deputy Development and Technology Minister Michal Baranowski told the outlet. “So we are working with the European Commission to find a way to address it, preferably in the short term.”

The European Commission proposed limited tariff-free imports from all trading partners, careful not to single out Ukraine, with a plan that would impose a 50% duty on imports that exceed a specific quota. Polish steelworkers believe the move would be insufficient. Poland’s steel industry faces much harsher regulations due to its EU alliance. Polish mills simply cannot compete against a seller who can undercut them at every turn, beginning with production.

Krystian Gunia, chief financial officer at steel producer Cognor Holding, spoke with parliament in Warsaw, where she stressed the need for immediate protection. The steelmaker is close to halting production at its new 800 million zloty ($217 million USD) rolling mill.

One of the main regulations hurting Poland is the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) that demands companies comply with green environmental standards. The EU has partnered with the Global Agreement for Sustainable Steel and Aluminum (GASSA) to ensure nations abide by net-zero regulations since climate change is the ultimate tool in the globalist arsenal. The carbon emissions from Ukraine are deemed acceptable by these agencies, which are reluctant to impose regulations on the country.

Poland will lose this battle because the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels have no incentive to see an actual EU member state surpass Ukraine. Every nation must send endless aid to Ukraine without question and willingly watch as Ukraine tramples on every sector of its economy.

Oct 17 2025

Chaos and Disorder Prohibited by National Guard


Posted originally on Oct 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

The party of chaos and disorder is furious that the National Guard has been restoring peace to US cities. Every metric has shown crime significantly plummeting in every area where the National Guard has been stationed. American citizens are safe; the military is protecting those abiding by the law. Yet, those like Obama are spinning the story to portray a ruthless dictator unleashing the military against their own people.

Obama declared that it is “inherently corrupting” for a president to use military “against their own people.” The former president took a shot at Governor Abbott of Texas, claiming that he could have sent the National Guard to protect Dallas but it would have been “boggling to me how Fox News would have responded.” “We don’t want masked folks with rifles and machine guns patrolling our streets,” Obama added later. “We want cops on the beat who know the neighborhood and the kids around, and that’s how we keep the peace around here.”

The National Guard is not arresting or threatening law-abiding citizens. Countless videos are circulating the internet where people are thanking the Trump Administration for controlling crime, stating that they have not felt safe to walk around their own neighborhoods in years.

The data speaks for itself. In Washington, D.C., violent crime dropped by nearly 50% during the three weeks that the National Guard was deployed in August of this year. Burglaries dropped by 48%, homicides fell by 57%, and auto thefts declined by 36%. Memphis and Los Angeles are also seeing a notable downtick in crime since the deployment of the National Guard.

Why is this controversial? The Cloward-Piven Strategy requires chaos and disorder.

Obama deported more people than Donald Trump did and that was before the borders entirely vanished. The Democrats are not concerned about freedoms—they’re concerned about losing control over an unstable population. Obama claims that the police were sufficient when his political party championed defunding the police and started a race war over a career criminal who overdosed during an arrest. The American people are grateful to have their cities restored. There is something outright sinister about “folks” like Obama who want to see the nation fall.

Oct 16 2025

China Retaliates Over Dutch Nexperia Seizure


Posted originally on Oct 16, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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The Dutch government believed it could prevent China from stealing “crucial technological knowledge” by seizing a private semiconductor company, Nexperia. The Amsterdam court of appeals installed new leadership and provided them with sole power to override any decision made by the board. The Netherlands was keen to prevent China from exporting chips back to the mainland, but it overlooked one major factor—the majority of Nexperia’s manufacturing occurs on Chinese soil.

Nexperia may have facilities in Europe, but they’re primarily focused on testing. The leading 80,000 square-meter assembly site is located in Guangdong province, China. China’s Ministry of Commerce may now prevent Nexperia from exporting semiconductor chips to not just the Netherlands but all of Europe. The facility in Guangdong relied on the Dutch facility to add the finishing touches on its semiconductor chips and can expand its own facilities to bypass the Netherlands entirely.

The Dutch government will claim that it prevented China from acquiring crucial technological information by seizing a private company. In reality, the plan utterly backfired as the chip shortage is coupled with advancing demand due to an outpouring of technological advances.

European jobs are at risk. China can easily begin testing at its mainland facilities. Recently released documents show that the United States pressured the Dutch government to replace Nexperia’s CEO, otherwise, the company would remain on the US “entity list.” The US Commerce Department recently expanded its regulations against any subsidiary majority-owned by China that will now face the same regulations as its parent company. “The fact that the company’s CEO is still the same Chinese owner is problematic,” the minutes of the meeting said, as cited by the document. “It is almost certain that the CEO will have to be replaced to qualify for the exemption from the entity list.”

A Dutch high court approved the seizure. US influence strongly impacted the decision, but the Netherlands has also sought to ostracize China. Europe fears Russian invasion and believes China is responsible for aiding Putin’s “crusade” that will expand into the rest of Europe. The US and EU are fighting China through economic warfare and using the free market as cannon fodder.