Interview with Retirement Lifestyle Advocates


Posted  originally on Oct 11, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Click here to listen to the interview.

Renowned forecaster Martin Armstrong joins Dennis Tubbergen to discuss his groundbreaking computer model that tracks global capital flows and has accurately predicted major economic events for decades. Armstrong explains why capital is fleeing Europe and heading to the United States, the real reasons behind BRICS development (hint: it’s not about gold backing), and why talk of “de-dollarization” misses the mark. He reveals how geopolitical tensions are driving market movements, why European debt poses systemic risks to the banking system, and the surprising connection between stablecoins and Civil War-era war bonds. Armstrong also shares his unique perspective on why the U.S. dollar remains the world’s reserve currency and what makes it fundamentally different from other nations’ currencies. A must-listen for anyone seeking to understand where global capital is heading and what it means for markets, currencies, and the escalating geopolitical landscape.

Trump’s Deportation Efforts


Posted originally on Oct 10, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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President Donald Trump inherited a nation that was invaded. The invaders were incentivized to stay and permitted to coast under the radar. His administration was forced to throw down the gauntlet and forcibly remove the people who were invited to stay by the Democrats. New data indicate that ICE has removed approximately 600,000 migrants since January, with over 2 million having left overall.

ICE warned that “this is just the beginning.”  Over 1.6 million people voluntarily self-deported. They heard the warnings loud and clear. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin discussed how there were no consequences for invaders during the Biden Administration. Again, these people were INVITED to enter the nation by the Democrats. “Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequences. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders,” McLaughlin said.

FAIR, a conservative advocacy group, believes that the US government was paying $8,776 annually per illegal alien. The figure includes education ($78B), healthcare ($42.7B), and justice ($47B) among the costs to harbor non-citizens. That would place current savings at over $5.2 billion annually; however, migrants received different compensation packages depending on where they landed. The Heritage Foundation estimated the figure to be around $14,387 per household. No one ever determined how many migrants passed through the borders under Biden.

The latest ad campaign is urging migrants to leave willingly. Detention centers are avoidable. By now, anyone remaining in America illegally knows that they’re facing serious consequences for breaking US law.

In contrast, the Biden Administration deported 271,000 in 2024 and 142,000 in 2023. Far more people entered the nation and these deportations were merely to make it seem as if the government was working to address the problem.

The majority of Americans voted against open borders. Democrats invited countless millions into our home and expected us to be hospitable and pay whatever they demanded to subsidize their lives.

A new poll found that 78% of Americans favored “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes.” Even 69% of Democrats favored deporting criminals. I simply do not understand the controversy or the thought process behind the 22% of respondents who believe foreign criminals should stay in the US. The majority (56%) favored deporting “all immigrants who are here illegally.” Only 36% of Democrats favor mass deportation efforts.

My condolences to those still living under Build Back Better policies with open borders.

Washington Post: Obamacare was Never Actually Affordable


Posted originally on Oct 10, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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The Affordable Care Plan (Obamacare) was never affordable, admits the editorial board of the Washington Post. The same council that praised Obama’s “signature achievement” finally revealed what the American people so clearly experienced–healthcare costs rose.
“The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable,” the Post declared, adding, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.”Socialistic policies never result in savings. Regulatory mandates under the ACA required insurance companies to cover everyone and anyone with pre-existing conditions without any medical underwriting. Healthier and younger Americans were forced to subsidize the costs. The general public was forced to pay for services they did not need and at a higher rate. As a single man, I was forced to purchase child and maternal care coverage, for example. The average individual market premiums skyrocketed by about 129% from 2013 to 2019, more than double what they would have been if Obamacare were not enacted when adjusted for broader medical trends in inflation.

By 2015, the average American was paying 10% of their income toward health insurance. Some mistakenly believed that this socialist mandate would benefit the poor. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute found that 10% of people earning two to five times the federal poverty level were paying over 20% of their incomes to Obamacare. “You basically have an individual mandate that requires you to pay a significant amount of income between premiums and out-of-pocket costs,” one researcher said. “Those high costs, he said, “will make a lot of people think it isn’t worth it.” That 10% to 20% of stolen wages was in addition to mandated government taxation toward Medicare and Social Security. The Obama Administration touted that 70% of new insurers would only pay $75 per month for their plan. You’d be lucky to pay $75 for a week of mandatory coverage, AND that coverage is nowhere near sufficient to prevent the average American from slipping into lifelong medical debt in the event of sickness or injury.

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Millions of people were forced to purchase health care coverage despite the costs. The number of available plans declined, the number of patients assigned to doctors rose, and quality suffered significantly. The headline promise that Americans would be able to keep their preferred doctor was a lie. It is clear to see who benefited from Obamacare since the American people clearly did not.Hence why legislators were immune from participating in the program–rules for thee but not for me. There is a widespread belief that Obamacare was intended to fail in order to push forth universal healthcare coverage. Jonathan Gruber, an ACA architect, admitted that the policy was deceptively complex to elude the Congressional Budget Office. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” Gruber said in a 2013 panel discussion.

“The stupidity of the American voter,” as Gruber so eloquently explained, is precisely what government relies on when it attempts to pass these extreme measures.

The Rape Capital of Europe


Posted originally on Oct 10, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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The United Kingdom has fallen by its own hand. Statista released an extremely troubling report that shows there were 71,227 cases across the country at a rate of 114 per 100,000 people. The figure was 7,801 in 2000. How could this happen?

“Light-on-crime” policies have emboldened dangerous criminals, especially those without citizenship who are already above the law. UK authorities will arrest citizens for complaining about open borders on social media or protesting the demise of their culture. They promote violent crime against women—that is a FACT. The Pakistani grooming gang in Britain was solid proof that the government has been enabling RAPISTS by marking migrants as above the law.

The people of the UK have been protesting for years, but rather than reform, the government has become increasingly authoritarian. Three young girls were attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last year when a cowardly 17-year-old male, born to Rwandan parents, attacked the innocent children. Protests erupted across the nation, but the government condemned the protesters, labelling them “far-right thugs.”

Thousands of women in the United Kingdom were taken hostage and exposed to grooming gangs where they were abused and sexually trafficked. The Casey Report released earlier in the year finally admitted that the government failed to acknowledge the abuse because the perpetrators were migrants from Pakistan. These women could have been saved, but the government did not want to admit that they had failed their nation by inviting unvetted men from nations with unaligned moral ethics and views of women.

Sweden Gang Rape

(above: migrants in Sweden livestream a sexual assault)

Sweden has the second-highest occurrence of sexual crimes at 85.9 per 100,000, with France at 59 per 100,000. All of these nations have ONE common factor that people are afraid to admit because the public courts have deemed RAPE more acceptable than acknowledging cultural differences and incompatibilities.

As in the UK, the Swedish government has sided with deviant men over innocent civilians. After an increase in rapes across the nation, the authorities conducted a report that blamed young Swedish girls for the rise in violent sexual crimes. As reported in the Express, the police concede that the vast majority of attacks have taken place in public places and involve Muslim migrants. The report goes further by stating that these Muslims, who are not following their faith, are getting drunk and cannot “handle the alcohol” as they simply feel “horny” and have “ignorance of the consequences for the girls.” So it is the girls’ fault, not the migrants, and certainly not the politicians. When will the fathers start dragging the politicians out into the streets? You know that day is coming.

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Europe’s demise can be traced back to one woman–Angela Merkel. She opened the floodgates by permitting anyone and everyone to pour into Europe amid the Syrian war. “Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, once said that Europe is the faith of Israel, the philosophy of Greece, and the law of ancient Rome,” said Gerald Grosz, Austrian author and former politician. “All of this has been destroyed by Angela Merkel because she has abolished the law of Rome; she has destroyed the faith of Israel because she has exposed Judaism and Christianity to enemies from the Islamic world. She destroyed the philosophy of Greece by importing mostly, not all, (there are also good examples that worked), but mostly importing people from foreign cultures who want to destroy this philosophy, which is based on humanism and the fundamental rights of every individual. Angela Merkel is the destroyer of Europe.”

The Labour Party implemented laws that clearly state “ethnic and cultural minorities” are less likely to receive jail time for crimes. Hate speech is more harmful than violent physical attacks on women, according to every globalist government. The prevalence of rape among ALL Build Back Better open border nations has skyrocketed, but it’s too taboo to discuss. Should women have the right to feel safe in their home country? Think about that the next time you’re in a voting booth.

ZunZeno – How the US Govt Used Social Media to Spur Social Unrest in Cuba


Posted originally on Oct 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

Stories are circulating that Barack Obama funneled money through the Cayman Islands to NGOs. While that cannot be entirely verified, the portion of the story regarding the Obama Administration setting up a Twitter clone for Cuba called Zunzuneo is accurate.

The US government under Obama sought ways to subliminally target the people of Cuba while bypassing the strict communist government restrictions on social media. USAID paid government contractors to create “Cuban Twitter,” which first launched in 2009. Initially, ZunZeneo (translation: “hummingbird”) used the platform to discuss neutral topics such as sports, weather, and entertainment. Once the platform expanded to hundreds of thousands of Cubans, the US government began inserting political messages aimed at inciting civil unrest.

The Associated Press even ran an article about the incident in April 2014, “US secretly built ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest.” A leaked memo from Mobile Accord Inc., the company responsible for creating the platform, emphasized the importance of hiding the US government’s involvement. “This is absolutely crucial for the long-term success of the service and to ensure the success of the Mission,” the memo said.

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Slow growth was essential for the covert operation. The social platform utilized cellphone text messaging to bypass Cuba’s internet restrictions. “Non-controversial content” on hot topic was used to build a mass subscriber base. Nearly half a million people were subscribed to the platform before the content changed with the goal of organizing “smart mobs” to “renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society,” as one USAID memo revealed.

USAID did not attempt to conceal its involvement, noting in a public statement that the agency was “proud of its work in Cuba to provide basic humanitarian assistance, promote human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to help information flow more freely to the Cuban people,” whom it said “have lived under an authoritarian regime” for 50 years.

USAID claimed it was operating legally, but covert mission to influence foreign politics must be approved by the president. Former President Obama was aware of the program but could not openly discuss his involvement. Cubans were persuaded to rebel with known legal repercussions, wholly unaware that the messaging was coming from a foreign government. “Mock ad banners will give it the appearance of a commercial enterprise,” one proposal suggested.

“The Cuban government, like other regimes committed to information control, currently lacks the capacity to effectively monitor and control such a service,” Bernheim wrote in a proposal for USAID marked “Sensitive Information.”

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Acting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew of the mission. By 2011, she began openly discussing the importance of infiltrating foreign governments via the internet to lead to “revolutionary change.” Others in the Biden Administration were left in the dark. “We were told we couldn’t even be told in broad terms what was happening because ‘people will die,’” said Fulton Armstrong, who worked for both the Clinton White House and later the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The ZunZuneo management team was also unaware of US involvement.

USAID NGOs hired Cuban artists to draft messages to appeal to the people. The “Peace without Borders” concert in 2009 was the largest gathering since the visit of late Pope John Paul II. The US government used the occasion to gather intel through ZunZeno. Unassuming polls were sent out to the people, with some messaging containing subtle political components. One message asked respondents if they believed anti-government artists should join the concert. The US government gathered the cell phone numbers of the people who seemed receptive to use in future targeted attacks. This is completely illegal and a violation of data laws.

“If it is discovered that the platform is, or ever was, backed by the United States government, not only do we risk the channel being shut down by Cubacel, but we risk the credibility of the platform as a source of reliable information, education, and empowerment in the eyes of the Cuban people,” Mobile Accord noted in a memo. Shell companies were created throughout various nations, including the Cayman Islands where the company banked with N.T. Butterfield & Son Ltd.

“In the implementation has the government taken steps to be discreet in non-permissive environments? Of course. That’s how you protect the practitioners and the public.” USAID spokesman Matt Herrick noted. “In hostile environments, we often take steps to protect the partners we’re working with on the ground. This is not unique to Cuba.”

Influencing foreign politics is certainly not unique to Cuba. A USAID contractor by the name of Alan Gross was sent to Cuba to provide internet access to the people. The program was launched shortly after he was arrested, as his initial goal to compromise Cuba’s internet failed. USAID is solely used to influence foreign politics under the guise of providing aid that the American people provide through taxation.

The platform vanished from the internet in 2012 when Obama was running for his second term. Social media is a favorite tool of government to influence the masses. The amount of money allocated to Cuban Twitter is unknown since USAID operated extremely discreetly, funneling money to endless NGOs to conceal its motives.

China Purchased $38B from the US in Semiconductor Chips


Posted originally on Oct 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Taiwan’s global dominance of semiconductor chip manufacturing has been at the forefront of the US-China technology war. The focus has been on Taiwan, leaving other avenues of Chinese influence ignored. China used loopholes in US law to purchase over $38 billion in chip-making technology in the last year alone, marking a 66% rise in imports since 2022, when legislation was passed to restrict Chinese access to US chip technology.

Military modernization has become the focal point of concern. These advanced chips have been utilized to develop highly detailed surveillance systems, hypersonic weapons, and cutting-edge AI technology. US intelligence believes national security is at risk and there must be an effort to  “impede the PRC’s ability to procure and produce the technologies necessary for its military modernization” to “protect our world-leading technologies and know-how so they aren’t used to undermine our national security.”

The US House of Representatives Select Committee on China is calling for a broad ban on importing US chip technology to China, following the release of a report detailing how Chinese firms have bypassed loopholes in US law to purchase this technology legally.

“These are the sales that made China increasingly competitive in the manufacture of a wide range of semiconductors, with profound implications for human rights and democratic values around the world,” the report said. China accounted for 39% of aggregate sales to Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, ASML, and Tokyo Electron. Legislation has curbed but not deterred sales to China.

A spokesman for Tokyo Electron stated that sales to China have declined since 2022, when the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) implemented a law entitled “Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items to the People’s Republic of China.” The legislation expanded on Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to include foreign-produced advanced computing items and semiconductor chips.

US businesses seeking to conduct business with Chinese semiconductor companies must obtain a license that is notoriously difficult to acquire. The latest report revealing the $38 billion in sales has raised bipartisan concern, and increased restrictions are expected.

This brings the attention back to Taiwan. China may not purchase advanced technology from the US, and if Taiwan were to move 50% of production to US soil, China would certainly lose its competitive edge. Furthermore, China is also not willing to share technology with the US–why would enemy nations share the most crucial components needed to engage in next-generation warfare? China reclaiming Taiwan would eliminate America’s access to semiconductors. Both China and the US can tariff each other to death, but neither can afford to lose the jewel of Taiwan.

Poland’s PM Praises Man Accused of Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline


Posted originally on Oct 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong | 

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk believes the man who allegedly destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline did his country a great service. Tusk is considering breaking international law by harboring the fugitive who is wanted by the German government. The man, of course, will be the scapegoat for the incident. More telling is Warsaw’s response, rooted in old geopolitical tensions and willful ignorance of how drastically the explosion hurt their own economy.

“The problem of Europe, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland is not that Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but that it was built,” Tusk said. “It is certainly not in the interest of Poland to hand over this citizen to a foreign country.” Poland will hold the man in its custody for an additional 40 days, during which it will consider Germany’s demand that he be extradited for prosecution.

“Russia, with money from some European states and German and (Anglo-) Dutch companies, built Nord Stream 2 against the vital interests not only of our states, but of all of Europe, and there can be no ambiguity about that,” Tusk concluded.

Poland has always been caught between Germany and Russia. From the Polish partitions in the 18th century to Soviet domination in the 20th, the Polish political class views any direct German-Russian cooperation as an existential threat. Poland initially protested the pipeline because it felt that Germany was attempting to remove Eastern Europe’s main bargaining chip with Moscow — energy transportation. They invested in LNG terminals, aligned with US energy interests, and positioned themselves as the eastern front against both Russian and EU central control.

The European Union and the euro could never erase generations of geopolitical hatred and scars. Warsaw simply sees Berlin as the lesser of two evils when it comes to Moscow. Tusk’s comments are a deliberate attempt to create friction with Germany and undermine the power they continue to hold over Poland as the economic center of the EU.

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One bad apple spoils the bunch, and in the case of Europe, one bad economy will do the trick. Europe was reliant on Russian energy for many years prior to the war. Poland was purchasing 95.5% of its oil from Russia in 2012; the figure declined to 63.1% by 2021 before the war. Yet, Tusk is condemning former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for agreeing to the Nord Stream pipeline. Energy prices spiked by 30% after the pipeline demolition, fueling valid fears of energy shortages across the continent.

The pipeline itself may have been a Russian majority asset, but the infrastructure projects and joint ventures sprouting from the pipeline benefited Europe. European firms, including Wintershall Dea (Germany), E.ON (PEG Infrastruktur, Germany), Gasunie (Netherlands), and ENGIE (France), collectively held 49% of the Nord Stream AG operating company, while Gazprom itself retained 51%.

By now, the world knows that Western intelligence agencies deliberately targeted the pipeline in an act of war. The man detained would be considered a terrorist if these charges were factual. Perhaps they do not want to conduct a fake investigation or trial that would raise suspicions. Tusk needs to look down and realize he’s been shot in the foot with the destruction of this pipeline that ALL of Europe, not merely Germany, benefited from.

Hoard of Roman Gold & Academics


Posted originally on Oct 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong | 

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QUESTION: Marty, is there any chance you can buy this hoard to sell for Christmas?

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ANSWER: I will have some coins for Christmas, but it is unlikely that this gold hoard of 141 coins will ever reach the market. These were found in Luxembourg. They have very draconian laws. All archaeological discoveries, including Roman coins, are considered part of Luxembourg’s national cultural heritage and are the property of the state. You are legally obligated to report the find to the authorities. It does not matter if they have one coin and you have 1,000 more of the same coin. They keep them all and put them in a box, just like in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.. Because of the arrogance of academics who insist that everything belongs to them, I would never donate 10 cents to them. I have one friend who said he would leave his ex-wife to them.

In Britain, if you find a hoard of Roman coins, you must first report them. The Coroner will hold an inquest to determine if the find legally qualifies as Treasure. If it is declared Treasure, the Treasure Valuation Committee (a panel of independent experts) will determine its full market value.

Local and national museums are given the opportunity to acquire the Treasure by paying the valuation sum. The reward is split equally between the finder and the landowner, unless a prior agreement states otherwise (e.g., a 50/50 split is standard). You must have permission to be on the land to be eligible for a reward.

In the United States, the government is always greedy. If you find a shipwreck, the government instantly claims the title of these wrecks to the state in whose waters the wreck is located. You cannot claim “finders keepers.”

It all depends on where coins have been discovered. Britain is the best of all. What these governments do not understand is that they are so damn greedy that, since you get nothing and they DO NOT cover your expenses, there is no point in searching for anything.

Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum

I was asked back in the 1990s if I would fund the excavation of the library in the Villa of the Papyri of Herculaneum, the most luxurious Roman villa, filled with art and a library beyond compare, containing all the lost works yet to be excavated. So far, more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls have been discovered in the 18th century. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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Obviously, you cannot retain anything. The primary issue is that it is located 100 feet underground, and a town has been built on most of the Villa. That is easy to see with this picture I took. The government lacks the necessary funds to complete the job, which is part of the problem. They claim ownership and block anyone from recovering anything. So much of the Villa remains untouched. The original 18th-century excavation, which employed tunnel mining techniques, uncovered a vast portion of the villa, including part of the renowned library that housed the papyrus scrolls. However, this early excavation was haphazard and incomplete. Thus, state funds are directed at politicians to retain power.

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You can see the depth of Herculaneum and the problem that there is a town over the site itself. The owner of the Villa of the Papyri was a relative of Julius Caesar. The leading candidate for the owner of the villa is Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (c. 100– 43BC). He was a powerful Roman senator and consul. Piso’s daughter, Calpurnia, was married in 59BC to Julius Caesar. She was his last wife and famously tried to warn him not to go to the Senate on the Ides of March.

Piso was a respected and influential senator from a noble plebeian family. By marrying his daughter Calpurnia, Caesar gained a crucial ally within the conservative senatorial establishment (the optimates) who could help smooth the passage of his legislation and defend his interests while he was away on his campaigns in Gaul. As a direct result of this alliance, Piso was elected Consul for the year 58 BC, the year after Caesar’s consulship. He used his position to protect Caesar’s political arrangements from his enemies in the Senate. Piso prevented his daughter from being forced to marry Mark Antony. Piso, as the father-in-law, played the most direct and important role in Julius Caesar’s political career.

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The Getty Museum in California is a copy of the architectural plans of the Villa that were discovered.

Merkel Blames COVID for Ukraine War


Posted Oct 8, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the first person to admit that the Minsk Agreement was a ploy to buy time to help Ukraine build its military. The Western powers never intended to honor the Minsk Agreement or any of their peace deals with Russia. Yet, Angela Merkel believes there is a bigger culprit behind Russian aggression—COVID-19.

“We couldn’t meet anymore” because Putin was “afraid of the coronavirus pandemic.” Merkel’s theory: “If you can’t meet, if you can’t discuss your differences face to face, you won’t find new compromises.” In a recent interview, Merkel plainly states, “Corona is the main reason” why Russia attacked Ukraine.

Merkel also stated in a separate interview that she has been a political “scapegoat” for escalating Russian aggression. People blame Merkel, unfairly, I will add, for continuing to purchase Russian oil at that time. She has been attacked for failing to boost Germany’s defense during her tenure. The public believes that Germany used the Minsk Agreement to appease Putin, but Merkel herself admitted the deal was to boost Ukraine.

Not only is she blaming COVID, but Merkel is blaming Poland and the Baltic States for preventing the European Union from establishing direct contact with Russia. She mentions that these EU nations were also keen on importing Russian energy, because politicians were unwilling to sabotage the energy sector before Brussels had complete control over the EU bloc.

“In my opinion, it was necessary to try to resolve conflicts with Russia peacefully. At the same time, we also strengthened the principle of deterrence… At the 2014 NATO summit in Wales, a goal was set for all countries to spend two percent of their gross domestic product on defense. I recognize that the energy with which this was advanced was limited,” the former chancellor said.

This war began in 2014, long before the pandemic. Putin invaded as a direct response to the Minsk Agreement hoax, and in reality, Merkel knows the truth. “But I don’t believe that when he came to power in 2000, he was already planning to attack Ukraine one day. Rather, it is a development in which we in the West must also ask ourselves whether we have always done everything right,” the former chancellor noted in a separate interview. True. Putin did not enter politics with the intent of restoring the Soviet Union. The entire reason Yeltsin handed Putin the reins of power was to prevent Russia from being overtaken by the hardliner oligarchs who DO want to see a USSR revival.

Merkel has gone off the rails in her interviews since leaving office. Her frankness is refreshing for those of us who understand the long con game these neocons have been playing–Merkel cannot bite her tongue to conceal the Plot to Seize Russia.

DA Bragg Permits Violent Attack on Pro-Life Journalist


Posted Oct 8, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

Journalist Savannah Craven Antao was expressing her First Amendment rights, articulating her Christian viewpoint on abortion, when she was punched in the face by an angry interviewee. The assailant fled; Antao went to the emergency room, where she received stitches for her injuries. Unfortunately, the incident occurred in New York, where the corrupt court system sides with violent criminals. The entire incident was caught on film, but Soros-appointed DA Judge Alvin Bragg found no instance of criminal wrongdoing.

The video of the attack went viral on social media. Similar to Charlie Kirk, Savannah is merely a citizen interested in engaging in thought-provoking discussions with people who may not share her viewpoint. The New York court system reaffirmed that conservative voices may be met with violent rage. Brianna Rivers, the assailant, did not even receive a slap on the wrist. Bragg’s office first downgraded her felony charge to a misdemeanor. The office then failed to meet a critical discovery deadline, which resulted in the case being completely dismissed.

Rivers maintains innocence and claims Savannah antagonized her into a violent rage. It is a common excuse by the left– “I disagree with your viewpoint, but I cannot articulate my own, so I must resort to violence.”

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Thomas More Society attorneys are now imploring to repackaging the case as a felony hate crime. “District Attorney Alvin Bragg has an opportunity to show his office is truly sorry for putting Savannah, and every woman witnessing her faith in New York, at risk,” said Christopher Ferrara, Senior Counsel at Thomas More Society. “Or is Bragg just sorry because his bungled case is now making national headlines?”

“This is Bragg’s moment of truth,” Ferrara continued. “Actions speak louder than words. Reviving the felony charge and pursuing a hate crime charge would show real accountability and send a message that political violence has no home here. We believe there is a reasonable legal basis for doing so.”

Alvin Bragg was installed to perpetuate the message that the government is protecting chaos carried out by the left. Bragg campaigned solely on a promise to take down Trump, but failed over 100 times, and has made a mockery of the US legal system. His office turned a blind eye when migrants violently attacked police officers. Five young men were arrested and immediately released without bond, back into the public, where they could re-offend without consequence. He turned a blind eye to the pro-Hamas protests at NY universities, even when actual members of terrorist organizations were found to be among attendees. “Soft-on-crime” is code for controlled anarchy. The courts have been compromised as tools of the political elite.