Sep 23 2026

Yemen Is Unraveling as the War Spreads Across the Red Sea


Posted originally on Sep 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

Women and children, who fled fighting between the Houthis and government forces in Red Sea coastline areas, walk at a camp for internally displaced people near Aden, Yemen on September 19, 2026 [Reuters]

The situation in Yemen is deteriorating by the day. The United Nations now says more than 130,000 people have been driven from their homes this month as fighting intensifies following the Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast. Another 100,000 could be displaced over the next three months. More than 3,000 people have already escaped Yemen by boat toward Africa, primarily Djibouti, and the UN is preparing for that number to reach 10,000 as calmer seas make the crossing possible.

Families are abandoning everything and crossing the Red Sea on whatever vessels they can find. Reuters documented families fleeing barefoot after bombardments reached displacement camps where some had already sought refuge from earlier fighting. This is what politicians sitting comfortably thousands of miles away never comprehend. War becomes a statistic to them. To the people trapped inside it, your home, savings, possessions, livelihood, and sometimes your family can disappear overnight.

Yemen was already one of the poorest nations in the Middle East before this latest escalation. Some 22 million people require humanitarian assistance. Now the infrastructure required to provide that assistance is itself being disrupted. Roads have been damaged, telecommunications have been interrupted, movement is restricted, and damage to the port of Mokha has complicated humanitarian logistics. UNHCR says its response plan was less than 20% funded even before this latest wave of fighting exploded.

This is precisely how regional wars expand. Everyone looks at Yemen as though it is some isolated civil war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government. It is not. Yemen sits beside one of the most strategically important pieces of geography on Earth. The Houthis’ advance along the Red Sea coast has placed them astride the Bab el-Mandeb, while Iran sits beside the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia is caught between both chokepoints.

Now even Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are publicly calling for safe passage through BOTH Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. That alone tells you the seriousness of the situation. Saudi Arabia has already been forced to redirect oil through Egypt’s Suez Canal because of disruptions affecting its traditional export routes.

The humanitarian crisis cannot be separated from the economic crisis. The same waters desperate Yemenis are crossing to escape the fighting are among the most important commercial shipping lanes in the world. UNHCR warns that further deterioration around Bab el-Mandeb could force humanitarian cargo to travel around the Cape of Good Hope, adding 25 to 30 DAYS to delivery times. That means higher freight rates, more fuel, higher insurance premiums, delayed food and medicine, and eventually higher prices.

Djibouti is now being dragged directly into the consequences. It has fewer than 1.2 million people and already hosts tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers. The Markazi refugee facility has room for only around another 5,000 people while authorities are preparing for more than 10,000 arrivals from Yemen. More than 60% of the initial arrivals identified by UNHCR were women, children, and elderly people. The pressure on food, water, shelter, schools, and medical services will rise rapidly if this becomes a genuine mass exodus.

This is how migration crises begin. Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to abandon their country for entertainment. Capital flees political instability first. Businesses disappear. Employment collapses. Infrastructure deteriorates. Then the people begin moving because survival leaves them no alternative. Europe learned absolutely nothing from Syria because politicians never address the cause. They argue about migrants AFTER the war has already destroyed the economic foundation that allowed people to remain home. The same mistake is being repeated throughout the Middle East.

The Houthis do not need a fleet comparable to the United States Navy. Geography has given them leverage that money cannot easily purchase. Control enough coastline, deploy inexpensive missiles and drones, make insurers afraid to cover vessels, and a relatively small military force can disrupt commerce worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

This is asymmetric warfare in the 21st century. The West spent decades constructing a global economy based upon just-in-time delivery and narrow maritime chokepoints because it was efficient during peace. Nobody seriously planned for what happens when those chokepoints become battlefields simultaneously. Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the Suez route are not merely lines on a map. They are arteries of the world economy.

Yemen is therefore no longer something that can be dismissed as another forgotten Middle Eastern war. People are already fleeing across the Red Sea. Shipping is being disrupted. Saudi oil routes are being rearranged. Humanitarian organizations are running out of money while the number of displaced people accelerates. The politicians will still call each development an isolated event. Markets will eventually understand that they are all part of the same crisis.

Posted originally on Sep 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

Women and children, who fled fighting between the Houthis and government forces in Red Sea coastline areas, walk at a camp for internally displaced people near Aden, Yemen on September 19, 2026 [Reuters]

The situation in Yemen is deteriorating by the day. The United Nations now says more than 130,000 people have been driven from their homes this month as fighting intensifies following the Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast. Another 100,000 could be displaced over the next three months. More than 3,000 people have already escaped Yemen by boat toward Africa, primarily Djibouti, and the UN is preparing for that number to reach 10,000 as calmer seas make the crossing possible.

Families are abandoning everything and crossing the Red Sea on whatever vessels they can find. Reuters documented families fleeing barefoot after bombardments reached displacement camps where some had already sought refuge from earlier fighting. This is what politicians sitting comfortably thousands of miles away never comprehend. War becomes a statistic to them. To the people trapped inside it, your home, savings, possessions, livelihood, and sometimes your family can disappear overnight.

Yemen was already one of the poorest nations in the Middle East before this latest escalation. Some 22 million people require humanitarian assistance. Now the infrastructure required to provide that assistance is itself being disrupted. Roads have been damaged, telecommunications have been interrupted, movement is restricted, and damage to the port of Mokha has complicated humanitarian logistics. UNHCR says its response plan was less than 20% funded even before this latest wave of fighting exploded.

This is precisely how regional wars expand. Everyone looks at Yemen as though it is some isolated civil war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government. It is not. Yemen sits beside one of the most strategically important pieces of geography on Earth. The Houthis’ advance along the Red Sea coast has placed them astride the Bab el-Mandeb, while Iran sits beside the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia is caught between both chokepoints.

Now even Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are publicly calling for safe passage through BOTH Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. That alone tells you the seriousness of the situation. Saudi Arabia has already been forced to redirect oil through Egypt’s Suez Canal because of disruptions affecting its traditional export routes.

The humanitarian crisis cannot be separated from the economic crisis. The same waters desperate Yemenis are crossing to escape the fighting are among the most important commercial shipping lanes in the world. UNHCR warns that further deterioration around Bab el-Mandeb could force humanitarian cargo to travel around the Cape of Good Hope, adding 25 to 30 DAYS to delivery times. That means higher freight rates, more fuel, higher insurance premiums, delayed food and medicine, and eventually higher prices.

Djibouti is now being dragged directly into the consequences. It has fewer than 1.2 million people and already hosts tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers. The Markazi refugee facility has room for only around another 5,000 people while authorities are preparing for more than 10,000 arrivals from Yemen. More than 60% of the initial arrivals identified by UNHCR were women, children, and elderly people. The pressure on food, water, shelter, schools, and medical services will rise rapidly if this becomes a genuine mass exodus.

This is how migration crises begin. Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to abandon their country for entertainment. Capital flees political instability first. Businesses disappear. Employment collapses. Infrastructure deteriorates. Then the people begin moving because survival leaves them no alternative. Europe learned absolutely nothing from Syria because politicians never address the cause. They argue about migrants AFTER the war has already destroyed the economic foundation that allowed people to remain home. The same mistake is being repeated throughout the Middle East.

The Houthis do not need a fleet comparable to the United States Navy. Geography has given them leverage that money cannot easily purchase. Control enough coastline, deploy inexpensive missiles and drones, make insurers afraid to cover vessels, and a relatively small military force can disrupt commerce worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

This is asymmetric warfare in the 21st century. The West spent decades constructing a global economy based upon just-in-time delivery and narrow maritime chokepoints because it was efficient during peace. Nobody seriously planned for what happens when those chokepoints become battlefields simultaneously. Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the Suez route are not merely lines on a map. They are arteries of the world economy.

Yemen is therefore no longer something that can be dismissed as another forgotten Middle Eastern war. People are already fleeing across the Red Sea. Shipping is being disrupted. Saudi oil routes are being rearranged. Humanitarian organizations are running out of money while the number of displaced people accelerates. The politicians will still call each development an isolated event. Markets will eventually understand that they are all part of the same crisis.

Categories:War

Sep 23 2026

The Houthis Have Saudi Arabia Trapped Between Two Chokepoints


Posted ordinally on Sep 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

Saudi Arabia says Houthis tried to attack its capital, and other Mideast developments :: WRAL.com

The Houthis have not technically seized the entire Red Sea, but that distinction is becoming almost meaningless for Saudi Arabia. Their forces have swept down Yemen’s western coastline, taking Mokha, Dhubab, the Hanish islands, and most importantly Mayyun, also known as Perim, sitting directly inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. They now control nearly the entire Yemeni coastline along the Red Sea and possess something far more valuable than territory. They have acquired leverage over one of the most important maritime chokepoints on Earth.

This is becoming an economic nightmare for Saudi Arabia because geography cannot be negotiated away. The Saudis traditionally relied heavily on the Strait of Hormuz to move oil eastward toward Asia. When Hormuz became increasingly dangerous, Riyadh shifted more crude through its East-West pipeline across Saudi Arabia to Yanbu on the Red Sea. That was the escape route. Oil could bypass Hormuz, load at Yanbu, sail south through Bab el-Mandeb, and reach Asian customers. Now the Houthis are sitting at the other door.

Saudi Arabia is therefore confronting the nightmare of being squeezed between TWO strategic chokepoints. Iran can threaten Hormuz while the Iran-aligned Houthis can threaten Bab el-Mandeb. Saudi Arabia built the East-West pipeline precisely to reduce its dependence on Hormuz, but geography has now transformed the Red Sea alternative into another vulnerability. You could not design a more dangerous strategic position for an oil exporting nation.

The shipping data already reflects the fear. Traffic through Bab el-Mandeb fell by half immediately after the Houthi seizure of Perim, from 30 vessels in one day to just 15 the next. Large crude carriers have been particularly reluctant to enter the strait. This is the part politicians never understand. The Houthis do not actually have to sink every tanker or formally “close” the waterway. They merely have to make the risk sufficiently expensive that insurers, shipowners, and charterers refuse to go there.

That is how modern economic warfare works. You do not need a naval blockade when the insurance market will create one for you.

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Saudi tankers leaving Yanbu can instead sail NORTH toward the Suez Canal. But oil destined for Asia then faces an absurd journey. Some vessels must enter the Mediterranean, pass Gibraltar, travel down the entire western coast of Africa, round the Cape of Good Hope, and then sail back across the Indian Ocean. AP reported that the journey to South Korea can increase from roughly 24 days to 54 days. Tankers can cost tens of thousands of dollars PER DAY to charter, and rates during this energy crisis have in some cases exceeded $100,000 per day.

This is inflation being manufactured geopolitically in real time. Every additional day at sea means fuel, insurance, crews, financing, and charter costs. Those costs eventually appear somewhere in the price structure. Politicians will then blame “greedy corporations” when energy prices rise while ignoring the fact that their geopolitical adventures have transformed the world’s shipping lanes into war zones.

Saudi Arabia’s vulnerability extends far beyond tankers. The Houthis have attacked Saudi energy infrastructure and announced what they call a maritime embargo on Saudi-linked shipping. Riyadh temporarily shut its East-West pipeline after an attack in September. Saudi Arabia then reportedly appealed to China for help, and Reuters reported that Beijing subsequently pressed Iran to restrain the Houthis. That is perhaps the most revealing development of all.

Saudi Arabia is asking China to help influence Iran. That tells you how dramatically the geopolitical chessboard has changed. China is one of the world’s largest energy consumers. It needs Gulf oil. Beijing therefore has an enormous economic interest in keeping both Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb functioning. The United States once dominated every major diplomatic conversation in the Middle East. Now Riyadh is turning toward Beijing because China has relationships with both Saudi Arabia and Iran and possesses economic leverage Washington simply does not have in the same form.

This is precisely what happens when sanctions and endless wars fragment the world economy. Trade routes change. Alliances change. Capital flows change. Countries begin looking for alternative partners because survival always comes before ideology.

The Houthis have also demonstrated something that should terrify every major military establishment. You no longer need an enormous blue-water navy to threaten global commerce. Cheap drones, missiles, mines, and control of the coastline can impose tremendous economic costs on ships worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A relatively poor armed movement sitting beside the correct piece of geography can influence the price of energy across the entire world.

Bab el-Mandeb means the “Gate of Tears.” That name is becoming rather appropriate. This is not simply another chapter in Yemen’s civil war. The Houthis have acquired strategic leverage over the southern entrance to the Red Sea while Iran retains leverage over Hormuz. Between those two chokepoints sits Saudi Arabia and an enormous portion of the world’s energy infrastructure.

Saudi Arabia is certainly not cut off. Oil will continue moving. Markets always find another route. But every alternative becomes longer, more expensive, and more dangerous. You do not need to stop world trade to create an economic crisis. You merely need to make world trade expensive enough.

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Sep 23 2026

Saudi Arabia Turns to China to Restrain Iran and the Houthis


Posted originally on Sep 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

Saudi-China energy, trade and investment ties | Reuters

Something rather extraordinary has happened in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has turned to China for help with Iran and the Houthis. Riyadh appealed to Beijing after the Houthis advanced along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and around Bab el-Mandeb, threatening the western route Saudi Arabia increasingly depends upon for oil exports. China then privately approached Tehran and asked Iran to use its influence to restrain the Houthis and prevent the conflict from spreading further across the region’s energy routes.

Think about what has actually happened here. Saudi Arabia did not turn first to Washington to carry a message to Tehran. It went to Beijing. The country that was once viewed primarily as the factory of the world is increasingly becoming the economic middleman of the Middle East because China has something the West has steadily destroyed through sanctions and ideological foreign policy: relationships with BOTH sides.

China buys Iranian oil. It trades heavily with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. It needs energy from the entire region. It has no economic interest in watching Iran shut Hormuz while the Houthis turn Bab el-Mandeb into another battlefield. Roughly half of China’s oil imports come from the Middle East, while trade between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council states is around $300 billion annually. More than 80% of Iran’s seaborne oil exports went to China in 2025, according to Kpler data cited by Reuters. Beijing does not need some humanitarian lecture from the United Nations to understand what is at stake. Its factories need energy and its economy needs those shipping lanes OPEN.

China has leverage with Iran because Iran needs China economically. Beijing remains Iran’s largest trading partner and principal customer for its oil. At the same time, China has spent years deepening economic relationships with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the rest of the Gulf. China therefore finds itself sitting at a table where it can pick up the telephone and speak to Riyadh, Tehran and, increasingly, the Houthis themselves. Reuters reported back in July that Beijing had already established direct contact with the Houthis seeking guarantees that Chinese tankers could safely transit the southern Red Sea.

China brokered the restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran in 2023. That was an enormous signal that most people in Washington dismissed. Beijing was demonstrating that its Middle East strategy would be based primarily on commerce. China did not need Saudi Arabia to love Iran or Iran to love Saudi Arabia. It merely needed both countries to recognize that trade is preferable to war. There is an old lesson here that politicians never seem capable of understanding. Commerce creates relationships. Sanctions destroy them.

Washington has spent years weaponizing access to the dollar, SWIFT, technology, banking and trade. Every geopolitical disagreement is answered with another sanction. Politicians imagine this demonstrates strength because they look only at the immediate target. They never calculate what happens ten years later when everyone they sanctioned has built alternative relationships precisely because they could no longer trust the West.

China took the opposite approach. It bought the oil. Now look at where that has brought us. Saudi Arabia needs somebody capable of speaking to Iran because Iran possesses enormous influence in the region. China can make that call because it never completely severed the economic relationship. Tehran in turn cannot simply ignore Beijing because China purchases the majority of Iran’s exported crude and remains one of the few major economies capable of providing the investment Iran desperately needs.

This does not mean China controls Iran, nor does Iran simply issue orders to the Houthis. The Houthis have developed their own political and military interests, particularly now that their territorial gains have increased their leverage around Bab el-Mandeb. Beijing can pressure Tehran, and Tehran may influence the Houthis, but none of these relationships amount to absolute command. Nevertheless, the shift in diplomacy is unmistakable.

China’s interests are brutally straightforward. It needs Hormuz open. It needs Bab el-Mandeb open. It needs Saudi oil, Iranian oil and Gulf trade. It does not want an ideological crusade in the Middle East because wars interrupt commerce. Beijing is not doing this out of charity. It is protecting China.

Saudi Arabia understands that China has skin in the game. If Bab el-Mandeb closes while Hormuz remains disrupted, Beijing suffers immediately. Chinese manufacturers face higher energy costs. Tankers must travel farther. Freight and insurance costs rise. Supply chains become less reliable. Inflation spreads outward through the entire world economy. China’s incentive to mediate is therefore economic rather than merely political.

This is also why the rise of China cannot be understood simply by looking at GDP or military spending. Economic power eventually becomes diplomatic power. When you become the largest customer of one nation and one of the largest trading partners of another, governments begin answering your phone calls. That is how power shifts.

America emerged as a global power through commerce and capital long before Washington became obsessed with sanctioning half the planet. The dollar became dominant because everyone wanted access to American markets and American capital. China has studied that lesson while Washington seems determined to forget it.

None of this means the dollar disappears or China suddenly replaces the United States. China’s capital controls remain an enormous obstacle to the yuan becoming a true global reserve currency. But reserve currency status and geopolitical influence are not the same thing. China does not need to replace the dollar tomorrow to become increasingly important diplomatically.

The Saudis are facing Iran across the Persian Gulf and the Houthis across the Red Sea. Their oil infrastructure is increasingly squeezed between Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. When Riyadh needed someone capable of carrying a serious message into Tehran, it turned toward Beijing. That is how geopolitical power changes hands. Not with some grand announcement. Not because politicians hold a press conference declaring a new world order.

Sep 23 2026

This is Why CNN is Fake News – Appalling


Posted originally on Sep 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong

Not a single word has been fact-checked—not even by simply Googling the facts. This nonsense that Russia is trying to take all of Ukraine and that the Ukrainian people are fighting for their freedom is so outrageous that it amounts to plain propaganda, which only leads to war. There is no rational discussion here. There is no solution but war, because no matter what, Europe will simply NEVER accept peace with Russia, and people are too stupid to realize that this Finnish politician cannot possibly be this stupid and uninformed.

Since the AfD won two elections and the CDU was below 5%, so they did not even get a seat, Brussels and NATO are in a state of panic. They are pushing for all-out war because they fear that if the AfD takes Germany, they are anti-war and anti-Brussels. The only way to retain power is to start a war as soon as possible.

FP Zelensky Losing Support

The Ukrainian people want an election. Zelensky lied and promised peace, and has been doing nothing but carrying out his personal hatred of Russians. Reliable sources from Ukraine report that (1) the factories are being run by women since men are sent to the front line, and (2) they are actually handcuffing men in transport to the front line to prevent them from fleeing. My discussions with members of Congress know that Zelensky is the problem and that Putin has agreed to peace. All they have to do is honor the Minsk Agreement that Europe and Ukraine both signed to allow the Donbas to vote if they want to separate from Ukraine after they started this civil war attacking the Donbas by an unelected government on the orders of the Neocons.

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Everything in the CNN broadcast was a total lie. Not a single word was the truth. They are propelling the world into World War III and do not care about anything but their own hatred of Trump that blinds them to what is taking place around the world.

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To sell us WWI, they hid arms in a passenger ship the Lusitania knowing the Germans would sink it to get the US into WWI. They swore there were no arms, then in 1987 the found it and pulled up ammunition proving they lied again. To get us into WWII, they instigated Japan and pretended the attack was unprovoked when it was even leaked to the newspaper that they would be hit that weekend. FDR pulled out the aircraft carriers and let thousands die claiming this would be a day in infamy.

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There was so much outrage over the truth that FDR lied to the country to get the US into war that the Senate was forced to investigate. They admitted the government knew about the coming attack, but claimed they could not confirm FDR personally knew. They used the same excuse on 911.

They have lied about every war. For Vietnam, we were told the BS that we were fighting communism and Russia was behind it. That was a lie and Robert McNamara before he died wanted to clear his conscience. He said Russia was not involved and it was just a civil war. Some 58,000 Americans died for that one.

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Even in my case, they were in league with the bankers to pull off a regime change of Russia by blackmailing Yeltsin insisting he appoint their stooge, Boris Berezovsky. Yetsin turned to Putin. Here is a declassified background showing their involvement.

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Boris Berezovsky was killed

Here is Berezovsky with none other than George Soros, Treasury Secretary Bessent’s role model.When the regime change failed, they  claimed  he  committed  suicide.  His  bodyguard  said  he  was  assassinated  to  cover  it  all up.?

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Categories:PressWarSep 23, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

Not a single word has been fact-checked—not even by simply Googling the facts. This nonsense that Russia is trying to take all of Ukraine and that the Ukrainian people are fighting for their freedom is so outrageous that it amounts to plain propaganda, which only leads to war. There is no rational discussion here. There is no solution but war, because no matter what, Europe will simply NEVER accept peace with Russia, and people are too stupid to realize that this Finnish politician cannot possibly be this stupid and uninformed.

Since the AfD won two elections and the CDU was below 5%, so they did not even get a seat, Brussels and NATO are in a state of panic. They are pushing for all-out war because they fear that if the AfD takes Germany, they are anti-war and anti-Brussels. The only way to retain power is to start a war as soon as possible.

FP Zelensky Losing Support

The Ukrainian people want an election. Zelensky lied and promised peace, and has been doing nothing but carrying out his personal hatred of Russians. Reliable sources from Ukraine report that (1) the factories are being run by women since men are sent to the front line, and (2) they are actually handcuffing men in transport to the front line to prevent them from fleeing. My discussions with members of Congress know that Zelensky is the problem and that Putin has agreed to peace. All they have to do is honor the Minsk Agreement that Europe and Ukraine both signed to allow the Donbas to vote if they want to separate from Ukraine after they started this civil war attacking the Donbas by an unelected government on the orders of the Neocons.

Merkel_Minsk_Buy_Time_to Prepare for wart

Everything in the CNN broadcast was a total lie. Not a single word was the truth. They are propelling the world into World War III and do not care about anything but their own hatred of Trump that blinds them to what is taking place around the world.

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Hawaii Tribune

To sell us WWI, they hid arms in a passenger ship the Lusitania knowing the Germans would sink it to get the US into WWI. They swore there were no arms, then in 1987 the found it and pulled up ammunition proving they lied again. To get us into WWII, they instigated Japan and pretended the attack was unprovoked when it was even leaked to the newspaper that they would be hit that weekend. FDR pulled out the aircraft carriers and let thousands die claiming this would be a day in infamy.

1945 1946 US Senate Investigation Pearl Harbor

There was so much outrage over the truth that FDR lied to the country to get the US into war that the Senate was forced to investigate. They admitted the government knew about the coming attack, but claimed they could not confirm FDR personally knew. They used the same excuse on 911.

They have lied about every war. For Vietnam, we were told the BS that we were fighting communism and Russia was behind it. That was a lie and Robert McNamara before he died wanted to clear his conscience. He said Russia was not involved and it was just a civil war. Some 58,000 Americans died for that one.

Berezovsky Such a government R

Even in my case, they were in league with the bankers to pull off a regime change of Russia by blackmailing Yeltsin insisting he appoint their stooge, Boris Berezovsky. Yetsin turned to Putin. Here is a declassified background showing their involvement.

Soros Berezovsky
Boris Berezovsky was killed

Here is Berezovsky with none other than George Soros, Treasury Secretary Bessent’s role model.When the regime change failed, they  claimed  he  committed  suicide.  His  bodyguard  said  he  was  assassinated  to  cover  it  all up.?

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CNN BaNK by 1

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Sep 23 2026

President Trump Speech to United Nations General Assembly – 9:00am ET Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on September 22, 2026 | sundance |

President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks to the United Nations General Assembly (USGA) at approximately 9:55am ET.  There are multiple livestream options below to watch the speech.

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Note the AP Newswire feed below is active and highlighting the general activity.

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Posted inBig Government, Donald Trump, Iran, President Trump, Press Secretary – Trump, United Nations

Sep 23 2026

President Trump Signs U.S-Greenland Arctic Security Agreement


Posted originally on the CTH on September 22, 2026 | sundance

President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen will take part in a signing ceremony at the United Nations for an agreement that will bolster the U.S. military presence in Greenland forever sealing a Arctic security agreement for the U.S.  WATCH (Livestream):

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Posted inDenmark/Greenland, Donald Trump, Election 2026, Military, Press Secretary – Trump

Sep 23 2026

President Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham


Posted originally on the CTH on September 22, 2026 | sundance |

United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham and US President Donald Trump say they have established a good connection in their first meeting, despite differences on some foreign policy issues.

Talks as described covered Ukraine, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, the Falkland Islands, and trade issues with Trump praising Burnham as a “natural businessperson.” President Trump was critical of the British plan to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, calling it a “terrible deal,” while Burnham pledged to find a solution.  WATCH:

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Posted inBig Government, Donald Trump, media bias, President Trump, Trade Deal, Uncategorized, United Kingdom (UK) and Great Britain

Sep 23 2026

Russia Strategic Diesel Supplies Full, Excess Production Now Flowing to “Stans” Central Asia – The Rule of 96


Posted originally on the CTH on September 22, 2026 | sundance | 

There is a general rule that applies to geopolitical contexts surrounding 96 hours or four days.  The timing is the difference between an event happening Day one, the analysis of the event by nation states communicated to leadership, and the policy shift outcome in Day four.  The rule of 96 is consistent and it is worth understanding.

Four days ago, the EU oil disruption from Saudi Arabia’s East/West pipeline event was noticed. In the four days between event day and policy day (#4) the EU have been beating the drumbeat for war against Russia.  However, you will notice the shift in tone and policy now that we have reached day four.  Analysis has reached policy makers. You might say reality sets in.

Europe now recognizes a vulnerability that was not in their policy briefs 96 hours earlier.  Things change {SOURCE}, and the quiet stuff starts to become visible. Russia has been sending France oil/gas energy products, quietly. Macron needed the internal stabilization because he’s been up against a wall.  On top of all his other issues, Macron could not afford an energy crisis.

Simultaneously, despite what we have been told by Western media, the 5,000 strike drones into the Moscow region should again be taken in context.  Russia is an analog system in a digital world. Russia is exceptionally resilient and can repair and recover much faster than western analysts ever fathom.  Again, apply the ‘rule of 96.’

Russia is now overproducing diesel fuel. Wait, what(?) you might ask.  It’s true.  Russian strategic diesel fuel reserves are now full and overproducing 15% beyond storage capacity. {SOURCE} So, where is the excess capacity going?  To the “stans” in Central Asia, from there it ships to forward destinations. Turkey is a dependent beneficiary. Do you remember the strategic agreement between the USA and Kazakhstan? {Source}

Russia increased diesel supplies to Mongolia by 73.4% in August from July to 215,000 metric tons, while shipments to Kyrgyzstan surged 16.4 times to 72,000 tons and deliveries to Tajikistan rose 3.5 times to 56,000 tons. Russia also exported 28,000 tons of diesel to Kazakhstan after making no deliveries there in July. {source}

As the Saudi energy disruption, a problem that travels like boxcar impacts in a train collision, now reaches the EU, the NATO alliance begins to react.  Their policy briefs are different than they were four days ago.

Saudi Arabia is now producing again on the previously closed East/West pipeline; however, it will take time to reach the EU.   A policy window is opened by the disruption.  This is the window where President Trump is operating, and it is timed with the UN General Assembly meeting.

On the potash announcement by President Trump and subsequent notes by Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, remind yourself that potash is not sold by government – it is sold by companies, from one to the other.  Lukashenko is an ally of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.  Lukashenko has one foot in the EU perspective and the other in the Russian perspective.

Potash from Belarus can be potash from Belarus.  Potash from Belarus can also be potash from Russia.  Again, companies are involved and should be considered when government officials make announcements. There is no shortage of potash from Russia, but there are political constraints from anything surrounding Russia.

A company who does business in Belarus and Russia is not uncommon.  Belarus may not officially have potash to deliver (Lukashenko), but also potash can be abundant in supplies as inventories by companies who do business with Belarus (John Coale).   Who is John Coale?  Where was John Coale, U.S. special envoy for Belarus, four days ago?

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a U.S. envoy on Tuesday to push for the lifting of the remaining U.S. sanctions against his country.

Speaking at a meeting with John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, Lukashenko said that “we have reached quite a few agreements related to our economic ties.” He urged Washington to help unblock some Belarusian assets he said were “stuck in Citibank.”

[…] Speaking before the meeting with Coale, Lukashenko said that he’s open for discussing “a deal big or small.” Lukashenko also said that he would like to discuss the prospects for lifting more U.S. sanctions, exporting Belarusian fertilizers to the U.S. (more)

Who controls the sanctions of the Belarusian assets held in Citibank?  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Four days ago, John Coale was in discussions with Lukashenko.  The Belarus President wanted something, President Trump wanted something.  At the same moment Saudi Arabia was notifying the EU of a force majeure issue with oil/gas contract supplies.  Four days ago, Russia had maxed out storage for diesel fuel and was shipping excess capacity to Central Asia, as President Trump was asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy not to target Russian diesel refining capacity.

Things change in four days.

Policies change in four days.

Perspectives change in four days.

One of the strengths of President Trump, primarily a strength that stems from business, is that Trump understands the timeline of action and visible consequence.  Trump is working four days (or more) ahead of what we see in the media.  It may not make sense at the moment we see it but give it four days and go look at it again.

Live your best life.  Pray thankfulness every day to a loving God.

Find your internal peace; then relax and let him work.

Posted inBanking and Finance, Big Government, Donald Trump, Economy, energy, European Union, media bias, NATO, President Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Uncategorized

Sep 23 2026

President Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy


Posted originally on the CTH on September 22, 2026 | sundance |

President Trump and President Zelenskyy meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly for a bilateral meeting.

During the press availability, President Trump noted the war banter from the U.K leadership was “too nasty” and not productive toward any ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russia. President Trump was asked about a potential U.S. diesel export ban and Trump said he supports it, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was reviewing the feasibility of it.

The question not ever raised, except by USTR Jamieson Greer yesterday, is: where do you store it?  We can stop exporting diesel, but we’d also have to stop producing it because there’s nowhere to store it – and limiting production only adds to increased prices.  Russia had that same problem (see previous article).  Trump was asked about Patriot Missiles for Ukraine, which he said were part of the discussion happening after the press availability. WATCH:

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Posted inBig Government, NATO, President Trump, Press Secretary – Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Uncategorized

Sep 23 2026

President Trump Participates in a Shield of Americas Event at the United Nations


Posted originally on the CTH on September 22, 2026 | sundance

President Trump emphasizes the importance of the western hemisphere and Latin America by participating in a second meeting of the “Shield of Americas” team.  The objective of the assembly is to secure the western hemisphere, coordinate economic, political, and security efforts among participating countries to strengthen judicial practices, improve investment opportunities, and build hemispheric partnerships. The shield emphasizes intelligence sharing and coordinated operations to locate and dismantle drug cartel networks and associated criminal infrastructure.

Structure and Operations: The Shield of the Americas functions as a head-of-state level organization, working closely with the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), which is led by USSOUTHCOM and focuses on military and security operations against cartels. The coalition’s operational arm, the Americas Counter Cartel Conference, brings together defense and security ministers from member states to coordinate strategies against drug trafficking, organized crime, and threats to critical infrastructure. Participating countries gain access to U.S. military equipment, training, intelligence, and surveillance capabilities, including support from the U.S. Space Force’s Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking system.

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Posted inDept Of Justice, DHS, Donald Trump, Economy, Marco Rubio, President Trump, Press Secretary – Trump, Shield of The Americas’