Posted originally on Apr 27, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Germany has now openly declared its intention to become the dominant conventional military powerin Europe by 2039. What Berlin is doing is a structural shift that has been building quietly for years, and now it is being formalized in plain sight. The plan calls for expanding the Bundeswehr to roughly 460,000 personnel, including reserves, with about 260,000 active troops, effectively doubling the scale of its usable force compared to today.
What stands out is that this is taking place at the same time Germany’s economy is stagnating, with growth forecasts collapsing toward just 0.5% while inflation rises due to energy pressures and geopolitical tensions. You are witnessing the classic historical pattern where governments shift resources toward military buildup as economic conditions weaken. This is precisely how capital is redirected during periods of rising geopolitical risk.
Germany’s military budget tells the real story. The Bundeswehr is now operating with roughly €108.2 billion in 2026, making it one of the largest defense budgets in the world, and a dramatic departure from the decades when Germany refused to even meet NATO’s 2% threshold. Just a few years ago, Germany was spending closer to €80–90 billion annually, and now projections show spending rising toward €150–160 billion by 2029, or roughly 3.5% of GDP.
This is a staggering transformation. For decades, Germany deliberately maintained a weak military posture as part of the post–World War II settlement. Now they are not only rearming, but they are also explicitly stating they intend to be the strongest conventional force in Europe. That would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.
From the perspective of the Economic Confidence Model and the war cycle, this fits perfectly into the timing window we have been warning about. The arrays have been showing a convergence of civil unrest and international war cycles into 2026–2027. What we are seeing in Germany is not isolated. It is part of a broader shift across Europe, where governments are preparing for sustained conflict risk, not a temporary crisis.
Germany has also moved beyond simply increasing spending. They are restructuring the entire military system, including technology integration, AI-driven warfare, and logistics infrastructure that can support rapid deployment across Europe. This is preparation for long-term engagement capability, not defensive posturing. Once governments begin investing at this scale, they are not planning for peace. They are preparing for confrontation.
I have said repeatedly that Europe would move toward militarization as internal political cohesion breaks down and external threats rise. Germany, historically constrained by its past, is now being repositioned as the military anchor of Europe. That changes the balance of power entirely. It also raises serious questions about the future of NATO, particularly as the United States begins to pull back and Europe is forced to stand on its own.
This is why capital flows continue to favor the United States for now, even with its own fiscal issues. Europe is moving into a period of instability, and Germany’s military expansion is confirming that shift. The cycle is turning, and once it does, it does not reverse overnight.
Posted originally on Apr 26, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
COMMENT: I find it curious how people like ___________ pretend to be great forecasters but are simultaneously fund managers, which precludes them from speaking to central banks. Yet they seem to mimic you. You had to give up even personal stock investing to be able to even speak or advise. All they do is listen to you and copy what you say yet they do not have the database nor are they free of conflicts of interest.
Sometimes, you know… It just won’t fit. You can fiddle with it, you can try to accommodate it, but you will never make it work. They are doing the world a disservice because they lack the database to forecast the future all by themselves.
RD
ANSWER: That is the dark side of humanity. Then they turn and ask for money to manage. What they do not realize is that when you get too big, your performance declines because you cannot invest the same with $10 billion as you do with $10 million.
There is a large and well-established body of research indicates a negative relationship between fund size and performance across most major asset classes. A 2015 paper by Pástor, Stambaugh, and Taylor, for example, provided strong evidence of what is known as “diseconomies of scale” in the active fund management industry. The effect is widely recognized as a major factor that erodes performance, particularly in strategies focused on less liquid assets like small-cap or micro-cap stocksand real estate funds as we have seen.
The bigger they are, the more you should be on guard. The performance decline is driven by a few core challenges that come with managing a larger pool of assets:
Liquidity Constraints, Reduced Information Edge, and Difficulties in Exiting Positions Large funds struggle to take meaningful positions in smaller, less liquid stocks without significantly moving the market price against themselves. This is particularly true for small and micro-cap stocks, where a fund’s size can destroy its own potential for gain. Exiting a large concentrated position can be as challenging as entering it if not worse, when everyone knows you are the elephant in the room. When a very large fund tries to sell, its own selling pressure can drive the stock’s price down, eroding returns.
I had to develop Natural Hedging dealing with portfolios in the trillions. Everything had to be strategically selected and correlated. Even when I testified before the House Ways & Means Committee, I had 50% of the equivalent of the US national debt under contract. You have to come up with a whole new way of funds management to survive.
Posted originally on Apr 27, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Gavin Newsom oversaw roughly $1 billion in spending tied to the influx of about 400,000 illegal migrants. According to the figures cited, California effectively expanded programs, contracts, and support systems at scale while already facing structural deficits and a collapsing cost-of-living environment. Newsom will never hesitate to spend California tax dollars on destroying the state.
The number that should stop everyone cold is not the $1 billion alone. It is the 400,000 additional people absorbed into a system that is already breaking. California is dealing with some of the highest housing costs in the United States, with median home prices hovering around or above $800,000 in many regions, and rents consuming a disproportionate share of income. Now layer in a population surge of that magnitude and pretend there are no consequences.
At the same time, the state has been running deficits that swing into the tens of billions depending on revenue assumptions. Yet despite that, officials continued expanding programs tied to migration, including tens of millions in additional funding for services such as legal aid, food assistance, and housing support. Healthcare expansion alone overshot projections by billions, forcing abrupt policy reversals and enrollment freezes when the math simply stopped working.
You cannot tell residents there is no money, raise taxes, watch businesses leave, and then turn around and commit massive resources to policies that increase demand on every strained system. Housing becomes tighter, emergency rooms become overcrowded, infrastructure deteriorates faster, and the working population is expected to absorb the cost. That is exactly what is happening.
The defenders of these policies argue that migration supports the labor force and economic growth. When you introduce hundreds of thousands of people into an already constrained system, the costs hit immediately while any theoretical benefits are delayed and uncertain. Housing demand spikes overnight. Public services are stretched instantly. The problem is visible in every major city across the state.
There is also a capital flight component that cannot be ignored. IRS migration data has shown consistent outflows from California, particularly among higher-income earners. These are the taxpayers who fund the majority of state revenues. As they leave, the tax base shrinks, yet spending commitments continue to rise. That is how you accelerate a fiscal crisis. You drive out revenue while expanding obligations.
If you increase population by hundreds of thousands, spend billions to support that increase, and do so while running deficits and losing your tax base, the outcome is predetermined. The system breaks.
The motive underscores Newsom’s ability to lead. Why import nearly half a million people who cannot contribute to the state economy? Polls. Taxes. Endless funds tied to NGOs and humanitarian causes that permit the state to seize endless tax dollars to combat the very issues it created.
California residents are watching their cost of living rise, their services decline, and their leadership act as if none of it matters. Newsom firmly believes that he will receive an infinite amount of funding, and he’s not wrong. It’s time that the people wake up and realize that Gavin Newsom and the far-left are destroying California.
Posted originally on Apr 26, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
COMMENT: Marty, where were you? Looked all over for you at the White House Dinner. Wanted to catch up. You missed all the action.
B
REPLY: I haven’t been there in a while. It was always good fun. The best one was 1996. Bill Clinton gave a fantastic speech. He really knew how to work the crowd. I was sitting at the table with George will and other conservative commentators. I remember saying that was a fantastic speech. Well delivered. They were all upset. I just appreciated his speaking talent.
There were no gun shots that year. Just moans. Sorry I could not make it. I’m sure this one will be more memorable.
Posted originally on CTH on April 26, 2026 | Sundance
President Trump details his experience at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where a gunman charged toward the ballroom. President Trump says he wasn’t worried and praised the actions of law enforcement. WATCH:
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UPDATE: The full extended 40-minute interview including the parts that did not air on television is below:
Once again emphasizing that what David Mamet said almost two decades ago: In order for modern leftists and progressives to continue advancing a radical and extreme political ideology, they must pretend not to know things!
Posted originally on CTH on April 26, 2026 | Sundance
The New York Post has published the manifesto of assassin Cole Tomas Allen. Within the diatribe the attempted killer notes he is targeting the entire administration, except FBI Director Kash Patel.
(VIA NYP) – “Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a sprawling, crazed manifesto to family members 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack, sources told The Post. In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning — signed Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen” — outlined his “rules of engagement” for the shooting and stated he believed it was his righteous duty to target administration officials.”
“Hello everybody!
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.
I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”
I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)
I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.
I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.
I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.
On to why I did any of this:
I am a citizen of the United States of America.
What my representatives do reflects on me.
And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)
While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)
Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest
Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*
Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)
Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security
National Guard: same as Hotel Security
Hotel Employees: not targets at all
Guests: not targets at all
In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)
I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Rebuttals to objections: Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.
Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.
Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?
This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.
Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.
Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.
Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.
Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack
Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.
I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)
Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.
Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.
Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.
Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning
Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.
Thank you all for everything.
Sincerely,
Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen
PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.
Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.
What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.
No damn security.
Not in transport.
Not in the hotel.
Not in the event.
Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.
Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.
Actually insane.
Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Posted originally on CTH on April 26, 2026 | Sundance
It was a dark and looming morning in Washington DC when the studio lights slowly glowed brighter and Margaret Brennan took that last sip of her grande mochaccino before taking her seat, after narrowly escaping the danger of a raging gunman who attempted to enter the dining room last night. The opportunity for a best dramatic media performance award in a supporting role is before her. This is her moment.
With a confident pause and deep breath, Brennan delivers her best dramatic voice in combination with outwardly nervous appearances. “You got this,” a producer says in her ear, as Ms. Brennan slowly paints the political picture of a “harrowing ordeal,” a near failure around the events of the evening. A killer travelled by train from California to her neighborhood in Washington DC, with a shotgun and handguns. The lost innocence of journalism is almost too much to bear.
While doing her best job pretending not to know how the aligned politics of the potential killer match her own, Brennan pushes forward through the crisis, “something must be done.”
Meanwhile, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears on CBS Face the Nation to discuss the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump and/or any administration officials. The video and transcript are below:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche. Welcome, good morning, and I’m glad you are safe, sir. It was a harrowing–
ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE: Good morning, you as well.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It was a harrowing night, I want to get straight to what we know now, in the light of day. The FBI, as I understand it, has gone to a home in Torrance, California, believed to belong to the alleged shooter, most likely into his DC hotel room as well. What have they discovered there? What do we know?
BLANCHE: Yes, that’s right. So the FBI worked all night, working with local law enforcement, working with the Secret Service. They’ve executed various search warrants on locations, also on devices that were recovered from the suspect. This investigation is just over 12 hours old, so we still are actively looking at everything that happened, but as of now, we- we have- we have collected a fair amount of evidence, which we’re now going through.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Any indication at this point that he was part of a group? Was there any foreign nexus to the inspiration for the violence he attempted last night?
BLANCHE: We’re still looking into motivation, and that’s something that hopefully we’ll learn over the next couple of days. We do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the administration. We don’t- we don’t have specifics beyond that kind of general statement from what we’ve learned so far, but we are- we’re actively talking to witnesses that knew him, and talking to other individuals and going through the material that we’ve collected. So I expect that you will hear more, more about that in the coming days.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You mentioned a statement, is the shooter- alleged shooter, sharing details on what he was attempting to do? What makes you say it was a threat to administration officials writ large?
BLANCHE: Just based on the evidence we’ve collected. Not, not a statement from, from the suspect, just from- from what we’ve learned in our preliminary investigation, he’s not actively cooperating. I expect that he will be formally charged tomorrow morning in federal court in Washington, DC, and we’ll go from there.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So the Secret Service has said that the suspected gunman was staying in the hotel. He walked up to a security checkpoint with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives. How long had he been inside that hotel, and was there a security protocol for- for guests?
BLANCHE: That’s- we’re still, we’re still understanding the security protocols that led to him being, being able to have firearms in that hotel. We do believe he was staying in the hotel in the days leading up to last night. We believe that he traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then from Chicago to Washington, DC. As far as what happened with him coming down and breaching the perimeter, as you’ve seen from some videos that have already been released, he was apprehended and subdued feet away from breaking the perimeter so- so we were all safe inside, and that’s a testament to the Secret Service doing their job, and to law enforcement doing exactly what we, we hope and expect them to do in a time- they train for this their entire careers, and many of them never actually see it happen in real time, and it happened last night, and they reacted exactly as they should have.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So the alleged shooter, as we just said, had multiple weapons in his possession. Here in the District of Columbia, open carry is not permitted. You just said he traveled from California across the country by train. At this point, are you thinking at the federal level of changing security protocols in any way to, for example, match on trains what you are expected to go through when you fly where you do have to declare a weapon when you cross state lines. How did he travel by train without any challenge and arrive here in the nation’s capital?
BLANCHE: Look, this isn’t about, in my mind, changing the law or making the laws more restrictive around possession of firearms. It appears he purchased these firearms the past couple years. We don’t know how those firearms ended up in his possession in DC. We can, we can make some assumptions based upon what I just said about how he got to DC, but I don’t, I don’t think the narrative here is about changing laws or changing- making. making our laws more restrictive. This is about law enforcement who are doing their jobs and a suspect who tried to do something and failed miserably.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I’m not talking about changing the law in terms of possession of a firearm. I’m asking about crossing state lines with that firearm and arriving at the capital. If you try to fly, you do have to have your firearms declared in some way. You don’t when you get on a train.
BLANCHE: Well, look, you are talking about, I mean, if we’re asking the question, that’s talking about changing the laws, and I don’t think that’s something that we should be focused on right now in any way, shape or form–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, not a loophole in your–
BLANCHE: There are lots of ways that- yeah, so I mean, look, the we don’t and we also don’t know. We don’t have all the answers this morning. We’re still looking into, into what happened, how he got the guns, if he got them legally? But what we do know is that- is that he tried to use them. He did have two firearms and some knives on his person when he tried to use them, and he was stopped before he got anywhere near the president before he got near any of us that were in the room at the time of that this occurred and- and that’s, that’s again, we can’t, we can’t overlook, and I’m not suggesting you are, but we can’t overlook the great work of the Secret Service last night.
MARGARET BRENNAN: No, absolutely. We’re all thankful for that. But we do see these kind of threats at the local and state level as well, for those who aren’t as heavily protected as all of us in that room were last night, which is why I ask you, if you’re reviewing that. US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said the suspect will be charged with two counts, using a firearm during a violent crime and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Do you at this point anticipate further charges?
BLANCHE: Yes, I- we’ll see about further charges. So that’s one of the things that we need to go through the evidence. So there’s a lot of federal charges that could be in play beyond those two charges, but it depends on what – it depends on us understanding his motive, his intent, his premeditation, that what led into him, him deciding that he was going to do what he did last night. But just to be clear, those are very serious charges. He will have a – he will face a judge as early as tomorrow morning for those two charges, but but the investigation is brand new, and so we will continue to investigate. And if there’s more charges, they’ll they’ll be brought. He’ll be charged via complaint, and that’ll be tomorrow morning, and then an indictment will come, will come thereafter, and there could be additional charges in that indictment, but we have to see as the evidence develops.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you must have attended past correspondence dinners. I mean, for over 50 years, they’ve been held at this hotel. Last night, it was extraordinary, because we had the president, the vice president, the speaker of the house, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the secretary of the treasury, all in the same room. Those are five out of the top six leaders in that – that line of succession for this country, should something have actually happened to the president himself. Was there planning for that? I mean, when we have the state of the union, there’s a designated survivor. Was there an increased concern about gathering all of our leadership in that room last night?
BLANCHE: We will not stop doing things like we did last night in this administration and this man, if his, one of his goals was to get us to be scared, he failed. And let me just, let me make clear that you’re right, all those folks were in the room and more, and yet we were all safe. Law enforcement did their jobs, and so President Trump said last night, and he means it, and I very much agree with him that this type of conduct will not deter him, it will not stop him from living, it will not stop him from doing his job. And that not is not – not only him, but the vice president, the cabinet, the law enforcement, you all, journalists, you’re not going to stop doing your jobs either because of this, of this lone man that did what he did. And so this is a, this is something that that we all are still reacting to because it’s fresh, but I assure you that the types of things that you saw last night and the president being out there and available to the American public, that will not change because of what this guy tried to do last night.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, there has been reporting over the past few months that due to this increased threat environment, both on the domestic front, but also because of the war in Gaza because of the war in Iran, that there is an intensity to this moment and that there had been an effort to not allow the vice president and president to be together because of the risk. Why was that different?
BLANCHE: Vice president and president are together almost every day. I mean, they’re they’re together constantly so of course security–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –in a public event. So that’s false reporting?
BLANCHE: That’s well, I see them together all the time. They were certainly together last night. And so look, I’m not minimizing the threats that President Trump and the vice president and that all the cabinet face every day for the reasons that you just described domestically. Iran internationally. And that is why we have a robust law enforcement keeping us safe and doing their jobs. It allows the vice president and president to do the work they need to do. It allows the secretary of state to do the work that he needs to do. And so on the one hand, we take those threats very seriously. Always have and we always will. On the other hand, we do not the way we respond to those threats is not to go into a bunker and hide, it’s to trust the law enforcement that are that are keeping us safe and and that’s what happened last night, and that’s what I think will we will continue to see going forward.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So as I understand it, there was one injured Secret Service agent, but as the president said, he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Can you tell us if he’s been released from the hospital? And to be clear, there were- there was gunfire happening. We believe from our reporting that the shooter did get off some rounds. Was it the alleged shooter or alleged assailant here who shot the Secret Service agent?
BLANCHE: That’s what we that’s what we understand as of now. And the president spoke with him last night. He was in great spirits. He apparently didn’t really even want to go to the hospital, although he was, he was certainly injured, and it was the right thing as far as whether he’s been released, I I don’t want to get into his, you know, his medical situation. That’s not fair to him, but enough to say that we all heard his voice last night, the president gave him words of encouragement and appreciation and thanking him for the work that he’s doing for all of us and and I will tell you, he was in very good spirits, and so that’s a tragedy avoided, and it is because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I have to let you go. But writ large, is there thought of increasing the country’s security posture after last night?
BLANCHE: We have every single day we’re focused on our security, and so I promise you that that the work that we were doing yesterday will continue today, and if there’s things that we need to adjust, I will. But last night was of all the bad things that happened last night, and there were a lot. It was a tragic evening. It was also a success story when it comes to the Secret Service and FBI and law enforcement, of which we’re we’re very grateful.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. Todd Blanche, thank you for your insights, and we’ll be tracking the investigation as it develops.
Posted originally on CTH on April 26, 2026 | Sundance
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one government agency that remains largely hidden from the American public. It operates with a secret federal budget and appears to run independent activities, even having the means to generate its own revenue.
By now most people who follow politics understand how the CIA and State Department operate collaboratively in most foreign endeavors. Many CIA operatives have State Department covers. The CIA also works jointly with the State Dept on influence operations through USAID, which makes some recent events a little uncomfortable.
Against revelations about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) funding violent domestic extremist groups, consider this graphic:
It is hard to argue against the possibility that behind some of the domestic violent extremists (what the FBI calls DVEs) is a network of finance that traces back to the CIA. It is a fact that USAID is -in part- a CIA influence operation. If the SPLC is funded by USAID, then who was ultimately funding the SPLC influence operations? It is an uncomfortable question.
As we researched several serious issues in the past two decades one thing always surfaces, the intelligence community is often at the heart of the matter. As a historic example, during research into the Benghazi, Libya chaos that ultimately led to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens it became almost impossible to distinguish the CIA operatives from the State Dept objective.
In fact, we said the same thing about the CIA and the Qatar officials who were part of that background Libya story. It was almost impossible to tell a difference between the CIA operatives and the Qatari facilitators. The money was fungible and the Libya operation was an enmeshed network of mutually aligned government interests.
♦ When President Obama signed the finding memos for covert Libya and Syria operations, it is more than likely the last direct engagement on the matter as everything from that moment then sank below the surface into some system of CIA operations (Panetta) that was no longer controlled by the White House.
The boondoggled Libya mess known as “Operation Zero Footprint” burst back through the surface like a fast-breeching Trident submarine when the al-Qaeda attack against the Benghazi “consulate” took place.
Political chaos erupted on the surface and the only thing the White House could do was try to ignore the chaos until the water calmed again. As the fires raged at the CIA annex in Benghazi, Obama literally went to Las Vegas for a fundraising event. The quick removal of the current CIA Director (Petraeus) and a compliant media helped his team manage the issue.
♦ More recently we would not know of a CIA operation in Mexico if it were not for a car crash that killed two covert CIA operatives. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she knew nothing about the operation, I don’t think she was lying. “A statement from Mexico’s Ministry of Security said one U.S. agent entered Mexico as a visitor while the other entered with a diplomatic passport.” {source} If their car didn’t “drive off a ravine and explode” we would never even know about it.
As many people now understand, intercepting drugs, picking the winning and losing drug cartels and receiving money from the mechanics of illegal drug and human trafficking are part of how the CIA self-finances beyond their dark budget.
When we watch the Pentagon blowing up drug boats coming from Columbia and Venezuela, many people wonder if those were just the arrogant idiots who forgot to pay a CIA transit fee.
It is doubtful that CIA Director John Ratcliffe, or any modern CIA Director since George H.W. Bush ((’76/’77), has specific working knowledge of every operation the CIA is actually carrying out. That Occam’s Razor acceptance frames the doorway between Chuck Schumer’s “six ways from Sunday” mindset and the group of mutually assured recipients of envelopes at George H.W. Bush’s funeral.
We start to exit the discussion through the same door we entered. If the SPLC is funded by USAID, then who was ultimately funding the SPLC influence operations, or, wait for it, the ongoing operations to resist and remove President Donald Trump.
Yes, it remains a series of very uncomfortable questions. However, ultimately at the end of the SPLC goal was the removal of President Trump, no?
FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who originated the Crossfire Hurricane operation then set up the parameters for the targeting effort itself, received a coin of recognition and appreciation from what agency? The CIA.
The Trump-Russia collusion narrative was fabricated by Eric Ciaramella and Julia Gurganus inside the National Intelligence Council and Directorate of Analysis, at the behest of CIA Director John Brennan.
The same operatives from within the same agency then organized an anonymous whistleblower complaint in an effort to trigger an impeachment investigation and subsequent trial. All of it was fraudulently created, fabricated, spun to give the illusion of something that did not exist, and all of it came from where? The CIA.
Additionally, every time you find yourself confused or perplexed by events and outcomes that seemingly contradict themselves creating chaos and confusion, it is a best practice to pause remember what it feels like to be reviewing an intelligence operation.
The hallmark patterns of chaos and confusion run consistent when reviewing intelligence operations from the outside, and that includes the inability of anyone to explain just how algorithmically controlled narratives seem to find mysterious support.
Yes folks, it’s time for a national conversation about the Central Intelligence Agency.
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