Ukraine & Reality


Armstrong Economics Blog/War Re-Posted Mar 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Why do you think that Putin should win? The world seems to be on the side of the Ukrainian people.

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ANSWER: I see the problem as Zelensky is really fighting for money but the press will not report the truth. There are vast gas fields under Crimea and he deliberately cemented off the canal to deprive Crimea of water. In the provinces demanding separatism since 2014, he has denied them any right to democracy because that region is also rich in oil. Look at the money and you just may see why Zelensky is putting his entire country at risk to benefit their oil companies so he can compete with Russia and hopes to provide the natural gas to Europe cutting off Russia. This is the same plot that saw Obama wanting to invade Syria to put through the Qatar pipeline to also cut off Russia from supplying energy to Europe.

Zelensky has been calling on every country to send him troops and jets. They have declined. He is pushing everyone to impose sanctions to permanently remove Russia from the World Economy. It is out now that China asked him not to invade Ukraine until the Olympics was over. Biden boycotted the Olympics and it was NOT for human rights. It was because China was aligning with Russia and they knew it back then.

Zelensky’s handlers should have backed down, let the Russian provinces leave, and remove the cement blocking the water supply to Crimea. They thought they could get the entire world involved so they could replace Russia from supplying energy to Europe. The lives lost here are all for energy and their idea of provoking Russia was not well taken for they did not understand that they would divide the world and bring China and Russia together against the West.

I look at the long-term here. This will only lead to World War III. The Ukrainian city of Kherson has now fallen to Russia. This is a vital port city for Ukraine. They cannot win against Russia. This has been a foolish endeavor and the press has not been honest nor investigated why this buffoon is leading his country into a suicide pact all for energy profits the people will never see. Our computer highlighted Ukraine as the hotspot for international war back in 2013.

So you can cheer Zelensky, but know the agenda you are cheering for. It does not matter what I say. The winds of war are upon us and the propaganda is far too great to overcome. This is the inevitable war that the computer has been forecasting. I have personal long-term friends in both Donestk and in Kyiv. I know the history on both sides. Going into 2032, I only fear for my family. I get to leave this insane world and all the fools who think this is a soccer or football match and that somehow they can win and defeat Russia and proclaim victory standing on their little hill. There is no victory in this conflict – just profound destruction.

There is a program green-shot I recommend. You should take screenshots of your accounts for there will be cyber attacks on banks. You better start storing food. A can of food might be worth a lot more than cash in times of war. While you are cheering for Zelensky, keep in mind that about 30% of the world’s wheat supply comes from Russia and Ukraine. Biden has NOT been honest. He said there will be a price for freedom. But that price will be continued inflation into 2024 and we have not seen anything yet.

So as you champion “freedom” while denying any democratic freedom to the East of Ukraine since 2014, which was supposed to have been brokered by Germany and France that was ignored for money, remember that even LBJ lied on TV about Americans being attacked by Vietnam. Over 50,000 Americans lost their lives for a lie. Most of my high school friends died for politics – not God, and country. Even Wikipedia reports: In 1965, President Johnson commented privately: “For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there.”

This is NOT a war anyone will win.

COVID Cured in 48 Hours


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Mar 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

The joke running around is that Putin should be nominated for the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for he cured COVID-19 in 48 hrs – something nobody else has been able to do in 3 years. Just hours before Biden’s State of the Union, he rescinded the mask requirement. So just hours before, you would get COVID if you did not have a mask. Thanks to Putin, suddenly Congress could actually meet without masks. That is something nobody else could have done in a matter of hours.

The Motive for the Strategic Creation of BRICS Resurfaces in the Ukraine Conflict


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 3, 2022 | Sundance 

The BRICS alliance is a strategic geopolitical partnership between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.  The nature of the alliance is based on trade and big picture economics.

Readers familiar with our discussions of trade and international finance, will remember the importance we previously discussed with BRICS after the 2016 election and President Trump representing economic nationalism for the first time in several generations.  In this outline, we are going to share the bigger picture of why BRICS should now be back on the center stage of American focus.

Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Narendra Modi (India) and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa), the BRICS group.

The BRICS economic partnership was formed during the Obama administration.  Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) saw President Obama sub-contracting, actually giving away, U.S. trade policy to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  In the aftermath of the 2007 economic crisis created by the financial system, the BRICS group connected two central points that concerned them.

In the aftermath of the great housing/financial crisis, the relationships around the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), EU central banking system and various multinational institutions and, more importantly, multinational corporations, merged even closer with the government.  The priorities of the Davos and World Economic Forum (WEF) crowd were now virtually indistinguishable from many national governments.

We are fifteen years downstream from that inflection point, and we are now seeing the outcomes.  The WEF is now giving direct instructions to installed politicians for government policy.  Put another way, multinational corporations are now telling government officials what to do.

Think of “The Great Reset” or “Build Back Better” or climate change, as examples.  Worse yet, those governments are doing exactly what the WEF has told them to do.

This corporate control of government is exactly what the BRICS assembly foresaw when they first assembled.  When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem.  In the bigger picture, the BRICS assembly are essentially leaders who do not want corporations and multinational banks running their government.

As a result, if you really boil it down to the common denominator what you find is the BRICS group are the opposing element to the WEF assembly.

BRICS are not against capitalism in its original form; the BRICS assembly is against corporatism controlling the outcome of government policy.  The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa joined together in order to make sure their subset of economic power put government at the top of the control and power dynamic, and multinational corporations under them.  This is their essential commonality.

President Obama and the people around him from Hyde Park were/are domestically focused ideologues.  Much has been written about them, and we will not repeat.  However, the lesser emphasized point of the Obama era is how issues that touched on foreign policy were subcontracted to others.

Foreign policy was not a central focus for the Chicago team.  They were laser focused on fundamental change inside the United States.  Their aspirations were to reduce the geopolitical status of the U.S. on the world stage in the same view as an anti-colonialist would seek to break up the British colonial power structures.   This is an important reference point often missed.

Hillary Clinton could essentially manage the State Dept as she wanted as long as the overarching intent of the Obama policy was maintained.  Spreading the wealth, diminishing the U.S. role of influence, and raising up the rest of the world was the only objective of Obama foreign policy.

Obama took that same outlook toward U.S. strategic trade interests.  This is why President Obama subcontracted trade policy to the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue (pictured above).

During President Obama’s terms in office, the U.S. CoC, the lobbying entity of Wall Street favor, literally was in charge of trade policy.  The U.S. CoC wrote the language, the actual terms and conditions of U.S. government trade policy.

At the time when the U.S. CoC was tasked and permitted to do this, the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was being written.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was literally writing the language in the TPP and negotiating with the other nations involved.  Put another way, the operational arm of the multinational Wall Street corporations was writing trade agreements.   Can you see how the corporations were positioned?

On the Atlantic side, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was also coming next once TPP was finished.  It was not the U.S. government negotiating these terms, it was Wall Street and the Multinational Corporate and Financial establishment, via the Chamber of Commerce, writing these deals.   See the problem?

The leaders within BRICS could see the future of what this process would mean.  Everything is about the economics.  There are trillions at stake.

Additionally, the Word Economic Forum, the assembly of the multinational corporations in control of economics and trade, would now be dictating policy to NATO, the European Union, Central Banks, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and eventually the World Trade Organization (WTO).

BRICS could see that corporations would be in control of western government finance and trade, and as a consequence, when those same multinationals approached them for trade negotiations, the size of influence of the corporations would be, could be, too massive to fight.  BRICS assembled in 2009 to unite, defend and combat this problem.  This was their core mission, their commonality.

When President Trump was elected, for the first time since their assembly, BRICS saw a U.S. President with a completely different agenda.  Donald Trump was not in favor of multinational corporations running and influencing government.  Ideologically, as an economic nationalist, Trump was of the same mindset as the BRICS group.  WATCH (1 minute):

When President Trump took office, he literally tore up the TPP trade agreement that Tom Donohue had established, he kicked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce out of government, and he established his own trade negotiating teams to put government back in charge of trade policy.

President Trump took us out of TPP, withdrew from the Paris Climate Treaty, dropped TTIP, triggered NAFTA renegotiations, initiated tariffs against our economic adversaries (multinationals) and told NATO to start preparing to take care of themselves.  Trump was the first economic nationalist president in modern history.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Trade and Economic Advisor Peter Navarro took over from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  Trump established the economic and trade goals, the team worked the granular details, and ultimately Trump made the decisions, yes or no.

After Trump took this approach, the BRICS group essentially dissolved.

With the United States now confronting the WEF, NATO, the EU and all the multinationals (often called globalists), the BRICS team could pause their mission.

Factually, BRICS didn’t even meet during Trump’s term, because the U.S. trade and economic policy known as ‘America First‘, was essentially in alignment with the BRICS mission.

Unfortunately, it was the scale of the WEF, EU, NATO and multinational opposition to President Trump that eventually won.  All the multinational corporations, including Big Tech and ideological globalists in media, aligned to remove President Trump.  That was the scale of the opposition.

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, literally just days after the election, the BRICS group was back on the phone planning to start meetings again in 2021 on the sidelines of the G20 summit.  The BRICS group are back together because the multinationals are back in control.

For obvious reasons, part of the BRICS agenda is to create a trade currency that is not the dollar.  With the recent sanctions put into place against Russia, we can see why that was always going to be important.

In many very direct ways, what we are seeing in this Russia -vs- Ukraine crisis is a geopolitical battle between the outlook of BRICS (economic nationalists) and the NATO, EU, World Economic Forum, multinational corporate assembly, i.e. economic globalists.

At stake in the Ukraine battle is the modern structure of the global economy and international politics.  This is why we see Joe Biden along with NATO, the EU and all of the affiliates under the control of the World Economic Forum going so hard against Russia.

EXAMPLE: India would not denounce Russia during the United Nations Security Council vote.  Now Biden retaliates.

  • The Biden administration is looking whether to apply or waive sanctions on India for its purchase of the S-400 Triumf missile defense system from Russia, under Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)
  • Lu’s remarks came as India drew criticism from US lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, at a hearing on the “US relationship with India” for being among 35 nations that abstained Wednesday from a UN vote to rebuke Russia’s invasion. (LINK)

We already know which side corporate media, Big Tech, Hollywood and the social media control officer’s support.

Will the multinational corporations win, or will Russia with the ideological support of China, India, South Africa and Brazil be victorious?

If the World Economic Forum beats Russia, that tells me all I need to know.

…I’ll be joining the Amish.

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Alternative Views Verboten, Virginia Teacher Suspended After Discussing Putin Motives in Ukraine


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 3, 2022 | Sundance 

Comrades, wrong think will be punished.  There are only correct thoughts accepted.

Vladimir Putin is a totalitarian dictator who does not allow dissent within his cabinet.  Putin does not align with free thought.  As a consequence, all of the right-thinking people in the world must unite to crush the wrong thinking people… because freedom demands it, or something.

ARLINGTON, Va. — A substitute teacher is suspended after he reportedly expressed support for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the classroom.

The Washington Post reports that John Stanton was substitute teaching a Spanish class in Virginia on Friday when he said he backed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged students to read Russian state propaganda outlets. (read more)

It’s all so confusing.  We need Beyonce’ to tell us what to do.

In the interim, enjoy higher gas prices.

Georgia and Moldova Request EU Membership, All the Cool Kids Are Doing It


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 3, 2022 | Sundance 

As World War Reddit continues in the sphere of social media, the modern version of Churchill is now Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  Ignore all the money he has in offshore bank accounts, and please do not draw attention to his NATO/WEF puppet strings.  Zelenskyy is Churchill.

Everything surrounding the propaganda push continues unabated. The public image of Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now maintained by Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Silicon Valley contracts.  All the best people, you know, the ‘elites’, the cool kids, are flowing in one direction.

At this point, Big Tech social media groups have fulfilled the demands of the White House, State Dept, intelligence agencies, United Nations, EU, NATO, WEF, George Soros et al, and rallied the collective west to defeat Russia using the cultural weapon of social likeability.

Georgia and Moldova join the party today asking for EU membership.  Rumors have it that New York, California and Mexico have also requested applications.  With men rushing to the store for their blue/yellow skinny jeggings, the Hollywood telethon cannot be far behind.

REUTERS – Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a formal application for her country to join the European Union on Thursday, charting a pro-Western course hastened by Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

Sandu’s move comes days after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a request for immediate EU membership as it battles invading Russian forces.

[…] Sandu, the prime minister and the parliamentary speaker all signed the document during a briefing in the capital Chisinau, where pro-Russian and pro-EU politicians have vied for control since Moldova won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

“It took 30 years for Moldova to reach maturity, but today the country is ready to take responsibility for its own future,” said Sandu, before holding up the signed document to the television cameras. (read more)

Energy Secretary Granholm Admits Biden Economic Pain and Gas Prices All Part of New Energy Transition


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 3, 2022 | Sundance 

It was only a matter of time before someone had to admit what the instructions were within the Biden administration.  Today, the video surfaces showcasing Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm making the admission.

During a U.S. Department of Energy roundtable, on February 28, 2022, launching the Biden administration’s Better Climate Challenge initiative, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm explained the core of the Biden energy policy.  Underneath all the blocks to oil and gas development, is the larger objective to transition away from fossil fuels to Green New Deal climate change initiatives.

$10/gal gasoline is a feature, it is part of the plan. Rising electricity rates and massive increases in home heating and cooling costs are part of the plan. The downstream impacts of inflation inside the entire U.S. economy are structural issues to be managed.  The financial pain to the U.S. citizen is the biggest problem they need to manage.

Within this ‘transition’ process, the administration needs something they can point to as a false justification. That’s where the Ukraine-Russia conflict serves their current interests.  The Biden team need Americans to blame something or someone else, as they execute this policy.  First it was COVID, now it’s Vladimir Putin. All of this is being done on purpose.  WATCH:

Russia-Ukraine War Propaganda Exposed


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Mar 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Kim Iversen from “The Hill” breaks down what’s true and what’s false about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using images of past wars to depict the current conflict is blatant propaganda. Iversen noted that she mistakenly promoted a picture of Zelensky in full military gear that was taken in April 2021, and honestly owned up to her mistake with an apology. The fake news has spread from the average social media user to the mainstream media, all of who seem to be supporting the same agenda. Even journalists are confused as to what is real.

Although Zelensky is receiving praise from the world for staying with the troops, he is far from a Julius Caesar leading his troops in battle with a red cloak on the frontlines. Everyone fails to mention that Zelensky’s policies pushed Russia from defensive to aggressive. Imagine if we were told Biden would remain in power for over eight years without receiving a proper vote on the matter?

Media outlets throughout the world are misreporting this war. The video above notes a German news channel accidentally aired an explosion leak that occurred years ago in China, claiming it was current footage from the ongoing war. We were shown images of Ukrainian troops dying on Snake Island, only to hear a follow-up that they are still alive. There are two sides to every story. Media channels worldwide are reporting this as a simple black and white, good v bad, situation. Yet, this war runs far deeper than public information will provide.

The WHO Is Developing an International Vaccine Passport


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Mar 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

The World Health Organization (WHO) has signed a deal with T-Systems (a Deutsche Telecom subsidiary) for the production of a global QR system to produce an international vaccine passport. The company noted has already implemented vaccine QR codes for over 60 countries, despite the intense resistance by the people. T-Systems is also responsible for implementing the European Federation Gateway Service (EFGS), and Germany’s COVID warning app, which has been downloaded over 43 million times.

The WHO said further information is coming “soon,” but we already know the implications. This will provide governments with a tool to track and control our movements both domestically and internationally. Even if you have received the COVID shots and booster, you are only one vaccine away from becoming part of “the unvaccinated” population; you will be banished into the shadows of society. France recently repealed four million vaccine passports, halting lives instantaneously. Countries such as Israel and Australia are calling for four or five vaccines. If the people do not push back, the government will have us on a tight leash with full control over our lives.

THE WHO is using this Ukrainian Crisis to now justify “papers please” to use these passports to also “weed out” Russian spies. There might be a lot of people who would actually cheer if Putin invaded Geneva as a threat to the world economy. But why should he do that? This is the decline and fall of the West and all he has to do is cheer on Schwab and the WHO to achieve the end of Western Sovereignty.

Has Biden Unknowingly Begun World War III in Financial Markets?


Armstrong Economics Blog/War Re- Posted Mar 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

We have a very serious problem. I know where the advice to Biden and other world leaders is coming from, as they are telling them to seize all the assets of Putin’s “friends” to put pressure on him — their yachts, bank accounts, houses… everything. It is Bill Browder who was Safra’s partner in Hermitage Capital Management. This is because Putin seized all of the assets of Hermitage Capital Management over the blackmailing of Yeltsin. Putin wanted to question Browder – not kill because he was Safra’s partner. Browder is telling world leaders now to confiscate all Russian assets belonging to who he claims are Oligarchs.

Let me make this very clear. This is a complete abandonment of international law and the absence of any Due Process of Law, which has been the cornerstone of law globally. Due Process is based upon the Bible where the story of Cain & Able. God knows what happened; Cain killed his brother. Nonetheless, he still allows him the right to be heard and explain his side of the issue. That is not only what we have denied in this Ukrainian affair, but now the West will simply seize all the assets of Russians in the West, who are denied any right to Due Process of Law if they are not in government.

What is the Repercussion of Such Acts?

We are not simply looking at World War III beginning in the financial markets with Russian cyberattacks against US banks. This is one SERIOUS warning to Chinese investors that they too can have all their assets seized in a dispute with China. Remember how anyone of Japanese heritage was imprisoned during World War II and denied all Due Process, based solely on their nationality? It took four decades before it was admitted this violated the foundation of human rights.

This is the most DANGEROUS advice in history. It can totally destroy the world economy as we know it. Foreign investment in Russia will be seized, and the prospect of this migrating to China is extremely high. This is crossing the line. You do not go after the assets of private individuals claiming they are holding personal money for Putin. This is now about the legacy of Putin, and he will NOT suddenly stop because his personal assets are confiscated. If anything, this amounts to an act of outright war. These actions will never achieve a reasonable resolution. This I believe is the personal vengeance of Browder because of the seizure of Hermitage Capital Management and the bankers’ failed attempt to take over Russia in 2000.

This will have major implications on all markets, and you should be looking at the arrays carefully. Something was not right, and the arrays were picking this up. It is perhaps why gold failed to elect two important Monthly Bullish Reversals at the end of February when it was trading above them during the month.

Senator Lisa Murkowski Comes Out in Favor of Even Higher Gas Prices in Order to Adequately Punish Russia


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 2, 2022 | sundance

This DeceptiCon, this specific one, owned by the multinational corporate conglomerates, is one of the worst in office.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski tells Politico tonight that she is in favor of higher gas prices for Americans if that’s what it takes to punish Vladimir Putin.

…”We’re going to see price increases. Nobody wants to see that. This is going to hurt. But we need to recognize Europe is in the midst of a war w/ Russia. Innocent people are dying. We have not been in as volatile as a situation as anytime in my life.“…

Senator Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)

Here we go with the narrative of you being unpatriotic if you are not willing to financially suffer the pain inflicted intentionally by the U.S. government.  Not willing to pay $7/gal for gasoline?  You’re selfish.  Not willing to forego a better life for your family, in order to save Ukraine?  You are a horrible person.

However, this narrative is even worse, because the NATO (aligned with World Economic Forum) economic warfare is not only a combination of ideology and corporate influence, but it is also made worse by U.S. government energy policy – which is aligned with the multinational corporations demanding the confrontation.  Effen’ FUBAR all the way around.

(Via Politico) – Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday called for the U.S. to stop imports of Russia oil to punish Moscow for the assault against Ukraine — even if it drives domestic energy prices higher.

Targeting Russian energy is the “most significant” tool left for the U.S. to deploy, the Alaska senator said in an interview, and given President Vladimir Putin’s dependence on oil and gas revenues, it’s “the one that can do the most immediate damage to Russia in halting their efforts.”

“We are going to see price increases,” Murkowski said. “Nobody wants to see that. And this is going to hurt. But we all need to recognize Europe is in the midst of a war with Russia now. Innocent people are dying, children are dying. We have not been in as volatile as a situation as anytime in my life. And so we are looking right now from a very short window.” (read more)

This type of stuff just blows my blood pressure cuff.

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