Sep 17 2025

The Baltic Defense Line

Posted originally on Sep 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |

The Baltic Defense Line established by Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania has become the largest fortification effort in Europe since World War II. The multi-layered defensive installation includes anti-tank obstacles, surveillance systems, trenches, and bunkers. The “East Shield” is intended to protect these nations, and therefore Europe, from Russian invasion, which they believe is inevitable.

Estonia announced that it has begun construction of a 40-kilometer trench along its border with Russia. Other Baltic States, such as Lithuania and Latvia, have constructed “dragon’s teeth” or anti-tank barriers that act as large pyramid-shaped concrete obstacles for armored vehicles.

🇱🇹 Lithuania is shifting from individual counter-mobility measures to a unified 3-echelon defence line – giving greater depth, stronger control & full NATO/EU integration at our frontier. pic.twitter.com/qgd4VXYKCZ
— Lithuanian MOD 🇱🇹 (@Lithuanian_MoD) August 14, 2025

The three Baltic states will each install a minimum of 600 bunkers along the border. The 600-mile-wide project is expected to take up to ten years to complete. “[Vladimir] Putin is not going to let us wait those 10 years,” said Gabrielius Landsbergis, who served as Lithuania’s foreign minister until November. “The most dangerous time for the Baltics will be immediately after a ceasefire in Ukraine,” he told The Telegraph.

The new neocon tale states that a ceasefire with Ukraine would cause a world war. To the neocons, a ceasefire would give Russia more time to regroup, rearm, and attack NATO nations. Danish Intelligence reported that Moscow could “fight a local war in a country bordering Russia,” and in as little as two years, the nation will “be ready for a regional war against several countries in the Baltic Sea region.” By 2030, Danish intelligence believes Russia will engage in “a large-scale war” in Europe.

Now the Baltic states are spending a minimum of £60 million each to implement this Baltic Defense Line. “We must be able to hold the line, make sure Russia does not get inside, but we must also be able to take the fight to the enemy,” declared Raimond Kaljulaid, the head of Estonia’s delegation to NATO.

Russia has no motive to invade the Baltics unless NATO provokes it to do so. Moscow’s strategic concerns lie elsewhere. But NATO must keep expanding the conflict, because without Russia as the eternal enemy, the alliance has no purpose. The wall is being built not because of military necessity, but because the neocons want perpetual confrontation. The Baltic Defense Line is political theatre for the masses to believe that Europe is protecting itself against Russian threats, when in reality, the neocons in Europe have been planning to wage war against Russia at the nearest opportunity.

Sep 17 2025

President Trump Delivers Remarks to Media Departing the White House

Posted originally on CTH on September 16, 2025 | Sundance

President Trump is departing the White House heading to Great Britain for a state visit with King Charles. As he departs President Trump talks to the media about current events and answers questions from the assembled press pool. WATCH:

Sep 16 2025

President Trump On If He Will Designate Antifa A Terrorist Organization

Posted originally on Rumble on By Bannon’s War Room on: September, 15, 2025

Sep 16 2025

President Trump Signs Memorandum Directing National Guard, ICE To Memphis, Tennessee

Posted originally on Rumble on By Bannon’s War Room on: September, 15, 2025

Sep 14 2025

President Trump Calls Out EU/NATO Nations to Stop Talking Out Both Sides of Their Mouth

Posted originally on CTH on September 13, 2025 | Sundance

In a brutally honest Truth Social post today, President Trump calls out the EU/NATO nations to stop buying Russian energy products if they want him to lead the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia.

The “coalition of the willing” has been openly and privately applying public pressure upon President Trump to push stronger sanctions against Russia. However, at the same time the EU/NATO are making these demands, they are also purchasing Russian energy products as delivered through third parties.

So today, President Trump posts this:

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A non-diplomatic way of saying, ‘put up or shut up.’

Those of you who understand business terms can well understand “making the monkey jump.” President Trump is not taking their monkey.

This is a direct response to the public statements being made by EU/NATO leadership, who are -by design- trying to put the responsibility onto President Trump, and defer all their own culpability in the process.

This is similar to the approach President Trump took in 2018 when he very publicly called out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for continuing the Nordstream II Pipeline deal with Russia while simultaneously expecting President Trump to fortify NATO against Russia.

In this exchange, President Trump was in Brussels, Belgium for the start of the annual NATO summit.

President Trump knows the EU/NATO will not do it.

The French govt has just collapsed. The EU voted no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen. The German economy is contracting. The U.K is facing a financial crisis. Moldova is facing a very sketchy election this month. The Canadian economy is contracting, etc etc.

The last thing the EU/NATO want to do going into the winter is make their energy prices skyrocket.

Trump well understands the leverage point right now.

Sep 12 2025

President Trump Takes Question From The Press Before Departing From The White House

Posted originally on Rumble on By Bannon’s War Room on: September, 111, 2025

Sep 12 2025

August CPI – USA

Posted originally on Sep 12, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |

Consumer prices are up 2.9% in August on an annual basis after rising 2.7% in July. CPI doubled from July’s reading at 0.4%, with inflation now sitting at 2.9%. Core CPI excluding food and energy rose 3.1% YoY.

Food prices are 3.2% higher this year, rising 0.5% from July 2025. Food at home rose 3.2% YoY (0.6% MoM), while food away from home rose 3.3% YoY (0.3% MoM). Vegetable prices rose 1.6% from the month prior. Meats, fish, poultry, and eggs rose 1% in August, with beef prices continuing to rise at 2.7%. Dairy products increased slightly by 0.1% and nonalcoholic beverages rose 0.6%.

There was an uptick in the price of medical care services with a 4.2% annual increase. The medical care index overall decreased by 0.7%.

Shelter costs spiked 3.6% in the past year as well, with household goods and furnishings rising 3.9%.

The tariff price adjustment can be felt in the auto sector as prices are up across the board. Even used cars have increased 6% in price from August 2024, and motor vehicle insurance is up 4.7% over the same timeframe. Transportation services in general rose 3.5%. Airline fares are up 5.9% on a monthly basis after rising 4% in July.

The energy index rose 0.2% over the past 12 months, although there seems to be a bit of reprieve on gas (down 6.6% YoY), and general energy commodities (-6.2% YoY). The cost of electricity spiked 6.2% in the past 12 months, energy services rose 7.7%, and utilities are up an alarming 13.8%.

Inflation continues to rise faster than wages, with the average urban wage earner seeing a 2.8% annual increase in pay. The Labor Department noted in a separate report that weekly unemployment reached 263,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis, with 27,000 additional job losses from the prior period.

Prices are up, employment is down, and overall GDP is declining. The mainstream analysts are finally recognizing that we are in a period of stagflation.

Our computer is demonstrating that volatility in unemployment will rise from 2026, peaking first in 2028 with a Panic Cycle in 2029. This also confirms our War Cycles for 2026. What we MUST come to grips with is that there is far more to understanding the economy from a single statistic perspective. However, we are also undergoing two significant factors that the classic economic models fail to incorporate, aside from the fact that 99% of the rhetoric and the economic models overlook the leverage in the banking system that creates money outside of the Federal Reserve through lending.