Posted originally on Jun 16, 2025 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Marty, you have suggested that this is all connected between the Middle East and Ukraine. Can you explain a bit more in detail?

Ralph

ANSWER: The Neocons have circumvented Trump, and they control the Intelligence operation even in Ukraine, which is a primary propaganda operation. As I have said, these pretend people who claim to be champions of Ukraine do not give a damn about Ukraine, this is all to destroy Russia. They have their hands in the Middle East. As I said, I would argue against Bill Kristol back in the ’90s when he said that we should take out Saddam from Iraq, Assad from Syria, and Gaddafi from Libya, and this would bring democracy and peace to the Middle East.

Let us be honest here. Israel decapitated the leadership of Iran and even wanted to take out the Supreme Leader. This was clearly a regime change in a country with a population of 90 million. Nobody has thought through the end game as they did with Iraq. What comes out of this is going to be unintended consequences. Trump ran on America First and to stop the Neocon endless wars. This is why this is a significant issue of Neocons vs Trump.

This will be the test of the Neocons vs Trump, since he has previously said that the Israeli assault could end quickly if Iran agrees to US demands that it accept strict curbs on its nuclear program, which is also sought by European countries. Trump has stressed that his administration wasn’t involved in the Israeli strikes but warned Iran not to attack U.S. assets in the region. Trump’s statement that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” implies that Israel intends to pound the city and some say nuke it. This is hard for me to believe, knowing personally that Trump was very much against war. This even raises a question in my mind: What the hell is going on? A national security council meeting has been called, and Trump has returned, cutting the G7 meeting short. This indicates that things are about to heat up, and some senators are rushing to try to stop any hostile action directly against Iran.

If Trump allows Israel to nuke Tehran, he has opened the door to World War III. If that is allowed, then Putin should do the same to Kiev – drop the leaflets as the US did in Japan and tell the Ukrainians to get out of Kiev “immediately.” Such an act will lead to widespread anti-semitism if Netanyahu did such a thing. Keep in mind that in June 2024, his approval rating was just 29%. The vast majority of Israelis do NOT support Netanyahu, who is a Neocon, and this can backfire on him as well, with rising civil unrest.

Netanyahu was asked on ABC News about the reports that claimed that Trump blocked an Israeli plan to assassinate the Iranian regime’s supreme leader. It was reported that Trump argued it would escalate the entire war, and Netanyahu did not deny the claim, saying, “It’s not going to escalate the conflict, it’s going to end the conflict.” I’m sorry, Netanyahu is a Neocon who does NOT understand anything beyond the end of his nose.

Netanyahu’s statements are those of a Neocon: “We’ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere.” Netanyahu went further, saying: “The ‘forever war’ is what Iran wants, and they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression, and we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.”

We are about to see if Trump has crossed to the other side with the Neocons. Netanyahu is a total fool. Destroying Iran will only transform this into a Jihad, and this is NOT a wise decision. It will tear Europe apart internally, and there is no EXIT strategy. Netanyahu knew that Israel could not destroy the Iranian nuclear facility. This was NOT a winnable war UNLESS they dragged the USA into destroying the nuclear facility. I warn about this in trading. You do not simply buy into a market without an exit strategy. This is all a Neocon conspiracy plot to create World War III.

Without the US stepping in with its unique bunker-buster bomb, which penetrated 200 feet before exploding, it suggests that Israel will face the fact that this war has been a failure, or they must take heroic steps involving an invasion with troops on the ground. Either way, this does not end as expected.

As also expected, amid a military crisis, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is also confronted internally by rising dissent from members of his regime’s elite, many of whom have sent their families to Russia on private planes. Some are openly criticizing his response to the situation. Sources have been reporting that some are questioning why the nation’s air defenses failed to counteract Israel’s offensive. Their dissent also indicates that his regime made a grave mistake by not predicting Israeli strikes before scheduled talks with the US in Oman, which were cancelled.

This was all instigated by the Neocons with the plan to force the United States to finish the job. This post by Trump at 6:30PM, after Iran has pleaded for a ceasefire and agreed to discuss and yield on the nuclear issues, is also a grave mistake. The risk here is that Iran will not be allowed to be destroyed at the end of the day, especially when China gets 80% of Iranian oil. This is NOT simply a Middle East isolated conflict. If Trump does not see this, he has lost all of my respect.

The Neocons have widely believed that the United States should spread liberal democracy globally, which would foster peace and open the international economy to their dominance. They supported the idea of a one-world government by establishing international institutions. In truth, just as Khruschev wanted to spread communism across the world, they came up with this policy of remaking the world in America’s image under the pretense of a magnanimous idea of protecting human rights, promoting peace, and making the world safe for democracy, which is a big lie anyway. When communism fell, they became an unbridled threat to humanity. They seized control of the United States’ foreign policy, which reached its pinnacle under the Biden Administration.

These Neocons pretend to champion world peace by destroying all opposition – bomb the hell out of any opponent for peace and destroy the world economy with sanctions. They have engaged in a highly militarized state pretending to be wearing the white hats while fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values domestically by rigging elections to maintain their objectives that have included assassinations of leaders both domestically and internationally.

Under the label of liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States under these Neocons since the Cold War ended, is driving us to their ultimate goal of world domination via World War III. They engage in proxy wars that circumvent Congress and fly in the face of pretending that they are spreading freedom and democracy. They ordered Zelensky to destroy Ukraine for their personal goals. Anyone who is against the war they called a Russian Propagandist when you are really standing for the Ukrainian people not to be slaughtered for Neocon goals.

The Neocons lie to our politicians and are now pulling the levers outside the United States to circumvent Trump’s anti-war position. They tried to assassinate Trump to prevent him from taking power. If he cannot see through this facade, then we are all in serious trouble. There is nobody capable of adopting a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how the world really functions and how you cannot change culture and human nature with bombs and oppression.

Through my discussions over the years, I have concluded that these people will never tolerate another world power. China or Russia cannot rise peacefully in their mind. They see that a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, just as they constantly put out the propaganda that Russia ultimately aims to dominate Europe. They will judge them by their own desires. They delude themselves that only the United States should be the world’s sole regional hegemon, because it’s a democratic society. Of course, that is all BS, for the USA is a Republic, not a Democracy, and that allows for a Deep State to control everything, since we have no right to vote on any issue. We are “represented” denied direct voting, and as I said, I can run for office, promise anything you want to hear, and when I get there, the decisions are made in a backroom. I am then instructed to vote the party line.

This is the great tragedy of power politics in a Republic, where, as Thomas Paine observed in his opening, they delude themselves and assume that they are the sovereign of the state, not the people. They pretend that we are too stupid to vote and rely on the comments of the three foremost Greek philosophers.

However, their objections to a direct democracy were that the ordinary people did not understand how to run a state. The antithesis of a Direct Democracy is a Republic where professional politicians make the decisions, and therein lies the far greater danger of corruption, which compelled Caesar to cross the Rubicon.

Plato recorded the debate between Socrates and Thrasymachus, which was correct then and is still a warning to us all to this day. JUSTICE does not exist; It is always just the will of those in power. The Biden Administration brought charges against Trump, which was seen as a legal persecution attempt to prevent him from running for office.  The people should have the direct right to vote on major issues, such as war, taxation, and even pay raises for government officials. There should be no government agencies, which should be subtracted out and privatized, since there is never any evidence that the government has ever been capable of self-audit. As I said, they still send my mother a COVID stimulus check two years after she died.

A friend who had been married for 50 years was asked, “How did he stay married for so long?” He said they came to an arrangement. He made all the major decisions, and she handled all the others. He was then asked, “What major decisions did he make?” He responded: “None have come up yet.” That is the definition of a Republic.