Posted originally on Dec 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
People who ask me if I would ever run for politics or accept a position the answer is ABSOLUTELY no way because if it was me testifying before Marilyn Strickland (born 1962) a Representative from Washington State, I would have made her day. She is so unqualified to hold any office it is why we are in such a crisis. She is the first member of the United States Congress of both Korean and African-American heritage, and the first African-American member elected from Washington. That was the cheering point – it was all about ethnic background and race – not qualification?
Ukraine is the motherland of ethnic cleansing. They were killing Polish, Jews, and Russians. Hitler promised them a country, which they NEVER had, so they became Nazis and and began killing anyone who was not of Ukrainian blood. The CIA protected the Ukrainian Nazis because they also hatred Russia. So it did not matter how many Jews they killed. That was sanctions as long as they were also killing Russians. NOT a single Ukrainian was ever put on trial like the Germans for their wear crimes.
As soon as there was the 2014 Revolution which we instigated with John McCain there at Maidan advocating the overthrow of the government against international law and Victoria Nuland handing out sandwiches to the revolutionaries, and then handpicked the interim government which then they instructed to attack the Russian in the Donbas. That was NOT an elected government. This was a NEOCON installed government intended yo start this war with Russia.
Strickland is ignorant of the facts as she wants total war with Russia pushed out of Ukraine and the Russians Russian people of the Donbas should then be subject to Kiev’s ethnic cleansing which started this mess. She is not interested in the fact and clearly is supporting the Ukrainian Nazis at this point.
Many Ukrainians are still Neo-Nazis and hate Russians. They still march with images of the ethnic cleanser Bandara who had Polish, Russians, and Jewish pregnant women cut open, removed their babies, and sewn in live cats. This has all been documented.
Bandara who start the ethnic cleansing in Ukraine is still a national hero. His picture was all over Maidan. This is why I do not want to EVER have any such position in government because I would not be so kind. I would have tore her apart on national TV and set the record straight and ask her so you support the same agenda as Adolf Hitler and the CIA to just kill Russians? So you agree with your Republican Adversary Lindsey Graham this is the best money we ever spent to kill the Russian people? What if you said that about Blacks, Muslims, Jews, or Christians?
Her statement that Russia will then attack a NATO nation. That is a Neocon propaganda. Russian went into the Donbas to protect Russians – not to conquer Ukraine. If you do not understand your enemy, you will lose in this war. Her stupidity is brining us closer to World War III with every stupid word.
Posted originally on Dec 8, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
President Trump released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the US, released by the White House on December 4th, 2025, marks a potentially profound shift in US foreign policy. He has criticized Europe and insisted on ending the perception and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance. This 33-page document specifically embraces an ‘America First’ doctrine, rejecting global hegemony and ideological Neocon crusades that are always in favor of war and world dominance. The Neocons constantly claim Putin wants to invade Europe so we have to expand NATO to their border to prevent him from doing so as if Russia was still communist from the old cold war days.
Trump is shifting the focus to a more pragmatic, transactional realism focused on protecting core national interests rather than Neocon desire to conquer the world. In 2023, Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), two dangerous Neocons, authored legislation requiring that any presidential decision to exit NATO must have either two-thirds Senate approval or be authorized through an act of Congress. These Neocons pushed this legislation and the got it to pass stuffed in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law probably with an autopen fed into the machine by Antony Blinken or Victoria Nuland.
I would argue that Trump can sidestep these Neocons citing presidential authority over foreign policy. Congress can try, but the Constitution does not clearly give Congress the power to force a president to remain in a treaty such as NATO. This is one of the biggest unresolved constitutional gaps in U.S. foreign-relations law. Article II gives the president power to make treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate (two-thirds vote). It says nothing about who has the power to terminate treaties.
Presidents Have Terminated Treaties Unilaterally
If we look at history and precedent, presidents of both parties have withdrawn from treaties without prior congressional approval, including:
1854 – Franklin Pierce withdrew from the U.S.–Swiss treaty
1899 – McKinley ended parts of the U.S.–China treaty
1979 – Carter unilaterally withdrew from the U.S.–Taiwan defense treaty
2002 – George W. Bush exited the ABM Treaty
2020 – Donald Trump withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty
Congress never successfully blocked any of these actions. Consequently, this long-standing practice builds a strong historical precedent (though not formally adjudicated). Therefore, this Neocon act introduced by Tim Kaine and Marco Rubio, which in their mind would send everyone else’s children to die for their personal hatred and glory, is by no means “airtight,” and would expose the bloodthirsty Neocons for what they really are since this law sets up a direct constitutional conflict with Congress if a president does try to withdraw as I have recommended.
Our American children are at risk just as they were coming home in body-bags from Vietnam when President Johnson lied to the American people admitted we were never attacked and Robert McNamara who admitted before he died that they were wrong and thought Russia was involved confirming they were not and it was “just a civil war.” I just had a meeting with a vet from the Iraq War who lost his leg all for another lie – weapons of mass destruction that never existed.
These Neocons are consumed with power and hatred and that is a lethal combination. They have usurped US foreign policy for personal glory and hatred. This has been a strategic coup by unelected Neocons who have created endless wars for personal vendettas. Approximately 35% of the current publicly held U.S. national debt can be attributed to the direct costs of past wars and the interest accrued on that borrowed war spending. The average American is paying for the Neocon warmongering with higher mortgage rates because this war expenditure continually expands and will never be paid off. These Neocons have undermined the living standards of the people all for their personal hatreds and glory to rule the world.
Trump should declare he was pulling out of NATO; I would force Congress into a legal position and launch an investigation of any Senator or Representative to ensure that they are not profiting in any way from the war expenditures they are advocating.
The Supreme Court has generally held that institutional conflicts between the branches are political questions best resolved through the political process rather than through judicial intervention. But we are dealing with Neocons here who have engaged in a covert coup of American foreign policy, which to me is treason. Perhaps we need Treason Trials like Roman Emperors Tiberius and Caligula to get our country back from the brink.
In court, you have to have what is called “standing” to bring a case. I cannot bring a case against you for not paying your child’s college bills. Only your child would have “standing” to bring the action provided you did not guarantee the college. Here, the only party with standing would be Congress itself, but it is not clear that the Republicans in Congress would support such a suit. If they did, they you know who should be hauled out of Capital Hill in chains.
It would take Congress which has the strongest standing to sue over a presidential withdrawal from NATO. Perhaps you could argue Americans who own property in NATO countries might be able to claim standing. This type of claim is less certain.
Even if the Supreme Court took up the case, it’s not clear who would win because the constitutional question is murky. Congress has never mounted a direct legal challenge to a president withdrawing from a treaty. Article II gives the president power to make treaties with the consent of Congress but it does NOT give the power to Congress to even negotiate a treaty.
Article 5 under the NATO treaty is fundamentally voluntary in its implementation. This is a critical and often misunderstood point. The Wording of Article 5 Itself states:
“…each of them will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force…”
The crucial phrase is “such action as it deems necessary.” This grants each member nation the sovereign right to decide what form its assistance will take. There is no prescribed, automatic obligation to declare war or deploy troops. Rubio thinks that it would not be voluntary and has no problem sleeping a night knowing your son or daughter will die for his personal hatred. All my friend from high school who died for Vietnam all for lies. As McNamara said, it was just a civil war and that is Ukraine which we instigated thanks to Victoria Nuland, John. McCain, and Antony Blinken.
Meanwhile, Trump can also undermine NATO without formally leaving, even if he chooses not to follow my recommendation and get out. He could refuse U.S. support by withholding ambassadors or keeping troops from participating in military exercises. While several lawmakers in February called for new legislative measures to guard against these risks, nothing serious has materialized since. Again, any lawmaker who sells out our country for war should be removed from any government position whatsoever.
“Following Trump’s threats in his first term, the Congress — recognizing the vital importance of NATO — acted on a bipartisan basis to prevent any future presidents from unilaterally withdrawing,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement. He is another Neocon. NATO is not important to America. “While Trump may resort to his old tricks, we’ll continue working to shore up NATO and stand ready to fight back against any attempts to undermine the strength of this alliance.”
Kaine, one of the authors of the NATO guardrail, slammed Trump’s rhetoric on the alliance and argued the U.S. “is safest when we link arms with our allies.” He is an idiot that peace is NEVER achieved with force. He also said: “Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about NATO are disturbing, and my hope is that the legislation we passed will ensure the United States continues to participate in this crucial alliance.”
We should stand aside, let Europe destroy itself for the third time, and then pick up the pieces but no Marshall Plan this time. I would promote legislation that prohibits any legislator from voting for war unless they have a family member that are willing to hand a gun and say here, go kill a bunch a people. They have no problem sending other people’s children to war while exempting their own.
October 13, 1960
The Third Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate
It has been the Neocon agenda or having bases everywhere that has undermined the economy in the face of constant US overreach as a failure that weakened America. President Kennedy said that in his campaign debate with Nixon in 1960. It was the building of basdes everywhere that increased the dollars and that brought down Bretton Woods and the gold standard all for the Neocon agenda. Kennedy’s remarks set off a gold panic in 1960 as people feared the US would contract and no longer fund the defense of Europe. Kennedy said:
“The difficulty, of course, is that we do have heavy obligations abroad, that we therefore have to maintain not only a favorable balance of trade but also send a good deal of our dollars overseas to pay our troops, maintain our bases, and sustain other economies.”
I laid out in the peace proposal that the real enemy would be the EU – not Russia. That has proven to be correct. There was even a secret meeting where Macron and Merz instructed Zelensky no peace. There is way too much money at stake in addition to all the billions flowing into the pockets of Ukrainian and EU politicians, no peace means the EU gets to keep the over $300 billion in Euroclear. If you actually look closely, you will see that the EU has violated international law for about 80% of that money belongs to private Russians, not state assets. This is all about keeping American sending billions with no accountability that EU lawmakers get their shares.
Any American legislator who votes to keep sending money to Ukraine and NATO should reveal all net wealth personally and their family including second degree. War is the MOST profitable war to enter office broke, and leave a multi-millionaire. Trump’s approach is all about ushering in a “new golden age” for the United States, which the Democrats keep trying to prevent simply because it is Trump – not that the policies are good, bad, or indifferent. Politics is no longer about the country or the people, it is to embarrass the opponent regardless of the issue just to win.
Trump’s 33-page document organizes US strategy around three pillars: Homeland defense, the Western Hemisphere, and economic renewal. Secondary focuses include selective partnerships in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Here are the major shifts in strategy compared to the previous strategies of not just Biden/Neocons, but also Trump’s first term:
From global cop to regional hegemon: Unlike Biden’s 2022 NSS (which emphasized alliances and great-power competition) or Trump’s 2017 version (which named China and Russia as revisionists), this document ends America’s “forever burdens” abroad. It prioritizes the Americas over Eurasia, framing Europe and the Middle East as deprioritized theaters.
Ideological retreat: Democracy promotion is explicitly abandoned – “we seek peaceful commercial relations without imposing democratic change” (tell that to the Venezuelans). Authoritarians are not judged, and the EU is called “anti-democratic.”
Confrontational ally relations: Europe faces scathing criticism for migration, free speech curbs, and risks of “civilizational erasure” (e.g., demographic shifts making nations “unrecognizable in 20 years”). The US vows to support the “patriotic” European parties resisting this, drawing Kremlin-like rhetoric accusations from EU leaders.
China policy: Acknowledges failed engagement; seeks “mutually advantageous” ties but with deterrence (e.g., Taiwan as a priority). No full decoupling, but restrictions on tech/dependencies.
Multipolar acceptance: Invites regional powers to manage their spheres (e.g., Japan in East Asia, Arab-Israeli bloc in the Gulf), signaling US restraint to avoid direct confrontations.
We are looking at a seismic shift in America’s approach to NATO. As I have said, NATO should be shut down for its sole purpose in like a Mafia protection racket. It is not there to promote peace, it keeps getting money only by constantly claiming that Russia wants to conquer Europe. It has even tried to expand into Asia to create war with China agains to keep its money flowing in endlessly. NATO is a ruthless retirement home for Neocons.
Trump has put normalizing relations with Russia among ‘core interests’ where the days of empire building are over. I have explained that only the Roman Empire achieved peace because people realized it was more beneficial to be inside the Empire with free trade than on the outside looking in. Sanction have NEVER worked even once. Neocons have constantly sought to wage economic war under the theory that will bring down their hated opponent.
The US MUST abandon Ukraine!!!!! It is far too corrupt and ONLY when the billions stop flowing into the pockets of the elite Ukrainians will this war ever come to an end. The propaganda of the NATO and the EU to keep this corruption and money flowing has been to instill fear in Europeans to convince them that Russia as an existential threat. Managing European relations with Russia will require significant US diplomatic engagement. The EU is not prepared for peace because it needs that $300 billion just to stay alive until 2027 at best.
December 2025 is a Double Directional Change and then by February we have a Panic Cycle. From January on, the dire economic conditio0n within the EU will continue to force their had to push for war with Russia and they will most likely stage a false flag.
Posted originally on Nov 25, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
Trump’s proposal for peace in Ukraine has been met with an overwhelming condemnation from the world’s neocons. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsonreemerges from the shadows whenever he hears word that a war may be winding down. He played an instrumental role in persuading Zelensky not to negotiate a peace treaty with Russia when it was apparent that Ukraine could not easily win, and now, Johnson is urging Ukraine to continue the war.
“Imagine that you are Vladimir V. Putin and you are spending a calm Saturday in the Kremlin… You casually watch the television news, and you cannot help but smile at the incompetence of your opponents, at the astonishing weakness of the West. You have lost more than a million soldiers, killed and wounded, in your attempts to subdue Ukraine. You have still failed to capture more than 20 percent of the country’s territory. Your economy is faltering. And now they are talking about some new 28-point plan to end the war – and it could have been written entirely by the Kremlin,” Johnson warned.
In typical neocon fashion, Johnson wants to paint the proposal as a victory for Russia. He acknowledges millions have died, but since they are Russian, their lives do not matter. Continue the slaughter at the expense of the people.
Johnson declared that Britain was in a proxy war with Russia back in November 2024. “It has been pathetic… Let’s face it: We’re waging a proxy war but not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. For years now, we’ve been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs, and it has been cruel,” he admitted one year ago. Why would Britain feel threatened by Russia? Why would any sane leader thrust their people into a battle that is not theirs to fight?
The head of M16, Sir Richard Moore, also came out in November 2024, admitting British intelligence was discreetly fighting on behalf of Ukraine. “We cherish our heritage of covert action, which we keep alive today in helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion,” Moore commented.
Moore and Johnson know that Russia has no incentive to invade Europe, especially Britian. There is absolutely nothing for Putin to gain. Europe, on the other hand, has everything to gain through conflict with Russia. They see Ukraine as the ultimate entryway into Russia
War is a great way to default on debts. You get to form a new government, and they always disavow the debts of the previous government. Europe has been committing economic suicide. Between the COVID-19 Lockdowns, the NET-ZERO Climate Change, and then the sanctions on Russia that doubled their fuel costs, you could not ask for a more brain-dead group of politicians who have ZERO comprehension of even how the economy functions.
Plain and simple—Russia invaded due to the West’s failure to honor the Minsk Agreement. The neocons disregard the proposal entirely and conveniently disregard the original signed agreement when discussing conceding territory.
“The document offers Ukrainians not only to give up any attempts to reclaim Crimea or Donbas, but also to cede vast territories, including about 250,000 Ukrainians whom the Russians do not even control. Of course, you knew your negotiators would try something like that. But you never believed anyone would take this seriously. You can’t believe that President Trump would back this plan, because it is a complete betrayal of Ukraine,” Johnson continued in his recent writing.
LET THE PEOPLE VOTE! The ethnically Russian people living in Ukraine have been unable to decide on their leadership. Zelensky outlawed their religion and language. Everyone believes they are protecting the people in these regions from the other side, but only one side is open to learning the people’s wishes. The 28-point plan saves the PEOPLE of both Russia and Ukraine. Russia cannot abandon the war without guarantees that NATO will back down and Ukraine is merely an EU puppet. Zelensky now has two days to decide whether he is willing to destroy his nation for the neocons.
Posted originally on Nov 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group.
With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia.
LM
ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent.
Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023.
I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The bankers were even involved in a manipulation of rhodium which went from $700 in 1980. By 1995, rhodium had fallen back to roughly $500 per ounce, down from the spectacular 1990 peak above $6,000/oz — a drop of over 90% in five years.
The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices.
All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver who made that motion, Alan Cohen, magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.
It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there.
Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how
According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious.
The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.
Posted originally on Oct 11, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
Not all Americans are NEOCONS looking for World War III like Lindsey Olin Graham. I believe Trump is being played by the NEOCONS, and advocating that NATO can shoot down Russian planes if they even venture into their airspace is an act of war. Some of the NEOCONS, such as John Bolton, never served, yet have no problem sending others to die in combat. Lindsey has served in the military, though he has not fought in combat or been in an active war zone. He was in the United States Air Force (active duty from 1982–1988).
Anna Paulina Luna was in the military from 2009 to 2014. I can say she is anti-war, and she does have a fire in her belly. It is Congress that must issue a declaration of war. Roosevelt had to impose sanctions on Japan, freezing all their assets in the USA, then threatening to put an embargo on it to prevent Japan from buying energy from anyone else. That was what led to Pearl Harbor. Once they attacked, then Roosevelt finally got his declaration of war from Congress.
Luna is at least on our side. I give her credit for opening a dialogue with Russia. Putin is doing everything he can to avoid World War III. My concern is that the media in Europe and in the USA are bought and paid for by the NEOCONS and the Military Industrial Complex that President Eisenhow warned us about, which will always promote war, for that is how they make their billions with the blood of others.
When Kruschev backed down from the 1962 Missile Crisis, the dignity of Russia was called into question. There was a coup and Kruschev was ousted.
Russia was invited to join NATO. Because the hardliners feared he might do that and surrender Russia to its postwar enemy, NATO, they staged another coup and overthrew Gobabchev. That is when Yeltsin stood on the tank and told the military not to follow their orders and not to shoot their fellow Russians.
Trump and NATO are playing a perilous game of chicken. Trying to force Putin into this corner to show your balls are bigger than his runs the risk of yet a third coup, and this time they will get more than they bargained for. With longer-range missiles, Ukraine can destroy all the military targets inside Russia to reduce it to ashes, which is the real goal of this Ukraine War. My sources have been obvious. NOBODY EVER EXPECTED Ukraine even to survive. The only objective was to use Ukraine to weaken Russia so that NATO could walk in unopposed.
Any news article that starts out saying “When Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it set off the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II,” is propaganda put out by NATO, NEOCONS, and the war mongers. If anyone cared about the Ukrainian people, they would have honored the Minsk Agreement. The powers behind the curtain want war with Russia, and they intend to get it.
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