Posted originally on Aug 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
I have to admit that what I have seen from the Western Press is nothing but absurd propaganda and complete ignorance of the concept of strategy. They love to say Trump failed after previously pushing for a ceasefire and threatening severe consequences for Russia if Putin did not stop the war. President Trump appeared to back off that demand. WHY? If I were Putin, there would be no way I would agree to a ceasefire because the last time that only opens a window to rearm Ukraine. These morons are complete idiots at best, may be able to play checkers, but certainly never chess. I do not see any intelligence commenting on any network with the slightest concept of strategy.
Trump offered a security guarantee, and Steve Witkoff had told CNN that Russia agreed to “Article 5-like” protections for Ukraine during Friday’s summit. This is precisely what I have been saying. Putin has been there since 1999, and he has shown ZERO interest in taking all of Europe. That is the NATO/NEOCON Bullshit that was true with Khruschev when it was a war of Communism vs Capitalism.
Every source I have says the same thing that Putin may be the most intelligent man on the world table. Even the declassified document from Bill Clinton, dated November 19, 1999, said the same thing.
The Neocon propaganda will not relent. They keep up this endless desire to conquer Russia. If all my sources say the same thing, surely Putin must understand the same thing. That is why if I were him, NEVER would I agree to a ceasefire. Trump repeatedly expressed optimism that “We’re gonna have a lasting peace” after his meeting with Putin. That is his desire. The Russian people also do not want war, just as the average European or American. Leaders – not the average person- create wars.
Even Field Marshall Goring testified to that at Nuremberg. That is how it always works. You have to bullshit the people, demonize your opponent, to manipulate people to think they are doing the right thing. It is always the same routine. A friend who works with veterans, at dinner, told me that working with World War II vets compared to Vietnam Vets is like night and day. The Vietnam Vets were lied to, abused, and were chemically poisoned. The high rates of cancer among Vietnam veterans are not coincidental. They are a direct consequence of widespread exposure to the dioxin-contaminated herbicide Agent Orange during their service. The carcinogenic properties of dioxin, combined with other risk factors prevalent during wartime service, have led to devastating health outcomes decades later. While the VA now provides compensation and healthcare for these service-connected illnesses, the human cost remains immense. I have been told that they are angry compared to World War II Vets who believed they saved Europe.
My sources do not believe Zelensky nor ANY European leader, and especially NATO, whose ONLY purpose in its existence has been to create war. You have NATO demanding 5% of GDP when the entire growth rate of the EU for 2024 came in at +0.5% (27 countries), whereas the growth rate for the whole of the Euro area was just +0.4% (EA20). This demand from NATO will fulfill our model forecasting for an economic decline into 2028. The EU is looking at war as its ONLY option; otherwise, the people will be storming their parliaments with this type of massive economic contraction.
Trump met with the European warmongers led by Sir Keir Starmer. The leaders of France, Finland, Germany, and Italy, alongside the heads of NATO, the real leader of the pack, as well as the EU, muscled their way into this meeting. All seven leaders said they will ALWAYS be on the side of Ukraine and that the conflict with Russia must end. All my sources have warned that they will stab Trump in the back in the blink of an eye. Trump agreed with the calls for “long-term” peace, but Europe is not genuine in this regard.
While Trump had promised Putin he would call after the meeting, he picked up the phone and called Putin during the meeting. I am thoroughly disgusted at the dishonesty of Europe in this regard, and they cannot be that stupid to think that the West did not organize this entire war. They obviously only care about clinging to power rather than actually representing the people. As I said all along, all they had to do was honor the Minsk Agreement, and there would never have been a war.
I am so glad I am 75 and not 18. But my greatest lament is for my grandchildren. Zelensky was a NeoNatzi pretending to be Christian, and he is Hitler 2.0 because Ukraine still celebrated Bandera as a hero who was engaged in ethnic cleansing. Ukraine should not be totally abandoned. They attacked the pipeline to Hungary, and when Hungary accused Ukraine of an “outrageous and unacceptable” attack that disabled a Russian oil pipeline supplying this NATO ally, Zelensky’s arrogant response was an outright lie – Russia had started the war. So Hungary should send its complaints to Moscow instead.
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. This is our own fault. The CIA protected the Ukrainian Nazis simply because they were also ethnically cleansing all Russians. They were NEVER prosecuted, so Uktaine is still invested with bitter ethnic hatred with ZERO chance of resolution.
Ukrainian Revolution (January–February 2014)
Protests turned violent in January 2014 after the government passed draconian anti-protest laws and police brutally dispersed demonstrators. The deadliest phase occurred from February 18–20th, 2014, when snipers and riot police killed over 100 protesters in Kiev, yet as Olive Stone demonstrated, it was the Ukrainians killing their own people because Victoria Nuland said the US would not intervene unless the protesters had been killed. Then on February 21st, 2014, Yanukovych fled Kyiv after signing a short-lived EU-brokered agreement. The next day, parliament voted to remove him from office.
The very next month, in May 2014, the Ukrainians began to attack Russians on the street, beating them and killing them. They wanted all Russians dead, and the Western Press turned a blind eye. The hatred in Ukraine of non-Ukrainians goes back to the ethnic cleansing they engaged in when they were Nazis. They hate Russians, along with all other minorities, they hate and do not trust. Make no mistake about it: if Russia loses, the Ukrainians will massacre all Russians in the Donbas territory, and the Western Press will never report anything. The West ignores the fact that the Ukrainians carried out a massacre of ethnic Russians who lived in Odessa as soon as the 2014 Revolution, and that is what started this entire civil war that the Western Press will not address.
Oleksandr Turchynov was installed by Victoria Nuland et el as the unelected Acting President of Ukraine (February–June 2014). His government ignored the killing of Russians in Odessa. When they moved to separate, it was no different than what took place in Chechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, with similar ethnic differences that plague the Balkans, as Bismarck warned back in 1888, he instituted this civil war, claiming it was a response to escalating violence orchestrated by pro-Russian separatists after the Odessa Massacre.
The 2014 Odessa Massacre of Russian-speaking civilians who were killed by the Ukrainians on the streets was the resurfacing of the Nazi Ethnic Cleansing. When the civilians fled for safety into the Trade Union Building, the nationalist Ukrainians burned them alive. That was the turning point. It revealed that the Donbas had to separate, for the Ukrainian hatred of Russians was out to annihilate every last one of them – not their submission to Kiev. Victoria Nuland told them to call it an anti-terrorist action because they sought a democratic solution to vote for their freedom.
The 2014 Odessa Massacre is ignored by the Western Press because they are too busy promoting World War III. For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians was carried out and even filmed by numerous people. The West was silent and cheered the deaths of Russian civilians. This has been documented in extraordinary detail, and the Ukrainians did not even fear any negative consequences in world opinion because the Neocons also hate Russians.
The historical record shows that Oleksandr Turchynov, as Acting President of Ukraine (February–June 2014), initiated the civil war, claiming that he was acting against terrorists simply because they were defending themselves, their language, which was then outlawed, and their religion.
Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, which was a strategic military base similar to the US base in Japan at Okinawa. Russian military personnel and equipment were located there. It was an invasion. Following the Odessa Massacre, the Russian population of the Donbas declared “independence,” leading to violent clashes with Ukrainian police. It was formally on April 13th, 2014, when Turchynov announced an Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) as the excuse to justify civil war. As Al Jazeera reported on April 13th, 2014, “Ukrainian security forces have launched an ‘anti-terrorist’ operation to end the grip of separatists on an eastern town, according to the country’s interior minister.”
There are just no independent journalists left in the West. Mainstream gets its talking points from the Neocons, including Fox News quoting the Institute for the Study of War, started by Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law. All you have to do is look at the press reporting in 2014. It was the UNELECTED government installed by Victoria Nuland and her Neocons, who then directed them to attack the Donbas to draw in Putin.
Here, the Associated Press states at the beginning, “Ukraine’s acting President,” meaning unelected, since the Ukrainian people NEVER voted for war. Ukraine had just gone through a revolution, but the Donbas wanted to split from Ukraine because they hated Russians who had lived in the Donbas and Crimea for hundreds of years. The media never looked at the facts or the truth and has constantly promoted World War III.
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There was a peace deal, and that was all agreed to, that the Donbas would be allowed to vote and separate just as Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. That was the way out, and it was NOT Putin or Russia that killed that deal – it was the West, where Merkel admitted that they never intended to honor that peace deal. Yet the Western press constantly puts out the Nocon propaganda promoting war and claims it is Putin who cannot be trusted.
The press is hell-bent on promoting World War III and they do not give a shit about the people and assume that Russia can be defeated in the blink of an eye. They never consider that no war in history has unfolded as expected.
Zelensky claimed that Ukraine’s Constitution prohibits surrendering territory.
On top of all of that, Zelenskyy claimed that Ukraine’s Constitution prohibits surrendering territory or any territorial deals. In other words, there can be NO PEACE DEAL. No matter what they tell Trump, they will stab him in the back, and the computer will be correct again – WWIII is on the horizon.
All of the European leaders came to Washington to back Zelensky, that there will BE NO PEACE in Ukraine. They all met FIRST at the Ukrainian Embassy to strategize to get Trump to reject any peace deal, for they want to conquer Russia because the EU will collapse economically. These people are insane, and they are playing with billions of lives all for a failed EU government that was never designed correctly from the outset.
The models are starting to warn about Europe in the future. We still have Panic Cycle in 2026 in both our war models and in the Euro. Sources are reporting that NATO is feeding the propaganda that Russia is weak, they can be utterly destroyed, and these stupid European leaders think that war will never reach their soil. The excuse I have heard is that Putin would NEVER use nukes because it would blow back on him.
As the Telegraph just wrote:
“Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of Europe have agreed to stand united. Defying Vladimir Putin’s bloody imperialism, they will back to the hilt Volodymyr Zelensky’s insistence that he will not trade land for peace.
Except there is one small problem. Instead of presenting their ironclad unity to the Kremlin, they’ll be doing so to Donald Trump, urging him to impose further sanctions on Russia and not to cave to more of Putin’s demands.”
There is ABSOLUTELY no intent ever to have peace with Russia – NEVER!
When we are dealing with the direct threat of the total destruction and breakup of Russia, I would be pushing every single button if their intent is total destruction.
We have Panic Cycles in Both War & the Euro for 2026
These European Leaders with Zelensky will Stab Trump in the Back to Ensure We Get WWIII
Posted originally on CTH on August 18, 2025 | Sundance
I have been asked to recap some of my research into cited formats of what I believe to be criminal conduct, with specific statutes against them. This is the fourth.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard is not a lawyer. While I may be wrong, I find Tulsi Gabbard to be a patriot. Mrs. Gabbard is focused on providing evidence to the DOJ that essentially forces action. I support Tulsi Gabbard’s efforts.
If there is one corrupt DC player who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary McCord.
More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump. {GO DEEP} Mary McCord’s husband is Sheldon Snook; he was the right hand to the legal counsel of Chief Justice John Roberts.
When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’). That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important. It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.
When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin. Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016). John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.
♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents. The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.
♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules. Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
KEY: Michael Atkinson was forced to testify to the joint House impeachment committee about the CIA whistleblower rule change and the process he authorized and participated in as the Intelligence Community Inspector General. Adam Schiffsealed that deposition, and no one has ever discussed what Atkinson said when questioned.
House Speaker Mike Johnson can unseal that testimony, and Tulsi Gabbard can declassify his deposition.
Moving on…
♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’), which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith. Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.
When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.
♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed-off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith. In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith, and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome. Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.
As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI, in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.
Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus? Mary McCord.
♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.
You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD.
What happened next….
November 3, 2021 – In Washington DC – “Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee has tapped Mary McCord, who once ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division, for representation in its fight to obtain former President Donald Trump’s White House records. (read more)
Yes, that is correct. After seeding and guiding all of the Lawfare attacks against candidate Donald Trump, then President-Elect Donald Trump, then President Donald Trump, Mary McCord took up a key legal position inside the J6 committee to continue the Lawfare against President Trump after he left office.
But wait,…. Remember the stories of the J6 investigative staff going to work for Jack Smith on the investigation of Donald Trump, that included the raid on Mar-a-Lago? Well, Mary McCord was a member of that team [citation]; all indications are that her efforts continued as a quiet member of the Special Counsel team
That’s the context; now I want to go back a little.
First, when did Mary McCord become “amicus” to the FISA court? ANSWER: When the court (Boasberg) discovered IG Michael Horowitz was investigating the fraudulent FISA application. In essence, the FISA Court appointed the person who submitted the fraudulent filing, to advise on any ramifications from the fraudulent filing. See how that works?
Now, let’s go deeper….
When Mary McCord went to the White House with Sally Yates to talk to white house counsel Don McGhan about the Flynn call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and the subsequent CBS interview with VP Pence, where Pence’s denial of any wrongdoing took place, the background narrative in the attack against Flynn was the Logan Act.
The construct of the Logan Act narrative was pure Lawfare, and DAG Sally Yates with Acting NSD AAG Mary McCord were the architects.
Why was the DOJ National Security Division concerned with a conflict between what Pence said on CBS and what Flynn said about his conversations with Kislyak?
This is where a big mental reset is needed.
Flynn did nothing wrong. The incoming National Security Advisor can say anything he wants with the Russian ambassador, short of giving away classified details of any national security issue. In December of 2016, if Michael Flynn wanted to say Obama was an a**hole, and the Trump administration disagreed with everything he ever did, the incoming NSA was free to do so. There was simply nothing wrong with that conversation – regardless of content.
So, why were McCord and Yates so determined to make an issue in media and in confrontation with the White House?
Why did the DOJ-NSD even care? This is the part that people overlooked when the media narrative was driving the news cycle. People got too stuck in the weeds and didn’t ask the right questions.
Some entity, we discover later was the FBI counterintelligence division, was monitoring Flynn’s calls. They transcribed a copy of the call between Flynn and Kislyak, and that became known as the “Flynn Cuts” as described within internal documents, and later statements.
After the Flynn/Kislyak conversation was leaked to the media, Obama asked ODNI Clapper how that call got leaked. Clapper went to the FBI on 1/4/17 and asked FBI Director James Comey. Comey gave Clapper a copy of the Flynn Cuts which Clapper then took back to the White House to explain to Obama.
Obama’s White House counsel went bananas, because Clapper had just walked directly into the Oval Office with proof the Obama administration was monitoring the incoming National Security Advisor. Obama’s plausible deniability of the surveillance was lost as soon as Clapper walked in with the written transcript.
That was the motive for the 1/5/17 Susan Rice memo, and the reason for Obama to emphasize “buy the book” three times.
It wasn’t that Obama didn’t know already; it was that a document trail now existed (likely a CYA from Comey) that took away Obama’s plausible deniability of knowledge. The entire January 5th meeting was organized to mitigate this issue.
Knowing the Flynn Cuts were created simultaneously with the phone call, and knowing how it was quickly decided to use the Logan Act as a narrative against Flynn and Trump, we can be very sure both McCord and Yates had read that transcript before they went to the White House. [Again, this is the entire purpose of them going to the White House to confront McGhan with their manufactured concerns.]
So, when it comes to ‘who leaked’ the reality of the Flynn/Kislyak call to the media, the entire predicate for the Logan Act violation – in hindsight – I would bet a donut it was Mary McCord.
But wait, there’s more….
Now we go back to McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook.
Sheldon was working for the counsel to John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice has one job, to review the legal implications of issues before the court and advise Justice John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice knows everything happening in the court and is the sounding board for any legal issues impacting the Supreme Court.
In his position as the right hand of the counsel to the chief justice, Sheldon Snook would know everything happening inside the court.
At the time, there was nothing bigger inside the court than the Alito opinion known as the Dobb’s Decision – the returning of abortion law to the states. Without any doubt, the counsel to Chief Justice Roberts would have that decision at the forefront of his advice and counsel. By extension, this puts the actual written Alito opinion in the orbit of Sheldon Snook.
After the Supreme Court launched a heavily publicized internal investigation into the leaking of the Dobbs decision (Alito opinion), something interesting happened. Sheldon Snook left his position. If you look at the timing of the leak, the investigation and the Sheldon Snook exit, the circumstantial evidence looms large.
Of course, given the extremely high stakes, the institutional crisis with the public discovering the office of the legal counsel to the Chief Justice likely leaked the decision, such an outcome would be catastrophic for the institutional credibility. In essence, it would be Robert’s office who leaked the opinion to the media.
If you were Chief Justice John Roberts and desperately needed to protect the integrity of the court, making sure such a thermonuclear discovery was never identified would be paramount. Under the auspices of motive, Sheldon Snook would exit quietly. Which is exactly what happened.
The timeline holds the key.
BACK TO MARY in 2025 – During the question session for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s nomination, Adam Schiff asked Mary McCord about whether AG Bondi should recuse herself from investigating Adam Schiff and Mary McCord. It’s a little funny if you understand the background.
I prompted the video to the part at 01:36:14 when Schiff asks McCord, and Mrs. McCord responds with “yes, Pam Bondi should recuse.” WATCH:
Mary McCord says Pam Bondi must recuse herself from any investigative outcome related to the first impeachment effort.
Who was the lead staff working for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on the first impeachment effort?
Mary McCord.
Now, triggering that first impeachment effort… Who worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to change the CIA whistleblower regulations permitting an anonymous complaint?
Yep, that would be the same Mary McCord.
In essence, the woman who organized, structured, led and coordinated the first impeachment effort, says Pam Bondi must recuse herself from investigating the organization, structure, leadership and coordination of the first impeachment effort.
If all that seems overwhelming, here’s a short recap:
♦ McCord submitted the fraudulent FISA application to spy on Trump campaign.
♦ McCord helped create the “Logan Act” claim used against Michael Flynn and then went with Sally Yates to confront the White House.
♦ McCord then left the DOJ and went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on Impeachment Committee.
♦ McCord organized the CIA rule changes with Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.
♦ McCord led and organized the impeachment effort, in the background, using the evidence she helped create.
♦ McCord joined the FISA Court to protect against DOJ IG Michael Horowitz newly gained NSD oversight and FISA review.
♦ McCord joined the J6 Committee helping to create all the lawfare angles they deployed.
♦ McCord then coordinated with DA Fani Willis in Georgia.
♦ McCord was working with Special Counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump.
♦ McCord is now coordinating outside Lawfare attacks against Donald Trump in term #2
♦ McCord also testified that AG Pam Bondi must recuse herself from investigating McCord.
Posted originally on CTH on August 18, 2025 | Sundance
Amid all the banter, opinion, negotiations and high-brow conversations about what should happen to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict, one element remains undiscussed: What do the Ukrainian People want?
Current ‘President’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy, installed as an outcome of western influence operations, extended his term in office by cancelling Ukraine elections. His elected term ended 18 months ago, and he has not left office. The various EU/NATO stakeholders did not want the authentic voice of the Ukrainian people to impede on the proxy war against Russia, and so they supported the election cancellation.
Now, the element never discussed by WEF/NATO or EU officials is what the citizens of Ukraine want. From the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin, this non-democratic ‘democracy’ paints Zelenskyy as illegitimate – one of the baselines that affirms the position not to negotiate with him.
Within Ukraine,there are very visible signs the citizens no longer support Zelenskyy; however, that would be an inconvenient factor to introduce to the conflict equation, so it is simply avoided in the discussion. Western media avoid it.
As an outcome, a lot of people watching things unfold do not understand the context that Zelenskyy is in a weak position domestically with sentiment within Ukraine turning sharply against ongoing war. The MSM won’t report on it, and the neocon “influencers” won’t either. The focus is on Russia bad.
From both past and present comments by President Trump, the intransigence of Zelenskyy, in combination with his strict authoritarian, some would say ‘Nazi’-like sentiments, positions the Ukranian leader as somewhat of a difficult person to deal with. However, in the most visible sense, Zelenskyy is an amalgamation of interests that float in the background.
Beyond the civil war that existed in Ukraine long before Vladimir Putin stepped in, the USAID operation in Ukraine installed Zelenskyy. The Intelligence Community apparatus, as deployed by the U.S. State Dept., was the tool to manipulate popular public opinion.
This is the tenuous ground upon which Zelenskyy stands. Propped up originally by leftist American government intents, he was then increasingly supported by European leaders once President Trump took efforts to withdraw the U.S. proxy status.
With President Trump openly wanting to withdraw U.S. support, the beneficiaries of the funding -specifically the U.S. Congress, Senate Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees- went bananas. These are the same entities who originally supported the USAID/CIA operations within Ukraine.
NATO, the EU, The United Kingdom, the global intelligence apparatus, the leaders of U.K, France, Germany et al. – all use the narrative that Russia must be feared in order to justify their position for more war and hostility.
In the background, the financial companies/banks who fund political leadership also do not want resolution without security guarantees for their lucrative financial investments. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Finnish President Alexander Stubb are set to join Monday’s conference, to ensure those financial stakes are maintained.
Yet the question needs to be asked again…
Who is representing what the Ukrainian people want?
Posted originally on Aug 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
While Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a ruthless NEOCON whom I have not met, his buddy John McCain, I did meet and felt like I needed a shower after shaking hands. Yet his counterpart on the Democratic side, Blumenthal, I have ZERO respect for. He is either stupid or devious – it’s hard to tell. While Blumenthal ran to support this endless war in Ukraine instigated by the NEOCONS, he dares to claim he wants to remove the immunity for gun manufacturers while supporting the absolute immunity for the makers of COVID vaccines.
Posted originally on Aug 16, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
Trump is trying to deal with the DEVIL – Zelensky, NATO, EU, UK, and the Neocons who tried even to assassinate him to achieve their lifelong goal of conquering Russia and China for world domination under their Bible (Wolfowitz Doctrine) that they accuse Putin of. My sources are renowned. Some heads of state have even asked me if I could tell them about something that not even the CIA could access.
I published on January 5th, 2023, that Zelensky was “The Man Behind World War III.” As I have said many times, I had two employees in Ukraine, one on each side. The one from Donetsk translated the movie The Forecaster into Russian to appear on Russian TV for Marcus Vetter. My sources in Kiev at the time of Zelensky’s election informed me that the election was rigged and that there was no way he won. I was told he was selected to create war with Russia after promising to end the war and seek peace when the death toll among Ukrainians was only 130,000 instead of over one million today, with over 8 million fleeing the country, vowing not to return.
My sources say that Trump’s proposal to Zelensky was an attempt to cut the baby in half. He is offering NATO guarantees, without NATO membership. Personally, Zelensky MUST BE REMOVED, or there will NEVER be any way to prevent World War III. The UK is eager to send troops pretending they are peacekeepers, and this is a setup to claim that Russia violated the agreement, so let’s invade Russia, which has ALWAYS been their endgame.
Compare the GDP charts below. All the fake analysts who keep screaming de-dollarization focused on US debt are blind to what is taking place outside the USA. The US economy is holding up the entire world. The EU and Britain are collapsing. Look at what Marxism has done to Europe. It may have been like light beer, fewer calories, but drink too much and you still die from liver failure. The socialist agenda in the UK is destroying its future since Starmer took office. There is NO HOPE for Europe surviving. They need this war as a distraction ot else the herds of their oppressed economic slaves will suddenly wake up when all the promises of pensions fail to materialize. There is a local Venezuelan who had to come here to stay with his family. The government pays his retirement, but it will buy at best a cup of coffee. He would starve to death thanks to “socialism,” and the same is unfolding in Europe.
COMPARE THE GDP GROWTH, AND THIS IS ALL FRED STATISTICS SO IT IS A CONSISTENT SOURCE!
We will deal with this at the Upcoming WEC in November
Posted originally on CTH on August 16, 2025 | Sundance
The BRICS economic partnership was formed during the Obama administration. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) watched U.S. President Obama subcontract U.S. trade policy to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street.
In the aftermath of the 2007 economic crisis, created by Congress and banking interests, the BRICS group identified two central points of ‘western’ financial influence that concerned them.
Following the financial crisis, the relationships around the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), EU central banks and various multinational institutions and 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 almost twenty years downstream from that inflection point, and we are seeing the outcomes.
The WEF essentially flipped the traditional record of ‘fascism’. Instead of government telling corporations how to operate, the modern version was now corporate assemblies giving direct instructions to installed politicians for government policy.
Put another way, multinational corporations are telling government officials what to do. Think of “The Great Reset” or “Build Back Better” or climate change (Paris Treaty), as recent examples. Worse yet, western 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 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, what you find is the BRICS group oppose the WEF business model.
BRICS are not against capitalism in its original form per se’. Rather the BRICS assembly was/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 back at the top of the control/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. Giving Hillary Clinton the Dept of State really was not considered a concession. The Obama group were laser focused on fundamental change inside the United States.
The Obama network’s aspirations were to reduce the geopolitical status of the U.S on the world stage, through the same approach the anti-colonialists 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 global U.S influence, and raising up the rest of the world was the only objective of Obama foreign policy Clinton was expected to maintain.
President Obama took that 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, 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 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 policy arm of multinational Wall Street corporations was writing trade agreements.
Can you see how the corporations were positioned to support globalism?
On the Atlantic side, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was also coming 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 meant. Everything is about the economics. There are trillions at stake.
The Word Economic Forum, the assembly of the multinational corporations and banks in control of economics and trade, would now be dictating policy to NATO, the European Union, Central Banks, the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and eventually the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The BRICS nations 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 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 (impacting multinationals), and told NATO to start preparing to take care of themselves. President 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 stopped pushing against the dollarization of global commerce.
With the United States through President Trump now confronting the WEF, NATO, the EU and all the multinationals (often called globalists), the BRICS team could pause their mission for a dollar alternative.
Factually, BRICS didn’t even generate much momentum during President Trump’s first term, because the U.S. trade and economic policy known as ‘America First‘, was essentially in alignment with a more nationalistic BRICS mission.
Unfortunately, it was the scale of the WEF, EU, NATO and multinational opposition to President Trump that eventually won the political battle.
All the multinational corporations, including Big Tech and ideological globalists in media, aligned to remove President Trump. That was the scale of his opposition, and COVID-19 represented the tool they could use.
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 came back together during Biden because the multinationals were back in control and dedollarization became a goal again.
For obvious reasons, part of the BRICS agenda is to create a trade currency that is not the dollar. The western sanctions against Russia showed them the risk.
In many very direct ways, what we saw come out of the 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. Despite the sanctions, China and India continued purchasing Russian energy products in support.
At stake in the Ukraine battle is the modern structure of the global economy and international politics. This is why we saw the people behind Joe Biden, Samantha Power, USAID, 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. Biden retaliated.
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 of this geopolitical battle corporate media, Big Tech, Hollywood and the social media control officer’s support, unbridled globalism.
However, President Trump won reelection, and with that outcome the end of the Ukraine conflict, combined with an unraveling of the sanctions against Russia, becomes an objective. Not so much to support Russia, but more to weaken the BRICS effort for a dollar alternative.
Keep in mind, these are the ‘trillions at stake’ elements. President Trump restraining the World Economic Forum influence, diminishing the role of corporatism in global government, and simultaneously supporting economic nationalism.
All of those interests are not going to give up their position without a fight. Ukraine represents a very significant frontline in this battle. At the end of this high-stakes conflict, is the image we have been using to highlight the WEF’s preferred global outcome.
Posted originally on CTH on August 16, 2025 | Sundance
Comrades, I am sure Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump had a good snicker over the optics presented. “Subtle”, like a brick through a window. Good stuff.
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The EU/NATO folks most certainly smiled like the lady in the ‘fireworks’ picture. However, the CIA/5-Eyes watched the remainder of the performance, not amused.
Posted originally on CTH on August 16, 2025 | Sundance
After speaking with President Trump about the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy provides the following statement via Twitter:
[Volodymyr Zelensky via Twitter] – “We had a long and substantive conversation with POTUS. We started with one-on-one talks before inviting European leaders to join us. This call lasted for more than an hour and a half, including about an hour of our bilateral conversation with President Trump.
Ukraine reaffirms its readiness to work with maximum effort to achieve peace. President Trump informed about his meeting with the Russian leader and the main points of their discussion. It is important that America’s strength has an impact on the development of the situation.
We support President Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the USA, and Russia. Ukraine emphasizes that key issues can be discussed at the level of leaders, and a trilateral format is suitable for this.
On Monday, I will meet with President Trump in Washington, D.C., to discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war. I am grateful for the invitation.
It is important that Europeans are involved at every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America. We also discussed positive signals from the American side regarding participation in guaranteeing Ukraine’s security. We continue to coordinate our positions with all partners. I thank everyone who is helping. [link]
[ALSO] “A long, substantive conversation with President Trump, initially one-on-one, and then also with the participation of European leaders. In total, we spoke for more than an hour and a half, approximately one hour with President Trump.
Ukraine once again confirms its readiness to work as productively as possible for the sake of peace. President Trump informed me about his meeting with the Russian leader, about the main points of the conversation. It is important that America’s strength influences the development of the situation.
We support President Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, America, and Russia. Ukraine emphasizes: key issues can be discussed at the level of leaders, and the trilateral format is suitable for this.
All details regarding the cessation of killings, the end of the war, I plan to discuss with President Trump in Washington on Monday. I am grateful for the invitation.
It is important that Europeans are involved at all stages to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America. We discussed positive signals from the American side regarding participation in guaranteeing Ukraine’s security. We continue to coordinate our positions with all partners. Thank you to everyone who is helping!” [link]
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