Posted Jun 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

QUESTION: I was told that there are trolls who hate you and bombard anyone you do interviews with, in an attempt to prevent you from being on again. I was also told that they trace to Ukraine, and the rumor is you are on the death list of Zelensky. Does that bother you?

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REPLY: This is not the first time I have been told that. Any show I have been on that listens to this is obviously not really someone you would trust, since they would be adhering to the censorship of free speech. I am NOT against the Ukrainian people. I am against the Neocons who couldn’t care less if ANY Ukrainian is still standing at the end of the day. They are using Eastern Europe to wage war on Russia, and that includes Poland and Romania. I have heard comments like the Eastern Europeans were communists anyway. Where has this war benefited Ukrainians?

Catherine II, the Great of Russia, ordered the founding and construction of the city of Odessa, where in 2014, the Neo-Nazi Ukrainians were openly killing Russians on the streets, which began this separatist movement. I have heard that I am on Zelensky’s death list. I believe he killed one of my sources in Ukraine, Gonzalo Lira, who was the first to expose that Zelensky was a coke-head.

How do you put your pants on backwards and not notice it? This is the guy destroying Ukraine and sacrificing the Ukrainian people for this Neocon agenda. I just have no respect for these people, and the trolls can target everyone I do interviews with, and if they will not have me on again, they are not worth much in this world that is neck-deep in corruption. I was told by one host that he got 10 emails trolling me in 15 minutes, and that was a trolling farm, not actual people. We may have more institutions today than before because what I have been told – “Now I know you are not one of them.” 

Odessa was indeed founded by Catherine II, The Great, not by Ukrainians. It was the port located at the exact site of the Ottoman settlement of Khadjibey. Odessa was first mentioned in 1415 when it was known as Khadjibey. They even erected a monument in 1900 to Catherine as the founder of the modern city. The city takes its name from the ancient Greek settlement of Odēssos (Ὀδησσός) located in the region of modern-day Bulgaria (near Varna), not because it was built on the same site, but as part of a trend in the Russian Empire to use classical Greek names for new settlements in the northern Black Sea region.

In essence, Olbia’s history is a story of Greek colonial ambition, remarkable prosperity built on frontier trade, deep entanglement with powerful nomadic neighbors, and a long, slow decline under relentless pressure from the steppe, finally succumbing to the Migration Period upheavals of late antiquity. Olbia was founded by settlers from the powerful Ionian Greek city of Miletus (in Asia Minor) around the middle of the 7th century BC (traditionally dated to 647/6 BC or 645 BC). It was an apoikia (colony) established primarily for trade and access to resources. This was the city-state that used bronze shaped in dolphins or arrowheads as money.

During the late 18th century, as the Russian Empire expanded southward and founded new cities in the newly conquered territories (New Russia), a deliberate policy was implemented to use names evoking the ancient Greek colonies that once dotted the Black Sea coast. This linked the new Russian cities to classical antiquity and European civilization. The specific name Odēssos was chosen. The most popular and enduring story involves Empress Catherine the Great. When discussing the founding of a new port city on the site of the captured Ottoman fortress of Khadjibey (Hacıbey) in 1794, someone suggested naming it after the nearby ancient Greek colony. However, the feminine form of the name was preferred to match the grammatical gender of “city” (gorod) in Russian. The ancient city’s name was masculine (Odēssos).

It’s often recounted that Catherine decreed the feminine form “Odessa” (Одесса in Russian Cyrillic). A persistent anecdote suggests that a French nobleman in her court, perhaps Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis (Duc de Richelieu, who later became Odesa’s famous governor), playfully referenced the Trojan War epic by saying something like “Que ce soit Odessa!” (“Let it be Odessa!”), alluding to the region’s Homeric connections (Odyssey -> Odessa). While this story is charming and widely told, historians consider it more a legend than a documented fact, although it reflects the classical influences of the time.

The name “Odessa” (Одесса) was formally established by Catherine the Great’s imperial decree on January 27, 1795 (new style calendar). The Neocons do not care about anyone but themselves. I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people. They had a country, they were free, until the Neocons decided to exploit them for their own personal hatred of Russians because the previous generation had been communists. They were just angry that communism collapsed all by itself, and they never got to shoot anyone. They cannot live without hating someone and waging wars endlessly to satisfy their personal vendettas.

These Neocons project onto Russians and Chinese the very same goals that they aspire to. They care nothing about history. There are NO Ukrainians there in Crimea. About 15% of the population are Tartars from the Mongol invasions. When the people of Crimea voted to join Russia, the Neocons claimed the vote was rigged. Why in God’s name would they want to be part of Ukraine with the ethnic cleansing and hated that the saw by the Neo-Nazis in Odessa in 2014? The people have a right to live in peace. The Minsk Agreement was intended to allow the Donbas to hold a referendum. This is not about human rights and more than Israel’s attack on Iran was about nuclear arms when they killed most of the leadership for this is about regime change.

Hold Elections in Ukraine – NOW!

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