Culture Of Suicide – Dr. Rich Swier

Why are European leaders so desperate for war with Russia?

If the US remains in NATO and defers to the Washington neocons, it will be dragged into the same catastrophic war scenario. Let’s pray President Trump gets us out of NATO before it’s too late.

The article below, based on an interview with economist and global financial analyst Martin Armstrong, confirms everything I’ve been saying for three years. The war in Ukraine has nothing to do with preserving liberal democracy as we’re told by the media and everything to do with regime change in Russia and installing a Western puppet. The West, particularly Europe, wants to steal Russia’s vast natural resources, monetize them, and stave off its self-inflicted economic collapse under the weight of its flawed green economic agenda.

Below is an article by Greg Hunter at USA Watchdog.com based on his interview with Armstrong.

Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong (pictured above) is back with an update on his big turn toward war in Ukraine with Russia. Two weeks ago on USAWatchdog, Armstrong predicted, “After May 15, war is turning up (in Ukraine) and it will be turning up into 2026.”

That prediction paid off to the exact day as peace talks between Russia and Ukraine ended on May 15 after just two hours, and neither side agreed to meet again. War is already here, and there is no stopping it with peace talks.

Armstrong says, “Putin knows and understands this is not a just a war with Ukraine, this is a war with NATO. If Putin agrees to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, what’s that going to do? Absolutely nothing.”

You have every European country reinstituting drafts.

In Germany, even people 60 years old have been told to report. Poland has ordered every able-bodied man to show up for military training. They want war. Their economy is collapsing. You hear about this de-dollarization, and it’s not happening. The capitalization of just the New York Stock Exchange is worth more than all of Europe combined. That’s just the New York Stock Exchange. . . . You’ve got Macron in France, they call him the “Petite Napolean.”. . . Without war, Europe is going to collapse. It’s in a sovereign debt crisis. They have done everything against the economy.”

Armstrong thinks Russia will finish off Ukraine sometime in 2027 and Europe a year or two after that. And, Yes, Armstrong still thinks Ukraine will disappear from the map.

Armstrong urged his contacts in Washington to “Get the hell out of NATO.” It seems some in the US government are considering this warning as this headline breaks today: “US to Begin European Troop Withdrawal Talks, NATO Ambassador Says.”

Armstrong says, “I have been told by some very influential people on Capitol Hill ‘you’re right, we agree.’ That’s what I have been told. . . . I have been complaining about this for months, and my view is Europe is committing suicide, and let’s not be part of it this time.”

Is President Trump getting this message? Armstrong says, “Yes, I believe so. . . . Trump also said a peace deal does not seem likely, the hatred is too great on both sides.”

The neocons back home also want war with Russia and have wanted it for a very long time. Trump is either going to make peace or walk away and not participate. Maybe this is why former FBI Director James Comey put out his not-so-cryptic call to assassinate President Trump with his “86 47” now deleted Instagram post. Comey was the man who held Armstrong in prison illegally for contempt for 7 years.

Armstrong says, “Comey has always been part of it. Just for the record, he was the US Attorney in New York. He’s the one who kept me in contempt until the Supreme Court said what the hell is going on? Then, they had to release me.”

How did Armstrong land in jail? Armstrong says, “They asked me to put in 10 billion dollars . . . to take over Russia, and I refused. It was Comey that was the US Attorney for New York, and he kept me in civil contempt, which has a maximum sentence of 18 months, and he kept me in for 7 years. He kept rolling it and rolling it and rolling it. . . . I was told if I put in $10 billion, I would get $100 billion back. They intended to have all the assets of Russia going through the trading desk of New York. All the oil, gold, diamonds, platinum, you name it, they would have it all. And I said, no, I’m out. I am not into regime change.”

Fast forward to today, and the powers in Europe still think they can take Russia and steal their assets to fix the extreme financial problems in Europe. Pensions, banks and bonds are in deep financial trouble in Europe. Stealing from Russia and gaining control of $75 trillion in natural resources is why they want and need war.

Armstrong says, “They went to negative interest rates in 2014. I warned them. I said listen; you are out of your minds. You are syphoning money out of the bank reserves and pension finds. It’s a basket case. It really is. They have no appreciable economy. . . it’s shrinking, the number of actual businesses has shrunk in Germany. (Germany is 25% of the EU economy.) This is why they need war.”

Armstrong says Europe is going to lose and lose badly in a war with Russia. He says if Trump gets out of NATO, the US will thrive and do much better financially than Europe. Let’s all hope President Trump gets us out of NATO before it’s too late.

There is much more in the 60-minute interview.

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In an October 6, 2024 article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saudi journalist and researcher Fahad Suleiman Shoqiran criticized the Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist organizations for appropriating the concept of “resistance.” He wrote that resistance means self-defense or waging war against an attacker, but the so-called resistance movements have charged it with a fundamentalist ideology that promotes a culture of suicide – a culture that is not just manifest in sending suicide bombers to blow themselves up in cafes in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, but in entrapping and endangering entire cities and societies. This culture, he added, maintained in the name of resistance or of Palestine, constitutes a crime against humanity, for which these organizations should stand trial.

The following are translated excerpts from Shoqiran’s article:[1]

“It is only natural that the situation in the region is tense, especially after these large [Israeli] attacks, which are broadcast live, and following the assassination of the leader of the Hizbullah militia, along with others who were killed or will be killed in the future. Israel is carrying out powerful operations. Countries are not charitable associations; they have their own interests, objectives and operations, and on this basis a well-founded and well-considered strategy must be formulated…

“The effort of the resistance axis and its militias to put Israel to the test and plumb [the depths] of its fury every couple of years is regrettable. After the 2006 war, which caused the deaths of more than two thousand Lebanese, as well as severe economic damage in the amount of two billion dollars, Nasrallah made his famous statement: ‘If I had known, I wouldn’t have kidnapped the two Israeli soldiers.’ In 2009 Hamas tested the Israelis again and caused huge massacres, and the same thing happened in 2012 and in 2014. Now [Hamas] is trying out a war with the Israelis while Lebanon is being pulverized…

“The problem today lies in the fact that the meaning of ‘resistance’ has expanded since the establishment of Hizbullah, the Palestinian brigades and the Hamas movement, [and this expansion] did not end [even] with the Houthis. The concept of resistance has been loaded and charged with fundamentalist ideology and does not mean self-defense or war waged against an attacker [anymore]. It has its own religious, ideological and political partisan context.

“The concept of resistance has become associated with escalating suicide attacks and with pressuring the enemy not through military action but rather through a culture of suicide. I am not referring here only to the jihad fighter from [Hamas’ military wing], the ‘Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, who blows himself up in a café in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Hamas has trapped the entire Palestinian people and Gaza inside the explosive belt of its recklessness, leaving them at the mercy of [its] irresponsible decision to test the response of the Israelis, who are known for their violence and destructiveness. As we know, the Israeli force is merciless, and the Arabs have become accustomed to it over their history, which is rife with defeats and nakbas. The Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and Yemeni people have lost enormous sums, economies have crashed and peoples have lost their stability and are at a loss [what to do] under the rule of foolish and reckless regimes.

“For decades, the Palestinian cause has served the [Arab] statesmen as a moral snare, [used to] justify their crimes to the peoples. Countries and capital cities have been pulverized, entire states have been occupied and millions have been expelled [from their homes] in the name of resistance and in the name of Palestine. If the nations are determined to evolve, they must establish courts where the leaders of the resistance will be brought to justice. When a culture of suicide develops—ranging from the entrapment of an individual to the entrapment of entire capitals and societies—it constitutes a crime against humanity. That is why there is widespread sympathy for [these] heavy disasters, whose victims have been taken hostage by dark forces subordinate to states that have abandoned true Islam.

“Ultimately, history always draws its conclusions, and we must take note of the fact that this period is the most difficult of all and that failing to return to the roots, to the law and to [state] institutions will jeopardize global security, for times have changed… Some of the norms and moral [principles] that are part of the discourse about Palestine were formulated by the Muslim Brotherhood [MB], and a group of intellectuals and academics now parrot them. Today the [resistance] axis is trying to revive the MB discourse with all its might and to establish the MB lexicon on Palestine as the permanent [lexicon used] in political commentary and in media coverage of the war Israel is waging. This is an act of injustice and of ignoring the development that has occurred among some of the Arab peoples, especially those that have opted for peace and sighed agreements of tolerance and reconciliation among the [Abrahamic] religions. This attack and escapade of Hamas’ was just meant to delay any peace agreement that was supposed to be [signed]…”

Fahad Suleiman Shoqiran

Fahad Shoqiran is a Saudi writer and researcher who also founded the Riyadh philosophers group. His writings have appeared in pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, Alarabiya.net, among others. He also blogs on philosophies, cultures and arts. He tweets @shoqiran.

SOURCE:

[1] Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), October 6, 2024.

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