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Hegseth Orders Review of U.S. Force Posture in Europe, Warns NATO Laggards of Consequences

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This review is definitely needed and if western European members of NATO not willing to pay their fair share for their own defense and build up their pathetic military forces, the U.S. should start moving our forces out or to more friendly and defense sharing countries like Poland.

Hegseth Orders Review of US Force Posture in Europe, Warns NATO Laggards of Consequences

The Pentagon chief said the future of America’s NATO dues will depend on allies meeting defense spending targets under a ‘NATO 3.0’ reboot.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on June 18 announced a six-month review of U.S. force posture and basing in Europe, warning that NATO allies failing to meet defense spending commitments could face consequences as Washington pushes the alliance toward what he called a new era of burden-sharing.

Speaking at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Hegseth said the review would examine America’s military footprint in Europe and help ensure that European allies assume primary responsibility for the continent’s conventional defense.

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Trump, Greenland, and American World Order

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As the second Trump administration reaches its one-year anniversary, no one can deny that President Donald Trump has reshaped not only American politics but the entire world. But Trump is no longer satisfied with tariffs and peace talks; he has set his eyes on a grander prize, an object America has rarely sought since the days of President Theodore Roosevelt: territorial acquisition. The territory in Trump’s crosshairs is the world’s largest island, a mostly glacier-covered wilderness deceptively called “Greenland.”

Despite widespread opposition, President Trump manages to mention his desire to own Greenland nearly every day. “I had a very good telephone call with Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, concerning Greenland,” Trump posted to Truth Social shortly after midnight on Tuesday. “As I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back — On that, everyone agrees! The United States of America is the most powerful Country anywhere on the Globe, by far.”

This past weekend, Trump escalated the Greenland question into an international incident when he threatened on Saturday to levy punitive tariffs against eight European nations opposed to his plan to annex Greenland. Last Wednesday, seven nations in western and northern Europe deployed token forces (for a combined total of slightly more than 30) to Greenland for Arctic military drills, signaling their continued support for Danish sovereignty over the island. Denmark boosted its military footprint in Greenland by just over 100 soldiers.

In a Saturday Truth Social post, Trump interpreted these small deployments in a nefarious light. “Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown,” the president wrote. “These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable.”

As a result, Trump said he would impose a 10% tariff on these seven countries for “any and all goods sent to the United States of America … until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.” The tariff would take effect on February 1 and increased to 25% on June 1.

The European response to this announcement was apoplectic. The European Union’s 27 member states convened an emergency meeting in Cyprus on Sunday to discuss their response, with leaders floating ideas ranging from reciprocal tariffs to boycotting the World Cup.

The leader of the European People’s Party (EPP), the largest bloc in the European Parliament, responded that Trump’s tariff threat compromises the passage of the EU-U.S. trade deal. “The EPP is in favour of the EU-U.S. trade deal, but given Donald Trump’s threats regarding Greenland, approval is not possible at this stage,” he wrote. “The 0% tariffs on U.S. products must be put on hold.”

Europe’s pique points to the greatest risk in Trump’s gamble for Greenland. As Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen put it, any American invasion of Greenland would spell “the end of NATO,” as one member would be invading the territory of another. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, whose member nations cover most of North America and Europe, is the world’s largest military alliance and an important part of America’s globally dominant position since World War II.

As readers may find it strange that President Trump would bet America’s largest military alliance for the territory of Greenland, an explanation of his reasoning is in order.

Both the president and his top officials have repeatedly cited America’s national security as the top reason for annexing Greenland. In his Truth Social post on tariffs, Trump declared that “the National Security of the United States, and the World at large, is at stake” in the Greenland question. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued in a recent interview, “For over a century, American presidents have wanted to acquire Greenland, and what we can see is that Greenland is essential to the U.S. national security.”

Why does Greenland factor into American security considerations? Trump explained, “China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it.” Bessent explained that Trump is thinking ahead to an inevitable competition with America’s geopolitical rivals over Arctic resources. “It might not be next year, might not be in five years, but down the road, this fight for the Arctic is real,” he insisted. “President Trump strongly believes that we cannot outsource our security.”

But how does possession of Greenland actually bolster U.S. national security? Two considerations come into play. First, Greenland holds vast, undeveloped mineral reserves, including rare earth elements, uranium, copper, graphite, gallium, tungsten, zinc, gold, silver, and iron ore. Controlling these resources would ensure America’s future access to critical military equipment and technology.

Second, Greenland plays a key role in Trump’s scheme for a “Golden Dome,” a continent-wide missile system that would make the U.S. nearly impervious to an intercontinental missile strike. With Alaska and the continental U.S., Greenland would form the third point in a vast triangle of geopolitical security. “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are currently being spent on Security Programs having to do with ‘The Dome,’” wrote Trump, but “this very brilliant, but highly complex system can only work at its maximum potential and efficiency, because of angles, metes, and bounds, if this Land [Greenland] is included in it.”

Ironically, Trump’s concern for Greenland was heightened by the shift Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has made to align his nation with China, not the United States. In his Tuesday comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Carney declared that the “old … rules-based international order” was dead, leading Canada to “fundamentally shift our strategic posture.” On Friday, Carney announced a preliminary trade deal with China during a visit to Beijing, which his office described as “the foundation for a new strategic partnership.”

The “rules-based international order” Carney rejected is one built by the U.S. and like-minded allies after World War II. Principles such as territorial integrity were enshrined in the NATO treaty and other documents of the era. Territorial integrity is a corollary of national sovereignty and is ultimately rooted in Just War Theory. The aim was to forestall future wars by ruling out the ambition for territorial conquest, which characterized Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, imperial Japan, and the communist USSR.

Defending the principle of territorial integrity — which had the added bonus of constraining America’s communist rivals — led America into the Korean War (to defend South Korea) and the first Gulf War (to defend Kuwait). But these actions showed that America was willing to enforce this principle, thus deterring an unknown number of other aggressor nations over at least half a century, contributing to an environment of global peace that benefited America’s status as a worldwide merchant.

In other words, the international order which Canada has now rejected is one created by America for America’s benefit. A major reason why Canada rejected this order is because the government has increasingly lost faith in the will of the U.S. — particularly the Trump administration — to uphold it. This lack of faith is largely due to Trump’s own actions, which have called the principle of territorial integrity into question.

Even in an era defined by conflict with non-state terrorists, who do not hold territory, the principle of territorial integrity remains relevant. For instance, it provides a basis for condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also provides a basis for deterring conflicts that have been threatened but not yet begun, such as communist China’s planned annexation of Taiwan.

The principle of territorial integrity even restrains ambitious leaders from acting on their ambitions, such as Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s ambition to reforge the Ottoman Empire. One ranking places Turkey’s military as the 9th most powerful in the world, the strongest state between India and France. If Erdogan did embark on a campaign to recapture lost Ottoman lands, he could easily gobble up prostrate Syria, divided Lebanon, fledgling Iraq, and non-entity Libya, enabling him to train considerable firepower against Israel from east, north, and west. But Erdogan is not able to conquer these struggling states because of the influence (and presence) of powerful Western nations, who insist that strong states are not allowed to steal territory from weaker ones.

If the U.S. wrestles Greenland away from our own NATO ally Denmark, then this U.S.-built international order loses all credibility.

America’s international order does provide a way for national borders to change: the people of that country can vote for a change (usually independence, not reunification). In January 2025 (the most recent poll available), 85% of Greenlanders opposed joining the U.S., while only 6% favored the change.

There is one other factor that may have influenced Trump’s thinking on Greenland, one which is more personal than U.S. national security. Trump himself revealed this motive in a text exchange with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump wrote, according to wording first published by The Independent, a British paper. “I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” Trump concluded.

Trump has made no secret about his desire to win the distinguished Nobel Peace Prize. But, last year, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize to Venezuelan opposition leader in exile Maria Corina Machado — a worthy candidate, but not Trump. Last week, Machado presented her Nobel Prize as a gift to Trump during her first visit to the White House. However, Trump doubtless remains hungry to win the prize in his own right.

The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31 of every year, less than two weeks away. Trump may have ramped up his Greenland rhetoric and explicitly connected it to his Nobel snub as a way to pressure the committee into giving his nomination a harder look. If so, then it’s more than ironic that Trump is hoping to win a peace prize by threatening to take territory from an ally.

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Germany takes on aggressive new role in NATO, asks Washington for Tomahawk missiles capable of striking Moscow within 10 minutes

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Putin responds by threatening to take ‘mirror measures’… World War III continues to simmer just beneath the surface of most Americans’ false reality. 

In a major escalation of tensions with Russia, Germany has formally requested U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles and Typhon launchers. These are weapons capable of striking Moscow from German territory, marking a major shift in Berlin’s post-World War II military posture.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius touts the “deterrent value” of these weapons, but Russian President Vladimir Putin sees them as offensive weapons that could be deployed against his country. He issued a blunt warning, comparing the Tomahawks to the deployment of Cold War-era Pershing missiles and vowing “mirror measures.”

According to Global Defense News, the Typhon missile-launching system has a range of approximately 1,500 miles. That’s enough to strike Moscow within 10 minutes of launch.

With NATO settling in along Russia’s borders in new-member countries like Finland, and Germany becoming much more aggressive militarily, NATO is on the precipice of a renewed arms race with Russia.

Times Now World News reports, “As Germany positions itself as NATO’s frontline aggressor, the geopolitical cost of this new military ambition may spiral out of control.” (See 3-minute video below)

According to Global Defense News, the Typhon system, developed by Lockheed Martin, was tested for the first time in late 2022, with a successful full-system evaluation at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. It became operational with the U.S. Army’s 1st Multi-Domain Task Force in 2023. A second battery followed in 2024. The first forward deployment took place in the Philippines under the U.S.-Philippines Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, where the system underwent training and evaluation, although no live-fire testing was conducted during that deployment.

Bottom line: European war mongers, led by Germany and the United Kingdom, are positioning themselves for direct conflict with Russia. They need U.S. support to continue down this path. And so far we are seeing no serious rebukes or calls for restraint from Washington.

All we get from President Trump are threats and ultimatums. A foreign policy of hubris. Not productive in any way. He’s now saying Putin has 10 days to accept a ceasefire ultimatum or be hit with extreme sanctions, with the U.S. slapping China, India and any other Russian trading partner with 100 percent tariffs if they continue to buy Russian oil. Think about that. Our nation’s president is now telling sovereign countries who they can and can’t purchase oil from.

It’s only a matter of time before Putin will feel compelled to send a strong message to Washington, one that will cut it down to size and deflate the outsized egos of the neocons who rule that wicked city. Russia is a sovereign state with a formidable military, and it won’t be dictated to by the United States when it comes to border issues that affect its national security. Putin laid out his terms for a negotiated peace plan with Ukraine months ago and Washington has completely ignored it. I’m afraid this won’t end well.

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Trump Ups the Pressure on Putin

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As I mentioned on Prophecy Today last week, President Trump has found a novel way of increasing pressure on Putin, supporting Ukraine with more weapons, and getting the Euros to pay for it.

That’s called a trifecta, and it goes like this. The Pentagon determines what weapons the Ukrainians need — right now, it’s Patriot missile batteries. We then sell them to the Germans or the Poles or some other NATO country, and they in turn deliver them to the Ukes.

This gets the US taxpayer off the hook, and ensures that the Euros have more skin in the game.

The problem, of course, is that many of the weapons the Ukrainians need are in very short supply. Deliveries to the US Army are behind, Taiwan is pressing us for more, and the Swiss are going to have to wait for their Patriots — due from Raytheon next year — for several more years to come.

Trump has spent the past six months doing everything he can think of to get Putin to the negotiating table, just to agree to a 30-day ceasefire.

So now he is pivoting to the strategy he set out during the presidential campaign last year, not just increasing weapons supplies to Ukraine but threatening countries that buy Russian oil — mostly China, India, and Brazil — with 500% tariffs if they don’t sever those ties.

And he has given Putin 50 days to come to the table. That deadline expires on September 2.

Something tells me Putin is smarter than the mullahs in Tehran, who Trump gave 60 days to negotiate an end to their nuclear weapons program. When they brushed him off, Trump gave Israel the green light to start bombing — which they did on Day 61.

Asked by a White House reporter when he announced the deadline earlier in the week if he was “done” with Putin, the president responded:

“No, I’m not done. I’m disappointed in him, but I’m not done with him. I thought we had a deal done four times, and then you go home, and you see he just attacked a nursing home or something in Kyiv.”

A little advice for Vlad: you don’t want to disappoint this president.

Meanwhile, the French and the Brits have signed a piece of paper committing them to “deepen their nuclear cooperation and coordination.”

According to my friend Dov Zhakeim, who was the Pentagon Comptroller during Bush 43, Macron and Keir Starmer announced that “a U.K.-France Nuclear Steering Group will be established to provide political direction for this work. It will … coordinate across nuclear policy, capabilities, and operations.”

Does that mean they are decoupling their nuclear capabilities from the US and NATO? Not exactly. But it does mean that Putin is going to have to think twice before he starts nuclear saber rattling again, as he has done several times during the Ukraine “special military operation.”

As Zakheim points out, this is not the first time the French and the Brits have pledged closer nuclear weapons cooperation. And neither country would today possess advanced nuclear weapons without the United States.

While it’s common knowledge that the Brits have purchased US-made submarine-launched ballistic missiles and subcontracted their weapons program from the U.S., the French nuclear debt to the United States is less well-known.

When I was a defense correspondent in Paris in the 1980s and early 1990s, I got to know a French defense official named Henri Conze, who ended his career as the Délégué Générale pour l’Armament, in charge of all French weapons design, procurement, and foreign sales.

In his youth, Conze had been posted to the United States, where in the 1960s he stole our nuclear secrets.

Later, he was instrumental in crafting a secret deal between President Pompidou and President Nixon in 1972 that established a back channel between US nuclear weapons labs and French nuclear weapons designers.

As he and others – including US weapons designers — described it to me, it was known as the Game of The Ten Questions. When the French faced a roadblock in developing their own thermonuclear warheads they would go to their American counterparts and ask if they should take the fork to the left or to the one to the right.

And the Americans always steered them in the right direction. It shaved years off of French nuclear weapons development, especially their submarine-based warheads.

In 1996, this secret nuclear cooperation took an unexpected turn when the French and the US signed another secret agreement to jointly develop and build two gigantic laser fusion colliders.

The one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which I toured, is called the National Ignition Facility. The French duplicate quietly began operating in 2008 in Bordeaux. They are the size of a sports stadium, and can contain three football fields inside.

I write about this top-secret nuclear cooperation between the US and France in my 2004 best-seller, The French Betrayal of America.

I discuss these topics, as well as the latest developments in Iran and China in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. These podcasts complement and often expand on what I write here.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday in the Jacksonville, Florida area on 104.9 FM or 550 AM or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. You can listen to the podcast later here.

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Germany announces new military partnership with Ukraine, will support Taurus longrange missile strikes on Moscow

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Chancellor Friedrich Merz hails the new pact as a virtual merging of the two countries’ military-industrial components: Will Trump lend NATO support to this escalation? 

Germany, under new Chancellor Friedrich Merz, has agreed to a $5 billion military aid package for Ukraine, and that will include making Taurus long-range missiles specifically for Ukraine to fire into Russian territory.

In what amounts to a massive escalation, the German chancellor confirmed that Germany has removed all restrictions on how far into Russia the Taurus missiles may be fired in efforts to strike Russian targets.

Merz said Wednesday during a visit by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy that Berlin will help Kiev develop new long-range weapons that can hit targets deep inside Russia, AFP reported.

“Our defence ministers will sign a memorandum of understanding today regarding the procurement of Ukrainian-made long-range weapons systems,” said Merz, without naming the manufacturers involved.

“There will be no range restrictions, allowing Ukraine to fully defend itself, even against military targets outside its own territory,” he told a joint press conference.

The production of long-range weapons “can take place both in Ukraine and here in Germany,” he said. “We will not provide any further details until further notice.”

Merz hailed the project as “the beginning of a new form of military-industrial cooperation between our countries that has great potential.”

Taurus missiles are capable of striking targets up to 500 kilometers away and potentially reaching the Russian capital from Ukrainian territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has clearly warned that if Germany sends Taurus missiles to Ukraine for use against Russia, then Germany will be considered an “active combatant” in the war, and Russia will respond accordingly.

The German chancellor’s big announcement Wednesday on plans for a new miliary partnership with Ukraine has the Russian media speculating on where this latest escalation will lead. And it’s not pretty.

“Russia would not rule out a direct strike on Berlin if German personnel help Ukraine target Moscow with German-supplied Taurus missiles,” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, has warned in an article at RT.com.

In a post on Wednesday, Simonyan warned that Germany could face dire consequences if the Taurus is ever used for attacking the Russian capital, a prospect that now seems imminent in light of Wednesday’s announcement by Merz.

“In Moscow offices, it is being discussed that if German troops strike Moscow with German weapons… the only option left for us is to strike Berlin,” the RT editor stated.

She went on to explain that a Taurus strike on Moscow would have to be prepared and executed by German service members because the Ukrainians “cannot maintain [the Taurus] or program it for flight missions.”

Responding to Merz’s comments on lifting the restrictions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, noted that if such a decision had indeed been made, it would lead to “serious escalation” and undermine current efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict.

The previous German government, led by ex-Chancellor Olaf Scholz, had long refused to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles, arguing that this would put Germany at risk of being drawn directly into the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Apparently, that’s what Merz wants. Germany under this new government has lost its mind. And if the Germans don’t regain their sanity, we will wake up one day to learn that Berlin has been reduced to ashes.

It could not be more clear from their rhetoric that the threesome of Germany, Britain and France together want war with Russia. Poland is equally eager for war with Russia. I still believe these countries will back off, however, unless they can coax the U.S. administration of Donald Trump into backing their escalation efforts.

The ball will be in Trump’s court, to reject the European lust for war, or to embrace it. If Trump embraces it, we will see death and destruction on a scale the world has never known. A World War III showdown would inevitably culminate in a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and its European allies with Russia, China, North Korea and their allies. If that happens, there will be no winners. Only losers.

We must pray that the nations don’t continue to walk down Satan’s path of utter destruction. Satan has always hated nations and is out to destroy them so he can get on with his plan of a truly one-world totalitarian system that will reign supreme for a short time before it, too, is destroy by Christ Himself, who will rule and reign under a system of true righteousness and justice. Everything we see currently is Satan trying to set up a counterfeit global system based on evil and injustice.

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Trump-Vance billionaire backer Peter Thiel sells ‘Smart AI warfighting’ system to NATO while talking up U.S. trade war with China

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Stock in Thiel’s company, Palantir, soars Monday on news of major new deal inked with NATO Allied Command Operations. 

Peter Thiel is the most influential man in the Trump White House that almost nobody in America is familiar with. Most Americans have never heard of Thiel and wouldn’t be able to tell you one fact about him. They’re sidetracked and distracted by Thiel’s good friend and fellow technocrat, Elon Musk. But don’t be fooled.

President Trump’s push to recalibrate the U.S.-China trade relationship has the full endorsement of the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.

Thiel, one of the infamous “PayPal mafia,” and a major financier of the Trump-Vance ticket, recently told American Optimist host Joe Lonsdale that “something like the sort of reset that they’re talking about now seems where we’re going, where you need a very drastic reset with China.”

Thiel went on to say he believes some industrial capacity should be moved from China back to the U.S., where it will be handled mostly by AI and robots, and the rest should be moved from one communist country, China, to another communist country, Vietnam.

Thiel is an agent of the global deep state and the Western military-industrial complex. He not only co-founded PayPal, which was intended to replace paper money with digital and conditioned Americans to accept digital transactions, he also was one of the earliest investors in Facebook.

Facebook was largely a CIA invention that surveils, categorizes and stores Americans’ thoughts and opinions on basically everything. Thiel is the founder of another sinister enterprise called Palantir, whose biggest client at one point was the CIA and also now sells an AI-based “warfighting program” to the U.S. and NATO. You get the feeling from his comments in the above-cited interview that Thiel may want to test out his new AI warfighting program against the Chinese.

It was announced today (Monday April 14) that Palantir’s AI-enabled Maven Smart System NATO (MSS NATO) will be employed within NATO’s Allied Command Operations (ACO), triggering a significant advancement in the modernization of its warfighting capabilities.

Stockwits.com writes:

Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) soared nearly 6% on Monday morning after the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) said the agency and Palantir have finalized the acquisition of an AI-enabled warfighting system.

Palantir is chaired by noted investor and Donald Trump-backer Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s earliest investors.

Palantir’s Maven Smart System NATO (MSS NATO) will be employed within NATO’s Allied Command Operations (ACO), enabling a significant advancement in the modernization of its warfighting capabilities.

The article goes on to state that the Palantir system empowers commanders and warfighters to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) safely and securely in core military operations.

The NCIA said the procurement of MSS NATO was “one of the most expeditious in NATO’s history, taking only six months from outlining the requirement to acquiring the system.”

NATO’s Allied Command Operations (ACO) is expected to start using the new system within the next 30 days, the article states, adding:

“SHAPE Chief of Staff General Markus Laubenthal said that Maven Smart System NATO enables the Alliance to leverage complex data, accelerate decision-making, and add true operational value.”

Palantir shares have gained more than 24% in 2025 since Trump took office.

So don’t believe all the talk about Trump wanting to leave NATO. His buddy and financial backer, Peter Thiel, is totally invested in NATO as a war fighting machine.

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Woke, DEI-Obsessed Navy Vice Admiral Who Refused to Put Up Trump’s Portrait at NATO Headquarters Has Been FIRED

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Under Obama 1,2, 3/Biden regimes Combat Readiness was replaced with DEI, CRT, LGBTQ+, Climate Change, promoting unqualified women and other social engineering agendas which hurt the readiness of our armed services severely.

Chatfield one example and let’s hope many more firings are in the wings.

I don’t understand why any of the Joint Chiefs who served under Biden are still in office.

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Woke, DEI-Obsessed Navy Vice Admiral Who Allegedly Refused to Put Up Trump’s Portrait at NATO Headquarters Has Been FIRED

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The Trump Administration continues to drain the deep state swamp of woke military officials obsessed with DEI and nation-building.

Fox News reported on Tuesday that Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend, reportedly as part of a larger effort to purge wokeness from the Pentagon.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the final call last week, but whether President Trump was involved is unclear.

Sean Parnell, the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs & Chief Pentagon Spokesman, stated on X that Chatfield was terminated “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” He went on to say the DoD is grateful for her years of service in the military.

The conservative American Accountability Foundation, which first asked the Pentagon to terminate Chatfield, has noted her history of woke statements. For example, during a Women’s Equality Event back in August 2015, Chatfield boasted about how “diversity is our strength” and called for investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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U.S. led NATO now openly discussing ‘preemptive precision strikes’ on Russian territory

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U.S. also considering giving Ukraine nuclear weapons as the Western military alliance is now in a mad dash to start World War III with Russia and China before Donald Trump takes office. 

Eurasia Daily is reporting that NATO has actually begun discussing the possibility of launching “preemptive precision strikes on Russian territory.

Robert Bauer (pictured above), a Dutch admiral and head of NATO’s military committee, made the comments, noting that NATO should no longer think of itself as just a defensive alliance.

Speaking in Brussels, Bauer stated:

“This is a new discussion within NATO, and I am glad that we have changed our stance on this and on the idea that we are a defensive alliance that will sit and wait to be attacked before responding. It is more prudent not to wait but to strike Russian launchers if Russia attacks us.”

“It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first,” Bauer said, quoted by Bloomberg.

A NATO leader like Bauer doesn’t say something like this without having the prior consent of the U.S. government. Speaking out of school is not allowed in a military alliance like NATO.

And it’s not just Bauer who is saying crazy things.

The New York Times also raised the specter over the weekend of the West putting tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, a further taunt of the Putin regime.

France and Britain are discussing sending troops to Ukraine if Trump takes office and pulls the plug on the Ukraine gravy train.

For starters, Russia hasn’t attacked any of these insane globalists. Not one of the 32 members of NATO has been attacked by Russia.

Russia’s war is with Ukraine, and this is a border war with ancient issues between two Slavic peoples. Last I checked, Ukraine was not a member of NATO, so the admiral’s comments, along with those of the NY Times and Macron and Starmer, are nothing but pure war propaganda, meant to further provoke Russia and keep the escalations going. Keep stoking the fires of World War III before Donald Trump gets into office.

The dominant thinking in the West — whether accurate or part of a theatrical fiction I do not pretend to know — is that Donald Trump wants to end the Russia-Ukraine border war before it can spread into a global conflict. The globalist warmongers at NATO can’t take the chance that Trump is serious. They’d rather ignite a fireball of nuclear war than take a chance on Trump. That’s how committed they are to war.

Even during the height of the Cold War, we never heard the kind of reckless rhetoric from any Western political leader or establishment media outlet like what we are hearing today from the likes of Admiral Bauer, Kier Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and others. You never heard one of them pop off with an irresponsible comment like this, actually fantasizing in the wide open about a direct military conflict with the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

These are the words of a madman.

As reported by EADaily, the probability of a Russian attack on one of the NATO countries, including Poland or the Baltic states, is estimated to be low. Even after NATO has crossed every red line set by Putin, he still doesn’t want to start launching missiles back at NATO in response to NATO doing that to his country. He’d rather settle the differences peacefully but at some point he will have to act militarily or be seen as a weak leader.

In the meantime, the U.S. and its allies will continue doing everything in their power to provoke such an attack. If Putin takes the bait, he will then immediately be characterized as having committed a naked act of aggression against the liberal world order and its sacred “democracies.”

When, in fact, these globalist puppets have no respect for democracy. The people of America do not want war with Russia. They voted for Donald Trump specifically because he represents peace. I can’t speak for the Europeans, but do they want war with Russia anymore than the Americans?

Former military Commander-in-Chief and Ukraine’s current ambassador to the UK, Valery Zaluzhny, has warned that World War III is already underway in a recent interview published by Politico.

“I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun,” he said, adding:

“It is still possible to stop it here, on the territory of Ukraine. But for some reason our partners do not want to understand this. It is obvious that Ukraine already has too many enemies. Ukraine will survive with technology, but it is not clear whether it can win this battle alone.”

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Trump Is Not An Isolationist

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Before I get to Trump and his cabinet nominees, let me share the good news: the olive harvest is in!  Just over 100 kilograms, four days work, the olives good quality, mostly black, but one crate of “caillons” that look like cherries.

Took them to the press today, will know the quality of the oil next week. You can read more about the process in my book, Raising Olives in Provence.

Ok, so now onto “serious” issues (although my neighbors and I take our olives very seriously!)

First, note who Donald Trump did not appoint: Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo. He was sending a clear message: no neo-cons need apply.

Second: Trump’s nomination of Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state clearly demonstrates that he is not an isolationist, as many of his critics claim.

The Europeans – like liberals everywhere — can’t believe that Trump was actually re-elected by the American people. Didn’t they do everything in their power to prevent that? What’s the problem with these American rubes? Don’t they recognize our superiority?

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pow-wowed with French president Emmanuel Macron this week, hoping to warn Trump that the Ukraine war could become a national security threat to the US, just as it is to Europe.

Their reasoning? Because of the war, Russia was now aligning itself with Communist China and Iran. When I heard that, I burst out laughing.

The French and other NATO allies have been bending over backwards to sell the Chinese their very best dual-use technologies, enabling the Chinese to build better weapons systems and better AI platforms.

And now they want to lecture us about the dangers of the Russia-China-Iran axis – something I have been warning about for the past three years? Please.

I loved Rubio’s response to a question about Iran from NBC News, who were hoping to drive a wedge between him and Trump.

During the campaign, Trump said off-hand that he was inclined to see if he could make a deal with the Iranian regime. The media Karens took that to mean that Trump was walking back his rejection of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Trump previously called “the worst deal ever made” by an American president, and was now ready to talk to the mullahs.

Rubio cut them dead.

“If the Iranian regime tomorrow said, ‘We’re going to stop trying to become the regional power, we’re going to stop our nuclear weapons, we’re going to stop sponsoring terrorism, we’re going to stop trying to kill you — which is what they’re trying to do with Donald Trump — we’re going to stop all of these things — theoretically, yes. Of course, you could work on something like that.”

But Rubio added that making a real deal with the Iranian regime — and not just a make-believe deal like Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement — was “unlikely,” because the policies the United States is asking Iran to abandon are “the very driving mission and purpose of the regime.”

If the next Trump administration really wants to gain leverage over the Islamic regime in Tehran, they should begin by reinstating the Maximum Pressure sanctions against Iranian oil exports.

Those US sanctions are already on the books, but Biden stopped enforcing them on day one of his administration, allowing Iranian oil sales to skyrocket form 400,000 b/d in January 2021, to over 2.5 million b/d today.

But the US can and must do more. As I argue in a paper for the America First Policy Institute, we should couple Maximum Pressure on the regime with Maximum Support for the Iranian people.

It is in America’s national security interest to help the people of Iran to replace the Islamic regime — not through a replay of old neo-con fantasies of imposing regime change from the outside — but by enabling the Iranian people to take those steps themselves.

Stay tuned as I talk more about this in the coming weeks.

I discuss the Trump cabinet, the European response, and the latest from China, Turkey and the CIA traitor who leaked US secrets about Israel’s attack plans against Iran on this week’s edition of Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1:05 PM on Saturday in the Jacksonville, Florida, area on 104.9 FM or 550 AM, and elsewhere in the world by downloading the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

Yours in freedom

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NATO Chooses Unending War

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NATO leaders met this week in Washington and pledged an “irreversible path” for Ukraine to join the alliance, as well as “unwavering support” for the Ukraine war effort.

It was a bit like waving a red cape in front of a bull. Putin has made crystal clear that expanding NATO eastward to include Ukraine is not just a red line for Russia, but was in fact the main reason for the Russian invasion in February 2022.

NATO leaders think they can draw a steel line in the steppe. But so does Russia. The Russia-Ukraine-NATO war has become a contest of iron wills.

Will the West be able to provide enough weaponry and aid to keep Ukraine in the fight? If so, we are looking at a prolonged stalemate, which only a significant escalation – or the intervention of a new U.S. president – can end.

NATO seems primed for escalation. There was talk this week of more F-16s for Ukraine, and a new NATO unit to coordinate aid and training of the Ukrainian armed forces.

What many leaders seem to fear most, however, is the return of Donald Trump to the White House, given his pledge to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours of his election victory.

NATO leaders also put the spotlight on Communist China, calling it in the final communique on Thursday a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine. This is significant, because it shows that NATO leaders now consider China part of the Russian orbit, which NATO sees as its enemy.

Folks, this is sounding increasingly to me like the Guns of August, where the great European powers stumbled into war in August 1914 by just continuing to do what they were doing, without considering the consequences.

And through all of this, there was Joe Biden, whom his advisors trotted out for a “big boy” press conference, to show the world how mentally alert he was. And right off the bat, Biden delivered. “I wouldn’t have picked vice president Trump if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president,” he said with a straight face.

So NATO seems gearing up for World War III, and the United States is led by a geriatric who doesn’t know when his own son died or the name of his vice president.

Is America ready for President Jill? Somehow I don’t think so.

Yours in freedom.

©2024. Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

I discuss this, as well as the impact the Iranian presidential elections will have on Iran’s relations with the West, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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‘Worst Case Scenario’: Biden Avoids Total Collapse In Gaffe-Heavy Presser

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President Joe Biden managed to ease some concerns about his political future, though he also committed crucial gaffes, during a choreographed press conference Thursday night.

For weeks, Democrats have been calling for the president to drop out of the presidential race. Two weeks after taking the debate stage against former President Donald Trump, Biden took questions at a high-stakes press conference while his political future remained in limbo. Despite a few gaffes that made the rounds on social media, the president managed a strong enough showing through the rest of the press conference to potentially delay calls for him to step down.

“Biden had a good enough night that Ds will not go into a full, public meltdown — at least not tonight. He bought himself more time, which probably is upsetting to a lot of Ds who think he is the weakest candidate vs. Trump and want to get this over. The Ds are in a real jam,” former Bush administration White House press secretary Ari Fleischer wrote in a tweet.

In a nearly hour-long press conference that was already significantly delayed, Biden committed several gaffes while trying to prove to the press and his allies that he is capable of a second term.

The first gaffe came before Biden even walked out on the stage for his press conference at remarks about two hours earlier. When introducing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Biden mistakenly called him “President Putin.” Biden paused before catching his mistake and correcting himself.

Biden took the press conference stage just before 7:30 for a press conference that was initially set to begin at 5:30 p.m., before initially being delayed to 6:30 p.m. After giving an opening statement off a teleprompter, Biden told reporters that he had a list of who he was supposed to call on. In total, the president called on eight reporters, all from the list, before taking a shouted question as he exited the stage.

Moments after taking his first question, Biden confused Vice President Kamala Harris with Trump.

“Mr. President, your political future has hung over the NATO summit a little bit this week, Speaker Pelosi made a point of suggesting that your decision on whether to stay in the race was still open. George Clooney and a handful a handful of makers have called on you to step aside. Reuters is reporting tonight that UAW leadership is concerned about your ability to win,” a reporter began.

“My question for you is, how are you incorporating these developments into your decision to stay and separately, what concerns do you have about Vice President Harris’s ability to beat Donald Trump if she were at the top of the ticket?” the reporter asked. 

“Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, did I think she was not qualified to be president. So let’s start there,” Biden began.

Later in the press conference, Biden called his chief-of-staff of the military his “commander-in-chief” when talking about the Russia-Ukraine war.

“The question is, what’s the best use of the weaponry he has what we were getting to him?” Biden began. “I’ve gotten, more high, I got a more long range capacity as well as defensive capacity. And so our military is where, I’m following the advice of my commander in chief, my, my, my, the Chief of Staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people, and we’re making a day to day basis on what they should and should, how far they should win. That’s a logical thing to do.”

Amid the gaffes, Biden managed to address concerns that cannot manage late events or a demanding presidential schedule — something Democrats have voiced worry over when calling for the president to drop out of the race.

“I’m determined on running, but I think it’s important that I lay fears by seeing let them see me out there, let me see them. You know, for the longest time it was, you know, Biden’s not prepared to sit with us, unscripted. Biden’s not prepared to in any way. And so what I’m doing is, I’ve been doing, I think we’ve done, over 20 major events, from Wisconsin to North Carolina to anyway, to demonstrate that I’m going out in the areas where you think we can win, where we can persuade people to move our way, or people already there,” the president said, directly attacking criticisms that he can’t talk without a teleprompter.

Unlike Biden’s debate performance, or even his primetime interview on ABC News, the president’s public appearance did not seem to set off panic within his party or amongst his allies. Rather, the president appeared to just meet already low expectations in his high-profile press conference.

Some conservatives applauded the performance for being just good enough to keep a weak Biden in the race, while others pointed out that it was still below the bar for a president seeking another term. “Probably worse case scenario for Dems,” former Daily Caller White House Correspondent Saagar Enjeti tweeted.

“Worst possible outcome,” a Democratic source told Fox News Senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.

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Terror Threat on U.S. Soil Has Risen Dramatically under Biden, Experts Say

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Amid a rise in terrorist attacks across the globe in the wake of the October 7 massacre in Israel, national security experts are warning that the threat of attacks on U.S. soil has risen dramatically even as the Biden administration enacts policies that exacerbate the danger.

In December, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, remarking that before October 7, “we were already in a heightened threat environment.” But since the Hamas attack, he went on, “we’ve seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole other level.” Wray also highlighted the porous southern border as a primary security risk to the country, drawing attention to “a particular network [operating on the southern border]” with “ISIS ties that we are very concerned about.”

In the weeks following President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, he signed an executive order that reversed many of his predecessor Donald Trump’s policies that had tightened the flow of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. As a result, an unprecedented 1.7 million unvetted individuals have crossed into the U.S. interior undetected since then, which is more than were able to sneak in in the entire previous decade.

As Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, explained during Tuesday’s “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins,” this breach could have devastating consequences for national security, especially in light of the security hole left by Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

“[T]here are foreign terrorist organizations like ISIS-K in Afghanistan and Pakistan that have been able to take advantage of ungoverned territories in that area, and … the U.S. is not striking them as much [so] that they’ve been able to grow,” he observed. “Chechens and Tajikistanis … in Muslim majority regions of Russia are free to attack. We’ve been seeing the Russian people victimized by some of these groups. They’re on the rise. … [T]he ideology of global jihad and Islamist supremacy under Sharia law isn’t going anywhere.”

Bensman continued, “[W]e’ve had tens of thousands of people from those regions crossing our southern border with very minimal vetting. And that is a significant issue to the homeland because we did kind of crack down on airport traffic and people coming in on legal visas after 9/11 quite a bit. But we haven’t done that much on the southern border for the last three years. And these Tajikistanis — [the] FBI rolled up eight of them in early June — who crossed the southern border … were planning some sort of a bombing attack. That would be the very first time that a group of terrorists — they caught them in three different cities — crossed the southern border to access their American targets on U.S. soil.”

Other senior U.S. officials besides Wray have also raised serious concerns over rising threats. General Erik Kurilla, commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has highlighted the growing capabilities of Middle Eastern and South Asian terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS), and affiliates like ISIS-K. Former National Counterterrorism Center director Christine Abizaid illustrated “an elevated global threat environment” while speaking in Doha recently. In addition, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged that the “threat level … has gone up enormously” during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week.

The recent Islamist attacks in Africa that have left dozens of Christians dead in Congo and thousands more massacred in Nigeria have also raised the ire of experts, who say that the Biden administration’s lack of focus on combatting terrorism abroad not only has deadly consequences for innocent civilians in foreign lands but will also allow terrorist activity to intensify overseas, which will only increase the danger of that activity eventually filtering into the U.S.

Bensman went on to note that the anti-terrorism policies put in place in the country since 9/11 have proven to be effective, but dangers remain.

“[W]e haven’t been immune from terror attacks … since 9/11,” he acknowledged. “San Bernardino, Boston, New York — there was a truck attack on a bike path there. … They’re not on the scale of 9/11, but the reason that we haven’t had them … is because over 20 years, we got pretty good at counterterrorism. We built up our FBI. We built up all of our federal law enforcement agencies. We started sharing intelligence between agencies. [T]he number of terror plots that we’ve thwarted … are far greater than the successful ones. The threat is not diminished. It’s just that we have stopped an awful lot of them over the last 20 years, and we will probably continue to do that. But they’re still going to get through every now and again.”

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins further contended that the Biden administration’s “two-tiered system of justice” has caused the American people to lose confidence and trust in the Intel community.

“I think that’s something that we always should be concerned about,” Bensman responded. “When I was in the intelligence business, we underwent a lot of training about what you can and can’t do to make sure that we can maintain the trust of the people we served. I think that there’s still a lot of that going on, but you always have had a mistrust of government power, especially law enforcement power [and] especially surveillance authorities. I think that’s a healthy thing.”

He added, “I hope that they just don’t get sidetracked by political whims, such as, ‘Hey, we need to back off of Islamic terror threats and move all of it over to white supremacy’ and that sort of thing. We can do two things at once. The country’s perfectly capable of juggling several balls at the same time like that.”

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Sen. Lindsey Graham coughs up the real reason why U.S. is providing unlimited funding of Russia-Ukraine war: Hint… it has nothing to do with preserving freedom or ‘democracy’

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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has become the first member of the Washington establishment to say the quiet part out loud regarding the U.S. funding of the war between Ukraine and Russia, which is really a war between the U.S./NATO and Russia. Ukraine is just NATO’s proxy.

Speaking in an interview with CBS News Face the Nation on Sunday, Senator Graham said Washington “cannot afford” to allow Russia to achieve victory in its war with Ukraine as this would mean losing direct access to vast mineral wealth.

Graham accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being a “megalomaniac” who is attempting to “re-create the Russian Empire by force of arms,” starting with Ukraine — this is a favorite talking point of the Washington neocons which has no basis in fact. Graham then claimed that if Moscow wins the war, it will proceed to take over Ukraine’s wealth and share it with China. Graham described that prospect as “ridiculous,” suggesting it would be better if this “gold mine” were claimed by the U.S. and its allies.

“They’re sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe… If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China,” Graham stated.

What? Wait a minute. I thought this war was about defending freedom and democracy. You mean it’s really all about money and resources?

Thank you Senator Graham for telling the truth. You just admitted on national television that everything being fed to the American people by the military-industrial complex and its lackeys in Congress, not to mention the corporate media, about why we are sending billions to Ukraine is a flat-out lie. More than two years of fake news were blasted into oblivion by that one-minute segment from Lindsey Graham.

Actually, Graham gave part of the truth but not the whole truth. The U.S./NATO wants to control not only the vast natural resources in Ukraine but in Russia as well. Russia’s natural resources dwarf those of Ukraine. It has huge amounts of natural gas, oil, gold and rare-earth mineral. That’s why they’ve openly called for a regime change in Russia, to replace Putin with a Western puppet more favorable to the financial interests of Western-based transnational corporations.

Lest you think my analysis is of my own imagination, you should know that breaking up Russia into several countries and stealing its resources has long been a topic of discussion among Western elites, and they know this can only be done through war. The US government’s Helsinki Commission held a Congressional briefing on June 23, 2022, plotting ways to break Russia up into several smaller countries, in the name of supposed “decolonization” and “anti-imperialism.”

Apparently, Graham wasn’t paying attention to the news over the weekend. It was the pro-war politicians like himself who were punished in the European elections on Sunday. Western people do not want war with Russia, and they certainly don’t want to send their sons or daughters to die in the Ukrainian meat grinder.

Or, there could be one other, more troubling possibility. What if the establishment pro-war American politicians like Graham have been assured that, unlike their globalist buddies in Europe, they no longer have to fear the election returns? Let’s hope that’s not the case, but the timing of the bird flu fear-porn campaign that’s starting to ramp up does seem a little odd, does it not?

©2024. Leo Hohmann. All rights reserved.

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Secretive Bilderberg Meeting Concludes in Madrid with War, War, and More War on the Agenda

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Globalist elites representing the rich and powerful in politics, banking, big tech, media, industry, and academia converged in Madrid, Spain, on May 30-June 2 to discuss the launching of World War III and policies meant to advance the global control grid and one-world system.

While most of the attention this year was on the WHO World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Bilderbergs met secretly in Madrid for their 70th annual conference. (Go to my Substack to read about the shocking turn of events on June 1 at the WHO World Health Assembly)

Topics of discussion at the shadowy Bilderberg conference included artificial intelligence, “climate change,” the “future of warfare” and “changing faces of biology.”

The full list of announced topics discussed at the annual globalist conference were as follows.

  • State of AI
  • AI Safety
  • Changing Faces of Biology
  • Climate
  • Future of Warfare
  • Geopolitical Landscape
  • Europe’s Economic Challenges
  • US Economic Challenges
  • US Political Landscape
  • Ukraine and the World
  • Middle East
  • China
  • Russia

Besides AI, transhumanist issues surrounding the “changing faces of biology,” and economic issues, notice that most of the remaining topics are related to the growing global conflicts that appear headed toward open warfare being conducted between nuclear-armed superpowers in multiple theaters — U.S./NATO against the Russians in Ukraine, war in the Middle East, and war the Far East involving China-Taiwan and potentially on the Korean peninsula.

The issue of “AI safety” likely had to do with the globalists’ plan to remove anonymity from the Internet and make all online parties take on a digital ID, thus making it easier to censor and punish online voices that disagree with the prevailing globalist narratives.

Founded in 1954 with a meeting hosted by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands in the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Dutch village of Oosterbeek, the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is believed to be a driving force behind major globalist projects and initiatives.

Unlike similar institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Bilderbergs meet strictly behind closed doors with participants sworn to secrecy according to the so-called Chatham House Rule. This rule prohibits the disclosure of the identity of those behind any idea mentioned during the meeting.

The shroud of secrecy surrounding the meeting of Bilderberg globalists has led to many theories regarding the influence the conference may exert on the policy of various nations and corporations.

Breitbart reports that a 2023 study from Lukas Kantor of Prague’s Charles University found that at least 133 politicians were elevated to positions of power after attending a Bilderberg meeting, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and current French President Emmanuel Macron.

According to Kantor, at least 42 participants became either prime ministers, presidents, or the top officials of international organizations such as the European Union, NATO or the International Monetary Fund.

Kantor wrote:

“From 2019 to 2023, all key international organizations—EU, NATO, IMF, and UN—have been chaired by Bilderbergers (Ursula von der Leyen, Jens Stoltenberg, Kristalina Georgieva and Antonio Guterres). It seems improbable that this is just a coincidence.”

It’s interesting that war is on the agenda for Bilderberg 2024.

Almost every Western nation is on board with pushing the Russia-Ukraine conflict into one of the main theaters of World War III, which more than likely will turn nuclear at some point.

The only two countries in the West that have leaders firmly against expanding the war are Hungary and Slovakia. The prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, is under pressure to resign over trumped up allegations of corruption and the prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was shot four times in an assassination attempt last month (he miraculously survived). Any Western leader who dares to oppose the policies of the globalist elite risks being eliminated by one means or another.

But that hasn’t stopped PM Viktor Orban of Hungary.

Hundreds of thousands participated in a peace march in Hungary’s capital of Budapest on Saturday, June 1, denouncing the EU’s policy of escalating tensions with Russia.

The event culminated with a speech by Orban, who accused Brussels of bringing Europe to the brink of World War III.

The demonstrators marched from the iconic Chain Bridge to Margaret Island on the Danube River.

Many carried flags, chanted anti-war slogans, and held signs reading “No war” and “Give us peace, Lord.”

Prime Minister Orban then addressed the crowd, saying:

“Never before have so many people lined up for peace. We are the biggest peace corps, the largest peacekeeping force in Europe. Europe must be prevented from rushing into war, into its own destruction.”


Orban said his country must draw lessons from the devastation it went through during the darkest times of the 20th century.

He told the crowd:

“In the two world wars, the Hungarians lost 1.5 million lives, and with them – their future children and grandchildren. I’m saying this slowly so that Brussels would understand: we will not go to war. We will not go to the East for a third time, we will not go to the Russian front again.”

Orban urged everyone to support the “pro-peace and pro-sovereignty” agenda of the ruling Fidesz party in the European Parliament election next week, adding, “Do we want to shed Hungarian blood for Ukraine? No, we don’t.”

There were also large protests in Berlin this weekend. You won’t hear much about this growing anti-war movement on NBC, ABC, CNN or Fox News. No American or European parents or grandparents in their right minds wish to see their young people sent off to fight Russians in defense of the corrupt Western proxy nation of Ukraine. But that’s exactly where the Bilderbergs, Trilateralists, WEF’rs and their puppet leaders are driving us.

©2024. Leo Hohmann. All rights reserved.

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NATO Has Become the Military Wing of a Globalist Power Structure

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NATO promotes the self-destruction of all nations and a depopulated world.

One of NATO’s primary missions is to spread instability throughout the world, using the military-industrial complex to bully and intimidate countries non-compliant with a militant anti-family anti-God agenda flowing out of Western capitals and promoted by Western media.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg asserted on Friday the alliance’s commitment to defending the rights of LGBTQ individuals, aligning with numerous Western officials, institutions, and organizations in commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.

Author Jose Nino summed it up nicely in a piece for Big League Politics:

“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is committed to spreading degenerate values abroad.  With Russia seemingly making major gains against NATO-backed Ukrainian forces in Eastern Ukraine, NATO leaders have been engaging in bizarre virtue signaling to divert attention away from the abject failure of this proxy war against Russia.

“Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 24, 2022, NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg has been particularly vocal about NATO’s values and why it’s an institution that has to be trusted despite its long track record of causing instability abroad — from Serbia all the way to Libya.”

On Friday, May 17, Stoltenberg, reaffirmed NATO’s commitment to LGBTQ+ values by arrogantly proclaiming in a post to X the current Western value system and what it is based upon:

Nino reminds us of why NATO was founded in the first place, in the wake of World War II in 1949. It was to counter the Soviet Union’s influence on the European continent.

“However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has worked to remake the world in America’s increasingly dysfunctional image. Its interventions in the Balkans all the way to Libya have brought nothing but harm and instability.”

NATO is no longer seen by most nations of the world as a defensive alliance.

NATO launched offensive wars against Yugoslavia in 1999 and Libya in 2011, as well as its protracted occupation of Afghanistan, leaving the country no freer and no better off in 2021 than when it was invaded 20 years prior, but rather much more dangerous with billions of U.S. and Western military weapons in the hands of the Taliban terrorists.

But even more destructive is the fact that NATO teams up with an army of neo-Marxist and Cultural Marxist nonprofits to promote values antithetical to those found in the Bible, including gay “marriage,” abortion on demand up to birth, and children being able to choose their own gender, along with the whole idea of gender as a social construct meant to “oppress” the sexual deviants and mentally confused. Why do they promote ideas so destructive of society? Because they know no nation can survive for long without moral restraints and some sort of devotion to a higher authority above that of carnal man.

Nino adds:

“In effect, any country that gets in bed with NATO catches the STD of multiculturalism, sexual degeneracy, and societal decay. More importantly, NATO is an entangling military alliance with a crusading ideology that is a threat to world peace.“

No nation can survive without strong men. Transgendered females (biological men who pretend to be women) running around in skirts do not tend to make good military officers, but that’s exactly the type of behavior that is now being promoted and encouraged by the military forces of the U.S., Europe, Australia, Canada and Israel. This group of nations will all suffer catastrophic defeats at the hands of Russia and China if they continue with their plans to poke the bear and create a World War III scenario while at the same time indulging the lowest form of human behavior.

At the heart of this Western globalist agenda lies a demonic attempt to depopulate the world in accordance with the principles laid out in the Georgia Guidestones and other globalist screeds. Because everyone knows that gay marriages don’t produce children. Emasculated, mutilated and transgendered young people don’t reproduce, either.

Any nation that is truly free and independent should immediately exit this military alliance and even non-members should totally free themselves from NATO’s Luciferian psychological clutches. Because NATO’s psychopathic leaders base their speech and their actions on moral alchemy, warmongering and a Satanic lust for power over the free minds of people everywhere.

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