Socrates: 300 Year Cycle of Unprecedented Change after Worldwide War w/ Martin Armstrong

➡ The text discusses corruption in Ukraine, a product called Masterpiece that removes harmful substances from the body, and the predictions of a computer program called Socrates. It also mentions a potential global crisis, the importance of checking the value of your gold IRA, and an interview with Martin Armstrong about his accurate predictions of war and conflict. The text ends with a story about how money movement can predict upcoming wars.
➡ The speaker discusses his experiences with geopolitical events and financial predictions, including predicting Russia’s collapse and refusing to invest in a regime change. He also mentions his interactions with the CIA and the ‘deep state’, suggesting they have significant control over the US government. The speaker believes economic downturns often lead to conflicts, and he has tried to influence these outcomes. He also discusses his involvement in a money laundering case, suggesting he was targeted for refusing to participate in certain activities.
➡ The text discusses political tensions involving Russia, Ukraine, and the West. It mentions how Putin came to power and his role in the current situation. It also talks about the corruption in Ukraine and the influence of propaganda in shaping public opinion. Lastly, it discusses the looming debt crisis in Europe and the unwillingness of those in power to give up their influence.
➡ The text discusses the shift in global politics since the Cold War, focusing on the changing dynamics between the West and countries like Russia and China. It highlights the perceived increase in authoritarian tendencies in the West, while these countries move away from such systems. The text also discusses the role of Ukraine as a major hub for money laundering and corruption, and its significance in the global economic system. Lastly, it touches on the importance of understanding different perspectives to avoid conflict and promote peace.
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Ukraine is literally the most corrupt country in the world. I had information which I now think is out pretty much everywhere. I even gave it to Washington that Zelensky was wiring out 50 million per month to accounts in UAE. Look, I had two employees there in Ukraine, one in Donetsk and one in Kiev. Initially Trump, I mean Putin had all the surrounded Kiev with the, with the tanks and everything. I was concerned. I said are you okay? What’s going on? And I was told by my own staff, look, you’re not doing anything. It’s just a show of force.

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100 accurate on anything is crazy. But he has been when it comes to war and what it is is he’s watching money move and before war happens a lot of money moves. And so then he knows when the wars are going to happen. And he says that we are seeing flashpoints, you know more war is going to be a little bit different this time. We’re seeing flashpoints everywhere kind of at the same time. And that like I said about the chat GPT when I wrote the article, that we’re seeing profound change and system wide collapse and disengagement, he’s seeing that everywhere, all over the world and he says when that happens you wars usually follow.

But he says this is almost like a 300 year cycle. We haven’t seen this since the takedown of the monarchies, you know, takedown of royalty. This is kind of the, the level that we’re seeing around the world. Very interesting times that we live in it to say the least. If you want to see my article that I wrote on the profound change based on me mining chat GPT, I’ll have the link below. I have gotten quite a bit of response from that and I think it correlates to what he is seeing as well. But before we get into that though I want to remind you if you have not checked into your gold ira, please, please check your gold ira.

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If you are underwater, contact us. Go to Sarah Westall.com Miles Franklin and we can help you get your life savings back. So please take that seriously. Make sure you check again@SarahWestAll.com Miles Franklin if you find that you are underwater. Okay, let’s get into this really interesting, engaging and informative conversation with Martin Armstrong. Hi Martin, welcome back to the program. Oh, thank you for inviting me. Well, you had an important letter that you sent out. It was important to you obviously and I think it’s important for the world based on what you had in the content of the letter.

I want to talk about that and how your system, I think people need to hear this. Your AI system was about predicting economics and you know, what was going on in the world from an economy, economic standpoint. But it ended up being 100% accurate at determining whether a war or conflict was going to occur. Can you talk about that? I mean that’s pretty amazing. The fact that you were so accurate is what’s amazing. Back in the 80s we had a. It was the Central bank of Lebanon. What I should say is that I ended up in this field.

All right, the family to. To Europe when I was a, you know, a young kid, teenager in 1964, he had been with Patton, so he wanted to go back to see Europe. So we went there for the summer. So that actually taught me currency, because every time you cross the border, you had to change the currency from deutsche marks to lira, whatever. And then I had a client, Walter Zengerly, who happened to be the chief. One of the top VPs at Franklin National Bank. And in 1974, that was the first bank that failed after the floating exchange rate system began in 71.

And nobody knew about currencies or anything. They didn’t teach this in school. They just. The futures just started trading in 72. So he came to me and says, you know about this currency stuff. He says, would you come take a look at this? So I did. And. And so, I mean, the bank basically failed on a 10 move in the Italian lira. But, you know, no hedging. Nobody knew what hedging even was at the time. So after that I got pretty much any thing to do with currency. They would say, get that guy that did the last one, you know.

So even when they were forming G5, 1985, I was called into that. So in the 80s, I mean, I got to meet Margaret Thatcher and every. Mainly because I had actually been giving a. A lecture in Chicago. Milton Friedman came to see me and again, I was talking about capital flows and currencies etc. And then when I got done, it came up to me, shook my hand. He says, that was the best speech I ever heard. And I was like, kind of surprised. I mean, this coming from him, yeah, that was pretty amazing. And then he said to me, you’re doing what I just dreamed about.

And actually what I. We became friends and I understood what he was talking about. In 1953, he had written about a floating exchange rate system and how to put a check and balance against governments and politics and stuff like this. And what I was going through was exactly that. I mean, I’m getting called into Margaret Thatcher and all these things, and it was because of currency. And so we had, you know, a client in Lebanon, I think, the central bank. And they asked if we could do a model in the Lebanese pound. I said, sure, no problem.

So we suck in. They had. So we found a ledger. They had written down all the prices every day to like 18.50 or something. We stuck them in and out came and said the country was going to fall apart in eight days. And I thought something had to be wrong with all this data. So I called him, I said, look, there’s something’s got to be wrong here. I mean, I don’t know what you sent me, but this is, you know, and very calmly, he asked, he says, well, what currency does it recommend? And I said, well, it said to Swiss franc.

You know, I thought this was a strange response, you know. And eight days later, the civil war began. Then we had a client was one of the biggest shippers in Saudi Arabia. And then he called me and he said, iraq’s going to start attacking shipping in the Gulf tomorrow. What do you think gold’s going to do? I said, you tell me a war is going to start tomorrow. He says, yeah, so by the time I get to 98, I understood Lebanon came to me because they saw the money moving. So they didn’t come to me for the forecast.

They came to me for the timing. So they already saw. They obviously had contact or knew the civil war was coming or something like that. So by 98, I pretty much understand how somebody always knows. And the money starts to move in advance. You look at the Hamas attack on Israel, you see all the. The defense stock start moving a week in advance. All right, that’s how you know. Yeah. It’s not telling me you did it versus somebody else. It’s just saying that that’s happening. The SEC used our stuff looking at who bought puts on airlines just before 9 11.

And interesting. So you. It doesn’t. That is good information to have the 911 points because. Okay, in June of 98, I stood up in our conference in London. I said, look, Russia is going to collapse. And I give it about 30 days. I didn’t realize that the London Financial Times had snuck in the back, and they ended up putting it on the front page. Armstrong says, Russia is going to collapse. You’re going to have all these nukes running around. And it collapsed. That was Long Term Capital Management. That’s when the CIA came in and said, hey, you know, they want me to build a model for them.

And I said, look, you know, it took me 17 years to do this. We’ll run any study you want. All right? And then. So have you run studies for the CIA? No, because after that, they then said, we have to own it. I said, it’s not for sale, of course. So I know they all monitor us all the time. I mean, it’s. They. I think what they wanted was that they didn’t want anybody else to have the same information. I mean, I understand geopolitically, if you don’t want a war is going to happen or you can push your government into doing it or something like that, you know, if you have that information.

And that’s what I was always concerned about. Have you been able to stop a war based on the information that you have? No. What it is, it’s. It’s too. You can’t stop it. And what this one is, this isn’t more than just Ukraine, Russia. The computer showing. This is more of an international war, not like, you know, allies versus, you know, Hitler or something like that. You’re seeing it, you know, Thailand versus Kim, you know, Cambodia over a dispute. Originally it was in 1987, India versus Pakistan, Middle East. It’s like whoever used to have a grudge against somebody, it’s all coming to a head now.

So basically it’s, it’s, it’s multiple wars all flaring up at the same time. Yeah. And what, what causes it, I believe, is the economics, so that if the economy turns down and people are aggravated, that’s when they’re looking to blame somebody. Governments will blame the outsider. Like, you know, Biden put sanctions on Russia, gasoline prices went up. And so what did he do? Oh, it’s Putin’s inflation. Now. They always have to blame somebody from the outside, regardless of what the issue might be. But, so I, I’ve tried my best over years. I thought maybe if I scream loud enough, I could prevent.

I can’t. It’s, It’s. It’s just ingrained. But, but you had, you felt the need to share a letter with them on, on what they could do to avoid a larger conflict. Can you explain that? Yes. What I do believe is I can’t prevent a conflict, but maybe you can influence the amplitude. And it’s. I feel that, you know, we have a lot of what we call neocons, and I know some of them. All right, look, I would used to be part of the vetting process. If somebody wanted to run for president, they would send me in.

And it was like I was supposed to explain how the world economy works, how we’re all connected, etc. And I get back and then they would say, what do you think? Is he smart enough to handle it? Then all of a sudden, Bush Jr. Comes up. And I was asked, I said, look, we want you to go down to meet with Bush Jr. I said, yeah, okay, fine. And I swear to God of my soul, I was told and oh, but this one’s different. I said, what’s different? Oh, he’s really stupid. I said, excuse me. And this was like 180 degree turn, but they didn’t care.

No what it was. Well, you asked them, they said, why would you. Why? Yeah, he said, he’s got the name so we can win. So I was asked if I would. They picked the Cabinet, not Bush. They picked Cheney, Crystal, all these people. I was asked, who are they? Hold on a second. Who are they? I don’t name. You don’t want to name names. But is that the people behind our US Government? Yeah, it’s a deep state. Basically, the unelected people. Do they control the President? After the President gets in office, do they have any power really, or do they still control everybody? They have become much more aggressive, I would say in the last 20 years in particular, as you’re beginning to see with Russia Gate, you know, Clapper, all these guys, I mean, they’ve.

It wasn’t that bad 30 years ago. It’s progressively gotten worse, I think, because there were no checks and balances. That’s probably true. So they went, nobody to arrest them or anything like that, which is a problem when you’re above the law. Then you become what we see today. Now, did they turn on you at some point? Is that why you had your issues? I believe so. I got caught in the middle and this was basically the gist of my letter. Look, but you want to get into Russiagate, Everybody you know, oh, Hillary did this. Nobody asked the question why? All right, why did she pick on Putin? Simple question.

I would think you would ask that, wouldn’t you? Yeah. Why did she? It’s because the neocons, which she’s part of, they attempted to take over a regime change in Russia. And I was asked to put in $10 billion into Hermitage Capital. And I said, look, my computer says Russia is going to fail. I’m sorry. And they said, no, no, you don’t understand. This was the difference between me and them. They thought they could manipulate the world by bribing people, sticking people in positions, etc, and who will decree whatever they command. And I was told that they were, you know, look, we’re going to replace Yeltsin.

We’ll have our own guy in there. And I was told if I put in 10 billion, I’ll get 100 billion back. They were going to make all the gold, diamonds, oil, timber, everything from Russia would go through New York dealing desks. And I said, I’m sorry, I don’t want to Be part of this. I’m not into regime change. And my computer says, you’re going to fail. Which they did. And what happened was they steered a seven billion dollar money laundering wire that they got Yeltsin to take from the imf. And there were even some articles, I think, saying the money came from the IMF and it went to a fake company for refurbishing the Kremlin and Geneva.

And as soon as the wire hit, Republic national bank runs to the, to the Department of Justice. Oh, bank in New York just did a seven billion dollar money laundering. They run in. They criminally charge bank of New York. They didn’t know what the hell they were stepping into. I’ve got the transcripts of the two brokers that biggest money laundering in history. They. They plead guilty. Judge asks, you know, well, what was the money for? Oh, it involved also a ransom for a Russian businessman. Oh, okay, fine. Thank you. You don’t ask the name who could possibly pay $7 billion in the ransom.

Yeah, I mean, come on. I mean, this gets to be, you know, a joke. They’re getting six months house arrest. That’s it. And the whole thing’s washed underneath the table. Yeltsin was. I had a meeting with them and I said, look, you know, I don’t know if you people know what the hell you stepped into. I knew at the time because once bank of New York was charged, they threatened Yeltsin, you resign or this is going to come out that you did this. So the Minister of Interior from Russia, which is their equivalent of the FBI, came to New York to investigate what the hell is going on.

Because he was being blackmailed. Yeah. And I told them because I, you know, sat at the table with these people from the doj, and I don’t think they understood what the hell they stepped into. And I said, they want me to plead guilty to some conspiracy with Saffron. We’ll let you go home. I said, do you understand what the hell is going on? I said, I’m not pleading guilty to anything with Safra. I said, you know, you didn’t do anything apparently. Right. I mean, they just. You got yourself caught up in something they wanted you to do, you didn’t want to do it.

Next thing you know, because you didn’t want to do it, you’re. They’re going after you. I mean, is that essentially what happened? I think it was largely to shut me up and because everybody else that was involved ended up dead. I mean, so maybe on one hand, they threw me in on civil Contempt, maybe that saved my life, I don’t know. But I mean, somebody did put bullets in my mailbox. That’s not good. Yeah, but, you know, when they blackmailed Yeltsin, this was all coming out. So you had the old hardline communists in Russia. They then caught wind of it and filed a motion for impeachment against Yeltsin to try and take it back to the ussr.

So Yeltsin’s caught between our neocons and the old USSR Communist guys. So that’s how Putin comes to power. He turns to Putin because he wasn’t an oligarch and he wasn’t a communist. And his last words I do know to him, protect Russia. And that’s what happened. Now, the partner in this Hermitage capital was Edmund Safra and Bill Browder, you can look up when the Russiagate stuff was starting, Putin was standing there in a press conference with Trump and said, you can come talk to anybody you want over here, no problem. I want to talk to Bill Browder.

And Browder basically, you know, resigned his American citizenship, became a British citizen, so he didn’t have to pay taxes on all this. And they made a film, the McGinsky act, which is basically Baginski was the accountant for this Hermitage capital. They tried to black, you know, block that movie because it showed basically that Maginsky was killed largely by the west, not Putin. Putin wouldn’t kill them because he was the star witness against all this stuff. So this is a backdrop. Yeah, why would you kill your best witness? So this is a backdrop of another aspect of the backdrop of the Ukraine war.

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I even gave it to Washington that Zelinsky was wiring out 50 million per month to accounts in UAE. Look, I had two employees there in Ukraine, one in Donetsk and one in, in Kiev. And initially Trump. I mean, Putin had all the. Surrounded Kiev with the, with the tanks and everything. I was concerned. I said, are you okay? What’s going on? And I was told by my own staff, look, you’re not doing anything. It’s just a shovel force. And then he withdrew. He could have taken Ukraine right then and there if he wanted to. That’s never been his objective.

But they, you know, the press keeps getting. If you look at a lot of these press stories and even Fox News, I was very disappointed. They put the head of the isw, the Institute for the Study of War, that was started by Victoria Newland’s sister in law. It’s a neocon organization. All they ever do is, oh, Russia’s weak. We can take Russia any. I mean, it’s all propaganda, isn’t it? And we know that. I just had General Valley on and he’s like, they already won the war. It’s really ridiculous that they keep having this stuff and they’re just showing restraint.

I was listening to NPR because I wanted to listen to NPR just to get a, get some. I, I needed to see what they were saying. And they actually present really professionally propaganda. Right? And yeah, and they were talking about the Ukraine war and they, they talk about Putin as being. And this is how, you know, it’s propaganda. Putin is a dictator murderer. He’s raping and murdering children. And then they go on to talk about, you know, why it’s something else. But that’s, that’s what they, they fit that in. Whenever you fit that in, you know, that’s propaganda.

Look, Putin stood for an election, all right, a couple times. Ursula, head of the eu, has never stood for any election, ever. They’re appointed, they’re all unelected. They don’t even pretend to be a democracy over there. No, that was deliberately set up so there would defeat democracy. And because I knew, you know, Klaus Schwab, I knew what they were doing when they were forming the eu. I mean, the euro, I was the one called in. All right, this is how you create a currency. They wouldn’t do it. All right? So, I mean, what do you think of BlackRock Larry Fink being set up as the co chair of the World Economic Forum with Klaus Schwab.

I’m not foreign. Basically, you know, favor of. In favor of anything like that. It. The wef. Look, I’ve known Klaus Schwab, the guy that made the movie on me, the forecaster had also made the movie the Forum on him. Okay. And so I know intimately what’s happened, both sides, whatever. I started our World economic conference in 1985. Schwab started his Davos in 1987. Everything we have done, he copies. The difference is he tries to get influence. So he gets heads of state to show up and then charges you 25000 to come and rub shoulders. That’s the.

The marketing plan. Basically. It’s influence. Always influence. Nigel Farage came and spoke at our conference enrollment in 2019. And he’s the one that said. He says, of course I’m here. He’s the alternative to Davos. But sometimes I end up knowing more than I really prefer to know. But yeah, I know. I know how that is. So trust me. So in your letter. Let’s get back to that letter. Your goal was to not amplify the war. And it was very concerning for you. And what is your concern that they’re going to do to amplify this way? You’re saying there’s going to be wars all over the place.

But what is your concern about the. Because they’re trying to de. Amplify as far as what I’m hearing in the press, and do a ceasefire and bring in peace. But you’re saying that there are certain things that are going to amplify this and so we cannot do it. Can you elaborate on that? Yes. The problem we have is that Europe is in serious trouble. The whole debt problem of sovereign debt is it’s going to blow up in everybody’s face. All right. Doesn’t have to. There’s solutions, but keep going. You know, they won’t take the solution. I.

I know Solution is on YouTube. They won’t, but they have to, you know, release. Give up power. That’s exactly. They have to give up power for the. So they’d rather go down, have everything blow up, than to give up power. The. This. It’s the same as what I said about Schwab. They think influence can manipulate the world. That’s the problem. I even had the CFTC tried to subpoena me for a list of all my clients worldwide and they actually accused me of manipulating the world economy. I said what went to court. My lawyer stood up, he says, yes, your honor, we can see he manipulates everything, including your salary.

He just turned it into a joke. And he says, where’s the statute that says he can’t do that if he wants to? And the judge laughs. And so I won. But the idea is that I have all these clients, I just stand up and say something. They all buy or they all sell. And that’s influence. That’s the way they run the world. They want to manipulate with propaganda, etc. They’ve turned that into a science. They do do that. They’re very serious about that. Yes, yes. So that’s really what they try to do. That’s why you see all the press, all anti, you know, Putin.

And what you have to understand is that, you know, I just saw, you know, I think one of these generals come out. Oh, you know, Putin really wants to, to increase the size of Russia, re establish, you know, the US’s. Do you understand what you’re saying? He’s been there since 1999. If you wanted to do something like that, it would have done it a long time ago. And second of all, that’s not what he was referring to. They leave out the second part where he was also critical of Lenin and he said he wasn’t a statesman, he was a Bolshevik.

And there were even speculation whether he would take Lenin’s tomb and remove it. That’s what he was referring to, that they destroyed the Roman or the Russian empire of the czar, that communism did this. Not to reestablish the Cold War and all this nonsense. They, the propaganda they put out is the same exact thing against like Khrushchev, you know, Khrushchev was. We will bury you. That was a philosophical confrontation. Communism versus capitalism. Okay, it’s not that anymore, is it? Exactly. That’s all died. I don’t think you’re going to find, you know, other than the, you know, a 75 year old Russian who wants to go back to the ussr.

Well, let me ask you though, how much have we turned into more of a communist dictator environment in that time versus them? It seems like we’ve been, the west is sort of take on those characteristics and they’re moving, have moved away from it. Yes, so has, so has most of Eastern Europe, China the same way. And you know, look, I’ve been to both places, you know, and I under, you know, 97, I was invited to China during the Asian currency crisis by the central bank. So you know, I, I’ve listened to both Sides, because you have, you can’t figure it out what an enemy is going to do unless you understand what he’s thinking.

That’s all right. That’s what Paul, Valerie just got done saying to me last night. You have to look at both sides. You have to do that. If you do, this is why the neocons, they tell these leaders, don’t talk to Putin. Why? Because if you talk, maybe there might be peace. All right? That’s why they were all upset that Trump even called Putin. Oh, my God. You know, so if you don’t talk to your enemy, even Sun Tzu said that if you don’t understand your enemy and yourself, you’re going to lose. That’s right. And this is what they do.

I was in Washington when Gorbachev came to power and Reagan wanted to go meet him. I know what they said. They told him, oh, he couldn’t call him a communist anymore. So they said, you shouldn’t go. You can never trust a Russian. So it. Look, I know some of these people. I’ve had dinner with them. It’s hard to get your head around their thinking process. All I can figure out is that they spent their whole life hating Communism and when it fell all by itself, they were just pissed off. They didn’t get to shoot anybody, I guess.

I don’t know. But why do they want to instill that? Those same communistic. I mean, they set up the EU as a communist. Yeah, that’s a dictator. That’s as awful as it gets. Mainly because they justify it with the three Greek philosophers, Plato, Socrates, you know, you know that, oh, democracy is bad. They were against it, saying that people were not educated enough to, to make proper decisions. And this is what they, they cling to see, even soccer smarter than you. We’re smarter than you, so we need to make decisions for you. The problem is they’re not paying attention to what the people need.

So it’s better. This is the argument for democracy. It’s better for the people to lead. I get their argument that the average person isn’t all that in tuned right. However, because they don’t care about the average person, the average person is at least going to take care of their own needs. And right now neither is being done. No, because what happens is I don’t care who you are, if you have unchecked power, you will act in your own self interest. That’s right. So what was so bad about the, the Biden administration was you had Victoria Newland in there.

You had Garland, who bore all the criminal charges against Trump to try and stop him. And he had Blinken three people all claiming that their families were persecuted by Jews. And all three from that Ukrainian area. How can three people with the same background end up in the same administration? I don’t believe that’s a coincidence. I know people around the world. I mean, it’s. Finding three people in the same room with the same background is not common. Well, and also, Ukraine is used for the bioweapons and bioweapons labs. It’s been a money laundering mecca. It’s the most corrupt country on the planet.

And they all cling to that because that’s what they use. I had John Christmas on who managed a collection of. Of banks in that region, in Slovakia and in that region. And he says that they more than likely, from what his understanding is, funneled the Ukrainian entire treasury through his banking system. And when they stole it, and then they covered up and the IMF helped to cover up that crime. That’s what he said. This stuff goes on all the time. I was actually asked if I would advise the Ukrainian government. And I never in my entire life had a government say, look, we can pay you in an offshore account.

I said, no, thank you. Well, I had a whistleblower from Burisma. I don’t know if I’ve told you this. I had a whistleblower from Burisma who was ready to speak with John Mark Dugan. I had her on and they. We were going to have her on. She needed. They raised money on GoFundMe. GoFundMe. She. They. GoFundMe would not give her the money unless they. She said who she was. As soon as they knew who she was, they went and they found her. They beat her up, sodomized her, left her for dead. Yeah. And then she was afraid to speak.

This is standard operating procedure. I mean, it’s. Look, the guy that ran Burisma that with the whole thing with, you know, Biden’s son is a guy that backed Zelensky. Yes, he’s his lover. No, no, it was the old ark. I mean, the whole thing is just. They’re the most corrupt. The most corrupt on it. Now, according to. I think it was the LaRouche organization that I heard this from Harley Schlanger. He was saying when he was on my show, he was telling me the GDP numbers that Ukraine. I didn’t verify this, but I trust Harley. He’s pretty good.

He says that Ukraine had the highest GDP numbers after the Soviet Union fell. And the corruption is Just so bad that now it has the lowest GDP numbers because it was the, the center of their military industrial complex there. Which means, which means they have a lot of, they had a lot of weaponry, they had a lot of sophistication in that region. Look, most people don’t realize, but Khrushchev came from the border there, not Moscow. His successor, Brezhnev, was born in the Donbas. All right, that area has been central. Stalin was from Georgia. All right, so if you talk to Russian scholars, the debate for decades has been who’s really Russian.

You know, it’s, you know, but that’s why they want to be part of Russia, right? I mean, they feel a connection to Russia. That area. Not all want to be part of Russia, but a big part of it does. The problem is that that area, the Donbass, that’s even where Brezhnev was born. Okay, They’re Russians. They’ve been there for hundreds of years. All right? When the Soviet Union broke up, they kind of got stranded. And you know, and this is the ramifications of them being stranded. And. But what is the backdrop of Ukraine and the global financial system? It seems like they’re, they’re putting all their.

There and Israel, it seems like those are the two flashpoints. What is really, it is the two flashpoints, the big ones, right? Now, what is the significance of those two regions to the change of the global economic system? Largely you have with Ukraine people around that area, and I can tell you they just had like the Romanian election, the first one they overthrow, then the second one. I knew people were there. They said Macron flew there to make sure the EU still won for the second one. Why it’s Romania is where they’re building the largest NATO base to attack Russia.

That’s why they voted against the EU people. They don’t want any part of this and they don’t care. All right? Ukraine has been the number one money laundering spot in the world. And you talk to anybody that surrounds Ukraine and what do they tell you about Ukrainian. If you’re going to shake hands, make sure you still have not just your fingers, but your arm and wash it afterwards because it’s really slimy. This whole region. The Balkans, I think the, the turmoil there, I mean, look, it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. So you have three religions.

You got Islam, you got, you know, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Western. Then you got these, you know, ethnic differences. Czechoslovakia, when it broke, it broke into Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia. Look, I was called in that government, you know, before, and they Go, oh, you know, they killed 600 of us and they threw us in the common graves. And I thought I missed something on the news. I said, oh my God, really? I said, when did this happen? About 700 years ago. I said, okay, that on you it’s like, how can you be connected to that? It’s the same thing of the, the I, I, I think it’s silly when you blame the current people, the current Jewish people to what happened 2,000 years ago, you know.

Yeah. Look, it’s just, come on, people, even that most people, you know, like, oh, why did Hitler hate Jews? Etc mainly because they were calling communism a Jewish conspiracy. That was Trotsky. Etc. And that’s why Ukraine was killing Jews. Okay. It was this anti communist idea. Well, but, but the Bolsheviks were, had a Jewish background. Yeah, that’s what I was saying. Yeah. That’s why I made that connection. Yes. So I mean they all weren’t, Lennon wasn’t. But it, you know, it’s, they throw everybody in the same pot. You know, it’s, well that’s part of propaganda, right? I mean they’re, they do have an uneven influence in the world when it comes to money and Hollywood and all these things.

But it doesn’t mean that they have the entire influence. There’s other things going on. No, I mean it’s, look, and everybody’s going to act in their self interest. Simple as that. In the Middle east you got, fine, you have Jews that are looking at, you know, getting rid of the temple that bring the Messiah. Then you have, you know, evangelical Christians thinking if they can do it, they can bring, you know, Christ in the end of the world. They really do have people that are that nutty trying to do that. That’s the, this is, look, Julius Caesar said a long time ago, over 2,000 years ago, people believe what they want to believe.

And he was right. There’s no changing that. It’s the Balkans. You can look up the former Chancellor of Germany, Bismarck, in 1888, he said, Europe is going to be engulfed in a major war and it’s going to come from the Balkans. You know, we handed it, you know, a handful of jets to Greece and you can look, what did they say on the front pages of the press? Oh, now we can attack Turkey in a sneak attack. I mean, the hatred between Turkey and Greece goes back to Alexander the Great. You know, it’s, we don’t have this sort of idea here.

I think when they were forming the eu, I even told them, they thought it was outrageous. I said you don’t understand what made America great. I said, what? I said, discrimination. Oh, how can you say that? I said, because it was fair. Whoever was the last off the boat didn’t get the job until he spoke English. I said, then everybody spoke English. Then you ask in America, what are they? I’m half Irish, half Italian, half this. Then everybody intermarried. I said, where do you find somebody from Scotland going down and marrying somebody from Sicily? You know, it’s, it’s just different.

The melting pot thing is real. Just dropping all the division and saying, I’m an American and just forget everything else. It’s that, it’s the idea of. But the propaganda, what they’re trying to instill in this country is the division. They’re trying to change that culture. They want to divide. And if you divide the people, then the people will never rise up collectively against you. I mean, that’s the standard political thing. It works. I mean, yes. I mean, when FDR went to Boston, I mean, there was a big Senate investigation. He actually pretty much forced Japan to attack us for Pearl Harbor.

There’s a big Senate investigation. They knew and all this stuff. And I even posted on our blog, I think it was the Honolulu Tribune or something, two days before, said, we’re going to be attacked on the weekend. So that the leak was out. But when FDR was trying to get us into World War II and Congress would never grant a declaration of war for Europe, I watched one documentary, he went to Boston, which are mostly Irish, and he wanted to, you know, pitch that he wanted to get involved in Europe. And the Irish said, you expect us to go defend the British after what they did to Ireland? You know, and that’s why Americans wouldn’t get involved.

It took Pearl harbor to do it. Well, we shouldn’t get involved in this nonsense. But so what is getting back to your letter? What can they do? What is escalating the war and what can de. Escalate the war? First of all, main reason, I’m saying he’s that because there’s so much propaganda against Putin. Putin is probably the most responsible person at the table. You remove him, you got somebody like Medev. Putin has, has laid down so many red lines, you give them long range missiles. That’s it. They do. NATO has deliberately crossed every single line he lays down.

Why? Because you can look this up, all right? It’s a known psychological tactic. You always want your enemy to attack you. Why? Because then you can get your people to say you’re defending yourself. It doesn’t Work the other way around. Come on, let’s go get this guy. He’s bad. All right, Obama tried to get us to go into Syria. Couldn’t get it going. All right, you need them to attack. All right, so that’s the fault. Yes. NATO has crossed every single red line. Now, why did Zelinsky try to kill Putin Just, you know, a couple months ago.

They know what I know, all right, he wants peace. He has tried to avoid World War 3 because he knows where it leads, what they want. If they remove him and then you get something like Meta for whatever, they will respond emotionally. That’s what they want. All right, you did that. That’s it. I’m pushing the button. Putin is much more responsible because he knows where this goes. Where does it go? Would we lose? Because they have two thirds of the world that are in line with, according to General Availy, the bricks love Putin and that’s two thirds of the world’s population.

Look, I’ve tried to warn them. You know, there was also a meeting and I had some inside information there too, but between China and Kaylis of the eu, and she was trying to tell direct China not to help Russia at all and tell them this to basically surrender and get out. And his response where I was told they never saw him so angry ever. Usually a pretty calm guy. And he told her flat out, right, we’re not doing that, because if Russia loses, and he says, we’re not prepared to allow that to happen because we know we would be next.

And he told her that to his face. To her face, China would be stupid if they did not back Russia because they’re not going to stop there. So you have China, you’d have Russia, you’d probably have India, that would North Korea. Well, of course you’d have all those guys. And I don’t think even the entire EU would go with a lot of the EU would be splintered, that would split in half. Yeah, look, I do interviews all over the eu, from Netherlands down the Palermo. And it’s interesting. Three years ago, I would say, look, the computer says the EU is going to break up.

And they go, really? You know, and now I get. When they’ve all kind of had enough. This is the problem. Once you get power in a centralized government, the EU would have worked if you restrained it to just trade or if you gave people. If it was an elected situation and people felt that they had representatives. But being not elected. Yeah, that people are. I mean, you. You vote for parliament, but parliament doesn’t make any legislation. Or not anything. It can’t overrule the commission. The laws are made in the back room by a bunch of guys in, in there that nobody knows and, and that’s it.

But we moved back into the middle ages or something. I don’t even know what that is. At least back in the. But at least back when we had kings and royalty people knew who their was, their heads of state. This is like we won’t even know. It’s worse than that almost. Yes, it’s. This is what our computer warns is coming to an end. And what does that mean? And is this the escalation that you’re talking about? Yeah, it’s you. Roughly every 300 some odd years you go through these political changes and they do seem to be more like a contagion.

For example Rome overthrew it’s it’s king in 509 BC within about six months Athens overthrowing their tyrants and democracy is born. So you see these things spread. American revolution takes place. France goes. That’s a good idea. Then the French Revolution goes. Tenement Square happens. Oh that’s good. Berlin will fall six months later. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Yeah, it’s a global, I would say contagion or something. And it seems as though when this happens, when the economy gets in a downturn I think the best way I can express, you know when everything’s booming and everybody’s doing okay, there’s no wars when everybody’s fat and happy.

Take that away and people want retribution whatever it seems to, to materialize at that point. This is what I, I did a thing with chat GDP and I, I asked it because it has millions and millions of, of conversations a day and it’s, you know, it’s an AI system and they don’t. People are pouring their soul out to chat GPT and I asked it, I’m gonna mine this data and it Usually you can’t but if you do go around and you ask about its millions of conversations and it told me I was clever but this is a clever way to get at the information you’re not supposed to get at essentially.

And so which bothers me we should get that type of information but it’s telling me that based on its millions of conversations there’s a collapse level stress and change happening right now. And that, and that’s what you’re seeing through an economic lens not just economically. All the interviews I do around the world, look, I even do interviews on Russian tv. I believe it’s Important to speak to the other side as well. Yeah, of course. And you get to see what they’re thinking. You know, it’s. But it. The last time we went through this, it was overthrowing monarchy.

This time, it’s going to be overthrowing republic. You know, the fake news of the ancient world was Cicero. And he maligned Julius Caesar because he was one of the oligarchs. Look at the facts. Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon. He didn’t have to fight his way to Rome. The cities all opened their gates, they cheered him. And the Senate fled to Asia. Who was did the people support? It was Caesar, not them. All right, it was a debt crisis. All right, I’m going to write a book about this because I think it’s. It’s necessary. But the debt crisis then was even worse.

If you borrowed, let’s say, a hundred thousand dollars for your house, and the house is now worth 10,000, you couldn’t just walk away from it. And the creditor take the house, you’re even. No, he’d say, you still owe me a hundred thousand. I’m taking the house. Now where’s the 90? And if you couldn’t pay the 90, they took your kids and they sold them into slavery. So it was a little bit different. So when Caesar crossed the Rubicon, basically everybody was cheering because there was this debt crisis, all right? And Caesar is one of the few people in history.

How did he solve it? He took everybody’s debts and said they had to allocate all interest previously paid and reduce the debt that way. He didn’t outlaw it completely because he knew that that would wipe out all the banks and everything else. So he cut the baby in half. You paid $80,000 in interest on that 100,000 loan. Now you only owe 20. That’s was a jubilee. It was a debt. It was a debt. In a way, yeah. That’s why he was so popular. But they can do some of that now. There’s some solutions for that that they just.

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Yes, I mean, that’s what will happen because people are beginning to realize, you know, our political system doesn’t really work. I can run for office. I’ll tell you whatever you want to hear. I’ll save the whales. It won’t rain on Sundays. All right, whatever you want to hear. Then I get there and then they go, congratulations, this is how it works, all right? There’s a meeting the first day. Just look at the votes. All right? We just lived through, yeah, we lived through Covid. And they can’t get any, they can’t do anything about that now. Even Covid, that was all for climate change.

I mean, I warn my clients, I warn my family, don’t get any vaccines. I’m telling you, I know what’s going down. Three months before, even Klaus Schwab was telling his friends a virus is coming. But if you can’t do anything to, to about that, then you, and you can’t even say, help put up clinics to deal with the injured, then you can’t do any. You’re completely inept. I mean, you can’t do anything. The government is completely inept if it can’t even address. They don’t Want to admit that they made a mistake. That’s the problem. But everybody knows they did.

Look, when I was young, I thought I could make a difference going down to Washington. Then you find out you can’t. It’s, you know, I met with the treasury back in 1980. I said, you know, when Volcker raised the interest rates up to crazy. No, I said, guys, the national debt’s going to double by the end of the decade. You know, and they go, yeah, Marty, but we’ll be paying with cheaper dollars. Really? So you know what you’re doing? You know, it’s that. And that’s fine, Volcker, for now. But you keep on this trend and eventually the dollar gets eva.

Inflated to the point where it has zero value. And now you got a real issue. Well, the value of the dollar. You have a lot of these analysts that don’t understand finance either. All right? Oh, de dollarization. The dollar is the reserve currency because basically a third of all consumer spending in the world is in America. You still have to price your BMWs, your Toyotas in dollars, right? Not pesos. All right, so then on top of that, all right, you can go on ebay and you can buy bonds. Before World War II, China, all these countries issued bonds in British pounds because that was the financial capital.

They were the reserve currency back then. Now all emerging markets, they issue debt in dollars. All right, why? Because they have to sell it. And if you’re going to sell it, you need to sell it to the money investors. And they are here in New York, your investment banks, Goldman, all of them. All right, they’re close to 70% of IPOs in the world. So that’s not going to change overnight with the bricks. Even if they are two thirds of the world. It just isn’t. The dollar isn’t going to lose its reserve currency easily because we. It’s just too much.

Even the British pound took decades and multiple wars for that to change. Yeah, look, BRICS is not going to replace the dollar. I mean, that’s, that’s kind of absurd. You don’t even have a shot at that until after 2032. Look, just look at the debt level of Brazil. It’s one of the worst in the world. Then you got Japan. But China, they do what they are doing. We have offices in China. I mean, that most of them under. Look at our stuff. All right, It’s. China is looking at the two main economic models, Europe versus United States.

Europe is still using the mercantile model, which is why it’s economy over there is abysmal all right? We build stuff and sell it to somebody else like in the 18th century and bring the gold back. All right? The United States is a consumer based economy, all right? So that’s why we’re the biggest chunk of the world. All right? It’s not government directing this, it’s the consumer doing this. All right? Where if you look at consumer spending for all of Europe, it’s less than 10%. So you don’t think it’s a bad thing. But the one thing that, that is an issue with the inflation is the fact that it’s crushing the average person.

Oh, yeah. Now look, that. That’s a separate issue. As you go into war, you’re going to see inflation. There’s shortages, which were all set in motion by Covid. And we had clients that we. One chicken farmer, he had to kill 30,000 chickens. Why? Couldn’t buy food, no truck could deliver it. He couldn’t get a truck to take them to market. Solution was I gotta kill them. That’s. So they started that. That’s so incredible. You know, and then you have these politicians. Oh, you know, we want to, you know, the state should own all the stores because egg prices went up.

Well, they went up because of you. I know, exactly. We. That’s the least. It’s the opposite of what we need. Okay, yes. So where do they follow you and where can they get your reports? Because they need to see these reports. People need to. Who’s your. Who. Who is your clientele and how do they get access to this? Well, the Rehabs, you know, ask Socrates. Which is direct access into the AI system. But, you know, that’s mainly for, you know, major investors or institutions. Governments get in there. The armstrongeconomics.com is open to the world. We’re not blocked actually anywhere.

You can see it in Russia, you can see it in China. And we don’t sell advertising or anything of that nature. So we try to keep it unbiased and open to the entire world. Ironically, what they did to me backfired. Before I was just institutional. Then I said, all right, fine, how would it. I’ll open it up to everybody, you know, and so it’s, you know, it’s the only AI system in the world that’s got a 40 year track record. So institutions or investors or everyday people, is there just different tiers? Like if you’re an institution, you.

Yeah, yeah. You know, subscribe to the entire world. The computer is monitoring over a thousand markets globally, every country, and it writes a report all by itself. So it’s writing that kind of like chat gp. Yeah, it’s writing on every market around the world. So we’re covering places that nobody else even, you know, has an analyst, Romania and Bangladesh and stuff. So when you look at everything collectively, you can see the money moving. So in other words, you’re not going to be able to forecast gold by itself because there’s an influence from everything. Gold goes up during geopolitical things.

So you have to pay attention what’s happening in Europe and with the dollar, with you, you know, you know, the euro, etc. I mean, all of this is important. Does it help summarize it? Correlating everything? Does it help summarize it? Plus gives you your own data to make up some of your own analytic mind or what does it do? Is it a combination? It’s, it’s providing pretty much everything for you. Even puts in the standard, you know, technical analysis, direct, you know, percentage movements, stuff like that. And it’s unbiased. So you’re not getting the, the biased interpretation to sway you in some way.

You’re just, here, here’s the data, make up your mind. And that’s what people who are trying to make decisions in countries and businesses need. They, they don’t need the uses for that reason, mainly because it’s. They’re not looking for some guru. Nobody can be 100 correct all the time. Maybe you stayed up too late last night, had too much to drink or whatever. You know, you’re not taking the right peptides. Yeah, I mean, the computer basically just, it does it and said, here it is. And you know, we have conferences once a year. I mean, I.

They’ve even put on a, a forecast, it did in 1999 on the German DAX. And 10 years in advance it picked the, the panics of 2008. Wow. It’s quite interesting. Are you going to have another conference? Yes, I think late November. Really? I need to go to that one. You’re certainly welcome to come. I need to go to that. Where is it going to be? I don’t know how many more I’m going to be able to do, so. No, I need to go to that one. Where’s that one going to be? In Orlando. Oh, good. That one’s an easier one.

Yeah, we do Orlando because it’s. Well, it’s changed now since COVID but you used to be able to even get a direct flight to Moscow from Orlando. I don’t know if you still can, but everybody wants to see Mickey Mouse, you know. Well, it’s easy. It’s a lower price. Everything’s easier there. So. Awesome. That’s perfect. And November, I gotta. Is it gonna be on your website so people know when? Yeah. Is it open to the public? Yes, anybody can go book tickets. We also do, you know, virtual. So it’s. It’s live streaming also, like the 37 countries.

So it’s good. It brings everybody together. You get to see people that have been there since 1985 and coming to them to some degree. They’re get to be like a. I would say like a college reunion. You know, people become friends with people all around the world. Keep in touch. I have friends in Perth that are still friends with people in Vancouver who are friends in Berlin, you know, and they all communicate with each other, which is good because you get to see things globally, not just domestically. That’s right. And I will say this. I think it was like in 83, I was doing a conference in Zork and someone from Canada flew into it.

And before then I would just do like a. An institutional session. Vancouver, Toronto, New York, each city. And I would go. And he came all the way to Zurich, and I was kind of surprised and said, well, why’d you come here? I wanted to see what you were saying here. And so then he asked me some question about gold and the Canadian dollar or whatever. I said, well, you should be buying. And the Swiss guy goes, yeah, but if he bought, I should be selling. I go, you know, you’re right. You know, you should be selling, you should be buying.

And it was all based upon currency. And that’s when everybody said, you know, you should have one big one. Everybody gets together. I said, that’s a good idea. And that started 1985, and you’ve been doing it ever since. And then I’m late to the party. How many years later, my gosh, 20, 40 years later, I’m. I’m going to be showing up. We have people at that one. We have people in the white ropes in the Middle East. We had the Hasidic Jews from the New York, from the garment industry. And everybody’s looking, what the hell are you doing here? You get so many people.

I said, on Wednesday, we tell the Jews to buy and the Arabs to sell, and then we switch it the next day. Well, but every. It’s interesting. Everybody gets along. It doesn’t matter what their ethnic differences are. And when they come to the room together, we’re all of the same mindset. That’s right. Well, It’s. It’s a 40 year anniversary then if you started in 85. Yeah, actually it is. I didn’t think about that. Yeah, I gave you a little tidbit. Okay. This is fun. I always enjoy talking to you and thank you so much. It’s important, it’s fun, but it’s.

You got some important things to share with the world and we’re in pretty interesting times. And that’s what the data’s showing. It’s data showing it from all different perspectives. It’s the same thing I saw. But you’re seeing it from your perspective. Yeah, the computer is doing it. And from an objective perspective. And I think just like we overthrew monarchy, people are beginning to understand that republics are the most corrupt form of government. Twice Caesar crossed the Rubicon and the Republic fled to Asia. What do you think is a better form of government if we don’t have a republic? I do think closer to direct democracy, like Switzerland.

At least if you want to change something, there is a referendum and everybody’s got to vote on it. Where the people actually get a vote versus republic was supposed to be representative of the people, but it’s been co opted so that people aren’t being represented. So how do you get around the fact that they have no representation is essentially the issue? Yeah, they don’t ask us if we go to war. I mean, that was Vietnam. You were 18. You were old enough to go die for your country. You weren’t old enough to have a drink and you certainly weren’t old enough to vote.

But that’s democracy. That’s right. No, yeah. So, okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much and I appreciate it. Until next time. Well, thank you for inviting me. Be glad to see you. Come on over, Sam.
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