The [Deep State] is pushing riots in Europe and they are hoping to spread World War. This is the beginning of the distraction. French supermarkets were hit with a cyber attack. They are building the narrative.
Zelensky panics. President Donald Trump trapped him and the [Deep State]/[Central Bankers] when he made a deal with Putin.
Trump is hunting the [Deep State] players. The latest is Ilhan Omar. He is pushing these people out of the shadows and into the light.
Trump is prepping the [Deep State] for the biggest takedown the world has ever seen. All roads will lead to Obama and those who assisted and hid in the shadows. The hunt continues. Here’s more from the X22 Report.
Susan Kokinda opens with two announcements: President Trump’s Truth Social post on his call with Vladimir Putin, in which Russia agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global market, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
She argues both are part of the administration’s war on the post-war globalist system and on one of its architects, George Soros.
The episode follows the pressure campaign since the strikes on Iran seven months ago, from shipping insurance in the Strait of Hormuz to diesel prices going into the November 3 midterms, the G7’s release of 100 million barrels, the Treasury license authorizing Russian diesel through April 2027, the President thanking Putin, and the objections from Ukraine’s President Zelensky and the advocacy group Razom for Ukraine.
It then turns to Rubio’s case against the ICC, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the UN commission on Gaza, the Nobel committee’s statement on international law, and President Trump’s response. It closes with Rubio’s speech on Western civilization in Athens, set against the philosophy of Soros’s mentor Karl Popper, and the President’s Columbus Day proclamation quoting Pope Leo XIII’s 1892 encyclical on Columbus. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
Jared Knott, a decorated combat infantry officer who served in Vietnam and a geopolitical analyst, joins the program to discuss the wars unfolding worldwide and the forces driving seemingly endless conflict.
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This conversation takes a different direction as Sarah and Knott openly debate the causes of war and whether the United States should be involved at all. They examine Vladimir Putin’s intentions and sharply disagree over whether he is a stable leader protecting Russia’s strategic interests or a power-hungry aggressor with broader ambitions in Europe.
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This is not a typical episode. At times, the conversation becomes a genuine debate—but rather than retreating into comfortable silos, Sarah and Knott remain engaged. Despite their disagreements, they find enough common ground to have a meaningful and substantive discussion about some of the most consequential issues of our time. It is the kind of honest conversation that should happen far more often. Here’s more from Sarah Westall in a new edition of Business Game Changers.
The Kremlin released rare footage of a high-level meeting between Vladimir Putin and Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, followed by their first trip to Kyiv this term and a comparatively restrained response from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signaling revived U.S. diplomacy on Ukraine.
The script argues Putin views the American team as a more trusted broker than European leaders and notes a recent sequence of engagements, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s public Moscow visit and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s G20 outreach to Russia’s finance minister.
With Kirill Dmitriev present, Moscow described detailed discussions of major U.S.-Russia economic projects, alongside claims that Bessent is choking off offshore and banking channels funding Ukraine via Europe, the United Kingdom and Canada.
It then pivots to Argentina’s renewed Malvinas/Falklands push as Trump publicly and reportedly reconsiders automatic U.S. support for British sovereignty, recalling internal U.S. divisions during the 1982 war. Here’s more from Susan Kokinda with Promethean Updates.
The Hormuz Letter, citing two senior Iranian sources, reports that Russian officials briefed Tehran following CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit and that the CIA director delivered a message asking Moscow to pressure Iran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz. According to that report, Russian banks, traders and shipping companies connected to Iran could face additional U.S. sanctions if Moscow refused to cooperate.
Neither Washington nor Moscow has confirmed that account. If the reporting is accurate, however, it creates an extraordinary geopolitical irony. Washington has spent years sanctioning and attempting to isolate Russia over Ukraine. Now, the United States may be asking Moscow for help dealing with Iran. Here’s more from Ben Swann.
The [Deep State] is now in the process of trying to start WWIII. They are using Ukraine as their proxy. Other nations are supplying and helping Ukraine to push Russia into a major war.
President Donald Trump knows the playbook, and sent Vladimir Putin a message that the United States is not behind this. Backchannels are important.
The [Deep State] is also pushing Cyber Attacks worldwide, and the Trump administration is mitigating what the [Deep State] set up.
The midterms are safe and Trump has made it very hard for the [Deep State] to cheat and win. The signal has been sent. Here’s more from the X22 Report.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe might not have met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin but Putin received a briefing immediately from the Russian KGB agents who had met with Ratcliffe. What this suggests: Ratcliffe carried a secretive message to Putin that was delivered on site and in person to avoid any risks of exposure.
What was that message? And why has President Donald Trump not said a word about Ratcliffe’s trip to Moscow?
Here’s more from Chris Yoon about the speculation now running rampant.
A bounty of press reports, plus considerable surface evidence, suggests that CIA Director John Ratcliffe just made a surprise visit to Moscow, flying on board a military plane from Latvia. This is the first visit by a CIA director to Russia in more than five years.
Who did he meet and what were they discussing? Russia has confirmed the visit, reporting Ratcliffe did not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but did have discussions with his Russian counterparts within the KGB.
Did the Iranian War prompt this visit, the Ukraine War or both of them? Were sanctions threatened or was some kind of peace proposal offered? We don’t have a clue, although the Wall Street Journal maintained that some sort of warning was issued, possibly involving NATO. Bloomberg also engaged in speculation, concluding that we will soon be seeing an uptick in Russian attacks on Ukraine. Here’s veteran investigative reporter Ben Swann to unpack the mystery.
You can’t spell academia without the CIA. That’s the overt — and covert — lesson of this roundup looking at how Israel manipulated events so the anti-Israeli leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came into power in Iran.
Mark Mazzetti from The New York Times originally broke the story, so the old rag does occasionally do original journalism, as opposed to its usual leftist malarkey. There are lessons here that apply to Ukraine as well as Venezuela. Here’s more from Mike Benz.
Economist Martin Armstrong returns to the program to provide the strategic insights and geopolitical analysis that have made him one of the most closely followed economic forecasters in the world. We discuss what President Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping likely resulted in regarding Taiwan and the broader implications for the balance of power in Asia.
Armstrong shares his perspective on the negotiations, the interests of the major players involved, and why the public narrative often misses the deeper strategic objectives shaping world events.
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Armstrong also discusses his involvement in the brokered peace framework with Vladimir Putin and explains why he believes President Trump has followed many of the key elements outlined in the agreement. According to Armstrong, these developments represent a positive step toward a more productive working relationship with Russia. Here’s more from Sarah Westall on Business Game Changers.
