(Alt-Market)—In the lead up to the 2024 presidential elections in the US the Biden Administration in collusion with UK, European and Ukrainian partners devised a plan to “Trump Proof” the war in Ukraine. In other words, they openly admitted that they wanted to prevent Trump from taking any actions that might force an end to the war and render a serious peace agreement.
Part of that plan included the expanded use of long range guided missiles supplied by western governments. These missiles require flight data from NATO assets along with NATO personnel to launch – Meaning, any strikes involving these weapons require the direct involvement of NATO troops. Biden’s greenlight for long range strikes into Russia using US-made and controlled missiles was an obvious attempt to trigger an escalation.
Over the course of the war I have written extensively on my concerns that the ultimate aim of the conflict is to trigger wider international conflagration. There have been globalist interests involved in Ukraine (the Atlantic Council specifically) for at least a decade stirring the pot and provoking Russia into an invasion of the Donbas region. I wrote about the influence of the Atlantic Council in Ukraine and in the Middle East in my article ‘The Atlantic Council Has Big Plans For A War Between The US And Iran’.
The globalists wanted to create a catastrophe, blamed on the preponderance of nation states, that they could use to erase all borders and completely reshape the world. So far they have not achieved this goal, but it’s not from a lack of trying.
The Ukrainian attack on Kursk in Russia along with the approval of long range missile attacks were overtly publicized in the western media as “proof” that Vladimir Putin’s “red lines” were meaningless and that Russia would never use nukes in response to NATO operations. They know that one of the primary concerns among western populations is the outbreak of global nuclear exchange. The elites think if they can remove that fear then everyone will happily support NATO boots on the ground.
They are mistaken.
Neither Americans nor Europeans have any interest in fighting and dying over an insignificant patch of land like Ukraine. Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky has consistently called for NATO to supply troops to the front lines. In fact, Zelensky acts as if someone promised him eventual troop intervention (Boris Johnson?).
Russia’s attrition tactics have been highly effective in wearing down the Ukrainian front lines. It’s important to understand that attrition tactics do involve capturing key strategic ground, but the greater goal is to destroy enemy troops. Though Russian gains might not seem significant to a normie with no study in military strategy, the truth is that Ukraine is now desperate for manpower and they have no means to replace lost troops. The war is over, they just haven’t admitted it yet.
Zelensky’s delusions about Ukraine’s ability to win the war and gain back the massive territory they have lost must be driven by something; I can only assume that he still believes that NATO intervention is imminent. The EU and UK have played a big role in giving Zelensky false hope and preventing practical peace negotiations. Ukraine is NEVER going to get the Donbas region back; they need to accept this and move on.
On the western establishment side of the equation, government officials and the media have been bombarding the public with tales of an impending Russian blitzkrieg into Europe should Ukraine be allowed to fail. Of course, they also claim that Russia is losing millions of soldiers in “meat waves” and that their military is crippled.
The propaganda machine can’t have it both ways – Either Russia is impotent and their military hobbled, or, they are an unstoppable behemoth that will conquer all of Europe if little Ukraine should implode. Every element of the war propaganda has been carefully crafted to convince the populace to back a direct military incursion into the region.
With the return of Donald Trump, everything has changed in Ukraine. Trump has been notably unimpressed with Zelesnky and is keen to end the bloodshed quickly. So much so that he may negotiate the peace terms without Zelensky’s involvement. Trump has demanded that Zelensky hold legitimate elections in Ukraine before the US continues its support, and even referred to Zelensky as a dictator.
Without the US there is no NATO and if the US cuts off arms shipments then Ukraine is done fighting. Unless, Europe leaps headfirst into the war…
As I noted last August:
“The timing of the Kursk offensive and the call for missile strikes on Russia is not a coincidence. Trump claims that his intention is to end the Ukraine war as quickly as possible once he enters office.”
“They need to escalate the war into something bigger, something that can’t be undone. Right now, the war can be ended – All it takes is some diplomacy and forcing Ukraine to understand that they’re not going to get the Donbas or Crimea back no matter how many lives they sacrifice.”
The path to peace is looking more and more attainable and my belief that a larger war is inevitable could be wrong (I certainly hope so). However, the globalists are still trying to create a Hail Mary scenario; they are not giving up. If they can’t get Americans into the war directly, then they might put Europeans on the front lines on the gamble that this will force the hand of the US.
This month Zelensky called for the creation of an ‘armed forces of Europe’ in response to Trump’s push for an expedient peace deal. He also called for Ukraine to be armed with nuclear weapons.
European and UK elites have applauded the concept of an EU military and in way it’s ironic because this stands as an admission that Europe and most of the west have been lazily using the US as a shield for decades. They have no idea how to defend themselves anymore.
The claimed role of this European army would be to “maintain peace” in Ukraine. The problem is, Putin has stated repeatedly that any presence of western troops will be treated as an act of aggression. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of Britain and a rabid authoritarian, has already offered at least 30,000 troops to the cause. French, Canadian and German officials have also expressed interest in a European army and deployment to Ukraine, though they admit they don’t even want to spend a minimum 2% of their GDP on NATO.
To be clear, the hysteria peddlers are correct in saying that Russia could roll right over top of Europe’s defenses if they wanted to (this is assuming no one launches nukes). The EU and UK have already done most of the work – Destroying their own nations with open borders and mass immigration for the past ten years. Third world migrants have no loyalty to the west and Gen Z is completely disenchanted with the idea of further war. European leaders will definitely try to impose forced conscription.
This doesn’t mean Putin intends on going to war with Europe, only that he could easily take them down with attrition if he wanted to. Putin’s odd past associations with elements of the Davos crowd should be taken into consideration. There’s always the chance that Russia is simply controlled opposition and that the war is predetermined. That said, so far Putin has not behaved like a man on a mad dash into nuclear oblivion. He has been very careful to keep the war contained to Ukraine.
Starmer and his globalist ilk are well aware that the presence of British or EU troops would sabotage any peace negotiations set in motion by the Trump Administration. That’s the point. I believe that the globalists think they can force the hand of America, creating a catastrophe so egregious that the US will have to get involved.
When UK officials talk about getting a “security guarantee” from Donald Trump, this is what they mean – By landing troops in Ukraine for “peacekeeping”, they are trying to obligate the US to a response when Russia retaliates.
Americans are not going to war for the globalists. I would argue that we are far more interested in marching to eliminate the globalists than we are in fighting the Russian people. Why not get rid of the problem at the root?
However, the globalists don’t necessarily need the US to expand the Ukrainian war. For now, Trump only has limited economic influence over the UK and EU and that’s not enough to prevent troop mobilization or escalation. This may be the last play of the elites to set WWIII in motion.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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