QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, the truth that you’ve appeared on nationwide TV throughout Europe and even Russia, however not in the USA, actually highlights the depth of censorship right here.
On RT, you predicted oil would nonetheless hit $200 by 2028. Each analyst they introduced on repeated the identical line—short-term ache for long-term acquire. As you identified, that’s straight out of the propaganda script. Not even Tucker Carson will interview you which ones raises query there as properly.
So, with that in thoughts: do you assume the Iran conflict will push oil to $200 by 2028?
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ANSWER: Vitality costs rise with conflict. This isn’t simply Iran. That is NOT short-term ache and there may be NO long-term acquire in any respect! Netanyahu bought the USA on invading Iraq and testified earlier than Congress Saddam was shifting to nuclear and he had weapon of mass destruction. We all know that was all a lie. I imagine Netanyahu needs to be charged with perjury earlier than Congress apart from his need for ethnic cleaning. We’re exhibiting 2028 as a serious turning level. There are two selections. It’s a main excessive, or a low and the key excessive is available in 2032. A closing above $111 on the finish of the yr will warn that is going to worsen moderately than higher.
There’s a main long-term disaster that threatens the collapse of the USA. The protection contractors can not simply replenish the missiles that had been hurled at Iran, they price 10 even as much as 200 instances greater than these of Russia, China, or Iran. This is the reason Iran is profitable and I don’t say this frivolously for stunning headline worth.
The U.S. gained World Battle II largely as a result of Germany was overly fixated on engineering perfection. We mass-produced jeeps on a scale Germany might by no means match, and our manufacturing prices had been a fraction of theirs. As we speak, the shoe is on the opposite foot.
America can boast the largest navy on paper, however our obsession with sophistication is changing into our downfall, simply because it was for Germany within the Forties. Manufacturing prices for contemporary missiles are completely off the charts. A single Patriot interceptor is estimated at round $4 million. Israel and the U.S. have generally used a number of interceptors towards a single $50,000 drone, with some experiences claiming as much as eight missiles fired at one goal.
Against this, Iran’s main assault drone, the Shahed-136, prices someplace between $20,000 and $50,000 to provide. That low price is central to Tehran’s technique. I wrote on the outset of this battle that Iran’s plan could be to overwhelm defenses with waves of low-cost drones, forcing Israel and the U.S. to exhaust their costly missile stockpiles, leaving them susceptible to a extra critical strike. It is a conflict of attrition, pure and easy.
The neocons assume that having the most important military ensures victory. They don’t examine historical past, and so they fail to know that the way in which to defeat the U.S. and Israel is exactly by means of attrition. I can not imagine they’re this obtuse.
Our protection contractors, after all, have each incentive to provide the costliest missiles on this planet. They couldn’t care much less in regards to the nation or its individuals. They function on the identical assumption that America is invincible, so the checks will preserve coming. In the meantime, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea all produce their very own weapons immediately by means of state-controlled methods. That’s the actual vulnerability.
And but the press retains parroting the neocon script—”short-term ache for long-term acquire”—with out ever defining what that acquire truly is. What does it imply? Oil returning to pre-war costs? The conflict debt, if we preserve rolling it over, will double inside a decade. Nobody within the mainstream media appears keen to ask the plain questions.
Greater than 50% of the U.S. nationwide debt is nothing greater than accrued curiosity funds—cash that has NEVER benefited society in any possible way. The economists who cooked up Fashionable Financial Concept, counting on Quantitative Easing that conspicuously failed to provide inflation, concluded that the federal government might merely hand out cash with out consequence. That conclusion reveals a profound ignorance of how the worldwide economic system truly works.
China bought into the Quantitative Easing so the cash left the USA and by no means stimulated the home economic system. This is the reason mainstream media would NEVER put me on the air as a result of I don’t learn the scripts handed out by the Neocons.
This yr alone, we are going to add greater than $1 trillion {dollars} in curiosity price to roll the debt. Everybody freaked-out in 1980 when the US Nationwide Debt hit $1 trillion. This involves an finish ONLY after they can not promote the subsequent traunch to repay the previous.
Mainstream media immediately isn’t any higher than Pravda beneath the Soviet Union. The film on me the Forecaster, was seen on nationwide TV in lots of nations however not the USA, Marcus had a cope with Netflix and on the final minute they weren’t allowed to indicate it. Somebody went so far as to interrupt into Marcus’ studio in Germany stole the movie. He had a backup. They went to excessive size to stop that film. A lot for the liberty of speech.
Mainstream churns out neocon propaganda on repeat, but I’ve by no means seen a single interviewer trouble to ask the plain query: what precisely is that this “long-term acquire” they preserve speaking about?
I’ll personally pay for a first-class journey to the so-called land of freedom and democracy—Ukraine—if any of them can not provide an clever reply. Maybe they will uncover the reply there. They clearly assume we’re silly sufficient to swallow no matter they are saying, regardless of how little sense it makes.
It’s a tragic state of affairs, however it proves a timeless fact: regardless of the system of presidency, these in energy will all the time act in their very own self-interest. As Thrasymachus identified over 2,000 years in the past, nothing has ever modified.
PS: I’ve tried to warn President Trump, however the Neocons now intercept my letters to him.
