Societal Collapse

Did you know that we are bombing the Houthis in Yemen?  If so, you are far more informed than most of the population, because most Americans would have no hope of actually finding the nation of Yemen on a blank map of the world.  On Saturday, President Trump ordered a “decisive” bombing campaign to begin, and it will continue until the Houthis stop attacking U.S. targets in the Red Sea.  Of course the Houthis have no intention of ending their attacks, and so now we are at war with the Houthis for the foreseeable future.  On his Truth Social account, President Trump warned the Houthis that “hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever seen before”…

Today, I have ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen. They have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, ships, aircraft, and drones.

Joe Biden’s response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going. It has been over a year since a U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden. The last American Warship to go through the Red Sea, four months ago, was attacked by the Houthis over a dozen times. Funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs have fired missiles at U.S. aircraft, and targeted our Troops and Allies. These relentless assaults have cost the U.S. and World Economy many BILLIONS of Dollars while, at the same time, putting innocent lives at risk.

The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective. The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt, and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which International Trade and Commerce depends.

Our brave Warfighters are right now carrying out aerial attacks on the terrorists’ bases, leaders, and missile defenses to protect American shipping, air, and naval assets, and to restore Navigational Freedom. No terrorist force will stop American commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the Waterways of the World.

To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON’T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!

It certainly didn’t take long for the airstrikes to begin.

On Sunday, it was being reported that U.S. aircraft had hit “multiple locations across the country”…

U.S. airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen continued overnight Sunday with significant intensity, striking multiple locations across the country.

The Iran-backed terrorist group said at least 31 people were killed and 101 wounded, mostly women and children, though the claims could not be independently verified.

The wave of strikes follows President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a large-scale military campaign against the Houthis, marking the opening phase of a broader U.S. offensive against the rebel group, which has resumed threats against Israel and international shipping in the Red Sea.

There were times during the Biden administration when the U.S. conducted airstrikes against the Houthis.

But those airstrikes were very limited.

What we witnessed on Sunday was quite dramatic, and Mike Waltz is claiming that the airstrikes “took out” multiple Houthi leaders…

The U.S. airstrikes that bombarded Yemen on Saturday targeted and “took out” multiple leaders of the Iranian-backed Houthis, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz said Sunday.

Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Waltz argued to co-anchor Martha Raddatz that these latest strikes differ from the countless strikes the Biden administration launched against the rebel group, which the Trump administration has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

“These were not kind of pinprick, back and forth — what ultimately proved to be feckless attacks,” Waltz said. “This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out. And the difference here is, one, going after the Houthi leadership, and two, holding Iran responsible.”

Unfortunately, the Houthis are showing no signs of backing down.

Instead, they are claiming that they just attacked several U.S. warships…

Yemen’s Houthi terrorists claimed to have attacked the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier – as well as several American warships – in the Red Sea.

The terror group said, without offering evidence, that they attacked the Truman and its warships with ballistic missiles and drones in response to the U.S. attacks.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said on Sunday: ‘The armed forces, with the help of God Almighty, carried out a qualitative military operation targeting the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea, using 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and drones in a joint operation carried out by the missile force, Drone Air Force and the naval forces.’

Unless the Houthis ultimately back down, this conflict is not going to end any time soon.

At the end of his post about the Houthis on Truth Social, President Trump also had an ominous warning for Iran…

To Iran: Support for the Houthi terrorists must end IMMEDIATELY! Do NOT threaten the American People, their President, who has received one of the largest mandates in Presidential History, or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!

Since he entered the White House, President Trump has brought up the possibility of war with Iran over and over again.

But so far, the mainstream media does not seem to be taking those threats seriously.

I don’t understand why they aren’t.

I believe that Trump is very serious.

And on Sunday, Mike Waltz clearly stated that “all options are always on the table” when he was asked if direct military action against Iran is possible…

Asked by Raddatz if direct military action on Iran is a possibility, Waltz said ‘all options are always on the table with the president.’

‘Iran needs to hear him loud and clear,’ Waltz said. ‘It is completely unacceptable, and it will be stopped, the level of support that they’ve been providing the Houthis.’

He said Trump is coming in with ‘overwhelming force’ and will hold the not only the Houthis accountable but Iran as well.

Waltz said if Iranians have put in other things, like ships, trainers or intelligence, to help the Houthis attack ‘those targets will be on the table too.’

Of course the Iranians are not going to back down either.

They have made no secret of their hatred for Trump, and one of their top generals just warned that Iran is ready to deliver a “decisive and devastating response”…

“We are not a nation to live in hiding. We are a valid and legitimate system in the world. We announce it if we attack anywhere,” Salami said in a speech broadcast in Farsi.

The general did not say Iran had been threatened, but that the country would offer a “decisive and devastating response to any threat” against it.

Salami’s words echoed those of President Donald Trump, who announced on Saturday he had ordered the U.S. military to launch a “decisive and powerful” strike against the Houthis in Yemen.

Our relations with Iran have not been this bad since the Iranian hostage crisis over 40 years ago.

And it is just a matter of time before the Trump administration and the Israeli government decide that the clock has run out and that it has become necessary to bomb Iran’s nuclear program.

Unfortunately, the Chinese and the Russians have clearly chosen to side with the Iranians in this matter…

China and Russia stood by Iran on Friday after the United States demanded nuclear talks with Tehran, with senior Chinese and Russian diplomats saying dialogue should only resume based on “mutual respect” and all sanctions ought to be lifted.

In a joint statement issued after talks with Iran in Beijing, China and Russia also said they welcomed Iran’s reiteration that its nuclear programme was exclusively for peaceful purposes, and that Tehran’s right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy should be “fully” respected.

Once the bombing of Iran begins, how will the Chinese and the Russians react?

And what would Iran’s next moves be?

We really are living at a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and we are seeing very troubling alliances form right in front of our eyes.

So let us hope for peace, but let us also prepare ourselves for global war.

Michael’s blockbuster entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

And I suppose that it is just a “coincidence” that all of this is happening as the U.S. and Israel threaten to strike Iran’s nuclear program?  Maybe you don’t believe that “signs” exist, and that is okay.  But nobody can deny that President Trump has threatened Iran with military action if they do not make a deal, and nobody can deny that President Trump has told the press that something is going to happen with Iran “very, very soon”.  Those are facts.  It is also a fact that there is going to be a Blood Moon eclipse on Thursday night.  Of course the Biblical festival of Purim begins when the Sun goes down on Thursday evening.  Nobody out there can dispute any of this.

And now we have learned that “blood rain” has just turned a beach in Iran “blood red”…

A popular beach was coloured blood red as heavy rains fell on the mineral-rich coastline in Iran.

Footage circulating online showed how the downpour lit up the Silver and Red Beach on Hormuz Island as tourists gathered to marvel at its colour.

Floodwater running off the rocks at the tourist attraction created spectacular waterfalls, leaving an eerie trail of red up to the shoreline.

The rain falling from the sky is not actually red.

But when very heavy rains mix with the “high iron oxide content in the volcanic soil”, it creates a phenomenon that is absolutely spectacular.

Footage of the blood red beach in Iran was shared on Instagram, and it has already been liked 29 million times…

The footage was shared on the Instagram account hormoz_omid and has currently amassed 29 million likes and 8,000 comments. The post is captioned: “Heavy rain today, red beach. Today, the red beach was at its peak with the presence of tourists.” It shows floodwater running off the rocks as the shoreline turns red.

Since this is a naturally occurring phenomenon, some of you may want to argue that it doesn’t really mean anything.

Okay.

But what about the Blood Moon Purim eclipse that is going to occur on Thursday night?…

The blood moon total lunar eclipse happens Thursday night into Friday morning and, if the weather cooperates, the red moon could be a stunner that’s especially easy to see and even photograph.

This will actually be the second in a series of three Blood Moon eclipses on Purim.

And I am entirely convinced that these eclipses are a sign that we are in a season of war.

On October 7th, 2023 Hamas invaded Israel and a season of war in the Middle East erupted.

Subsequently, we witnessed the first Blood Moon Purim eclipse in March 2024.

Now we are about to witness the second Blood Moon Purim eclipse on Thursday night, and there will be a third Blood Moon Purim eclipse in March 2026.

Purim is the Biblical festival that is most closely associated with conflict, and we read about how that festival originated in the Book of Esther.

Of course Persia was the setting for the Book of Esther, and today the nation of Persia is known as Iran.

The Iranians have absolutely no intention of giving up their nuclear program, and they also have absolutely no intention of negotiating with President Trump while he is threatening them.

Earlier this week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian responded to Trump’s threats by telling him to “do whatever the hell you want”…

President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not negotiate with the US while being threatened, telling President Donald Trump to “do whatever the hell you want”, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.

“It is unacceptable for us that they [the US] give orders and make threats. I won’t even negotiate with you. Do whatever the hell you want”, state media quoted Pezeshkian as saying.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Tehran would not be bullied into negotiations, a day after Trump said he had sent a letter urging Iran to engage in talks on a new nuclear deal.

Wow.

We really are on the verge of war with Iran.

I don’t expect the bombing of Iran to begin this week.

In fact, I don’t expect it to happen any time this month.

But unless something really dramatic happens, it is coming soon.

Interestingly, the Iranian navy is currently “taking part in a three-day drill with Russia and China”…

Iran’s navy is taking part in a three-day drill with Russia and China. Iranian media said that the Iranian navy had successfully executed the second day of the joint drill. “The three-day naval drills, codenamed the 2025 Maritime Security Belt, kicked off Monday in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman,” the report said.

“Rear Admiral Mostafa Tajeddini, deputy operations commander of the Iranian Navy, said on Tuesday that aerial photography exercises and tactical formations were successfully conducted during the joint maritime drill,” IRNA added.

We keep pushing Russia, China and Iran closer together.

That is not good.

In order to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, a bombing campaign that is unlike anything we have ever seen in the Middle East would be required, because most of Iran’s nuclear facilities are very deep underground.

In response, the Iranians would inevitably launch large numbers of missiles at Israel and at U.S. bases all over the Middle East.

And then we would officially be at war with Iran.

President Trump and his national security team surely must know all of this.

But they have also determined that the Iranians cannot ever be allowed to develop their own nuclear weapons.

Of course it is entirely possible that the North Koreans or someone else may have already given the Iranians nukes.

And we know that Iran has a long history with biological weapons…

For example, in 1996, the CIA concluded that “Iran holds some stocks of biological agents and weapons. Tehran probably has investigated both toxins and live organisms as biological warfare agents. Iran has the technical infrastructure to support a significant biological weapons program with little foreign assistance.”

In 2000, DCI Nonproliferation Center Director John Lauder testified to Congress that “Iran is pursuing both civilian biotech activities and a biological warfare (BW) program,” that its BW program was then “in the late stages of research and development,” and that Iran “already holds some stocks of BW agents and weapons.”

In 2003 and 2005 reports, the State Department stated that, “Iran has an offensive biological weapons program in violation of the BWC. Iran is technically capable of producing at least rudimentary biological warheads for a variety of delivery systems, including missiles.” In 2011, then–Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated that “Iran probably has the capability to produce some biological warfare (BW) agents for offensive purposes, if it made the decision to do so. We assess that Iran has previously conducted offensive BW agent research and development. Iran continues to seek dual-use technologies that could be used for BW.”

For a moment, I would like for you to consider an ominous scenario.

After the United States bombs Iran, sleeper agents that have already been embedded in our country are instructed to release extremely contagious biological agents in major cities in the U.S. and Israel.  All of a sudden, people start noticing very large blisters develop on their hands, faces and necks.  Thousands of Americans rapidly drop dead, and sheer panic sweeps through those major cities as millions of people attempt to escape.

What I have just described is not a plot for a science fiction movie.  Rather, it is a very real scenario that I have been warning about for years.

Once the bombing of Iran begins, everything will change.

So perhaps we should start paying attention to the signs that are happening all around us, because once the bloodshed starts it will be too late.

Michael’s blockbuster entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

Do you remember the days when the complete and utter dominance of the U.S. military could not be questioned?  Sadly, those days are long gone.  I have written extensively about how the Russian military has now surpassed us in a number of key areas, but it could be argued that the ascendancy of the Chinese military has been even more stunning.  At this point nobody can deny the fact that China is a military superpower, and Chinese defense spending continues to soar…

China will raise defense spending by 7.2 percent for a third consecutive year, the country said Wednesday, as it continues a military buildup that a Trump Pentagon nominee has warned is geared toward war with the United States.

Of course when we are talking about China we always need to make a distinction between the figures that are being released for public consumption and what is really going on behind the scenes.

According to Newsweek, some U.S. analysts are convinced that the Chinese are actually spending over 700 billion dollars a year on defense when “unreported outlays” are accounted for…

Some analysts believe China is spending far more than it lets on. Accounting for unreported outlays, some analysts have estimated the true figure is more than $700 billion—not far behind the U.S.

Today, more than 2 million people serve in the Chinese military.

That makes the Chinese military the largest in the world.

Approximately 1.3 million people serve in the U.S. military.

That makes the U.S. military just the third largest in the world.

But at least we have a bigger navy, right?

Wrong.

At this point China has more than 700 warships, while the U.S. now has fewer than 500 warships.

And if a war in the Pacific did erupt, the Chinese could pump out warships far faster than we could.

According to Fox News, China “now has a shipbuilding capacity 230 times greater” than we do…

The Chinese defense industrial base is operating at a “wartime footing,” and now has a shipbuilding capacity 230 times greater than the U.S.’s, making a potential invasion of Taiwan a not-unlikely outcome.

That is nuts.

How did we allow that to happen?

The one bright spot for the U.S. is our Air Force.

The U.S. Air Force currently has more than 14,000 military aircraft, while the Chinese have about 3,000 military aircraft.

But when it comes to missiles, that is another story altogether.

According to Bloomberg, China has the world’s “leading hypersonic arsenal”, while the U.S. is hopelessly behind…

China leads the world in developing, testing and deploying hypersonic weapons, beating out Russia while the US, having already spent $12 billion, has yet to field even one. The weapons can travel five times the speed of sound, making interception by existing defensive systems difficult at best. China, senior US defense intelligence analyst Jeffery McCormick told Congress Tuesday, has the world’s “leading hypersonic arsenal” thanks to Beijing’s two-decade long effort “to dramatically advance its development of conventional and nuclear-armed technologies and capabilities through intense and focused investment, development, testing and deployments.”

What is wrong with us?

Why are we behind both the Chinese and the Russians when it comes to hypersonic missile technology?

The Chinese are also way ahead of us when it comes to missile defense systems.  They have been purchasing Russian systems which are far superior to our own, and they have been using Russian technology to improve their own designs…

Similarly, China’s defense industry has bought, copied, and adapted Russian-made air and missile defense systems, apparently with Russian acquiescence. Six years after acquiring Russia’s S-300, China produced its own copy, the HQ-9, which still serves as one of the PLA’s primary surface-to-air missile systems. Likewise, the Chinese HQ-16 missile system was copied from the Russia Buk-M1-2 but appears to have been made in full collaboration with the Russian Almaz-Antey Corporation. This trend continues with even the most advanced systems, as China purchased the state-of-the-art S-400 in 2014, began testing in 2018, and appears to be currently using the system to improve its own designs.

But at least we have more nukes.

For now.

Just recently, President Trump revealed that China will have an “equal amount” of nuclear warheads within four to five years…

The Republican said on Friday: “I know Russia and us have by far the most.

“China will have an equal amount within 4-5 years.

“It would be great if we could all denuclearise because the power of nuclear weapons is crazy.”

As for the military technologies of the future, the Chinese are in really good shape.

For example, it has been estimated that the Chinese are about 10 years ahead of us when it comes to drone technology.

I recently asked Google AI about this, and this is what I was told…

Yes, according to current information, China is considered the leader in drone technology, primarily due to the dominance of DJI, a Chinese company that holds a significant share of the global consumer drone market, making them the leading producer and seller of civilian drones worldwide.

At this stage, DJI pretty much dominates everyone else.  According to MIT’s Technology Review, DJI actually has “more than a 90% share of the global consumer market”…

Whether you’ve flown a drone before or not, you’ve probably heard of DJI, or at least seen its logo. With more than a 90% share of the global consumer market, this Shenzhen-based company’s drones are used by hobbyists and businesses alike for photography and surveillance, as well as for spraying pesticides, moving parcels, and many other purposes around the world.

Okay, so what about AI?

The good news is that the U.S. still has a lead in AI technology, but Time Magazine recently published an article that discussed the fact that our lead is shrinking fast…

But fast forward to today, and a flurry of impressive Chinese releases suggests the U.S.’s AI lead has shrunk. In November, Alibaba and Chinese AI developer DeepSeek released reasoning models that, by some measures, rival OpenAI’s o1-preview. The same month, Chinese videogame juggernaut Tencent unveiled Hunyuan-Large, an open-source model that the company’s testing found outperformed top open-source models developed in the U.S. across several benchmarks. Then, in the final days of 2024, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-v3, which now ranks highest among open-source AI on a popular online leaderboard and holds its own against top performing closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Before DeepSeek-v3 was released, the trend had already caught the attention of Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO and one of the most influential voices on U.S. AI policy. In May 2024, Schmidt had confidently asserted that the U.S. maintained a two-to-three year lead in AI, “which is an eternity in my books.” Yet by November, in a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, Schmidt had changed his tune. He cited the advances from Alibaba, and Tencent as evidence that China was closing the gap. “This is shocking to me,” he said. “I thought the restrictions we placed on chips would keep them back.”

That is certainly alarming.

If we fall behind in the technology race, it is just a matter of time before we are no longer the leading global superpower.

According to a very shocking study that was released in 2024, “China dominates the US in 57 of 64 critical technologies, up from just three in 2007″…

A comprehensive, 20-year study released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in 2024 calculated that China dominates the US in 57 of 64 critical technologies, up from just three in 2007.

The US, which led in a whopping 60 sectors in 2007, now leads in just seven.

ASPI based its rankings on cumulative innovative and high-impact research published and patented by national universities, labs, companies and state agencies.

Wow.

We were soundly defeating China in 2007, but now the Chinese have pulled way ahead of us.

During a recent Senate hearing, one of President Trump’s nominees openly admitted that China has become “the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security”…

In responses to questions submitted ahead of a nomination hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Elbridge Colby, a security analyst and President Donald Trump’s nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy, gave a warning about the trajectory of U.S.-China relations.

“I agree that China is ‘the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security,'” Colby said, citing the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy.

So what are we going to do if China invades Taiwan?

It has always been assumed that the U.S. would defend Taiwan, but it is not likely that we would win such a conflict.

China is much, much closer to Taiwan than the United States is.  If a war over Taiwan erupts, that would give the Chinese a major advantage.

Hopefully China will not decide to pull the trigger on an invasion any time soon, but Chinese officials continue to make ominous statements about Taiwan.  Here is just one recent example…

Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Chinese defense ministry, said Sunday that U.S. arms shipments would not stop the inevitable end of “Taiwan independence.”

“The more rampant ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists become, the tighter the noose around their necks and the sharper the sword hanging over their heads will be,” he said in remarks delivered during the ongoing annual legislative session of China’s rubber-stamp congress.

Over the past couple of years, the Chinese have been conducting military exercises around Taiwan over and over again.

Admiral Samuel Paparo has accurately pointed out that these Chinese military exercises are actually rehearsals for an invasion…

“Their [China’s] aggressive maneuver[s] around Taiwan right now are not exercises as they call them. They are rehearsals. They are rehearsals for the forced unification of Taiwan to the mainland.

“Beijing’s military build-up, their gray-zone operations, their military coercion against Taiwan, grow more concerning every day. The People’s Liberation Army’s increasingly complex, multi-domain operations demonstrate clear intent and improving capability.”

Of course Taiwan is just one of the flashpoints that could cause a war between the U.S. and China to erupt.

The Panama Canal is another one.

Our relations with China have been rapidly deteriorating for a long time, and this should deeply trouble all of us.

As I write this, new tariffs have already been imposed on both sides as our ongoing trade war with China continues to escalate.

And throughout human history we have seen many trade wars eventually evolve into shooting wars.

The Chinese are preparing for war because they can see where things are heading.

But most Americans are not concerned about the possibility of war with China at all, and I believe that is a tragic mistake.

Michael’s blockbuster entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

What do think Iran is going to do once we start bombing their nuclear facilities?  They know that it is coming, and they have been preparing to respond.  When Iranian missiles are raining down on Israeli targets and U.S. military bases throughout the Middle East, there will be no turning back.  We will officially be at war with Iran.  Needless to say, a war with Iran would be far different from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Iranians have the 8th largest military on the entire planet, and they are armed to the teeth with highly advanced missiles.  It would take a “shock and awe” campaign that is unlike anything we have ever seen before to subdue Iran, and full-blown regime change would probably require an invasion.

Most people simply do not realize how close we are to an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East.  On Friday, President Trump revealed that he has issued a very chilling ultimatum to the Iranians…

President Donald Trump on Friday revealed that he has sent a letter to Iran warning that it can either “make a deal” with Washington, D.C., on its nuclear program or face the U.S. “militarily.”

“I said, I hope you’re going to negotiate, because it’s going to be a lot better for Iran,” Trump told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria,” in reference to a letter he sent to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“There are two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal,” he said. “I would prefer to make a deal, because I’m not looking to hurt Iran.”

Subsequently, President Trump informed reporters that were gathered in the Oval Office that “something’s going to happen” with Iran “very, very soon”…

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that something related to Iran is “going to happen very soon”.

“We have a situation with Iran that something’s going to happen very soon, very, very soon. You’ll be talking about that pretty soon, I guess,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.

“And hopefully we can have a peace deal,” he added. “You know, I’m not speaking out of strength or weakness. I’m just saying I’d rather see a peace deal than the other [option], but the other will solve the problem.”

I know that President Trump would prefer to make a peace deal with the Iranians.

But the Iranians are already ruling out any sort of a deal…

The letter appeared to have been addressed to Iran’s supreme leader, the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has recently opposed negotiations with the US so long as economic sanctions are in force.

The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, responded by saying: “We will not enter any direct negotiations with the US so long as they continue their maximum pressure policy and their threats.”

And there are rumors on social media that the Iranians are threatening to destroy all U.S. bases in the region if they get attacked…

Iran has issued a final warning to the US and Israel through Saudi Arabia.

An attack on Iran is tantamount to the destruction of all US bases in the region and the destruction of all Israeli nuclear facilities.

This is a crisis that should have been dealt with during the Biden administration.

At this point, the Iranian nuclear program has advanced to a very alarming stage…

Rafael Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency director, told the IAEA board this week that Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% had reached 275kg. He said: “Iran is the only country that enriches uranium to this level without having nuclear weapons.”

That quote stunned me.

Nobody can deny what the Iranians are attempting to do.

If they stay on the path that they are on, it won’t be too long before they are able to produce multiple nuclear weapons…

The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has repeatedly warned in recent months that Iran is pushing forward in its development of near-nuclear-grade uranium and now possesses enough uranium, if further enriched, to develop five nuclear weapons.

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have both repeatedly stated that Iran will never be allowed to produce a nuclear weapon.

And since Iran is not willing to make a deal with Trump, it is only a matter of time before the bombing of Iran begins.

Needless to say, all hell will break loose once that happens.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is no longer providing intelligence to Ukraine, and President Trump has suspended all shipments of military aid in an attempt to force the Ukrainians to the negotiating table.  When he was asked about this during an interview that aired on Sunday, he suggested that Ukraine “may not survive anyway”…

President Trump suggested that Ukraine might not be able to survive against Russia even if the US forged ahead with full-blown support for its fight.

Trump’s remarks came while defending his decision to draw down support to Ukraine in the face of Polish President Andrzej Duda’s and others’ concerns that Europe lacks the might to prop up Kyiv without the US.

“Well, it may not survive anyway,” Trump told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in an interview that aired Sunday.

The Russians already had the upper hand, and now their troops are surging forward.

On Friday, it was being reported that three-quarters of the Ukrainian force in Kursk is “almost entirely surrounded”…

The fuse has been burning slowly, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s risky August invasion of Russia’s Kursk region is about to blow up in his face in spectacular fashion — as thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are suddenly in imminent peril of being encircled, according to open source intelligence analysts. The crisis comes as Zelensky is under increasing US pressure to reach a negotiated end to the war — and a loss of captured Russian territory promises to make his already-deteriorated bargaining position even weaker.

According to DeepStateMAP.live, an interactive map of the war run by Ukrainian military bloggers, their country’s forces in Kursk are nearly cleaved into two, with roughly three-quarters of Ukraine’s forces in Russia almost entirely surrounded on Friday. Their last connection between the two forces was a kilometer long and under 500 meters wide at its thinnest section.

It isn’t just Ukrainian soldiers that are in danger of being cut off in Kursk.

There are apparently lots of western mercenaries there too, and at this moment they are being pounded into oblivion.

On Sunday, the Russians captured several more settlements…

Russia’s defense ministry on Sunday said troops took back the settlements of Malaya Loknya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Kositsa from Ukrainian forces.

“The lid of the smoking caldron is practically closed,” Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president who is now the deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, said on Sunday of Russian advances in Kursk. “The offensive continues. Carry on!”

Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers warn Kyiv’s hold on the region is more tenuous than ever, with Russian troops backed by North Korean forces launching incessant attacks.

Once the Russians have cleared out Kursk, they may use it as a launching pad to initiate an offensive in the direction of Kyiv.

So we will want to watch this area of the front very closely.

The Ukrainians have been caught off guard by how aggressive the Russians have been in recent days.  In one operation, Russian special forces actually “walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear”…

Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers reported, as Moscow claimed fresh gains in its push to recapture parts of the border province that Kyiv seized in a shock offensive.

Many of our European allies are very frustrated with President Trump’s efforts to force Ukraine to the negotiating table because those efforts are hurting the Ukrainians on the battlefield.

But the truth is that President Trump is also trying to force Russia to the negotiating table…

I do not believe that threatening Russia is the correct approach.

In fact, I believe that if President Trump continues to threaten Russia it will backfire severely.

We have entered such a dangerous chapter of human history.  As Steve Bannon has astutely observed, we are “already deep into the kinetic part of the third World War”…

Bannon went on to explain that the casualties amassed in the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts have already exceeded the total deaths in the first phase of World War II, including the invasion of Poland, the fall of France and the Blitz over England.

“The world’s on the brink. We’re already deep into the kinetic part of the third World War,” Bannon asserted.

I really wish that more people understood this.

Bannon says that some portions of Ukraine “look like Dresden in 1945”, and he is 100 percent correct about that…

“Parts of Ukraine look like Dresden in 1945. You’re in a kinetic war right now that’s every bit as dangerous and every bit as brutal, if not more brutal, than the opening phase of World War 2,” he added.

Hundreds of thousands of Russians are already dead.

More than a million Ukrainians are already dead.

In the Middle East, we have already seen a tremendous amount of death and destruction, and now a final showdown with Iran is looming.

What will it take for people to finally wake up?

World War 3 is here, and once the bombing of Iran begins that will ramp things up to an entirely new level.

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Things are not always as they seem, and I am convinced that the drama that we witnessed at the White House on Friday is a perfect example.  Right now, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being endlessly ridiculed by the conservative media in the United States.  One of the words that is being used to describe Zelenskyy is “stupid”, but the truth is that Zelenskyy is not stupid at all.  I strongly disagree with Zelenskyy on a lot of things, but I also recognize that he is an incredibly cunning individual.  He has used the war with Russia to become one of the most famous celebrities on the entire planet.  Much of the global population is absolutely in love with him, and no matter what Zelenskyy does they just keep showering him and his nation with more cash.

But Donald Trump recognizes exactly what Zelenskyy is, and that presents a huge problem for Zelenskyy.

The U.S. has given more cash and military equipment to Ukraine than anyone else by a wide margin.

In fact, the U.S. was feverishly arming Ukraine even before the war began.

A lot of people do not realize this.

In the early days of the Biden administration, Zelenskyy’s goal was to take the DPR and the LPR.  That is why there were 70,000 Ukrainian troops massed along the borders of the DPR and the LPR in February 2022.  Apparently Biden had given Zelenskyy a green light to go in.

But now we are in 2025, and there is an administration in the White House that wants to bring peace to the region.

Sadly, Zelenskyy does not want peace.

I will explain why below.

Zelenskyy is completely and utterly opposed to a peace agreement negotiated by Trump, and the argument that we witnessed in the Oval Office on Friday ensured that there will not be one any time soon.

Following that argument, several prominent Republican lawmakers suggested that it might be time for Zelenskyy to resign…

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested Sunday that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may need to resign to salvage the nascent Ukraine-Russia peace process, adding his voice to a growing debate sparked by the contentious Oval Office meeting between Zelenskyy with President Donald Trump last week.

“Something has to change,” Johnson told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Either he needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do that.”

Johnson’s comments align with those of other officials like Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who suggested that Zelenskyy step aside in remarks to reporters after the Friday meeting.

This just shows that they don’t understand Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy does not intend to do what is right for Ukraine.

If he intended to do what is right for Ukraine, he would have signed the agreement that had been negotiated with the Russians shortly after the war began in 2022.

Now more than a million Ukrainians are dead, and more are being slaughtered every day.

But for Zelenskyy, this war has been the best thing that has ever happened.

It has made him unbelievably famous, and he is showered with love and praise virtually wherever he travels all over the world.

As long as the war continues, he gets to continue to enjoy the ride.

Unfortunately for Zelenskyy, Ukraine is running low on manpower and is steadily losing ground to the Russians.

So at this point Zelenskyy basically has three options.

#1 He can agree to a ceasefire which would mean giving the Russians essentially everything that they want.  If he did that, he would be seen as a loser that lost the war to the Russians, and history would not treat him kindly.  And as I noted above, it would bring an end to all the fame and glory that he has been enjoying.

#2 He can keep the status quo going.  Of course if he does this, Ukraine will definitely lose the war.  The Ukrainian front lines are on the verge of collapse, and the Russians are slowly but surely moving forward.

#3 He can shake things up and try to do something to alter the outcome of the war.  More money from western nations will not be enough.  What Zelenskyy really needs is lots of western troops.

I believe that Zelenskyy has chosen option number three.

But once Donald Trump won the election, getting U.S. troops to Ukraine was out of the question.

So he pivoted and started focusing on European troops as his target.

At a conference in Munich last month, Zelenskyy boldly declared that it was time to create an “armed forces of Europe”…

“I really believe that the time has come that the armed forces of Europe must be created,” Volodymyr Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month.

“Let’s be honest, now we can’t rule out that America might say ‘no’ to Europe on issues that might threaten it.”

Unfortunately for Zelenskyy, getting European nations to introduce ground troops into the conflict was not going to be easy.

So he was going to have to pull off some sort of a really big stunt.

That is where Trump comes in.

Zelenskyy understands that European leaders hate Trump with a passion.

Could it be possible that Zelenskyy was hoping to use their “Trump derangement syndrome” for his purposes?

In a choice between Zelenskyy and Trump, European leaders are always going to choose to side with Zelenskyy.

If a big enough spectacle could be created, it would have the potential to push European leaders over the edge emotionally.

And I think that may have been what Zelenskyy was trying to do.

The Ukrainians insisted that Zelenskyy must be allowed to come to the White House to sign a “minerals deal” with Trump.

But of course it now appears that Zelenskyy never had any intention of actually signing the deal.

Once he arrived at the White House, Zelenskyy started making all sorts of ridiculous demands…

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is now revealing what he calls “riduclous” requests by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky before the fiery exchange Friday with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Lutnick said: “Forty-five minutes before the meltdown, the fact was Zelensky never stopped asking for, you know, ‘I will give no concessions, they’ve got to leave my land, I want reparations of $300 billion, and I want the United States to give me security guarantees,’ while they’re at war with Russia.

“And that’s why the president called it World War III. You’re gambling with World War III.

Zelenskyy knew that the Trump administration was not going to agree to such absurd requests.

And then once Zelenskyy and Trump sat down together, there was one provocation after another.  The following was posted on Twitter by Philip Melanchthon Wegmann…

The Oval Office blowup was not sudden. It simmered from the start, which is evident from the transcript.

— Zelensky immediately brought up a US security guarantee; Trump opposes this but dropped it initially.

— Zelensky repeatedly contradicted claims that Europe gave a lot but less than the U.S. Trump moved on.

— Trump expressed sympathy for all parents of the war dead; Zelensky pushed back that the Russians invaded.

— After Trump repeated the U.S. policy of ceasefire first and security questions second, Zelensky gave a rebuttal, saying this framework “will not work.”

Trump finally blew up at the 43-minute mark after Zelensky:

A) Suggested twice that the US would soon come under threat from Russia in “the future.”

B) Questioned whether the entire diplomatic effort with Russia was even possible and contradicted the VP–“What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?”

Regardless of how you feel about the parties involved, per the transcript, it seems clear that the White House was not looking to pick a fight and that Zelensky was not ready to accept the already expressed U.S. position.

So many pundits are boldly declaring that Zelenskyy made a “mistake”, but when you step back and look at the bigger picture it doesn’t look like much of a “mistake” at all.

Could it be possible that this was Zelenskyy’s plan the entire time?

Interestingly, we are being told that Susan Rice, Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland and Alexander Vindman may have had a hand in how this meeting played out…

Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House. It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did — that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up. Even though he didn’t, and even though Zelensky’s actions horrified many normal Americans, the Obama team went on the airwaves to falsely characterize what happened.

If Zelenskyy was hoping that European leaders would be so horrified that they would come rushing into his arms, then he certainly got his wish.  On Sunday, leaders from all over Europe gathered for an “emergency summit” in London…

Leaders from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Canada, Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Romania were at the summit. The Turkish foreign minister, NATO secretary-general and the presidents of the European Commission and European Council were also in attendance.

They aren’t committing themselves to directly entering the war quite yet.

But they are a whole lot closer than they were a few days ago.

And that should deeply alarm all of us, because an apocalyptic war with Russia is one of the “three wars of the apocalypse” that I keep talking about.

We live in such perilous times, and there is far more going on behind the scenes than the general public is being told.

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The Sunni radicals that have taken over Syria are demanding that all Israeli forces must leave Syrian territory.  On the other side, the IDF is hammering military targets in southern Syria with a blistering wave of airstrikes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that any military forces aligned with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will not be allowed south of Damascus.  Do you understand what this means?  It means that Damascus is now right on the front lines of a conflict between Israel and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that is rapidly heating up.  If all-out war erupts, Damascus is likely to be absolutely devastated.

Of course many prominent buildings in Damascus have already been turned into piles of rubble, but now it appears that things could be about to go to the next level.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has confirmed that IDF airstrikes are being conducted in southern Syria, and he is warning that any attempt by forces aligned with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to enter the security zone in southern Syria “will be met with fire”…

Israel confirmed it is conducting strikes in southern Syria, as the new Syrian government calls for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory.

“We will not allow southern Syria to become southern Lebanon,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said regarding the strikes. “Any attempt by the Syrian regime forces and the country’s terrorist organizations to establish themselves in the security zone in southern Syria will be met with fire.”

Katz said the Israeli Air Force is “now attacking strongly in southern Syria as part of the new policy we have defined of pacifying southern Syria.”

So just how large is the security zone in southern Syria?

According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no Syrian military forces will be allowed to “enter the area south of Damascus”…

In a speech to Israeli military cadets on Sunday, Netanyahu said that Israel would not allow the forces of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – the Islamist group that led the overthrow of Assad – nor the new Syrian army that is being formed to “enter the area south of Damascus”.

“We demand the complete demilitarisation of southern Syria in the provinces of Quneitra, Deraa and Suweida from the forces of the new regime,” he added. “Likewise, we will not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in southern Syria.”

He also said that Israeli forces would remain indefinitely inside the Syrian territory that they have seized since Assad’s fall last December – which would be a shift in Israeli strategy.

Wow.

To call this “a shift in Israeli strategy” is a major understatement.

The forces of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will be allowed to control Damascus, but they will not be allowed to come any farther than that.

Needless to say, the leaders of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are not too keen on that idea.

To me, it appears that a showdown is inevitable.

Of course the truth is that war has already begun.  As Zero Hedge has noted, the IDF has been pummeling targets inside Syria for months…

Since that early December regime change, Israel has bombed sites all across Syria – in literally hundreds of operations – largely targeting former Syrian Army bases, weapons storehouses, parked aircraft, and chemical weapons production sites.

Given that Syria had for over half-a-century been Israel’s number one Iran-aligned foe, and long had the best anti-air defenses in the region, Israel has sought to make sure it can never return to that status again.

Meanwhile, the Egyptians have been mobilizing forces in the Sinai Peninsula, and one Israeli official is expressing concern that this could potentially become an “eighth front” in the war…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often spoken about the seven-front war that Israel has been fighting since the Hamas massacre and kidnappings on October 7th, 2023.

Recently, however, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter expressed concern about a potential eighth front in the war: a military buildup by the Egyptian military in the Sinai Peninsula.

Talk of moving the Palestinians out of Gaza is the primary reason why the Egyptians are freaking out.

And President Trump poured more fuel on that fire this week by posting an AI-generated video of what “Trump Gaza” might look like…

On top of everything else, it appears that the bombing of Iran is likely to happen sooner rather than later.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Iran has sharply increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in recent weeks”…

Iran has sharply increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in recent weeks, according to a confidential United Nations report, as Tehran amasses a critical raw material for atomic weapons.

The increase in Iran’s holdings of uranium enriched to 60%, or nearly weapons grade, would be enough to produce six nuclear weapons.

Iran is now producing enough fissile material in a month for one nuclear weapon, according to the report, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

This is a bombshell.

It is put up or shut up time for President Trump and the Israeli government.

We have been told over and over again that they will never allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.

And the Iranians have absolutely no intention of backing down.

So either President Trump and the Israeli government will now have to accept a nuclear Iran, or they will have to attack.

I have a feeling that we will see option number two in the not too distant future.

The Iranians apparently think so as well, because they are on alert for a major attack “every night”…

“They [Iranian authorities] are just waiting for the attack and are anticipating it every night and everything has been on high alert – even in sites that no one knows about,” one source told The Telegraph.

“Work to fortify nuclear sites has been ongoing for years but it has intensified over the past year, particularly since Israel launched the first attack,” he added.

“Recent developments, including Donald Trump’s comments and reports about potential plans from his administration to strike Iran, have further intensified activities.”

As I have repeatedly stated, most of the facilities where Iran’s nuclear program is being developed are deep underground.

It will take extremely powerful weapons to take those facilities out.

Once a bombing campaign begins, the situation in the Middle East will go completely nuts.

Interestingly, this is all happening as a very unusual parade of 7 planets is on display in the night sky.

And next month there will be a blood moon eclipse on Purim.

So many extremely strange things have been happening in recent months, and it all started with the Great American Eclipse of 2024.

We really are living in apocalyptic times.

Unfortunately, most of the population doesn’t seem to have figured that out yet.

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Have you noticed that there has been a very alarming rise in volcanic activity in recent months?  According to Volcano Discovery, 38 volcanoes around the globe have recently erupted, and dozens more are showing signs of either unrest or minor activity.  In all my years, I have never seen anything quite like this, and I am entirely convinced that seismic activity will only increase during the months ahead.  Here in the United States, I am watching Mt. Rainier very closely, and Yellowstone is a threat that is constantly hanging over our heads.  But scientists are warning that Mount Spurr could actually be the next volcano to erupt inside U.S. territory…

Scientists have warned that a massive volcano in Alaska has a 50-50 chance erupting in the near future.

The 11,000-foot-tall Mount Spurr sits 77 miles from Anchorage— the state’s largest city which is home to nearly 300,000 people.

Over the last 10 months, it has been experiencing an unusually high amount of small earthquakes.

A full-blown eruption of Mount Spurr would be spectacular, but not much damage would occur because that area of Alaska is very lightly populated.

On the other hand, a full-blown eruption of Mount Rainier would have the potential to be cataclysmic, and we are being told that “it is only a matter of time” before it happens…

Experts say it is only a matter of time until Mount Rainier, one of the most dangerous volcanos in the US, unleashes itself upon the Pacific Northwest.

This huge, active stratovolcano looms over nearly 90,000 people living in cities such as Seattle, Tacoma, and Yakima in Washington as well as Portland, Oregon.

Most people living in Seattle and Tacoma have no idea how much danger they are in.

But those that have closely studied Mount Rainier certainly understand…

‘Mount Rainier keeps me up at night because it poses such a great threat to the surrounding communities,’ Jess Phoenix, a volcanologist and ambassador for the Union of Concerned Scientists previously said during an appearance on CNN.

When this volcano eventually blows, it won’t be lava flows or choking clouds of ash that threaten surrounding cities, but lahars: violent, fast-moving mudflows that can tear across entire communities in a matter of minutes.

For a moment, I would like for you to imagine a giant wall of super-heated mud rushing at you at 50 miles per hour.

For those that are located in the direct path, there will be little hope of escape.

But evacuation drills are regularly held anyway.  In fact, on March 21st of last year local communities conducted “the world’s largest lahar evacuation drill”…

On March 21, 2024, more than 45,000 students in communities south of Seattle and west of Mount Rainier participated in the world’s largest lahar evacuation drill. Although the Regional Lahar Evacuation Drill is held every two years, this year’s was the largest ever. The East Pierce Interlocal Coalition (EPIC) Emergency Management Team coordinates the drill, with support from local government officials, school districts, first responders, emergency managers, volunteers, and state and federal agencies, such as the U.S. Geological Survey. Students from Puyallup, Sumner-Bonney Lake, Orting, White River and Carbonado, Washington participated in the event.

Because Mount Rainier is so close to highly populated areas, there won’t be much time to warn local residents.

The super-heated mud will move incredibly fast, and it will show no mercy.

Today, much of Tacoma and much of South Seattle are actually built on “100-foot-thick ancient mudflows from eruptions of Mount Rainier”…

‘Tacoma and South Seattle are built on 100-foot-thick ancient mudflows from eruptions of Mount Rainier,’ Phoenix said. This is a strong indication that these populous cities lie within the path of potential lahars generated by a future eruption.

Of course the Pacific Northwest is also facing the threat of a giant tsunami that is produced as a result of a massive rupture along the Cascadia Subduction Zone…

Scientists are sounding the alarm after a series of earthquakes rocked the West Coast last week, warning a major seismic event is ‘inevitable.’

Earthquakes trigger tsunamis by causing the ocean floor to rise or fall, pushing water above to form a massive wave.

But it isn’t just California at risk, Washington sits along the Cascadia Subduction Zone that is capable of a ‘megaquake’, they said.

One scientist that has studied the Cascadia Subduction Zone very closely is warning that a large enough earthquake could potentially “generate tsunami waves up to 80 feet tall”…

Harold Tobin, a co-author of the paper and the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, said that although the data will help fine-tune projections, it doesn’t change a tough-to-swallow reality of living in the Pacific Northwest.

“We have the potential for earthquakes and tsunamis as large as the biggest ones we’ve experienced on the planet,” said Tobin, who is also a University of Washington professor. “Cascadia seems capable of generating a magnitude 9 or a little smaller or a little bigger.”

A quake that powerful could cause shaking that lasts about five minutes and generate tsunami waves up to 80 feet tall. It would damage well over half a million buildings, according to emergency planning documents.

Can you imagine what that would look like?

We are talking about a natural disaster that would be absolutely unparalleled in our history.

Of course Yellowstone has the potential to produce a disaster that would be even larger than that.

If a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano were to occur, everything within 50 miles “would be all but annihilated”, virtually the entire country would be covered in thick ash, and the whole world would experience a volcanic winter for an extended period of time…

While the blast would kill thousands and send rivers of molten lava pouring up to 40 miles (64km) from the eruption site, this would only be the start of the devastation.

Experts predict that every town in a 50-mile (80km) radius would be all but annihilated by the same pyroclastic flows that created the petrified figures of Pompeii.

Meanwhile, the United States would be blanketed in a thick layer of choking ash as the world plunges into a volcanic winter which could last for years.

A volcanic winter caused by a full-blown eruption of Yellowstone would cause a dramatic decline in global temperatures, and that would make it extremely difficult to grow much of anything…

Professor Mather says that some estimates suggest global cooling of around 5°C (9°F) for several years with temperatures potentially falling up to 10°C (18°F) in the first year.

A recent pre-print study conducted by the Arctic University of Norway suggests that the maximum cooling a volcanic event could produce is 12°C (21.6°F).

If that were the case, countries around the world could experience exceptionally cold winters and could face widespread crop shortages as harvests failed.

Outside of the United States, the Phlegraean Fields are being rocked by hundreds of earthquakes…

Seismologists, volcanologists, and officials from Naples are racing against the clock as they implement school closures, set up emergency shelters, and plan evacuation routes for residents living within the region’s Campi Flegiri area, also known as the Phlegraean Fields, after over 600 earthquakes have been recorded since Saturday, with magnitudes ranging from M2.0 to M3.9; the most and the strongest the region has seen in 40 years.

According to data from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the town of Pozzuoli is the nearest populated area closest to the epicenter of the earthquake swarm, prompting officials to close schools there until further notice.

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to go to the town of Pozzuoli, and I also had the opportunity to visit the ruins of Pompeii.

We have seen cataclysmic disasters in this region before, and I will be carefully monitoring future developments.

Meanwhile, Santorini has recently been shaken by more than 20,000 earthquakes…

Professor Efthymios Lekkas, head of the state-run Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, warned on Sunday that seismic activity on Santorini is expected to continue for an extended period.

“It will be a prolonged sequence lasting several weeks, possibly even a few months. This type of seismic activity does not subside easily,” he stated in an interview with public broadcaster ERTNews.

Lekkas further explained that the total number of tremors has already exceeded 20,000 earthquakes.

We haven’t seen this much shaking in southern Europe in a long, long time.

Is all of this shaking leading up to something really big?

Lastly, I can’t do an article like this and leave Mount Fuji out.

It is relatively quiet for now, but the last time it erupted it left a thick layer of ash in central Tokyo…

The 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji last erupted in 1707. At the time, eruptions continued for 16 days, leaving a layer of volcanic ash about 4 cm thick in locations in current-day central Tokyo, according to historical records.

The next time Mount Fuji erupts, Tokyo will not be so fortunate.

As I have detailed in my books, we live at a time when seismic activity is on the rise.

What we have experienced so far is just the tip of the iceberg.

There will be one apocalyptic event after another during the years ahead, and I hope that you are preparing accordingly.

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All of a sudden, sending European ground troops into Ukraine has become a very hot topic.  In fact, the British are openly discussing the possibility of doing this quite soon.  Of course the Russians have already warned that if the British send ground troops into Ukraine, military targets inside the UK will become legitimate targets.  Needless to say, the moment the Russians start conducting military strikes inside the UK, the U.S. would be forced to intervene and we would be right on the brink of nuclear war.

The British must not do this.

But they are so determined to demonstrate which side that they support in the feud between President Trump and “President Z” that they might do it anyway.

Global events are moving so rapidly that it is really difficult to keep up with everything that is happening.  Early on Wednesday, “President Z” accused President Trump of living in a “disinformation space” during a discussion with reporters…

“Unfortunately, President Trump, I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us, unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky told reporters early Wednesday.

“President Z” went on to explain why Trump is supposedly wrong about a number of things.

Did he not understand how Trump would react?

If you want to get Trump on your side, you don’t say bad things about Trump.

Anyone that has been paying any attention for the past eight years should know this by now.

President Trump responded by absolutely shredding “President Z” on Truth Social…

Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation. On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is “MISSING.” He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only “TRUMP,” and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…..

This single social media post immediately caused a firestorm of controversy to erupt all over the globe.

And I don’t think that the damage that has been done will be easily repaired.

“President Z” can forget about having President Trump in his corner from this point forward.  Vice-President Vance just told the press that President Z has chosen “an atrocious way to deal with this administration”…

‘The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media … everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,’ said Vance during an exclusive interview in his West Wing office.

And many of President Trump’s most ardent supporters on social media are gleefully pointing out some of the ways that “President Z” has abused human rights over the past several years.  For example, the following was posted by the DC_Draino account on Twitter…

He’s in year 6 of his 5 year term

Declared martial law Feb 2022 and has banned elections since then

Banned 11 political parties

Passed law in 2022 to censor journalists and combined all news into 1 gov’t station

Journalists investigating his corruption get conscripted and thrown on the front lines to die

Even Saddam Hussein held elections!

On the other side, the corporate media in the United States has responded extremely negatively to Trump’s call for an election in Ukraine because they are concerned that “President Z” could be voted out of office…

Much more alarming is how the Europeans are responding to Trump’s comments.

I think that the British government hates Trump so much that they might be willing to deploy ground troops to Ukraine just to spite him.

And the British media is eagerly rallying public support for such a move.  For example, the following comes from a BBC article that was just published entitled “British Army ‘absolutely ready’ if ordered to deploy to Ukraine”…

The British Army has said it is ready to deploy to Ukraine if requested by the government.

This week, 2,500 UK troops from the Army’s high readiness force, the First Division, have been taking part in a large Nato exercise in Romania – on a training area just 16 miles (25km) from the border with Ukraine.

Although mobile phones have been banned on the exercise, most soldiers are aware that there are now initial discussions to send troops to Ukraine itself.

Wow.

And NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander just wrote an article for the Daily Mail in which he boldly declared that it was time for the UK to “make plans for conscription” because “Trump has left us no other choice”…

NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Sir Richard Shirreff, writing in the Daily Mail, said: “Though many will find it unthinkable, we must be prepared to call up our reservists – and make plans for conscription. Trump has left us no other choice.”

I am speechless.

So because Trump wants peace, the British have to hurry up and escalate the war so that peace won’t be possible?

What kind of madness is this?

What do you think will happen if British troops really do get deployed to Ukraine?

It won’t be pretty, I can tell you that.

In addition to hitting British military targets inside Ukraine, the Russians have already said that they will hit British military targets outside Ukraine.

And then there will be full-blown war between Russia and a member of NATO.

At that point it would be impossible for the U.S. to stay out of the conflict and we would literally be on the verge of nuclear war.

But at this point the British are desperate, because they are absolutely determined to keep the Ukrainians from losing.  The Russians have conquered quite a bit more territory within the past ten days, and unless western troops intervene Ukraine’s front lines will continue to crumble…

While the eyes of the world are glued on the US-Russia Peace Process led by Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin, the war follows unabated with the same prospects as before: Russian Federation forces steamrolling the Ukrainian defenders.

In the last 10 days, a cursory search shows that Russia has conquered the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Dachnoye, Dzerzhinsk, Yasenovoye, Vodyanoye Vtoroye, Zelenoye Pole, Berezovka, Figolevka, Yampolovka and Sverdlikovo.

Everyone just needs to calm down.

But every time “President Z” badmouths our president, Trump is going to hit back even harder.

And that will just give the Europeans more motivation to consider sending in ground forces.

Of course that is exactly what “President Z” has been wanting all this time.  He has been searching for a way to get European troops to intervene.  So if he realizes that badmouthing Trump will help him achieve that goal, he may just throw all restraint to the wind and really start going for it.

In any event, we are now much closer to nuclear war, and that is certainly not good news for any of us.

Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.