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Could It Be Possible That This Was Zelenskyy’s Plan After All?

March 2, 2025 by Michael

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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Is The Stage Being Set For Damascus To Be Utterly Destroyed And Turned Into A Heap Of Ruins?

February 26, 2025February 26, 2025 by Michael

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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38 Volcanoes Have Recently Erupted, And Here Are 3 More Inside U.S. Territory That Everyone Should Be Watching Very Carefully

February 23, 2025February 23, 2025 by Michael

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.

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.

This Is Why The Bitter Feud Between President Trump And “President Z” Has Just Brought Us Even Closer To Nuclear War

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025 by Michael

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.

14 Shocking Facts About The Student Loan Debt Bubble And The Great College Education Scam

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 by Michael

More than 18 million students are enrolled at over 5,800 colleges and universities in the United States. On average, it costs more than $100,000 to attend a college or a university in the U.S. for four years. It has been estimated that a college eduction is now over 400 percent more expensive than it was 40 years ago. But even though our institutions of higher learning are sucking so much money out of our young people, it never seems to be enough, and so they are constantly begging for more money from the federal government. If you can believe it, the U.S. government has been providing more than 170 billion dollars a year to postsecondary education programs. Much of this funding comes in the form of research grants, student aid, and government contracts. But what are we getting for all of this money? The truth is that we are getting an entire generation that has had their heads filled with leftist propaganda.

We tell our kids over and over again that a “higher education” is the key to getting a good job and living the American Dream. They have been told not to worry about how much it costs and that there is plenty of financial aid (mostly made up of loans) available. Now our economy is facing the biggest student loan debt bubble in the history of the world, and when our new college graduates enter the “real world” they are finding out that the good jobs they were promised are very few and far between.

The system relies on the fact that most of us are going to believe that a college education is the key to a good future and that there is plenty of “financial aid” out there for everyone that wants to go to college.

Unfortunately, high school students are never told that not even bankruptcy can get you out of student loan debt. It will stay with you forever until you finally pay it off.

Today, each new crop of optimistic college graduates quickly discovers that there are simply not nearly enough jobs for all of them. Thousands upon thousands of them end up waiting tables or stocking the shelves at retail stores. Many of them end up deeply bitter as they find themselves barely able to survive and yet saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt that nobody ever warned them about.

Sadly, the quality of the education that most of these college students is receiving is a complete and total joke.

Take it from someone that has graduated from a couple of very highly respected institutions. I have an undergraduate degree, a law degree and another degree on top of that, so I know what I am talking about. Higher education in America has become so dumbed-down that the family dog could literally pass most college courses.

It is an absolute joke. The vast majority of college students in America spend two to four hours a day in the classroom and maybe an hour or two outside the classroom studying. The remainder of the time, these “students” are out drinking beer, partying, chasing after sex partners, going to sporting events, playing video games, hanging out with friends, chatting on Facebook or getting into trouble. It has been said that college is the most fun that most people will ever have in their entire lives, and that is no exaggeration. It is basically one huge party.

Of the little “education” that actually does go on, much of it is so saturated with leftist propaganda that it makes the whole process virtually worthless. Most parents would be absolutely shocked if they could actually see the kind of indoctrination that goes on inside U.S. college classrooms today.

A college education can be worth it for those in fields that are highly technical or highly specialized, but for nearly everyone else it is just one giant money-making scam.

Oh, but you parents please keep breaking your backs to put money into the college funds of your children so that they can be spoon-fed leftist propaganda all day and party like wild animals all night for four years.

It really is a huge scam. I was there. I saw it with my own eyes.

But if you will not believe me, perhaps you will believe some cold, hard statistics. The following are 14 shocking facts about the student loan debt bubble and the great college education scam…

#1 One out of every four Americans under the age of 40 has outstanding student loan debt.

#2 Americans now owe 1.773 trillion dollars on their student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on their credit cards.

#3 The average federal student loan debt balance has now risen to $38,375.

#4 4.86 percent of all federal student loan dollars were in default as of the fourth quarter of 2024.

#5 A typical high school student spends about 30 hours in the classroom each week, but a typical college student spends between 12 and 16 hours in the classroom each week.

#6 One study found that 35 percent of U.S. college students spend 5 hours or less studying outside of the classroom each week.

#7 That same study found that 50 percent of U.S. college students have never taken a class that required them to write more than 20 pages, and 32 percent of U.S. college students have never taken a class that required them to read more than 40 pages in a week.

#8 Only 49 percent of full-time college students receive a bachelor’s degree within four years.

#9 In May 2024, the unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree recipients between the ages of 20 to 29 was over 12 percent.

#10 The median starting salary for a college graduate is approximately $52,000 a year.

#11 The average starting salary for an electrician is approximately $54,000 a year.

#12 Today, a whopping 42.7 million Americans have outstanding student loan debt.

#13 Just 29 percent of all young college graduates in the U.S. that have outstanding student loans say that they are living comfortably.

#14 Nearly a third of all college graduates end up moving back home with their parents once their educations have been completed.

What in the world has happened to our system of higher education?

At this stage, it is a complete and utter disaster.

Much of the “real learning” that is taking place on college campuses actually occurs in graduate programs.

Sadly, many of these graduate programs are now dominated by foreigners.

In fact, it has been estimated that about half of all the graduate science students enrolled at colleges and universities in the United States are now foreigners.

Something is very, very wrong.

But should we be surprised that the quality of education at our colleges and universities has gone down so much when the quality of education at every level leading up to college has also been declining?

In some areas of the country, large numbers of students that can barely read are being allowed to graduate from high school.

A population that does not read is much easier for the elite to control. According to a survey that was conducted in 2023, 46 percent of Americans had not even read a single book within the past year.

If you want to be an educated person, get in the habit of reading books. If you don’t know where to get started, I would recommend checking out my latest offering.

Our society spends more on education than any other society in the history of the world has.

But our population is certainly not getting any smarter.

Our system of higher education is all about making as much money as possible, and countless lives are being wrecked in the process.

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.

12 Simple Things That You Can Start Doing Right Now To Become More Independent Of The System

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 by Michael

The more dependent you are, the less free you are. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about how our system is designed to beat us down and make us weak and dependent, because when we are weak and dependent we are easier to control. Most of us don’t even realize why the majority of the population is so sick, exhausted, depressed and confused much of the time. Our bodies, our minds and our spirits are constantly being poisoned by the system, and those that are in control of the system know exactly what they are doing. If you do not choose to break free, you could end up under the oppression of their system for your entire life.

Of course for many people inertia seems like the easiest option. It is just so easy to keep doing what you have always done, and that is especially true once you get older.

But what are you going to do once the system that you have become so dependent upon starts to crumble all around you?

Over the past several years, our world has been getting increasingly unstable. Major wars have erupted, the cost of living has become very painful, pestilences have been raging all over the globe, and historic natural disasters have been hitting us one after another.

The chaos that we are experiencing now is just going to intensify in the months ahead.

So what will most people do when the system that they depend on for their survival is shaken to the core?

The following are 12 simple things that you can start doing right now to become more independent of the system…

#1 Become Less Dependent On Your Job

For most people, having a job essentially means living in a state of “just over broke”. The truth is that it is incredibly difficult to become financially independent working for someone else. Of course most Americans would not be able to survive without a job, but you don’t want to settle for just surviving. I know that it can be exceedingly difficult to find the energy for a “side hustle” while you are working a full-time job, but a “side hustle” can eventually evolve into a full-time income. If you want to live free, it is so important to explore alternate sources of income and different ways to build wealth. And the truth is that any jobs we have now could easily disappear when economic conditions take a turn for the worse. But if you have put in the effort to build up a “side hustle”, at least you will still have that.

#2 Get Out Of Debt

The borrower is the servant of the lender. If you want to live free, get out of debt. No matter how far you try to run, your debts are going to continue to hang over you wherever you go. Getting out of debt can be completely and totally liberating. It will give you much more freedom and will make you far less dependent on your job. In fact, many Americans are already moving in this direction. Why not join them? When things start really falling apart and it is difficult for anyone to find a good job, the last thing you will want is a huge amount of debt hanging over your head.

#3 Reduce Expenses

For decades, most Americans have been living far beyond their means. In the future, times are going to be really tough and we are all going to have to learn to tighten our belts. Do you and your family waste money right now? If you can eliminate that, you can live on a smaller income and you will have more money to invest in the things that are really going to matter.

#4 Purchase Land

Real estate is a lot more expensive than it once was, but the truth is that you don’t want to wait forever to get your hands on a piece of land. When the system completely crumbles, you don’t want to be stuck in a heavily populated area with no place to go. You always want to have somewhere that you can “bug out” to if things hit the fan. In addition, owning real estate is a great way to build wealth. In some of the most desirable areas of the country that are not heavily populated, real estate prices have doubled or even tripled in recent years.

#5 Learn To Grow Your Own Food

Another reason why you want to purchase some land is so that you will have somewhere to grow your own food if that becomes necessary. 100 years ago, almost everyone knew how to grow their own food, and most people also knew how to raise farm animals. Today, relatively few Americans have those skills. A great way to begin is by starting your own “survival garden”. If you are not already doing this, why not start this upcoming spring?

#6 Find A Reliable Source Of Clean Water

Do you know what they are putting into your water? In many parts of the country, tap water is absolutely teeming with all sorts of nasty stuff. Drinking pure water is an easy change that anyone can make, and it can have a dramatic impact on your health. In addition, water is going to become a very, very valuable resource in the years to come. It will be absolutely key for you and your family to have a dependable source of clean drinking water. If you do not have water, you will not be able to survive for long.

#7 Explore Alternative Energy Sources

Have you noticed that your power bill just keeps going up? In some states, people are being hit with power bills that exceed $1,000 a month. Of course you may not be able to depend upon the power company at all once things get bad enough. The truth is that there are very good reasons why so many Americans have been trying to go “off the grid”. Without power, life gets really difficult very quickly. But if you are generating your own power then you won’t have to worry about that.

#8 Store Supplies

Every time there is a major disaster or emergency, store shelves get empty really fast. If an extended national emergency results in supply chains being disrupted on a long-term basis, you may have to get by on what you already have in your home. So do you and your family have enough food and supplies to survive for an extended period of time? If you don’t know where to start, there are guides that can help get you started. In America today, there are millions of “preppers”, and the “prepping” industry has been thriving. But of course most of the population just assumes that they will always be able to depend upon the system for what they need, and someday those people will be in for a very rude awakening.

#9 Protect Your Assets With Gold And Silver

Our leaders have been flooding the system with money for many years, and so it was only a matter of time before we experienced rampant inflation. The cost of living has been absolutely soaring, and that isn’t going to change any time soon. One way to protect yourself is by getting some gold and silver. In the future, your paper money may not buy much for you at all, but if you have some gold and silver coins you can always exchange them for the things that you are going to need.

#10 Learn Self-Defense

Do you remember the riots that happened all over the country just a few years ago? Well, the truth is that what we will see in the future will be far worse than that. When people get desperate enough, they will literally do just about anything to survive. Just think about it. What do you think is going to happen once people living in densely-populated areas have been without food for two or three days? Now is the time to think about how you will defend your home and your property from crazed looters. It is not a fun thing to think about, but unfortunately we are heading into times that will not always be pretty.

#11 Keep Yourself In Good Physical Condition

As Americans, we live such “cushy” lives. But when times get hard, things will not be so cushy. In fact, the years ahead are likely to demand quite a bit of physical activity. So keep yourself in good physical condition now. In the future, you will be quite glad that you did.

#12 Make Deep Connections

It is really, really hard to “survive” all by yourself. Those that will thrive the most in the future will be those that have a community that they can depend upon. The truth is that we are always at our best when we work together. It is time to build deep connections with family and friends, it is time to make new connections, and it is time to focus on what is truly important. In the times ahead the world will be a very cold place, and a little love and teamwork will go a long way.

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.

Major Food Supply Alert! Just In Time, A Deadly New Strain Of H5N1 Threatens To Make Our Egg And Beef Shortages Even Worse

February 6, 2025February 6, 2025 by Michael

We just received some very serious news. The extremely deadly D1.1 strain of the H5N1 bird flu which has been ripping through the nation’s poultry population in recent weeks has now gotten into the cattle population in the state of Nevada. This is the very first time that cattle in the U.S. have ever tested positive for this strain. What this means is that we are facing a very serious threat to our food supply. As I detailed earlier this week, the U.S. is dealing with the worst egg shortage that it has ever experienced, and it is likely to get even worse as this new strain spreads. Meanwhile, the size of the U.S. cattle herd could be reduced even further by this new strain, and it is already at the lowest level that we have seen since 1961…

As of January, the total number of cattle and calves was 86.7 million, down by 1% from last year, reported Market Intel. The beef herd has shrunk 40% since 1975 to the smallest size since 1961.

Beef cows that have calved hit a record low at 27.9 million, revealed the U.S. Department of Agriculture, while replacement heifers also decreased, indicating continued contraction in the cattle cycle.

In 1961, 182 million people were living in the United States.

Today, 334 million people live in the United States.

So now we have the same amount of beef that we did in 1961, but we have nearly twice as many people to feed.

A beef shortage is here.

Needless to say, the price of beef is going to go higher as supplies of beef just keep getting tighter and tighter.

I don’t know why the mainstream media is not making a bigger deal about this. I know that they are absolutely fixated on the drama that is unfolding in Washington D.C. right now, but this new strain of the H5N1 bird flu is an extremely huge story…

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

Scientists say these infections with a different type of virus mark an inflection point in the nation’s efforts to contain the virus: It may be here to stay.

The strain is not the same one that has been circulating in other dairy herds throughout the United States, a virus called B3.13. The newer version, D1.1, has previously been detected only in birds and in people who had contact with infected birds.

This is the very first time that D1.1 has been detected in any of our dairy herds.

Up until just recently, the milder B3.13 strain of H5N1 was the dominant strain in birds all over the nation.

But over the past few months there has been a dramatic change. The D1.1 strain has become dominant, and it has been ripping through bird populations from coast to coast…

That bird flu strain, called D1.1 by scientists, was also linked to a fatal human case in Louisiana last year after exposure to sick birds. The D1.1 strain has emerged in recent months to dominate infections in wild birds and poultry flocks across North America.

Since the pandemic began in early 2022, “around 957 dairy herds and more than 153 million poultry have been affected” by the bird flu…

According to the CDC, around 957 dairy herds and more than 153 million poultry have been affected by types of bird flu in the United States.

The devastation that this pandemic has caused has been immense, but nearly all of the carnage that we have witnessed so far has been caused by the relatively mild B3.13 strain.

Now the D1.1 strain is spreading like wildfire, and this has pushed egg prices to dizzying heights…

Egg prices continue to move higher due to limited inventory due to an avian flu outbreak.

The volume of trailer load loose egg sales decreased 16% at the end of January.

Prices for white large shell eggs hit $8.97 per dozen.

Delivered prices on the California-compliant wholesale loose egg market increased $0.37 to $8.72 per dozen in the last week of January, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Of course there are many supermarkets where the shelves are completely empty and there are no eggs to be purchased at any price.

Unsurprisingly, eggs have now become a target for thieves because they have become so valuable.

In fact, someone just stole 100,000 eggs from a trailer in Pennsylvania, and police have still not been able to determine who did it…

The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack.

Four days after the theft that law enforcement say could be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs, no leads have come in, Trooper First Class Megan Frazer, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania State Police, said Wednesday.

There is something else that I would like for you to consider.

What is going to happen if the new D1.1 strain of the bird flu starts spreading widely among humans?

Already, it has killed a 65-year-old victim in Louisiana, and it almost killed a 13-year-old girl in Canada…

In November, an otherwise healthy 13-year-old girl from British Columbia, Canada, was infected with D1.1 bird flu from an unknown source.

She had not been exposed to any birds or cattle, and her only risk factor was obesity.

She went into respiratory failure and had to be placed on life support, though she eventually recovered.

And a 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died last month after being hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms from D1.1.

The B3.13 strain only caused mild illness in humans.

But the D1.1 strain is a killer.

One expert is warning that if this strain “were to mutate and gain the ability to efficiently spread from person to person”, we could be facing a new “global pandemic”…

Professor Bobbi Pritt of the Mayo Clinic issued similar warnings to the Daily Express US last month.

“If the virus were to mutate and gain the ability to efficiently spread from person to person, then this could result in a large outbreak or even a global pandemic,” she said.

I realize that this is not welcome news for many of you.

But the truth is that we were warned that pestilences would be one of the major themes of this period.

It has been less than a month since President Trump was inaugurated, and now it appears that he will have a major health scare to contend with.

My advice is to be prepared to deal with another unprecedented global health panic, because this crisis could spiral out of control at any time.

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.

The Mainstream Media Will Never Recover From These Shocking Revelations About The Associated Press, The New York Times And Politico

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 by Michael

A free and independent press is absolutely essential. In fact, Thomas Jefferson once warned that “our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” Sadly, we have just learned that some of our most prominent media outlets have been receiving enormous amounts of money from the government. The New York Times, Politico and the Associated Press were being absolutely showered with money during the Biden administration, and it is no coincidence that their coverage of the Biden administration was extremely favorable. This is a scandal of epic proportions, and there is no way that these media outlets will ever recover from this because their credibility is totally gone.

What has been happening at Politico is particularly egregious.

It is supposed to be an independent media entity, but it has been receiving millions of our tax dollars.

In fact, it has received more than 8 million dollars from USAID alone.

But that money from USAID is just the tip of the iceberg.

Overall, Politico has received more than 34 million dollars from the federal government.

That is a tremendous amount of money.

Politico has a subscription option called Politico Pro, and it costs about 10 grand per year.

For some reason, a whole bunch of government agencies were shelling out giant piles of money for such ridiculously-priced subscriptions.

The Biden administration was certainly very good to Politico.

Are we supposed to believe that it was just a “coincidence” that Politico was also very good to the Biden administration?

The following quote from Sean Davis really hit home with me…

It was Politico that maneuvered to have the Hunter laptop story banned and everyone discussing it censored.

Politico peddled the illegal Supreme Court leak that led to the near-assassination of multiple Supreme Court justices.

And now we find out the regime was funneling tens of millions of dollars of our money to Politico?

This is rampant corruption.

Thankfully, the DOGE team is working on ending all payments to Politico right now…

Karoline Leavitt speaks out on USAID spending millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on Politico subscriptions.

“The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now.”

Interestingly, staffers at Politico “did not get paid for the latest pay period”…

Staff at Politico did not get paid for the latest pay period. The company just sent several emails to employees saying it believes there was a technical error, and is looking into how to fix the issue.

Could it be possible that their staff did not get paid because the gravy train from the federal government is drying up?

Of course Politico is not the only media outlet that has been getting showered with cash.

It turns out that the “independent” Associated Press has also been raking in millions of dollars.

How can any organization that has hauled in 19.5 million dollars from the federal government possibly claim to be free and independent?

Someone really needs to ask the Associated Press that question.

But at least the Associated Press has not been as big of an offender as the New York Times has.

The most important newspaper in the United States has received “tens of millions of dollars over just the past 5 years”.

The New York Times is a complete and utter disgrace.

I am sorry if this offends you, but it is the truth.

Reporters for the New York Times pretend to be “journalists”, but ultimately they are just propaganda mouthpieces.

It may not surprise you to learn that Reuters is also corrupt.

In fact, it has just come out that they were awarded a very large government contract for “Active Social Engineering Defense” and “Large Scale Social Deception”.

If you can believe it, Reuters was paid more than 9 million dollars under this single contract.

There is no excuse for any of this.

The good news is that many of these legacy media companies were headed for extinction anyway.

For example, we are being told that “the future of CNN looks grim”…

The future of CNN looks grim as experts say the liberal network is ‘in decline’ after staffers faced pay cuts and a round of layoffs.

Jeff McCall, a communications professor at Indiana’s Depauw University, told the Los Angeles Times that the network’s layoffs are not a good look for CNN.

‘Right now, you think of their brand as in decline. The layoffs; that’s a problem. And it looks really bad when you lose libel suits,’ McCall said.

Because these legacy media companies have lost so much credibility, more people than ever are seeking out alternative sources of information. I am honored to be a part of the alternative media ecosystem, but unlike legacy media outlets I do not receive any money from the government. I am able to keep my work alive by offering books and subscriptions to my newsletter.

Thomas Jefferson clearly understood that “our liberty depends on the freedom of the press”, and the vast majority of our legacy media outlets are no longer free or independent.

So it is up to the alternative media to uncover the truth and keep our leaders accountable, and with your help that is what we will continue to do.

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.

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