By Greg Hunter USAWatchdog.com
About two months ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was called in by the Trump White House to come up with a peace plan that Vladimir Putin and Russia would agree to. Armstrong has confirmed this request was “sanctioned” by President Trump. This means the President is serious about stopping the Ukraine war. Armstrong says, “I think I changed the narrative with this plan.” Armstrong came up with a nearly 200-page paper called “Peace Proposal to Prevent World War III.” Now, we are finding out that the Russians want to make a peace deal, but the Europeans do NOT want a deal. Nothing illustrates this more than the headline that came out yesterday that said, “We Must Protect Volodymyr’: Leaked Call Shows European Leaders Conspiring Against Trump Peace Plan.” Armstrong has also long said, “Europe is Falling & Needs War with Russia.” It all comes down to default and money. Armstrong explains, “They have a choice. They go into a sovereign default, and what is going to happen is the people are going to have pitchforks, and they will be storming the parliaments. . .. Europe is going into a depression–the US will go into a recession.”
Armstrong contends this will be a “grand finale of default in Europe.” Armstrong says, “Oh yeah, it will be the banks and pension funds. The pension funds on average must have 70% government debt. So, this is what I warned about in Washington. I think they have taken what I have said to heart. I have explained Europe is the problem.”
So, it looks like war with Russia, but maybe not with the US. Armstrong says, “My suggestion was to threaten the EU with ‘you accept this peace deal, or we exit NATO.’ I warned them that NATO will create a false flag. You just had an Italian admiral come out in the EU and say we are justified for a hybrid attack to do a ‘preemptive strike’ against Russia—preemptive! We need to get the hell out of NATO!”
It looks like the US leaving NATO over a failed Ukraine peace deal is a real possibility. Armstrong says, “I was told flat out that we would not be at war with Russia. The risk is with China. . .. Do you know who has the biggest reserves of wheat in the world? China. They have been buying food for exactly what I have been forecasting. . .. They are preparing for World War III.”
In closing, Armstrong is fresh off his World Economic Conference (WEC) that had hundreds of thousands of live streamers. The big themes for 2026 are: sovereign debt default (but not in the US), war and civil unrest. Armstrong also talks about gold and silver and how the bull market in metal is not going to be over anytime soon.
There is much more in the 73-minute interview.
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