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Irangate: Iran’s Plan to Stop Trump and Elect Kamala

Unlike Russiagate, Irangate is real and has roots in the White House.

September 27, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield 14 Comments

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In the last two months, Iran set up fake news sites to defame Trump and promote Kamala, hacked the Trump campaign and tried to pass stolen documents to the Harris-Walz campaign and its media allies, and finally plotted to assassinate former President Trump and his officials.

These rather definite statements of Iran’s intentions in the presidential election have been dismissed with generic Russiagate buzzwords that describe the Islamic terrorist state as being out to “destabilize and sow chaos”. When Iran hacked the Trump campaign, we were told that it was to “sow chaos” and now that Trump has been briefed on the assassination threats, once again it’s been described as a plot to “destabilize and sow chaos” in the United States.

But if Iran is out to only “sow chaos” then why isn’t it trying to assassinate Biden or Kamala?

Where are the Iranian agents soliciting useful idiots to take a shot at current administration officials rather than former Trump administration officials? And why didn’t Iran hack into the Kamala campaign and then email the stolen files to the Trump-Vance campaign?

Iran isn’t trying to “sow chaos” which is a meaningless buzzword the intel community seem to have come up with to project its own nation building paradigm abroad onto American politics.

The Islamic Republic is out to win. And it defines winning as Trump’s political defeat or death.

America’s leading middle eastern enemy actively interfering in a presidential election ought to be bigger news than it is. The Clinton campaign spun Russia’s awkward efforts to recruit black nationalists into backing its Syria agenda after the election into the great Russiagate hoax complete with British ex-secret agents, micturating hookers in Moscow hotel rooms, secret bank internet connections and a multi-year investigation fronted by a senile former FBI boss.

The revelation that Iran is trying to stop Trump and elect Kamala by any means occasions no more from the White House and the intel community than a reluctant briefing and some boilerplate prose about sowing chaos as if there is no motive or agenda to these activities.

No one has brought ‘Irangate’ into being even though there’s more than enough materials.

After September 11, Joe Biden suggested, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

Biden urged restoring an American diplomatic presence to Tehran where our diplomats had been held hostage and cutting off Radio Liberty broadcasts undermining the Iranian regime.

Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign was backed by Iran Lobby figures and he believed that Iranian support was so vital to his campaign that he attacked Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for being insufficiently pro-Iran, and used his vote against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the key player behind Hamas, Hezbollah and the murder of hundreds of American soldiers, as a terrorist organization to argue that he would make a better president.

For Iran.

After being part of an administration that provided Iran with the massive sanction relief and clearance that enabled it to build a massive missile arsenal and nuclear program, Biden left office and misappropriated classified documents involving Iran that he took home with him.

Biden stayed loyal to the Iran Lobby and it to him. Iranian hackers with the IRGC tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election to stop Trump and aid Biden.

In the 2020 election, Jamal Abdi, the executive director of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Action, often described as the Iran Lobby, was exposed as one of Biden’s biggest bundlers, and NIAC claimed its members had run phone banks and donated $385,000 to him.

NIAC Action had endorsed Biden and celebrated the election outcome by declaring that, “our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden”.

Iran’s president cheered Biden’s election win by expressing the hope that “the next American administration will surrender to the Iranian nation.” The Islamic terror state leader was not to be disappointed. The Biden-Harris administration offered billions in sanctions relief to Iran while attempting to restore the failed nuclear deal with the terror state. It dropped support for the Saudi campaign against the Houthis in Yemen which allowed the Iran-backed terrorists to arm up and terrorize shipping in the Red Sea leading to 9 months of fighting in what has been described as the “most intense combat since World War II” for the U.S. Navy.

The Biden-Harris administration was filled with Iranian sympathizers and lobby figures, including Rob Malley, Biden’s envoy to Iran, under FBI investigation for mishandling classified information, whose actions were illegally covered up by State Department figures. It even brought in Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant who had worked with the Iranian government to advise it and spread its propaganda, before working with Malley on the Iran negotiations, to act as a senior adviser to the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, exactly where Tehran would have wanted her, before making her a Pentagon Chief of Staff.

Over the next four years, the Biden-Harris administration gave Iran everything it wanted from endless sanctions relief to a hostage trade that not only freed Iranian agents but allowed them to remain and continue their activities inside the United States.

This year the Biden administration was still at it, warning the British and French not to censure Iran at a vote in the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency despite its nuclear violations

When the chopper carrying Iran’s previous president crashed, the Biden administration sent its condolences and Deputy UN Ambassador Robert Wood stood for a moment of silence in the memory of the leader of a regime that had recently been responsible for killing U.S. soldiers.

The Biden-Harris administration now not only allowed sanctioned Iranian figures into the country but warned journalists away from filming outside the hotel where the Iranian delegation was staying. What did their cameras catch? The former head of NIAC, the Iran Lobby group linked to the Biden-Harris administration, entering the hotel. Is it any wonder that when Iran hacked the Trump campaign, it sent the materials to Harris-Walz staffers who did not report it to the FBI?

There is no shortage of materials for a theory of ‘Irangate’. The Biden-Harris administration has been even better for Iran that the previous low-water marks set by Carter and Obama.

Iran is not trying to “sow chaos” but to swing a presidential election in favor of its candidate.

The Islamic regime has also had a longtime obsession with Trump ever since he approved the operation that took out the IRGC’s deadly terror boss Qasem Soleimani. Even with Trump out of office, the official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published a video simulating a drone strike on Trump’s home with the message, “Revenge is Inevitable”

Unlike Russiagate, Irangate is real and has been taking place out in the open for us to see.

An enemy of the United States is doing everything possible to stop a free election from taking place. It already used fake news, hacking and assassination plots to stop Trump.

Those tactics are likely to pick up as Election Day approaches.

Facing defeat in Gaza and Lebanon, Iran is not about to give up. And the most troubling question at the heart of Irangate that needs to be asked is how much support do Iran’s agents have inside this country, and inside the Biden-Harris administration and the intel community.

Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and 

CNN partnered with psychologist Ashley Landrum to study how kids see politics, and some of the results were easy to predict and others were pretty disturbing.

But the thing that stood out to me was that kids who grew up in Blue areas with Democrat parents were clearly brainwashed to hate Republicans.

While Republican-leaning kids (10-11 year-olds) expressed that the political views of another kid didn’t matter that much to them, the opposite was true for kids who have grown up in a left-leaning environment.

It’s not even close and is a great indicator of how well the brainwashing works. And that is clearly what it is if you think about it. Kids who grow up around Republicans are pretty laissez-faire about others’ political attitudes, while kids exposed mainly to Democrats see the people who think differently from themselves as evil.

Pure evil, as one kid put it.

This probably is in line with your experiences, as they are with mine. I think most Democrats are emotive and respond to what they perceive to be “good intentions,” while my experience with Democrats is that they think of Republicans as evil. When people disagree with strong liberals, they perceive it as a challenge to their identity.

Democrats constantly signal their virtue, while Republicans usually want to be left alone. We don’t demand people know our pronouns.

The personal is the political is a slogan I encountered all the time when I hung around leftists. This is why there is so much rage directed against Donald Trump and the MAGA movement and also why even Mitt Romney was the subject of so much rage when he was running for president.

Mitt Romney. So don’t tell me that this is special to Trump. All Republicans are portrayed as evil because it is necessary to maintain this fiction in order to forward the brainwashing. Any nuance is antithetical to the need to make people–especially young people–repeat things robotically.

The fact that Democrat-leaning kids are unapologetic about not wanting to be friends with Republicans tells you a lot, and not about the kids. It’s not like they came up with these ideas independently. They are reflecting what is around them, and what they are reflecting is raw, unreasoning hate.

Kids who grow up in Republican areas don’t hate Kamala Harris, even if they don’t like her. The opposite is not the case with Democrat-leaning kids. They HATE Trump and his supporters.

This is sad, and most of all, I blame the brainwashers and not the kids. The kids have grown up in a North Korea-like environment where ideas are pounded into them. Their parents watch MSNBC and CNN, and they hear this all day, every day.

It’s saddening and maddening. Sowing this division makes it harder to see how America can come together, at least outside of a massive threat that temporarily unites us.

It shouldn’t take something like that to get people to sit down and talk, even if we disagree.

But if the Democrats get their way, we won’t even be able to try, because their goal is to censor all but the people who mindlessly mouth the “right” words.

Oh JOY!

David Strom, hotair.com

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano released a statement Tuesday afternoon refuting claims by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace that accused the sheriff of “systematically dismantling immigration enforcement” in the county.

The release from Mace’s office alleges Graziano’s office has “ignored at least 51 ICE detainer requests” since 2021.

“Under your leadership, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has refused to provide U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with adequate hold time to assume custody of illegal aliens and refused to provide ICE with notification you have an illegal alien in custody prior to their release. In fact, Charleston County has been recognized as a non-cooperative institution by ICE,” Mace wrote. “In other words, you are purposefully and systematically allowing criminal illegal aliens to roam free in Charleston County and surrounding areas. You are purposefully putting local residents at risk, adults and children alike.” [Source for photo and this quote HERE.]

You cannot escape the vapid, sinister Soros-inspired politicians even in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. The infestation is everywhere. Read about this Democrat sheriff in Charleston County SC who’s selectively enforcing the law based on political factors. Her excuse: “I can’t prosecute illegals if they break the law. That’s a federal issue.” So if you’re robbed, raped or murdered by an illegal…tough luck! Wow, that’s pure Soros. She obviously has her eye on a federal role in a Kamala Communist federal regime. With any luck, we’ll ditch the b**ch in the upcoming Sheriff’s election. Good for U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace for calling her out.

“May she soon be a recipient of her own shytestorm policy consequences.” writes a reader on my Facebook thread.

Yes, indeed. What goes around comes around.

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A new Gallup poll shows Republicans leading on nine out of 10 key issues the pollster uses to determine which side has an advantage ahead of the election. Gallup said the GOP trails only on the approval of Congress, and voters don’t like either party on that.

“The political environment suggests the election is Trump’s and Republicans’ to lose,” Gallup said. “Nearly every indicator of the election context is favorable to the Republican Party, and those that aren’t are essentially tied rather than showing a Democratic advantage.”

Party identification has traditionally been a strong indicator in predicting election outcomes, Gallup said, and this year, 48% say they are, or lean, Republican, versus 45% who are, or lean, Democrat — a GOP advantage not seen in decades.

Gallup said, “Republicans previously have not had an outright advantage in party affiliation during the third quarter of a presidential election year, and they have rarely outnumbered Democrats in election and non-election years over the past three decades.”

The second highly predictive measure is which party voters believe will better handle big problems. In this, too, Republicans outgun Democrats, by 46%-41%, mostly on the view they are better suited to handle the economy. The poll finds that respondents view the GOP as the party that will make American prosperous by a 50%-44% margin.

The GOP is also getting help because of voter dissatisfaction with the Biden administration. Gallup said, “Biden’s unpopularity could still affect the election to the extent voters transfer their frustrations with the Biden administration to Vice President Kamala Harris. For her part, 44% of U.S. adults approve of the job she is doing as vice president, down slightly from a 47% reading in August.”

The Gallup survey took place between Sept. 3 and 15, polling 1,007 people, and has a margin of error of ± 4 percentage points.

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After almost a year of trading fire, Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are now engaged in ferocious confrontations that threaten to turn into a full-blown war.

Israel faces a much more formidable foe in Hezbollah than it faced in Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Many consider the Iran-backed group the strongest paramilitary force in the region — but the group also has political and social wings with considerable power in Lebanon.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel that his group has new weapons and capabilities, and it has published surveillance drone footage taken deep inside northern Israel that showed the port of Haifa and other sites far from the Lebanon-Israel border. In the past few days, it has struck deeper into Israel than at any time in the past year.

Founded in 1982 during Lebanon’s civil war, Hezbollah was initially devoted to ending Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon. It achieved that in 2000 following a long war of attrition that eventually forced Israel to withdraw. But it has continued its battle and seeks Israel’s destruction.

Shiite Muslim Hezbollah is part of a collection of Iranian-backed factions and governments known as the Axis of Resistance. It was the first group that Iran supported and used as a way to export its brand of political Islamism.

In addition to being an armed group, Hezbollah is also a political party with lawmakers in the Lebanese parliament and has had representatives in most Lebanese governments for decades. It also provides extensive social services, including running schools and health clinics, in southern Lebanon and other parts of the country where it has a strong presence.

In its early days, the group attacked U.S. interests, causing Washington to designate it a terrorist organization. Those attacks included taking U.S. hostages in Beirut and the infamous 1983 truck bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that killed 241 American service members.

“Iran’s support has helped Hezbollah consolidate its position as Lebanon’s most powerful political actor as well as the most-equipped military actor supported by Iran in the whole of the Middle East,” said Lina Khatib, the director of the SOAS Middle East Institute in London.

In 2006, Hezbollah fighters ambushed an Israeli patrol and took two Israeli soldiers hostage in a cross-border raid. That sparked a monthlong war between Hezbollah and Israel that ended in a draw, but Israeli bombardment wreaked widespread destruction in southern Lebanon.

Israel’s objective was eliminating Hezbollah, but the Lebanese group came out stronger and became a key military and political power on Israel’s northern border.

Domestic opponents have criticized Hezbollah for maintaining its arsenal and for coming to dominate the government. Hezbollah’s reputation also suffered when it briefly seized a section of Beirut in May 2008 after the Lebanese government took measures against its private telecommunications network.

Hezbollah is the Arab world’s most significant paramilitary force with a robust organizational structure as well as a sizeable arsenal. It claims to have some 100,000 fighters

Hezbollah’s military capabilities have surged over the years, and it has played a key role in the Syrian civil war, helping keep President Bashar Assad in power there. It has also helped train Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq, as well as Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

Israel estimates Hezbollah has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, including guided missiles and long-range projectiles capable of striking anywhere in Israel.

Throughout its latest conflict with Israel, Hezbollah has gradually introduced new weapons to its arsenal.

While Hezbollah initially began launching anti-tank missiles and rockets, it eventually introduced explosive drones and surface-to-air missiles for the first time. Nasrallah said the drones are locally manufactured, and they have many at their disposal.

The group sustained a severe blow last week, when thousands of communications devices, used mainly by its members, exploded in different parts of Lebanon, killing 39 and wounding nearly 3,000, many of them civilians. The attack — an embarrassing breach of Hezbollah’s supply chain — is widely blamed on Israel.

Israel has recently also assassinated several of the group’s senior leaders, including a top military commander.

Born in 1960 into a poor Shiite family in the Beirut suburb of Bourj Hammoud and later displaced to south Lebanon, Nasrallah studied theology and joined the Amal movement, a Shiite political and paramilitary organization, before becoming one of Hezbollah’s founders.

He became Hezbollah’s leader in 1992 after his predecessor was killed in an Israeli strike.

Idolized by many for presiding over Israel’s withdrawal from the south and leading the 2006 war, his image appears on billboards and on gadgets in souvenir shops in Lebanon, Syria and other countries across the Arab world. But he also faces opposition among Lebanese who accuse him of tying their country’s fate to Iran.

Nasrallah is also considered to be pragmatic, able to make political compromises.

He has lived in hiding for years, fearing Israeli assassination, and delivers his speeches from undisclosed locations.

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Why are the people who scream the loudest about “hate speech” the ones most riddled with hatred and venom?

They say they hate hatred. They’re against hatred on principle. But what about their own hatred — of those they claim to hate? It’s self-refuting. But nobody ever calls them on it. Leftists live in a cultural, legal and political vacuum. They reinforce and agree with each other on absolutely everything. They shun those who even hint at crossing the Party line.

Often, anger and rage are a mask for fear and terror. Psychologically, many people would rather feel angry than petrified. Anger (rather than fear) makes them feel stronger, and like they haven’t been defeated. It’s perfectly understandable. However, the terror that many leftists feel at the prospect of living in a world where anyone — absolutely anyone at all, especially one as unapologetic as Donald Trump — disagrees with them now converts into rage and a desire to imprison people who dissent from the Party line … At this dangerous point, we enter the gates of some modern equivalent of Nazi Germany.

And if you try to object to any of this? You’re guilty of “hate speech.” Off with your head — or the twenty-first century equivalent that’s heading our way unless we stand up to it with all the passion, integrity and conviction we possess.

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“A woman President? COOL!! It’s about time!”

How cool will it be when you’re in line at the grocery store because Kamala’s price controls distorted supply and demand mechanisms, creating shortages?

How cool will it be when inflation due to exponentially increased government spending leads to $500 buying what $5 bought back in 2018?

How cool will it be when you can’t shoot an armed home invader? “I don’t care,” you say. “I don’t like guns.” So how cool will it be when nobody can shoot a home invader, since Kamala has outlawed guns by executive order? Criminals will be in hog heaven. “I don’t care,” you say. “I can call the police.” What police? Walz defunded them in Minnesota. Kamala promises to do so nationally. And even if we still have police, they’re already weaponized against people who aren’t members of politically protected racial groups. And NOBODY will be protected against any violent illegal noncitizen. Illegals are the ultimate protected class.

How cool will it be when the government has outlawed speech it deems hateful, as Communist Party member Tim Walz has promised? “I don’t care,” you say. “I don’t like conservatives. We’re only censoring conservatives.” Oh, really? Communist Castro jailed most of the journalists who supported him, once in office. Castro belonged to the same Party that Kamala and Walz belong to. If speech is permitted only by the government’s approval, how long until your favorite musician, artist or movie producer is silenced for some stupid reason?

How cool is Communism, really? What are you asking for, you snowflake fools who plan to vote for openly Communist Kamala and Walz?

When you scream that you’ve lost all your freedom, and that your Starbucks lattes cost $150 apiece, and your video games go for $10,000 each under currency devalued by government-induced inflation, it will be too late.

How cool is that?

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Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic — and politicians’ ham-fisted response to it — dealt a cruel shock to employees and businesses in early 2020, working-age Americans, in greater numbers than ever before, have been fleeing states where their Right to Work isn’t protected.

Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this summer confirm that the stampede of breadwinners and their families out of Big Labor’s stronghold states continued in 2022 and 2023, when COVID-19-related restrictions on business activities and school lockdowns were already mostly in the past. More than ever before, American employees’ “foot voting” is demonstrating they strongly prefer Right to Work over forced unionism.

Unfortunately, politicians like 2024 Democrat presidential standard-bearer Kamala Harris couldn’t care less about that. There is a huge disconnect between union boss-owned politicians like Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and the majority of Americans who get most of their income from paychecks furnished to them and/or their loved ones by private-sector businesses.

Just as the Biden-Harris administration has done for years, the Harris-Walz ticket is trying to justify its support for legislation corralling millions of additional workers into monopolistic unions by loudly claiming that doing so would somehow make those workers more prosperous.

Ms. Harris, Mr. Walz and their campaign propagandists are trying to bamboozle citizens into believing their claim is correct by grossly understating, or altogether ignoring, the regional cost-of-living difference between Right to Work states and forced-unionism states.

Downplaying or “forgetting” about this key issue enables them to conceal, or so they believe, the proven, economically disastrous effects of compulsory unionism. But the fact is, fewer and fewer Americans are being fooled.

The data show that, when they have a choice, working-age people prefer not to live in forced-unionism states, undoubtedly in part because they understand the fact that real incomes are higher in Right to Work states.

Considered together, Census age-grouped state population data for 2023 and comparable revised data for 2013 tell an important story. They show that, over the past decade, the total population of people in their peak-earning years (aged 35-54) for the 23 states that have never adopted and implemented Right to Work laws (which bar the termination of employees for refusal to pay union dues), fell from 43.66 to 41.62 million. That represents a 2.4% decline.

But in the 24 states that had Right to Work laws on the books the whole decade from 2013-23, there was an overall peak-earning-year population increase of 1.92 million!

And the correlation between forced-unionism status and peak-earning-year population decline is quite robust.

Among the 47 states that didn’t change their Right to Work status between 2013 and 2023, four of the five states suffering the most severe peak-earning-year population losses in percentage terms are forced-unionism. Meanwhile, top-ranking Utah (No. 1), Idaho (No. 2), and Texas (No. 3) are all Right to Work.

Had the peak-earning-year population in the 23 never-Right to Work states risen as much as the national average, they would have had roughly 1.4 million more such residents as of 2023.

And from July 2020 to July 2023, the last three years for which age-grouped population data are available, the trend of “foot voting” against forced unionism by people who have families to support has gotten much stronger.

Census data indicate forced-dues states lost roughly 658,000 “peak earners” to domestic out-migration over this three-year period. If this trend continues, these states are poised to lose another net 2.2 million breadwinners to Right to Work states from 2020 to 2030.

Harris’ radically anti-worker response to this manifest rejection of monopolistic unionism by its putative beneficiaries is to vow that, once she occupies the Oval Office, she will do everything within her power to see that Big Labor’s so-called “PRO Act” (H.R.20/S.567) is rammed through Congress so she can sign it into law.

The core provision in this enormous package of new special privileges for union bosses would effectively render meaningless all 26 Right to Work states currently on the books, and block all states from ever stopping forced financial support for a union as a job condition.

A future without Right to Work protections for private-sector employees anywhere in the U.S. might seem like a dream come true to union bosses. For ordinary Americans, however, it would be a nightmare.

Mark Mix is president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the National Right to Work Committee. To read more of his reports — Click Here Now.

COMMENT: You, sir, are the only one to tell the truth about this war with Russia. There are many Ukrainians with mixed families, and this war has not benefited Ukraine as one-third of the country has fled. Discontent against our politicians is rising here, as you have forecast. It would not be a surprise if there was a coup to change our leadership.

REPLY: You are correct. Our model has been projecting discontent with governments on a global scale. The EU elections turned to the right in a shock. Then, we saw upheaval in France—Britain overthrew the Conservatives. We see the same trend emerging in Canada and the USA.

This does not appear to be a left vs right surge. It appears to be more along the lines of just throwing the bums out – regardless of what their political affiliation might be. This trend is also rising in Ukraine. I have been getting this same sentiment from other Ukrainians.

The most curious thing is that there was an internal coup to assassinate Zelensky on May 7th, the turn on the ECM. He then fired his chief of bodyguards. While he tried to claim it was a Ukrainian plot orchestrated by Putin, the talk is that most of his bodyguards are now American because he does not trust Ukrainians. There is a risk of political upheaval in Ukraine starting next week and going into October.

Presidential elections were scheduled in Ukraine in March or April 2024. However, since Zelenskyy seized power and moved for martial law, which the Ukrainian parliament approved on February 24th, 2022, no elections have been held because Ukrainian law does not allow presidential elections to be held when martial law is in effect. It does not appear that Zelensky can retain power beyond June 13th, 2026, under any claim.

Yes, there is a rumor that a coup may take place in Ukraine, especially if they do not allow elections soon. Even an opposition Ukrainian member of parliament, Verkhovna Rada, has been said to express such discontent.

Zelensky’s presidential powers officially expired after May 20. The irony here is those who believe the propaganda claiming Putin is a dictator refusing to accept the Russian elections do not even want to discuss that Zelensky is a dictator suspending all elections as long as he maintains Martial Law.

Many in Ukraine think this is a senseless war, and the Donbas have been where Russians have lived for centuries. Is this merely a territorial grab worth destroying all of Ukraine? This is why some question the legitimacy of power in the absence of parliamentary and presidential elections. The concern is that Zelensky has ignored the Ukrainian Constitutional Court’s May 2014 ruling that the presidential term cannot be extended. Many are not satisfied because they feel that not only has Zelensky’s presidential term expired together with its legitimacy, but they also have no democratic process to vote on continuing the war. This is what has made many regard Zelensky as a dictator.

Plotting the ECM frequency from the start of this war, it interestingly projected April 2024, which was the ideal target when Zelensky would have had to stand for election. Now look at the next turning point – May 15th, 2025.

Let’s turn to Socrates’ cyclical forecast, and here, too, we see a major culmination of this trend. We have a major Panic Cycle in November; some believe that implies a Trump election, with a Directional Change in December. But I question if Zelensky will survive beyond the next turning point of May 15th, 2025.

Martin Armstrong