TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - No Bluffing: Putin Warns NATO With Test of Sarmat ICBM

Episode Date: April 20, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a stark message to NATO nations today when the Russian Strategic Defense Forces test fired a powerful intercontinental ballistic missile known in Russia as Sarmat, and dubbed by the CIA as Satan. Meanwhile China tested a hypersonic missile too in another warning to the USA. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 4/20/22

The following program is made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit nothing but the truth, so help us God. I'm Rick Wiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a stark message to NATO nations today when the Russian Strategic Defense Forces test-fired a powerful intercontinental ballistic missile known in Russia as Sarmat but dubbed by the CIA as Satan meanwhile China tested a hypersonic missile also in another warning to the USA doc Burkhart and I have the details so we started today with this warning doc, direct, very stark warning from

Russia. And we see nations test fire missiles. That's nothing new. But this time, the Russian president kind of stuck a sticky note on the missile, directed at the U.S. and NATO and said, this is for you. Basically, yes. If you're wondering, this rocket is for you. So we have the Daily Mail headline, Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic nuke as Putin warns the hypersonic Satan-2 weapon that can destroy U.K. will provide food for thought for our enemies now uh russia does did not name this icbm satan it didn't name it satan one satan two the cia did that um but

but that yeah it's it's a bad boy and but what mr putin did say is this is to provide food for thought for our enemies. Another here's something for our enemies to chew on, to think about today. So we have a video of the launch of the ICBM. Think about hundreds of those missiles launching simultaneously with their targets in the United States and Europe. And we have to realize a couple things. First of all, Russia actually has a larger nuclear arsenal than the United States does. And Russia has been upgrading its nuclear arsenal over the past decade, the past two decades actually, but a lot of effort in the past decade

to refine technology, to update software, to basically redesign their entire nuclear arsenal. Yes. And so they've been working hard on this, whereas the U.S. has not been doing that. We've been steering with 1980s technology. 1980s? We're still flying B-52s. I'm waiting to see them use floppy disks down the missile silos still.

So this is an advance in technology. But more than anything else, this is a clear warning from Vladimir Putin to what he called his enemies. Because if that's the case, who are the enemies that would receive an ICBM? You're not going to send an ICBM to Ukraine. You're not going to send it to Poland. It's intercontinental. It's going somewhere else. It's going to North America. So Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the armed forces on their successful launch of the Sarmat ICBM. He said he has congratulated the military on the launch, noting that this unique weapon will force everyone who tries to make threats against Russia think twice.

And he said, I congratulate you on the successful launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. It's a great and landmark event in the development of advanced weapon systems in the Russian army, Putin said. Now, according to the president, the new system has the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is capable of evading any modern missile defense system. He says it has no analogs in the world and will not have any for a long time to come. This truly unique weapon will bolster the combat capabilities of our armed forces, will reliably safeguard Russia's security from external threats, and will make those who, in the frenzy of rabid and aggressive rhetoric, are trying to threaten our country think twice.

That's the key sentence in this article. We'll make those in the frenzy of rabbit and aggressive rhetoric who are trying to threaten our country think twice. Let's put the number three back up on the screen. Mr. Putin watched the launch of Sarmat by video. Typically what I have seen over many years, Doc, is that Putin likes to go to the launch site physically. He likes to be there. Yes. This is different. I don't recall ever in the past 20 years where he was not at the launch site.

Now, I don't have a schedule for every, you know, every time they launch an ICBM, but I do know it's very familiar. It's very common for him to be at the launch site. He wants to be photographed at the launch site. So what kind of message are you getting from this, Rick? That he cannot leave whatever building he's in. We don't even know if he's in the Kremlin. Well, that's a good point. He could be in a secure bunker. We don't know where he's at. Because right now he is vulnerable. I mean, from attacks from anyone really at this point. If he could be assassinated, I mean, it's just been weeks ago you had Sean Hannity and Lindsey Graham calling for his assassination. Right.

So I don't think he ventures out anywhere. I think he stays in a very secure location, and that's why that photograph is different to me. It's unusual because ordinarily he would be there. He wants to be seen as a tough commander-in-chief who's overseeing the armed forces. Right. So this time he stayed inside a building somewhere. Well, the Russians were not the only people today test-firing missiles.

China, the Chinese Navy, test-fired a hypersonic anti-ship missile, and they let everybody know that they did it. Yes. So this is the footage of it here, Rick, and you get to see some of it. There's not much footage out there of it, and so this was actually found on the Chinese social media website Weibo. And this shows a YJ-21 or an Eagle Strike-21 hypersonic missile being launched from a Type 055 battleship. And so, like I said, just a short clip here, but this verifies that there was some testing going on. Now, this missile is

estimated to have a range between 600 to 930 miles and is believed to be capable of hitting a whole carrier strike group, and that's important. Video footage circulating on social media showed a missile that looks like the YJ-21 being launched from a Type 055, the People's Liberation Army's largest and most advanced destroyer. That sentence in there, capable of hitting an entire carrier strike group. Right. So this is a multiple warhead device. So it's a hypersonic missile with the capability of delivering multiple warheads. The Type 055 ship, which has 112 vertical launch missile cells, is designed as a multipole warship armed with air defense, anti-missile, anti-ship, and anti-submarine

weapons. Military analysts said the rare demonstration by the PLA could be seen as a strategic deterrence aimed at the United States and Taiwan. A U.S. Navy carrier strike group took part in joint exercise with Japan off the Korean Peninsula last week. So this is a show of force by China. Excuse me. Zhao Chenming, a researcher from the Yuan Wang Military Science and Technology Think Tank Beijing, said the combat range of the aired YJ-21 could be increased to 1,500 kilometers, while its hypersonic speed made it more difficult to intercept. So Zhao said the unprecedented demonstration of the YJ-21 by the Type 045 had aimed at warning both Washington and Taipei that the PLA has many options for anti-access and

aerial denial strategy. Beijing is warning that the unlimited U.S. military assistance to Ukraine and a recent American congressional group tour to Taiwan might make Taipei believe Washington may provide the same help in the event of a conflict between the mainland and Taiwan, Zhao said. And so if we're to read the script from Ukraine here, what we basically do is dump billions of dollars of weapons into the hands of the people of Taiwan to defend itself against China. China is making it very clear that's not going to be happening. We are going to do our best to secure that from

happening dr genet is what the what the chinese analyst said he said beijing beijing is worrying that the unlimited u.s military assistance to ukraine yes unlimited okay we didn't just send a couple guns, old rifles over to Ukraine it's unlimited in the eyes of the Chinese there's no end to how many weapons the United States has that's because the war machine has access to the

Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve just makes up money out of the air you know and it turns that money into weapons. Into weapons that blow things up. That's the way the economy works here in the United States. So the Chinese are watching this and they're saying, okay, we see the game plan. NATO sucked in Russia, baited them to invade, and now it's an endless stream of weapons to Ukraine to

kill off the Russian soldiers, to bleed out the Russian economy, bleed out the Russian army, literally bleed it out. And the Chinese are watching this saying, okay, we see the plan. If we invade Taiwan, the game plan is massive amounts of weapons are going to be sent to Taiwan, and China's going to be in a long, long war on the Taiwanese island, all right? And so they sent a message today saying, we're not going to play this game. Russia's sending a message, Doc. Right.

So China's sending the message, we can basically hit any carrier strike group you put out there. We can take it out. Be clear about this. We have the capability. We have the reach. We already know that they have

hypersonic intercontinental missiles too, in addition to this. But a hypersonic missile carrying multiple warheads that can knock out an entire carrier strike group, that's a step up for the Chinese as well. So, Dr., do the American people, the Europeans, the Canadians, do you really want war with Russia over Ukraine? Do you really want this?

Think this through. Those of you who are cheering for the U.S. to fight on the side of the Nazi army of Ukraine, and you really are all into this and you're watching Fox. It doesn't matter if you watch Fox News or CNN. Or MSNBC. They're all for war because the warmongers own the television networks. War is big business in America. Do you want this war?

Do you really want a war with Russia that's going to end up with these nuclear warheads exploding over American cities? Because this is where it's going to end up. Because it really hasn't impacted them yet. I mean, the gas prices have gone up, but they were going up before the war started. So it really hasn't impacted them. It hasn't become real for them yet. American sons and daughters haven't died over there yet.

Sons don't die over there. I'm concerned about our sons and daughters dying here. That's what't die over there. Right. I'm concerned about our sons and daughters dying here. Absolutely. That's what's going to happen, Doc. We're not sending troops to Ukraine.

We're not going that route. This thing is going to get red hot very soon if we continue to agitate Putin. He's not going to, he's just not going to play this game.

At some point, he's going to strike and when he strikes what the Lord told me years ago he will cut off the head of the snake it will be sudden it will be one knockout punch and that knockout punch I think the first thing will be

is an electromagnetic pulse attack on this country where we go dark. Yes. You have total pandemonium. No electricity, no communications, nothing. Where cars don't run, nothing. Everything's shut down. There's your first strike, massive panic.

Then layers of attacks. nuclear attack, chemical attack, biological attack. That's what's coming to the United States of America. If we allow the warmongers in America and NATO to continue their insane policies. Right. Doc, it's going, this is going to be a horrific ending. I feel like I'm in a theater and I'm watching a really bad movie. And I know at the end, everybody gets killed.

And there's not going to be a sequel. There's no sequel. It's like, this is going to be a really bad movie. Okay? It's like, I want to get out of the theater. I want to go. I don't want to be part of this. And I watch, I barely watch.

I can't stand it anymore. You look at television news shows, and they're just pumping out the propaganda. They're priming the American people to support war. And nobody is thinking, well, what's going to happen if we go to war with Russia? Duh. Think this through. These politicians, we've got a member of the U.S. Senate who is now calling for American troops to be sent to Ukraine. Chris Coons of Delaware. Wow. A Democrat.

A liberal leftist Democrat wants to put American troops in Ukraine. What ever happened to all the anti-war Democrats? They're all pro-war now. All Democrats are pro-war now. Wow. What does he think is going to happen? People are going to die. Why? People are going to die here. You've got

to tell the politicians that represent your district and your state, I don't want war with Russia. Get America out of this war in Ukraine. We don't have the money for these weapons anyhow.

Where's this money coming from? Where's it coming from? We're in debt as a nation. Where's the money coming? Oh, a billion dollars here and $10 billion here. For you know it, you got trillions of dollars spent, which is what happened over the last 20 years in the Middle East with all the wars that we fought, trillions of dollars that we don't have. Why aren't the American people telling

their congressmen and senators, stop this craziness. Stop it. We have an invasion at our southern border. Right. But we're worried about the border in Ukraine. Yes. How about fight for our own border? How about take care of our own country? All right. NATO brought this fight on. They provoked the fight. I've watched it for 20 years. It finally arrived. They wanted this fight. And this is going to have a horrible ending if we allow the warmongers on Wall Street and the international banks who control the politicians, if we allow the warmongers to continue. This is going to have a horrible ending for all of mankind. Nobody wins a nuclear war. Nobody. It doesn't matter if you live in a country that wasn't hit.

You don't win. Life changes one minute after the first nuclear warhead explodes. Life on the planet Earth changes forever. There will never be a return to anything what life was like before a nuclear war. I think that's what all the food crisis and supply chain warnings

are about, Rick, that they know that this is about to escalate to a whole new level. Meanwhile, Russia is trying, at least trying, to get a message to Ukraine, we can end this now. And as a matter of fact, Russia handed over a draft agreement to Ukraine back on April 15th, but they still haven't received a response from it. So Moscow handed over a draft settlement agreement to Ukraine on April 15th,

but still has not received any reaction. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing on Wednesday, it was said today that a new set of proposals were handed over to the representatives of the Kiev regime involved in the negotiation process. I would like simply to reveal the date when these positions were handed over by the Russian side. It was Friday. Today is Wednesday. There has been no response up to this day, she said. This should give you an idea of how the Kiev regime's negotiations team behaves,

how they view the negotiations process in principle, and whether it is possible to believe them or not when they speak about their desire to hold negotiations, he said. The Ukrainian government is not going to do anything without checking in with NATO. Right. And they haven't been given the green light from NATO yet. And NATO is playing Ukraine like a fool. Yes. They just, they use the Ukrainian people. And it's sad because Zelensky is a puppet of NATO.

And the Ukrainian nation is being destroyed through this war. And instead of blaming Russia, you ought to be blaming NATO that provoked this war. They are the villains in this story. I can say this because I have followed this story for 20 years. Right. This is nothing new to me. I can go back 15 years and think of specific times when Putin told the West, this is a warning.

We're not going to allow you to put weapons on our border. The amazing thing of the story is how restrained Putin has been over 15, 20 years. Now, there would be some who would say you're glorifying Putin and all that. I'm not glorifying him at all. This is an honest observation of what I have seen sitting in this job since 1999. I have watched the West try to provoke Russia to fight. I am surprised it took this long. I'm not surprised there's a fight. I'm surprised it took until 2022 to get the fight. But now they have it going. And it's not going to end pretty

if the West continues to push him. Putin is just a... There's no bluff to this guy. When he says he's going to do something, he does it. And so this week, he sent nuclear bombers over Ukraine. And today, he test-fired an ICBM that can hit American cities. And he added a sticky note to it that said,

this missile is for our enemies. Yes, to cause them to think twice. Yes. So what does he want you to think twice about? Do you want to fight Russia? Because he's telling you how he's going to fight. He's not going to fight on NATO's terms. NATO's terms is we're going to bleed you out slowly. Right. Putin's term is I'm going to crush you quickly. I'm telling you, he is going to push the button at some point, and we all suffer for it. And the only people

to blame are the ruling class, the people in the ruling class of the Western nations, because they brought us to this. And what is it all about? Their financial system is collapsing. It's built on usury. It's built on interest and debt and fiat money. And it's coming to an end. And so what do they have to do? They got to blow up somebody so the world doesn't have anything left to hang on to other than a collapsing financial system. And then they can start all over and say, we have to build a new financial system. And let's face it, war always jumpstarts an economy, doesn't it? It sure does. Well, Mr. Zach Grover had this to say about the negotiations with Kiev. He says,

there's no trust in their words. Many things stated both in public space and at the negotiations table have been immediately debunked by Kiev, sometimes within an hour or 15 minutes. Kiev simply crossed out the job had been done. Once again, everything only in written form and on paper, Zakharova underscored. And so even as this document was forwarded to Ukraine back on Friday with no response directly from Ukraine, Zelensky is out there saying we're active in negotiations right now. He put out a video yesterday saying we are working hard to negotiate passage of civilians, our mayoral poll. So Zelensky is a liar. Yes. And what Zakharova is saying is,

we don't know how to handle unprincipled adversaries who lie. That's what she's saying. They have no principles. Their words mean nothing. They say anything that they can have to say. And, you know, the Russians are just watching this theater.

It's a, you know, it's just a horrific, bad play. And they realize they're not negotiating with people that have any sense of honesty in whatever promises they make at a negotiation table. Right. So how do you sign a peace treaty with a group of people that are liars? This means nothing.

But the Russians are running out of patience with it. We're going to see something in the coming weeks from the Russian side. Unless the West blinks first. Somebody's going to blink in the coming weeks

and it's not going to be Putin. So be prepared. Be prepared for a major calamity in the weeks ahead coming out of Ukraine. And then thank all the politicians and the media and the ruling class for getting us in such a mess. Look, it's so bad that members of the American news media are signing up for the war. Can you believe this? Now, this is Malcolm Nance. And if you've I don't know who watches MSNBC, but if you have watched MSNBC, just happen to come across the channel.

Malcolm Nance has been a military analyst for MSNBC for a number of years. And here, just within the past few days, he said, that's it. That's enough for me. I'm putting on a uniform and I'm fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine. Now, keep in mind, MSNBC is so left-leaning, they'll fall off a chair. And so this is what gets me about this whole narrative on this war, Rick. On the right and on the left, everyone's for this war. There is no one calling for peace in the media. Nobody.

No, because the international banksters, the warmongers, own the news media of this country. That's why groups like us, True News, we're independent. We're small, but we're free. Yes. And that's why our message is attacked because we're not delivering

the propaganda message that the rest of the news organizations are pumping out to the people today so here you have it an msnbc talking head yes tweeting i'm done talking i'm going to war and this guy supposedly is now a a mercenary on the battleground in Ukraine, looking for Russian soldiers to kill. So we have a video clip from MSNBC that they're talking to Malcolm Nance. Here he is, all dressed up in his uniform and everything, explaining why he's there. And some additional information, I hope our audience catches this as well. Listen to this.

And joining me now from a secure location in western Ukraine is Malcolm Nance, executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project. He is fighting with the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. And Malcolm, we just watched that video of you and Ali Ruzi was attempting to interview you for us to get more information on what you're doing. We saw those cruise missiles fly overhead. So explain to us why you are there and what you are doing. Well, as you know, I spent quite a bit of time here in the pre-war period. And when the invasion happened, I had friends who were in Donetsk, who were in the Ukrainian army, who were writing to us and telling us, we're not going to survive tonight. We've been hit 500 times.

You know, these graduates at Defense Language Institute, these are my friends. And, you know, as the more I saw of the war going on, the more I thought I'm done talking. All right. It's time to take action here. So about a month ago, I joined the International Legion here in Ukraine. And I am here to help this country fight, you know, what essentially is a war of extermination. This is an existential war. And Russia has bought it to these people. And they are mass murdering civilians. And there are people here like me who are here to do something about it. And we have some video here. This is some video that was shot by Ali's team of yourself with some supplies and the things that you are working on while you're

there. We know there are about 20,000 people from 52 countries that are currently in Ukraine and have been there from the start of the war. What are international troops like yourself, what are you all tasked to do? Well, we are here for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to protect the innocent people of Ukraine from this Russian aggression. And, you know, it's not a conventional war joy, even though you have two armed forces going head to head here. What you have is you have another group. I won't even refer to the Russians as an army just using mass heavy weapons that are used in combat against civilians. They are destroying infrastructure. And then you find that they go to the cities and they massacre men, women and children. And that is the fundamental reason everyone is here. The International Legion is a multinational force.

It is men and women. There are thousands here who are here to protect this country. And for the most part, we really have to assist them in any way to stop this. And so I've decided I came here to assist them, you know, with the skills that I have myself. Wow. A lot of information in there. I don't know where to start. Let's see. Malcolm Nance. He he he joined the International Legion. Apparently, there's a real organization called the International Legion.

So we're looking now to see if they have a website. So there is an official warmonger, paid mercenary. I assume they're paid. He joined. You know what I heard out of it? My view is he was one of the CIA people working at MSNBC, and he got called to duty. He got activated. Yeah, he got activated.

Okay, you've got to leave your desk job at MSNBC and go to the battlefield. He also said, I spent a lot of time in Ukraine pre-war. Did you hear that? Yes. I'm glad you caught that because that was one of the other things that he said. So he had nearly a decade, I came to find out, of experience in Ukraine prior. Doing what? Well, that's a great question. Training the Nazi soldiers to fight Russia. What was he there for? Well, he said he was fighting, well, basically he was part of the, you know, fighting terrorism, has a terrorism project, right? Oh, for 10 years.

So. How many terrorists were in Ukraine? Obviously, there was a lot that they were recruiting and getting into the army there. So I don't know if our control room has that website or not but if they bring it up there you go the international legion of defense of ukraine how to join this is the recruitment site uh that you can actually sign up if you want to join the foreign legion basically of ukraine but uh and who finances this thing? That's another great question. And why is it legal? Can I start my own army and pay people to kill people in another country? Can I do that?

Apparently you can. And so if you've got enough money, you can do anything. The size, 20,000 people have signed up to be part of the international legion there in Ukraine. And I'm sure there are a number of Americans that have gone. signed up to be part of the international legion there in Ukraine. And I'm sure there are a number of Americans that have gone. In fact, I know you see pictures on Twitter all the time. And the idea is they're going to defend freedom and democracy and everything else in Ukraine. What is that symbol that they have?

In the upper left- corner? That is a Ukrainian symbol because I recognize the three-pronged image in there. It says International Legion Defense of Ukraine. It has the triple sword and a globe there. So you can call them too, Rick. See the phone button there? You can give them a call. A friendly operator will tell you how you can put yourself on the front line. Wow. I'm going to stick with the idea that he worked for the CIA while working at the MSNBC. But here's the deal.

I mean, here is a left-leaning organization, MSNBC, and they have basically radicalized Malcolm Nance where he's in uniform or opened up to his real job one of the two and so or he helped radicalize MSNBC that's a good point okay so all right here's another story I caught this first the original story was in Wall Street Journal what we're going to show you is from Middle East monitor their version of it Saudi Saudi Prince Mohammed bin...

Salman. Salman. Salman. Yeah, Salman yelled at Jake Sullivan, Biden advisor Jake Sullivan, when asked about the Khashoggi murder. Yes, this is a fascinating article. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

apparently yelled at President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan when asked about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The incident happened when the pair first met at the 36-year-old prince's seaside palace last September. I remember that trip that Sullivan took. Details were mentioned in an article about how U.S.-Saudi relations had reached a breaking point. So we're going to find out now what happened at that particular event. It says, although the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

appeared to strike a relaxed tone by wearing shorts during the meeting, he ended up shouting at Mr. Sullivan after he raised the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The newspaper reported, the prince told Mr. Sullivan he never wanted to discuss the matter again. But here's what happened as a result of it.

People familiar with the discussion were cited by the Wall Street Journal. Ben Salman, it said, added that the U.S. could forget about its request to boost oil production. We just pushed Saudi Arabia to China with that meeting, didn't we? We did. Jake Sullivan is obviously very inexperienced, I would say incompetent. He's in over his head, and he's making a disaster of foreign affairs. So we've lost Saudi Arabia as an ally.

You're going to lose the U.S. petrodollar. Remember the story about, was it about a month ago, a month and a half ago, where they were reporting that Saudi Arabia wasn't even taking Joe Biden's calls? That's right. That's how bad it is. That's what happened, this event back in September. The Biden administration has done more disaster in one year.

It's just over a year. Here we are, what, maybe 15, 16 months in office. Yes. They have done tremendous damage to the United States of America because of their incompetence. That's another example. But I got to say this, I mean how can you be in a room with Mohammed bin Salman and not ask him about cutting up khashoggi with meat saw? I mean, dog eats, it's got to come up. I don't know if I'd want to bring it up.

I know somebody who never brought up the subject and never will, Joel Rosenberg. He'll never bring it up. He took us evangelical buddies there. That's right. Those Christian Zionists are never going to ask about Khashoggi. Oh, Khashoggi. Oh, Khashoggi. Khashoggi's uncle

sold his yacht to President Trump. This is a real small circle of people in the world. When you really start looking at who runs the world, I'm not connecting

Khashoggi's death. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying it's a small world. It's just a handful of people run the world. Only a few people own yachts. That's true. That's true. All right, the next one is,

I saw this out of Zero Hedge today, German industry fears immediate Russian gas ban. Now, this is an important article and leads into our next one. Here's a quote from that. As Europe continues to consider a ban on Russian energy exports, German business and unions are joining forces in opposition, warning that an immediate Russian natural gas ban would have a severe negative impact on industry and jobs. It says a rapid gas embargo would lead to loss of production, shutdowns, a further deindustrialization, and the long-term loss of work positions in Germany. AP quoted the chairman of the BDA Employers Group and the DGB Trade Union Confederation

as saying on Monday, some 40 percent of the European Union's natural gas and some 25% of its oil now comes from Russia, mostly through pipelines. Germany alone depends on Russia for approximately one-third, one-third of its total energy consumption. Now, hold that up for just a moment. This is what they're forecasting in the future. What they're seeing, if there was a ban on Russian energy exports, and if for whatever reason, energy got cut off to Germany, this is what they could see. However, even before that has happened, there is something going on right now. CNN is reporting that the German annual producer price inflation rate topped 30% in one month in March. And this is the highest level it's hit since 1949. The only reason they

can't go back further than 1949, that's when they started keeping records on this. And so German annual producer price inflation topped 30% in March. The country's federal statistics office said on Wednesday that's its highest level since the agency began collecting data 73 years ago. The biggest culprit, energy prices, which rose nearly 84% from the same month last year. Mainly responsible for the high rise of energy prices were the strong price increases of natural gas,

which was up 144.8% on March 2021, the statistics office said in a statement. It is one of the first signs of the huge impact Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having on the German economy, Europe's biggest, Europe's biggest. Producer prices rose nearly 5% between February and March alone. Now, keep that in mind. Almost 145% increase in natural gas in March of 2021.

And they haven't shut the spigot off yet. Think what happens the day they shut the spigot off to Germany. I mean, Germany's not going to do anything to jeopardize that. Maybe they will. I don't know. No, the politicians will. The business leaders are telling the politicians, you're going to cause the collapse of the German economy. But the politicians aren't that smart and they're pushing to cut off

Russia from supplying energy to Europe. It's insane. And what is the purpose of this? Again, what is the purpose? What are we getting out of all this? What's the end? What's the goal? What's this all about? It seems like the only purpose is pain. That's it. Just create pain, create trouble, create crisis. There's another interesting quote in this article. It said global energy prices were rising

before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion. As economies began to reopen from their pandemic lockdowns, demand for fuel surged and wholesale prices shot up. But Western sanctions on Russia's coal and oil exports and efforts by the European Union to slash consumption of its natural gas through green energy initiatives have pushed prices up even further. Germany has so far resisted an embargo on natural gas and with good reason. According to the International Energy Agency, the country relies

on Russia for about 46 percent of its consumption. An abrupt break with its biggest supplier would likely trigger rationing and inflict severe damage on its energy-intensive manufacturing sector. Okay, so the propaganda in here is the line that says, as economies began to reopen from their pandemic lockdowns, demand for fuel surged. They want you to believe that the price increases are connected to the end of lockdowns. Therefore, lockdowns were good.

In their mind, yes. In their mind, right? No. The price increases are connected to the trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars and euros and yen, Japanese yen, that the central banks pumped into the world economy since 2008. You're right. that the central banks pumped into the world economy since 2008. It's all coming back now with a vengeance because they skewed the economic system with trillions of dollars that did not exist before.

And they flooded the world with funny money. And now it's coming back. The waves are coming back and it's bringing with it inflation. And they don't want you to figure this out, so they needed a war with Russia to blame old Putin for this inflation. Yes. Don't blame the central banks.

No, don't blame the massive influx of money that we pumped into all the major world economies that's going to impact the entire world. You're going to see dominoes start to fall from Japan to Germany to other nations because this game, this jig is about to go up. Let's take a look at what it's doing to food prices and food supplies around the world. So here's from Farm Policy News. Ukraine grain shortage at issue. Spring planting seen down by a third. The good thing is U.S. corn

is hovering at a near record level. But actually, corn hovering at a record level is good if you've got a lot of corn. We're limited on corn because we have a delay in planting. And so they're betting corn on futures. And so, now, if you're a corn farmer this year and you've got plenty of corn, you're good.

But there have been people in the UK, the UK is paying farmers to quit farming. They're paying them. They're saying, don't farm this year. Why would you do that when they're forecasting food shortages? Because they want a food shortage. That's why. So the planting of wheat in Ukraine is down one third. Would it be logical to assume that the harvest of wheat later this year will be down one third or more

wouldn't that be logical right so um if russia and ukraine supply roughly 30 percent of all the wheat in the world and the ukrain of that one-third is going to be down by one-third it's safe to say that later this year there's going to be a dramatic decrease in the supply of wheat in the world right that means a dramatic increase in food products that have wheat. It's really pretty basic. I mean, I don't have any degrees, Doc. I've figured that out all by myself. No food, no seed planted.

No harvest. No wheat grows. No bread. There's no bread, right? I figured that out on my own. And if there's no bread, right? I figured that out on my own. And if there's no bread, and if there's no bread, there's riots. And we'll see the connection here.

How about that? NPR, this is them, they figured this out too, Rick. It's planting season in Ukraine, and that means problems for global food supply. Well, hey, guys at NATO headquarters and everything, you should have thought about that. They did.

Before you started poking a bear. They did, Doc. They want the shortages. Shortages allow politicians to implement controls. Yes. It's as simple as that, isn't it? They did. They used COVID to take away freedoms and liberties they will use food shortages to take away freedom what was her own name let me think i

gotta ponder her name let me think because way way way way back to the early 2000s She was the secretary something of the UN food something. Food program. Yeah. Oh, my. I used to know her name quite well. What I do remember is what she said. Talking about the United Nations. Food is power.

We use food to change behavior. Wow. That's powerful. That part I remember. Can't remember her name. But this is around the early 2000s. She said, food is power. We use food to change behavior.

That's the way the globalists think. So all this stuff about shortages, yeah, there are shortages. Believe me, there are shortages. They created them because it gives them power. And so they already know in advance that there's going to be supply chain issues, that there's going to be food crises that are happening in different areas of the world. Anytime you have a food crisis, you're going to have a reaction from the people, the populace. They want that. They're

looking for that. Here's Breitbart, global food crisis. The IMF warns of unrest amid food supply shortages. Once again, if you knew that this situation in Ukraine was going to cause this, pain globally. Why would you do it unless you wanted it to happen? So the IMF has become the most recent global body to release a warning regarding potentially forthcoming global food shortages. We're not talking about missing some peanut butter on shelves, folks. Saying that vulnerable nations are at risk of civil unrest amid supply issue. What's more, while the IMF report went into details as to the near future effect of the current crisis for this year and the next, the globalist organization appears to fear that issues

surrounding food shortages could persist longer still. So what they're saying is this isn't going to be a short-term thing. You're not going to be missing a few loaves of bread off the shelf just this fall. This is going to be going on for years, for years, Rick. Yes. One more story before we close up. This is from Bloomberg. Rising fertilizer costs are catching up to rice farmers, threatening supplies. Months ago, Doc, you and I told our audience, if you're a farmer or a gardener, you better get fertilizer. There's gonna be an extreme shortage this year. Well, this has come up pretty fast.

And it is impacting farming around the world. And rice is one commodity that is gonna be in short supply. Right, and so this article from Bloomberg is focusing strictly on the Asian rice supply, but you can translate this to any commodity around the world, really. It says, Soaring fertilizer costs have rice farmers across Asia scaling back their use,

a move that threatens harvest of a staple that feeds half of humanity and could lead to a full-blown food crisis if prices aren't curbed. From India to Vietnam and the Philippines, prices of crop nutrients crucial to boosting food production have doubled or tripled in the past year alone. Lower fertilizer use may mean a smaller crop. The International Rice Research Institute, that's in Manila by the way, predicts that yields could drop 10% in the next season, translating to a loss of 36 million tons of rice. Now translate that to the equivalent

of feeding 500 million people. And especially in those cultures and nations where rice is a staple commodity, where you have rice with basically every meal because it's the only kind of food that provides high-calorie, high-carb content for families. This could make a big impact very, very quickly. And he's saying that's a very conservative estimate, said Hamna Blondari, a senior agricultural economist at the Institute,

adding that the impact could be far more severe should the war in Ukraine continue. Translation, it's going to be far more severe because the war in Ukraine is going to continue. Fertilizer prices have been rising globally due to supply snags, production woes, and more recently the war, which has disrupted trade with Russia, a big supplier of every major type of crop nutrient. The surge in fertilizer costs is threatening to stoke food inflation, assuming farmers continue to cut back and crop yields suffer. If that happens, global supply chains are likely to take a major hit. Practically every plate of food makes it to the dinner table with the help of fertilizers. Last month, Putin's put a, he issued a presidential decree

and banned the export of Russian fertilizer. Russia is a major producer of farm fertilizers, and Putin banned the export of Russian fertilizer to any country that he said is an enemy of Russia. Right. So that just wiped out Europe, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, any country that is opposing them right now. He said, you don't get any Russian fertilizer. Well, he said, we're going to keep it for our own farmers.

Yes. Our farmers aren't going to go without fertilizer. How about that? Imagine a president watching out for his own country. What is wrong with this man, Doc? What is wrong with him? Why is he protecting his own people? That's what he's doing.

He's watching out for the best interests of the Russian people. And he's saying, Russian farmers are going to have fertilizer. And we're going to produce food. And we're only going to sell the food to the countries that like us. Yes. So in other words, he's putting sanctions on the West. Right. Food sanctions.

Wow. So that's the kind of war we're in now, isn't it? That's where we're at. Don't be afraid. Don't let fear enter your mind. None of this stuff is fun to think about. I don't like researching it. I don't like bringing it to you because I don't want to disturb you. But I have to tell you what's really going on.

Your faith needs to deepen in Jesus Christ. All of us are going to have to rely on Jesus Christ to get through perilous times that have come upon the world. They've arrived. Perilous times have arrived. It's dangerous now. And wars and rumors of wars and pestilence and plague, it's here. The things that Jesus said would happen in the last days. They've arrived. So we're going to get through it. King David said

as a paraphrase, he said, you know I've been young and I've been old. I've seen a lot of stuff, Doc. King David. But I'll tell you something I haven't seen, Doc. I've never seen a righteous begging for bread. That was an observation by King David. I've seen a lot of stuff in my lifetime. But I'll tell you something I haven't seen. I've never seen God's people begging for food.

That's your promise. God is going to supply the food that you need. He not only will supply the food that you need. He not only will supply the food that you need, he'll make you a vessel to feed others. People who don't have faith in him, he'll give you more food for yourself so that you can feed the people who don't have faith in God. Don't worry about it.

You're going to be a vessel for God's plenty and your abundance will give you an opportunity to praise God in front of all the people who have lack and are fearful. You will be able to tell them why you are abundant, why you have more than enough, who supplies it, and you'll be able to tell them about Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. So don't be afraid of these things. Be faithful to God. And Jesus said, look at the lilies. Look at them. Look at the way the lilies are dressed.

I'll provide you clothes better than these lilies. Look at the birds. They're not starving. They're not starving. Look at the birds. They're not starving. They're not starving. Not in my house. They're not starving. I guarantee it. Every day, doc, I just say, I carry that bird seed out. I'm like, I'm being, I'm being commanded by God to feed these birds and squirrels, you know? But you know what? On my property, that's what I am. I'm a vessel to feed the birds. He promised the birds, you don't have you know what? On my property, that's what I am. I'm a vessel to feed the birds. He promised the birds, you don't have to get up and look for food. I got Rick. I got

Rick and he's going to put the food out there for you. And I've got the fattest birds you've ever seen. I think they go to bed at night with tummy aches. They'd be dreaming about waking up the next day. But the point is, God feeds the birds. You don't see birds on the corner of an intersection with a sign that says, I need food. You'll see humans, but have you ever seen a bird at the intersection of a highway with a sign that says, I need worms? Will honk for food or something like that.

Why is that, Doc? Because God provides for them. Why is it that birds are fed, but humans beg? What is it? It's the attitude. The birds have an expectation wired in them. There's got to be food. They're connected to their Savior.

They're connected to their Creator. They're connected to their creator. They just know when they get up, I should just chirp and be happy because I have a creator who's going to feed me today. But humans will go stand on a street corner with a sign and beg for food because they're disconnected from their creator. And Jesus said, just be like the birds. Trust me. Just be happy. Sing a song in the morning. Be happy. I'll take care of you. So I'm just telling you, my friends, don't worry about these food shortages that are coming.

Be smart. Be wise. Be prepared. Be prepared. But don't be afraid. I love you very much. We will be back here tomorrow with more true news. God bless.

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