Russian media is reporting that Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to break with Ukraine by 90%+ and join Russia on Sunday with a voter turnout of about 54%. Of course the ballot did not really allow a separatist vote and Kiev has accused Moscow of pouring forces into the peninsula to make it very difficult for anyone to stand […]

I have clients on every continent and traveled just about everywhere. What I have learned is to understand the people of any nation, you simply have to (1) know its background and history, and (2) its language. The combination of these two elements allow you reach the all critical comprehension of their thinking process for […]

COMMENT: Instead of your fishy fiction you should say real story about us (Russian, Ukrainian and Belarus) and 309,6 circle of the Orthodoxy and their Capital in Rus land: Kiev, Moscow, St.Peterburg, Moscow and (Kiev in the future). But you wouldn’t, would you? REPLY: Sorry. That entire region has a very deep history and you cannot […]

Gold rallied and provided a minor weekly buy signal but has formidable resistance at the 1425 level while the gold promoters tout inflation, the Fed, war, and more hyperinflation. Their counterpart is of course CNBC in the stock market who will claim there really was no sell off only a buying opportunity as Bloomberg TV […]

So far our computer monitoring capital flows globally is showing a gross flight that is in excess of $50 billion. This will send the Russian economy into a negative growth rate for 2014 or flat at best in real terms. This seems to be spiraling downward and indications imply that Russia will most likely invade […]

Russian Army has been massing troops on the Ukrainian border rapidly rising to almost 100,000 troops as well as missile launchers and tactical weapons. The crisis continues to escalate. Based on information, Russia would retake the East.

There are talks going on in Europe on how to deal with the massive banking failure in Europe. Of course, nobody want to admit that the cause of this failure was not risky banking – but BRAIN-DEAD political design of the Euro. Because there was no consolidation of the national debts, there was no single […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I am impressed with your models and the cycle of war. What has truly astonished many of your readers in Eastern Europe is how you focused on Ukraine and said this is the flash point before anything happened and then you said wait until after the Olympics and then Russia will invade. […]

RT (Russia Today) news network has been playing down the Russian side of events in Ukraine and has not projected an unbiased view. Liz Wahl resigned on the air noting that she will not be a part of the propaganda machine. This is the sad part of news on both sides – they do not […]

Vladimir Putin invokes extremes of opinion in the West that oscillate between a disgusted rejection of his alleged despotic arbitrariness and fear of his imagined unpredictable violence that some believe can be latent and sometimes overt, and the other extreme fascination as well as admiration of his brilliant, unerring instinct power. Some see Putin as […]