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August 1, 2025 26 mins
The Forecast Before the Forecast: What Comes Before the Silver Surge In this special episode, Martin Armstrong returns to lay the groundwork for one of the biggest market turning points of the decade. You’ll hear:
  • Why the world is nearing a confidence collapse
  • How capital is already stampeding across borders
  • What the historical cycles say about the next phase of silver
  • And why ignoring AI-driven forecasting tools like Socrates is no longer an option
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They really think they can conquer Russia and the way
they present it. You got that new khan Kin singer
who was thrown out of Congress, but he was the
one on the January six committee with Cheney. Right, you
can google this. He came out and says we can

(00:20):
defeat Russia in three days.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
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(00:43):
Survival Network now more than ever.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial
Survival Network. I'm your host, Carrie Lutz, and today we've
got Morton Armstrong with us. Sent out an urgent missive
to those on his mailing list last week on the eighteenth,

(01:10):
basically says Russia sees Trump's fifty day window as a
green light to keep up brutal offensive in Ukraine. You know,
basically continuation of the war expansion World War three. You
know Martin like warm General Smedley Bakers Butler said that

(01:35):
war is a racket, and I'm looking. You had a
table there the cost of wars going back in twenty
twenty four dollars and even the core the cost of
the war of eighteen twelve in today's dollars was two billion,
so and it lasted thirty two months. Then we go

(01:56):
to World War Two, which was the worst of all
of them, and that was five point seven trillion and
change in forty five months. I mean, the wars, the
cost of them keeps going up. And I'm currently writing
a book because my father was a pilot in World
War Two. He's a hump pilot. He flew over the

(02:18):
Himalayas from India to China, and you know, flying over
war materials, cargo, and half of the stuff wound up
when it hit China in the black market anyway, So
what the point, what the point of that endeavor was.
But the book I'm writing is about the corruption of
World War two, tracing it all how everybody got rich,

(02:42):
dealt with the enemy. It didn't matter what side you
were on. The game is when there's a war, you
get to steal unlimited vest.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Sums of money if you're on the inside.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
If you can actually google it up and you'll see
that all the way weapons they were sending to Afghanistan
we're ending up in the black market and sold on
the streets in the United States. Even Obama was forced
to come out with legislation, uh against it. I mean,
this is the way it. You just had Zelenski, you know,

(03:19):
try to rescind any you know, the corruption investigations because
you know, they know they are losing, and yeah, you're
running out of people, so they just want to fill
their pockets. And I hope the hell would goes someplace

(03:41):
other than Miami. But uh uh uh, it's just I mean,
the guy's not going to survive in Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Ukrainians I talked to they said if he was on fire,
they wouldn't urinate on him until he was dead. Look,
Ukrainians based say that, you know, they're you know, he
doesn't listen to them. There was an attempted assassination or
in last May, and he fired his bodyguard and his

(04:14):
bodyguards are Americans in British. Now, oh, he doesn't even
trust Ukrainian people. I don't know, how how much money
do you need? You can't spend that. I mean, I've
dealt him in billions in trilliads and it would be
I'd go out to dinner, you know, just did like
a ten billion dollar trade or something, and you go

(04:36):
out to dinner and you order, you know, okay, find
the bills like four hundred bucks. You know, it's you
can't spend that kind of money. You can't spend a
billion dollars. All that is good for is basically, you know,
bribing other people. That's about it. It's you know what.

(05:02):
You know, people don't realize how much a billion dollars
really is.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I think the most expensive house in the country is
like one hundred million or hundred and twenty or something
like that.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Mari Lago I think is the most expensive.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's and that's with inflation, you know, not what it
costs to build it.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Originally it was a million and a couple of million
bucks to build it. So when you look at this,
you really think that NATO is going to deploy two
hundred and fifty thousand troops. I don't see US sending
American troops there, do you, I hope not.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I spoke to someone very close to Trump and I
thought that we've been good. You know, maybe I was
conspiracy theory or whatever. But I said, look, we got
to get the hell out of NATO. They're going to
do a false flag to invoke Article five and try

(06:03):
and drag us into into.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
War in Europe.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
And I expect you go really instead what I got? Yes,
we know you're right.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, here's where the AI comes in. I call it
Trump GPT. This administration's being run with an AI backbone.
It's not to say the AI is making the decisions.
The AI is wargaming every possibility everything they do, right
down to the litigation model. And so they've already thought

(06:37):
of a lot of this stuff. And you know, but
it's Europe. They just made this amazing deal with the
United States that I don't even believe they're going to
comply with. They're all promises, these deals, there's nothing concrete, substantive.
So look what we did for you. You got to help
us out here. Europe is going to fall. You can't

(06:57):
let Europe fall?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Uh? In the end? Does he just let Europe lose
on their own?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
What's happening is that they have vested so much into
this Ukrainian propaganda that oh, if Ukraine falls, Prutin's gonna
come and take Europe. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing in
Europe for Russia to take uh to begin with, they
have to get all their energy from from you know, Russia.

(07:30):
You're not talking about gold or anything. You know, all
they all they're going to get is nothing but headaches,
civil unrest. The French you're going to say, you're going
to pay our pensions now, you know. I mean, there's
nothing to go in for or if you look at
it objectively, it you know, you have to have some

(07:55):
sort of economic reason to do it. Japan went into
Manchuri had to get assets, energy, et cetera. There's got
to be a profit to it. H The only exceptions
are like religion or like you know, Cruse Chef did

(08:16):
we will bury you. That was almost an economic religion
that you know, Communism would defeat capitalism. It's not. It
wasn't like oh you got a whole bunch of gold
and rewant it, you know, or something like that. You know,
and in ancient days it was the same thing. I

(08:37):
mean that the troops shared in the spoils. So they followed,
you know, held Gander the Great you know, they stopped
in India's today, We're not going in there forget it,
you know, He couldn't say, oh, let's go conquer this country.
Why because I just don't like them. You know, what

(08:58):
are we going to get out it? Unough, you know
they say, really, you're on your own yea. So we
have on the west side they've tried to, you know,
invade Russia. This would be the third time. Sweden was

(09:19):
the first with Peter the Great. Sweden actually controlled all
the way down to Ukraine. People don't realize that historically,
but and that's why they call Peter the Great. He
basically kicked him now out of central central Europe. Then

(09:42):
you had you know, the Poean and then you had Hitler.
Why do they always want to go into Russia? And
Russia is the richest country in the world, with seventy
five trillion dollars in assets. They probably should make a good,

(10:03):
you know, film about what happened when the Russian Revolution.
Russia had the largest gold reserves of anybody in the world.
Somebody hid them and uh, they didn't want the Bolsheviks
to get them, and they've never been found. Rumors are

(10:25):
that they were buried in a forest or dropped it
with deep lake. But it's kind of like, you know,
the nights, Templar treasurer or.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Something, Pablo Escobar's treasure.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, whatever, you know, Uh, Ferdinand Marc Ocean, the Philippines. Uh,
nobody knows where the hell it is. But you know,
even Margaret, you know, Satcher stood up and said Russia
is the richest. They got more gold, more diamonds, more oil,
and more timber than anybody. But so there's that economic incentives.

(11:02):
And what i've heard basically out of Paris is that
mccrone's been the one that's been pushing the cent troops
into Ukraine and he thinks that they can take out
Russia and then Europe will get the seventy five trillion,
resurrect the Roman Empire and lead the world again, you know,

(11:22):
and then they're all past Lewis, you know, is deranged.
But I mean then you have Kalis, who is the
Prime Minister of Estonia now the head of security there
for the EU, and you've even come out and said
Russia's too big and needs to be broken up. Yeah,
he's going to do out of his mind. And I

(11:46):
don't support him on this. I don't know who the
hell he's listening to. You. One piece you had basic,
you had really, you know the Men's agreement, everybody signed it,
and then you had Mercy Will come out and said, well,
we never intended to honor that, we were just buying
time for Ukraine to build an army. Then there was

(12:07):
another piece deal of it. Putin was signing that Boris
Johnson hopped on the plane told Zelensky wasn't allowed to
sign it. That made the front pages of Ukrainian press.
I mean, why if I'm Putin, you want me to
do this again? You know, I'm gonna tell you to
shove it where this where the sun doesn't shine. So

(12:30):
you know, how many times can you fool the guy? Yeah,
he's written, He's drew so many red lines and Europe
deliberately crosses each one. I mean the last one was
you give long range missiles to attack inside Russia. That's
it they did. Okay, hit is now please so we

(12:53):
can say you're the aggressor. He just had merged in
Germany come out and saying we're going to have long
range missiles to to Kiev so they can destroy Moscow.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Really, this is insanity.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
They really think they can conquer Russia and the way
they present it. You got that Neil khan Kin singer
who was thrown out of Congress, but he was the
one on the January sixth committee with Cheney. Can google this.
He came out and says, we can defeat Russia in

(13:30):
three days. Three days, I guess maybe five days for China.
You know, they they act as if they will never
get a shot off. We can wipe them out, that's it.
And you know, I don't know what the hell these people.
I guess they're all just sniffing cocaine on the train.

(13:51):
You know, we've said that, right, I saw that happened. No,
with the it's it's illogical. You know, if you wrote
a movie and made this the plot, nobody will believe it.
I mean, it's just absurd.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Okay, So that's where we're at. There will uh Trump
fall for it? But the Socrates model and twenty twenty
six panic. How should investors, as enormies out here kind
of prepare for that?

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, I think what you're going to see is since
Trump has even moved up this deadline to August, you know,
I he backs off or something, I don't know. I
don't see Putin agreeing to this. I mean, if he did,
I think he would be overthrown. You had Zelenski trying

(14:51):
to exastinate Putin just you know what. It was a
couple of months ago. And you know, Putin is the
smartest man in the room and the most responsible. He
understands where world War three goes. The pres o we're
here twisted, you know, because they're all just paid by
new cons anyhow. But oh he's threatening, you know, world

(15:16):
War No, he's warning, you asshole. You know, if I
were to do World War I'm not going to tell
you I'm coming, you know, I'm just gonna punch you
in the faith. That's it. No no warning, you know,
when he's standing out, is this really what you want
to go to? So my concern is that they try

(15:41):
to assassinate him because they know what I know, that
he is the most responsible leader period and so they've
done all these things to try to get him to
act emotionally and it hasn't worked for both wrong range
missiles invading you know, Russia itself. So they tried to

(16:08):
remove him because they want somebody like you know, Medev
right behind him who will act basically emotionally. Oh you
sent these missiles, that's it enough, you know, And puse,
you know, that's what they want. Putin doesn't respond emotionally,

(16:31):
but he's getting an awful lot of criticism in Russia
for not doing so. So it's kind of difficult at
this stage in the game. Uh. But the computer is
really showing, you know, ideally even like silver or temporary

(16:55):
high in July. Uh, maybe we back off and then
twenty six is looking like outright war. You know, I
don't know, you know, do you replace Putin in November
or so? Uh? And then you get somebody like medef

(17:19):
In there who will go to war. But it's also
this is showing up globally, so you're seeing you know,
conflicts even you know, Thailand and Cambodia in the university Pakistan. Uh,

(17:40):
you have Eradan and Turkey. Who's really it kind of
things like the Chrome wants to resurrect Europe is the
Roman Empire. Aradan in Turkey wants to resurrect the Ottoman Empire.
You know, so it's man you have even Grief handed

(18:00):
them a handful of jets and made the front pages
and what did they say, Oh, now we can do
a sneak attack on on Turkey nations. I mean, it's
like I don't know. Did somebody just you know, taint
the water and they're all just you know, with drunk
on cocaine or something.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
I really don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
I've been doing it for forty years and I've never
seen every one of them is a warm up. I mean,
it's it's crazy. I mean, we have messed the days
of mess America, and she'd stand up, Oh, I want
world peace, you know, I don't know if anybody says
that anymore. I want world war. Let's let's clean house

(18:47):
or something.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
So what about what's happening in Iran now too? That
looks like heading for a regime replacement?

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, look, it's even there. You have a com conflict
between religious conflict. I mean, you know, I did warn
people in Washington do not take out the Ayatola because he's,
you know, Israel, I think was literally trying to do

(19:19):
a regime change taking targeting individual senior people. And Trump
at least got the message, I think, and then told
Israel not to touch him because you've got about thirty
percent on average of these other countries Egypt, you know,

(19:40):
et cetera thatter. She so you take out him and
you make it a religious war. Yeah, you know, that's
not negotiable. You know, this would be like you know Zowentzky,
who is outlawing Orthodox Christie anity, assassinating the patriarch in Moscow,

(20:03):
you know, I mean, or Protestants assassinating the pulpe. I
mean you don't do that kind of stuff. Yeah, religion,
it's it's much more different than you're taking out a leader. Okay, fine, whatever,

(20:26):
but that just makes it a real mess. And Iran
is by far not settled and NEI there's the Middle
East that will probably flare up again next year, but
you know they're not. There's a large segment within Iran

(20:48):
that's against the the Sheites. You know, women have to
be covered, stuff like that. Then you go to you know,
the Turkey we're shooing, and you'll see a girl in
the bikini and pastry and newspaper. Yeah, completely different.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yeah, true. So what about censorship and truth?

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Just as a preamble to that, I put my YouTube
channel analytics through five different ais including Google's right, the
owner of YouTube, and each one said that my videos
are algorithmically suppressed and basically I'm silenced to about ten

(21:30):
percent of the audience that I should be getting, or
maybe even more. It might even be multiples of what
I'm getting. And every now and then we have one breakout,
like the first time when I talked to you after
the book was released, and then you had your Ukraine
forecast that it would disappear, and it broke through, and

(21:54):
it broke through the suppression, and then they do it
really sneakily, periodic suppression. They don't do it on every one,
but they do it on most of them, but they
let a few break out to think that you're actually
getting through. It's a global thing that we're talking about here,

(22:15):
the censorship thing.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Look, this is just read Lennon. You know, newspapers are
a great tool to control people. You know, this is
what they're doing. What our computer shows is that you know,
it's twenty thirty two forecasts and I've shed many times.
Our governments are collapsing, people beginning to question their validity.

(22:44):
The censorship is just part of it. You look at Germany.
At first they went into outlaw the AfD. Oh they're
a bunch of Nazis because they were against immigration. Now
it's the number one part you're seeing that. And you
know Portugal and Poe went Nigel Farage. You know, we

(23:08):
had forecasts that Breakfit would win. Every newspaper in London
said it would lose everyone and even Davos did its
best to come out against it. You had all of them,
I mean trying, you know, Solos, so you know it

(23:30):
made the front page. He was paying to defeat it,
and our computer said it would win. And Nigel came
to our twenty nineteen conference in Loan and he said,
of course I'm here. He's the only one that said
we would win. So even these polls, they're not real polls.

(23:51):
It's it's what we want people to think. Oh, you
shouldn't vote for that, because you're just gonna be in
the minority. And this is what they've attempted. So you
have advanced at the Munich Security Conference and got them
all upset, you know about the suppression of free speech
there right, all right, So this is this is all

(24:14):
part of what our computer's projecting that you know, people
are going to realize to be when you start getting
into war. I mean Vietnam, you were eighteen, you could
be drafted. You weren't old enough to have a drink,
and you certainly couldn't vote. Where the hell is that democracy?

(24:40):
And if you didn't show up, you're a draft dodger.
It's roll in prison.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Remember, so you know, we're never asked shall we go
to war with Russia? They will just do it and
they tell us, oh, we're this is democracy standing up
against the dictator.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Really, let's pull back the curtain and look a little closer,
you know, Ursula head of your look on even on Wikipedia.
She has never stood for an election ever in her
entire career. She's a bureaucrat. You know. When they designed
the EEO, it was to make sure there was no

(25:22):
democratic process, that that people had a prayer in hell
of changing government.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, so agreed, Hey, we're going to make this part.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
We're going to make this part too, because I want
to go over a number of the predictions that were
in the book that came true. The book, of course,
is the world according to Martin Armstrong. Conversations with the
Master Forecaster. The place to buy it link in the
show notes.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
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