Top Three Videos – September 12, 2026
Simon Dixon: “They are Deploying the Control Grid”...(September 9, 2026)
The Peter McCormack Show...
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Martin Armstrong: Exclusive Forecasts to 2032...(September 9, 2026)
Financial Survival Network...
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Kerry Lutz interviews Martin Armstrong, who predicts escalating geopolitical conflict from 2027 through roughly 2029–2030, a global recession bottoming around 2028, and the possible breakup or failure of the European Union by 2029, while arguing that major political change may not arrive until 2032. Armstrong contends that sovereign-debt stress—particularly in Japan and Europe—could trigger cascading defaults, but believes international capital fleeing war and instability will strengthen the U.S. dollar and push the U.S. stock market higher into 2032 after an initial interest-rate-driven correction. He argues that Iran is deliberately targeting financial vulnerabilities rather than merely disrupting oil, that Zelensky is intentionally provoking a harder-line Russia, and that Europe’s economic weakness, CBDC-driven capital controls, rising interest costs, and multiple potential military fronts are creating a dangerous environment in which war and financial crisis reinforce each other.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Armstrong’s 2027–2032 forecast: Armstrong says geopolitical conflict will probably escalate beginning in 2027 and spread through 2029–2030, while the global recession may not bottom until around 2028 and major political change could take until 2032. He describes the coming conflicts as multiple geopolitical “brush fires”—Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, China/Taiwan, and North/South Korea—rather than a single World War I- or II-style confrontation.
- Europe and the EU could fracture by 2029: Armstrong calls Europe’s economic deterioration “astonishing,” citing growth of only 0.5% in Italy and 0.8% in Germany, and says the EU may not survive beyond 2029. He blames the euro’s architecture, particularly the failure to consolidate sovereign debts, arguing that once one European borrower breaks, traders will immediately ask “who’s next?” and potentially create a contagion similar to 1931 or Greece in 2010.
- Iran is playing “3D chess” with financial markets: Armstrong argues Iran’s strategy extends beyond the Strait of Hormuz and oil prices, claiming it sent more missiles and drones toward Dubai than Israel and temporarily knocked Dubai’s financial infrastructure offline after roughly $30 billion had been invested in AI facilities there. He says disrupting Gulf oil exports could prevent indebted Gulf states from servicing loans, transmitting financial stress into London and elsewhere, while Iran can also exploit elections in Russia in September, Israel in October, and the U.S. in November.
- Dollar and stocks rise as global capital flees conflict: Armstrong rejects predictions of a 1929-style U.S. crash because today’s capital flows are fundamentally different, forecasting only an initial stock-market support retest before equities continue higher into 2032. He expects the dollar to be “the last one standing,” arguing that institutions in Europe, Japan, Dubai, and other threatened regions will move capital toward the U.S., just as World War I shifted financial power from London to America and the U.S. eventually accumulated 76% of official global gold reserves after World War II.
- Sovereign debt, CBDCs, and capital controls: Armstrong says Japan is particularly vulnerable because of its debt-to-GDP ratio and warns that a Japanese crisis could ignite cascading sovereign defaults as investors search for the next weak borrower; he also notes that U.S. interest expenditures have already exceeded military spending. He expects Europe to respond to capital flight by accelerating CBDCs, restricting cash, and imposing capital controls, while heavily indebted governments face the fundamental problem that continually rolling debt eventually fails when interest consumes spending and confidence disappears.
Bravos Research: China Is Using This War To Replace America...(September 9, 2026)
Bravos Research...
Summary
The speaker argues that China prevented the Middle East oil shock from becoming a global recession by cutting its oil imports by roughly 6 million barrels per day, using an estimated 1.44 billion-barrel strategic stockpile to remove more than 5% of global oil demand at a critical moment. He contends this was not altruism but a calculated geopolitical strategy: China protected its export markets while demonstrating an “oil weapon” built through discounted Russian and Iranian crude, yuan-based transactions, and dark-fleet tankers that bypass the U.S.-dominated petrodollar system. The speaker believes this maneuver could mark an early shift in the global economic order, arguing that China’s falling 10-year government bond yield—while U.S., UK, German, and Japanese yields rise—suggests international capital may increasingly view China as a safe haven and more reliable economic partner.
Top 5 Key Topics
- China neutralized a historic oil shortage: Before the war, global production and consumption were both approximately 106 million barrels per day, while the closure of the Strait of Hormuz allegedly removed about 20 million barrels per day; Saudi Arabia’s alternative pipeline restored 7 million and 32 countries released another 3.5 million per day from strategic reserves. China then cut imports by roughly 6 million barrels per day, reducing the remaining deficit from 9.5 million to about 3.5 million barrels and, according to the speaker, turning a potential global recession into a manageable period of higher prices.
- China’s secret 1.44 billion-barrel stockpile: Satellite-based estimates cited in the video put China’s oil reserves at roughly 1.44 billion barrels, more than the combined reserves of the other countries shown, with additional underground storage potentially making the real figure even larger. The speaker estimates China could survive for around a year on its reserves, versus less than 90 days for Japan, around 60 days for the U.S., and less than 20 days for Europe.
- An alternative to the petrodollar system: The speaker says China accumulated discounted sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil—potentially at 20–30% discounts—through “dark fleet” tankers and yuan-denominated transactions that circumvented the U.S. financial system. He argues this undermines Washington’s ability to weaponize dollar access and demonstrates that international oil trade does not necessarily have to remain dollar-denominated forever.
- China’s new “oil weapon”: By suddenly removing more than 5% of global oil demand without being a major oil producer itself, China demonstrated what the speaker describes as a new geopolitical weapon comparable to the “Arab oil weapon” revealed during the 1973 crisis. He argues Beijing continued drawing down reserves even after oil fell below its estimated $80-a-barrel reserve break-even price in June 2026, suggesting its strategy extends beyond simply avoiding expensive crude.
- China positions itself as a global safe haven: China represents almost 30% of global manufacturing output, versus 17% for the U.S., 15% for the Eurozone, and 5% for Japan, giving Beijing a strong incentive to protect oil-dependent trading partners that buy Chinese exports. The speaker points to China’s falling 10-year government bond yield—now, he says, below equivalent U.S., UK, Japanese, and German yields for the first time in nearly 20 years—as evidence that capital may already be shifting toward China as trust, trade relationships, and the global economic order begin to change.