The president of the United States just threatened to end all trade with China if the Chinese do not stop buying oil from Iran.  I realize that this sounds like something that Hollywood would dream up, but this isn’t a plot from an episode of your favorite television show.  This is really happening.  President Trump has decided to raise the level of economic pressure on Iran to the maximum in a last ditch effort to force the Iranians to make a deal to end their nuclear program.  The oil industry is the central pillar of the Iranian economy, and President Trump wants to make it impossible for them to export any oil at all.  So he is threatening to completely cut off all trade with any nation that purchases any amount of Iranian oil.

This is what a trade war looks like when it goes nuclear.

President Trump is pledging that any nation that buys Iranian oil “will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form”.  He didn’t mention China specifically when he wrote this, but Trump knows that China buys far more oil from Iran than anyone else.

For some reason, the mainstream media is mostly ignoring this story.  But State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce has confirmed that this is now U.S. policy and that China in particular is being targeted…

“These sanctions are being imposed pursuant to President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign to drive Iran’s oil exports, including to China, to zero. China is by far the largest importer of Iranian oil. The Iranian regime uses the revenue it generates from these sales to finance attacks on U.S. allies, support terrorism around the world, and pursue other destabilizing actions,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said.

This is it.

We really have reached a moment of truth.

In 2025, approximately 90 percent of all Iranian oil exports have been purchased by China…

Shipping data from cargo tracking company Vortexa shows that 90 percent of Iranian oil exports are purchased by China, and Iranian oil exports to China hit a record high of 1.8 million barrels per day in March, Reuters reported, citing ship tracking data.

China isn’t going to stop buying oil from Iran.

I hope that I am wrong about that, but I do not believe that I am.

And I do not believe that Trump is bluffing either.

So it appears that we are about to see a full shutdown of all trade with China.

Most Americans have absolutely no idea what that will mean for us.

It is being reported that “90% of the inputs in prescription drugs consumed in the US are imported”, and a “significant portion” of those inputs are produced by the Chinese…

“Estimates show that 90% of the inputs in prescription drugs consumed in the US are imported,” said Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo. A significant portion of that comes from China, making it a major supply chain risk.

Ongoing tariff disputes between Washington and Beijing have investors on edge, especially in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, where any price shock could ripple across the industry and impact both investors and patients.

This is a really big deal, because as I have discussed previously, more than 60 percent of all U.S. adults are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug.

According to supply chain analytics company Exiger, about 80 percent of the active ingredients in our pharmaceutical drugs come from China…

According to a report from the supply chain analytics company Exiger released last week, the US relies on China for as much as 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients. For generic antibiotics, in particular, the dependence is much higher at 90 percent.

If there is a complete shutdown of trade with China, you are going to see drug shortages like you have never seen before.

I wish that I was exaggerating, but I am not.

Even 95 percent of our ibuprofen comes from China.

Good luck getting ibuprofen when none is coming across the Pacific Ocean.

Of course there will be shortages in countless other industries as well.

Right now, most of our computers and phones are made in China…

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. relies on imports from China for a majority of the following products by value: game consoles (86%, $6 billion), PC monitors (79%, $5 billion), smartphones (73%, $41 billion), lithium-ion batteries (70%, $16 billion), and laptops (66%, $32 billion).

This means consumers and businesses that need these products will have few to zero alternatives for products that do not come from China.

Our stores are filled with televisions, appliances, toys and other products that are made in China.

I hate to say it, but our economy literally cannot function normally without Chinese-made goods.

We should have never allowed this to happen, but this is the reality of the scenario that we are now facing.

The good news is that it appears that the Chinese are still leaving the door open for a potential deal…

China has said it’s evaluating approaches from US officials to start negotiations about tariffs, a potential deescalation in the trade war that has raised hopes formal trade talks could start soon.

“If we fight, we will fight to the end; if we talk, the door is open,” China’s commerce ministry stated on Friday. “The tariff war and trade war were unilaterally initiated by the United States. If the United States wants to talk, it should show its sincerity and be prepared to correct its wrong practices and cancel the unilateral tariffs.”

Hopefully the U.S. and China will sit down and talk, and hopefully both sides will be in a mood to make significant compromises.

Because if we stay on the path that we are currently on, it will be a nightmare.

Even before the trade war erupted about a month ago, many U.S. consumers were stocking up in anticipation of the coming tariffs…

Similarly, according to a survey of 1,000 consumers by NielsenIQ done in March, 31% of consumers said they were stocking up on groceries in anticipation of tariffs while others said they were expediting non-grocery purchases before tariff-related price increases took effect.

Have you been stocking up?

I hope so.

If there are any Chinese-made products that you will need in the months ahead, get them now.

If all trade with China is suddenly brought to a screeching halt, it is going to throw our society into a state of great chaos.

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About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News under the title: U.S. Government’s Bio-War Against America: 15 Historical Medical Horrors Inflicted on the American People by the Government Itself

As this research article reveals, the U.S. government has routinely unleashed bioweapons on its own people. It has weaponized medicine, dropped aerosolized bioweapons on civilian populations in the USA and subjected American civilians—especially Black and marginalized populations—to horrific medical torture under the guise of “science.”

From forced sterilization to aerosolized biowarfare attacks, history exposes a government that views its citizens as disposable guinea pigs rather than free human beings. And as you read these words, the same corrupt agencies—CDC, NIH, DOD, FDA—are pushing bird flu hysteria, flu season propaganda, and forced vaccine mandates designed to inject you with engineered bioweapons that seek to accelerate global depopulation of the human race.

The evidence is undeniable. Each of the 15 events listed below can be independently verified through multiple historical sources.

1. J. Marion Sims’ Experiments on Enslaved Black Women (1845–1849)

Year: 1845–1849

Location: Alabama

Agency/Entity: None (governmental institutions later funded Sims’ work)

Details: The “father of gynecology” tortured enslaved Black women with repeated agonizing surgeries—without anesthesia—to develop surgical techniques. Many died in agony. No compensation, no justice.

Health Ranger commentary: This monstrous cruelty laid the foundation for the medical establishment’s systemic abuse of Black Americans. These women were raped, mutilated, and discarded—yet medical elites still celebrate Sims as a pioneer. The racist sadism of American medicine begins here.

2. Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972)

Year: 1932–1972

Location: Tuskegee, Alabama

Agency/Entity: U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), CDC

Details: 400 Black men infected with syphilis were intentionally denied penicillin (even after it was available) to study disease progression. Over 100 died. Families were never told the truth.

Health Ranger commentary: A 40-year genocide sanctioned by the CDC. This was not “medicine”—it was race-based extermination. If this isn’t proof that the U.S. government is thoroughly evil, nothing is. The CDC continues to murder Americans to this day, except that the medical experiments have been upgraded to nationwide vaccine injection psyops.

3. Puerto Rico Pill Trials (1950s–1960s)

Year: 1950s–1960s

Location: Puerto Rico

Agency/Entity: U.S. government, G.D. Searle & Company

Details: Poor Puerto Rican women were given high-dose, untested birth control pills. Severe side effects—blood clots, tumors, death—were ignored. At least three women died, and countless suffered.

Health Ranger commentary: The globalist eugenics agenda was already in full swing. The U.S. uses poor and minority women as lab rats—now they’re doing it with COVID vaccines and mRNA infertility drugs, among other methods.

4. Mustard Gas Experiments on Soldiers (1940s)

Year: 1942–1945

Location: Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland

Agency/Entity: U.S. Army, Chemical Warfare Service

Details: 60,000+ U.S. soldiers were gassed with mustard gas and nerve agents without their consent. Skin melting, lung damage, lifelong agony—all covered up.

Health Ranger commentary: Your own government weaponized its troops—and VA benefits were denied to victims. Modern vets face similar betrayal with toxic burn pits, Gulf War Syndrome, and the anthrax vaccine cover-up.

5. Operation Sea-Spray (1950) – Biowarfare on San Francisco

Year: 1950

Location: San Francisco

Agency/Entity: U.S. Navy, U.S. Army

Details: The military sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii over the city. Pneumonia-like illnesses surged, and at least one death was linked.

Health Ranger commentary: The U.S. willingly infected its own people to test bioweapons. Now, Bill Gates and the Pentagon fund “gain-of-function” research using mosquitoes and other forms of bioweapons delivery. Where do you suppose this goes next?

6. CIA’s MK-Ultra & LSD Mind Control (1950s–1970s)

Year: 1950s–1970s

Location: Nationwide (hospitals, prisons, military bases)

Agency/Entity: CIA, U.S. Army, NIH

Details: Prisoners, soldiers, and civilians were drugged with LSD and subjected to psychological torture. Many suicided, went insane, or died.

Health Ranger commentary: The global deep state still uses mass medication to suppress consciousness. Fluoride in water, SSRIs, vaccine neurotoxins—it’s the same agenda. Wake up. Protect your neurology and reject the jabs that damage your brain.

7. Human Radiation Experiments (1945–1974)

Year: 1945–1974

Location: Nationwide (Oak Ridge, TN)

Agency/Entity: AEC (Atomic Energy Commission), DoD

Details: Pregnant women, children, and prisoners were injected with plutonium to study radiation effects. Tumors, genetic defects, and early deaths followed.

Health Ranger commentary: The same government that destroyed Hiroshima then melted its own citizens from the inside. Do you still trust their “safe and effective” lies about mRNA? They have no hesitation in killing their own people, and we are all being targeted right now by our own government and its so-called “health” departments like the CDC and NIH.

8. U.S. Government Infected Guatemalans with STDs (1946–1948)

Year: 1946–1948

Location: Guatemala

Agency/Entity: NIH, PHS

Details: Doctors deliberately infected prisoners, soldiers, and mental patients with syphilis and gonorrhea. No treatment was given.

Health Ranger commentary: The medical-industrial complex operates on genocide. From Tuskegee to COVID, they see human beings as lab rats. They have zero recognition of the value of human life, and they will sacrifice any number of human beings in the name of “science!”

9. Operation Big Buzz & Operation Drop Kick (1950s) – Mosquito Bioweapons

Year: 1950s

Location: Georgia, Florida

Agency/Entity: U.S. Army

Details: Military dumped diseased mosquitoes on civilians to test vector-borne warfare.

Health Ranger commentary: The same Pentagon that weaponized mosquitoes now funds DARPA biotech—climate lockdowns, bird flu fearmongering, lab-made pandemics, and mass vaccine injection campaigns are their new weapons.

10. Operation Whitecoat (1954–1973) – Soldier Bioweapon Guinea Pigs

Year: 1954–1973

Location: Fort Detrick, Maryland

Agency/Entity: U.S. Army

Details: Conscientious objectors were infected with Q fever and other bioweapons. During the program, volunteers were exposed to Q fever in open-air tests in the Utah desert, where they sat alongside caged guinea pigs as Q fever germs were released into the air.

Health Ranger commentary: The military still uses troops as test subjects—anthrax vaccines, mRNA shots—and denies VA coverage to the damaged.

11. Manhattan Project Radiation Experiments (1940s–1970s) – The U.S. Government’s Nuclear Poisoning of Innocents

Year: 1940s–1970s

Location: Nationwide (Chicago, Los Alamos, Hanford)

Agency/Entity: Manhattan Project, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Details: Soldiers, nuclear workers, and even pregnant women were injected with plutonium or dosed with deadly radiation—all while being lied to about the extreme dangers. These human guinea pigs suffered agonizing deaths from cancer, organ failure, and radiation sickness.

Health Ranger commentary: The U.S. government has no right to decide who lives and dies for “science.” Those responsible for these atrocities should have been prosecuted at Nuremberg.

12. Congressional Investigation on Lyme Disease as a Bioweapon (2019 Hearing, Rep. Chris Smith) – The Pentagon’s Tick-Borne Plague

Year: 1950s–1970s

Location: Plum Island, NY (secret DoD biolab)

Agency/Entity: DoD

Details: Whistleblowers reveal how Lyme disease was engineered on Plum Island, weaponized through infected ticks. Millions now suffer from chronic illness—while the Pentagon denies everything.

Health Ranger commentary: If the U.S. military created Lyme disease, it’s biological warfare against its own people—and treason against America.

13. Anthrax Vaccine Experiments (1990s–2000s) – The Gulf War Syndrome Cover-Up

Year: 1990s–2000s

Location: Military bases worldwide

Agency/Entity: DoD, FDA

Details: Soldiers were forced to take untested anthrax vaccines, leading to autoimmune disorders, neurological damage, and deaths. When victims spoke up, they were silenced as “conspiracy theorists.”

Health Ranger commentary: This is medical murder—yet no one was held accountable. Now, the same military-pharmaceutical complex pushes COVID-19 vaccines with similar disregard for human life.

14. COVID-19 Vaccine Trials (2020–Present) – A Mass Depopulation Experiment

Year: 2020–Present

Location: Worldwide

Agency/Entity: NIH, DoD, CDC

Details: Under Operation Warp Speed (President Trump), Big Pharma skipped long-term safety trials. VAERS reports reveal thousands of deaths, heart attacks, and autoimmune disorders—but the CDC buried the evidence and silenced the truth-tellers. Now, whistleblowers warn these shots contain graphene oxide, prions, and infertility agents.

Health Ranger commentary: The U.S. government is running the largest human experiment in history—and immediate Criminal tribunals must indict those pushing these lethal injections. Where is the criminal prosecution against Fauci?

15. Pentagon’s Ongoing Biodefense Experiments (2000s–Present) – Gain-of-Function & Genetic Warfare

Year: 2000s–Present

Location: Fort Detrick, Military Bases

Agency/Entity: DoD, DARPA

Details: Gain-of-function research on viruses like COVID-19 continues unchecked. DARPA funds secret biolabs worldwide, while Pentagon documents confirm engineered “super-pathogens” to target populations.

Health Ranger commentary: This is Nazi-tier science—the same evil that weaponized disease in WWII. Where are the criminal tribunals and mass arrests?

And They’re Still Killing You in 2025

The same agencies that murdered Black men in Tuskegee, sprayed cities with bioweapons, and drugged soldiers are now pushing vaccine mandates, bird flu terror, and mRNA gene-editing drugs.

This isn’t “public health.” It’s population extermination to make way for the rise of AI robots to replace human labor.

If you think COVID was bad, wait until they roll out bird flu lockdowns. If you think mRNA injections are safe, wake up—they’re part of a long history of medical atrocities.

Your own government wants you dead. But they don’t want you to resist, which is why they use psyops to convince gullible, obedient people to line up and be injected with death jabs.

Don’t be gullible. Be informed, alert, aware. Stay alive with knowledge and resistance. Arm yourself with nutrition: Superfoods, anti-viral herbs and extracts that protect you against shedding. Use today’s best remedies and natural cures to stay alive.

It would be difficult to overstate the seriousness of the crisis that we are facing.  Just about every single industry in the United States is extremely dependent on imports from China, and now trade with China is essentially coming to a standstill.  I wish that I was exaggerating, but I am not.  According to the World Trade Organization, trade between the United States and China could decline by as much as 80 percent…

The World Trade Organization has warned that goods traded between the US and China could decrease by as much as 80%, backing US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s description of the current situation as essentially a trade embargo.

Unless something changes, this is going to be the biggest shock to our economy in decades.

At the moment, our stores are filled with products that are manufactured in factories in China.

But now many of those factories have become eerily quiet…

“I know several factories that have told half of their employees to go home for a few weeks and stopped most of their production,” said Cameron Johnson, Shanghai-based senior partner at consulting firm Tidalwave Solutions. He said factories making toys, sporting goods and low-cost dollar store-type goods are the most affected right now.

“While not large-scale yet, it is happening in the key [export] hubs of Yiwu and Dongguan and there is concern that it will grow,” Johnson said. “There is a hope that tariffs will be lowered so orders can resume, but in the meantime companies are furloughing employees and idling some production.”

We are also witnessing an unprecedented decline in cargo shipments from China to the United States.

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka is telling us that “essentially all shipments out of China for major retailers and manufacturers have ceased”…

President Donald Trump’s trade war policies are expected to bring about a 35% decline in cargo arriving at the Port of Los Angeles by next week as “essentially all shipments out of China for major retailers and manufacturers have ceased,” according to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka.

The good news is that major retailers still have Chinese-made goods that they previously purchased to sell to us.

But as they work through their existing inventory levels, pretty soon we are going to start seeing empty shelves.

In fact, the chief economic advisor to President Trump during his first term is openly warning that we could start experiencing significant shortages in late May…

American consumers are just weeks away from feeling the effects of President Donald Trump’s tariffs at the cash register, Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economic advisor during his first term, said.

In a CBS interview, Cohn forecast that the consequences of newly imposed tariffs on China will start rippling through the US economy by late May.

“The cycle from a good being sold in China, loaded on a vessel, sailed across the ocean, unloaded in the United States, put in a factory, and distributed to a shelf is about eight weeks in the United States,” he told “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

Torsten Slok, the chief economist at Apollo Global Management, is also pointing to next month as the time when we will begin seeing “empty shelves in US stores” and “Covid-like shortages for consumers”…

The economic impact of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will soon become apparent to everyday Americans and lead to a recession this summer, according to Apollo Global Management.

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, laid out a timeline in a presentation for clients that showed when the impact of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump could hit the U.S. economy. Based on the transport time required for goods from China, U.S. consumers could start to notice trade-related shortages in their local stores next month, according to the presentation.

“The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods,” Slok wrote in a note to clients Friday.

In his note, Slok went on to warn that unless something changes it is likely that we will soon see substantial layoffs in the trucking and retail industries.

Approximately 80 percent of our toys are normally made in China, and so that is one industry that will be absolutely monkey-hammered if things do not change…

The tariffs are expected to hit small businesses especially hard. Toy retailers, for example, are already struggling with a 145% tariff on goods they normally order for the holiday season. Many are either scaling back orders or facing potential closures, Cohn said.

Last week, logistics experts and shipping industry insiders echoed similar concerns, telling Business Insider they expect major disruptions to the prices and availability of goods in the coming weeks.

Four even warned that unchecked supply-chain stress could trigger higher domestic unemployment, global market instability, and rising geopolitical tensions.

Whatever you think that you are going to need for the second half of this year, I would get it now while you still can.

The president of a company that supplies major retailers with holiday decorations is concerned that his business could be ruined if a trade deal is not worked out soon…

“The clock is absolutely ticking,” said Jim Gerson, president of The Gersons Companies, an 84-year-old supplier of holiday decorations and candles to major US retailers. The company, based in Olathe, Kansas, sources more than half its products from China and currently has about 250 containers waiting to be shipped.

“We have to get this worked out,” said Gerson, who’s part of the third generation from his family to run the company, which generates roughly $100 million in sales a year. “And hopefully very soon.”

He is right.

The clock is most certainly ticking, and more damage is being done with each passing day.

Unfortunately, it does not appear that a trade deal with China is anywhere on the horizon at this stage.

In fact, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is insisting that it is up to China to make the next move…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday put the responsibility for reaching a trade agreement on China.

“I believe that it’s up to China to de-escalate, because they sell five times more to us than we sell to them, and so these 120%, 145% tariffs are unsustainable,” Bessent said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

A lot of products that are made in China have already disappeared from Amazon.

So let me offer a piece of advice.

I would recommend making a list of products that you normally purchase and products that you think that you will need in the months ahead.

If any of those products are made in China, I would purchase them immediately.

I do not think that we are going to see a trade deal with China any time soon, and that means that we are about to move into unprecedented territory.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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There was a time when bugging out was borderline fun to think about—gear testing in the woods, fantasy scenarios with your go-bag slung over your shoulder. In 2025, looking like that guy gets you followed, flagged, or worse.

This is the moment when humanity will choose between peace and global war.  Sadly, it appears that our window of opportunity to choose peace is rapidly closing.  Negotiations with Iran have not made much progress, and the Trump administration is warning that it is ready to “walk away” from negotiations to end the war in Ukraine if the Russians and the Ukrainians do not agree to the seven point deal that is now being proposed.  We really have reached one of the most critical turning points in human history, but most people living in the western world do not seem to understand the importance of the drama that is playing out right in front of our eyes.

On Wednesday, Vice-President J.D. Vance said something that should chill all of us to the core…

“We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it’s time for them to either say yes, or for the United States to walk away from this process,” Vance told reporters in India, where he is on a four-day visit.

Vance spoke as envoys from Washington, Kyiv and European nations gathered for talks in the U.K. amid a new U.S. push to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“It’s now time, I think, to take, if not the final step, one of the final steps, which is, at a broad level, the party saying we’re going to stop the killing, we’re going to freeze the territorial lines at some level close to where they are today,” Vance added. “Now, of course, that means the Ukrainians and the Russians are both going to have to give up some of the territory they currently own.”

This ultimatum is very similar to an ultimatum that was issued by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week.

It is obvious that the Trump administration is quickly losing patience with the Russians and the Ukrainians, but U.S. officials are willing to take one last shot at a peace agreement.

According to Axios, the following are five things that Russia would get from President Trump’s seven point peace plan…

1. “De jure” U.S. recognition of Russian control in Crimea.
2. “De-facto recognition” of the Russia’s occupation of nearly all of Luhansk oblast and the occupied portions of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
3. A promise that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. The text notes that Ukraine could become part of the European Union.
4. The lifting of sanctions imposed since 2014.
5. Enhanced economic cooperation with the U.S., particularly in the energy and industrial sectors.

And the following are four things that Ukraine would get from President Trump’s seven point peace plan…

1. “A robust security guarantee” involving an ad hoc group of European countries and potentially also like-minded non-European countries. The document is vague in terms of how this peacekeeping operation would function and does not mention any U.S. participation.
2. The return of the small part of Kharkiv oblast Russia has occupied.
3. Unimpeded passage of the Dnieper River, which runs along the front line in parts of southern Ukraine.
4. Compensation and assistance for rebuilding, though the document does not say where the funding will come from.

The plan that the Trump administration is proposing is reasonable.

I would highly encourage both sides to agree to the deal.

Sadly, it appears that the Ukrainians are already rejecting it…

Ukraine will not legally recognize Russia’s occupation of Crimea under any circumstances, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a briefing in Kyiv on April 22.

“There is nothing to talk about. This violates our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine,” Zelensky told reporters.

The statement comes amid reports that the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory is being considered as part of a U.S.-backed proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

What in the world is he thinking?

Ukraine is losing the war.

If the war continues, Ukraine will steadily lose even more territory.

I can definitely understand why President Trump is fed up with this guy.  After learning of these comments, this is what President Trump posted on his Truth Social account…

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, “Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here.” This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion. Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? The area also houses, for many years before “the Obama handover,” major Russian submarine bases. It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever. The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the “killing field,” and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with “no cards to play” should now, finally, GET IT DONE. I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS, that would have never started if I were President!

The Ukrainians clearly do not want to end the war.

Of course the Russians do not exactly seem eager to accept what Trump is proposing either…

But spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday said Russia was not aware of the plan’s terms, responding to a report by The Post about early details of a proposed arrangement.

“The issue of the [Ukrainian] settlement is extremely complex, of course, so it is hardly possible to set some hard deadlines and try to rush the resolution of the conflict into a shortened timeframe,” he told Russian outlet VGTRK. “This would be an exercise in futility.”

If the Trump administration decides to “walk away” from negotiations, any chance at peace with Russia is probably dead.

So what would happen then?

Would we just let the Russians take as much of Ukraine as they want, or would we escalate matters?

Of course if both sides choose to escalate matters, we know what will eventually happen.

Meanwhile, the Russians have just entered into a “strategic partnership” with Iran…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying a strategic partnership treaty with Iran, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Monday.

The agreement is expected to strengthen military and diplomatic ties between Moscow and Tehran.

As part of the agreement, the two countries agreed not to provide military assistance to any third party with which the other is in hot conflict, according to the Kyiv Independent.

This is a very troubling development, because the U.S. could be at war with Iran very soon.

President Trump has repeatedly warned that if Iran does not make a deal there will be military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

On Wednesday, Marco Rubio said that the Iranians would be allowed to have “a civilian nuclear program” but they will not be allowed to continue to enrich uranium under any circumstances…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump is determined to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon, and would prefer to do that by negotiations as opposed to military means. However, he said the US would be willing to see Tehran have a civilian nuclear program as long as they were not enriching uranium.

“We do not want a war,” Rubio told Bari Weiss on her Honestly podcast.

“We do not want to see war. This is not a president that campaigned on starting wars. And as he said very clearly, Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon, and he reserves every right to prevent that from happening, but he would prefer it not happen. He would prefer that there not be a need to resort to military force, either by us or anybody else. He would prefer that it’d be something that we can negotiate.”

The Iranians should take the deal that is being offered to them.

But the Iranians have already clearly stated that enriching uranium is a red line for them.  There is no way that they are going to stop doing it, and so that means that war is coming.

Once the attacks on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities start, the Iranians will respond with tremendous force, and the Middle East will erupt in flames.

The Iranians have some “surprises” up their sleeves, but so do the Israelis.

If cooler heads do not prevail, we are going to see tremendous death and destruction in the Middle East.

And if we cannot find a way to achieve peace with the Russians, it is just a matter of time before a worst case scenario unfolds.

This is our last best chance at peace, and we must not blow it.

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About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons, and now they are on the verge of war.  It is being reported that India is considering a military response to a horrifying terror attack that occurred in Kashmir earlier this week, and Pakistani forces are already being mobilized in case that happens.  If a full-blown war erupts, it will be a really big deal.  247 million people live in Pakistan, and 1.4 billion people live in India.  So we are talking about a substantial chunk of the global population, and if nuclear weapons are used the death toll in a war between India and Pakistan would be off the charts.

This latest crisis started on Tuesday when terrorists associated with “The Resistance Front” killed 26 tourists in Kashmir…

Suspected rebels killed at least 26 people on Tuesday in the picturesque tourist resort of Pahalgam in the deadliest such attack in a quarter-century in Indian-administered Kashmir. A statement issued in the name of The Resistance Front (TRF), which is believed to be an offshoot of the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is promising to hunt the terrorists to the “ends of the earth”, and India’s government is accusing Pakistan’s government of “funding and encouraging terrorism in Kashmir”…

Armed police and soldiers searched homes and forests for militants in Indian Kashmir on Friday and India’s army chief reviewed security there after the killing of 26 men at a tourist site – the worst attack on civilians in nearly two decades.

The attack triggered outrage and grief in India, along with calls for action against neighbour Pakistan, whom New Delhi accuses of funding and encouraging terrorism in Kashmir, a region both nations claim and have fought two wars over.

We have seen tensions between these two great nations reach a boiling point before, but never anything quite like this.

Following the terror attack, India immediately suspended a very important water treaty…

On Wednesday, India suspended a water treaty governing the water flows of the Indus River and revoked the visas of Pakistani nationals within its borders. It also closed one of the only land border crossings between the two countries. Pakistan has responded by closing off its airspace to Indian planes and issuing a barrage of reciprocal visa revocations.

Millions of people in Pakistan are extremely dependent on water from the Indus River.

So it would create a major humanitarian crisis if India restricted or cut off the flow of water, but apparently that is what India has decided to do…

The government has decided to stop the flow of Indus River water to Pakistan following the termination of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, in response to the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam carried out by Pakistan-based terrorists, sources said.

Yesterday, the Pakistani government warned that messing with the flow of water would be an “act of war”…

Pakistan warned India on Thursday that it was committing an “act of war” by suspending a landmark water-sharing treaty in response to a deadly terror attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The threat from Pakistan Prime Minister’s Office followed a number of diplomatic measures imposed by New Dehli on Islamabad as tensions flare between the neighboring nuclear powers.

We really need a third party to step in and mediate this crisis, because it could spiral out of control very quickly.

In fact, there has already been shooting.

On Friday morning, Indian forces and Pakistani forces “briefly exchanged fire”…

Indian officials have confirmed Friday that Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchanged fire along their highly militarized frontier in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, according to The Associated Press.

Small arms were used by both sides in the gunfight, and no casualties have as of yet been reported, a briefing by an Indian official indicated, in the first such live-fire incident since 2021. It also violates a pledge from the same year for the two nations to observe a ceasefire along the disputed Line of Control between Indian and Pakistani controlled areas of Kashmir.

The shooting has stopped for now, but social media is full of videos that show military equipment being moved toward the border.

And it is also an ominous sign that India has moved an aircraft carrier into the Arabian Sea…

In addition, Pakistan “has issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen/Mariners) for the Arabian Sea and initiated a naval live fire exercise, while putting its military on full alert in anticipation of a possible military response by India in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack,” The Print, an Indian news outlet, reported.

India, meanwhile, has the aircraft carrier Vikrant in the Arabian Sea. While the vessel deployed before the Kashmir attack, it is now doing loops in the area as a possible contingency, posited Damien Symon, a geo-intelligence researcher for The Intel Lab intelligence consultancy.

We don’t know for certain whether India will conduct airstrikes or not.

For now, we are being told that “a variety of military options” are on the table…

“There are a variety of military options, short of a full-blown war, on the table,” the Times of India (TOI) reported, citing a senior military official. “It’s for the political leadership to take the final call. If there is a go-ahead, then the retaliatory strikes will be at a time and place of our choosing.”

India and Pakistan are not equally matched.

If India really starts pummeling Pakistan, would the Pakistanis feel a need to use their nukes?

Let’s hope that we never find out.

Meanwhile, President Trump continues to warn the world about what will happen if the Iranians do not give up their nuclear enrichment program…

During an interview with Time magazine, Trump was asked whether he was “worried” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would drag the U.S. into a war.

“No,” said the president, who continued his answer after the questioner attempted to change topics.

“[H]e may go into a war. But we’re not getting dragged in.”

Did that mean the U.S. will stay out if Israel goes into Iran?

“No, I didn’t say that,” Trump said. “You asked if he’d [Netanyahu] drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. No, I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal. If we don’t make a deal, I’ll be leading the pack.”

There will be yet another round of negotiations this weekend.

Let us hope that they go well.

Lastly, I wanted to mention the fact that a top Russian general was just assassinated not too far from Moscow…

Russian Major General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in an IED bomb blast in the Moscow region on Friday.

This coincided with the planned peace talks between US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.

According to Russia Today Moskalik was the Deputy Chief of Main Operations Directorate of General Staff of Russian Armed Forces.

Every time we take a step toward peace, something like this happens.

Ultimately, I don’t think that there is going to be peace in Ukraine.

The Russians and the Ukrainians are not even in the same universe when it comes to what a suitable peace agreement would look like, and neither side seems too keen on making significant compromises at this stage.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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The United States imported 438 billion dollars worth of goods from China in 2024.  All of a sudden, most of that trade is being cut off.  Tariffs on Chinese goods are now so high that it no longer makes economic sense for Chinese companies to export products to us, and it no longer makes economic sense for U.S. companies to import products from China.  As a result, container bookings are absolutely plummeting, and retail CEOs are warning that store shelves all over America will “soon be empty”.  Yes, retailers will attempt to find replacement items from other sources when it is possible to do so.  But in many cases, things that are made in China are not made anywhere else.  As retailers run through existing inventory levels, shortages will begin to emerge.

I do not believe that we should have ever started trading with China.

And I would love to see a day in the future when we no longer trade with China.

But at this moment we are deeply, deeply dependent on China.

Nobody can deny this.

Our economy literally cannot function normally without Chinese imports, and now most of those imports will no longer be coming across the ocean.

Most Chinese imports fall into these 10 categories…

• Electrical machinery and TV parts: $124.97 billion, 28% of total imports from China
• Nuclear reactor parts and mechanical appliances: $82 billion, 18% of total imports from China
• Toys, games and sports equipment: $30.03 billion, 7% of imports from China
• Plastics: $19.29 billion, 4% of total imports from China
• Furniture, lamps and pre-fabricated buildings: $18.52, 4% of total imports from China
• Vehicles: $16.85 billion, 4% of total imports from China
• Iron and steel: $11.98 billion, 3% of total imports from China
• Optical and photographic parts: $11.88 billion, 3% of total imports from China
• Clothing: $9.99 billion, 2% of total imports from China
• Shoes: $9.78 billion, 2% of total imports from China

Did you know that China makes 80 percent of our toys?

If you are going to need toys later this year, you may want to stock up now.

It is being reported that container bookings from China to the United States have already “plummeted by over 60% in just three weeks”…

Container shipping between China and the United States faces unprecedented disruption following the implementation of new Trump administration tariffs on U.S. imports from China, with industry leaders warning of potential widespread supply chain impacts and economic consequences that could rival the pandemic.

According to Ryan Peterson, Founder and CEO of Flexport, ocean container bookings from China to the United States have plummeted by over 60% in just three weeks since the new tariffs took effect. The dramatic decline follows the introduction of reciprocal tariffs that went into effect on April 9, setting rates at 145% for China and 10% for all other origin points.

I told you what I thought about this in an article that I posted yesterday.

Today, I would like to share some insights from an industry insider.

Molson Hart is the founder and president of an educational toy company called Viahart.  He just posted an analysis of what we are facing that is so good that I decided to share his entire Twitter post in this article…

The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet.

Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down.

It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.

45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train.

55 to New York by sea.

That means that there are no economic effects of what was done on April 10th until about May 10th.

Around that time (it’s already started to happen) trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor.

All this will start in the Los Angeles area.

After about 2 weeks, it’ll start hitting Chicago and Houston.

Let’s say the White House, after 3 weeks, changes its mind, on May 31st.

“This isn’t working out like we thought it would. Tariffs back to 0.”

Let’s say China says “bygones be bygones, we’ll go back to how things were”.

Let’s say every factory in China that got screwed by their orders being cancelled says the same thing “no problem, we’ll make and ship”.

The problem is, even under the most favorable conditions of China and the factories restarting economic ties as though nothing happened, it will be at least another 30 days before economic activity is revived.

And that’s just in LA.

In Chicago/Houston, you’ll need to wait another 45 days.

New York, at that point, will still be getting containers from before April 10th, they will then have 50 days (May 31 minus April 10) of zero economic activity at the ports, in trucking of Chinese goods, in warehousing.

The whole situation is a bit like lockdowns. Once you shut down, it takes a long time to get economic activity back to where it was, if you ever can.

And again, this assumes, that China and its factories, which make things you can’t buy elsewhere, will start right back up again as though nothing happened, which is unlikely.

It’s almost like we’re speeding towards a brick wall but the driver of the car doesn’t see it yet.

By the time he does, it’ll be too late to hit the brakes.

I could not have said it better myself.

When we finally hit that brick wall, millions of people are going to be extremely angry.

Many are suggesting that we should just start making stuff here, and I agree with that.

But the reality of the matter is that it takes a long time to construct new factories.

In a subsequent post on Twitter, Molson Hart commented on this…

Lego is building a factory in the United States.

They began looking for a location in 2021.

They originally expected to start production in the second half of 2025.

They are now forecasting 2027.

The biggest toy company in the world needed 6 years to make in America.

We can’t wait for years until new factories are built, because we are going to be in the middle of a full-blown crisis just months from now.

For example, what are you going to do if you need to get your vehicle repaired and the parts that you need have tripled in price or are no longer available at all?…

“From brake pads and batteries to bumpers and sensors, many of the parts used to repair and maintain vehicles are imported,” Cars.com editor-in-chief Jenni Newman told FOX Business. “If those parts are hit with tariffs, suppliers are expected to pass on the extra cost to repair shops and dealership service departments.”

Not only would this drive up repair bills for consumers, but it could also cause longer wait times if parts become harder to get or inventory is scaled back, Newman said.

There are thousands upon thousands of supply chains that will be disrupted by ultra-high tariffs on Chinese imports.

Unless we want to have a full-blown meltdown, we need to reach a deal with China.

Unfortunately, the Chinese just publicly stated that no negotiations with the U.S. are currently happening…

China is not negotiating with the U.S. over tariffs, Beijing declared Thursday, despite President Donald Trump recently suggesting the 145% tax on its imports could be reduced “substantially.”

Ministry of Commerce spokesman He Yadong said, “Any claims about the progress of China-U.S. trade negotiations are groundless as trying to catch the wind and have no factual basis,” according to the Associated Press.

“The unilateral tariff increase measures were initiated by the United States. If the United States really wants to solve the problem, it should face up to the rational voices of the international community and all parties at home, completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China, and find ways to resolve differences through equal dialogue,” he continued.

We should have never allowed ourselves to become so dependent on China.

Sometimes I feel like tearing my hair out, because decades of very foolish decisions have put us into this position.

Now we desperately need Chinese imports, but most of them won’t be coming to us for the foreseeable future, and President Trump just told Glenn Beck that he feels like he is holding all the cards and doesn’t need to negotiate…

‘I don’t have to negotiate. I don’t have to negotiate. I’m talking to people out of respect, but I don’t have to,’ Trump told the former Fox News host.

‘So we’re this giant store that people want to come in and buy from, we’re the United States. We have the richest consumers, etcetera, etcetera, right?’ the president continued.

Trump said he was currently negotiating with ’70 different countries.’

‘We’re negotiating, we’re showing great respect, but in the end, we may make deals, but either that or I just set a price and I say “here’s what you’re going to pay for the privilege of servicing the United States of America,”‘ Trump said.

There are some people out there that are insisting that I am overstating the seriousness of the crisis that we are facing.

Okay, let’s see what happens.

If a deal with China can be reached quickly, it is quite likely that the damage will be minimized.

I would be thrilled if that actually happens.

But if a deal with China cannot be reached quickly, we are going to experience a tremendous amount of pain.

Container traffic across the Pacific Ocean has already fallen dramatically, and the clock is ticking…

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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