This Week: Five Events You Need to Know (June 30)

Here are five of the most important news stories this week, as well as relevant links to the full articles and videos here on theTrumpet.com.

Erdoğan Victorious in Snap Elections, Claims New Autocratic Powers

Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won a sweeping victory in the nation’s presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. He now has new executive powers that he will likely employ to cement his control over Turkey for the next decade.

“Turkey has cut off its links with democracy,” declared Erdoğan’s nearest opponent, Muharrem Ince, when he conceded defeat.

Erdoğan is just one of several authoritarians of a prophesied “strongman age,” as the Trumpet has declared.

2017: Germany’s Third-Highest Year of Weapons Exports

According to a recent report, Germany exported €6.2 billion (us$7.2 billion) in weapons in 2017—its third-highest year of weapons exports. Most of those weapons were sold to nations in three significant “target areas,” according to German-Foreign-Policy.com: Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.

The weapons sold to Asia “went to Asian and Pacific rivals of the People’s Republic of China.” To North Africa, Germany sent “warships and land vehicles that could be used for refugee defense.” In the Arabian Peninsula, the weapons went to “several states … which oppose Iran.”

All of these military ties have major prophetic significance.

Merkel: We Need Urgent Solutions to Iran’s Aggressive Tendencies

There is an urgent need to counter Iran’s aggressive tendencies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a joint press conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah ii on June 21.

“[W]e have very much in common when it comes to the question of [Iran’s] ballistic missile program,” Merkel stated. “When it comes to its presence in Syria and the war in Yemen—that is where Iran’s aggressive tendencies should not only be discussed, but where we also urgently need solutions.”

Britain’s Navy at Half Strength

Britain now has fewer than half of the naval vessels it had in 1990, the Telegraph reported on June 21. In that time, there has been a 60 percent decrease in the number of submarines, frigates and destroyers in the Royal Navy, according to a Ministry of Defense report. The service had two aircraft carriers in 1990: It currently has zero.

Britain’s spending priorities have changed dramatically over the years. The once-great Britain has lost its naval supremacy and, as National Interest assessed, is now “at a historic ebb in firepower.”

British Monarchy Celebrates First Homosexual Royal Wedding

The British royal family is gearing up for another summer wedding, and this one promises to be more controversial than the last. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a third cousin to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ii, has announced his plans to wed his partner James Coyle this summer, in what will be the first same-sex union in the extended royal family.

Mountbatten’s ex-wife will walk him down the aisle and give him away—at the suggestion of their eldest daughter.

The royal family has been falling from the moral high ground for years, committing fornication, adultery and many other family-destroying sins. The Bible shows that the moral decay in Britain and its royal family will bring about the downfall of Britain.

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