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Another transgender mass shooter: Mass shootings are demonic. What else would move a human being to snuff out the lives of as many innocent people as possible? These events unmask the evil spirit realm.

This was certainly true of yesterday’s murders in Minneapolis:

• A 23-year-old man who “identified” as a woman barred the doors and shot his way into a Catholic school that was celebrating a “back to school” morning service filled with children. That is satanic.
• He used a rifle, shotgun and handgun to kill two young students and wound another 14 children and three adults—then committed suicide.

The shooter was clearly demon-possessed.

• He had posted a YouTube video flipping through his journal, which was filled with violent anti-Christian, anti-Semitic bile.
• The journal included a picture he had drawn of himself looking in a mirror and a demon looking back. He wrote in English, using the Cyrillic alphabet; this image said, “When will this end? Help me! I don’t want. Kill yourself.”
• A sticker with lgbtq and transgender flags was overlaid with a gun and the slogan “Defend Equality.”
• He also wrote a letter to friends and family saying, “I have wanted this for so long. I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by those thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong but I can’t seem to stop myself.”

Major media reports downplayed this man’s transgenderism; if they reported it, they focused on how that detail stirred hateful online posts toward transgenders. The Minneapolis mayor immediately decried the “trans community” being under attack.

But transgenderism is relevant to this tragedy—as it was in the 2023 Nashville shooting, the 2022 Colorado Springs shooting and others. It is a demonic ideology. It opens the door for evil spirit influence. It is one of several signs of Satan’s growing power in our world today, just like the rise in mass shootings is.

Who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline? Thanks to leaks from German intelligence, we have an answer: the Ukrainian government. All seven suspects in the 2022 attack are Ukrainian citizens. They had genuine Ukrainian passports with fake names, which indicates the Ukrainian secret service was involved. There are even indicators that one of the attackers had worked for Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service.

It is theoretically possible they did this without the knowledge of the Ukrainian government, but unlikely.

What does this mean for German-Ukraine relations? More and more Germans want to publicly break with the U.S. and nato and side with Russia. This strengthens their case.

• Without cheap raw materials from Russia, German industry has suffered. Now Ukraine has been exposed for attacking German energy assets.

The Nord Stream 2 project bound Russia and Germany together in a way that undermined nato, Gerald Flurry wrote in 2018. “In fact, though Russia and Germany will not say so, this pipeline project is clearly intended to wreck nato.”

Perhaps Ukraine did nato a favor by striking these pipelines. But now that the attack has been revealed, German politics could shift even sharper against nato. Mr. Flurry continued:

Many elite Germans feel their nation has now gotten all it can from the U.S. and they are ready to move on. Some powerful Germans today are thinking more and more about the Holy Roman Empire, and they want modern Germany to assume more power of its own in the spirit of that empire. They want to establish Europe as a mighty, German-led superpower.

That desire is clearer than ever. This exposure could help these elites bring Germany into open alliance with Russia. It will surely speed up German efforts to militarize. After all, if Ukraine can attack, who else are they vulnerable to?

IN OTHER NEWS

Trump ramped up tariffs on goods from India to 50 percent yesterday in retaliation against India’s decision to keep buying oil from Russia. He hopes his tariffs will convince India to abandon support for Russia and become a stauncher Western ally. They could have the opposite effect. If India turns against the U.S. and toward Russia, it would strengthen an anti-Western Asian alliance. Read Andrew Miiller’s In Brief to learn more.

Denmark rankled at America over Greenland: Three people linked to President Trump were carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland, Danish media reported yesterday. The operation reportedly aimed to “penetrate Greenlandic society to weaken relations with Denmark from within and make the Greenlanders submit to the United States.” Denmark’s foreign minister responded by immediately summoning the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen for talks. Influence over Greenland is vital to U.S. national security, and a fight over it is significant, Miiller explains.

Europe to sanction Iran? Foreign ministers of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that they intend to activate the “snapback sanctions” of Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, sources told Axios. The three countries have been threatening this for months, but with the snapback ability expiring in October, it looks like they need to act now or never. The Trumpet will have more coverage on this tomorrow once it is clear which option Europe takes.

Rheinmetall opened Europe’s largest artillery ammunition factory yesterday: The plant will be able to produce up to 350,000 rounds of 155-millimeter ammunition annually by 2027, ceo Armin Papperger said. The plant in northern Germany was built in around 18 months. “Building this factory proves that Germany can do things quickly when it really matters,” Papperger said, adding that similar plants can be built at a similar pace in other nato countries. This is Germany’s contribution to a “pan-European defense ecosystem,” he claimed. nato chief Mark Rutte noted that artillery shell production across Europe is today six times greater than in 2023. Germany is leading Europe into a frightening military transformation.