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Yesterday, the European Space Agency launched its largest and heaviest rocket, the Ariane 64, for the first time from its launch facility in French Guiana. The rocket successfully delivered its 20-ton payload of 32 Amazon Leo satellites into low Earth orbit. The agency stated, “The success of this launch confirms Europe’s readiness in heavy lift launch capability and is key to ESA’s efforts to ensure autonomous access to space for Europeans.” To learn the prophetic significance, read “Germany Races Into Space.”
Germany opened its Industrial AI Cloud in Munich on February 4. Deutsche Telekom, which filled the 2.5-acre facility with an estimated 10,000 advanced graphics processing units and other advanced computing equipment, said it’s powerful enough to serve artificial intelligence-level computing to all European Union citizens simultaneously. Rather than serving the average Internet user, this computational power is specifically designed for industrial digitization and AI use cases. It is also “a secure and sovereign infrastructure” and “stands for digital sovereignty ‘Made in Germany,’” meaning it gives the German government more power within the field of AI generally and industrial AI specifically. For more about this trend and Germany’s role, read “The Unknown Future of Artificial Intelligence.”
Yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that if the European Union cannot agree to an economic reform plan by June, it should resort to “enhanced cooperation.” This means that a group of nine or more nations can advance a project on their own without the involvement of the rest of the union. Macron supports the creation of eurobonds (common debt), which German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opposes. Germany and Italy in the meantime are pushing to expand financing for venture capital. Disagreements continue, but Merz said there is a “strong sense of urgency” to pass reforms. The EU’s inability to agree on these and other decisions reflects its “iron and clay” nature, as the Bible prophesied. But the Bible also prophesies that these disagreeing nations will solidify into a fearsome and aggressive union led by “ten kings” with one “king of fierce countenance” wielding its power. To understand these prophecies in Daniel and Revelation, read “Europe: Where Iron and Clay Unite.”
The local-regional government for Belgium’s capital city was finally agreed upon yesterday, after a 613-day impasse that involved seven arguing parties, linguistic divides and confusing laws. The city, which serves as the capital of the European Union and Belgium, has a history of such political instability. This 20-month paralysis came as all of Europe struggles with the same issue: division.
Over 50 percent of college-age job seekers have had their parents sit with them during an interview, according to a January survey by Résumé Templates. Julia Toothacre, a career coach at the survey group, told College Fix that she has never before seen parents this involved in their children’s job searches. The survey, which polled 1,000 Gen Z adults ages 18 to 23, also found that 35 percent of respondents had their parents either write a cover letter or perform a test assignment for them. Young men were more likely to report repeated involvement by their parents than young women.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited United States President Trump in Washington, D.C., yesterday to advocate for Israeli security as Trump pursues nuclear negotiations with Iran. Trump said the meeting reached “nothing definitive” and that he “insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a deal can be consummated.” Netanyahu was a vocal opponent of the U.S. negotiations with Iran under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. President Trump appears to be treating Israeli security in much the same way. But with a second U.S. carrier strike group potentially entering the Middle East theater and an escalation of Iranian oil tanker seizures on the table, some think the public spat could be a diversion similar to what preceded direct Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear program last July. Tension in the Middle East—and between these troubled allies—remains high. President Trump’s next move could either make the region a safer place or push it closer to major war.
The United States Congressional Budget Office released “The Budget and Economic Outlook” report yesterday, projecting that by 2036, gross federal debt will rise from $38 trillion to $64 trillion, with the annual deficit exceeding $3 trillion and the ratio of debt to gross domestic product reaching 120 percent. The U.S. government currently owes foreign investors more than $9 trillion. The Trump administration’s disregard for debt is projected to drastically exacerbate the problem that many analysts call America’s worst national security vulnerability.
The editorial board of the New York Times walked back its previous stance on marijuana legalization on Monday in an editorial titled “It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem.” The New York Times has “long supported marijuana legalization,” it wrote. Part of this campaign, a six-part series comparing the federal ban on marijuana to the prohibition of alcohol and advocating for its repeal, described marijuana addiction and dependency as “relatively minor problems” and said that legalization “might not lead to greater use.” Its editors now admit that “many of these predictions were wrong,” and that the legalization of the drug “has led to much more use,” citing data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, indicating that 18 million Americans use marijuana almost daily, up from about 6 million in 2012 and fewer than 1 million in 1992. Read the Trumpet’s warning against this dangerous drug in “What’s Wrong With Marijuana?”
On Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration announced a 10-day closure of airspace around the El Paso International Airport for “special security reasons,” then unexpectedly lifted the restrictions just hours later. nbc News cited three sources claiming that the U.S. military was testing high-energy lasers designed to protect against increasing incursions of drug cartel drones crossing the nearby Mexican border.
“Our ambition should always be to reach agreement among all 27 member states,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote in a letter to other EU leaders on Monday. “However, where a lack of progress or ambition risks undermining Europe’s competitiveness or capacity to act, we should not shy away from using the possibilities foreseen in the treaties under enhances cooperation.” According to the treaties, a minimum of nine countries can agree to deepen cooperation without the rest of the member states. Revelation 17 reveals that a core group of European nations led by “ten kings” will emerge out of the present union.
The EU published an Action Plan on Drone and Counter-Drone Security on Wednesday that advocates massive expansion of drone production and development of an anti-drone defense system. Magnus Brunner, commissioner for internal affairs and migration, said, “With today’s Action Plan, we have more arrows in our quiver to counter threats to our security and use this technology as an advantage, including by launching a new Counter-Drone Center of Excellence, establishing an EU Drone Incident Platform and spending €400 million on drone and counter-drone technology.” Step by step, the EU is developing sophisticated joint military capabilities.
Nato launched “Arctic Sentry” today, a new military exercise designed to secure Greenland and the High North area of operations. The exercise follows Denmark’s “Arctic Endurance” exercise, which first deployed troops on January 15 and is scheduled to continue throughout the calendar year. U.S. President Donald Trump recognized “Arctic Endurance” as opposition to his plans to acquire Greenland and threatened retaliatory tariffs on the European allies involved, before relenting. The nato exercises are notionally designed to demonstrate that nato can protect strategic areas from Russian and Chinese threats. But Bible prophecy warns that the greater threat to the U.S. is actually Germany and Europe.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, D.C., meeting with American diplomats Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner yesterday and scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump today. Netanyahu is reportedly making this trip out of concern that U.S. negotiations with Iran will ignore Israeli interests. He is scheduled to return to Washington next Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Board of Peace and an American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. Whatever the results of these talks, the way that Americans treat Israelis’ security is a matter far more consequential than most people realize.
Nine people were killed and 27 injured in a school shooting at the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in the Rocky Mountain foothills. The killer, a boy who reportedly identified as a girl and whom authorities are calling the “gunperson,” apparently committed suicide. British Columbia Solicitor General Nina Krieger called the attack “one of the worst mass shootings in our province’s and country’s history.” Such tragedies bring much introspection yet few answers to the most important questions. To understand the deeper reasons for such atrocities, read Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry’s article “The Motives for Mass Shootings.”
Search warrant affidavits unsealed yesterday lay out the fbi’s justifications for seizing hundreds of boxes of ballots and other materials related to election fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, during the 2020 presidential elections. One affidavit, written by fbi Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans, led to a judge signing off on a search warrant of Fulton County’s election facilities. This search was carried out on January 28 when the fbi seized more than 650 boxes of ballots and other 2020 election materials. The corporate media is reporting that the affidavit relies on misleading and disproved claims about the 2020 election. Yet Evans openly acknowledges in the affidavit that some of the allegations have been substantiated. Thus, the investigation aims to determine whether the “deficiencies” in Fulton County were more than the clerical errors that Democrats and other Fulton County apologists claim them to be. It has already been shown that 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified yet still tabulated in the state’s final count. Now the fbi is trying to determine if the county was stolen by accident or on purpose.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoys an approval rating of 67 percent among his people. This surpasses the combined approval ratings of France’s Emmanuel Macron (16 percent), Germany’s Friedrich Merz (21 percent) and the UK’s Keir Starmer (23 percent) in their respective countries. According to a Morning Consult survey of adults in 43 countries from February 2-8, Modi was the most popular leader overall, followed by Andrej Babiš of the Czech Republic. These results suggest that a leader’s approval rating doesn’t depend on ruling democratically but rather on accomplishments. Bible prophecy reveals that Europe’s unpopular democratic system is about to be replaced by strongman rule.
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the city’s high court on Monday, a sober conclusion to the city’s pro-democracy history. Lai, publisher of the Apple Daily newspaper, was ostensibly suspected of “collusion with foreign forces,” “endangering national security,” and “conspiracy to publish seditious materials,” cnbc reported, but the case is recognized by many as an attack on free speech and dissent against the regime, which has a conviction rate of 99.98 percent. Communists gaining control of the courts was the very reason millions of citizens participated in protests in 2019 and 2020, but the regime’s conviction and sentencing of Lai, who is also a British citizen, punctuates the termination of freedom in Hong Kong and signals the oncoming “times of the gentiles.”
Chinese Communist Party officials have told banks to reduce holdings of U.S. treasuries, Bloomberg reported on Monday, even advising those with larger holdings to begin selling. This reveals not only weaker trust in the U.S. dollar but a financial war warning shot. The Chinese government controls roughly $680 billion in U.S. bonds. Selling a significant portion of these assets would decrease their value and harm China and other nations, but it would devastate the already shaky American financial system.
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran leader Mohammed Eslami said Monday that Iran could dilute its highest-enriched uranium in exchange for complete sanctions relief from the United States. But Iran has ruled out dismantling its nuclear infrastructure, so even if Iran follows through with this latest tactic, it could re-enrich the material at will. U.S. President Donald Trump wants Iran to completely dismantle its nuclear program. Iran will not settle for any deal that doesn’t leave it an option to restart the program. These two premises are mutually exclusive. Bible prophecy shows that one way or another, Iran will win out.
Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories for the United Nations, stated that “[h]umanity now has a common enemy” in remarks about Israel at a forum hosted by Al Jazeera on February 7. She accused Israel of “the planning and making of a genocide” and said the “global community” is facing unprecedented challenges from those who “control large amounts of financial [capital], algorithms and weapons.” Such blatantly anti-Semitic comments from a UN representative may seem shocking, but it’s only the tip of the UN anti-Semitism iceberg.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on Sunday that his country will not stop uranium enrichment, even if it means war with the United States. “Why do we insist so much on enrichment and refuse to give it up, even if a war is imposed on us?” he asked. “Because no one has the right to dictate our behavior.” The assertions come after Friday’s meeting with Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy for peace missions. Trump said the talks were “good,” but it is clear that the threats Iran poses, even its nuclear threat, won’t be dissolved in negotiations. In fact, even the threat or reality of military action won’t stop Iran. The Bible prophesies that the U.S. will be irrelevant when Iran clashes with German-led Europe in all-out war.
Ten European nations are planning to stockpile raw materials used in defense, aerospace and digital technology. Germany will source the materials, France will cover the financing, Italy will store them, and certain other European nations will have access. The EU currently imports almost all its rare earth minerals and relies heavily on China. This is another significant strategic move for Europe to become more self-sufficient, more wealthy, more powerful and more aggressive.
On Friday, France and Canada opened their consulates in Nuuk, Greenland. France is the first EU nation to do so. France’s Foreign Ministry said the consulate will “deepen existing cooperation projects with Greenland in the cultural, scientific and economic fields, while strengthening political ties with local authorities.” The consulate was announced in June, and French Consul General to Greenland Jean-Noël Poirier claimed it is not designed to signal opposition to U.S. control of Greenland. Nevertheless, developments like this show that Europe is resisting U.S. strategy and wants to retain control of Greenland for its own purposes.
North Korean soldiers are carrying out much more advanced military missions in Ukraine today than they were 15 months ago, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The first North Korean units to arrive were entrusted with lower-level missions, but now they are receiving and completing missions that require significant skill. North Korea’s alliance with Russia is helping its immediate war goals—but it is also preparation for a much larger war prophesied in Ezekiel, Revelation and other books in your Bible.
On Saturday, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani confirmed that his country would not join the Board of Peace, which is personally controlled by Donald Trump, largely due to a clause in Italy’s constitution stating that Italy can join international organizations only as an equal member. Britain, France and other traditional U.S. allies have also declined to join. These decisions highlight a flaw in America’s foreign policy.
Morgan McSweeney, chief of staff to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resigned yesterday. McSweeney was involved in Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Mandelson has been understood as a secretive and corrupt yet powerful figure in British politics for decades, but his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—the late serial rapist, pedophile and child sex trafficker—was more fully exposed in recent document releases by the U.S. Justice Department. The resignation of the highest-ranking member of the prime minister’s office is significant, but many continue to insist that Starmer himself must resign. This is a striking example of how British moral decadence among the common people and the elites directly connects to power, politics and, as the Bible warns, national security.
