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Poland needs its own nuclear weapons, according to Polish President Karol Nawrocki. “We should pursue the path toward developing our own Polish nuclear potential—in compliance with all international regulations, of course,” Nawrocki said in an interview with Polsat television on Sunday. “We must create the conditions necessary to work toward this goal. We are a country on the brink of armed conflict.” Poland plans to start building its first nuclear power plant in 2028. This East European nation, overrun by Russia in World War ii, has taken drastic actions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more than doubling its spending on conventional military weapons. It is part of nato and an ally of the nuclear-armed United States, but statements like Nawrocki’s show that the Poles no longer trust American nuclear protection. The late Herbert W. Armstrong forecast during the Cold War that Poland would break from the Soviet Union and contribute its military might to German-dominated Europe.
After Elon Musk’s SpaceX blocked Russia’s illegal use of its Starlink satellite Internet service on February 1, Russian casualties have drastically risen. A Ukrainian intelligence official told the New York Post yesterday that the ratio of casualties between Russian and Ukrainian troops is usually 5:1 or 8:1, but with Starlink down, it is 13:1. Blocking Russia from Starlink has coincided with Ukrainian troops reclaiming territory faster than in 2024 or 2025, including close to 80 square miles between Wednesday and Sunday, according to one analysis. Though Ukraine’s position remains dire, the development illustrates the power of tech companies like SpaceX and the reliance of modern militaries on information technology.
On Friday, the French Interior Ministry reported 2,489 offenses targeting religious minorities in France last year, 1,320 of which were anti-Semitic. A total of 843 were directed against Christians, and 326 were directed against Muslims (an 88 percent increase compared to 2024). Jews are by far the largest target, even though they make up only 0.6 percent of the population. (France is roughly 10 percent Muslim and 60 percent Christian.) By opening its gates to large Muslim populations and by repeatedly siding against the State of Israel, French society is becoming hostile to Jews. There is a reason why this is “the one minority society loves to hate.”
The heads of Britain’s largest banks are scheduled to hold their first meeting this week to establish a new payments company as an alternative to Mastercard and Visa. Currently, about 95 percent of credit card transactions in the United Kingdom use these two U.S.-based payments companies. Some warn that U.S. President Donald Trump could use this as leverage against Britain’s best interests. The move is a sign of Britain’s distrust both of the Trump administration and the U.S. economy.
A gunman who dressed as a woman murdered two people and injured three more at a high school hockey match in Rhode Island yesterday. Robert Dorgan, 56, shot his wife and three of his children, one federal agency told Fox News. This comes six days after a “gunperson in a dress” killed eight people in British Columbia. The connections between sexual deviancy, mental illness and mass shootings are becoming harder than ever to ignore. There is clearly something evil about the so-called lgbt movement: It involves “Modern-Day Child Sacrifice.”
The European Union imported $8.8 billion worth of Russian liquefied natural gas in 2025, a mere 3 percent decrease from 2024, according to Eurostat. EU countries continue to rely on Russia for more than 15 percent of their liquefied natural gas, paying into Vladimir Putin’s war machine four years into his invasion of Ukraine. This is another indication that Russia and Europe, Germany in particular, have a secret deal like the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact that propelled the world into World War ii. As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry summarized in the July 2022 issue, “It is in both Germany’s and Russia’s interest to weaken everyone else and strengthen themselves and each other.”
A joint statement from Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden released on Saturday confirmed what most already suspected: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Russian government in prison. The specific toxin used, they said, is extracted from a poisonous frog and is likely only feasible for use by a government-level agency. Russia is believed to have also poisoned other victims, including using dioxin against Viktor Yuschenko, Gelsemium against Alexander Perepilichnyy, and Polonium-210 against Alexander Litvinenko. Using such poisons against political opponents violates international law and further highlights the reality that Vladimir Putin is a murderous dictator, just as Bible prophecy specifically describes him.
On Saturday, 250,000 people gathered in Munich to protest Iran’s Islamist regime and support exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s call for Western nations to apply further pressure. The protests coincided with the prestigious annual Munich Security Conference, where numerous Western leaders gathered. Similar protests occurred in Toronto, Los Angeles and other Western cities. The growing desire to do something about the regime’s radically violent brand of Islam will not moderate Iran’s overall trajectory: The Bible shows that it will dramatically disrupt European security, and that Europe will strike back.
The United States is preparing for what Reuters on February 14 called “the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack.” The U.S. is pursuing negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and has sent the uss Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and now the uss Gerald R. Ford to the Middle East. The blood of tens of thousands of Iranian protesters killed by the regime last month is still fresh, and tensions in the Middle East remain strained. President Trump said regime change in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen.” But as Trumpet managing editor Joel Hilliker explained in “Is Iran’s Regime Finished?”, even if Iran suffers a major blow, Bible prophecy indicates the radical Islamists in Tehran will retain their deadly grip on power.
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.”
