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On Friday, German soccer team Werder Bremen canceled its trip to Minneapolis and other American cities, citing internal U.S. conflicts over the enforcement of immigration law. “Playing in a city where there’s unrest and people have been shot, that does not fit with our values here at Werder Bremen,” the team stated, also citing tightened entry restrictions and financial factors. The cancellation shows that some Germans are willing to essentially boycott the U.S. over political disagreements. Soon, many more Germans will boycott many more U.S. cities, on a much larger scale.
According to a senior U.S. official speaking with Axios, United States President Donald Trump may be prepared to back off his ultimatum for Iran to stop all nuclear enrichment. Axios claimed on February 20 that the Trump administration could tolerate “token” nuclear enrichment if “it leaves no possible path to a bomb.” This comes as the U.S. has moved two carrier strike groups and dozens of additional warplanes into the region for potential strikes on Iran. Iran was allowed “token” nuclear enrichment under President Barack Obama’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which Trump criticized and nullified. Now, even with Trump in power, the U.S. may continue to treat violent Islamist nuclear technology as just another bargaining chip, unaware of what the Bible prophesies radical Islam is about to do.
Poland is withdrawing from the Ottawa Treaty, which bans antipersonnel mines, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced Thursday. The Polish government wants to be free to mine its borders with Belarus and Russia’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad should the threat of Russian invasion emerge, part of a larger defense project called “East Shield.” Bible prophecy revealed thousands of years ago that fear of Russia would stir Europe to militarize.
Hungarian and Slovakian leaders threatened to cut off oil supplies to Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. They accused Ukraine of delaying to reopen the Druzhba oil pipeline to try to make the European Union admit Ukraine as a member. In January, Hungary and Slovakia contributed 60 percent of Ukraine’s electricity imports. Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been targeted by Russian attacks, and temperatures are still frigid. Russian President Vladimir Putin has openly decried the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Bible prophesies that this man will soon lead a massive Asian military alliance. Because of this, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has said Putin will regain control over some former Soviet puppet states.
Defense ministers and top EU officials from Germany, France, Poland, Italy and the UK met on Friday and announced leap, a joint effort to build artificial intelligence-equipped autonomous drones and cheap air defense weapons in bulk. “We are implementing the experience from Ukraine and developing our industrial potential in a dynamic way. Europe has woken up,” Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated following the meeting. It’s possible these drones could even be used to form a European “drone wall” at the Russian border. Efforts to strengthen Europe’s militaries may be framed as a defense against Russia, but the Bible reveals that they will soon be used against the U.S. and UK.
Mexico overtook Canada as the top destination of U.S. exports, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Last year was the first time Mexico’s annual imports from the U.S. topped Canada’s. U.S. Commerce Department figures record that Mexico received 16 percent of U.S. exports ($338 billion) and Canada received 15 percent ($337 billion). Major shifts are occurring in international relations, not only in rhetoric but also in consequential real-world trade and industry. The new Philadelphia Trumpet focuses on changes and conflicts in world trade and where the Bible says they will lead.
After dropping during mid-2025, the U.S. trade deficit reached a record-high $70.3 billion in December, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. A major reason President Trump placed so many tariffs last year was to decrease that deficit, but even with those measures in place, imports surged in November and the deficit began rising again. The Supreme Court decision striking down these particular tariffs complicates matters. Even with a bold president making a bold move to try to reduce the deficit, the U.S. remains addicted to imports.
At 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, a sheriff’s deputy and two Secret Service agents confronted Tucker Martin, 21, who was carrying a gas can and a shotgun. Martin had breached a secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago and, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, raised his shotgun when confronted and was shot. He did not survive. Text messages revealed he was upset over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files. Donald Trump, who has been the target of multiple assassination attempts, was at the White House during the incident. Prior to the first assassination attempt at Butler, Pennsylvania, before the election, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry asserted that Trump, although threatened, would not be assassinated because he is the subject of yet-unfulfilled prophecies in 2 Kings 14 and Amos 7.
Mankind took a small step toward returning to the moon on Friday as the Artemis 2 mission passed its “wet dress rehearsal.” It is tentatively scheduled to launch between March 6 and 9. The rocket will take four astronauts into orbit around the moon, the first time any human has been beyond low Earth orbit since December 1972. They will set a new record for distance traveled from Earth, beating the record set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970. If all goes well, Artemis 3 will follow in 2027 or 2028 and will be the first manned lunar landing in over 50 years. The missions are an opportunity to have all mankind lift up their eyes and gain a glimpse of a grand vision for humanity.
United States President Donald Trump hosted the inaugural Board of Peace meeting yesterday. The board announced that Albania, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Morocco will send peacekeepers to Gaza. All five are Muslim-majority countries, but most are countries Israel has cordial relations with. Indonesia has no diplomatic relations with Israel, but neither is it a historic enemy. Two countries hostile to Israel, Qatar and Turkey, have considered sending peacekeepers, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have convinced Trump and his board to forgo this for now. The Board of Peace appears to be progressing in its goals for Gaza, but this is illusory.
Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna stated on Wednesday that Estonia is willing to host nato nuclear weapons. His comment comes after Polish President Karol Nawrocki floated the idea of Poland developing nuclear weapons earlier this week and amid discussions between Germany and France regarding a European nuclear arsenal independent of the United States.
France and Algeria agreed to restore security cooperation on Tuesday following a visit by French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, another indication that two years of strain in their relationship is easing. Algeria is important to France and Europe as a supplier of natural gas and as a strategic location to advance European interests in northern Africa.
Iran and Russia held “anti-terrorism and vessel protection operations” yesterday in the Gulf of Oman. According to Iranian Rear Adm. Hassan Maghsoudlou, its aim was “to enhance security and sustainable maritime interactions in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean.” The drills come amid Iran’s temporary shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz for live-fire naval exercises and are designed as responses to the deployment of two U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike groups to the region. Iran’s aggressive assertion of its control over the strategically important Gulf of Oman with Russia’s help will further provoke Europe to get involved in the region.
Citing administration officials, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the 12-year presence of U.S. forces in Syria will officially end in the next two months. The Bible prophesied that America’s influence over Syria would deteriorate. The U.S. withdrawal clears the way not only for Syria’s new Islamist regime to consolidate power but for a new, imperialistic power.
A large weapons sale to Taiwan is in question after Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump not to approve it, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Xi has repeatedly vowed to acquire Taiwan and has spent years preparing a military capable of conquering it by force if necessary. He aims to further tilt any future conflict in China’s favor by leaving Taiwan inadequately armed, and he is using a trade deal to entice Trump into aligning with this objective. Following a February 4 phone call between Xi and Trump, an unnamed U.S. official described Trump’s advisers as “vacillating” on the decision, the Journal said. A second official said Trump wished to safeguard a trade truce with Xi ahead of his planned visit to Beijing in April and characterized the weapons sale decision as being “carefully considered” in internal discussions. The Trumpet has warned for decades that America’s lack of resolve will be the primary factor enabling the Chinese Communist Party to absorb Taiwan.
Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fifth-largest container shipping company, has signed a deal to acquire the world’s 10th-largest: Israel’s Zim Integrated Shipping Services. Zim’s board of directors approved the $4.2 billion deal. It now awaits Israeli government approval, though some Israelis hope the government will reject it. Zim has helped Israel in emergency logistics during wartime. Israel’s port authority called the sale an “existential threat,” while 800 of Zim’s workers staged a strike. The Bible warns that Germany will build a massive commercial empire that will ultimately shut Israel, Britain, America and other nations descended from the ancient Israelites out of world trade. Germany acquiring Israel’s largest shipping company could simultaneously help it build that empire, develop a closer relationship with Israel, and give it the means to besiege it economically. Chapter 5 of Ezekiel—the End-Time Prophet explains more.
Canadian Member of Parliament Matt Jeneroux of the Conservative Party has switched allegiance and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal caucus. He is the third Conservative M.P. to defect to the Liberals since November. Carney’s government now controls 169 members of Parliament, two shy of a majority government. The Liberals are close to gaining even more power to continue their fundamental transformation of Canada.
Oil prices are spiking to their highest levels since last summer as United States President Donald Trump reportedly convenes with advisers for possible military action against Iran. Sources speaking with Axios claim preparations are underway for a potential “joint U.S.-Israeli campaign that’s much broader in scope—and more existential for the regime—than the Israeli-led 12-day war last June.” President Trump and his staff may feel that they can remove or drastically change Iran’s leadership, but Bible prophecy indicates that Iran’s Islamist clerics will not only survive this crisis but ultimately grow even stronger and even more belligerent.
The United States signed a trade deal with Argentina on February 5 that threatens to weaken a much larger trade deal 25 years in the making. It follows the January 17 signing of the EU-mercosur Partnership Agreement, which is now subject to ratification. Argentina is mercosur’s second-largest economy. “Whichever agreement is ratified first could give the EU or the U.S. a first-mover advantage, with the runner-up possibly being told that Argentina has already made a commitment on the matter,” Politico wrote on February 16. Stefano Bonaccini, an Italian Member of European Parliament, said, “If Europe wants to be a geopolitical giant, it must be able to decide without wasting time.” The EU is prophesied in your Bible to become a “geopolitical giant” and to wage and win the largest and worst trade war in human history.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat representing New York, filed legislation on February 15 to grant what is known as the lgbtq+ pride flag the same federal legal protections as the American flag and U.S. military flags. This move comes just after a Trump administration directive to remove the unauthorized rainbow-style lgbtq+ flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, the site of 1969 riots by homosexuals against police at the Stonewall Inn bar. The bill is unlikely to pass without bipartisan support, but Democrats’ actions—let alone the fact that a site defined by homosexuality, prostitution, exploitation and rioting is officially an American national monument—show that America has barely addressed its deep sexual sickness and depravity.
A survey of citizens in France, Greece, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom found that 26 percent of respondents agree with the statement, “If there was a capable and effective leader in my country, I wouldn’t mind if they limited democratic rights and were not accountable to the citizens for their actions,” Politico reported yesterday. The survey was commissioned by the Progressive Lab think tank and conducted by the Greek polling firm AboutPeople. In every country except Sweden and the UK, most were dissatisfied with how democracy functions within their country. Though the minority, the percentage of Europeans who admit they could support a dictatorship is significant. Bible prophecy says they will soon get their wish.
“I’m going to say something I should never say, but I will anyway: You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone,” Dutch Defense Secretary Gijs Tuinman told bnr in a podcast posted on Saturday. The Netherlands is one of 19 nations that have purchased the fifth-generation stealth multirole fighter from America. Purchasing the F-35 was widely debated in Europe, with some expressing concerns that the U.S. could remotely disable the aircraft. In this context, “jailbreaking” refers to bypassing a manufacturer’s software restrictions. The U.S. denies that it can remotely shut down the F-35, but Europeans want to be sure they can use the F-35, which can carry nuclear weapons, for whatever they want. The controversy shows how sharp the divide between America and Europe has grown and how foolish it is for the U.S. to trust Europe with such weapons platforms.
“Multiple Western officials” told the Telegraph that the United States plans to use gangs of criminals to help govern Gaza if and when Hamas is removed from power. In the past, Israel has supported similarly suspect groups, such as the Popular Forces, as a way to counter the “greater evil” of Hamas; Hamas has killed many members of these groups. Removing Hamas and empowering these “lesser evils” appears to be the Trump administration’s plan, despite the gangs’ possible links to drug smuggling and other crimes, the Islamic State and terrorism. This is another sign that the Gaza “peace deal” will produce even more bloodshed.
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.”
