Martin Armstrong: “Our computer shows after 2032, we’ll probably create a new form of government”

The American ‘South Front’ published an exclusive interview with well-known economic expert Martin Armstrong – ‘one of the most influential economists globally’, as SF presents him. Main points:

- I think basically that you to look not only United States but Europe too. Everything is becoming very polarized, politically. You saw it in England, you saw it in France. The United States is the same. The other side won and we all got along, but now the politics has changed to the point that if one side gets in, they want to force their agenda upon everybody else. That’s not civilization.

- Civilization historically is when we all come together because everybody benefits. When one side starts to punish the other side, civilization no longer makes sense. So that’s why you’ll, you’ll most likely see the United States eventually break up into different regions. The same thing in Europe. You know, one size, you know, does not fit all, you know, even in the American Civil War, the North was basically industrialized. The South was more agricultural. You have different economies  throughout the whole region. Same thing you see there in Italy from the North versus the South.

- Well, we are in a debt crisis globally, because all governments since World War Two have been borrowing with no intention of paying anything back. And historically, when the default comes, it’s when, because you’re in these Ponzi schemes, you’re borrowing new debt to pay off the old. Historically, this has happened many times the debt crisis takes place when you can no longer sell the new debt to pay off the old. There are no buyers. That’s when it all comes crashing down to that. This is also why they need war. After war, they basically get to create a new government and they default on the debt of the of the old, even the United States did that. This is why they need war as the excuse because they know financially the system is beginning to collapse.

- It’s also why they’re pushing for digital currency all the governments i’ve met with around the world. They believe that about 35 percent of the economy is underground, that they don’t pay taxes, and if they go to a digital currency, eliminating all physical money, then they’ll collect those taxes.

- I mean, economically, it’s just, we’ve simply gone down the road too far. That’s it. And for example, you have Blinken who’s the head of the state department threatening China over Taiwan.  Well, China sold off 53 billion of us debt in the first quarter. And so they’re not going to be buying debt in the future. So this becomes the problem. If you cannot sell the debt that’s when you default.

- Vietnam War broke, you know, Bretton Woods and the gold standard. You know, you, you fix gold at 35 dollars, but you continue to increase the quantity of dollars that you printed. I mean, I think a three year old with a pocket calculator could figure out that’s not going to work. But, you know,  unfortunately, governments will always rule in their own favor.

- Ukraine… Why are we not doing the same thing? There was the Minsk agreement. The Donbass are Russians who have lived there for hundreds of years. Zelensky had promised ‘peace’ when he ran for election. He’s done the opposite and he’s outlawed their language, outlawed their religion. He changed, you know, Orthodox Christmas. They have to celebrate it on December 25th (not on January 7th – edit.). They’re no longer allowed to report to the patriarch of Moss in Moscow. It has to be his that he set up in Kiev. You don’t do these kind of things if you’re trying to create peace and unity when you’re attacking religion, their language, of course you’re gonna get Civil war. If you looked at Canada, if Canada tried to outlaw French, I think you’re gonna have a civil war. Same thing in the United States, you can’t outlaw Spanish.

- These are not things that promote civilization or peace. And in all honesty, over a million people have died in Ukraine. Does anybody really care about Ukrainians? The answer is no. This is all about just getting to Russia. That’s it. You know, Merkel from Germany, supposedly, you know, she even told the press, I don’t know if she had too much to drink or what, but she told the press that they never intended to honor the Minsk agreement. It was just to buy time for Ukraine to build an army. That implies they have wanted war from the very beginning, not peace. And that’s why I say they need war and this is their exit strategy for the debt crisis.

- Unfortunately, Ukrainians are basically the, you know, the lamb on the altar to be slaughtered.

- They do not care about Ukraine. It’s a country that’s just going to be absolutely destroyed and they’re not going to be giving them money to rebuild it. That’s not on the agenda. It’s just propaganda. It usually is that way but they have been trying to conquer Russia and you, I know some of these neocons, I’ve dealt with them for a long time. My opinion is, is that they, when they grew up just hating Russia and China because of communism. Well, communism fell and the West should have recognized that, but it did not. It’s like, I think that these people just hate Russians, and they, and they’re just upset that communism fell and they didn’t get to shoot anybody. They still want war.

- We had a global economy and they’ve done everything to undermine that. Once you impose the sanctions on Russia,  China started realizing they could do it to them. Other countries started withdrawing, India, et cetera. Now you have the BRICS nation. We once had a global economy.

- We’re probably going to see our forms of government being a ‘republics will’, will come to an end probably by 2032. We’re probably going to see, that’s what all this chaos is about people are beginning to realize that, you know, the governments are not what they’re supposed to be. Things are not working out the way they were. I mean, this 2024 election is going to show a lot of people, you know that the system’s broke. You know, people will then change the form of government, but only when they begin to see it’s broke.

- Our computer shows after 2032, we’ll probably create a new form of government. I’m hoping it will be more of a ‘direct democracy’ where we should be allowed to vote. ‘Do you want to go to war with Russia?’ – ‘Yes’ or ‘No’? We’re never asked these questions. They make their own decisions and we’re supposed to follow. That’s not democracy. They call it ‘democracy’, but it’s not. It’s more of authoritarianism. Even in Vietnam, you were 18 years old. You could be drafted to go to war and die. You were not old enough to have a drink. And you were not old enough to vote. That’s not democracy. Where did they have a right to vote for anything? That’s not democracy. This is the problem with our system. The politicians make it sound nice. So we’re, we don’t have democracies. We don’t get to vote on anything.

- No form of government has ever lasted, you know, really more than 250 to 300 years. It’s just our turn. That’s it. Communism collapsed. It’s our turn for the same thing. So, if we understand what the problem are, we can create a better life…

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