SEPTEMBER 2018 | THETRUMPET.COM The EU’s dark history Mexico’s new revolution Seniors: Stay strong Are we in the ‘end time’? How Anthony Kennedy corrupted America COVER A pipeline under the Baltic Sea is connecting two nations to the detriment of the world. (ISTOCK.COM/ROMOLOTAVANI; ISTOCK.COM/LEONID EREMEYCHUK; SEPTEMBER 2018 | VOL. 29, NO. 8 | CIRC.262,346 ISTOCK.COM/SUPPAPONG _ L; ISTOCK.COM/ANDREY SUSLOV; TRUMPET) FEATURES 1 FROM THE EDITOR COVER STORY Germany and Russia’s Secret War Against America 6 The Dark History of the European Union 10 Are We in the End Time? This Pivotal End-Time Prophecy Says Yes 13 Seniors: Stay Strong 14 The Selfish People 16 Mexico’s New Revolution 18 INFOGRAPHIC Why Mexicans Wants a Revolution 20 Is This the ‘Peace in Our Time’ of World War III? 24 How Kennedy Corrupted America 26 Ethiopia-Eritrea Accord: Iran’s Opportunity? 27 Ethiopia’s ‘Lost Glory’ DEPARTMENTS 28 WORLDWATCH 31 SOCIETYWATCH 33 PRINCIPLES OF LIVING When You’re Wrong, Admit It 34 DISCUSSION BOARD 35 COMMENTARY Science and the ‘Nightmares of the Future’ COLLUSION Vladimir Putin (left) and Gerhard Schröder 36 THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG are working to tie their countries together. Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Trumpet executive editor Stephen News and analysis Regular news updates and alerts Flurry’s weekly television program Flurry’s television program updated daily from our website to your inbox theTrumpet.com/keyofdavid theTrumpet.com/trumpetdaily theTrumpet.com theTrumpet.com/go/brief FROM THE EDITOR Germany and Russia’s Secret War Against America History shows that the deepening cooperation between Germany and Russia is a sure sign of future conflict. e need to carefully watch what is happening no secret of his loathing for this U.S.-led organization. So his right now between Germany and Russia. reason for wanting to unravel it is plain. W United States President Donald Trump publicly What is not as obvious is the fact that Germany also wants rebuked German Chancellor Angela Merkel on July 11 for to eliminate nato. Germany’s decision to buy a massive amount of gas from Why? Russia. “I think it’s very sad,” he said, “when Germany makes America spent billions raising Germany from the rubble a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where you’re supposed of World War ii and billions more keeping the peace in to be guarding against Russia, and Germany goes out and pays Europe. Germany would not be where it is today without billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.” the vast amount of help America supplied. President Trump This oil and gas deal is in the form of mentioned this in his remarks on July 11: “[W]e’re protecting a pipeline project called Nord Stream 2. Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of This is a pair of parallel pipelines that these countries, and then numerous of the countries go out will transport huge quantities of Rus- and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they’re paying sian natural gas under the Baltic Sea billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.” for almost 800 miles and into Germany. Why would Germany be spurning that history? Many elite When it opens in 2019, it will double the Germans feel their nation has now gotten all it can from the capacity of the first Nord Stream project, U.S. and they are ready to move on. Some powerful Germans GERALD FLURRY which was completed in 2012. today are thinking more and more about the Holy Roman For years, Germany has been criticized for the Nord Stream Empire, and they want modern Germany to assume more projects, but it pays no attention and presses ahead. This power of its own in the spirit of that empire. They want to shows Germany is uninterested in relying on nato anymore. establish Europe as a mighty, German-led superpower. President Trump exposed this in public and criticized Merkel. “Germany is totally controlled by Russia,” he later said, “because they will be getting from 60 to 70 percent of their Nord Stream 2 binds Russia and energy from Russia and a new pipeline. And you tell me if that’s Germany together in a way that appropriate, because I think it’s not, and I think it’s a very bad thing for nato and I don’t think it should have happened.” undermines NATO. In fact, it is There are several reasons why this is an alarming develop- clearly intended to wreck NATO. ment we need to closely watch. These Germans know that nato is an obstacle to their goal. Wrecking NATO Back when nato was first founded, its first secretary general, When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato) was Hastings Ismay, explained its main purpose: “Keep the Rus- started back in 1949, its basic purpose was to protect dis- sians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” The armed Germany and other European countries from the notion of keeping “the Germans down” directly contradicts Russian-led Soviet Union. To accomplish this, the treaty estab- the imperialistic ambitions that are growing more intense lished “collective defense” for member nations: If an aggressor among many elite Germans today. attacked one of them, it would have war with all of them. Germany’s antipathy toward nato is also clear in the fact Nord Stream 2 binds Russia and Germany together in a way that the country only spends about half the minimum amount SEAN that undermines nato. In fact, though Russia and Germany the organization requires member states to spend toward will not say so, this pipeline project is clearly intended to defense. Why won’t Germany pay its full share when it has GALLUP wreck nato. perhaps the strongest currency in the world? Partly because / GETTY Why would these nations want to do that? Well, it is easy it doesn’t really believe in the alliance, and partly because to see why Russia would. Russian President Vladimir Putin the U.S. has let it get away with it. Now President Trump has IMAGES views nato as a force that restricts Russia’s rise and slows called Germany out on its failure to meet that requirement, down his quest to rebuild the old Soviet Empire. He has made and I think rightfully so. SEPTEMBER 2018 1 But Bible prophecies about the next resurrection of the Just weeks after Schröder left office, Russia’s massive Holy Roman Empire show that Germany will soon be spend- state-run gas company Gazprom nominated him to become ing substantially more on its military—and not within chairman of the board of the consortium that is building the any kind of U.S.-led framework. (Request a copy of our free pipeline—and he accepted. So he was personally overseeing booklet The Holy Roman Empire in Prophecy, in which we Nord Stream’s implementation. explain those Bible prophecies in detail.) More recently, Schröder became a senior executive of Nord Stream 2 and also chairman of Rosneft, Russia’s larg- Revitalizing Russia’s Weak Economy est oil firm. Aren’t these highly unusual jobs for a former Can you imagine how much the new Nord Stream 2 agreement German chancellor? will expand Russia’s economy? At present, its economy is Schröder and Putin have forged a close friendship. Putin smaller than some individual states in America. But if billions biographer Boris Reitschuster wrote that early in Putin’s upon billions of dollars pour into Russia for this gas, that will presidency, the two men would speak with each other in strengthen Putin’s power. German, and they became fast friends. In 2004, Schröder was President Trump would like to see the Germans buy gas broadly condemned for calling Putin a “flawless democrat.” In from America, which recently became a net exporter of nat- April 2014, Schröder came under fire again for celebrating his ural gas. But instead, they will be buying it from Putin—the birthday in Russia with Putin just one month after Putin had scourge of this world in many ways. annexed Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula. Ukrainian Foreign Min- Remember that Putin’s internal campaigns have killed ister Pavlo Klimkin told Germany’s Bild magazine in March more than 150,000 Russians in Chechnya. Russia’s actions that, at present, “Gerhard Schröder is the most important in the Middle East have let the brutal civilian-killing Syrian lobbyist for Putin worldwide” (emphasis mine throughout). regime hold onto its power, and enabled Iran, the world’s So Schröder is Putin’s friend, and he is playing a key role in number one terrorist-sponsoring nation, to keep pursuing the pipeline project. Think about that. The fact that these two are working so closely together strongly indicates that they agree on a plan to destroy nato. President Trump would like the Many even in Germany are concerned about the pipeline. Germans to buy gas from America. On July 11, Rick Noack wrote in the Washington Post that some Germans have been apprehensive of Schröder’s close camara- Instead, they buy it from Putin, the derie with Putin and his work with Nord Stream. “Schröder’s scourge of this world in many ways. post-chancellorship business dealings have long raised suspicions among Germans over his political legacy,” he nuclear weapons. Remember that Putin is flagrantly poi- wrote, “but many are still willing to defend [Nord Stream 2,] soning former agents of Russia on foreign soil. And with his his now most controversial project.” Germans are right to be kgb-style methods, he has transformed Russia’s media into a suspicious of what this man is doing with Vladimir Putin! personal propaganda machine.