Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

Whether this was staged, as Ukraine is claiming, or whether it was real, the Russians are treating it as real and are going to act accordingly, which suggests they're now going to intensify their attacks.

Yesterday, Ukraine launched about ninety (90) long-range "Kamikaze" Drones toward the Novgorod Region of Russia, about 250 miles northwest of Moscow.

According to Russian Foreign Affairs Assistant to the President, Yuriy Ushakov, some of the drones impacted the Official State Residence of Russia's President, Vladimir Putin.

President Trump was informed of the attack TODAY, Monday, in an unexpected telephone call from the Russian President.

The attack took place just after Zelensky departed his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the President's personal estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida.

Because the distance from Ukraine to Novgorod is about 900 miles, the drones had to have been in the air at the exact same time Zelensky was meeting with Trump. Worse, it is strongly believed that the drones themselves could not have been guided to target except through US/NATO satellites, and US/NATO-supplied target coordinates.

It is not known if Zelensky informed Trump that this attack was coming. It is also not known if anyone in the US military chain of command, or in NATO, (or Europe), informed Trump.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

Today there will be a meeting in Brussels where the European Union (EU) will decide whether to steal Russia's $210 Billion Sovereign Wealth Funds. If the EU does that, companies around the world are expected to withdraw funds from Europe because they can no longer trust that government to act within the law.

When Russia launched its Special Military Operation inside Ukraine, European governments clutched their pearls and threw a hissy fit. Then they decided that they had some right to "freeze" Russia's Sovereign Wealth Funds. This is a problem: Russia did not violate any European Law and as such, its funds cannot be frozen or seized.

Those little factual details didn't matter to the shrieking Europeans; they froze Russia's money anyway.

This sent a shot-across-the-bow of every entity that does business in or with Europe. If the EU can simply decide that they have some right to grab someone's money despite no law having been violated, then no one is safe.

So the EU decided initially they would "pledge" the Dividends from Russia's money as collateral for loans to Ukraine. The EU had no legal authority to do THAT either. It's Russia's money, not Europe's. Europe has no legal standing to do any of this -- but they went ahead and did it anyway.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

Ukrainians Told To Burn Chicken Manure to Heat Homes as Electric and Heat OUT FOR WINTER; Russia to Continue War - Rubio says “Nothing left to Sanction”

The Ukraine situation is falling apart rather quickly and, for the first time, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms that Russia is demanding the surrender of Donbass to end the conflict.

“We can only judge by what we see. They’ve clearly stated that they want all of Donetsk, and of course, the Ukrainians won’t agree to that. So, yes, that’s the conclusion we have to draw” said Rubio.

In this video clip, Rubio admits “There’s not a lot left to sanction...I don’t know what more there is to do, I mean, we’re running out of things to sanction.”

Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin explicitly delineated Russian conditions for a broad, sustainable permanent peace accord:

■ No temporary ceasefires,
■ No European “peacekeepers,”
■ No NATO (or Nazis) in Ukraine
■ Recognition of Crimea and Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian    territory.

Putin went much farther: “If the U.S., NATO countries and Zelensky do not recognize Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russia territory, Russia will continue advancing beyond the four oblasts and toward the historical “Russian cities” of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv.”

This morning, Thursday November 13, Dmitry Peskov, Official Spokesman for the Kremlin says “Russia will continue the special military operation, since there is no possibility for negotiations.”

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

As of this evening at 6:13 PM eastern US time, I can CONFIRM that hours ago, Russia formally began a call-up of their Reserve Army forces. At this hour, I do not yet know how many; but Russia has 1.5 Million in Reserve.

Things are happening very quickly now on many levels. I am guessing it's connected to the October 21 bombings conducted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

What is special about these bombings? Well the AFU were utilizing targeting data from and authorized by U.S. European Command (EUCOM), and carried out a strike using several “Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG” Air-Launched Cruise Missiles against the Bryansk Chemical Plant in Western Russia. One of the largest producers of gunpowder, explosives, and rocket fuel components for the Russian Armed Forces.

Monday’s strike against Russia, is one of the, if not the, first carried out by Ukraine since authority for supporting such attacks was recently transferred from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon to Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, Supreme NATO Allied Commander Europe, in early October.

Overall | With the US apparently cancelling a Summit Meeting between Trump and Putin in Budapest, and with targets deep inside Russia now being hit by Ukraine, things do not bode well for peace.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

Trump's demand to divide Donbass by halting combat at the present front line, is UNACCEPTABLE to Russia.

Repeatedly, Russian President Putin "named the conditions for the cessation of hostilities at the start of negotiations with Kyiv. "Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk, Lugansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions."

Pres Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with Donald Trump, called Russia's full control over the DPR a condition for ending the conflict, according to American media.

The idea of dividing Russia's historical regions has been repeatedly rejected by Moscow. So, in June of last year, at a meeting with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry, Putin named the conditions for the cessation of hostilities and the start of negotiations with Kyiv. Putin stressed:

💬 "Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk, Lugansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Moreover, I draw your attention to the fact that it is from the entire territory of these regions within their administrative borders, which existed at the time of their entry into Ukraine."

💬 "As soon as Kiev declares that it is ready for such a decision, and begins the real withdrawal of troops from these regions, as well as officially notifies about the rejection of plans to join NATO, our side will immediately, literally at the same minute, be ordered to cease fire and start negotiations. I repeat: we will do this immediately. Naturally, at the same time, we guarantee the unhindered and safe withdrawal of Ukrainian units and formations."

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Hal Turner Show

Russia on Trump "Authorizing" Ukraine to Make Deep Strikes into Russia: "This isn't escalation; it's ignition"

Reports are flooding the media claiming that President Donald Trump has "Authorized" Ukraine to engage in long-range missile and drone strikes, deep inside Russia.

The Constitution for the United States does not empower the US Federal Government to "authorize" any other government to attack a third country - so where this power stems from, to "authorize" Ukraine to do . . . anything . . . to a third country . . . is a mystery. The US Constitution also does not authorize the US Government to wage a "proxy war" using a second country (Ukraine) to attack a third country (Russia). But that is precisely what they've been doing for more than three years.

Ukraine's non-President, Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term of Office EXPIRED last May, is also asking President Trump to authorize the sale of US "Tomahawk" Cruise Missiles, for Ukraine to use against targets deep inside Russia. Conflicting reports say either Trump refused the request or, say he is "considering" the request.

Both the launching of "Deep" strikes into Russia, and providing long-range missiles, guided by US Military Satellites, to carry-out such long-range strikes, are "Red Lines" for the Russians. Crossing those Red Lines would LIKELY see Russia declare the US as a "Party to the conflict" thereby opening the door for Russia to begins striking targets here, inside the USA.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

The current United States Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has publicly accused former President Barack Obama and several of his top Cabinet officials of "Treasonous Conspiracy" against Donald Trump.

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

[Former] Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky just COMPLTELY destroyed any hope for Peace talks, or for a continued existence for Ukraine. Less than one hour after Presidents Putin and Trump spoke by phone, Zelensky said this:

● Kiev will not accept any sort of ultimatum by Russia
● Ukraine will not withdraw its troops from anywhere or give up any territory
● Ukrainian NATO aspirations are not up for debate, there will be no neutrality
● He expects new European sanctions against Russia soon
● He asks Trump not to make any decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine

There is no rational hope for putting together a plan for either a ceasefire or for peace, as long as Volodymyr Zelensky has anything to do with negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Zelensky's term as President of Ukraine EXPIRED last May. The Ukraine Constitution only makes provisions for the Legislature, the Verkhovna Rada - to remain in office during Martial Law. It does NOT make any such provision for the President to remain in power.

For Zelensky to be able to scuttle legitimate peace efforts, and thereby cause the continuation of a war that is killing more than 5,000 troops a week, is obscene to me.

If we take Zelensky at his word, then it seems to me this conflict will not be resolved until all of Ukraine is destroyed by Russia and most Ukrainians are dead from that conflict.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

US President Donald Trump will have a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin today at about 10:00 AM eastern US time, which is about 5:00 PM Moscow time.

The two leaders will discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict and international trade.

President Trump has been working very hard toward brining that conflict to a logical, peaceful, conclusion, but there are severe roadblocks along the way.

The reason the conflict began is primarily the expansion of NATO east of Germany back in the 1990's under then-President Bill Clinton.

This expansion violated a promise given by US Secretary of State James Baker, to then-Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, at a meeting in the Kremlin, on February 9, 1990. In that meeting, Baker promised that if the Soviet Union agreed to allow East and West Germany to re-unify, and removed 300,000 Soviet troops from East Germany, that NATO "will not move one inch eastward."

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

The United States has suddenly imposed full scale, secondary sanctions upon Iran oil sales. | What this means is that the US tells EVERY other nation in the world, that if they buy __any__ oil from Iran, then their entire country cannot do any business AT ALL with the United States.

This is the kind of economic activity that directly causes a shooting war. The entire country of Iran survives on oil sales. Now, no one else in the world can buy their oil for fear of losing access to US markets. This is a death stranglehold by the US upon Iran's entire economy. President Trump made the announcement himself on Social Media: