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It's called a shadow war, when states and powers engage in behind-the-scenes actions to achieve their objectives. It's called a shadow war because you're not supposed to see it, for the simple reason that if a sufficient percentage of people are aware of it, it doesn't work. It doesn't work because many of the objectives require the cooperation of the public, usually through inaction.
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And that is perhaps the biggest mistake the globalists made. When they launched their attack upon our rights in the form of the COVID narrative, they woke a lot of people up. People who until that point had been comfortably asleep and who lived in a world where they could acknowledge that there are covert operations, but those operations didn't really affect them and so could be comfortably ignored.
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Conversations that were reserved for analysts and the occasional economist who understood the underlying cause for world events. But now we know about the shadow war, and we know that it does affect us. Tom Luongo is one of those rare people who knew long before 2020 that world events were being manipulated.
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His podcast, Goats, Guns and Gold, exposes what's really happening. What are the objectives of the various powers and who are they? Today Tom joins me to turn on some more lights for all of us. Despite the fact that I have now done over 500 interviews, many of them with people who have been following these shadow events for far longer than I have, Tom explained current world events with a clarity that even I had not yet seen.
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Why hasn't Russia brought their full military might against Ukraine and crushed them in a week? They could have. Why is the UK trying so hard to bring America into the war that the EU will almost certainly launch against Russia? Why were UN soldiers involved in the October 7th attack on Israel? Why do the globalists want Iran to have nuclear weapons? And why are those same globalists funding the riots in the US? We all know the what's now. In this interview, you will learn the why.
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And that why is the key to understanding everything. Tom, welcome to the show. Well, thank you very much for the invite.
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It's good to meet you up in Calgary. So, and yeah, we finally got a chance to get this together. Right.
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Yeah. And I really enjoyed your talk at the Cornerstone Forum here in Calgary and especially not just because of your knowledge. I mean, obviously with your website, you write about a lot of different subjects about finance, about politics, about, uh, our personal rights, about the globalist agenda, all of that stuff.
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But I also really liked your extremely direct approach. I mean, you, you do not mince words and I love that. No, no, I'm not known for that.
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So what I'd like to do today is, is just access your knowledge on, uh, starting at sort of the global scale and then working towards North America. And the big thing that's going on right now, of course, is that it is very clear that the European Union is gearing up for war with Russia and, um, well, I'm just going to leave it at that. I mean, what's your view on that? When can we expect that to happen? Do you think it's going to happen? And if it happens, what's the outcome going to be? No, let's, there's an awful lot to unpack and all of those, and all of that, um, I timing is for the gods.
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I've learned this a long time ago or, or Martin Armstrong, um, and even Marty doesn't always get all the timing right. I'm, and I, and I say that with love, um, uh, well, I, I've interviewed him on, on this already. So you're, you're following his act.
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Yeah. And I mean, in some ways, I, in some ways I am, and Martin is a very, it has been a, uh, a very important person from that perspective to teach me how to, you know, get out of my own head, right. Over time.
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It's not that I agree with everything Marty says. It's not that I take, you know, the word is gospel or anything. We had many a conversation in Calgary while he was up there, uh, about these things.
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And we don't necessarily, you know, we don't, we're not supposed to agree about everything without them on my vodkas. We're not supposed to agree about everything. Um, that's what makes these things great is why we do these things.
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Um, but the, the, the ideas are what's important. Like the, the, the framework, how to think about things is as important as what we think about things. I just need to preface all that up front to understand, get people to understand for your audience how I approach all this.
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You know, it's just the way it is. I have a systemic way of thinking. Okay.
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And I will, I feel no compunction about changing my mind based on new data. First and foremost, I'm a scientist that has morphed into this kind of field. It's the same thing with Dave Collum, right? And a good friend of mine and, and Dave and I, when we get together, we do that type of analysis and, you know, it leads us into weird places sometimes.
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I'm also very intuitive. Like I can look at all this stuff going around and I'm like, yeah, there's your cat. There's your towel.
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There's your signal. Because you take in enough data over the course of your life, not some of which is, you're not conscious of, and you have to let you, you have to trust your, I like to call it my Spidey sense. You know, Iain McGilchrist calls this is your, your right brain, pick, pick a poison.
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I don't really care. So talking about your, you know, to answer your question is a long way of saying, we don't know when this is going to occur or whatnot. What we're looking for are the catalysts that get us up the escalatory ladder to that point.
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Right. And we're clearly climbing the escalatory ladder. And I was talking with my friend E.M. Burlingame and Tommy Kerrigan about this last week.
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And we did an entire podcast on it for the more of the shape, the conversation around that framework. The question is not just who's on the escalatory ladder and who's trying to push us up the escalatory ladder, but who's in control of it. And the person who makes the final decision to go metaphorically speaking nuclear or, and in this case, potentially literally speaking, nuclear has the control of the escalatory ladder.
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And in Russia, Ukraine, I believe that's Vladimir Putin. Okay. It's everybody else, it's the European Union pushing up the ladder to force Putin to make the ultimate decision.
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And so far Putin has chosen not to do that. And he just continues to do what amounts to parallel aggression. You get off the escalatory ladder, he attacks in a parallel sense at a different, you know, in a parallel escalatory manner at the people who pushed up the ladder, be it the Brits or the French or the Germans or the Poles or whomever, or the Ukrainians.
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And then, you know, he makes it known to them that, oh, by the way, you're going to do this. Well, we're going to do that, but we're not going to escalate. And when he's not, when he's not doing this and being forced to do that, then, you know, he's in control.
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But he, they step up, he matches them. They step up, he matches them. They think they're in control because they're the ones doing the work.
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But why are they doing that? They're doing that to try and get him to go offside, to go on tilt, right? As a poker player would put it. And Putin's been very clear and very rational about it while they all lose their mind. And it's the difference between, you know, and this is, we get into this, we can look at it from this framework.
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It's not the only framework. It was one of them. You have masculine energy that's in control of the situation on one side, you have female energy on the, who are freaking out because they're, because the man refuses to submit on the other side.
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And that's what we have. And, you know, it's the difference. It's like watching Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart, you know, go after each other and try and, you know, in the Maltese Falcon, I just popped into my head, like, who's the ultimate like femme fatale was Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon.
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These are just kind of touchstone things for me. And I just see the European union now is that, you know, they know they're caught. They know that they're still running an operation on everybody.
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They're trying to, they're trying to, you know, schmooze us into thinking that they're not running an operation on everybody and we can see them. And then we're like, no, no sugar, no, God was the, what do you call her in the movie? That's not precious. Something.
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He has a, he had a, he had a term of endearment for her, which will come to me after the segment is over. And I'm like, damn it. Well, you've got me thinking about it now too.
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It's been ages since I was saying, and you can hear Bogart in your head, right? You can hear it. You know it. And I'm like, and he's saying, and he's like, what's that? What's that sweetheart? Was that it? I think it was angel.
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I think it was. Okay. I can't remember.
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So now that it popped into them, then now that we're, yes, that's what I'm getting at here is that kind of moment. And he's like, and then when you find out that he's like, Nope, I know it was you the entire time. And that scene at the end of the multi-stock and so, so beautifully because Bogart's brilliant there.
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Right. And how you can see how conflicted he is. And still, he'd still in the end does the right thing.
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And that's what Putin's been doing. And now here's a specific example, I think that ties into what you've been saying. When Putin, I think it was about a month, month and a half ago, he made it clear that if Europe attacks Russia, if they actually cross into Russian territory, he said nuclear weapons would be an option.
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Do you think he means it? Oh yeah. That's why, why do you think NATO keeps like hiding behind the Ukrainians doing it? Even though we all know that these are British, you know, controlled plan operations. And then the worst part about it is the amount of propaganda that's out there that's trying to tie the Americans to it.
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We know the Americans aren't doing it. Okay. And that propaganda is the actual war.
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Like the Russia Ukraine war is not about Russia, Ukraine, and the British and the French. It's about the British and the French or in the Germans or whatever. It's about Davos trying to get the United States to come in on their side and do this.
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It's the same script they viewed, they used in world war one, it's the same script they used in world war two. It's the same playbook all the way down the line. And, um, and you know, the question now is, can they get the United States to go along with this? Well, and now after Israel, Iran kicked off and we've now had this massive, massive campaign, but the older I get and the more I watch this play out or more, I'm like, is the whole Israel controls the U S government, APAC owns all of our politicians.
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Is that itself a psyop or at least an overblown psyop? I think so. Not saying that they don't influence, absolutely. They have influence.
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Okay. No, no argument that they spend their money that way, that they do all this. But the big question is, you know, the British are, and I'm going to keep it to the British at this point, just to make it simple, but the British are a, um, they're also a metaphor for all of Davos.
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Okay. Cause I'm, my thoughts on all of this stuff is, are still evolving, but the British textually throughout history are very, very good at cutting deals with everyone and then betraying somebody at the last moment to get when the moment of crisis occurs and they pledged their support, then they show them, show up this to the Turks at Gallipoli, like, or to the Russians. They did this at Gallipoli.
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Richard Poe's written extensively about this. They've done it multiple times in the past. They've done it to the Kurds.
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They've done it to everybody, right? So they're going to do it. They, they're trying to do it to the Americans, but no, actually they're now doing it to the Israelis. Yeah.
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Like they said, this is, and that's, that's, that's where I came to over the last 48 hours about the, the Israel-Iran conflict, right? Cause I start to review everything that I've studied so intensely over the last decade. I'm like, oh, well that's where I was wrong on that. And that's where I was right on, uh, oh, oh, I was so close, but I missed it.
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You know what I mean? And like, I'm reviewing it all in this kind of massive memetic collapse or, uh, you know, yeah, really a memetic collapse of how I thought I viewed the world. I was close, but I'm not, I wasn't close enough. So we'll leave it there.
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No. And I want to get to, to Israel around the Middle East in a minute, but there's a couple of questions I'm going to ask first about the European-Russia situation. And yes, I agree with you completely about the manipulation that's going on.
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A couple of specific instances that were revealed just very recently, the Russian intelligence service, um, discovered a couple of plans between the Brits and the Ukrainians to, uh, plan number one, that they were going to torpedo or near miss a US ship in the Baltic. And then, you know, a malfunctioning torpedo would be found that would prove to be Russian. Right.
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I saw that. Plan two was that there were going to be Russian mines that would somehow wash up on shore. So there, and of course, all of this is directed at the Americans in the Baltic to try to drag them into the war.
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Now, there's a couple of specific instances, but I'm sure that you know of some others. So give us some examples of what, you know, Davos, the global, whatever. I can be a pervy.
