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As Sanctions Against Russia Take Hold, They Are Having The Effect Of Devastating Economies All Over Europe, Who Will Be The First To Fall?

The political impact of the cost-of-living squeeze is ultimately likely to test the continent’s resolve to keep confronting Russia at a time when its president, Vladimir Putin, is threatening to shut off gas supplies amounting to about a third of EU consumption. “This is a sword of Damocles,” said Yves Dubief, whose grandfather founded textile weaver Tenthorey, an employer of 50 people in northeastern France that produces 5 million meters of cloth a year. In such circumstances, the business leader says the state would need to revive measures used during Covid to need help with fixed costs and furloughing workers. “If there is an embargo and we have to reduce our production, whatever the price of gas, it will be a question of whether we are compensated by public authorities.”

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March 11, 2022

Geoffrey Grider

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Two weeks since Russia began the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II, businesses across the continent are already in varying stages of despair at the consequences on livelihoods from economic sanctions.

Economic sanctions to bring Putler and Russia to their knees? Don’t count on it. In fact, the sanctions placed on Russia over the past 2 weeks is hurting the economies of Europe just as much as it is Russia, and on some levels, even more so. The thing people forget is that Russia is a nation whose people have suffering as their birthright, shutting down McDonald’s and Starbucks doesn’t do anything. But $20 a gallon petrol for the Europeans will wreck their lives and inflict pain that they will not likely survive.

“And the famine was sore in the land.” Genesis 43:1 (KJB)

In many places in the Middle East, flour is already being rationed as Ukraine and Russia account for nearly 30 percent of wheat, 17 percent of corn and over half of sunflower seed oil exports. Critically, Russia is also a major exporter of fertilizer, the price of which has already been soaring. Significant disruptions of Russian exports could see that price jump more — further driving up the cost of food production globally. In the United States soaring gas prices combined with the Biden inflation is already beginning to be felt. But Bidenflation was already in progress before Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Shockwaves Spread as Europe’s Economy Reels at Energy Fallout

FROM YAHOO NEWS: A crisis of human suffering in Ukraine, whose wider economic impact prompted European Central Bank officials to quicken their withdrawal from stimulus this week, is affecting prosperity from the farmlands of Spain to the euro zone’s manufacturing core in Germany and France.

Surging energy costs are the central complaint, though disrupted supply chains, sanctions and worries about a looming demand drop are also weighing on enterprises. The abrupt shock of war nearby, combined with broad effects and an uncertain duration, will pile pressure on governments to cushion the blow as well as testing their resolve to confront Russia.

“I don’t know what to do if the war in Ukraine continues for much longer,” Spanish pig farmer Lorenzo Rivera said in an interview this week. “I either have to halt production — or close business for good.”

Rivera, whose 200 sows outnumber people in Peleas de Arriba, the settlement in northern Spain where he lives, has endured cost increases for a while — first electricity, then fuel, and then animal feed. It was all manageable until war broke out on the other side of the continent.

The root of the difficulty is the European Union’s reliance on Ukraine for over half its supply of corn, a key source of feed for pigs. With farmers unable to access fields, analysts are slashing outlooks for crops and exports there by as much as a third, sending prices to the highest in about a decade. Other economic disruption is being inflicted by the geography of the crisis. In Germany, the heartland of the euro-zone economy, Porsche AG stopped production of its Taycan electric car in Stuttgart because it lacks cable trees made in Ukraine. Meanwhile its parent, Volkswagen AG, has halted exports to Russia and stopped production at an auto factory in Kaluga outside Moscow.

Most onerous is the energy impact. If current prices persist, the extra cost of importing gas and oil will amount to an income shock of 550 billion euros ($605 billion) or 4.5% of annual gross domestic product, according to JPMorgan economist Greg Fuzesi. Goldman Sachs now reckons inflation will reach toward 8% and the euro zone will suffer a contraction in the second quarter. To many euro-zone businesses, that pinch has been immediately crippling. Just in December, Manuel Rodriguez’s Groupe Kramer took over a century-old porcelain factory in eastern France called Jurassienne de Ceramique Francaise. He has now taken the painful decision to put it in hibernation.

“If we were to pay a gas bill that’s increased 10-fold, we’d hit the wall,” he said. “We would have no other choice but to file for bankruptcy and close down the factory.”

Heading south, along Italy’s coastline, the spiraling cost of fuel has also left many trawlers unable to go to sea and sparked a week-long strike of fishing boats. Carlo Lista, who owns a fishmonger business in Rome’s Monteverde district, says the effect has been dramatic.

“About 80% of fishing boats have stopped due to the surge in fuel prices,” he said. “You go there, and it’s maybe one boat, and one guy bids and then another, and the price just goes up — whoever bids more gets the fish. Prices are just soaring and soaring.”

Grumpy fishermen are calling on Italy’s government to do something about their predicament beyond the 16 billion euros already spent to protect consumers and companies from rising energy costs. That’s a plea being echoed around the continent. In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has already extended a series of energy tax breaks to the end of June. Portugal will cut fuel levies starting on Friday, and other counterparts are likely to take similar action.

With the EU also under pressure to act, leaders are discussing the crisis in Versailles on Friday. One measure the bloc could consider would be to temporarily lift a ban on imports of genetically modified grains from the U.S. and South America to help farmers struggling with supply disruptions, according to Spain’s Agriculture Minister Luis Planas.

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“If the gas supply is turned off, Germany and Eastern Europe almost certainly face a crunching blow to output, pushing the euro area into recession.”

The political impact of the cost-of-living squeeze is ultimately likely to test the continent’s resolve to keep confronting Russia at a time when its president, Vladimir Putin, is threatening to shut off gas supplies amounting to about a third of EU consumption.

“This is a sword of Damocles,” said Yves Dubief, whose grandfather founded textile weaver Tenthorey, an employer of 50 people in northeastern France that produces 5 million meters of cloth a year. In such circumstances, the business leader says the state would need to revive measures used during Covid to need help with fixed costs and furloughing workers. “If there is an embargo and we have to reduce our production, whatever the price of gas, it will be a question of whether we are compensated by public authorities.”

While such challenges are likely to focus governments in coming weeks, the most immediate task of addressing economic fallout has been left to ECB President Christine Lagarde. Officials accelerated stimulus withdrawal on Thursday as they unveiled forecasts showing inflation averaging 5.1% this year. The war presents a “substantial upside risk” to prices, she said.

Rodriguez, the French ceramics entrepreneur, looks on that threat with dread. He warns that the problems he’s seeing are likely to cascade throughout global manufacturing.

“There is a domino effect,” he said. “All big industrial firms on the planet have the same problem. In the more or less long term, we will all be faced with this problem of gas that’s too expensive.” READ MORE

Russia sanctions: Moscow warns it will retaliate to Europe gas changes

Russia sanctions: Alexander Novak, Russian Deputy Prime Minister speaks of how Russia will retaliate to the European gas movements as he also warned that the actions will cause prices to rise. Novak said Russia, which supplies 40% of Europe’s gas, was fulfilling its obligations in full but that it would be entirely within its rights to retaliate against the European Union after Germany last month froze the certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

Oil price surge and any sanctions hurt Europe more than U.S., expert explains

Seton Hall University Professor Margarita Balmaceda sits down with Yahoo Finance Live to discuss how the energy market would be impacted by the U.S. import ban on Russian oil, additional operational costs for European refineries, and crude oil prices.

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Bomb Threats Target At Least 15 Passenger Flights Across Europe As Fighter Jets Scramble And A New Wave Of Aviation Chaos Puts Spotlight On Russia

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November 5, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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Europe Faces Another Wave Of Airline Bomb Threats As Anonymous Warnings Trigger Military Responses And Expose The Vulnerability Of A Society Dependent On Uninterrupted Travel

Someone is demonstrating just how quickly Europe’s skies can be thrown into turmoil. Around fifteen passenger flights targeted by bomb threats in a single day, fighter jets scrambled, aircraft diverted, and security teams mobilized across national borders. This follows earlier waves of threats during the same week. Searches have found no explosives, but the disruption payload has already been delivered with interrupted journeys, frightened passengers, military responses and costly investigations. Whoever is responsible has exploited a vulnerability that every traveler should understand—authorities must take a potential bomb seriously, even when an anonymous warning is the only evidence that one exists. The chaos comes two days after around ten commercial flights, including two from the UK, were targeted by bomb threats. In a seemingly unrelated story, a Russian military spacecraft that approached a Western satellite last month could have been rehearsing an attack, a military space specialist said.

“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.” Psalm 56:3 (KJB)

Could Russia or Iran be behind the threats to commercial flights in Europe? It is either one of them, mostly likely Russia. In March 2026, Eurojust announced that investigators had identified twenty-two suspects in a separate incendiary-parcel operation allegedly connected to Russian military intelligence. One package caught fire at Leipzig airport shortly before being loaded onto an aircraft. Britain’s MI5 has also reported tracking more than twenty potentially lethal Iran-backed plots in a single year, largely involving targeted violence against opponents. These are documented allegations from security and judicial authorities, and they show why foreign involvement deserves scrutiny. Responsibility for this week’s airline threats remains unidentified at the moment.

BREAKING: At least 14 flights across Europe are forced to change course, land early or receive fighter-jet escorts following a series of bomb threats.

The disruption stretches across multiple countries. Italian fighter jets escort one passenger plane to Rome, while another flight departing Dublin is redirected to a French military base.

Flights from Warsaw, Milan, Copenhagen, Madrid and London are among those affected. Despite searches of several aircraft, authorities report finding no explosives. | @foxandfriends @Jeff_Paul

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Full list of flights affected by bomb threats

EI-DEH Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome, diverted to Evreux, France
FR6410 Ryanair flight from Madrid to Sofia
FR3606 Ryanair flight from Copenhagen to Sofia
FR1730 Ryanair flight from London Stansted to Sofia, diverted to Plovdiv, Bulgaria
LO235 LOT Polish Airlines flight from Warsaw to Brussels
W46387 WizzAir flight from Milan Malpensa to Warsaw-Okęcie, diverted to Vienna, Austria
AY1761 FinnAir flight from Helsinki to Rome Fiumicino airport
AY1471 FinnAir flight from Helsinki to Vienna
WizzAir flight from Milan Malpensa to Bucharest, Romania
Four unidentified flights heading towards Prague
A3552 Aegean Airlines flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Milan Malpensa
FR8953 Ryanair flight from Porto to Milan Malpensa source

The strategic attraction of a campaign like this is obvious. Spread fear, consume resources, interrupt commerce and make ordinary people question whether their next journey is safe. This is a classic psychological terror campaign, and highly effective. A coordinated operation could impose those costs repeatedly while its organizers remain behind anonymous messages. Aviation analysts have already flagged the unusual timing and frequency of these threats as suggestive of coordination. Europe needs answers about who sent them, whether they share a common source, and what their authors intend to accomplish. Trump’s half-fought, unfinished war with Iran that only served to destabilize the Middle East is also a contributing factor that’s emboldening hostile nations like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

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With Russian Drones And Cyberattacks Threatening Europe, Emmanuel Macron Seizes The Moment To Present Himself As The Continent’s Only Protector

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September 18, 2026

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Is This The Moment Macron Has Been Waiting For? Russia Threatens Europe As The Assyrian Steps Forward Promising Security And Protection

French President Emmanuel Macron has issued one of his strongest warnings yet that Russia’s war against Europe is no longer confined to the battlefield in Ukraine. According to Macron, the Russian hybrid threat has intensified through drone incursions, cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation and interference in the political systems of European nations. These are not the opening scenes of some hypothetical future conflict—they are the weapons of a shadow war already being waged across the continent. Russia is testing European defenses, probing critical infrastructure and attempting to discover exactly how much pressure NATO will tolerate before responding. Macron’s Nicolae Carpathia moment is waiting on deck.

“And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.” Daniel 8:25 (KJB)

Macron’s announcement followed a rare crisis meeting at the Élysée Palace where French intelligence chiefs briefed political leaders and presidential candidates about threats flowing from the wars in Ukraine and Iran. This wasn’t just another campaign speech or routine diplomatic gathering. France assembled its intelligence establishment and political class to prepare the country for a rapidly deteriorating international situation. Macron then ordered his government to develop plans to protect critical infrastructure and sensitive defense-industry facilities from drones and cyberattacks. Europe is quietly moving from supporting somebody else’s war to preparing its own territory for attack.

The danger is that Russia’s hybrid war exists deliberately below the threshold of a conventional NATO conflict. A missile launched against Paris would produce an unmistakable response; a mysterious drone over a weapons factory, a paralyzed power grid, a sabotaged railway or a carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign creates uncertainty. Who launched it? Was it intentional? Does it justify invoking Article 5? Moscow can damage, intimidate and divide Europe while forcing NATO to debate whether it has technically been attacked. That hesitation is not a weakness in Russia’s strategy—it is the entire strategy. Meanwhile, this security crisis is merging with an economic crisis. Macron connected Europe’s surging energy prices with the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. He plans to convene a G7 meeting to discuss energy cooperation and the possible release of strategic reserves. That means France is now confronting Russian pressure from the east, Iranian and Houthi pressure on global shipping from the south, and growing anger from families watching energy bills devour their incomes at home. The wars are no longer distant television images; they are entering European homes through utility bills, inflation and taxes.

Macron is also attempting to stay ahead of the domestic political explosion. He insists that the price surge is the product of geopolitics rather than decisions made by his government, while warning that massive financial relief would eventually produce either larger deficits or higher taxes. In other words, French citizens are being told that the threat is foreign, the hardship is unavoidable and national unity is essential. That may be economically defensible, but it is also politically convenient for a deeply unpopular government confronting a frightened population. Crisis allows Macron to change the conversation from his domestic failures to his role as France’s protector and Europe’s statesman.

Putin Delivers Stark Warning To U.S. And Europe Over Ukraine War

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a forceful message about the Ukraine war and Russia’s confrontation with the United States and Europe. Putin framed Russia’s war in terms of what Moscow says it is fighting to protect, while continuing to reject Western pressure and criticism. His remarks come amid heightened tensions between Russia and Western governments over Ukraine, military support and the risk of further escalation.

Macron declared, “We are not intimidated,” but Europe clearly understands the seriousness of the moment. France is hardening military sites, NATO is wrestling with attacks designed to evade its collective-defense mechanism, the G7 is preparing for an energy emergency, and European leaders are warning their citizens that this instability will cost them dearly. One serious miscalculation—a drone killing civilians, a cyberattack collapsing an electrical grid or sabotage crippling a defense plant—could transform this shadow war into a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.

From the prophetic perspective, Macron’s growing visibility remains worth watching, and we are keeping our eyes on him, but the immediate story is political and military. Europe is being pushed toward greater unity, centralized defense and emergency powers by an enemy that attacks without formally declaring war. Vladimir Putin is applying the pressure, NATO is being tested, and Emmanuel Macron is stepping forward to organize Europe’s response. The machinery of continental conflict is beginning to turn, and tick, tock, goes the end times clock.

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As Spain Watches While An All-Male Horde Of Foreign Muslim Invaders Violates Its Sovereign Borders, The World Lurches Forward Toward All-Out Global War

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July 31, 2026

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The Invasion Of Spain By Muslim Migrants Reveals How Quickly National Sovereignty Can Collapse As The Entire World Moves Toward Permanent Emergency Government

Look around you, the world is not merely experiencing a collection of unrelated crises, it is literally convulsing. The war with Iran is spreading across the Middle East, threatening the Strait of Hormuz, striking American interests and pulling nations like Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and China closer to the battlefield. In Europe, Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is pressing against the borders of NATO, with missiles falling dangerously close to the tripwire that could ignite direct conflict between Russia and the West. Now Spain has watched its sovereign border buckle beneath a reported human wave of tens of thousands of Muslims pouring into Ceuta, followed by another coordinated assault against Melilla. The Middle East is burning, Eastern Europe is exploding, and Western Europe is discovering that an invasion does not always arrive behind tanks—it can come through an abandoned border while a paralyzed government stands helplessly watching.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:6–8 (KJB)

Jesus Christ warned that the closing days would be characterized by “wars and rumours of wars,” with nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom. That is precisely the atmosphere now gathering over this sin-cursed world. These wars are no longer contained within neat geographical boundaries. Iran strikes across the Middle East, Russia threatens the security architecture of Europe, China arms Tehran while watching Taiwan, and great movements of desperate people are being weaponized against weakened Western nations. Every border is becoming a pressure point, every military alliance a potential tripwire, and every regional conflict a possible doorway into something much larger. The world constructed after the Second World War is coming apart before our eyes, and the demons of nationalism, religious hatred, conquest and empire are coming roaring back from the grave.

Matthew 24 is doctrinally aimed at the Jewish people during the time of Jacob’s trouble, but the shadow of that coming period is already stretching across the nations. In fact, it is our position that verses 3-8 can, and do, refer to the end of ther Church Age time period. We are not yet standing in the Great Tribulation, and will be raptured out before it starts, but we are watching the scaffolding being erected for it. The military alliances are forming, the ancient enemies are awakening, national borders are disintegrating, economic systems are straining, and frightened populations are being conditioned to accept emergency rule as a permanent way of life. The coming Antichrist will not rise in a peaceful and prosperous world. He will step forward from the wreckage of a world exhausted by war, overwhelmed by migration, terrified by economic collapse and begging someone—anyone—to restore order.

That is the real prophetic significance of what is happening. Iran, Ukraine and Spain are different flashpoints, but they are all producing the same result: confusion, fear, destabilization and a growing demand for international control. Satan is preparing the sickness before presenting his counterfeit cure. First comes the chaos; then comes the man promising peace. First the nations are shaken; then the world reaches for a ruler powerful enough to control them. First comes the cry for safety; then comes the covenant that will begin Daniel’s seventieth week and lead straight into the time of Jacob’s trouble.

The world is not falling apart randomly, it is falling into prophetic alignment. The actors are taking their places, the ancient nations are moving, and the machinery of global war is grinding into motion. The Church is waiting for the Pretribulation Rapture, Israel is being prepared for the furnace, and the nations are being gathered toward judgment. The headlines are no longer whispering; they are shouting. Iran is burning, Russia is advancing, Europe’s borders are breaking, and the words of Jesus Christ are casting their unmistakable shadow over the entire world.

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