Money. There are a lot of very rich people making one hell of a lot of it off the Ukraine conflict. Big surprise, huh? Most of you reading this are probably like me. You can tell what’s really going on by watching Wall Street.

Take, for instance, the idiotic hype of the HIMARS mobile rocket systems US President Biden sent to Ukraine. According to every paid expert west of the Dnieper River, it’s a “game changer.” Well, it’s a game changer, alright, only the game is not on the battlefield. HIMARS, which is the American version of Russia’s 9A52-4 Tornado, is produced by Lockheed Martin.

9A52-4 Tornado

The Russian 9A52-4 Tornado has far more range, twice the payload, the same accuracy as the American HIMARS. Russia has hundreds of them, not a dozen.

So, in order to find out the truth about Russia’s imminent victory or defeat in Ukraine, all we have to do is look at stock prices, dates, and US strategic moves that only seem to be aimed at supporting Ukraine. If you look at Lockheed stock a few days before the Russians moved into eastern Ukraine, the stock stood at $386.46. The day after Russia’s units crossed the border, LMT was $409.49. By March 4th, it had climbed to $458.15, or about $72 per share.

Those of you who have not followed this conflict (and others) through the financial lens may be skeptical. Perhaps the stock gains are reactionary? But no, correlating White House announcements, US State Department decrees, NATO saber rattling, and other events show a clear pattern. And those “in the know” about what’s really going on are cleaning up. First in line behind the Biden or Ursula von der Leyen string pullers are the elites who run the newspapers. Oh yeah. Wouldn’t you cherish a midnight story about a weapons system headed to a war zone before the market opens?

You don’t have to be a deep thinker to imagine the buddy-buddy club that runs the west. HIMARS? Twelve or twenty mobile rocket systems tossed into the fray alter history! Most people don’t realize that the Russians have a much better similar weapon and a lot more of them. The 9A52-4 Tornado is Russia’s newest 300 mm multiple rocket launcher. It has far greater range, it fires twice as many guided rockets, and the Russians have hundreds of them. But weapons systems are really beside the point.