Falling Off the “COVID Cliff” – The Collapse of Big Pharma Has Begun as 30% of Rural Hospitals in America Facing Closure

The Big Pharma financial bubble that was created in 2020 during the Trump Administration, which pumped $trillions into Big Pharma for COVID, has burst. It is being referred to in the corporate media as falling off of the "COVID Cliff." Those falling the deepest are the ones who greatly benefited from the COVID scam, as reflected in the 2023 first quarter financial reports of drug makers. Leading the collapse are the COVID mRNA "vaccine" makers, as sales for BioNTech decreased 80%, Moderna sales decreased 69%, and Pfizer sales decreased 29% during the first 3 months of 2023. In addition to the pharmaceutical drug cartel, 646 rural hospitals are at risk of closure due to financial issues, comprising around 30 percent of all rural hospitals in the U.S., according to the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform. Normally all these financial losses in the U.S. medical system would have crashed the economy by now, but of course the U.S. Stock Market ponzi casino is pumping money into the current financial bubble: Big Tech. The crash of the U.S. economy and the following "Great Reset" is all but certain now, with the only question remaining being: When? It could come soon if the U.S. does not remove the current debt ceiling and begins to default on its financial obligations. But even if a last minute deal is struck to avoid a U.S. sovereign debt default, that will not stop a major collapse of many U.S. banks as the liquidity crisis will increase.

44% of Americans Now Using Biometrics Instead of Passwords to Log In to Their Accounts – We are Closer to a One World Financial System

A new report published by the FIDO Alliance states that 44 percent of Americans are now logging in to their online accounts with biometrics, rather than a password, and more than half of Americans today, 58 percent, state that they are interested in replacing their passwords with biometric passkeys. The FIDO Alliance report clearly states who is pushing the adoption of biometric passkeys at the beginning of their report: "It’s been a year since Apple, Google and Microsoft announced their commitment to passkeys with plans to expand support  for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium." The FIDO Alliance leadership and members are comprised of the biggest names in Big Tech and the financial sector, including Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, Intel, Yahoo, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, CVSHealth, U.S. Bank, PNC Bank, Wells Fargo, and many others. The most widespread biometric ID system currently being rolled out in many locations across the U.S. today is probably Amazon's palm scanning system called "Amazon One." A report published by Gizmodo today states that Amazon's palm scanning technology has now been updated to record your age, so you can purchase alcohol now without an ID by just letting them scan your hand. As I reported yesterday, the latest fad in the field of biometrics is Sam Altman's Worldcoin system and their "Orb" to scan people's eyes to create a unique "World ID". The system to produce a new one-world financial system is already in place, and it could happen now a lot quicker than most people realize.

Get Ready for World ID and WorldCoin Universal Basic Income Offering Free Money in Exchange for Your Eyeball Scan

While the American public and even some U.S. politicians have been sounding the alarm recently over the dangers of the potential future rollout of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and the loss of all privacy in any financial transactions, a new blockchain financial network that was launched in 2019, before COVID, has been gaining momentum here in 2023 and is now being used in dozens of countries around the world with over 1.5 million users. And it is now being launched in the United States: World ID with the Worldcoin cryptocurrency. World ID is not some concept for the future. It is already here, and already being used around the world with the World App and Worldcoin, for both financial transactions and "World ID checks." Why have so many people around the world so quickly signed up for a World ID? Because they are being offered free cryptocurrency, and in some cases even free money in their local currencies, by using their new World ID. And what do they have to do to receive this free money? They just have to have their eyeball scanned by the Worldcoin "Orb" which will then create their unique World ID. Scanning one's eyeball seems like a pretty creepy way to create an ID, so what is the rationale to use one's eye as a biometric ID? It is to prove that "you are human" and not an AI, or so they say. This system is going to be rolled out in the United States within the next few weeks, so if you are not familiar with this network yet, I suggest you get up to speed ASAP. How fast could this World ID and World App program be rolled out? Well considering that the founder of Worldcoin and World ID is Sam Altman, the same person who created ChatGPT which last November became the fastest downloaded app in history with hundreds of millions of downloads, I think it is safe to conclude that this World ID could be rolled out very quickly.

Yellen: “More Bank Mergers Necessary” as Banks Lose Tens of $Billions in Deposits the Past Two Weeks

It appears that the Biden Administration is abandoning their rhetoric that "the banking system is fine." CNN reported today that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with CEOs of large banks yesterday and told them that "more bank mergers may be necessary." Her statements killed a stock rally this week that saw the stocks of regional banks increase 10%, in one of their best weeks since 2020. Not anymore. As ZeroHedge News reported today, reports show that $billions of losses in deposits at U.S. banks have occurred in the past two weeks, with over $70 billion lost in large US Commercial Banks.

Expectations of an Imminent Big Tech Crash Bringing Down the U.S. Economy is Expanding

While I was among a very small minority in the 4th quarter of 2022 warning the public about the Big Tech crash that was coming and was a threat to bringing down the entire U.S. economy, judging from my newsfeed the past 2 weeks, I no longer think that this view is the minority view anymore. Both the alternative and corporate media are increasingly printing news and opinion pieces about how dangerous it is right now to have just a handful of Big Tech companies holding up the entire stock market, and mostly because of the hype over AI. I am going to highlight much of this news in this article, along with evidence that the banking crisis is actually getting worse, and then go further than most will dare to go, and consider the question: Is this all intentional??

The United States of America: Largest Sponsor of State Terrorism in the World

A new report has been published this past week that details the United States torture program used primarily by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) used at Guantanamo Bay and other black sites. The report contains drawings of Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn aka Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabian man who was the first prisoner brought to Guantanamo from Pakistan and tortured using EITs. The CIA and FBI now admit that Mr. Zubaydah was the wrong guy they were after, and allegedly even knew that before they tortured him, but did so anyway so they could develop their torture techniques. The report was published by Mark Denbeaux, a professor at Seton Hall Law School, and Dr. Jess Ghannam, clinical professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and Mr. Zubaydah himself and his drawings of many of the tortures used in EITs. WARNING! THE DRAWINGS ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND HORRIFYING. CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE PRESENT IF YOU CHOOSE TO READ THE REPORT. The report notes that Zubaydah's drawings "viscerally convey the brutal reality the CIA sought to hide with its calculated destruction of video recordings of torture conducted by its agents," and "dovetail with the recent accounts of Dr. James Mitchell, a chief architect of the torture regime, who both wrote a book on EITs and testified in hearings on Guantánamo." "These sources, together with the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, provide the most complete—and compelling—account to date of America's torture program" in the years after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the publication states. This is just further evidence that the United States of America, particularly the CIA, is the largest supporter of State terrorism in the world, and not Middle Eastern Muslim countries who are constantly portrayed as terrorists in the U.S. media and entertainment industry. 

Don’t Tell Chat AI Anything You Wouldn’t Want to See on a Billboard

Chatting with an AI program feels personal and conversational, but don’t be fooled. Here's why you should keep a lid on what you reveal to ChatGPT and its ilk. ChatGPT is a gossip. Google’s Bard, too, and maybe Bing AI. What you get out of them depends on all the information that went in. And that’s precisely the problem. Why? Because everything you ask them, tell them, or prompt them with becomes input for further training. The question you ask today may inform the answer someone gets tomorrow. That’s why you should be very, very careful what you say to an AI.

$14 Billion in Foreign Deposits at Silicon Valley Bank were NOT Bailed Out – More than $1 Trillion Foreign Deposits at Chase and Citibank as U.S. Debt Crisis Looms

The Wall Street Journal sent shock waves through the financial world Saturday night when they reported that the FDIC seized nearly $14 billion in foreign deposits at Silicon Valley Bank in the Cayman Islands last March, mostly from Chinese investment firms, which had been waiting to gain access to their funds. It's not happening. As Pam Martens reported this morning, this will most certainly cause a bank run on all unsecured foreign deposits, which is over $1 trillion in just two banks: JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup’s Citibank. As Mike Shedlock of MishTalk.com reported, the FDIC has now sent a clear message to foreign depositors: You can't trust U.S. Banks. If this news wasn't bad enough, we also have the alleged political posturing going on right now over whether or not Congress is going to raise the U.S. debt limit, or default on some government obligations, like U.S. Treasuries. Asia (Japan and China) holds a vast majority of foreign held U.S. Treasuries, and probably a lot of the same investment firms that just lost all their deposits at Silicon Valley Bank. This past Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the U.S. has "to default on something" if a new debt ceiling is not reached by Congress, and that includes U.S. Treasuries.

Turkey Defies the U.S. and Western Media as President Erdoğan Wins Popular Vote – Victory in Runoff Almost Certain

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emerged victorious in today's national Turkish elections, despite the Western Media's attempts to discredit the conservative Turkish President, and support his main opponent, liberal Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. As I reported last week, even the Right Wing Christian Conservative media put out hit pieces against Erdoğan and supported Kılıçdaroğlu, in spite of his liberal pro-LGBT views in a country that is 99% percent Muslim. The reason why the Christian Right sided with Biden and the democrats to try and affect the Turkish national elections, is because both sides in the U.S., both the "liberals" and the "conservatives", overwhelmingly support the war in Ukraine while demonizing Russia. At the time of writing this article, over 64 million people in Turkey, which has a population of about 85 million, had cast their vote and about 97% of the ballots had been counted, giving Erdoğan a 2.3 million vote lead over his nearest opponent, the U.S.-backed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Erdoğan is just short of reaching 50% of the popular vote at this point, which would mean that there will be a runoff between him and Kılıçdaroğlu in two weeks. Unless something happens to Erdoğan in the meantime, he is all but assured to win the runoff elections. A few days before the elections, one of the other candidates for President, Muharrem İnce, withdrew from the race over allegations that a recording of him in a sex scandal had surfaced. İnce claimed that the tape was a deepfake, using footage taken from “an Israeli porn site”. Western media sources were quick to predict that İnce's withdrawal would help Kılıçdaroğlu defeat Erdoğan. If İnce was correct in blaming this on a smear attack by Israeli and U.S. sources to boost Kılıçdaroğlu's chances of winning the election, then the plan didn't work, as Erdoğan still came close to reaching 50%, and could still potentially reach that amount at the time of this writing, as some votes have not been calculated yet.

Google Introduces Plan to Use Generative AI to Take Over the Internet – AI’s Real Threat to Society

Google announced its new plans for AI this week at their annual I/O developer conference, and to say that not everyone in the Tech Industry was thrilled by their plans to integrate Generative AI into their search engine, would be an understatement. Emily Dreibelbis, writing for PC Magazine, published one of the more apocalyptic articles warning that Google could basically destroy most websites on the Internet. Maggie Harrison, writing for Futurism, issued similar warnings for the future of independent journalism due to Google's plan for Generative AI, noting that Google still owns 91% of all Internet searches. This is one of the REAL dangers of AI, the fact that the largest technology companies that control the Internet could very easily drive everyone else out of business and thereby control all the content on the Internet. And in fact, that trend has already started in the technology sector, as year-to-date there have already been 193,860 employees laid off in the technology sector, with many tech businesses failing, as well as some of their top banks also failing, like Silicon Valley Bank, that funded these companies. This investment in the future of AI, is the main thing holding up the U.S. stock market right now. Five technology stocks, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, have accounted for 89% of the S&P 500 YTD price return. It is looking more and more every day that we are looking at a total market collapse at some point, and then only the largest banks and the largest technology companies will be left, because they are "too big to fail," especially since the U.S. military and their Intelligence agencies all depend on Big Tech, who hold all their data in their Cloud Computing data centers. This appears to be the goal of the Wall Street billionaires and their bankers, since there is no way they can pay off their debts. Just crash the entire financial system, and choose which Tech companies and banks survive. Then they will have total control of the flow of money as they require digital IDs and work towards a Central Bank Digital Currency, operated by the Big Tech companies that survive, who will also control the flow of information through AI. Will enough Americans wake up soon enough to prevent this from happening, or will it take a total collapse of the economy to reveal what is really happening with this "Great Reset"?

Berkshire Hathaway Investor Arrested by Warren Buffet at Shareholder Meeting for Pointing out Ties to Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein

Peter Flaherty, who is chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center and also a shareholder in Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway company, was arrested during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder's meeting last weekend for proposing that Warren Buffet should step aside as Chairman of the Board and CEO so someone else who was not tied to Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein could lead the company. "I was treated like any other criminal, fingerprinted, handcuffed," Flaherty said. "I've always been courteous with decorum at the annual shareholder meetings. I didn't raise my voice. I was not disruptive." As we have previously reported, Warren Buffet was one of the main board members funding the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just after the foundation started. The Foundation basically owns the World Health Organization. Flaherty said Buffet had donated tens of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, adding: "If 'woke' culture is a disease, then philanthropy is the virus. The Gates Foundation bankrolls the teaching of Critical Race Theory around the country, including that math is inherently racist. The Gates Foundation offers a Gender Identity Toolbox which asserts that gender is the result of 'socially and culturally constructed ideas. This is a lie. Gender is not a cultural construct. It is a genetic and biological fact. We know how much Bill Gates cares about children. He met and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein many times after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes."

Humans are Indispensable – Why AI will Never Replace Humans

Are you going to be replaced by a machine? Could a robot really be curious? Or experience love? Could a computer plot evil? Some really smart people think machines will achieve not just human but super human consciousness. Oxford professor of mathematics John Lennox and Baylor University computer engineer Robert J. Marks disagree. Non-algorithmic properties are solely attributes of humans. Computers will never show the creativity, empathy, or love that human beings do.

Family Files Federal Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Police and Government for Medically Kidnapping Infant & Toddler at 1 a.m. in Home Invasion

A family who took their 3-month-old son to an emergency room in Waltham, Massachusetts last year at the advice of their pediatrician because the infant had a 103 degree fever, is now suing Waltham police and social workers who came to their home unannounced at 1 a.m. in the morning and forced their way into their home to remove both their 3-month-old baby and his 3-year-old brother, with no warrant, simply because an x-ray taken of the baby a couple of days earlier showed a healed fractured rib in the baby. That was all it took for local authorities to medically kidnap their children, by forcing their way into the family's home in the middle of the night and terrorizing the young children by kidnapping them and taking them away from their parents. The parents were eventually cleared of all charges and their children were returned to them, but now the parents are suing to try and stop this from happening to other families. This story has received national media attention, and The Pacific Legal Foundation has taken up their case and filed a federal lawsuit. Sadly, this is a common story in the U.S. and not rare at all. We have covered dozens of these stories over the past several years. As we have reported over the years, taking your child to an emergency room is one of the most dangerous things parents can do these days, as there is a huge industry devoted to "medical child abuse" and "child abuse pediatricians" along with their "child abuse" teams which can only be funded and their salaries justified by finding "child abuse" in pediatric patients brought to the hospital. Unsuspecting parents bring their child to the emergency room and often end up having x-rays taken of their child, and based solely on an x-ray these "child abuse" pediatric doctors will order a child be seized from their parents, even before an investigation can be conducted. It is a horrific violation of constitutional rights, as even terrorists, rapists, murderers, etc. are afforded due process of law in the criminal justice system, but parents are not given those same rights in Family Court. After a medical doctor suggests "child abuse", the children are often ripped away from the parents without any charges even filed, and then they have to prove their innocence, which can take months or even years, to get their children back.

INFANTICIDE: 4,739 Dead Babies in VAERS Following COVID-19 Shots Injected Into Pregnant and Child-Bearing Aged Women

The U.S. Government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) now reports that there have been at least 4,739 fetal deaths reported following COVID-19 vaccines given to pregnant and child-bearing women. If we compare the yearly average of 75 fetal deaths following FDA approved vaccines for 30 years with the number of fetal deaths recorded in 2021 following the COVID-19 experimental shots, which is 3,863 fetal deaths in a single year, that is an increase of over 5,000%. There have been numerous doctors and nurses who have noticed this horrific increase in fetal deaths who have tried to warn the public throughout 2021 and 2022, and we have featured most of them here on Health Impact News. The public has been warned about how dangerous the COVID-19 shots are, especially for pregnant and child-bearing aged women. But the U.S. Government has still not warned the public, and continues injecting pregnant women with these lethal shots. Maggie Thorp JD and Jim Thorp MD have just published an explosive report that serves as a criminal indictment for those who have participated in this infanticide, with over 70 footnoted references.

The Real Reason Why the U.S. is Trying to Control the Elections in Turkey this Week

Yesterday, (May 7, 2023), there was a rally of reportedly 1.7 million people at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport showing support for Turkey's current president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ahead of national elections this coming Sunday, May 14th. On Saturday, (May 6, 2023), Erdoğan's opponent for president in the national elections, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, also held a rally in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, but I have been unable to find any published reports about how large the crowds were, although some of the foreign English media have reported that the crowds were in "the thousands" or "tens of thousands." The media here in the U.S., however, in both the corporate media and the alternative media, are reporting that President Erdoğan is either losing or in a close race with Kiliçdaroglu, as they characterize Erdoğan as losing support in an election that "really matters." Why do they say that this election "really matters"? They use the same old excuse they always use when the U.S. has an interest in interfering with elections in other countries where they do not like the outcome: "democracy is at stake." As someone who has lived for many years in Turkey in the past, and was at one time fluent in Turkish and worked as a translator in Turkey, I am going to report the "other side" of this Turkish election that you are not likely going to read in Western English news reports. To sum up the "other side" of why the United States does not want Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to be re-elected as President of Turkey, it is because Turkey is clearly choosing sides in the conflict between the U.S. and Russia in Ukraine, and they are choosing their neighbor, Russia, who is helping Turkey become energy and military independent from the U.S., and part of a larger coalition of Middle Eastern Countries who are banding together to fight years of U.S. military dominance in their region over oil. Some have even suggested that the deadly earthquake in Turkey earlier this year was not natural, but caused by an HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) weapon used by the U.S. to punish Turkey for working together with Russia.

New Trailer Released for Documentary: COVIDISM – Contagious Deception

When Health Impact News premiered the new documentary, COVIDISM – Contagious Deception, last month, I asked the producer if he had a trailer for the 4-part documentary. He told me he would put one together, and now you can watch a 2-minute trailer that highlights the topics covered in the 4-part documentary. This is on our Bitchute Channel, and will also be on our Rumble, Odysee, and Telegram channels. Please copy and redistribute freely. “Covidism: Contagious Deception” is the most comprehensive documentary on COVID-19 I have had the pleasure to watch, as it thoroughly analyzes both the scientific and political aspects of the COVID-19 mass deception launched in 2020. The documentary has received many positive reviews and is even being submitted to an Independent Film Festival.

The Brain Myth: Your Intellect and Thoughts Originate in Your Heart, Not Your Brain

Those of us who have been educated in Western Culture today have been taught to believe that the center of a person's consciousness and thoughts is our brain. Like a computer that contains a microprocessor that allows the computer to accomplish all of its various tasks, the idea that a human being also works like a computer with a brain that functions like a microprocessor, is something that almost all people raised in Western Culture assume is a fact. But it is not a fact. It is a belief system. And as a belief system, would it surprise you to learn that this is a fairly modern belief, and that historically it has not been the brain that has been considered the driving force in humans that allows them to think and reason, but that historically it has been the heart that is attributed to human consciousness, including our mind, speech, and thoughts? When we look at the ancient literature written in non-Western cultures, the idea that the brain controls human thought and consciousness is mostly absent. The largest collection of writings of antiquity that exist to us today is contained in the Bible, a collection of 66 unique writings spanning over thousands of years. Most of the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, and the most common translations of the Bible found today are English translations. I have an electronic Bible I use every day (e-Sword), and in this program I currently have about 16 different English translations of the Bible. I searched every English translation I have for the word "brain," and all of them turned up a negative result with ZERO instances of the English word "brain" used to translate any of the words in the original languages. If one does a search for the word "heart," however, it will return a result of almost 1000 matches where words in the original languages were translated into English as "heart."

Will Anyone Be Held Accountable for the 300,000 Americans Murdered by the COVID-19 Shots in 2021?

2021 will go down in history as the worst year of "death by lethal injection" as an estimated 300,000 people in the United States were killed by lethal injections. Lethal injections are only supposed to be injected into convicted criminals who receive the death penalty in a court of law. But starting in December of 2020, when President Trump threatened the FDA and forced them to approve experimental injections of COVID-19 shots that were produced by U.S. Government funds through his Operation Warp Speed program, through 2021 when President Biden instituted mandates for people to receive those lethal injections as a condition for employment, an estimated 300,000 Americans lost their lives from these lethal injections. Will anyone be held accountable for these acts of domestic terrorism and mass murder? Donald Trump and Joe Biden should be tried as domestic terrorists and mass murderers for these crimes, along with their entire administrations who participated in them. And yet, both men are running for re-election for President of the United States. I am going to present the evidence for their guilt in these crimes against the American people in this article, using publicly available information published by the U.S. Government that anyone can fact check.

More U.S. Banks Collapsing as JPMorgan Chase CEO Consolidates his Power – Is this the Next Phase of the Great Reset?

Another blood bath in American banks was seen today in stock market trading, with a "total collapse" of regional banks. This follows the collapse of the second largest bank in U.S. history that occurred over this past weekend with First Republic Bank. On Monday morning, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who stepped in to purchase the remaining assets of First Republic Bank at bargain rates, announced that the U.S. Banking system is "very, very sound." Pam Martens of Wall Street on Parade, who has extensively covered the multiple felony charges that have been filed against Jamie Dimon over the years since he took over at Chase, published an article this morning explaining how we cannot trust Dimon's statements that he is "saving" the banking industry, because he is one of the main reasons these smaller banks are failing in the first place. Jamie Dimon's Bank now holds over 10% of America's deposits, and that percentage will only increase as more and more smaller banks collapse. Most of these banks that have failed so far have been with banks holding the deposits of venture capitalists and billionaires from Big Tech. Some are now speculating that Dimon is looking to start dominating Silicon Valley, and have a greater influence with Big Tech. Could this be the next step in the "Great Reset" and digital control over the population as the U.S. economy crashes?

Is Congress Really More Concerned About AI Launching a Nuclear Attack than an 80-Year-Old Demented President?

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators have introduced the "Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous AI Act," which would “prohibit the use of Federal funds to launch a nuclear weapon using an autonomous weapons system that is not subject to meaningful human control.” This is so absurd, that I don't know if members of Congress are actually this stupid, or if this is a psyop to instill fear into the public over AI, similar to how fear was used to convince most of the public that there was a deadly coronavirus that threatened humanity back in 2020. Let's start with the fact that there is no such thing as "autonomous AI." It is fake, it does not exist. Some believe it could happen in the future, but even that is based on either ignorance or intentional fear mongering to get people to fear AI. But no matter what your beliefs are about AI's capability in the future, nobody in the Tech industry today working with AI would say that AI is now "fully autonomous." We haven't even been able to develop a "fully autonomous" car yet after almost 20 years, let alone something that could launch a nuclear attack. So this is a meaningless bill. It would be the same thing as filing a bill to "Block Autonomous Handguns from Killing People." But guns are not autonomous. They need people to wield them, and the same is true of AI or any computer code for that matter. The real threat today to launch a nuclear attack, lies with the President of the United States, who "has the unilateral authority to choose to use nuclear weapons." However, there are ways that "Congress can limit when and how the president uses nuclear weapons." Wouldn't that be a better use of Congress right now, given the ongoing real threats in Ukraine and Taiwan that could escalate into nuclear confrontations, and the fact that the U.S. has an 80-year-old president who continually shows signs of deteriorating mental capabilities?