Citing leaked analytical reports from European intelligence agencies, the concerned authorities in Moscow have claimed that Ukraine planned to launch an attack on Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin near his private residence in Novgorod, the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast that lies along the Volkhov River just downstream from its outflow from Lake Ilmen. The city is situated on the M10 Federal Highway, connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Reports suggest that the authorities have tightened security of the President, driven by fears of assassination attempts, drone attacks and potential internal coups. The Kremlin has also implemented unprecedented security measures, including heightened surveillance, restricted communications, reduced public appearances, bunker stays, double screening and anti-drone measures, for the President.

President Putin has significantly reduced visits to his residences in Moscow Oblast and Valdai (Novgorod Oblast) because of the intensified assassination threats and security concerns. He is reportedly spending more time in secured underground bunkers, with his security team enforcing strict isolation measures and enhanced anti-drone defences. According to Moscow, long-range drone or missile attacks could be launched targeting the President.

It may be noted that the Kremlin has intensified security for President Putin following the December 2025 car bombing of Lieutenant General Fanil Fanisovich Sarvarov (March 11, 1969 – December 22, 2025). Lieutenant General Sarvarov, who managed the Armed Forces’ Operational Training Department, was killed when an explosive device under his car detonated in Moscow on December 22, 2025, with suspicions pointing toward Ukrainian Special Services.

In a recent report, Russian media outlet Vazhnye Istorii (Important Stories) mentioned: “The extreme level of Putin’s fear of an assassination attempt or conspiracy is also indirectly indicated by the fact that this year not a single deputy of the State Duma received an invitation to the Victory Day Parade on Red Square.” Victory Day is a Russian holiday, commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, celebrated on May 9. Previously, an explosion was heard on the night of May 3-4, 2026 in Moscow about 6km from the Kremlin, allegedly due to a drone attack.

Interestingly, senior Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has refused to comment on this issue. HuffPost has quoted him as saying: “What European intelligence agency are you referring to? I am not aware that such an agency exists. Unfortunately, I don’t know what it is.” However, Peskov has admitted that heightened measures are in place because of ongoing “terrorist threats” and Ukraine’s growing long-range strike capability. The intelligence agencies of both Ukraine and the US, too, have denied Russia’s claim that President Putin could be assassinated.

Iran War & The ‘Controlled Disintegration’ Of World Economy
International Peace Coalition; May 12, 2026: It is now two and a half months since the February 28, 2026 closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a predictable – some would argue intended – result of the unprovoked US-Israeli War of aggression against Iran. If this war continues for another few months, it is likely that the Global Economy will enter into a spiral of collapse, leading into a full-scale global depression, including skyrocketing poverty, hunger, industrial collapse, and population dislocation and forced migration, as well as a guaranteed hyperinflationary blowout of the entire USD 2.4 quadrillion global financial bubble.

It will also make the Great Depression of the 1930s pale in comparison. The closest parallel will be with the New Dark Age of the 14th Century, with its notorious Black Death that wiped out up to half of the population of Europe.

This is because of the massive dislocation of the physical means of survival of billions of people that is well underway, triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of world oil exports and 30% of the world supply of fertiliser formerly transited. This is already having devastating, non-linear effects:

1) Carl Skau, the Deputy Executive Director of World Food Programme, reported that “an extra 45 million people are projected to be pushed into acute hunger because of rises in food, oil and shipping costs, putting the global tally above its current record level of 319 million…” “This would ‌take ⁠global hunger levels to an all-time record and it’s a terrible, terrible prospect,” he said.

2) Many impoverished nations in east Africa depend on imports of fertiliser for more than 85% of usage. It is estimated that a 10% reduction in fertiliser application will result in up to 25% less rice, corn and wheat there, with devastating human consequences.

3) US diesel prices, which is the lifeblood of American farming activity, have soared by more than 50% since the war began, with ripple effects throughout the economy.

The German industrial economy is in free fall as a result of the combined effect of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and now the shortages of gasoline, and especially jet fuel, as a result of the Iran War.

The International Peace Coalition (IPC) emphasises physical economy because Man’s productive activity is actually a living process, as renowned American physical economist Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) proved scientifically. If one significant area of that process is destroyed, the entirety will tend to collapse in a nonlinear fashion. This is what some observers refer to, simplistically, as a Supply Chain Effect.

The real financial cost of the war is also staggering, probably upwards of USD 4 trillion, according to EIR’s estimates. The Pentagon’s acting comptroller told the US Congress on April 29 that Operation Epic Fury had cost about USD 25 billion, but this covered only US munitions and operations through Day 60, with damage to overseas bases explicitly excluded. When that is added in, along with Israeli military expenditures, the total rises to some USD 200 billion. There is also in the range of USD 1 trillion in physical damage across Iran and the Gulf States. The IMF’s April Regional Economic Outlook further estimates that as much as 2% of global GDP will also be wiped out by the war, implying USD 1.5-2 trillion in lost global output for 2026 alone. So, USD 4 trillion is probably on the low side of the real monetary cost of the war to date.

How many productive jobs could be provided if those funds were invested in infrastructure, agriculture and industry? How many bridges, ports and high-speed rail lines could be built? How many lives could be saved by increased investment in hospitals, schools and essential pharmaceuticals?

Over a longer time period: The war kills hundreds of thousands directly and through cascading food and energy shocks; pushes hundreds of millions into hunger over the next two to three years; and – through the destruction of productive capital and the diversion of USD 4 trillion from development to destruction and the rebuilding of what once was – could reduce the planet’s mid-century potential population by something on the order of a half-billion to a billion. The most consequential casualties of the war may be people who, had it never been started, would have been born into a more productive global economy and were not.

All of this is clearly unnecessary, but is it also an intentional policy of Malthusian depopulation being implemented by the international financial establishment centred in the City of London and Wall Street? In the mid-1970s, the New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – to this day the premier US Establishment’s foreign policy think-tank and sister organisation of Britain’s Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA/Chatham House), published a voluminous study, titled Project 1980s, which explicitly called for the “controlled disintegration” of the world economy as a means of maintaining their slipping political control.

In November 1978, Paul Volcker, the then Chairperson of Federal Reserve, delivered a speech in England, pronouncing that “a controlled disintegration in the world economy is a legitimate object for the 1980s”. He proceeded to raise US interest rates to the deadly level of 21.5% in December 1980.

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