The UK appears to have reached a point where it has so ruined itself that the only way to preserve any sense of unity is to have its own great Satan. That Alinsky-esque target you freeze and isolate in your people’s minds. The cause of all the ills that you must unite to defeat.
In America. The Dems have tried to make Donald Trump (singular) and MAGA (plural) that great evil. Using their paid media assets, which include the Handmaiden media, podcasters, and celebrities (whom they will pay if necessary), the music industry, television, Hollywood, the Universities, and increasingly churches. Public schools. NGOs. The list keeps going, which is to say, they’ve got a lot of assets but not as many as they had when they lost in 2024. But the UK has an advantage.
No First Amendment. No Second Amendment. A government increasingly hostile to individual rights and personal freedom. The government runs the media, and its response to the free-for-all wild west of the internet has been to criminalize online speech based on the whims of autocrats doing business as bureaucrats with their own police force.
The UK is broken. Beaten senseless and bleeding out in a dark alley. Nothing short of another brutal civil war seems likely to change things so the government relies on old lies and known enemies in an effort to bind the nation to something they can all rally behind.
Russia is evil. Putin is evil. If we blink, the Bear will swallow Eastern Europe and maybe even find a way to cross the English Channel.
It’s low-hanging fruit from a political culture that hates Churchill almost as much as it hates Britons. And it can no longer rely on America to back its plays. Obama may have been right about the special relationship, for different and wrong reasons. It was something to which we’ve bitterly clung, and perhaps the bratty UK needs a time-out.
Trump has made it clear that he isn’t on board with the EU or the UK using America and its many billions to back much of anything, and Europe’s failure to answer America’s call to help defend the Strait of Hormuz was likely the last straw. We never needed their help, never needed anyone’s help. It was a test to see who our allies are, and the global chessboard shifted in its wake.
But not just that. Trump has announced that the problem with peace in Ukraine is Zelensky. Russia is ready, but peace would end his unelected reign. As long as there is war, he is likely to remain president despite all the corruption scandals. Peace means he becomes a citizen, and someone else directs all the criminal investigations, of which he is likely suspect number one.
Backing him is the UK, which this clip outlines more clearly, makes the point more succinctly than I likely would, and is worth the few minutes. But to summarize.
Britain is an obstacle to peace in Ukraine.
A British missile fired by Ukraine struck a civilian target for the purpose of escalating a response.
Peace, for some reason, is not in the UK’s best interest, and it is working against the US-Russia-Ukraine efforts to achieve it.
The presumption is that it was, by proxy, a financial benefit to London and its interests. London profits off war in several ways, from its effect on commodities to increased insurance premiums paid by asset forces to operate in or near conflicts. We saw this with Lloyd’s of London, which closed the Strait of Hormuz after canceling all insurance policies on ships and cargo.
What the Strait needed was protection from war profiteers, not Iran, which only managed a weak show of force (so far) as a threat it no longer seems able to back up.
Trump, despite detractors saying he had no plan, introduced replacement insurance with the full faith and backing of the US Government, immediately after Lloyd’s of London canceled the policies and before it could hand a hastily scribbled-on cocktail napkin to the state-owned UK press, claiming it was only cancelling them so it could renegotiate them given the circumstances.
“No plan America” had already robbed them of their grift, leaving Lloyd’s to beg on bended knee for the opportunity to profit as the reinsurer, pretty please. I covered this in some detail last week on Subscriber Saturday over on my Substack (subscription required). An unstable Iran creates value at the expense of higher global energy prices to the tune of 5-15 dollars per barrel, which speculators based in London profit from.
The Brits won’t send help because they can’t. Trump is busting up their grift, taking food from the golden spoons used to feed the UK and EU elite’s children, and rearranging the furniture on the global stage.
The guy with no plan has managed to arrange US control of close to a quarter of the world’s oil in under a year. He has created or is creating US allies in places once thought bought and paid for by either Russia or China. All while working to improve relations with both because, to his mind, peace and trade are better for everyone, while war is a necessary evil exorcised as the hard lesson at the end of failed diplomacy, to ensure a longer-lasting peace from which everyone can benefit.
The Gulf States are all in, and that began with Trump 1.0 and the Abraham Accords. Nations on every continent are seeing the benefits of unshackling themselves from the old-world UN order, created to ensure peace but which benefits from endless conflict and war.
America and Trump are leading the counter-revolution, not just in the US but around the world. He’s been everywhere making deals, bringing trillions in investment to our shores. Making peace. Promising to help allies who help the US, and the Iran engagement has proven who those are and who they are not.
We don’t need the UN. Leaving would save a yuge sum. We don’t need NATO. Leaving would save us nearly a trillion a year. But they need us, and there are deals to be made with that leverage.
The UK is a failing world power barely clinging to its own western roots, so how far would it go to protect its dwindling interests, and what is Mr. Trump’s plan for that? I have no doubt he has one, even after SCOTUS took his tariff dashboard away.
Trump told the world when he released the Cliff Notes version of the new US Security Strategy.
If they laughed, they aren’t laughing anymore, and while that vision of a world of sovereign nations trading peacefully or else almost seems possible, the old NWO isn’t going to go peaceably.
Paradigms are tough things to crack, and having them cracked for you, in real time, on short notice, catching you flat-footed, tends to produce a violent response. I don’t think the Brits would go so far as to drop a nuke on Moscow, but they might meddle in the midterms and try to uproot Trump.
There are, after all, more than just a few factions that benefit from taking him off the global chessboard, even though they and their nations might well benefit more from letting him finish what he started.
Globalists are less interested in peace and prosperity than they are in lording over ashes.
