Episode Transcript
On Wednesday August 2025, USA president Donald J Trump through basic stupidity, or careless hubris, pushed the button on the global reset that the USA has been working to prevent since it became the global hegemon; the ability of anyone to challenge it, had vapourised with this, frankly, mystifying action.
So, what caused this earthquake?
Trump imposed tariffs of 50% on goods from India as he sought to punish Delhi for buying Russian oil. The tariffs – among the highest in the world – include a 25% penalty for transactions with Russia that, he alleged, are a key source of funds for its war in Ukraine.
Russia has been India’s closest friend since independence and India needs cheap Russian oil to maintain its economic growth so it is hardly a new act by India.
India is shocked by Trump’s actions but that reveals the gullibility of the Indian elite and people.
Trump exposed the reality that underlies all American actions.
As Henry Kissinger once noted, America does not have friends, just interests.
This was not an economic act by Trump but a geopolitical one.
India had failed to do what America had been utilising it to do for over two decades by cosying up nationally and inserting high-profile people of Indian descent into the elite – be a vital strategic US partner and an integral part of the domino plan to maintain its hegemony.
Ironically, this act by Trump has pushed India into closer ties with Russia and China as part of BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, although they are both aware India is an untrustworthy and unreliable partner who should be held close but not too close.
The domino plan entails weakening, limiting and destroying the countries that will not accept its unipolar view of the world by endless wars, engineered instability, covert terrorist acts and campaigns of disinformation.
This is the modern neocon theory of maintaining American global dominance in practice.
That is where we are today. In 2025.
To understand how we got here in a world of lies, obfuscated realities, confusion, divisions, collapse of America and Western Europe, we need to understand who is responsible for it.
Our own elites.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave the American elite, and their acolytes, our elites, a most unexpected victory.
Empires are like that. Getting there is all. Once they reach their apex, the abyss beckons so retaining control is everything.
Sound familiar?
Under the shambolic, post-Soviet presidency of Boris Yeltsin, Russia after its open door, disastrous brush with rapacious, neoliberal American capitalism and the financial collapse of 1997/98 when it was declared bankrupt, painfully reverted to a form of national capitalism under Vladimir Putin.
A central part of that was to throw out external western business models that benefitted only a few, rein in the oligarchs who had gamed the system for their own benefit, expel Western merchant banks and hedge funds that had helped them, and themselves, at the expense of ordinary Russian people.
This also included the huge number of western NGOs, Thinktanks and institutes whose role was to support this takeover by personal greed, provide intellectual justification for it and undermine any attempts to check it.
Yet, because Putin saw the world had fundamentally changed, he did not try to go back to a communist system but merely one that would ensure the social fabric of Russia could be re-built. He also did not see his actions as anti-West because as a nationalist he believed that business and government are two different spheres of society that co-exist rather than one and the same, as in America, and now, in Britain.
It was a major miscalculation on his part.
Therefore, his subsequent attempts to integrate Russia into Europe as a potential member of the EU and NATO were rejected.
Accentuating the disconnect, there was no inclination by the American elite to treat Russia with respect and as an equal.
It didn’t need to happen this way.
It was a critical missed opportunity by America and Europe to create a globally, unchallengeable economic and political grouping, reinforced by Western social freedoms, but the simple lust for unlimited power and wealth is hard to rationalise.
Putin failed in his aims because he wanted to ensure his country’s resources could not be exploited by Western interests in a new form of colonialism that is prevalent in most other parts of the world today; Africa being the most glaring example.
Once Putin’s aims were understood in the West, the narrative of his being an enemy (true, in the sense that he stands against western corporate interests in favour of those of his own country) was begun and serious efforts undertaken to undermine and remove him.
Ukraine today has to be seen in this context.
It is both an example of what Russia could have become and an ear-bursting alarm call to those who believe the nation state should serve its people first rather than offer itself up for global, neoliberal, corporate exploitation.
The other enemy, China, has also undergone its own metamorphosis from friend to enemy.
Under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), understood that it was impossible to fight the American narrative with Marxist-Maoist slogans and appeals to patriotism while millions of Chinese semi-starved and Big Macs were becoming available every few steps around the rest of the world.
Chinese people were hungry for better lives materially as they had been promised but only the West had delivered.
Deng famously signalled the need for a new approach with the words, ‘It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.’
In a nutshell, they had to adapt or die.
It was a Darwinian analysis.
They knew they had to find a third way because China, and the CCP, could not survive in its current form.
They decided on a new path and termed it, ‘groping for stones to cross the river.’
The term reflects how hesitant and unsure the initial steps were.
There were no guarantees that it would succeed.
And no promises the CCP would not drown under any number of potentially dangerous missteps that lay ahead.
Uncertainty is not a barrier to action. It’s an acceptance that intrinsic to everything we do, there is a possibility of failure.
Hubris comes from not acknowledging this element of our lives and imagining that our certainties are those of others, and the universe. Neither they, nor the universe, care about that as we quite clearly do not care for them.
Yet, the CCP knew it had to be done.
It would have to combine the material wealth only capitalism in its purest form, as an evolving, mutually beneficial system of exchange of goods and services, can create with strong, central government thus ensuring each became dependent on the other.
They did this by gradually opening up China to businesses worldwide with a rapidly developing infrastructure fit for a 21st Century power, and eventually, by creating a strong internal consumer market for Chinese products that match, or exceed, those made in the West.
Socially that could only succeed by taking millions out of poverty.
Just as America had done after the Second World War.
No longer would an individual striving for a better life be labelled a counter revolutionary. In essence, in the new China, everyone was a counter revolutionary now.
Within this new triangular relationship between government, business (both private and state-owned) and the people, the dead hand of communist bureaucracy was re-engineered as the helping hand of business and the people.
Still it came with limits and a warning.
The CCP also learnt, like Putin, that business, unlike in America, had to be kept under political leash or it would run out of control endangering the very framework they had created and the unity that any country, especially one as large and diverse as China, needs for material and social progress.
They also knew that the West had always used corporations for the takeover of a country. To stop this happening in their country, they would have to create alternatives to Western technology giants, the new spearheads of colonialism, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. So, they created their own alternatives like Sina Weibo, WeChat, TikTok (aka Douyin) to name just the most popular three sites.
Additionally, giant consumer Chinese corporations like Ali Baba, and now more upmarket companies like BYD, Huawei and others, ensured that Chinese money would not always flow out of the country as the Chinese people got richer and spent more on luxury consumer goods.
Again, the CCP was seeking, not a closed society, but one that operated in the best national interest of the whole Chinese nation, not just the few.
This requires removing the dollar as the world currency because it is not just money but a geopolitical weapon of control that is being used to destroy countries that America has labelled ‘enemies’. BRICS, and trade in local currencies, with another framework in planning is an attempt to break free from the chokehold of the dollar and America.
The oil trade between Indian and Russia is just one example of this with both the Rouble and Rupee being used by the two parties in their mutual trades.
Why this matters is because it hits the basis of American power.
The dollar as the world currency has been both the tool and beneficiary of 21st Century American hegemony.
What it has signified, in practice, is that the American elite have been able to embark on the voracious creation of wealth for themselves, and their enablers within the system.
This basically means the American elite could buy up the world and impose their system on everyone. Backed up by the USA legal system. Backed up by the USA military.
This is modern colonialism.
The Americans thought they had an unchallengeable system built to last a millennium.
They also arrogantly believed that all those who came into contact with their system and its benefits would invariably buy into it in all its aspects, including political, because there was no other choice.
This would both extend and increase their power because all elites are corruptible in the same way.
In essence, the American elite believed that by buying into the capitalist model, the CCP was signing its own death warrant, and ensuring everlasting American hegemony.
Yet they had chosen to overlook what both America and China know.
That in a two-party system like America, the party in ostensible power may change, but the system remains the same.
In a one-party system like China, the party and the system are one and the same thing.
If the system changed, the CCP would be destroyed.
The CCP shrewdly combined communism and capitalism into a hybrid, you could call it communalism, ‘social organization on a communal basis,’ that appeared to work better for its people than American-style neoliberal capitalism.
This made it both indispensable and unchallengeable within its national boundaries and outmanoeuvred the American political elite.
Most importantly, by breaking the given perception that socialism is synonymous with poverty and lack of opportunity, Deng Xiaoping had begun a new narrative which the Belt and Road Initiative reinforces overseas.
It was, and is, the first successful geopolitical countering of the American world narrative in a generation.
This is what has made China America’s number one enemy today. With Russia a close second.
It also explains the ever-closer relationship between Russia and China because they are, in essence, on the same national journey. They represent the re-assertion of how national states should work for their people. A model that the rest of the world is accepting and adopting after three decades of forced globalisation.
This is why the war in Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia and one they cannot afford to lose.
It is also why America is mooting for another war, this time against China. Again, this is a war that China cannot afford to lose.
Both Russia and China are nuclear powers, as is America, and that is where the endgame is headed.
Have you noticed how nuclear war is almost being presented as a viable form of action by our political and military leaders, when reality dictates that it will destroy everything within seventy-two hours.
This madness is really about the overarching, global American empire and those who refuse to live under it.
Think of the world today in a war for continued American hegemony and a war for global change.
Yet, America, and the combined West (Europe and NATO), in their arrogance and hubris do not understand that these Washington constructed collisions are an existential threat to us too.
In a way, they cannot because they are part of, and beneficiaries of, the failing system and all are part of efforts being made to maintain it.
The original American domino theory in the 1950’s was conceived to counter the rise of communism in South-East Asia and began with the Korean War, followed by the Vietnam War, because the USA projected the fall of Vietnam would be followed by other countries going communist (‘falling like dominoes’.)
It didn’t happen even though America lost the Vietnam War,
Yet that discredited theory with a new twist is now part of America’s geo-political plan to maintain its hegemony.
The new domino theory is an aggressive offensive to cause a number of countries to fall like dominoes so that American hegemony can be continue.
The billions wasted in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, are an investment in maintaining the empire.
Here’s the plan.
This is how it should work for America, and the West.
The plan was to defeat Russia, the first domino, using Ukraine military and international sanctions as pincers. The belief was that Western technology and weapons were vastly superior to those of Russia. Reality has shown this to be untrue. It was believed that financial system that America controls would suffocate Russia and cause its economy to collapse. It did not work because the Russians had planned for just such an event, and many countries in the global south including China and India understood what the collapse of Russia would mean for them all, so they have traded with Russia in local currencies. This has allowed the Russian economy not just to survive but to thrive. According to the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, a Western body controlled by the USA, that Russia today is the fourth largest economy in the world by GDP.
Trade with India is an integral element of that.
The proxy war against Russia was predicated on three goals.
It destroys a potential bulwark against full spectrum American hegemony in the whole of Europe.
It again opens up Russia’s huge natural resources, vital to Western corporate interests to easy exploitation (a stated American aim).
Lastly, it begins the domino fall of those who stand in the way of continuing American and Western hegemony with China next, North Korea, without China and Russia to support it will crumble regardless of its nuclear missiles, followed by India (not war, but hollowed out by internal undermining both socially and politically by financial and corporate proxies and a corrupted elite so it becomes another American satrapy like Britain, Japan, or South Korea because how can it stand alone against Western hegemony), and finishing with Iran in the Middle East so that Israel becomes the unchallenged, dominant state in the region.
That is why America is actively complicit in the murderous actions of Israel in Gaza.
Then the rest of the world including Africa and Latin America will fall back into the line of the always exploited.
If Russia wins, the dominoes don’t fall, all the above does not happen.
We then move towards a multi-polar world, one that represents the vast majority of people on the planet, and the end of the minority, recently American-dominated world we have been living in for the last thirty years.
The failure in Ukraine and failures at home as our country degrades and our people suffer are the two unexpected pincers in which our political elite are now caught.
That explains their increasingly desperate actions like Trump’s because they know that the system that they have imposed on us, told us was unchallengeable, represented the best of us, is just a house of trick cards meant to cheat us.
And history, which strangely is still being written, will judge them the losers. Those who lost the empire.
What it makes it existentially dangerous is that, unlike the fifties, most of the countries targeted are major nuclear powers, or can be in a very short space of time, if they feel they are under mortal threat.
All roads lead to Armageddon.
That is our future if they’re allowed to continue on this fatal path.
A system working for the few, all built on lies, forever wars, societal neglect, increasing poverty and curtailed freedoms, political, social, and economic.
We, the people, should not buy this one-way ticket to a living hell because a multi-polar world is better for us.
The lesson of the completely, artificial construct that is the last thirty years for the ordinary people in America, and Europe, should not be that we were part of the winning team after the collapse of the Soviet Union but that we actually lost.
The teachings about colonialism being bad, and exploitation on basis of race and colour, being evil are there to obfuscate, to mislead, to make us think those things are the past.
They are not.
Only now everyone is being colonised.
The new front for it is inclusivity, diversity, and equality.
It’s a political manoeuvre by the elite and this is how it works.
As it becomes obvious to the majority of us that plutocratic economic policies, are structured to benefit a very few, and as their social impact becomes clear, it alienates those who previously felt part of the system. Again, like us.
This is because it has stopped working for us all, even marginally.
The pitchforks are waiting to be picked up.
So, how do you deal with lessening support from those that you treat with dismissive contempt but realise ultimately have the power to stop you?
You co-opt the previously excluded, the minorities, to create a new group of supporters of the system. They, in turn, become the greatest supporters of a system that was built on exploiting them, and still is, but now they feel a part of.
White working people were fed the same gruel once.
Many ethnic minority leaders in the West have joined the system, conveniently and mysteriously propelled into power, that was built on the exploitation of their fellow black and brown humans.
By providing a different face, they create the illusion of change ‘you can believe in.’
It’s a con, with one very important counter-intuitive addendum.
It means that white, working people have now definitively joined the list of the completely and equally exploited in a system built originally on the concept of White Supremacy which was used to delude them that the system was working for them.
Welcome to the world of the free elites and home of the powerless rest of us.
That is globalism in a sentence.
Change is needed.
A nation and its priorities need to take precedence. Most important of those is the wellbeing of its people.
Therefore, it makes sense to believe that in a multi-polar world where the people will be faced with multiple examples of the possibility of another world, our elite will have no choice (however unwillingly) but to turn inwards and look after their own people.
Right?
Possible but unlikely. As we can see all round us, they are distinguished by their total disregard for fellow human beings, their fellow citizens, our society, our country, and the planet.
When they talk about the free and open international order, they mean one where they continue unhindered to exploit the world for personal profit, to the detriment of all people.
A world in which one man can be measured as being worth billions, a corporation trillion, and a human life, nothing.
Despite all the words in the world to describe a better world, they refuse to know better.
More likely, they will continue with increased fervour on their decided path of greed and lies.
So, here we are where two major power blocs, the West lead by America, and the Global South with China, Russia and others (including a desperately unsure India) are gearing up to face each other. This multi-polarity may actually force a new world into being. Or it may lead to war, which the American military industrial complex is always in favour of.
This will indeed be a war to end all wars.
Alternatively, increased military spending at the expense of civic society (especially in Europe) will inevitably lead to societal collapse.
The CIA apparently thinks so. 2030 is the date it begins, they say.
Now why would the CIA be talking about something like this as an inevitability?
After all, CIA was set up to protect the status quo.
So, what’s it really about?
It’s not what it seems.
2030 is also the date for the Agenda.
The collapse, if it happens, will present the elites with an opportunity.
It’s a win win whatever happens when you think you’re gods.
More relevantly, they are all opportunists.
They think, they’ll be able to use the collapse to create a new societal order where we are rendered completely stakeless, stateless, and lacking basic human rights.
Globalism is of huge benefit to the Western elites, not just economically but also politically. It’s the Holy Grail of total power. Within it lies the promise of a thousand-year empire that they thought they had created but soon found out it was not.
After dominoes, this is the final roll of the heavily loaded dice by them.
You see, the bigger the system, and we have never had one that spans the whole globe, not even previous empires, the harder it is to challenge it. All actions against it can be treated as local insurgencies. Thus, when part of the empire revolts, it can be presented as a local difficulty and put down.
In contrast, when people in a sovereign nation revolt, change is inevitable. History shows that again and again.
They are further emboldened because now they have a new, perfect tool in the implementation of their policies.
AI allows unquestioning establishment of frameworks and systems that are even more anti-human and would destroy all the freedoms fought for and gained over the last few hundred years. It would be a new kind of medievalism. As Aldous Huxley pointed out so presciently nearly a hundred years ago,
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
This is the ultimate domain of the bastard, global, Big Brother, whom you’ve vaguely heard about but never met, and never will, because you and he don’t live in the same world.
It’s the only way our elites can keep going.
They have to destroy all who stand in their way, nations, institutions, individuals, and finally, the people.
If we fight back, the elite have their flight plans, the bunkers and other planets are ready, only the breathing apparatus and lights need switching on.
Or is that off for the rest of us?
We all need to understand that the world we leave behind is our legacy.
We need to decide what future we want. Not just for ourselves but for all those who will come after us but will be a part of us. And we will be a part of them.
One final question to consider? If we, the USA and Western Europe, are the good guys, then why are we spending two trillion dollars on the military intelligence complex in a world we largely control?
What do you think?
