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Gogs's avatar

You make perfect and scary sense. As a Scot I wish Trump, Vance and you all God speed!

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Thanks for your great support!

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Jaime Jessop's avatar

I'm English. I proudly embrace English and British history but reject outright the malign influence of the British Deep State and I wholeheartedly embrace MAGA under the new Trump administration. It's time to let go of the Old World complete with its horrifying vision of the New World Order and make the New World great again. The 2026 mid-terms will be 1766 all over again. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

My heritage is of the British Isles. I agree with what you say. Please see my book "Our Country, Then and Now."

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858

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AmericanMutt's avatar

I enjoyed the article. Certainly I have heard versions of this article some with the Jewish Cabal being the underlying force behind world events and others being the globalists. This is a version with the British being the leaders of the globalists. Not sure I buy into it but there is good truth in here around the Rockefellers etc. What is certainly true in my opinion is that whoever is in charge of the Western World it aims to displace America by continually embroiling us in confrontations not of our own making. We would be smart to 'Nationalize the Fed,' that I agree would be smart but first we need to confiscate as much gold as possible and move our companies back the United States. The bigger threat to the world is a dominant China, not Russia nor the EU. We should partner with Russia and not with the EU. The EU doesn't support it's own people and will soon fall into disrepair as it has abandoned it's productive proud populace and replaced it with a lazy and dumbed down 3rd world populace. The tipping point will be in about 10 years. Europe is lost. Gone. Time to move to partner with Russia. Ukraine is a trap. Get out of NATO now.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

1. China is no threat to the world. Its 5,000 year old civilization has remained largely at peace with the rest of the world. Its government focus is on serving its people.

2. China & Russia will not be split apart any time soon, if ever.

3. Time to partner with Russia & China.

If we the US had something to offer we could even join Brics if they would let us. Bit mot holding my breath on that one, as we are agreement incapable.

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Bartholo's avatar

a century ago, Rudolf Steiner stated that the world dominance would move to the west pacific coast (Russia & China). Hopefully D. Trump will recognize that a multi-polar order is unavoidable, and so his best option. Only this will break the chains the Pilgrim society (via Serco) have tied around the neck of the USA.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

The Pilgrim Society was created along with the Federal Reserve to carry out the recapture of the US by the British Empire. The direction was given by the Round Table overseen by Rothschild and Milner. Also see Quigley's works.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

I had to google the pilgrim society. I see Richard has explained it below.

News this morning is that Trump has asked Putin to sponsor/mediate negotiations with Iran.

I'm thinking Trump does realize this.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

That is great news on Trump/Putin and Iran. Do you have a link?

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1896904925210157566

Lord Bebo

@MyLordBebo

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷 Trump asked Putin to mediate in negotiations with Iran and he agreed, Bloomberg reports.

-> I said before, Russia has much to offer to the US geopolitically. Mediating with Iran is one of them. That’s a good thing. War in the middle east becomes less likely.

1) Trump asked Putin on the phone in February, and then the issue was discussed at a meeting between Lavrov and Rubio in Riyadh a few days later.

Trump wants to negotiate with Iran about their nuclear program and Iran’s proxy militias in the Middle East.

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Bartholo's avatar

UK & French boots in the Ukraine forces Putin, in order to keep the storm-shadow enough far away from Moscow, to occupy/liberate Ukraine till the boundaries to Kiev, it will also include all its coastal areas and there where are critical minerals. Trump 'will allow' that in exchange of the latter. As the Chinees are already mining there, Trump will have to work along them.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Iirc, they offered troops on the basis of support from the US. Which support has been pulled away.

Unconfirmed reports this morning are that the pullout includes ISR & that Trump is pulling 20,000 troops out of Europe.

We'll find out soon.

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AmericanMutt's avatar

China and Russia historically have nothing in common. They are not natural allies. We on the other hand have things in common with Russia.

China is a much more dominant threat as they control half of our politicians through blackmail, are continually screwing us in trade after we gave them our manufacturing base in the 90s, have built the largest Navy in the world, launched Covid 19 with the help of the globalists. Yes, China is the threat.

We need to reallocate military troops and money to South America and Asia. Europe is a dying continent full of 3rd world invaders who are neither productive or know how to run a country. Europe is on a full scale downward trend.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

China defends itself; it does not project force on other countries the way the US habitually & continuously does.

The US is as likely, if not moreso, to have caused the scamdemic. DARPA has bioweapon labs all over the world, initiated the research, moved it with the gof tech to China after Obama "paused" it here, & there is evidence it 1st emerged at an event with US soldiers (I forget the event now). The Wuhan researcher who defected with a thumb drive brought docs with Fauci's signature all over it. His foia email release included a message from a researcher describing how they added an HIV protein to "the bioweapon."

We need to bring our military home & stop trying to bully the world. Stop threatening everybody & they won't feel the need to arm themselves to the teeth so they don't end up like the Palestinians.

Russia & China have business deals based on mutual goals & mutual respect. Something the US is constitutionally incapable of.

Europe is a lost cause. UK too.

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AmericanMutt's avatar

We agree on much on this last statement of yours. I agree with everything but the China does not project force on other countries. That is not true at all. Yes we worked with China on the bioweapons, yes we need to bring our military home from Europe, yes UK is also lost, and yes Ukraine is a fool's errand. I am personally in favor as many of my vet friends are of getting completely out of Europe and NATO.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Thank you. We now need to turn our attention to the Middle East powder keg that Macgregor is talking about. Then we'll see what Trump tells Congress tomorrow night.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

It's not confirmed, but I saw a report yesterday that he is pulling 20,000 military out of Europe & sending them to Asia.

The only good news I've seen re: Palestine is that the 1st $4B in weapons he had Rubio "expediting" to Israel won't begin to be delivered until next year. Delivery will continue to/thru '28. This is per msm.

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Paving the Way's avatar

If by the US you mean the global empire command and control center.

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Republic of CANADA's avatar

Those who have been observing Trump closely are aware of his obsession with China. That obsession is not unfounded. China wants a Uni-Polar world where it is the lead.

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Trump has been pressing its European NATO allies to become self-sufficient, freeing the US’s hands to deal with China. Their response to that has become clear over the past week.

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A new, more independent Europe is emerging in the form of the Coalition of the Willing, led by the UK, Germany, and France. Trump will get his wish, but it will not look exactly as he’d hoped. CANADA is just one country that is likely to support this new coalition. You can add Poland and the Baltic countries, and Italy and the Mediterranean countries to the list.

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The UN is now dominated by Islamic countries and has become rather irrelevant. The UN is the target of much of Elon Musk’s defunding efforts.

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https://www.kraydensrightnews.com/p/is-it-time-for-donald-trump-to-yank?r=jomt9&triedRedirect=true

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Frances Leader's avatar

China only threatens by virtue of its superior economy. Trump has already pivoted his attention east by announcing today that he has a deal with Taiwan chip corporation to build a factory in Arizona. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/03/trump-taiwan-chip-company-set-announce-100-billion-us-investment/

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original poster's avatar

When was the last time China invaded another country?

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Thomas Lewis's avatar

And the installed President of Ukraine who is leading the globe into World War III is a person …

who cannot even win a conversation.

Trump already won the War by proving it isn’t ours.

The war, our war, is against anyone who thinks this idiocy is a good idea.

And their kind.

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Republic of CANADA's avatar

Those who have been observing Trump closely are aware of his obsession with China. That obsession is not unfounded. China wants a Uni-Polar world where it is the lead.

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Trump has been pressing its European NATO allies to become self-sufficient, freeing the US’s hands to deal with China. Their response to that has become clear over the past week.

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A new, more independent Europe is emerging in the form of the Coalition of the Willing, led by the UK, Germany, and France. Trump will get his wish, but it will not look exactly as he’d hoped. CANADA is just one country that is likely to support this new coalition. You can add Poland and the Baltic countries, and Italy and the Mediterranean countries to the list.

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The UN is now dominated by Islamic countries and has become rather irrelevant. The UN is the target of much of Elon Musk’s defunding efforts.

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https://www.kraydensrightnews.com/p/is-it-time-for-donald-trump-to-yank?r=jomt9&triedRedirect=true

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Honeybee's avatar

I could not agree with your assessment more.

I'm so angry at this point after learning about the "100-year" agreement UK signed with Ukraine establishing their primary right to any Ukrainian rare-earth minerals just days before Trump assumed office that I actually advocate sanctions against UK-Europe. Of course, rationally, I know full well that even the current administration won't deal with Europe in this manner.

What are the implications behind this agreement? We have all been told that western Ukraine is largely farm land and that the rare-earth minerals lie in eastern Ukraine. In order to benefit from those minerals, Russia would have to be routed from Ukraine. Who could accomplish this feat? Not UK's sparse, minimal force...but certainly the U.S.A. with an enormous killing of our young men. Once again, the U.S. suffers the catastrophes and results of war by the decimation of their (largely) their male population to fulfill the wishes of the City of London.

You're also correct: Trump's Achilles heel is Israel. Unfortunately. Yet, as you so well point out, Israel is nothing but a construct of the City of London and Netanyahu their Genghis Khan.

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Frances Leader's avatar

The rare earth minerals are scattered all over Ukraine, little in the east actually. Please see my post from yesterday with mineral maps: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/why-uk-wants-ukraines-cobalt-and

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AmericanMutt's avatar

My concern with the rare Earth is it will be 10 years before we see any significant return on this. We also now have a competing claim from the UK. Starmer really backstabber us on this. I am ok with getting a deal but the best thing is to not get entangled in Ukraine at all. We need to pull out of NATO as Article V is outdated and Britain and France are not freedom first countries and tilting strongly to Authoritarian Fascists. So I'm a big meh on the Rare Earth deal. I actually think we need to partner much closer to Russia but the Dems are making it nearly impossible.

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Honeybee's avatar

Oh, interesting! Thank you, Frances. Most reports had been saying the rare earths were contained primarily in the east, but you did the research!!

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Frances Leader's avatar

A brilliant article, Richard, thank you! I would like to point out that the British Empire was never at any point actually British. It was always the Venetian Empire which itself was born from the Roman Empire. I explained this clearly here: https://boodicca.substack.com/p/exposing-roman-empire-20

Also further details of the Black Nobility's long clandestine history can be found here: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Thank you Frances. I have been citing your outstanding research regularly. To all readers: Frances is a brilliant and courageous pioneer!

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Karl North's avatar

The invisible elephant not mentioned in this piece is the role of the technocratic invasion of the Trump administration, which is contrary to the interests and needs of the Trump base. I see a slow, dawning concern and hypothesis in the dissentariat that Trump opened the gates of DC to the Trojan horse of the technocracy movement. Led by Elon Musk and his ultra-rich Silicon Valley "Paypal Mafia", and bought in with an unheard of 200+ billion campaign contribution (money talks), this cabal's explicit mission is to replace "democracy" with a business that will run a state. See

https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/is-the-great-reset-happening-right

and

https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-rising-all-the-presidents-men/

and

https://www.worldnotenough.com/p/president-elon-musks-great-american

In their own words:

"The technocratic dream is revolutionary in scope, envisioning a total reorganization of industry, government, and law and order. They readily admit their intent is to socially engineer all of society, seize control of the production and distribution of all goods and services, and rid the world of rule by politicians and (traditional) financial controllers."

I would look in the works and actions of the Musk cabal for the hand of the Western banker elite, which being always partly covert, is not easy to identify. The WEF program is one that detonates the Great Reset in a way that hopefully leaves the banker elite and their minions safe with their wealth on the high ground above the catastrophe that befalls everyone else..

How the reset takes place in the US looks to be messy for several reasons: financialization that engulfs and consumes the productive economy, massive debt at all levels of society, forty years of deindustrialization, extreme cultural polarization. One hypothesis to consider is that the banker elite see Musk and Thiel's aggressive and coherent US Paypal Mafia as a horse capable of orchestrating the transition and are quietly backing their Trojan horse in the Trump admin.

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AmericanMutt's avatar

Possible but doubtful based off of recent events. Elon, Trump are in it til the end. Vance as well. Thief is not that powerful but Larry is and the world's data runs through him. Trump is a changed man after the assassination attempts. Trump has a lot to juggle but he will need Mossads help for now so he is allowing Israel to do as they wish so he can clean up the domestic traitors first. Actually everything is moving along quite well imo.

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Karen M Melbye's avatar

Thank you, Mr. Cook! Are you familiar with Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung? They write about the same subjects that you do and also show that ancient mystery cults are still alive today. They are brilliant. Cynthia wrote about the British empire in her book “ The empire on which the black sun never set.” Matthew wrote “ Revenge of the mystery cults, volumes and 1-3.” They have both written multiple other books and articles, and have made films with Jason Dahl. They opened my eyes to what is going on today and you have confirmed it. Thank you so much!

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Yes, I know Matthew well. He gave me a nice endorsement for my book "Our Country Then and Now." We are very much in accord!

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Karen M Melbye's avatar

Awesome! And of course he has written so much more than I even mentioned. I’m going to follow you on Substack and also follow Francis Leader now. Thanks again.🙏

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Lewis Coleman's avatar

I always love reading your insightful essays, even when re-reading them.

I’ve always regarded Hamas as being a creature paid for and controlled by Israel that serves as an excuse for Israel’s genocide campaign against the relatively defenseless Palestinians. Could it be that Trump got rough with the Hamas people in the recent past as a means to set the stage for dumping Netanyahoo and shutting off support for Israel? If this country could shed its Empire boat-anchors (Ukraine, Israel), then these would become boat anchors for Britain. It would then be theoretically possible to very rapidly re-industrialize North America using the advanced computer technologies now available. Tesla serves as an example of this potential: it managed to design and build its new factories in China, Germany and the United States with remarkable speed. If Trump could embrace Canada and Greenland with uniform laws, an expanded market, and a superior defense this could be accomplished within a few years. If he could establish friendly relations with Russia it should be possible to build a high performance rail links to Russia and China. Do you suppose something like that is in the works??

Also, I know that Britain allied with France and Russia to wage economic warfare via trade barriers on Germany long before the fighting broke out in WWI, and I seem to recall that they pretty much used the same strategy on the Germans prior to WWII and even engaged in night-time bombing raids on German cities and murdering German civilians living in Poland and Czechoslovakia to provoke Hitler into initiating WWII. So, I wonder if Trump will now seek an alliance with Russia in hopes that the various European countries will shake themselves loose from the oppressive Empire control.

But I still maintain that war is not the answer. For example, if Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy had refrained from firing the first shot---regardless of various provocations----then the invention of the cotton gin would have rendered slavery an economic burden rather than an asset. Why not pursue peace and prosperity and serve as a beacon of hope and progress that attracts superior talent and brains from the rest of the world, while oppressive regimes slowly implode from corruption?

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Graham R. Knotsea's avatar

(((The City of London)))

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Mary, Maria Pavic's avatar

Excellent research, Richard C. Cook! Very grateful for your input.

"Usually the Empire keeps itself hidden in the shadows. Now it is showing its claws and fangs."

Yea, its BEAST self! Flailing around now...like a chimera.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Is there some reason Trump can't stop aiding Israel?

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1896537506914717767

🇧🇪 Belgium Air Force Falcon 7X lands in Tel Aviv

🇩🇪 Germany Air Force A400M heading toward Iraq

🇫🇷 French Air Force A330 dragginf fighter jets to Jordan

🇺🇸 US Army Beech C-12U from the Sinai to Tel Aviv

🇬🇧 UK Royal Force A400Ms operating from Cyprus

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Oscar's avatar

Because he has Israeli backers

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Yet Another Tommy's avatar

I would like to believe this, I really would, and every day with all thats going on I look at things differently, but...

Trump was bailed out from bankruptcy a number of times, and according to Dean Henderson he was bailed out with Wilbur Ross' help by the Rothschilds. Arch Technocrat Peter Thiel is J.D. Vance's main financial backer. The "assassination attempt" in Pennsylvania was a clumsy and obvious fake. It all adds up to Trump being controlled by the Technocrats.

Now, Technocrats don't care much about national borders and they don't care much about ghost stories about ancient Rome or Egypt. Their aim is to control the world with AI to prevent what they know is an inevitable revolution from below, worldwide. The "Great Reset" was launched when it was because the Yellow Vests were succeeding.

The Banksters Will Lose The 500 Year Battle

...news from the front

https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/the-banksters-will-lose-the-500-year

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Karin Schroeder's avatar

Very interesting. I'm currently studying what actually went on in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, originally to find out why the West ignored a genocide 1980 to 1987. I have found an excellent book. However, I need to understand the long term goal of decolonisation as it had nothing to do with ending suppression and racism. Does anyone know what the long term goal is other than leaving Africa to destroy itself?

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Good question.

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Karin Schroeder's avatar

This is the book, published 2023 after secret documents had been released.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/race-and-diplomacy-in-zimbabwe/58723B052C64CA5723CCF63793578C5D

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Eoin Clancy's avatar

Excellent post. Absolutely 100% spot on. As an Irish man I've seen the Anglo-Saxons take over my country politically, they even have a brit (MI6) running our police force. All the US has to do is default, it's well able to handle the consequences of it and it destroys the city of London.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Thanks very much. I have a good friend in Ireland who works on financial issues. She says that while Ireland got its freedom the British banks still run the place.

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Eoin Clancy's avatar

Yep, they never left, just like the US.

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ShakeyJakey's avatar

The game is the same, however the outsiders are re writing the rules...

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Isadem's avatar

Goodness me, we need to protect Substack at all cost people. So many intelligent people with active critical thinking faculties, I feel like my braincells are regenerating 😀

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