Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[shaberon]

Posted by Jad (here)

Posted by rgray222 (here)
The better way to see it is as a struggle between good and evil...

Beneath the physical body and social identity is a deeper layer of conditioning—your core operating logic. Rather than engaging in conflict with someone else’s programmed persona, the real work is to examine and re-author your own. When that internal reconstruction happens, division doesn’t need to be fought; it dissolves naturally, because you’re no longer interacting at the level of masks at all.

Those are both similar to the same idea.

My fusion would be to say, that, the matter of releasing a persona mask is insufficient, or, that I, at least, am bound to do things that actually accomplish good rather than merely believe in it.


The conundrum is that it could turn out to be things that will be felt as thoroughly evil by their recipients.

When I say this is embodied in the current administration, that is not only correct but is also only the tip of the iceberg.

Those who choose to receive it are about like the force of gravity, pulling it away from the sheltered. That's how the wild winds blow. If I get it wrong and go to hell, that's my problem.

The current situation is too close to 9/11. What I mean by that is, in that case, it was a little bit later that we were given a State of the Union in response. I tried to watch it. What I saw was a stream of excrement flowing out of the human mouth and a room full of stuffed suits applauding it. At that moment I knew the intellect or soul in this country was stone dead. Many processes later, and we get this latest fiasco, except now everyone sees what is going on immediately.

My reaction is nothing new, obviously it is not alone, although of course just on the topic of opposing a single issue will be mixed with some who agree for instance because they are Democrats or something, whereas I'm not really looking for a debate on styles of wielding power over others, since I, at least, am interested in pursuing something good which is along the lines of releasing desire for power over others.

I would suggest this was the underlying mood of Westphalia, which hasn't really got any laws, and instead, the laws we have developed which may claim to represent this, are, in fact, the opposite pole, styles of wielding power over others.

This is strategic, in the sense that it attempts to intercept anyone's concept of good-ness and defray it into a system of power over others.

What has recently happened may in some twisted sense to turn out to be "legal" -- or, unstoppable by ordinary legal means -- although it clearly demolishes the intent of the United Nations Charter or Westphalia. I wonder what they are going to say to China. Tomorrow will be interesting. So will the return of Congress. In the meantime, we are one notch hotter on what the people of America are going to do.

[Rizotto]

"The media is calling it a "Political Raid." But the charts tell a different story.
Today, the United States military launched a historic operation in Venezuela, removing the leadership and effectively taking control of the country. While the headlines focus on "Democracy" and "Regime Change," the real motivation lies buried in the financial data of the US Department of Energy.
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is empty. The Dollar is losing its global dominance. And Venezuela—holding the largest oil reserves on the planet—was days away from signing a deal to sell its oil in Chinese Yuan.
In this video, we expose the "Economic War" behind the headlines. We analyze the collapse of the Petrodollar, the desperation of the Western energy markets, and why Washington had to launch a hostile takeover of a sovereign nation to save its own currency.
This is not about politics. It is about a margin call on the American Empire."

The End Of The Petrodollar: The Real Reason For The Venezuela Raid

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnLnRkcikw

[Rizotto]

The following interview is taking place on USA media.
Hello Trump fans, are you aware that Trump is allowing these censorship measures?
Not only censorship, but the move for digital ID to access the internet?

"Elites in tech, media, and government are now openly moving toward restricting free speech, and there’s no greater evidence for this phenomenon than a recent appearance by Israeli billionaire and cybersecurity executive Shlomo Kramer on CNBC. Kramer suggests limiting First Amendment protections by requiring government-verified identities online and ranking users to control what they are allowed to say, framing censorship as necessary to counter AI, misinformation, and China’s centralized narrative control.
Jimmy criticizes CNBC for offering no pushback while connecting these ideas to broader trends, including social credit–style systems, AI surveillance, campus speech crackdowns, and expanded government–corporate data collection. The segment concludes by warning that free speech is being redefined as “harm” or “hate,” with criticism of Israel and Zionism portrayed as a primary target of modern censorship efforts."

Israeli Billionaire’s SHOCKING Proposal to End Free Speech!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lL4oq-w6_CM

[Rizotto]

Another indication that the Trump team is working on setting up censorship of independent media...
Not that I trust Alex Jones one bit, but he's providing an indirect warning here.
Ex-general Flynn is still giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump, but is terribly upset about having been targeted (and his family too) by this new development.

Alex Jones "Trump Team Is AFTER Us!"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8TLqrL1tvM

[Ravenlocke]

Richard

"We need Greenland for national protection"

https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2007851834489389086

[Ravenlocke]

ECSaharaui

Translated from Spanish
🇺🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰 Soon the U.S. will control Greenland! (Says Katie Miller)

Katie Miller, former official in the Trump administration and wife of Stephen Miller, one of his top advisors, posted on Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered with the American flag with the text "SOON".

Miller is not a marginal figure.

She held high communication positions during Donald Trump's first administration, including spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and later as communications director for then-Vice President Mike Pence. In Trump's second administration, she served as advisor and spokesperson for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk.

The post prompted a direct response from the Danish ambassador to the United States, Jesper Møller Sørensen. The official account of the Danish embassy in Washington reposted Miller's image and emphasized Denmark's stance, writing: "We expect full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark".

https://x.com/ECSaharaui__/status/2007777066406597111

[jaybee]

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If you love him or hate him or just accept him as he is.....('warts and all') ....no one can deny that Trump is shaking everything up in the world politically and financially -

Here he is on Air Force One taking questions - speaking primarily about Venezuela, Columbia and Cuba... but a few remarks about Greenland at some point -

Has America ever had a President that was so willing to engage with journalists and the public - to speak openly on subjects and actions that most World Leaders might be cagey about? - that's a kind of rhetorical question but has there?

FULL REMARKS: Trump talks Venezuela, Colombia, Greenland, Cuba with media on AF1(37:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gaxrcqk4bFw

5 Jan 2026
President Trump spoke to reporters while aboard Air Force One Sunday evening, one day after the U.S. carried out a drone strike in Venezuela and captured the country's leader Nicolas Maduro. Maduro, who is currently being held in a Brooklyn detention center, is expected to appear in federal court on Monday. Trump was joined by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick during the press gaggle, where he also spoke about Colombia, Greenland and Cuba.

[Rizotto]

Trump sure needs to distract the public from those Epstein files...

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U.S. President Donald Trump has now said that they 'need Greenland', after the capture of Venezuela's Maduro. While Trump raised the issue of Greenland earlier as well, he's now seemed to have set a 2 month deadline, asking reporters to talk to him about Greenland after a few weeks. He's also said again that the U.S. 'needs' Greenland as it's encircled by Russian and Chinese ships. However, Greenland isn't taking this threat lying down... yet. Watch.

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'Unacceptable, Disrespectful!': Greeland Hits Back At Trump's '2 Month' Plan After Maduro's Capture

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hpfbTpWMY7A

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
Trump sure needs to distract the public from those Epstein files...

As many have pointed out, it's easy for the US to spend billions of dollars (and yes, that was the cost) to send a whole military armada to Venezuela to extract a single person and his wife so he can stand trial in the US.

But not a single person, apart from Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, has been arrested and charged for the many every evident Epstein crimes, or anyone at all for what many have persuasively argued was the covid mass murder of millions.

And if it's now acceptable under international law to invade a sovereign country to extract a sitting premier for trial, let's wait to see if anyone tries to do the same with Netanyahu. (But don't anyone hold their breath!)

[BMJ]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
Another indication that the Trump team is working on setting up censorship of independent media...
Not that I trust Alex Jones one bit, but he's providing an indirect warning here.
Ex-general Flynn is still giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump, but is terribly upset about having been targeted (and his family too) by this new development.

Alex Jones "Trump Team Is AFTER Us!"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8TLqrL1tvM

How can Alex " Mossad " Jones be independent media or Mike " 666 " Flynn be a mistreated saviour.

I posted alot about Flynn here in numerous posts, link:https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...-More-Sinister

On another note now I hear rumblings of Barry Obummer soon to be arrested by no other than Tulsi Gabbard, well well.

Now suddenly all these fake alternative types are being exposed and your shocked that there being attacked, well not from were I'm sitting I've been waiting for it and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Looks like 2026 is going to be a good year.

Heads up don't be shocked when Bondi & Ca$$$h get targeted or resign they are both comprised. Cas$$$h girlfriend is Mossad and his handler.

Fun fact that darling of many Candace Owens is also comprised she married a Rothschild and protects her husbands good friend Andrew " I'm alpha " Tate whom is a child trafficker and pedo just ask those poor girls in Romania. You might want to read about her on that thread link above.

As usual President Trump puts all these scum bags front and centre and then lets them self destruct just like Dan " fire & brimstone " Bongino.

So nothing is happening no arrests well things are happening according to another plan and timetable.

[T Smith]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
Another indication that the Trump team is working on setting up censorship of independent media...
Not that I trust Alex Jones one bit, but he's providing an indirect warning here.
Ex-general Flynn is still giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump, but is terribly upset about having been targeted (and his family too) by this new development.

Alex Jones "Trump Team Is AFTER Us!"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8TLqrL1tvM

Dan Bongino is a hot-head. And an unreliable source. Alex Jones recently skewered Bongino publicly for being a prima donna, with not-so-flattering words, so Bongino's allegations sounds to me like a tit-for-tat spat.

The suggestion of censorship makes no sense. It would be political suicide if the Trump administration were ever to censor the main influencers who, arguably, not-only got him elected, but also more-or-less support him, even while he strays from his MAGA base; this allegation isn't credible and looks more like blowback from two giant egos.

[BMJ]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
Trump sure needs to distract the public from those Epstein files...

For sure.

Thats why the redacted part was designed to be easily un redacted upon release in 2025, and the files have no concrete evidence of President Trump involvement with epstein in the files. Strike two Rizotto.


A side note, all roads lead to Maduro.

When President Trump was taking out the drug boats all the communications in Venezuela were lighting up like a town square christmas tree.

All the while the Gerald Ford carrier group off the coast of Venezuela were listening in and taking notes.

Hence the capture and arrest of Maduro. I have no pity for him or those pirates but I have plenty of pity for the people of Venezuela whom have literally been starved to death under his regime.

Now the shot has been fired across the bow and hopefully Maduros VP might want to pick up her game and bring Venezuela back to the prosperity it deserves.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Rizotto (here)
Trump sure needs to distract the public from those Epstein files...

As many have pointed out, it's easy for the US to spend billions of dollars (and yes, that was the cost) to send a whole military armada to Venezuela to extract a single person and his wife so he can stand trial in the US.

But not a single person, apart from Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, has been arrested and charged for the many every evident Epstein crimes, or anyone at all for what many have persuasively argued was the covid mass murder of millions.

And if it's now acceptable under international law to invade a sovereign country to extract a sitting premier for trial, let's wait to see if anyone tries to do the same with Netanyahu. (But don't anyone hold their breath!)

Perhaps in some odd way or to some degree this arrest/kidnapping of Maduro is a part of the Epstein crimes and saga.

It's almost like Trump made a deal and went to Venezuela and collected Maduro only to directly deliver him in to the hands of the deep state, (Alive).

AG Pam Bondi, who so far has botched about everything that has come across her desk. She's messed up the Epstein case and couldn't even correctly indict and prosecute Letitia James and James Comey. In fact she's about incapable of arresting anyone, but all of a sudden can kidnap and arrest a leader of another country????????? Regardless, how strong is the case against Maduro really?????? Could Maduro actually be acquitted by a Jury???????

We are also dealing with an almost totally Democrat NY District Court with a Judge appointed by Bill Clinton who is 93 years old! Odds are the Jury will be all Trump haters and sympathetic to Maduro, and the Judge may need amphetamines to stay awake through each hearing.

As impossible as it may seem, 2026 may be even more bizarre and insane than 2025!

Also, like it or not, stay tuned for more "Fantastical Speculations" from SilentFeathers!

[Richter]

US Regime Change War on Venezuela Escalates the US War on Multipolarism Worldwide (35:44)
The latest US regime change war targeting Venezuela - launched under a false pretext - is part of a global war the US is waging against multipolarism - and more specifically - on the rise of China.

The war reaffirms the Trump administration is advancing continuity of agenda and continues to shape the globe ahead of greater confrontation with Venezuelan allies Russia and China.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6SCrjwt4k

[Rizotto]

Posted by T Smith (here)

Posted by Rizotto (here)
Another indication that the Trump team is working on setting up censorship of independent media...
Not that I trust Alex Jones one bit, but he's providing an indirect warning here.
Ex-general Flynn is still giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump, but is terribly upset about having been targeted (and his family too) by this new development.

Alex Jones "Trump Team Is AFTER Us!"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8TLqrL1tvM

Dan Bongino is a hot-head. And an unreliable source. Alex Jones recently skewered Bongino publicly for being a prima donna, with not-so-flattering words, so Bongino's allegations sounds to me like a tit-for-tat spat.

The suggestion of censorship makes no sense. It would be political suicide if the Trump administration were ever to censor the main influencers who, arguably, not-only got him elected, but also more-or-less support him, even while he strays from his MAGA base; this allegation isn't credible and looks more like blowback from two giant egos.

The Trump gangsters already assassinated one such influencer recently. Remember Charlie Kirk.

[Rizotto]

Just a brief description by Jeffrey Sachs of all the laws the Trump gangsters are violating:

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Venezuela and the Collapse of International Law

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cz57XUSlBv0

Trump says, Cuba 'ready to fall' and threatens potential military action on Colombia

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zk6R1ZVgVPw

Yep, those Epstein files must have evidence of the grossest wrongdoing. Look everywhere else but not there.

[BMJ]

While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada On Notice

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7UrtDjNao

Promethean Updates
Jan 6, 2026

Summary:
00:00 The Monday Brief - While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada On Notice - January 5, 2026
03:05 Not Regime Change—A Strike Against the Empire
08:47 The Offshore Banking System: Where Drug Money Meets Global Finance
12:18 Irregular Warfare Against the Rules-Based Order

While mainstream media focuses on regime change in Venezuela, this video reveals Donald Trump's covert battle against the British Empire's financial backbone. Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action breaks down how Trump's actions extend beyond traditional geopolitics, targeting the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and offshore banking systems. Discover the deeper implications of this fight, the role of Canada, and why even the British intelligence and John Bolton see this as a significant shift.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by bobme (here)
Off topic,Has anyone started a thread about ignoring others? I would like to see it.

Back to topic.

So sorry for the late reply! Yes, it's here, just a purely optional and personal forum feature that some may not have been aware of:

• How to "ignore" another member
  
  

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by bobme (here)
Off topic,Has anyone started a thread about ignoring others? I would like to see it.

Back to topic.

So sorry for the late reply! Yes, it's here, a purely optional and personal forum feature that some may not have been aware of:

• How to "ignore" another member
  
  

[onawah]

While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada on Notice
Forbidden.News
Jan 06, 2026
https://substack.com/home/post/p-183647387

(Hyperlinks in the article not embedded here)

"“NO, THIS ISN’T ‘REGIME CHANGE’. IT’S THE RECOGNITION THAT THIS IS IRREGULAR WARFARE. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD, THE UNITED STATES IS ACTUALLY FIGHTING BACK”
Susan Kokinda has knocked it out of the park, again. Her succinct presentation in yesterday’s Monday Brief is perfection. She explains how President Trump’s recent operation in Venezuela was actually “a surgical strike against the British Empire’s irregular warfare”, a key component of which is the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism and the City of London-centered banking system.

The British Empire of today is no longer one of geographical colonies, it is the world’s post-WWII financial system that is propped-up by the Globalist “Rules Based Order”.

Britain’s network of banks domiciled in the City and in the “secrecy jurisdictions” of former British colonies are what filmmaker Michael Oswald calls “Britain’s Second Empire”.

Oswald’s highly-instructive 2017 film, ‘The Spider’s Web’ was produced for only £4,000 but it contains much higher quality information than any documentary about finance that you will ever see produced by an establishment media outlet. The film is very much worth your time, if you haven’t seen it.


FEATURE FILM: ‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’ (2017) - Pub. Sept 18, 2018 by ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net - Excellent, super-important film about the history of offshore banking.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8

As the British Empire collapsed in the 1950s, financial institutions found that by claiming to operate within the tiny jurisdiction of the Corporation of the City of London, they could circumvent the regulation and taxation of the UK.

When American banks understood that the City allowed them to avoid US regulations, they were quick to move their international operations there and within half a century, it had become standard practice for large corporations to leverage and to outsource not just their financial assets but their operations, in order to skirt the laws and taxes of their home jurisdictions.

The mid-century banks set up the Euromarket, where currencies from outside their countries of issue were held and traded and called “eurocurrencies”. The eurocurrency market developed into the major source of finance for international trade we know today, because of the ease of convertibility and the absence of domestic restrictions on trading.

In the 1960s, the City of London’s model was replicated in the last remaining territories of the Empire. Accountants and lawyers from London descended upon these British dependencies and cobbled together “secrecy jurisdictions”. Of the 14 overseas remnants of the British Empire, seven of them, including Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands are the biggest tax havens in the world today, that are just a stone’s throw away from Venezuela.

As British financial investigative journalist, Nicholas Shaxson explains in ‘The Spider’s Web’, “What the Cayman Islands was doing was straightforwardly illegal activity; drug money was coming in in huge quantities; tax evasion, whatever you wanted, you could have it.”

The Bank of England observed these developments from London and determined that as long as UK capital wasn’t transferred to the non-Sterling area outside UK rules, they didn’t mind. Their aim was to create offshore centers with strong secrecy legislation in order to attract capital from across the globe.

This lawlessness inevitably attracted all of the unsavory elements that one could imagine, like the Pakistani Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which was eventually accused of opening accounts or laundering money for figures such as Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and for criminal organizations, such as the Colombian Medellín drug cartel and for the terrorist, Abu Nidal.

Police and intelligence experts nicknamed BCCI the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International” for its penchant for catering to customers who dealt in arms, drugs, and hot money. The Central Intelligence Agency held several accounts at BCCI. According to a 1991 article in Time magazine, the National Security Council also had accounts at BCCI, which were used for a variety of covert operations, including transfers of money and weapons for Iran-Contra.

The Russians have known this for years. In a 2014 speech, Russia’s top drug enforcement official, Viktor Ivanov said, “Narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system.”

Another kind of secrecy, which is very British is the trust, a very slippery, complicated and devious mechanism that keeps assets at arm’s length from their owners, removing from them any responsibility for any taxes associated with their properties. Trusts are the building block of Anglo-Saxon secrecy.

John Christensen, who for ten years was an economic adviser to the secrecy jurisdiction of Jersey in the Channel Islands estimates:

“Trillions of dollars of capital…apparently belong to nobody for tax purposes and for other purposes…Everything; works of art, gold bullion, racehorses, real estate…belong to these trusts sitting there, belonging to nobody. Now, think that one through. We are talking about maybe as much as $50 trillion of assets sitting offshore behind these instruments.

“When countries complain to Britain about the activities run out of its offshore havens, Britain claims that these places are independent and that there is nothing it can do…they don’t have the powers to intervene. Well, that’s a straightforward lie. They do have powers to intervene, they just choose not to…I see these [offshore tax havens] as the Frankensteins created by the City of London.”

The saddest consequence of all of this is its effect on developing world nations. In 2008, the debt of Sub-Saharan African nations stood at $177 billion dollars. Yet, the wealth these country’s elites had moved offshore between 1970 and 2008 is estimated at $944 billion – over five times their foreign debt. Christensen says, “Do the maths! Far from being a net debtor, Sub-Saharan Africa is a net creditor to the rest of world!”

Shaxson says, “In developing countries, the offshore system of tax havens has facilitated the looting of these countries by their elites. It has enabled them to steal the money and keep it safe somewhere else.”

Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network explains, “Illicit financial flows – the anonymity that drives them creates incentives for people in positions of power to be corrupt. This is why there’s a group of countries where developmental progress is so difficult.”

Worldwide, developing countries lose over $1 trillion dollars every year in capital flight and tax evasion. Most of this wealth flows into large Western nations, like the United States and Britain and enables their currencies to stay strong while developing nations’ currencies remain weak.

TRANSCRIPT

Susan Kokinda: While the entire world is focused on Venezuela and Mexico and Cuba and Colombia, Donald Trump just quietly put Canada in the hot seat. Why? Because the operation in Caracas isn’t just about Maduro. It’s an opening salvo against the British Empire. Here’s what the President said:

(Roll video)

President Trump: So we have to do something because we lost, the real number is 300,000 people in my opinion. You know, they like to say 100,000. 100,000 is a lot of people, but the real number is 300,000 people and we lost it to drugs and they come in through the Southern Border, mostly the Southern Border. A lot, plenty come in through Canada too, by the way, in case you don’t know.

Susan Kokinda: But you’re not supposed to notice that. The headlines covering that same press conference are focused on the usual targets, like this one in The New York Post. But while the Empire’s American propaganda arms want you focused on those usual suspects, by Sunday, the Canadians had figured out what I just told you. The editorial board of the Toronto Globe & Mail announced in their Sunday editorial that Venezuela’s fate is a warning to Canada.

Meanwhile, the rest of the narrative is being played out by the press, like The New York Times, which says that this is another regime change operation out of the Bush playbook and that it’s going to split the MAGA movement. And of course, The New York Times’ favorite new political figure, Marjorie Taylor Greene, played her part in feeding into the MAGA split narrative. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is playing its assigned role in the narrative, shrieking about Trump’s actions and some are already calling for his impeachment.

But here’s where it gets interesting. Some of Trump’s opponents, like the former head of Britain’s MI6 and Walrus Man, John Bolton, immediately recognized that what the US did in Venezuela was not a regime change operation. They’re actually on to something.

It isn’t regime change. It’s a surgical strike against the British Empire’s irregular warfare and a key component of that, which we have long called “Dope Inc.”, the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and the City of London-centered banking system. And today, we’re going to break that down.

I’m Susan Kokinda. I’ve been tracking this since the 1970s, watching how the offshore banking operation was set up to sidestep regulation, sovereignty, and law enforcement. And I’m here to tell you that for the first time, someone is taking that on, and it’s Donald Trump.

So if this sounds like your kind of fight, please hit those like, share, and subscribe buttons so we can reach more people. Here’s what we’re going to cover today.

First, it’s not regime change – and the Empire knows it. Second, how the Empire’s operations of dirty money is now in the crosshair – and the Russians know it, and how Trump is deploying to defeat all of these imperial operations.

So let’s clear up the biggest misconception, right now. Many former MAGA allies, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, are screaming that this is “Neocon regime change 2.0”. They’re just looking at the surface or outright lying.

But listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He told us exactly what this is.

(Roll video)

Kristen Welker: I want to start with this big picture question: Is the United States now at war with Venezuela?

Marco Rubio: There’s not a war. I mean, we are at war against drug-trafficking organizations. It’s not a war against Venezuela. You cannot continue to have the largest oil reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States, not benefiting the people of Venezuela and stolen by a handful of oligarchs around the world, including inside of Venezuela, but not benefiting the people of that country.

Susan Kokinda: Did you catch that? He didn’t blame socialism. He didn’t blame communism. He blamed oligarchs and drug-trafficking organizations.

Now, that takes us back to Trump and his targeting of Canada, which no one seems to want to talk about. Because when you put the words “oligarchs” and “drug-trafficking organizations” in the same context, you aren’t just talking about the cartels in Mexico or Colombia.

You’re talking about key characteristics of the British Empire, which is the epitome of oligarchy, or to put it another way, the “rule of the few”, which is what oligarchy means. And when it comes to drug-trafficking organizations, the British Empire has been the most notorious entity in the world, when it comes to making money off of drug-trafficking, going back over 200 years, including the notorious Opium Wars of the 19th century.

This has never stopped. It’s just taken a new form. And that’s the importance of Canada in this picture. It is run by the Empire’s favorite central banker, Mark Carney, and it is the major political outpost for the crown in North America, used for drug trafficking, as the president mentioned, illegal immigration, and terrorism.

Unlike, say, someone like Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, whom Trump accurately characterized as “terrified of the cartels”, Carney has actually facilitated the financing arm of the cartels in his former role as the head of the Bank of England.

While no one else is picking up on the Canada angle, some interesting folks who are not exactly Trump supporters are picking up on another aspect of this, on the fact that what the US did in Venezuela is not “regime change”. Let’s start with the former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers.

He isn’t clutching his pearls about “democracy”. He recognizes this for what it is. What Trump did is a demonstration of raw power that bypasses the Empire’s rules-based order.

(Roll video)

John Sawers: Well, first of all, I think I’d be cautious about using the phrase “regime change”. The Americans have abducted the leader of Venezuela, Maduro, and taken him to the US to stand trial. But they are now already dealing with the regime. The army remains in power. The legal structures of the regime remain unchanged. And they’re already talking to Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president who’s been sworn in as the new president of Venezuela, and distance themselves from the opposition.

So, this isn’t the sort of regime change of the sort that we saw in Iraq. And it’s commensurate with the clear reluctance by Trump to put large-scale forces on the ground.

Susan Kokinda: Sir John admitted this operation is new territory. He noted that Washington is already dealing with Maduro’s successors and that the structures of the country remain. He knows this isn’t Iraq. It isn’t Tony Blair’s regime change. It’s something else. And he’s not alone. Here’s John Bolton:

(Roll video)

John Bolton: But let’s be clear. There’s a big difference between getting Maduro and removing the regime. Right now, facts are scarce, that’s for sure. But the regime is still in power. And Trump, inexplicably today at his news conference, took a shot at the Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of Venezuela’s opposition, Mrs Machado; said she didn’t have the trust of the Venezuelan people. So I think there’s a lot of lack of clarity, to say the least, in Trump’s thinking on this. And it would be a hollow victory, indeed, if we snatched Maduro but left his regime in place.

Susan Kokinda: When MI6 and John Bolton are admitting that this is not standard regime change and Trump’s allies are confused, you know you’re watching a higher level of warfare. And this is exactly why you need to be plugged into Promethean Action.

While so-called MAGA influencers are screaming “regime change”, but the former head of MI6 is calmly explaining that this is something entirely different, who do you think actually understands what’s happening?

We’ve been tracking British imperial operations and irregular warfare for decades. We don’t react. We don’t chase headlines. We understand the enemy’s playbook, because we’ve studied it and fought it since the 1970s. So, if you’re tired of being confused by people who you think are on your side, subscribe to our free newsletter at Promethean Action. We’ll help you see what Trump is actually doing, so you can defend it and explain it to others. So head on over to Promethean Action and subscribe to our free newsletter.

Now, here’s what Trump is really going after: If this is a war on drug-trafficking organizations and oligarchs, as Rubio says, then it is automatically a war on the global banking system, because you can’t separate the two.

The target isn’t just jungle labs and drug boats. It’s the City of London. Let’s remember where Venezuela is. It borders the Caribbean. What else is in the Caribbean? The origin point for the infamous system of offshore banking, established directly by the British.

Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the Government and the Exchequer, established 14 completely secretive secrecy jurisdictions. These are the offshore banking centers that now hold between $50- and $75 trillion, with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated, and they facilitate illegal activity.

What we once had, a legitimate regulated banking system, has been transformed into a criminal enterprise. And interestingly, the Russians have known this for years and have been more vociferous about it than any Western government.

In a 2014 speech, Viktor Ivanov, then Russia’s top drug enforcement official, laid it out clearly in a Moscow conference. He said, “This allows us to confidently assert that narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system. It is not surprising that during the first peak of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, Antonio Costa, from the UN, announced that the top banks in the world dumped in around $352 billion of narco dollars to use for interbank borrowing to address the critical shortage of liquidity.”

And he goes on to make clear that the global financial system needs drug money to survive:

“The very existence of the global financial bubble, he said, is based on precisely this opportunity for banks to attract liquid narco money. In fact, this garbage fertilizes the present economic system.”

Now, this is a good time to remember that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently commented that 50% of his job involves issues of National Security. Now, think about it. Since we started targeting drug boats and lighting-up the communications channels of the cartels and their financiers, I bet Treasury Secretary Bessent has been just as busy as Pete Hegseth!

Now, Venezuela doesn’t have to be a major producer of drugs. It’s the facilitator for the spider web of narcotics, illegal immigration, and terrorism. And it’s well known that Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard operate out of Venezuela.

So think about the implications. Trump’s moves on Venezuela hits at this nexus, and it effectively attacks the liquidity of the offshore banking system established by the British in the 1960s. He’s cutting off the flow of fertilizer to the Globalist oligarchs.

And this brings us to the real issue, which is the fact that we are fighting not regular warfare, but irregular warfare: For decades, the British Empire and Globalist banks have waged war on us using non-state actors, NGOs, terrorists, cartels, all of which are protected by their “Rules-Based International Order”. A couple of my friends discussed this when they summed up their discussion on Venezuela. Here’s what Crypto Rich and Tom Luongo said:

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Crypto Rich: So here’s Trump coming along, breaking the rules, which he has to do, in order to defeat the international banking cartel, which is spawned out of the City of London.

Tom Luongo: Well, you can’t play by their rules when their “Rules-Based Order” is all based on – It favors them. And it favors them. They set the game board up. And if you want to beat somebody, you can’t play the game by their rules. Basic Sun Tzu. “Never fight on a ground prepared by your enemy.”

Susan Kokinda: Tom’s right. You can’t defend your nation if you play by their rules. And the new National Security Strategy, which Rubio brought up in the above interview, says so. Just a reminder, here’s what the National Security Strategy says about the elites’ rules:

“...they lashed American policy to a network of international institutions, some of which were driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty.”

Susan Kokinda: So on behalf of all sovereign nations, Trump has taken the fight directly to those institutions, both the so-called legitimate ones like USAID, the NGOs, the nonprofits, the universities and the illegitimate side, the cartels, the criminal empires, and their financiers. We’re no longer playing by the rules of the rules-based order. And don’t forget, it was Canada’s Mark Carney who said that just a few months ago:

“The old world of steady expansion of rules-based liberalized trade and investment...that world is gone.”

Susan Kokinda: This is what this administration is taking on in their whole-of-government approach. No, it isn’t “regime change”. It’s the recognition that this is irregular warfare. And for the first time in the entire Postwar period, the United States is actually fighting back.

So here’s the bottom line. While the talking heads and influencers are screaming about “regime change” and splitting MAGA, Donald Trump just declared war on the financial backbone of the British Empire. He’s targeting the offshore banking system that has funded terrorism, cartels, and the destruction of sovereign nations for over 50 years. And he’s just targeted Canada for good measure.

The most ironic part? The enemy understands what Trump is doing better than many of his supposed allies. Sir John Sawers and John Bolton see it. And one of the other superpowers, Russia, has been warning about this for decades.

But too many in the MAGA movement are stuck arguing about whether this is another Neocon regime change, instead of recognizing that Trump has just launched the biggest offensive against the City of London since, maybe the American Revolution.

This is why we exist. Promethean action has been in this fight since the 1970s. We’ve exposed the offshore banking apparatus. We’ve been warning about British irregular warfare, when everyone else thought we were crazy. Now, Trump is doing what we’ve been advocating for decades. And we’re here to make sure that you understand it so that you can defend it and amplify it.

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