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Scott Bessent chasing the money behind the Iran war somewhere nobody expected.
Mark Carney walking out on Trump.
Europe refusing to let the Russia Ukraine war end.
Anthropic begging Congress for AI regulation.
They're all battles in the same war on America, and taking down Trump before the midterms is only the beginning.
Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd from Promethean Action join Jillian to break it all down and explain everything you need to know before November Elections.
INSIDE THIS EPISODE:
The Hidden Chessboard & US Sovereignty: Trade wars, proxy wars, and inflation are all hitting at once. Barbara and Susan say it's no accident, and American sovereignty is what's on the table.
Globalism vs Nationalism, the American System vs the British System: A 250 year economic war is heading into its final round, and most Americans have no idea which side they're on.
Scott Bessent, Operation Economic Outcast & the Petrodollar: The Treasury just went after the IRGC's money. Where that trail ends could shake the petrodollar, and the dollar in your pocket with it.
Mark Carney, Canada & the EU: Canada just walked out on Trump and Ursula von der Leyen's bigger plan could crush Trump at the mid-terms.
The Russia Ukraine War & Europe's Revolt: Ukraine is losing and European voters are furious, so who keeps this war going, and what do they get out of it?
The AI Regulation Hoax / Anthropic Claude: Why would one of the biggest AI companies on earth beg Congress to regulate it? What the guests say is hiding behind the AI safety push should worry you.
The Yen Carry Trade & a Bond Market Crash: The yen carry trade is unwinding and the bond market is flashing red. What happens if this bomb goes off?
Gramsci, Cultural Marxism & the Tavistock Institute: The propaganda machine behind today's culture wars has an origin story you were never taught, and it's still running.
Lindsay Clancy & the Culture War: Are the culture wars being orchestrated or amplified by people who want the West to fall? Jillian, Barbara, and Susan connect the dots.
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CHAPTERS [ransomnote: At the link, the following chapters are hyperlinked to skip to the times in the video]
0:00 Globalism vs Nationalism Showdown
1:49 American System's Secret Enemy
4:33 Globalism's Hidden Birthplace
11:29 British Empire Never Died
22:00 Ukraine War's Real Target
24:07 Mark Carney's EU Deal
27:13 AI Regulation Trojan Horse
35:56 Iran War Money Trail
38:01 Muslim Brotherhood's Real Founders
50:57 Bond Market Time Bomb
56:22 Socialism's Secret Sponsor
1:00:13 Gramsci's Culture War Playbook
1:05:42 Lindsay Clancy's Darker Question
GROK's summary:
Comprehensive overview of Boyd and Kokinda’s content/theories
Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda present a unified framework. In their view, current global events are not isolated crises. They are coordinated moves in a roughly 250-year conflict between two opposing systems.
The two systems
- The “American System” (linked to the Founders, Alexander Hamilton, and figures like William McKinley) is a sovereign economic republic. Government plays an active, positive role in fostering national production, technological progress, economic independence, rising living standards, and the creative potential of the population.
- The opposing “British System” (also called globalism or finance capitalism) is an imperial network centered on the City of London. It includes private financial interests, oligarchic families, and long-standing institutions such as the Bank of England model, the British East India Company legacy, Chatham House (mother to the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations), offshore banking centers created after the 1950s, and the Federal Reserve (adopted in 1913 as a private central bank).
This British/globalist system prefers managing and constraining populations and resources rather than allowing national sovereignty and unbounded development. Boyd and Kokinda describe it as fundamentally Malthusian. It seeks to manufacture consent through propaganda and perception management rather than overt force.
Key historical claims
- After World War I, elites (influenced by figures such as Walter Lippmann) concluded that growing populations and developing nations could no longer be controlled by force alone. They therefore built propaganda apparatuses run by foundations and elites to undermine the idea of national sovereignty and the right to development.
- After World War II, the Tavistock Institute and related social-science efforts (involving sociologists, anthropologists, and figures like Margaret Mead) focused on profiling populations and “freezing” consensus opinions to make people more controllable.
- Historian Carol Quigley documented British imperial networks that aimed at world control by manufacturing consent and shaping perceptions of reality.
- The system has long targeted or subverted secular sovereign nations in the Middle East.
- British intelligence played a founding role in the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s as part of the “great game” of regional manipulation.
- After the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, the petrodollar system concentrated energy pricing and capital flows in London.
- Radical Islamist networks were used as proxies (including against the Soviets) and could later be discarded when no longer useful.
Present-day applications
Boyd and Kokinda portray the Trump administration’s actions—tariffs and trade policy, energy policy, Scott Bessent’s Operation Economic Outcast targeting IRGC funds in the British Virgin Islands, industrial policy, and resistance to certain AI regulations—as an attempt to exit the globalist system and restore the American System.
- Ukraine is described as a failed regime-change project that is collapsing under corruption and European economic pain (especially the damage to Germany’s industrial base). This has prompted moves by figures such as Mark Carney, including the idea of Canadian associate membership in the EU and rhetoric about “middle powers,” which they view as desperate efforts to prop up the existing system.
- AI regulation pushes involving Anthropic/Claude, the British group Control AI, and related legislation are characterized as a Trojan-horse psyop. These efforts allegedly contain carve-outs that would centralize control under global structures rather than deliver genuine safety. This is contrasted with productive “industrial AI” that could enhance national sovereignty and productivity.
- The yen carry trade is treated as a massive speculative bubble. Bessent is portrayed as carefully unwinding it while parallel efforts build real productive credit channels outside traditional Wall Street and Federal Reserve pathways (for example, through the Office of Strategic Capital and other new institutional vehicles).
- Socialism and cultural-left movements (including the lineage of the Democratic Socialists of America, Antonio Gramsci’s emphasis on destroying Western Christian civilization as a precondition for revolution, and extreme cultural/identity campaigns) function as instruments of the same oligarchic system. Their purpose is to erode national cohesion, the idea of the human being as a creative agent, and productive culture.
- Culture-war flashpoints, including coverage of cases such as Lindsay Clancy, are seen as amplified tools in that broader erosion.
Elections and recommended response
The midterm elections are framed as decisive. They will determine whether the United States continues shifting toward sovereignty or remains trapped in the older system.
Boyd and Kokinda recommend public education about the American System, support for productive national policies, and organized political action through Promethean Action’s materials, newsletter, and PAC boot camps.
Overall, their lens treats finance, geopolitics, technology policy, cultural conflict, and intelligence operations as interconnected facets of one long-running systemic struggle, rather than separate left-right or purely national disputes.
