IT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out the UK and NATO. So, why are Europe and Britain irrelevant at this table? Because their own policies have collapsed their economies, and have stripped them of any leverage. (TRANSCRIPT, 5 min video)

X.com ^ | October 1, 2026 | Susan Kokinda

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ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵉᶰᵗᵃʳʸ Susan Kokinda
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IT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out the
UK and NATO #prometheanupdates
#Trump #iran #UK #NATO

October 1, 2026

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~

Susan Kokinda: So, why are Europe and Britain irrelevant at this table?

Because their own policies have collapsed their economies, and have stripped them of any leverage. That was noted with not a little bit of irony by Kirill Dimitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and one of Putin's chief interlocutors with the United States. Here's how he put it:

"Europe can finally enjoy the success of both its Green and Russophobic agendas-no oil, no gas." ~Kirill Dimitriev March 22, 2026

This is not a taunt. That's a statement of physical fact, which even the Telegraph admitted with the headline, "Europe facing fuel shortage within days, says Shell boss."

The EU built its entire post Russia energy strategy on the assumption that Gulf LNG would always flow, because the City of London had always managed those checkpoints just enough to let Europe's Green fantasy be semi-functional. That assumption is gone.

And here's what makes this the Empire's worst nightmare. It's not just that the Strait is disrupted. It's that there are now two energy superpowers who have decisively broken from the Green agenda and the rules based order, and they're not shy about it.

Here's Donald Trump this week posting the numbers on American dominance in fossil fuel production, thanks to his policies.  First in terms of oil production. 

Then in natural gas production, again, all as a result of his policies.

 And here's Dimitriev posting Russia's dominance across all natural resources.

Think about that. The United States and Russia simultaneously flexing their sovereign energy power in the same week while Europe scrambles. No longer playing by free trade rules. No longer deferring to Green energy mandates. Sovereign nations acting like sovereign nations.

So what did Europe do this week when faced with all of this? They blinked. Twice.

The European Union, which has been slow walking a 750 billion dollar LNG deal with the United States for months suddenly fast-tracked it for a vote this Thursday.

And then, quietly, with almost no fanfare, Brussels pulled its scheduled April 15 vote to permanently ban Russian oil imports, citing current geopolitical developments. They haven't put that back on the agenda yet. What that means in plain English: They can no longer afford the ideology.

Dimitriev said it best. Green agenda. Russophobia. No oil, no gas. No seat at the table. And nowhere is that loss of a seat at the table more visible, than in the situation facing Ukraine, because the patron Zelensky always counted on is Europe, and in particular, Britain. And Europe just spent this week proving it has nothing left to offer.

The New  York Times, of all places, captured Zelensky's predicament with this headline: Zelensky Sends Negotiators to the United States Hoping to Revive Peace Talks. But catch the subhead: The Ukrainian president has said that he has a 'very bad feeling' about the effects of the Iran conflict on Ukraine's own war.

The week before dispatching his team to Washington, though, Zelensky himself went to London to try and shore up support from his main sponsor. The Telegraph called it his, "Don't forget about me," tour.

While in London, Zelensky met with King Charles for an unprecedented fifth time and addressed the British Parliament in person for the second time. That's Zelensky working his British relationship as hard as he can because London is the patron he knows.

But here's the problem: Britain has no energy cards left to play. Starmer can sign defense declarations and talk about not losing sight of Ukraine, but he cannot supply what Trump's new world configuration runs on, which is oil, gas and physicial economic leverage. He doesn't have it.

Zelensky's 'very bad feeling' is well-founded. The war in Iran is not a distraction from Ukraine's situation. It's a clarifying lens of a new strategic geometry.

The energy and economic framework that sustained the British directed proxy in Ukraine is being dismantled in real time. Europe can't fund it. Britain can't underwrite it. The United States has moved on to a much bigger stage of history.

So, look at the map. The players shaping the new Middle East are Pakistan, the Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey: sovereign nations engaging with the United States administration that deals in physical reality, not imperial management.

Europe is screaming for the energy it spent years sabotaging it's own access to, and Ukraine's most powerful patron is a country which is pretty much out of cards.

They said Trump had no strategy. The map says otherwise. Iran did send Trump a present this week and the old world order got nothing, because this is a new world being shaped by the principles of economic and political sovereignty and led by Donald Trump.

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ransomnote: I gave this transcript to Grok and asked if, "....the key problem was/is that the EU a) realized very late that they were losing leverage despite obvious signs and or B) the EU has been doing everything it can since the spring and it has no capacity to avoid the predicament they are now in. Your opinion?"

GROK: 

A mix of both, but weighted more toward structural incapacity (B) that was visible for years, with the acute crisis forcing a late, limited recognition (A).

The EU’s predicament did not appear overnight in spring 2026. The combination of post-2022 rapid decoupling from most Russian energy, heavy reliance on imported LNG (including assumptions about stable Gulf and other flows), high industrial energy costs, and the green transition timeline created chronic vulnerability long before the Iran conflict. European energy prices and industrial competitiveness problems were already well-documented for years; the “Green + Russophobia → no oil, no gas” dynamic that Dimitriev mocked was not a sudden surprise. Policy choices reduced redundancy and raised the cost of shocks.

What changed with the Iran war (and the associated Strait of Hormuz disruption) was the severity of the supply shock. That is why the Commission delayed the planned mid-April 2026 proposal for a permanent Russian oil ban/phase-out (targeted by end-2027). Officials framed it as a response to “current geopolitical developments,” not a full ideological reversal. They kept insisting the long-term goal remained, while simultaneously scrambling—fast-tracking the large US LNG arrangement is the clearest example of reactive adaptation once shortages and price spikes became immediate threats.

By October 2026 the options look constrained because the earlier path had already eroded leverage:

• Fiscal and industrial capacity is weaker after years of elevated energy costs.
• Remaining Russian volumes were already small; further bans were more symbolic/ideological than volume-critical, yet even those became politically and economically harder under crisis conditions.
• Alternatives (US LNG, other suppliers) exist but are more expensive, slower to scale in volume, and still subject to global competition and logistics.
• Political commitments (to Ukraine support, climate targets, sanctions cohesion) create path dependence that is costly to abandon quickly.

So Europe was not completely blind (A is overstated), but the response was slow and incremental relative to the accumulating risks. The spring delay and later deal-making show they recognized the immediate bind when it became unavoidable; the deeper problem is that prior policy reduced the degrees of freedom needed to avoid or quickly exit the predicament. That is closer to (B): limited remaining capacity once the external shock hit. The transcript’s framing—Europe stripped of leverage, Britain with few cards left, focus shifting elsewhere—is consistent with that structural reading rather than pure late epiphany.

 

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[broken_clock]

There’s a White House photo from a couple of years ago when all the Euroweenies had to fly to DC and be present for something President Trump did unilaterally as if to bask in the reflected glory of Trumps decision.

[butlerweave]

Con Man Carney of Canada is crying . Just as he’s imposing the WEF, World Enslavement Forum on Canada and destroying the country with it

[motor_racer]

To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with the Green Agenda is that eventually you run out of other peoples’ oil and gas.”

[Regulator]

The Ukrainian oil/gas fields in the Black Sea were the hole cards.

As long as they could be exploited by US/British oil companies, EU/Britain would have supply and Russia would be shut out from the revenue stream.

Putin understood how he was being cutout of the game and went in. You guys aren’t gonna take what’s been ours for 1000 years!

And they will stay in the fight forever. Remember Stalingrad. It’s a matter of national existence for them.

A deal coulda been made a long time ago. But no, that wasn’t allowed. They didn’t think Pooty Poot would pull the trigger.

[Tench_Coxe]

This article isn’t going to sit well with a certain bunch plaguing FR.

[tlozo]

Lol, Susan Kokinda is a Lyndon LaRouche nutjob.

Susan Kokinda is a long-time political organizer and author associated with Promethean Action, a movement founded in 2024 by former Lyndon LaRouche collaborators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuHds9qR9pE

[catnipman]

there’s nothing “over” ...

as reported elsewhere:

“While details on the new NATO working group are still vague, it follows the threat of rewarding some at the expense of others.

Colby has held two similar meetings with invitees Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. The countries involved in the meeting — known as the Bergen Group format — insist it’s not meant to rupture the alliance, said a diplomat from one of the invited nations, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Instead, the group intends to come up with ideas it can bring to the full alliance for more stress-testing.

“This can be an engine for transformation,” for the whole alliance, the diplomat said. The person acknowledged that some allies are frustrated by the exclusion, especially since many have hit or surpassed the spending targets demanded by the Trump administration.

The U.S. might add Denmark to the exclusive club next given the agreement reached between the two countries to expand the American military footprint in Greenland, according to another person familiar with the planning.

Colby, who has been the catalyst for the initiative, held a first meeting of its kind in Bergen, Norway, in June and invited the six favored allies. “NATO allies that are rapidly meeting their Hague spending commitments, have the scale to contribute, and are ready to get down to practical business,” he wrote on social media after the meeting.”

[Tench_Coxe]

And I am not disappointed....

[delta7]

Which also means the end of the Ukie war, broke busted disgusted EU can’t finance their war against Russia, Amen.

[ansel12]

Is that the people supporting President Trump’s side in the war or supporting Russia and North Korean combat forces?

[Wilderness Conservative]

Looks like the City of London has been the man behind the curtain for a long time. In the Game of Thrones even the Lannisters knew the Iron Bank ruled all kingdoms.

[quantim]

Well done!

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "There’s a White House photo from a couple of years ago when all the Euroweenies had to fly to DC and be present for something President Trump did unilaterally as if to bask in the reflected glory of Trumps decision."

Actually they -- including the "coalition of the willing" types -- were there to lobby President Trump to "do something!"

Poland's Tusk spilled the beans:

“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: X, 2 March 2025

[Widget Jr]

Spending a little time, say, five minutes, to check out a story or person before posting has benefits.

https://x.com/SusankokindaQ_2

"American political organizer and commentator • Promethean Action • American System advocate • Student of Lyndon LaRouche • Independent."
"Michigan, USA t.me/SusanKokinda11 Joined August 2026"

First, Promethean Action and LaRouche means who is running this channel is a Larouche supporter first, Republican second.

Second, Looking her up online, she is a member of the Michigan GOP in Michigan is not a Trump insider in Washington DC. Trump and his closest people speak for him and no one else. I think that has been kind of obvious for a few years now.

Third, Since she is a Vice Chair in the Michigan GOP, starting a X account like this spamming LaRouche conspiracy could get her fired for cause. She has been in political activism long enough to know this.

Fourth, this looks like a fake X account running older or AI enhanced videos.
Case in point, this is from March, and it is being posted today.
And this looks like another fake AI account, becuase no one has the same repetitive movements and hand gestures for several minutes like that.

She has her own facebook account, and none of what is on that account matches the LaRouche spam on this X account, which makes this X account look fake.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "...Kokinda is a long-time political organizer and author associated with Promethean Action, a movement founded in 2024 by former Lyndon LaRouche collaborators."

Worth noting, Also worth noting that RFK Jr was a Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard as well, and as to whom you call a "nut job," the GOP disagrees.

Michigan GOP web site -- "Susan Kokinda serves as the Coalitions Vice Chairman for the Michigan Republican Party, a role dedicated to building powerful bridges between the party and diverse interest groups across the state. With decades of experience in political organizing and policy advocacy, Susan is a strategic leader focused on uniting Michiganders under the banner of conservative principles and economic revitalization.

As Coalitions Vice Chairman, Susan specializes in developing partnerships with business leaders, faith-based organizations, and civic groups. Her work is centered on expanding the party's reach by highlighting how Republican policies—such as fiscal responsibility, energy independence, and educational freedom—directly benefit various sectors of the Michigan community. She is a staunch advocate for restoring the “American System” of economics, focusing on strengthening Michigan's manufacturing, infrastructure, and agricultural foundations." More....

Coalitions Vice Chairman for the Michigan Republican Party

So, not a libertarian. Nor a Democrat today. A Republican. Campaigning for President Trump's aims. Unlike libertarians and Democrats....

[broken_clock]

Thank you. Yes, that was the tone of that meeting.

[Colt1851Navy]

Trump is now prime minister of Earth, making a shambles of the WEF.

[chuck allen]

Is she wrong?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Third, Since she is a Vice Chair in the Michigan GOP, starting a X account like this spamming LaRouche conspiracy could get her fired for cause. She has been in political activism long enough to know this."

An interesting point. Should you wish to get her "fired for cause," there are many links on the Michigan GOP website, that you may make official complaint. Here are some names to whom to write, from the website itself:

Alternatively, you could email -- admin@mi.gop. It would be informative to hear what response the Michigan GOP makes to your complaint.