March 18, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Economist, in a March 16 article, “Trump v The Spies of Five Eyes,” with the kicker, “Will the President damage the world’s most powerful intelligence pact?” conveys the severe angst gnawing at the British oligarchy and the City of London financier elites. The international Five Eyes network that the British Empire has used for more than three-quarters of a century to ensnare the United States is potentially coming apart, and that would leave Britain without a critical element of control.
The article attempts to bear a tone of objective, detached assessment, but loses it when addressing U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel.
The Economist opens: “On March 2nd Tulsi Gabbard, America’s director of national intelligence, accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, of seeking a third world war ‘or even a nuclear war.’ Ms Gabbard has a long history of conspiratorial and pro-Russian views. Her former aides say that she routinely read and shared propaganda published by RT, a Kremlin mouthpiece.”
Later, with regard to Patel, the article avers, “Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, has spent years endorsing wild conspiracy theories. His decision to shred the bureau’s leadership and focus on crime ‘bodes poorly for U.S. counterintelligence,’ notes Chris Taylor, an Australian intelligence official currently with the ASPI think-tank in Canberra.” So, The Economist uses an Australian intelligence member of the British Commonwealth to smear Patel.
