In the first 10 days of 2026, the United States under President Donald Trump has militarily attacked, or threatened to attack, Venezuela, Syria, Somalia, Nigeria, Colombia, Cuba, Iran, Greenland, and the state of Minnesota in the U.S. itself. Washington was also complicit in Kiev’s attempt to assassinate Russian President Putin with a 91-drone assault last Dec. 29—leading to Russia’s second use of its awesome hypersonic Oreshnik missile system. Trump has also announced plans to increase the U.S. annual defense budget by 50%, from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion.
Imperial overreach, anyone?
Washington’s campaign of global “Schacht and awe,” deadly and dangerous that it is, is nonetheless standing on feet of clay—two of them, in fact.
The first is that the London-centered Western financial system is beyond bankrupt. It responded to its 2008 blowout, when global financial instruments (including derivatives) totaled about $1.5 quadrillion, not by trying to resolve the underlying problem, but by further inflating the speculative bubble up to $2.1 quadrillion today—a 40% increase.
The Western financial Establishment’s only “plan” for dealing with the onrushing systemic collapse is to revert to the tried-and-true methods of… Adolph Hitler’s central banker, Hjalmar Schacht. Schacht was actually vetted and put in place by City of London bankers, and the gameplan then—and again today—is to massively increase military spending, deploy that military in wars of conquest and looting (yes, the Auschwitz model), and in that way try to prop up their cancerous speculative bubble.
It won’t work. The dollar-based financial system is about to blow out again, regardless, wiping out their underlying power-base in the global economy. Will the majority of the world’s nations and their people respond to this blowout by introducing a new financial system to ensure development? Will the American people, and Europeans, realize that their self-interest lies in putting Wall Street and the City of London through bankruptcy reorganization, freezing the $2.1 quadrillion cancer, and joining that growing global alternative of great infrastructure projects and general welfare?
That is not guaranteed; but it is a live option.
The second clay foot is the underlying concept of Man behind the imperial overreach. They are relying on convincing the world that British philosophical hitman Thomas Hobbes was right: that Man is nothing but a beast, and that the natural state of society is of “war of every man against every man.” And Hobbes added, most importantly, “To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.” Thus, the need for a Leviathan to impose order by sheer force and terror.
Taking a page from Hobbes, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller proclaimed in a Jan. 5 interview with CNN: “We live in a world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.”
Worse, the occupant of the White House, President Donald Trump, told The New York Times Jan. 8 that the only thing that could potentially limit his global powers was “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me… I don’t need international law.”
But is Hobbes’s Satanic concept of Man and society true? Is it consistent with the known laws of the physical universe?
The 15th century Golden Renaissance proved otherwise. So did the 19th century German classical period, as did the American Revolution itself. On this 250th anniversary of that Revolution, the overreaching, collapsing London-centered empire once again has much to fear—if we organize to make it so.
