March 6th, 2025 -- Fireside Chat w/ Cliff Kiracofe

A series of political earthquakes seem to be coming every day, especially since Zelenskyy’s ill-fated meeting with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, where Trump had said flatly to the Ukrainian dictator, “You are gambling with World War III.”

Since that meeting, President Trump has canceled all military aid to Ukraine, a decision which has panicked the trans-Atlantic establishment in Europe who are dead set against any kind of peace talks with Russia, and are now doubling down on militarizing their countries. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called for €800 billion to “rearm Europe,” which cannot possibly work given the fragile budgets of the European economies.

A shattering of the old order—based on Unipolar dominance, endless wars, and sanctions—is clearly coming to an end. However, those that are in most panic are the British imperial elites, who have been the leading actors in manipulating great powers to fight each other since the untimely death of President Franklin Roosevelt.

The conservative British imperialist David Starkey, known for his racist, pro-colonialist views, revealed his view of the Trump/Zelenskyy dust-up in a recent interview given on March 2nd.

Starkey said, “The world in which we thought we lived, in which most of my lifetime we’ve lived, which is a world of the so-called ‘Rules-Based International System’—RUBIS—has shattered…. Exactly three years ago, on the day that Putin invaded, I predicted the end of RUBIS. I predicted the fact that we are going to move into a world which looks very much like the terrible world outlawed by George Orwell in 1984, in which there are great, permanent blocs of the world. He outlined Oceania, which is ourselves and America; Eurasia, which is, essentially, an enlarged Soviet Union; with an uneasy southern hemisphere. And it’s something like that.

“We now have the combined power of Russia and China, we have the so-called BRICS, with India, with South Africa, with Brazil. We have the Anglosphere, all now in extraordinary competition with one another. We’ve moved back from that world of the United Nations, into something like 19th century great power politics…. We’re back in the world of Palmerston.”

Is the intention by the British Empire to keep the world divided by “great power” blocs, who are constantly at odds with one another in a new, 21st Century “Great Game”?

That is not how we view a “multipolar” world order, which would be more correctly identified as “polyphonic,” where nations work together for the common good of each other, and whereby a new, security and development architecture can be established among equal, sovereign nation-states. That coheres with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative, Global Development Initiative, and Global Civilization Initiative, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a joint European security architecture in a speech he gave to the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) on Feb. 27th.

The old order is collapsing, but let us not collapse with it.