Fireside Chat April 17, 2025

Four months into the Trump Administration, the world is confronted with a wave of chaos. There is a struggle within the Trump Administration, particularly around its commitment to restore its relations with Russia. The same is reflected in the “war-no war” split in the Administration on Iran.

Nations attempting to “find order” in the Trump Administration’s approach to policy making are baffled, but what is certainly undeniable is Trump’s efforts to normalize Russian-American relations, in the midst of the erratic, hawkish responses by the trans-Atlantic establishment in Western Europe. Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz, for example, has insanely doubled down on his intention to send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine. The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has responded, stating that, in the event of a NATO-backed attack against Russia, damage would certainly “be inflicted on the entire NATO bloc.”

The President and his team, however, have a major cultural flaw—they are being soft on the poisonous “special relationship” with Great Britain. Those British forces, as well as their cronies in Europe, are absolutely determined to decapitate his Presidency. They intend to give Trump the “financial regime change treatment” former Bank of England head turned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke about in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 2019. They may use the collapse of the financial markets, as partially referenced by several unfriendly City of London-linked media publications. Vice President J.D. Vance, in his April 14th interview with the British publication UnHerd, showed the Administration’s susceptibility to British seduction when he said, “(Trump) admires and loves the King. It is a very important relationship. And he’s a businessman and has a number of important business relationships in [Britain]…. And of course, fundamentally America is an Anglo country.”

Contrary to that view, the United States was founded as the polar opposite to unbridled Anglo-Dutch imperialism in the late 18th Century. The drive to end all forms of colonialism and financial looting is embedded in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution—especially its Preamble—and was later manifested in economic form by Alexander Hamilton’s four reports on a National Bank, the constitutionality of such a bank, public credit, and the need for manufacturing. In the War of Rebellion against the British-sponsored Confederacy, President Abraham Lincoln had reaffirmed that commitment by Hamilton to end slavery and British imperialism.

This is the mission of the May 24-25th Schiller Institute conference, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” To realize that vision, we need a new global security and development architecture that takes into account the existential interest of every single nation on the planet. American-Russian relations, damaged almost beyond repair in the Biden years, are the first step to making that vision reality.