Susan Kokinda

We weren't destroyed after the Civil War.

Lincoln, despite

his assassination in 1865 had set into motion the revival of the American system of political economy.

By the time we had the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, we were the wonder of the world in terms of what we were doing with industry and so on.

So what did they do?

They started assassinating our presidents and then they started corrupting our institutions.

So by the time of the turn of the 20th century, you have the British explicitly

outlining people like Cecil Rhodes and the Rhodes Scholarship or the British Roundtable, explicitly saying we have to bring the United States back under our way of doing things.

So that for most of the, for all of, almost all of the 20th century, not all of it, but for a large part of the 20th century, we were the dumb giant to their policy.

So they don't have to be strong.

they don't have to have a strong military in fact the um uh house of lords just published an extremely important report where they review the u.s british relationship and um

They also premiered it at Chatham House, which is their, you know, primary think tank.

And a number of the Lords were very, very clear that we have benefited by this system that we set up, but this system only exists because the United States enforced it.

They say that.

Yeah, that's the report, or that's the Chatham House report.

forum, which was just last week.

But throughout, they admit, we couldn't enforce this system without the United States basically doing it for us.

So they don't have to be strong.

They just needed us going along.

And especially with President Trump's second term, they ain't getting it.