A young nation, born in the fire of revolution against the very British Crown that once taxed it without representation, declares to the world its fierce independence. George Washington, in his Farewell Address, warns his fellow Americans like a wise old uncle: steer clear of permanent alliances and foreign entanglements. Stay neutral, trade freely, and let the people prosper through voluntary exchange — not the schemes of distant kings and their courtier bankers. Sounds like common sense, right? No rulers picking winners with other people's blood and treasure.
Britain’s Globalist Trap: A Cautionary Tale of Empire, Bankers, and Betrayed Principles
Fast forward, and that same nation finds itself twice dragged into European meat grinders, propping up fading empires, and eventually morphing into the world's policeman with a fiat dollar empire. How did the land of the free get suckered into globalism? The answer lies not in grand destiny, but in libertarian class analysis: the powerful—statist elites on both sides of the Atlantic, colluding against the everyday producers who mind their own business.
The Post-Revolution Hangover
After kicking out the Redcoats in 1783, America was a scrappy, decentralized experiment in liberty. Minimal government, sound money (often gold and silver), and free trade where markets, not mandates, decided winners. The British Empire, however, never fully accepted the loss. Their ruling class — aristocrats, bankers in the City of London, and industrialists — saw the colonies as a resource to recapture through subtler means. No more red coats; think influence operations, favorable trade deals that masked dependency, and whispers in elite salons.
America's early leaders mostly held the line. Washington's wisdom and Neutrality Proclamation kept them out of Old World squabbles. But cracks appeared as American merchants profited from European wars, and certain Northeastern bankers and manufacturers smelled bigger opportunities in aligned interests with London.
The Great Suckering – World War I Edition
Enter the 20th century. Europe descends into the madness of 1914. King George V declares war. Britain and its allies are bleed cash and men fighting the Central Powers. American public opinion? Overwhelmingly "not our fight." Why bleed for kings and empires when you can trade with all sides neutrally?
Cue the British elite masterclass in manipulation. They flooded American media with propaganda — stories of German atrocities that were often exaggerated or fabricated. More crucially, they leveraged financial ties. J.P. Morgan and other Wall Street houses had massive loans out to the Allies. If Britain fell, those loans went bust. So the bankers, the most powerful of the ruling elite (those who thrive on state privilege), lobbied hard for intervention.
President Woodrow Wilson, that progressive centralizer who gave us the income tax and Federal Reserve (a cartel enabling inflation and war finance), campaigned on keeping us out... then reversed. The Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare... these were real issues, but framed through a lens that ignored how British naval blockades and their own deceptions played in. America enters, tips the scales, and bails out the Allies.
What did the average American get? Doughboys in graves, a massive debt bill, and the seeds of the welfare-warfare state. The British? They survived, but their empire was cracking. The real winners among the powerful: the Anglo-American financial and political class who deepened the "special relationship" — code for America subsidizing Britain's interests.
War is the health of the state: It centralizes power, prints money, and creates dependencies that free markets wouldn't tolerate. The people pay in blood and taxes, while the connected elites reap contracts, influence, and rescued investments.
The Sequel – WWII and the Full Globalist Pivot
The interwar years saw America try to snap back. The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s reflected public war-weariness. But history rhymed. British intelligence and elites worked overtime to pull America in again. Wiretaps, planted stories, fake polls, funding interventionist politicians — classic deep state tactics to shift opinion.
FDR, no fan of strict constitutional limits, maneuvered aid to Britain while promising peace. Lend-Lease, cash-and-carry that heavily favored the Allies, and eventual full entry after Pearl Harbor (with plenty of foreknowledge debates). America industrializes the Allied victory, but at what cost?
Post-1945, the suckering reaches its peak. Bretton Woods, the IMF, World Bank, NATO, the dollar as world reserve currency—these weren't organic free-market evolutions. They were engineered systems where America took on the role of global stabilizer, largely to British design and benefit initially, then to a new Anglo-American establishment. Britain, exhausted, handed off the imperial baton while keeping influence through shared language, finance (think Rothschild and Morgan connections), and think tanks.
Free markets? Undermined by managed trade, capital controls, and inflation-exporting via the dollar. Neutrality? Forgotten in a web of alliances that drag the US into endless conflicts. The common producers — farmers, workers, entrepreneurs — fund it all through taxes and inflation. The statist class — bureaucrats, defense contractors, central bankers, and connected politicians — thrive on the revolving door between Washington, London, and New York.
The Moral of the Story
This wasn't some inevitable march of progress. It was elite capture. British aristocracy and bankers, facing decline, partnered with American counterparts who preferred cartels and empire to cutthroat competition. The people got conscripted, the Constitution stretched, and sound money abandoned for fiat funny money that funds forever wars.
From our view, true liberty means voluntary association, private defense (if needed), and radical decentralization. No "national interest" that conveniently aligns with banker profits or political glory. Washington's neutrality wasn't isolationism — it was anti-imperial realism. Trade with all, alliances with none.
Today, as America groans under debt, endless commitments, and cultural erosion from globalist projects, the lesson bites harder. The Brits didn't "conquer" us with armies; they helped seduce our own elites into building a managerial empire that serves the powerful, not the productive.
Break the spell. Question the special relationship. Demand sound money, free exchange, and a foreign policy that treats the state as the dangerous monopoly it is... not as some benevolent world savior. The common many against the ruling few: that's the real revolution that never ended.
The powerful always prefer managed decline and shared spoils over genuine liberty. Recognize the pattern, reject the suckering, and build parallel systems of voluntary cooperation. The empire's clothes have always been thinner than they admit.
