World Wide Regime Change
President Trump's Pax Americana leads our politicians & commentators to blather on about Ukraine, Venezuela, Palestine and now Greenland, and shy away from Iran and our own nation's security.
A diasporan Iranian demonstrates in support of family and friends back home.
2026 started with a big Maduro bang! The extraction of the Venezuelan strongman indicated the White House’s determination to establish Pax Americana in the western hemisphere. It also sent a message to all Central and Latin American leaders, as well as to Canada and even Denmark, regarding the USA’s acquisition of Greenland. The Cuban communist leaders are probably packing their suitcases and checking their Swiss bank accounts.
For this is an American President in a hurry. He has three more years before he steps down, and intends to have completely refashioned American foreign and domestic policy with his MAGA imprint, ensuring the changes he makes are lasting. His legacy secured as one of improved security, peace-making, prosperity, and a lasting feel-good factor, with economic success for his political proteges, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, to run on.
To do this, he is facing down a putative anti-ICE insurrection in Minnesota, as he drives through record deportations of illegal immigrants, usually with major criminal rap sheets. The robust defence of the ICE agent who shot a leftist activist as she ignored requests to exit her vehicle and instead spun her wheel whilst driving into the officer reflects the learning that President Trump has done since the antifa disrupted later stages of his first term. He has also exposed the multibillion-dollar fraud in the legal Somali communities, and we can anticipate mass deportations to follow.
But the main domestic priority is the American economy, and the feel-good factor for the ordinary American Household by getting gas prices well below the already much reduced $2.50 per gallon (the UK equivalent price is $6.73!), see through the agreed Tax cuts, promote job creation and reasonable wage inflation, and use tariff receipts to introduce radical pro-household interventions amongst average Americans.
Despite all the negativity in the mainstream media, the US economy was growing at an annualised rate of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, the fastest pace in two years (in the UK and Germany, it was around 0.3%), and this is well on the way to generating an American feel-good factor before the run-in to the midterms.
On the international stage, Pax Americana will involve over-the-top praise, occasional homey persuasion, but, where necessary, sharp rebuke and even leadership, though not necessarily regime change. Yes, there may be further targeted arrests or extractions, and the Ayatollahs are cowering, expecting imminent targeted bombing. Still, there is no appetite for boots on the ground disasters, such as the Iraq insurgency.
This robust American stance carries on from the Biden era, after all, the unnecessary Ukraine war was a key component in the neo-con strategy to overthrow Vladimir Putin. Those keen on a “rules-based global order” did not say a word when Victoria Nuland “predicted” the Nord Stream pipeline would be blown up. Today, the German economy is crawling out of a two-year recession, and its manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors are considering relocation. Germany’s GDP has just risen to 0.2%. Putin has also gone quiet, recognising that his own room for manoeuvre will be contracting, particularly if oil prices fall.
In the Middle East, the festering protests in Iran since last autumn have now taken on a genuinely revolutionary aspect as all sections of Iranian society, ethnic and religious minorities, the Bazaar merchant class, the rural and urban educated young are all aware of what is going on in the outside world, increasingly united in a desire for a once in a life time radical change after over a decade of record high inflation of 35-45%.
The recent major military IDF and USA-inspired setbacks for the Regimes’ proxies: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen, culminating in the US bombing of the Iranian nuclear enrichment locations, and the collapse of the currency, the Rial, have sapped the morale of the Islamic security state.
Arabic-speaking Shia militias, withdrawn from Iraq and Lebanon, are deployed in the streets of Tehran, shooting protesters, whilst outside of the capital, most urban locations are out of the regime’s control, and much of the economy, water supplies, and policing have completely broken down.
The decision by the president not to bomb strategic targets last week was to allow Israel time to prepare for any retaliation. The USS Abraham Lincoln will arrive in the region this Thursday, and other heavy military logistical and armed air and naval capabilities are rendezvousing with plans for coordinated attacks on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard strongholds and other fortifications, which should herald the collapse of the regime.
A key theme of President Trump’s second term was the endless performative declarations by UK and EU leaders in defence of one failing strategic project after another. They convened, dined, and press-released and scolded the president, usually out of immediate earshot. They cling to their fetishes: Zero Carbon economic suicide, Free movement and mass illegal immigration, the pretentious Coalition of the “Un” willing perpetual war in Ukraine, all of which have been explored elsewhere.
Europe lacks the resources and economic growth to sustain tax receipts to pay for its huge welfare bills and defence dependency on the USA, or to escape its economic subservience. Except for a handful of leaders, nothing can escape EU-UK conformity.
The recent desperate visit of Mark Carney to China to meet with Chairman Xi was extraordinary. Bear in mind that President Trump intervened in Canadian politics to precipitate the resignation of Justin Trudeau and then ensure Carney, not conservative Pierre Poilievre, won the election. He wanted Carney on the receiving end and is now hammering the Canadian leadership intentionally and working openly to encourage Alberta and potentially other Canadian provinces to secede.
Increasingly, the Anglosphere, the European Union, the UN, and other global institutions seek to project power through quasi-judicial rulings and the selective use of international law. But they are utterly dependent on the USA to impose “their new world order”. The USA has abruptly changed its policies, and the EU and UK are still reeling.
The lack of military and coercive means to impose their rule on anything other than a disarmed, law-abiding public, and their desperation to restrict access to Elon Musk’s X, demonstrate the panic setting in. Let us not forget that during the credit crunch, the EU was noticeable for its crackdown on Greece, Ireland and Italy, the German economy was dominant, and the likes of Wolfgang Schäuble, the then German Finance Minister, appeared to rule over the Union.
Trump is not being rude and unreasonable for no purpose; the goal is a brutal lesson in realpolitik, which will result in the disruption and resignation of globalist leaders and elected presidents and prime ministers, as they seek to avoid their acute unpopularity with their electorates. These are all signs that a worldwide regime change is coming
Recently, the BBC commentators have been mincing around in defence of the sovereign rights of Nicolas Maduro, who is widely accepted to have stolen the last Venezuelan election. Meanwhile, the disembarking bogus boat asylum seekers in the UK and the hordes pouring into the continent are the real existential threat. J.D. Vance and President Trump repeatedly point to this fact, and this is destabilising the political complacency in the EU and NATO. The problem is that the criminal migrants are significant beneficiaries of the rules-based system on which the human rights industry flourishes.
And then we have Greenland. Denmark, we are told, is standing up for the plucky Greenlanders against the Trump administration. However, the Danish Government ran a secret decades-long forced sterilisation programme for the indigenous population until as late as 1990. Where are the denunciations of this Danish genocide?
The same EU governments and British Remainers, many of whom are now in the Labour government, who supported the half-annexation of Northern Ireland, are open to the annexation of Gibraltar regardless of the islanders’ desire to remain British. The Labour Government, after it betrayed the residents of the Chagos Islands’ right to self-determination, is now standing up for the 50,000 Inuit Greenlanders’ right to self-determination.
Underlying the hysterics and the Deep State mixing desk manipulations is the President’s actual use of real geopolitical power to unleash a new philosophical and political strategy. The goals vary but include defending Western values, keeping the prosperity for the majority of the population at the forefront, reducing and partially reversing mass net migration, particularly illegal immigration, and deploying tariffs, international policing, and targeted military action by the Administration to reconfigure the global economy and geopolitical spheres of interest. The speed and decisiveness of his actions and those of those who served in his White House have not been seen since the post-war settlement or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This new international stars-and-stripes colour-revolution-like destabilisation of many elected governments and the sclerotic proportional representation political caste across Europe, who have no military capacity, severely weakened economies, and are locked in a Euro straitjacket, is partly payback time after many of the same countries looked on or supported the colour revolution in the US that eventually stole Trump’s second term.
The more President Trump praises you, the more likely it is that your influence and political career will be foreshortened. The UK and the EU have deployed vast amounts of their meagre political capital to prevent a negotiated peace deal in Ukraine and second-guessed or undermined the USA policies in multiple geopolitical zones.
Virtually all of the political leaders’ electoral terms will conclude, or, like Kier Starmer, will likely be ousted from office, long before President Trump leaves office. President Trump does not have time for the quintessential EU bureaucracy’s negotiation of minutiae that drags on for years, if not decades. He wants a deal within months, but ideally weeks. If Europe won’t protect itself from mass inward unverifiable, particularly Islamist invasion, the US may well make it a condition of its continued participation in NATO.
There are a few UK politicians or commentators who can do much more than posture on the Trump phenomenon. The centre-right still lives under the shadow of Thatcher, or wishes to return to the EU. The independent right-wing influencers are currently going through their own Fuentes Zoomer Zombie moment, inviting Steve Laws onto their podcasts and YouTube channels to reprise his Nuremberg Laws-like remigration purity test.
At the centre of the problems is the inability to see the method in the Trump alleged madness. The focus on the issues that concern their electorates would be a good start: energy costs, job opportunities, managing AIs rollout, access to the housing market, reducing the cost of university education, reducing all crime, ending the war on the petrol car and ditching zero carbon entirely, genuine remigration of those that wish to spread gangsterism real misogyny and crime and above all stop posturing about part of the world we have no real control over.
The self-determination rights of the Greenland Inuit are as much a concern for globalist EU leaders as the Chagossians, Gibraltans, Northern Irish, Basques, or eastern Russian-speaking Ukrainians, for that matter. This is to say they are of no concern, unless there is something they can extract from the freezing island. But they have now become the rallying point for “Danish decency” and the reinvention of old-world-order colonialism.
This is performative. Rather than the UK and EU leaders grapple with their own fundamental problems and crises of policy, and engage President Trump, they pick stupid battles over Greenland– Trump has called their bluff by threatening tariffs, and they will back down. The press is now talking of a Suez crisis. None is facing the underlying issue: Trump wants ownership of a key asset in “his” hemisphere, with no doubt a much better deal for the Inuit. He does not want perpetual negotiations with Nato minions who talk but cannot deliver security in the Arctic.
The Danes want to use the USA’s military protection via NATO membership to exploit rare-earth minerals opportunities for the EU, and who would they be selling to if not the USA? Well, Mark Carney just got back from a meeting with President Xi. No doubt the self-determination rights of Uyghurs in Xinjiang or the Tibetans featured in their bilateral “New World Order” plans. Yet again, the hypocrisy knows no bounds.
President Woodrow Wilson’s Right of Nations to Self-determination was the price the USA exacted for its intervention in the First World War. It was designed to break down the very traditional powerhouses of nominal Christian culture, the long-standing empires and protectorates of Europe, the conservative, powerful, at times militaristic but often majestic European West, which is now a legacy of magnificent buildings and not infrequently hollowed-out parliaments. That was Wilson’s plan.
I should not pick on Tim Stanley - he has head girl Camilla Tominey to do that - but the twists and turns, strained historical analogies, and veritable spinning compass of his recent opinion piece on the UK’s relationship with America and Greenland contain such a succession of moving and contradictory premises that it borders on being incoherent. He concluded with the following observation:
“But until we Europeans wean ourselves off America, not just militarily or economically but psychologically, we really cannot function without it and will always surrender. It has dominated us for a long time; we’ve only noticed since the empire that pushed out investment suddenly started to suck it back in, a phenomenon that, again, is not unique to Trump. Joe Biden used subsidies and tax breaks to re-shore jobs in the US, away from the continent.
The irony is that alternative, more benign American political traditions do exist. Still, they’ve always been dismissed by Europeans as naive or dangerous because they wouldn’t bankroll our defence: libertarian among the Republicans, socialist among the Democrats. If only we’d had President Ron Paul or President Bernie Sanders. Greenland would go unmolested.”
So, we are to wean ourselves off Pax Americana, but immediately commit ourselves to plucky Greenland, which in turn means we have to summon up a new, more benign (sic) fantasy American presidential option to protect said plucky Greenland, Ron Paul, who was soundly defeated by John McCain and later Mitt Romney in successive Republican presidential nominations and a libertarian no less - the quintessential individualistic American cultural offer that Stanley spends previous paragraphs identifying as the problem - Or the corrupt opportunist, communist fellow traveller Bernie Sanders. Really?
Whilst I assume the last paragraph was supposed to be ironic, it just exposes how crass and disassociated the UK conservatives are from the reality of the actual American political spectrum, but also, therefore, the reasoning behind the Trump agenda. Should we wish to distance ourselves from America, we have to accept that the whole global regime that deploys rights for Greenland and takes them away for Chagos, also has to go as well. We will have to put the little back into Little Englander and sort out our own country.
Trump and his Vice President lambast the EU for the abandonment of free speech, capitulation to climate change, hypocrisy on Russian Oil, freeloading on their military defence, and wilful prolongation of the pointless Ukraine war that they rely on others to fund, fight and die for.
Trump will no doubt issue a clarion call at Davos to dispense with failing policies and posturing and set about making their own countries great again. He will show how this can be done and opportunities for joint prosperity, but in a hurry. There will be some bullying and conniving and no guarantees, but also an example of how to actually reverse mass uncontrolled illegal immigration, how you stand up to and eventually face down the deep state agencies, how you seize the AI agenda, etc., etc. Meanwhile, Stanley will be handing out Greenland flags.
Those virtual failed states and antagonists of the US in the Western hemisphere, particular the Bay of America, but also Latin America as a whole, formerly reliant on China, Russia or Venezuelan oil or even Papal endorsement (Bolivia), will also see radical leadership change either via the ballot box or changes in political consensus as Pax Americana and its tariffs sweep across the continent. The success of Argentina’s Javier Milei reforms will attract the attention of other nations’ voter blocs.
More trade, more jobs, more construction, more profits, more tax, more opportunities for the private sector, less interest in leftist populism in favour of a pro-American economic model. The painstaking Chinese creep across Africa and Latin America will be reversed.
Rather than debate the way forward amidst the possible strengths and challenges of this unfolding Pax Americana. And indeed, virtually everything Trump is saying must change is obviously the right prescription for the UK; our media remains entrenched in the previous globalist “rules-based” liberal transatlantic regime, where countries can talk about Neo-Con goals whilst deploying no resources to their achievement.
The European Union, Britain and Canadian leaders are like puppies in a sack, sinking to the bottom of an icy post-Christmas lake. No longer worth the cost of dog food to a disenchanted American owner. It looks increasingly unlikely that the puppies can hold their breath long enough for the Democrats or a RINO to win the 2029 Presidential election. Despite their most fetid dreams, it is unlikely that the Trump juggernaut will lack domestic momentum as the home economy ramps up in time for the midterm elections.