UK’s leading establishment figures are gung-ho promoting World War III. What’s behind the agenda? Last October I published an article titled “Britain’s secret diplomacy and European wars,” exploring the role of Britain in bringing about both of last century’s World Wars and contributing to the current escalation in Ukraine.
To be sure, we are not talking about action of the British people or the legitimate institutions of their government, but rather about a secret cabal that has operated through British secret diplomacy and intelligence agencies in order to pursue the imperial agenda for the benefit of the City of London banking cartel and to the detriment of everyone else.
The driving force behind the war-making
This cabal has been, the prime mover behind many of the conflicts around the world and which has defined the aggressive British foreign policy over the last few centuries. But this fact is seldom discussed in the media and shielded from any public scrutiny. Even in Britain, few are aware of the fact that since the end of World War II, the UK has launched more than 83 military interventions in 47 nations around the world.
Of course, the reason for this is not because the British people enjoy sending their children off to war. Instead, there’s a dynamic at the core of the British financial and political system that incentivizes an aggressive foreign policy conduct, and this dynamic is revealing itself again today.
The reluctant war escalators
It is increasingly clear that Russia is prevailing in Ukraine and that she will soon be in position to dictate the terms of peace. That much has dawned on many leaders around the world, who are now calling to de-escalate the conflict and cease pointlessly prolonging Ukraine’s agony. Such calls have come most notably from Argentina, Brazil, Hungary and Croatia, but also from within many western nations.
According to several insiders including Colonel Douglas MacGregor, many Pentagon generals are now voicing serious reservations about further involvement in the conflict. Even the notorious RAND Corporation, which was the leading advocate in provoking the current conflict, has recently had a change of heart. They just released a study titled, “Avoiding a Long War: U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict,” where they point out that an extending the conflict in Ukraine would not benefit the U.S.: “U.S. interests would be best served by avoiding a protracted conflict.”
Britain’s gung-ho World War III promotion
At the same time however, the British establishment has gone on offensive to call for escalation and even direct confrontation with Russia. Former PM Boris Johnson flew to the United States this week to meet with key Republican leaders in Congress and to urge for “Western unity and support for Ukraine and what more can be done against the threat Russia poses.”
Conservative MP and UK Defense Committee Chair Tobias Ellwood gave an interview to Sky News to promote the idea that, “we are now at war in Europe, we need to move to a war footing. We are involved in that, … we need to face Russia directly rather than leaving Ukraine to do all the work.”
The same Tobias Ellwood recently called for construction of a massive weapons factory in Poland, the project that is already being developed. UK’s former Defense Minister, Sir Gerald Howarth also spoke to Sky News to suggest that NATO should go into Ukraine, “boots on the ground,” because Ukraine must win the war.
Only a few months ago, British Army chief, General Sir Patrick Sanders told the troops that they must prepare to fight Russia in a potential World War III conflict on the European continent.
Is UK’s Russia derangement syndrome incurable?
London calling for war on Russia from London has been consistent for years now. In April 2021, well before Russia invaded Ukraine, influential British think tank, the Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) was calling for Europeans and NATO to confront Russia militarily. The report’s authors argued that there would have to be a “joint and public recognition that Europe is under attack, and that allies must stand together to confront it.”
In 2018, in his first interview after being appointed chief of the British Army, General Mark Carleton-Smith told the Daily Telegraph: “Russia today indisputably represents a far greater threat to our national security than Islamic extremist threats such as al-Qaeda and Isil.”
This irrational, seething hostility toward Russia has been one of the unyielding constants of British foreign policy going back more than two centuries. Even at the end of World War II, when the USSR was formally an ally, and which did most of the heavy lifting in defeating Hitler’s Nazi Germany (which included 27 million casualties), this hostility remained intact. In his famous Fulton speech, delivered in the presence of US President Truman in March 1946, Winston Churchill declared the USSR as the enemy of the west.
Where are the anti-war voices?
To be fair, we have warmongers in virtually all western governments today. However, in most nations, there are significant divisions within the political spectrum and relatively strong anti-war factions. It is important to note, there is and always has been a visceral opposition to war among the British people. However, they are being systematically silenced, intimidated and marginalized by the pro-war establishment. The former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been effectively sidelined and replaced with pro-war Sir Kier Starmer. Other anti-war voices must struggle to be heard at all.
A gathering of leading public voices planned an event to be held at the Conway Hall in London on the 25th February this year (you can find them here on Twitter: @No2NatoNo2War but further to overwhelming pressure from the pro-war establishment, Conway Hall shocked the organizers by cancelling the event. Among the speakers who were slated to participate were Craig Murray, Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Max Blumenthal, Chris Williamson, George Galloway and many others. These leaders would certainly draw a very large crowd, and hopefully will, in another venue. Clearly, the anti-war sentiment is there, as it always has been, but the establishment would rather you not know about them and not hear a word they have to say.
The real war is people vs. the banks, and it is now
To prevent another great war from breaking out in Europe, we must clearly identify the prime movers behind the escalation of hostilities and their motives: they are the networks of the empire’s vested interests, and the ultimate beneficiaries of war and subjugation of other nations. When we trace the system of incentives that catalyzes wars all the way to their origins, they almost invariably lead to the international banking cartel.
The fact that Britain is host to the financial parasite that is the City of London, and that she is culturally and incurably hostile to Russia is not a coincidence. British establishment’s obsession with fighting Russia is today the most dangerous force facing humanity, capable ultimately of ending it. As Lord Acton said, “The issue that has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
Related to the above, last year I published an exhaustive report about the shocking role of the British foreign policy establishment, led by PM Neville Chamberlain in managing the Czechoslovakia crisis which lead to the “Appeasement” and the 1938 Munich treaty. The story’s VERY different from what they taught us in school. You’ll find the article + video at this link: “Appeasement: the shocking truth about the 1938 Munich agreement.” You shall know them by their deeds.
Alex Krainer – @NakedHedgie is the creator of I-System Trend Following and publisher of daily TrendCompass reports.