Barbara Boyd argues that most commentary on the Middle East misses the economic dimension: after U.S. energy independence, Trump is targeting the City of London’s long-standing influence over global energy pricing.
She cites Trump’s Truth Social warning to Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, subsequent negotiations, and a five-day extension, contrasting media reactions with what she calls City of London and Wall Street interests.
Boyd says Britain is facing an economic emergency as energy and borrowing costs surge, while Gulf states shift trillions in investment toward the U.S. and a “Board of Peace” focused on development and modern energy.
She claims the true Hormuz chokepoint is London’s marine war-risk insurance, noting that Lloyd’s cancellation led to an 81% collapse in traffic, and frames current events as a struggle between empire and sovereign nations.
Chapters
00:00 The Monday Brief - Intro
02:14 The City Is Bleeding
05:58 The Real Chokepoint
08:45 Bitter Lake to Mar-a-Lago
Snapshots and Notes
All the armchair generals on social media miss the big picture in the Middle East because they don’t understand economics.
Donald Trump has made the United States energy independent.
Now he is out to break the city of London’s centuries-old control of the price of energy, and with it, their power over the world’s economy, including our own, by force if necessary.
Here’s what he posted Saturday night on True Social…
That put all the key players on the line.
The delusional Iranian government and the 23 nations that have pledged to defend the Strait of Hormuz now have a deadline.
The 23 have begun moving assets into the region.
The Iranians had to come to the table.
The media, of course, went hysterical.
The Financial Times relied on the International Crisis Group, a Soros-funded globalist think tank, to declare that the world is headed to, quote, catastrophic disaster as a result of the president’s tweet.
link (paywall) / PDF (no archive available without a FT subscription)
This morning, he announced that Iran was at the table and productively negotiating.
He extended the deadline by five days.
The press is all mouthpieces for the City of London and Wall Street, and the City of London is in the deepest crisis in its history as a result of the president’s actions.
Barbara Boyd has followed the globalist great game ever since 1971, when the modern petrodollar British financial empire was born.
Today, she’ll first take up three stories...
The City Is Bleeding (02:14)
While everyone was debating Trump’s tweet, the City of London declared an economic emergency.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called an emergency cabinet meeting with Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey to address soaring energy costs, which are hitting British households very, very hard.
Government borrowing costs surged past 5% Friday for the first time since July 2008 - remember that date, the Lehman Brothers crash?
That was the beginning of the last great financial crisis.
One cabinet source told GB News there is, quote, "deep gloom" in both the Treasury and Number 10 (the official residence and office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom).
The modern British Empire can’t survive without the US military enforcing its strategic goals, and it can’t survive without Gulf oil states parking their wealth in London.
But those states are moving their money to Trump’s United States and have joined his Board of Peace to end the region’s permanent religious warfare.
Gulf governments have pledged $4 TRILLION in investment to the U.S. since Trump returned to office.
The UAE alone reaffirmed this $1.4 trillion commitment this week.
And they’re all in the Board of Peace, aiming to economically develop the Middle East along with nuclear and other modern energy resources.
Starmer’s paralysis in this circumstance is so obvious that it became a global joke on Saturday night.
Saturday Night Live London mocked it.
Trump posted this clip to his Truth Social...
Europe is also suddenly confronting the consequences of two catastrophic British imperial projects, Green Energy and Ukraine.
Here’s Belgium’s Prime Minister, Bart de Wever, breaking openly with the entire EU last week...
And on Ukraine?
This is the entire post-war imperial architecture cracking at the seams simultaneously because of decisions made in Washington over the past 60 days, which takes us next to the transformation nobody in the media is covering.
Here is what the armchair generals are missing entirely.
Iran did not close the Strait with a naval blockade.
It fired a handful of drones.
And that was enough.
Because the real choke point is not the strait.
The real choke point is the City of London’s insurance and oil pricing monopoly.
Lloyds of London has operated for 337 years and sits at the apex of the world’s war risk marine insurance market.
Without that insurance, the ships don’t move.
In every prior crisis, the eight-year Iran-Iraq tanker war, the 1990 Gulf War, the 2012 standoff when Iran threatened to close the strait, Lloyds ne’s never canceled war risk coverage.
They raised premiums, but the ships kept moving.
The Real Chokepoint (05:58)
On March 2nd, for the first time in 337 years, they canceled.
Straight traffic collapsed 81% in a week.
And Chatham House, the City of London’s own imperial foreign policy think tank, tells us why…
link / PDF (website does not permit archiving)
They say that the continuing Iran war shows the Gulf states that they, quote, should no longer rely on America for security guarantees.
The deliberate attacks on the Gulf States by Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by the City of London’s insurers are meant to drive the Gulf States back towards London’s orbit.
They’re also an obvious economic attack on the president’s economic progress here at home ahead of the critical midterm elections.
And London has tried to destroy Trump’s candidacy at every turn, starting with MI6 agent Christopher Steele and Russiagate.
Until recently, the British also controlled world energy geography.
Take the Strait of Hormuz as an example.
It is 39 kilometers wide at its narrowest.
Iran controls the north.
The southern shipping lanes run through the territorial waters of Oman.
Oman is the living residue of the British Empire.
In 1970, MI6 engineered the installation of its sultan.
Today, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) runs three signals intelligence bases in Oman - Timpani, Guitar, and Clarinet - intercepting everything passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
British intelligence listens to every ship that moves through the world’s most critical energy chokepoint from bases in the country whose government it installed.
And as we all learned recently, the announced but very invisible new Iranian leader has over 130 million in London real estate.
That’s typical of the old order.
Now this has happened before.
Bitter Lake to Mar-a-Lago (08:00)
On February 14th, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt stopped at the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal and received King Ibn bin Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy.
In 1970, MI6 engineered the installation of its sultan.
Today, GCHQ runs three signals intelligence bases in Oman - Timpani, Guitar, and Clarinet - intercepting everything passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
British intelligence listens to every ship that moves through the world’s most critical energy chokepoint from bases in the country whose government it installed.
And as we all learned recently, the announced but very invisible new Iranian leader has over 130 million in London real estate.
That’s typical of the old order.
Now this has happened before.
On February 14th, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt stopped in the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal and received King Ibn bin Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy.
He did it secretly without telling Churchill.
Afterwards, Roosevelt told Congress these exact words...
Churchill was furious.
Roosevelt had promised him that the U.S. would not interfere in the British sphere of influence, and he deliberately broke that promise.
His translator, Colonel Eady, recorded that Churchill…
Churchill rushed to meet Ibn Saud himself.
The contrast was devastating.
Ibn Saud told Edie…
Churchill’s meeting failed, and the U.S.-Sani relationship has flourished ever since.
Ibn Saud’s discussion of Roosevelt is very similar to how the Gulf states now describe Donald Trump.
So let’s see what we have here.
Summary
Roosevelt started to cut out the imperial middleman and world energy production in 1945.
By 1971, the City of London had reinserted itself.
America became the military muscle behind a resource-looting system whose profits flowed through the City of London and Wall Street.
You cannot have a genuine American economic revolution or real sovereignty if someone else is setting the price of energy.
The Treasury Department has increased the supply of oil and gas worldwide in the last two weeks by
unsanctioning Russian oil
unsanctioning certain Iranian oil, and
securing agreements to release reserves
Not only that, Iran is allowing tankers to remain for India, China, and Japan, Iran’s main customers.
So the Strait is not physically closed;
oil supplies are safe, but it is financially closed by the city of London
and its desperate effort to remain alive as a world power.
We don’t know the outcome because it is a war, and the side war is running at a higher level than Barbara has ever seen it, but we can know the principles the president is fighting for.
And those principles make this a just war, which we have to win.
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