President Trump publicly rejected Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and criticized NATO for refusing to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, arguing both reflect a long-running “Great Game” strategy centered on energy choke points and instability.
Susan Kokinda says these moves follow Trump’s December National Security Strategy, which prioritizes avoiding “forever wars,” preventing adversaries from dominating Middle East energy routes, and making choke-point leverage obsolete through American energy independence.
She highlights administration comments that Israel “doesn’t hate the chaos” while the U.S. wants stability, and notes shifting U.S. political dynamics as figures in both parties question allies who won’t contribute.
Kokinda points to new U.S.-Japan agreements - more than $60B in U.S. natural gas investment, $40B for small modular nuclear reactors, and deep-sea critical minerals cooperation - as the model for a new, nation-to-nation strategic architecture.
Chapters
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Intro
02:06 What Is Driving Trump's Break With Israel, NATO, and London
04:22 NATO's COWARDICE
08:43 The Japan Deal — What the New World Looks Like
Snapshots and Notes
Two days ago, President Trump doubled down on his disagreement with the Israeli attack on Iran’s South Pars oil field.
When asked if he had talked to Netanyahu about the attack, he said this...
“I told him, don’t do that.
“And he said, we’ll do that.
“But on occasion, he’ll do something.
“And if I don’t like it, and so we’re not doing that anymore.”
The president of the United States just told Israel no, on camera, at the White House.
And within 24 hours, he took on NATO with this post...
Israel and NATO slapped down within 24 hours - one for its military action; the other for its complete lack thereof.
But both serve the same master.
Britain’s great game strategy was to keep the Middle East in perpetual turmoil, controlling the world economy through energy choke points.
Donald Trump is done playing that game.
But if you’re trying to make sense of this by following the media, mainstream or otherwise, good luck.
Is the U.S. being run by Israel, as Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson claim?
Is the world economy in chaos?
Has Trump been caught flat-footed, in the straight, or by Iran, or by our so-called allies?
Here’s the real deal.
Donald Trump laid it all out last December in his National Security Strategy [link], and he is executing that policy with absolute precision.
When the National Security Strategy was released last December, Susan Kokinda was among the first to highlight its importance, having spent decades studying how U.S. foreign policy was subverted by British imperial thinking.
Here’s what she is going to cover in this episode...
First, what’s driving Trump’s break with Israel and NATO, and how the NSS explains every move he’s making.
Second, how the New Deal with Japan signals what comes next.
What Is Driving Trump’s Break With Israel, NATO, and the City of London (02:06)
Going back to what Trump said about Israel and NATO this week.
Trump blasted Israel for bombing the South Pars gas field in Iran, which triggered Iranian retaliation against Qatar’s LNG facility.
Here’s what Trump said...
He then threatens Iran against further retaliation.
But he stresses,
Both Israel and Iran, in the same post, on notice, stop attacking energy infrastructure.
That is not standard American presidential behavior.
That is a president whose interests don’t align with either party in that conflict.
Then Axios spelled out what’s really going on with this headline…
A White House official told Axios bluntly,
‘Israel doesn’t hate the chaos, we do; we want stability, Netanyahu, not so much, especially in Iran.’
That sums it up.
Chaos is the operating principle of the great game, and Trump just said it, out loud, that his partner in this war has different objectives than he does.
The President,
the Secretary of War,
DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard,
have all made that clear.
And Trump has said it more bluntly and publicly than any American president since Eisenhower in the Suez Crisis.
So ask yourself,
Who benefits from the disruption of oil supplies in the Middle East?
This has been the fulcrum of Britain’s great game for more than a century, using a volatile Mideast and its vast oil supply as a point of economic blackmail.
Iran and the forces of regional chaos have been key assets in this game, and so has Israel, certainly under Netanyahu.
NATO’s COWARDICE (04:22)
That brings us to NATO…
Trump called out their foot-dragging on the Strait of Hormuz and called it exactly what it is: cowardice.
The mask is off: NATO and its overlords in the City of London are perfectly happy to keep wars going in Ukraine, and rattle sabers at Russia and China, but won’t lift a finger to keep open the shipping lanes their own economies depend on.
NATO is the enforcement arm for perpetual conflict, not collective defense.
And the same goes for the City of London itself, whose insurers triggered the initial shutdown through financial mechanisms rather than military ones.
Seven emails from City of London-based insurance clubs and tanker traffic dropped to zero.
Yesterday (Fri, 20 Mar), the president updated the state of play with this new truth.
He said, ...
So, what’s really going on here?
Go back to the national security strategy released in December and see how Trump laid this out in black and white.
archive (opens in our library)
First, he identifies the problem directly…
And then he names the solution: American energy independence,
Thus making the whole choke point game obsolete…
And then this…
Did you catch that last word?
Israel - listed on equal footing with our other Gulf partners,
Not special, not exceptional.
Very similar to the Truth Social post above, which placed Israel alongside the Gulf states in terms of United States protection.
A partner, among others, whose interests the United States will work with when they align and push back against when they don’t.
Anyone who read the National Security Strategy would understand exactly what this administration would do when Israel went rogue on energy infrastructure.
(In other words, download it and read it OFTEN…)
You’re watching the national security strategy in real time.
And something remarkable is happening as a result.
The political consensus that protected the old framework inside America is starting to crack.
Lindsey Graham, the neocons’ neocon, and one of the Senate’s most reliable defenders of NATO for decades, is now on record saying that allies who won’t contribute will face consequences.
And even Democrats are questioning NATO, as this Hill headline indicates…
That is a new political space, a space that Donald Trump deliberately created.
The Japan Deal — What the New World Looks Like (08:43)
So while political support for the empire’s assets crumbles, Trump is building a new strategic architecture.
And that new architecture took a step forward with the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Takeichi.
President Trump once again identified the vulnerability of nations that are totally dependent on the choke-point strategy and explained why the U.S. is different...
“I hear they (Japan) get more than 90 percent of their oil through the Strait.
“So that’s a big reason to step up.
“We get none, practically.
“We’re less than 1%.”
[For the record: the U.S. less than 1%, Europe 14%, and Asia 80% of their oil comes through the Strait of Hormuz.]
He’s describing how imperial systems have controlled the world by making nations dependent on key nodes of control, whether geopolitical, like the Strait of Hormuz, or financial…
Japan is incredibly dependent on the Strait.
Japan needs Hormuz-proof energy.
America has Hormuz-proof energy to sell.
So look at what the Commerce Department announced…
Massive Japanese investment totaling over $60 billion in U.S. natural gas production…
So Japan is investing in American jobs.
America will be producing energy that they can count on.
Two sovereign nations making a deal based on their actual interests, not an imposed globalist superstructure, but yesterday’s agreement between the United States and Japan is even bigger.
Beyond the natural gas investments, Japan will invest $40 billion to build small modular nuclear reactors on American soil.
Think about that.
The empire hasn’t only controlled nations through geographical and financial chokeholds.
The green ideology throttled mankind’s development of nuclear power, keeping the world reliant on foreign fossil fuels or worse, medieval technologies like solar and wind.
And now that chokehold is being broken, too.
And there’s more.
Cooperation on deep-sea critical minerals that could, by some estimates, meet centuries of industrial demand, breaking the rare earth chokehold in a single bilateral deal.
This is what the national security strategy means in practice.
Not managing the choke points, replacing them, breaking them.
Nation by nation, deal by deal, technology by technology.
Now the empire sees it - that’s why NATO, Lloyd’s of London, and Israel don’t want economic stability in the Mideast.
The Empire understands exactly what Trump is doing, and they’re fighting for their survival.
But this week in the same 72 hours, Trump showed you both sides of that fight simultaneously.
Trump is not improvising; he wrote it down in December.
He named
the choke points he was targeting
the alliances he is redefining, and
what the alternative looks like
And this week, with two social Truth posts, one Japan summit, the other on the Axios headline from inside his own administration, he proved he meant every word.
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