EM Burlingame wrote this article on Twitter. I will be quoting it.
First, he defines the present form of the Globohomo faction of Empire.
This conflict is driven by what I term the Financialist Regime. This refers not to the British people, but to the specific institutional nexus of commodities pricing, debt-finance, maritime insurance and related market interests embedded in London's core—the spiritual and operational successor to the Bank of England chartered in 1694. This regime prioritizes the monetization of naval risk and chaos over the stability of maritime commerce. Global flashpoints—from Iran's reimposed control of the Strait of Hormuz to naval blockades and energy strikes in the Black Sea—aren’t isolated geopolitical spats. They’re symptoms of an unresolved schism.
This is the Bankster Syndicate.
They run, like all organized crime syndicates, on racketeering and vice. Globohomo does this at scale.
The Financialist regime's control of the Isles manifests as engineered instability at the world's critical sea lanes. The Strait of Hormuz today is only the latest chapter in a four-century pattern: threaten closure, spike the price of energy and insurance, collect the premium, and—crucially—manipulate the markets that depend on the free flow of goods.
The pattern was institutionalized in 1694 when the Bank of England was chartered specifically to finance William III's naval wars against France. This turned the Royal Navy into a permanent debt-financed instrument of extraction. By the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the regime's post-imperial pivot was complete. Unable to hold the canal by force against Nasser, London shifted its strategy from controlling the chokepoint to profiting from the volatility of its closure.
One family in the syndicate controls one party in a chaos operation. Another controls the counterparty. Lloyd's of London runs the Numbers Game they call Insurance and, like all casinos, The House Always Wins.
"What do you mean?"
Since most of you are sufficiently cultured anime weebs, you know of The Sky Crawlers and its use of cloned teenaged pilots in private mercenary companies to conduct war by proxy for entertainment. Chaos Ops are not that different. One group (Intel agent front) controls PMC A, one controls PMC B, but both are part of the syndicate and feed their intel to the Bosses who fix the Numbers Game to guarantee profits uncountable deposited in accounts untouchable.
I'm using this movie to show you in terms many of you comprehend how this op works because it includes fixed news media, tight information and narrative control, and (via the clone trope) how the syndicate views military personnel as disposble widgets to be liquidated as soon as their utility is spent.
Replace betting on the outcome of a battle with assessing risk and raising/lowerig insurance premiums and you have how the racket works- especially if that insurnace is mandated in order to function in maritime commerce at all.
Now apply this same racket to the cartels in the Americas, to their Asian counterparts, and you see the context of Americam military and law enforcement/Intelligence actions since the turn of the year- and you can see how this same chaos op template can be used for anything else subject to insurance premium manipulations, or similar manipulations, and compare this against what the Thralls serving Globohomo say and do.
This is not the full context of EM's article; he's explaining this in light of a wider objective that needs to happen for victory to be made complete. Read ths article, and see why Empire is over.
