Atlanticism

And the reason I think that this is basically going to stick...

What's happened with Trump is basically going to stick is that the Republicans have been completely purged of this Atlanticist.

It's more than Atlanticist.

It goes way further back than that.

It's this link that was made between the British diplomatic and foreign policy and the Americans after 45 before, arguably, but we don't need to go into the history around the time of formation of Chatham House, in my opinion.

The Jews would be on the side of the West in some sort of a conflict with Eurasia.

It could be a kind of a geopolitical base and outpost for the Atlanticist power block establishment.

It could be a powder keg that you could always use as an excuse to police the region.

The British Empire had all kinds of motivations as to why they wanted the nation state of Israel to be set up.

Those are Anglo inventions.

That's Atlanticist philosophy twen- turn of the 20th century.

Uh, uh, American and English men are looking out at the world and they're seeing what we've come to inherit and they're like, "Oh my God, what the f- what the hell do we do about all this?" Um, and I think there was m- some kind of attempt to, to, to shepherd in a new vision of the individual that could You know, protect the white race, to protect white people, to protect America, to protect England, the British Isles, to protect political sovereignty in European nations, so on, to protect the Constitution.

I mean, these kind of...

Like, if you were the consensus, you were, you were, you were brainwashed.

You were just, uh, spouting kind of like this newfangled liberal social ideology that had no popularity, really, or history prior to the Second World War.

So, um, the, the, this consensus was the meeting of, you know, the dying Atlanticist empire and this surge of European migration into the West, uh, of a very particular type of Europe, European from Russia, maybe the Pale, somewhere over there.

Um, and they, they met in the middle.

Maybe it can be partially true, but still I think that even in Brussels they are increasingly aware that Europe and the European countries cannot rely on the United States so much or so heavily like in the past.

And of course, one part or one aspect of this recognition is higher investment in defense and military capabilities, it's undoubtedly true, but it's not necessarily motivated by by the idea of Atlanticism or France-Atlanticism.

It's just a reaction to the reality that it's obvious that the United States are not so much interested in Europe anymore and they want to focus more on Asia-Pacific and the American or the Western Hemisphere, and Europe is not so important for them anymore.

And this is the natural reaction, how to maintain or continue, let's say, maybe exclusive or very high-level cooperation between the United States and Europe.

So when I first came into government with, uh, David Lammy after Keir Starmer won the, uh, election in the summer of 2024, I got to experience several months of British foreign policy in the old mode.

And that old mode was a deferential Atlanticism that looked towards Washington as the confederator of the West, listening to allies, taking their ideas on board, and being the, the steward of the West's collective challenges, of which Israel-Palestine is obviously a longstanding issue, a longstanding thorn in our side, and, uh, the challenge of Putin's war in Ukraine.

What that looked like was London looking to Washington as the place where its geopolit- political answers could be found, and our relationship with other allies, could be Canada, or it could be Australia, or it could be France, or it could be Germany, it could be the UAE.

Mm.