FINANCIAL TIMES: UK FACES WORST AND LONGEST RECESSION IN G7.
DESPITE THIS, THE AUTHORITIES INTEND TO CONTINUE SPENDING BILLIONS OF POUNDS ON ARMS DELIVERIES TO KIEV.
WHY IS THERE TALK IN LONDON
THAT BRITAIN IS IN DANGER OF BREAKING INTO SEVERAL COUNTRIES
IF UKRAINE IS DEFEATED?
[VO] In February 2023,
US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
published an article alleging that the US Navy and Norwegian military
sabotaged the Nord Stream.
[VO] Washington called an allegation a lie and a hoax.
[VO] Who, then, was behind this sabotage?
[Richard] Nord Stream 1 and 2 were destroyed by Great Britain,
by their operatives,
and it was done at the direction of the United States.
[VO] This is retired US Marine Colonel and former Virginia State Senator Richard Black.
[VO] He believes the German authorities are deliberately withholding information
about the masterminds behind the sabotage.
[Richard] So, Great Britain had accomplished the task that was set out for it by the United States.
[Richard] The United States and Great Britain are very much partners in this.
[Richard] I don't mean to suggest that Great Britain is sort of a
vassal state, they are not.
[Richard] They're decision-makers just like we are.
[Richard] They carried out probably the greatest terrorist attack since 9/11.
[VO] But if London and Washington did blow up the Nord Streams,
what was their motive? And can it be proved?
WITH ANNA CHAPMAN RED ALERT | BRITISH ROULETTE
[VO] After Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine,
London pulled out all the stops to help Kiev.
[Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, 2019-2022]
[Johnson] The UK became one of the first countries in Europe
to send defensive weaponry to help the Ukrainians.
[Johnson] We will do what more we can in the days ahead.
[VO] Meanwhile, Britain itself is suffering severe economic problems.
[Roman Steck, Londoner] Please come in.
[Roman] I’ll show you how I keep it warm.
[Roman] These two radiators here, one of them is switched off
just to save me some electricity.
[Roman] The other one is warm.
[Roman] But I’m only keeping that to the bare minimum, not putting the dial up,
because it’s going to use so much more energy.
[Roman] So I’m gonna show you my meters for electricity and gas.
[Roman] They’re downstairs at the… So they’re right here.
[Roman] They go so fast now, it’s just really annoying.
[Roman] One of them belongs to my flat, the other ones belong to my neighbors.
[Roman] You really, you know what you wanna do.
[Roman] You just wanna slow it down and roll it back,
because you just don’t want it to go forward.
[Anna] When I was a little girl, I adored Britain
[Anna] I thought it was a land of noble gentlemen,
old traditions, and general prosperity
[Anna] And now, Britain is learning what we did in the 1990s,
turning meters backwards
[Anna] Electricity bills in the UK are now so high
that they're even being featured as game show prizes
[Presenter] Thousand pounds or energy bill…
THIS MORNING SHOW, ITV NETWORK, SEPTEMBER 2022
[Presenter] It’s your energy bill!
[Caller] Oh my God, thank you!
[Presenter] We are paying your energy bill for 4 months.
[Caller] Oh, fantastic!
[Anna] Of course, for all of 2022,
politicians blamed the UK's economic crisis on Russia
[Anna] Treasury Chief Jeremy Hunt even called on UK residents
to cut energy use to 'beat Putin'
[Anna] Why is such a powerful and influential country paying such a high price?
[Anna] What do regular Brits think?
[VO] Roman Steck moved to Britain from Israel more than 20 years ago.
[VO] He says life in London has changed drastically over the past year.
[Roman] I’m here next to the pizza place.
[Roman] It used to be buzzing, you know, it’s Sunday night.
[Roman] Look at how many people are… Half of it’s empty.
[Roman] People can’t afford to eat in the restaurants anymore.
[Roman] People have to buy and eat at home.
[VO] The Guardian reports that millions of people
now skip meals due to the high cost of food.
[VO] And according to the Food Foundation charity,
one in five British households
was food insecure as of September 2022.
[Roman] Every budget supermarket has the shelf where you can buy reduced items.
[Roman] It used to be quite embarrassing for people
to actually pick those items before, and now it’s no longer a taboo.
[Roman] People are actually queuing up to grab those deals.
[Roman] All the prices are going up every month.
[Roman] You will notice it easily
that before, you could walk out of the store
spending maybe ten-fifteen pounds,
and you’d carry two massive bags full of groceries.
[Roman] You walk out now, you carry a tiny little bag.
[VO] At the end of October 2022,
annual inflation in the UK scored at over 11% -
the highest rate in 41 years.
[Roman] Liz Truss literally almost broke down the entire British economy.
[Roman] We now see the results of what she has done,
we see it every day.
[Roman] We see it every day, and things just are not getting any better.
[VO] Liz Truss only lasted 45 days as prime minister.
[VO] Could it be that her successor,
Rishi Sunak, will set things right?
[Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister] Mistakes were made.
[Sunak] And I have been elected as leader of my party
and your prime minister in part
to fix them.
[Sunak] And that work begins immediately.
[VO] But for some reason, the new prime minister's priority
was not to solve Britain's problems.
[Anna] After less than a month as PM, Rishi Sunak went to Kiev
[GEO] KIEV, NOVEMBER 2022
[Sunak] This year alone we have provided 2.3 billion pounds
of military support
and we will do the same again next year.
[GEO] KIEV, AUGUST 2022
[Johnson] More artillery, more ammunition is on its way, and two thousand UAVs.
[Johnson] We’re also training ten thousand Ukrainian soldiers.
[Anna] Although the UK swapped prime ministers twice in 2022,
British foreign policy remained unchanged
[Anna] Why, rather than fix its own problems,
does London devote its efforts and billions to support Kiev?
[Vladislav Telichko, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy] Before Prime Minister Johnson began to visit Zelensky,
as if it was a weekend at his dacha...
that's pretty much what the head of MI6 had been doing
[Telichko] He'd go secretly, and then, sometimes,
they'd let the public know that he'd gone incognito for a meeting
[Telichko] Zelensky gave him tasks, and so on
[VO] Many in Russia and the West
believe Britain is not just supporting Ukraine -
it is directly involved in planning and carrying out acts of sabotage against Russian targets.
[VO] London is set to be involved in three operations:
explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines,
the blowing on the Crimean Bridge,
and the drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol.
[Andrey Vedyaev, Intelligence Historian, Writer] About the events in Sevastopol Bay,
when there were drone attacks, Defence Ministry briefings
said that, indeed, British instructors and other specialists
had been visiting the 73rd Special Operations Detachment,
which is stationed in Ochakov, near Nikolaev
[Vedyaev] And they have all the gear needed for that
[VO] The attack involved seven kamikaze naval drones.
[Telichko] Britain's MoD officially confirmed that they'd handed over the first batch
of underwater combat drones under an agreement with Ukraine
[Telichko] They can remotely approach a dam
or the piers of any bridge
[Telichko] If necessary, they can even leave a beacon
to guide a zero-buoyancy underwater charge
[Telichko] The same agreement covered Kamikaze drones
[Evgeny Mikhaylov, Journalist, Political Scientist] We saw the attack on...
Sevastopol
[Mikhaylov] And in fact, they recently revealed correspondence from Liz Truss,
who practically admitted that they had blown up the Nord Stream pipelines
[Richard] Nord Stream 1 and 2 were destroyed by Great Britain.
[Richard] But the proof came about
because the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time, Liz Truss,
broke radio silence and she sent a text to the United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken,
and this was sent just a minute after the detonations went off under the sea,
and it's simply said: ‘It's done.’
[Richard] That was the cryptic word: it's done.
RUSSIA SEEKS US RESPONSE OVER TRUSS’ 'IT’S DONE' SMS TO BLINKEN AFTER NORD STREAM BLASTS.
'IT'S DONE': DID LIZ TRUSS CONFIRM THE NORD STEAM EXPLOSION WITH A TEXT MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON?
'IT'S DONE': DID LIZ TRUSS TEXT ANTONY BLINKEN AFTER NORD STREAM ATTACK?
RUSSIA TO UK: EXPLAIN TRUSS’ 'IT'S DONE' TEXT AFTER NORD STREAM BLAST.
[GEO] WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 2022
[Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State] It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all
remove the dependence on Russian energy
and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin
the weaponisation of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.
[Blinken] That’s very significant
and that offers tremendous strategic opportunities for the years to come.
[VO] In early February 2022
US President Joe Biden publicly promised to destroy Nord Stream.
[GEO] WASHINGTON, DC, FEBRUARY 2022
[Joe Biden, US President] - There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2, we will bring an end to it.
[Journalist] And control of the project is within Germany’s control.
[Biden] We will… I promise you, we’ll be able to do that.
[VO] British journalist Keith Klarenberg
has spent several months researching
London's role in the war in Ukraine.
[Keith Klarenberg, Investigative Journalist, the Grayzone]
[Kit] I mean Nord Stream-2 had Britain's fingerprints all over it again.
[Kit] It tallies very, very heavily
with the leaked documents the Grayzone reported on,
which detailed these wide-ranging plans to,
yes, you know, equip and train the Ukrainians to carry out sabotage.
[Kit] Mere weeks before Nord Stream-2 was damaged,
the Royal Navy was formally giving the Ukrainians
training in deactivating mines, using underwater drones.
[Anna] Can we trust The Grayzone? [Vedyaev] Of course, it's...
a website run by a fairly well-known journalist, Max Blumenthal
[Vedyaev] His father was an adviser to President Clinton
[VO] Grayzone journalist Keith Clarenberg
has investigated another terrorist attack against Russia.
[VO] He managed to obtain sensational documents
indicating British intelligence was planning to blow up the Crimean Bridge
as early as April 2022.
[Kit] This is how the relationships map.
[Kit] So, Chris Donnelly is at the centre, he is part of SGMI.
[Kit] Guy Spindler consulted SGMI,
SGMI is tied to the 77th brigade,
which has existing relations with the Ukrainian security services,
as does Chris Donnelly.
[Kit] The 77th brigade played the key part in training.
[Kit] Chris Donnelly is perpetually at the centre of this web.
[Vedyaev] He was principal adviser to the NATO Secretary General...
on Russian matters
[Vedyaev] After he retired from that body,
he set up a number of institutions, or 'think-tanks',
which are effectively a front for intelligence centres
[Vedyaev] And it's believed that the whole policy
of NATO eastward expansion was his initiative. He lobbied for it
[Kit] In April, Donnelly contacted a close associate of his named Hugh Ward, a British Army veteran.
[Kit] And asked him to concoct, you know,
blueprints for attacking Crimea,
attacking Russian interests,
carrying out sabotage missions and other kind of incendiary activities.
[Kit] The centerpiece, the cornerstone of this was a plot to blow up Kerch Bridge.
[Vedyaev] He sent three options to him
[Vedyaev] To strike the bridge piers with cruise missiles,
or use divers,
or drones
[VO] These documents contain details of a plan to blow up the Crimean Bridge.
[Kit] These are the proposed impact sites here.
[Kit] The authorities in Kiev issued a commemorative posting stamp
which showed the destruction, the attack on the bridge.
[Kit] Actually, it was made very very quickly.
[Kit] It was available within hours of this happening.
[Kit] Now, in the posted stamp,
the explosions are depicted there and there, which is not what actually happened,
but this is exactly what Hugh Ward proposed.
[Kit] So, is that just a coincidence?
[VO] But why would Britain explicitly provoke war with Russia?
[GEO] LONDON, APRIL 2022 The war in Ukraine is our war.
[VO] Liz Truss said this in April 2022,
while she was still Foreign Secretary.
[VO] And it is not just a figure of speech.
[Andrey Shkolnikov, Geopolitical Expert, Political Scientist] Ukraine has, in fact, now been given to the control of British secret services
[Shkolnikov] So, for the Anglo-Saxons, the British are in charge there
[Shkolnikov] Britain runs all projects
[VO] Even the exact moment of Ukraine passing from one handler,
the US, to another, Britain, is cited.
[VO] Strange to say, it was a Ukrainian journalist
to report on this. In November, 2021.
THE TRANSFER OF UKRAINE TO BRITAIN WAS FORMALISED IN EARLY 2021,
WHEN THE G7 AMBASSADORS TO UKRAINE
WAS HEADED BY BRITISH AMBASSADOR MELINDA SIMMONS.
[VO] Shortly before Russia launched its operation in Ukraine,
rumours of British plans to create a mini-NATO emerged in the West.
UKRAINE, UK, POLAND ANNOUNCE SECURITY PACT AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS
[GEO] KIEV, FEBRUARY 2022
[Truss] I’m also proud together with, to be true,
to be launching our new trilateral partnership
with Poland and Ukraine.
[Elena Ananyeva, PhD, Head, Centre for British Studies] On February 17, 2022, it was announced that there'd be an alliance
between Britain, Poland, and Ukraine,
with further plans to include the Baltic States
[VO] The initiative was announced on Twitter by the UK's Council on Geostrategy.
[VO] The post had a map on which the three countries
were connected by arrows,
Russia and Belarus were marked as hostile states.
[Viktor Savenkov, International Affairs Journalist] There was a popular analogy
suggesting that the UK is the brain of this organism,
to conceive military operations,
subversions, and plans to counter Russia
[Savenkov] Poland is the heart that strengthens the single organism
that's fighting Russia
[Savenkov] Indeed, Poland is home to all the main supply depots,
training bases for mercenaries and Ukrainian troops,
and repair shops
[Savenkov] Ukraine is the arms with which the West is fighting Russia
[VO] But why did England need this alliance?
[VO] Mikhail Khazin, a Russian economist and author of the theory of the global financial crisis,
believes the conflict in Ukraine
was organised to destroy the European economy.
[VO] A process launched 9 years ago.
[Khazin] It was summer of 2014, there was a big conference in Berlin
[Khazin] I looked out at the crowd and said:
'Gentlemen!
[Mikhail Khazin, Economist, Originator of the Global Financial Crisis Theory]
[Khazin] You know a crisis is coming? For you, the only way to minimise it
is new external markets'
'Yes,' said the audience
[Khazin] 'Do you know that two markets right under your nose that you can exploit
are Russia and the Arab world?
[Khazin] To ensure you didn't get into Russia, they... You've done this to yourselves!
[Khazin] Your Steinmeier dumped Yanukovich, and you've lost Russia as a result!
[Khazin] War in Ukraine, as we've discovered,
is a tool the US is using to destroy the European Union
[Khazin] And, to prevent you from having too strong...
a friendship with the Arab world...
the Eurovision song contest was won by a bearded woman
[Khazin] You may or may not consider that to be normal,
but for a Muslim, it's haram, it's unacceptable
[Khazin] So they made you, the whole EU, look like savages to the Arab world
[Khazin] And, for that reason...
you'll have problems getting into Arab markets. You've been played!
[Khazin] Do I point fingers?'
[Khazin] That's it, then there was stony silence
[Khazin] 800 people, and no one said a word for 2 minutes
[VO] According to Bloomberg,
Europe’s losses from the conflict in Ukraine
and the sanctions will amount to at least one trillion dollars.
[VO] In 2022, inflation in the eurozone
averaged 10%, exceeding 20% in some countries!
'I AM NOT GOING TO SUGAR-COAT IT:
2023 WILL BE TOUGHER THAN 2022.
NEXT WINTER FOR EUROPE MAY BE EVEN HARSHER THAN THIS WINTER'
KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
[VO] At the end of December,
Sunak urged European leaders
to ignore any calls from Russia for a ceasefire
until it withdraws its troops from Ukraine.
[VO] Economist Mikhail Khazin
believes strongly that the British politicians need this war to continue,
it’s the only way London might… restore the British Empire.
[Khazin] The only way to restore the British Empire
is to destroy the EU
[Khazin] Even better, destroy Germany
[Anna] Russian experts are sure,
if London doesn't destroy the EU and its economy,
[Anna] Britain will not only never be great again,
but will inevitably break into a few independent countries
[Anna] When did this begin? What's destroying it from inside?
[Anna] And who'll secede from the UK first?
[Charles Steward, Historian, Scotland] Scotland is a separate country.
[Steward] Nationalistic in the sense that they want their independence.
[Steward] They don't feel that it is right and proper
for England to control their destiny
and this is never going to go away.
[VO] Charles Stewart is a Scottish historian.
[VO] For 20 years he worked in the Ministry of Education
and Great Britain’s Ministry of Justice.
[Steward] Charles Edward Stuart is a famous name
in Scottish history,
it’s the name of Bonnie Prince Charlie,
who led a rebellion against English rule in 1745,
so, it is a proud name in Scotland.
[VO] Stuart points out that the origins of the Scots struggle for independence
go back to the 1st century A.D.
[Steward] Scotland was inhabited by Picts and Celts.
[Steward] And when the Roman Empire came to the United Kingdom,
they could not subdue Scotland.
[Steward] So for their own safety they built a wall.
[VO] The Romans forced out the indigenous inhabitants of the British Isles
out to what is today Scotland.
[VO] And they've been trying ever since to reclaim their land.
[VO] Rome failed to conquer the Celts and Picts.
[VO] It’s why Emperor Hadrian built a 117 kilometres long wall
right across the North of the island.
[Steward] As we know, the Romans left,
and then various other tribes
from Germany and Europe began to cross into England
and establish themselves in England.
[Steward] And it was the Anglo-Saxons
who largely predominated.
[Steward] For a long time, English people saw themselves
as living separately from the Scottish and the Irish.
[GEO] EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER, 2013
[VO] The indigenous population of the British Isles
has been fighting for independence for almost 2,000 years.
[VO] In 2014, Scotland once again tried to break away from London.
[Ananyeva] Cameron...
agreed to a referendum on Scottish independence
for the simple reason that, for many years,
polls had shown that only a third of Scots supported independence
[Ananyeva] But...
2 weeks before the referendum, Cameron was horrified to see
that the share of independence supporters in Scotland
was approaching 50%
[Peter Mansbridge, CBC News Anchor] Scotland has voted to keep the Kingdom united.
[GEO] LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 2014
[Mansbridge] On the ballot, just six words:
Should Scotland be an independent country?
[Mansbridge] With 29 of 32 districts reporting,
44.6% have voted yes and 55.4% have voted no.
[VO] But less than 10 years after the previous referendum,
[GEO] EDINBURGH, JUNE 2016 the Scots are reaffirming their desire to break away.
[Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland] Now is the time for independence.
[Sturgeon] The Scottish government is proposing
that the independence referendum
be held on the 19th of October, 2023.
[VO] London responded immediately with a decisive refusal.
'SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS ACCEPTED
THAT THEIR REFERENDUM WAS A ONCE IN A GENERATION OPPORTUNITY,
AND I WILL HOLD THEM TO THAT.'
[VO] Following Scotland’s example,
another part of the UK, Northern Island,
is rambling about secession.
[VO] Until 1922, all of Ireland was part of Great Britain.
[VO] Just like the Scots, the Irish and the ancestors
lived there long before the English appeared.
[VO] And their lands have been seized by the Anglo-Saxons.
[Igor Kovalyov, First Deputy Dean, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University]
[Kovalyov] Ireland, too, was conquered, and conquered even more brutally
[Kovalyov] And, to the English, the Irish were...
[Kovalyov] Not just to the English, by the way, but to the Americans too
[Kovalyov] Remember 'Gangs of New York'?
[Kovalyov] They were like...
well...
something like white slaves
[Anna] You heard it, Britain enslaved its closest neighbours, the Irish
[Anna] Slavery appeared in Britain
long before black slaves were brought from Africa
[Anna] You'll be surprised but, in the 17th century, an exotic black slave
was worth £50, but a white one, only five
[Anna] Some historians say it was just an employment contract
[Anna] But why did so few live to the end of it?
[VO] Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922.
[VO] Today it's an independent republic.
[VO] However, neighbouring Northern Ireland continues to strive for secession from Great Britain.
[VO] In the 20th century, more than 3,500 people died in this struggle.
[Ananyeva] They had very big problems with their relations,
so, with the involvement of the United States,
in 1998, they concluded what was called the Belfast Agreement,
or Good Friday Agreement
[Ananyeva] And then, the border issue
between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
was easily resolved: it was just open
[Ananyeva] Both countries were members of the European Union
[Ananyeva] But when Britain voted to exit the EU,
it turned out they had to re-establish a border
between the Republic and Northern Ireland
[VO] It still consists of 4 countries. But what is the future of the UK?
[Yakov Kedmi, Former Head, 'Nativ' Liason Bureau] 'Great' Britain will just be England
[Kedmi] If they're lucky,
Wales will remain in the UK, because...
the Welsh are the same Gauls as...
the Irish and Scots
[Kedmi] For Scotland, it's not 'if' it secedes, but 'when'
[Kedmi] It's already a 'cut off' piece
[VO] Brexit caused Great Britain many problems, so what was it all about?
[Kit] Withdrawing from the European Union has been a kind of fringe idea…
a fringe fantasy on the far accesses of Britain’s right-wing,
typically kind of nettling in conservatives who dream of recapturing the Glory Days of Empire,
and believe that they are… within the EU they are subordinate to the interest in Brussels and Berlin, which is true.
[Kit] But I think it was actually one of a core and very little acknowledged driving forces
of Britain’s withdrawal from European Union.
[VO] To exit the EU or to stay?
[VO] The question divided several British political groups of elites about their goals.
[Khazin] Today, if we look at...
the elite groups in London, there are 2.5 of them!
[Khazin] The first is the international financiers, who back the European Union,
who stand behind Biden,
and who, until 2018, controlled Great Britain
[Khazin] Well, you might say that they are people connected with the City
[Savenkov] Members of the second elite group in Britain are the old aristocracy
[Savenkov] Their ambition is to rebuild the British Empire
[Savenkov] And in that, the EU in its current form
and the globalisation we've had for decades since the USSR collapsed
is their competition, because it's advantageous for them
to have their own economic macro-region headed by London
[VO] Who are these groups exactly?
[VO] Mikhail Khazin points to the decline of the British Empire
occurring shortly before World War II outset
when power in London
passed into the hands of international bankers.
[Khazin] Financiers and international bankers came to power in 1936
[Khazin] They overthrew Edward VIII
and installed his young brother, who was largely controllable
[Khazin] This was Elizabeth's father and, naturally, Charles' grandfather
[Kit] Britain has, since the end of World War II,
heavily relied on the US or sought to rely on the US
to maintain its power
and its imperial reach and further its interests.
[Ananyeva] Suffice it to remember that Churchill, in Zurich...
his speech in Sept 1946 had a self explanatory title
'United States of Europe'
[Anna] The USSR and US began to lead the world after World War II,
so Britain was forced to align its policies with its former colony
[Anna] This suited the British for more than 50 years
[Anna] So what happened?
[Khazin] It all began to fall apart in 2008
[Savenkov] In 2008, the crisis in the US signalled to the world
that America had a problem and the economic model the world is built on
could collapse
[Andrey Fefelov, Editor-in-Chief, 'Den-TV' Channel, Journalist] After 2008, at the first signs of this global financial crisis,
the elites of different countries realised that
to keep moving in the wake of these international schemers and bankers
was impossible
because this would lead to a colossal collapse,
and every centre of power tried to build its own strategy
[Savenkov] The conservative-patriotic elites began to think about
forming their own separate policy,
and the old British aristocracy began to gradually gain power,
advocating for the resurrection of the British Empire,
and when Trump's project emerged in 2014,
he became the poster boy for these isolationists
[Khazin] In 2016, Trump proposed a political project: 'Make America Great Again!'
[Khazin] The trouble is, in order to really implement it,
he had to cast off this globalist financial superstructure,
which is controlled by the world financial elites, and not the US
[VO] Since 2011, the influence of aristocratic elites in Britain has been increasing.
[Khazin] Brexit was a special operation of the British Empire elites
directed against the financiers
[Kit] The driving force of Brexit was
Elite military and intelligence elements and I think that yes,
they saw themselves as rather held back by being part of the EU
and found the prospects in the EU army
which would be subordinate to, I don't know, German commanders..
really quite fighting.
[GEO] MANCHESTER, JUNE 2016 [VO] To which elite group does ex-Prime Minister David Cameron belong?
[VO] It was he who proposed holding a referendum on exiting the EU.
[Kit] Prime Minister David Cameron
felt that he could end any and all discussion and debate
about the Britain's role in the EU forever
by holding a referendum
in which people would vote to remain.
[Kit] This didn't happen.
And so… I mean, the thing, the result came as an enormous shock to Britain's...
much of Britain's political class.
[Jenny Watson, Chair, UK Electoral Commission,2016] The total number of votes cast in favor of remain
was 16 million 141 thousand 241,
the total number of votes cast in favor of leave was 17 million 410 thousand 742.
[Watson] This means that the UK has voted to leave the European Union.
[GEO] MANCHESTER, JUNE 2016
[VO] Cameron himself against exiting the EU
didn’t expect the results and resigned.
[VO] It represents some of the elites who benefit from remaining in the European system of financiers.
[VO] Did Theresa May—the next Prime Minister –
advocate the UK’s resurrection as an independent world leader?
[Kit] Context of the time was Theresa May
and sort deal with the EU that was effectively,
you know, a continuation of EU membership
in all but name.
[Kit] It would’ve kept Britain financially, politically,
bureaucratically and militarily tight to the EU.
[VO] May also belonged to the elite group of international financiers.
[VO] The Soft Brexit she’d been working on
did not suit Brexit supporters.
[VO] And they decided to speed up the exit.
[Vedyaev] A special operation was literally prepared to discredit Theresa May
[Kit] The key-figures within this were yes, our old friend Richard Dearlove
and Gwythian Prins,
who is a longstanding British, you know, defence advisor.
[Kit] And so, they hatched the plan
to remove Teresa May from power.
[VO] After exhausting investigative journalism
Keith Klarenberg obtained unique and secret documents.
[VO] Here is a letter from Gwythian Prins, a UK Ministry of Defence.
[VO] He writes to an unknown high-ranking official:
AT THE MOMENT I AM HEAVILY INVOLVED
IN TRYING TO KILL OFF THE PRIME MINISTER’S DREADFUL WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT…
[VO] And this is a quote from his own letter,
sent to a certain Steve a few months later:
HERE IS HER PLAN. NOW KILL HER AND IT.
[Kit] They managed to
install a mole within Downing Street,
um, someone who was in charge of Brexit negotiations
was feeding them illegally, in breach of the official secrets act,
sensitive documents.
[Kit] They’ve hatched plans to target leading Remainers,
Dearlove sought to employ CIA operatives to set up fake democratic party groups in the US
and spy on them and gather dirt on their operations.
[Kit] They sought to spy on the civil service and leak damaging information to the media.
[Theresa May, British Prime Minister, 2016-2019] The second female Prime Minister, but certainly not the last.
[May] I do so with no ill will,
but with enormous and enduring gratitude
to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.
[GEO] LONDON, JULY 2019
[VO] Boris Johnson took the Prime Minister’s seat,
immediately labelled the 'British Trump' or 'Trump 2.0'.
[VO] He practically repeated Trump’s slogans.
[VO] In his first parliamentary speech as Prime Minister he was bullish on Brexit.
[Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, 2019-2022] Our mission is to deliver Brexit on the 31st of October
for the purpose of uniting and reenergizing our great United Kingdom
and making this country the greatest place on Earth.
[VO] Johnson who makes spectacular public appearances
and rides around London on a bicycle is an eccentric like Trump.
[Anna] Despite his eccentricities and crazy antics,
Boris Johnson became the UK's Prime Minister
[Anna] The Guardian dubbed him 'King of Clowns',
but British politician Richard Barnes begs to differ
[Anna] He served as Boris's deputy for 4 years
when Johnson was London's mayor
[Anna] Richard told us exclusively what Boris is really like
[Richard Barnes, Deputy Mayor, London, 2008-2012] Boris has only one personality,
and if you ask any Englishman,
“Which politician would you like to go and spend two or three hours with,
having some beers and a chat?”,
and the vast majority will come back and say, “Boris Johnson.”
[Johnson] We will be able to look back on this period,
this extraordinary period, as the beginning of a new golden age for our United Kingdom.
[Barnes] He is a complete mixture: born in America,
grandfather was Turkish and, indeed, hung from a lamppost in Turkey as well,
his wife is half-Indian, because his mother-in-law was Sikh.
[Barnes] He is what we call a mélange, a mixture.
[Johnson] Thank you very much! Thank you… Okay, good. Thank you… Thank you!
[Barnes] Boris was one of the most intelligent people that I have ever met.
[Barnes] He could understand a brief very-very quickly.
[Barnes] And, if he trusted you,
and he allowed you to get on with your work...
[Barnes] He is not a micromanager at all.
[Barnes] He has to trust people.
[Barnes] He could oversee.
[Barnes] He wasn’t a details man, but he was a strategist.
[Barnes] And he worked very hard at that.
[Barnes] Unbelievably well for London...
[VO] Prime Minister Boris Johnson
was tasked with carrying out a hard Brexit!
[Kit] There’s a very-very striking email
that was sent to Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of Boris Johnson’s closest confidants,
laying out a very clear blueprint for Johnson’s first month in office,
which included removing the 'whip' so to speak,
you know, expelling conservative MPs
who refused to back a hard Brexit.
[GEO] LONDON, 2019
[VO] So, Brexit was approved by Parliament
just six months after Johnson became Prime Minister,
whereas Theresa May couldn't manage it in her 3 years in office.
[VO] Conducted without any agreement,
the EU withdrawal was rough.
[VO] According to the London Centre for European Reform,
the UK's financial losses from Brexit
had reached $40 billion by July 2022.
[Shkolnikov] Realising the world was starting to collapse
and that Britain was losing its relevance, the UK left the EU,
suffering short-term problems and paying very dearly for it,
but securing the opportunity to win in the medium and long terms
[Shkolnikov] They knew there'd be problems related to globalist interests,
[Shkolnikov] Brexit, Scotland, and N. Ireland, but this is a temporary issue
[Shkolnikov] They knew they'd recoup their losses
because the EU in its current form is a dead project
[Khazin] Johnson represented the British Empire,
and his task was to expedite London's withdrawal,
but, in fact, I think they had certain agreements with Trump
on how they would destroy the EU
[Kedmi] Now, they want to prove that:
'We are the most important country in Europe!'
[Kedmi] I mean Great Britain
[Kedmi] They want to play first fiddle in Europe!
[Kedmi] Moreover, by doing this, they want to overtake the Americans
[VO] But how will Europe’s collapse help Britain rebuild its empire?
[VO] To answer this question, let's recall how it was built.
[Barnes] For many years, tens of years,
we had, what, third... half of the countries
were painted red on the globe
because it was part of the British Empire.
[VO] Today, there are over 50 countries
that celebrate their independence from Britain.
[Kovalyov] The British have always held a special place in Europe
[Kovalyov] They aren't quite European, they're islanders
[Kovalyov] For many centuries, this dictated a special kind of life
[Kovalyov] Their isolation protected them from external enemies
[VO] But, on the other hand,
London's natural and human resources were limited by the size of the British Isles.
[VO] To survive next to the hostile European empires,
England had to expand its colonies.
[VO] It began claiming resources from other countries in the XVI century,
after establishing the British navy.
[Telichko] There was once a widespread practice for replenishing rulers' coffers
[Telichko] They used to issue pirating licences
[Telichko] It's a notorious tale
[Telichko] This sinful practice began in Egypt, the first rulers,
then the Spaniards and the French
[Telichko] But I think it was Great Britain
that began to implement this on an industrial scale,
and, in fact, began to capitalise the country off privateering
[Kovalyov] Francis Drake brought in twice the country's budget in one trip!
[Kovalyov] He gave half to the queen and kept the rest!
2x the budget!
[Shkolnikov] When we say Britain conquered the entire world, or most of it, anyway,
we don't mean it controlled all those lands
[Shkolnikov] The British never had full control over African territories
[Shkolnikov] There was a trading post, a colony on the coast
into which the wealth flowed,
where products and resources were collected
[Shkolnikov] It was all shipped to Britain,
processed, and then sold back to the colonies at a premium
[Shkolnikov] This was British logic
[Khazin] The metropole had paper money, pounds sterling, backed by gold
[Khazin] The problem was that, for speedy economic growth,
you had to print money,
so the pound sterling was a fiat currency,
but it was tied to gold
[Khazin] To solve this problem, pounds were prohibited in the colonies
[Khazin] They couldn't be exported
[Khazin] So, gold coins, sovereigns, were minted in the colonies instead
[Khazin] And if someone wanted to go back home,
bringing the wealth they'd acquired in the colonies to London,
they had to carry money with them!
[Khazin] There were no banks to transfer money between
[Khazin] You had to carry it out as gold coins
[Iosif Linder, President, International Counter-Terrorist Association]
[Linder] The money circulation system between the metropole and its colonies
was built so that wealth only flowed in one direction
[Linder] It was all sucked out
[Linder] In today's money, it would amount to trillions
[Linder] Some researchers cite figures much larger than 40-45 trillion,
reaching upwards of 50-60 trillion or more in today's money
[VO] This economic basis,
so money flowing into London from all over the British Empire.
[VO] London became the financial capital,
at its heart a financial district formed -
the secretive City of London.
[VO] Some believe it is where British foreign policy is really made.
[Kit] It is a secret state within a state – it has its own police force and rules...
[Barnes] The City of London has been separate and special when...
1066 and William the Conqueror came here.
[Barnes] And he needed the businessmen
and the money-men of the Сity to help finance his…
his king… new King… Newfound Kingdom.
[Barnes] And they were given special privileges.
[Barnes] There was a wall that went around the city,
and some of it is still there.
[VO] Even today, the City of London's special status is difficult to change.
[Barnes] When I was Deputy Mayor of London,
I looked at... should the City police and the Metropolitan Police be joined together?
[Barnes] Because they clearly work very closely now.
[Barnes] And I discovered that if I wanted that to happen,
there were over 600 agreements and Acts of Parliament…
[Barnes] Forget it.
[Barnes] The time will never be found to repeal all those.
[VO] The place where nearly half of all the world's transactions are made
is hard to penetrate, even the king himself.
[Barnes] The king goes into the City with permission from the Lord Mayor,
who is elected every year.
[GEO] LONDON
[VO] The City has a representative in Parliament,
who ensures that the bankers' interests are observed
when enacting laws.
[VO] And it's not just the British bankers.
[Kit] This is here that the global elite store their ill-gotten gains,
their billions, you know, away from prying eyes of the tax men and regulators.
[Kit] So, this grants Britain by default
an enormous amount of international diplomatic, financial and political clout,
which they would otherwise lack.
[VO] But the City is now only one of several major global financial centres.
[VO] Its role began to shrink after the World War 2,
when the British Empire began to crumble.
[Khazin] After becoming Prime Minister, Churchill
tore down England's financial system
by allowing the US to trade with the British colonies directly,
bypassing London
[Khazin] He also gave the Americans Britain's naval bases all over the world,
but the financial system was the main thing
[Khazin] As a result, at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944,
the UK insisted that there be 2 main currencies: the dollar and the pound
[Khazin] Even though this was agreed to,
the British themselves gave up the idea 6 months later
because, without a constant inflow of gold,
the pound began to devalue quickly, and everything went to hell
[Kovalyov] After WW2, Churchill bitterly admitted:
'We've become the world's largest 2nd-rank power'
[Khazin] This is a historical phenomenon
[Khazin] To this day,
the British consider Churchill the UK's № 1 historical figure,
despite the fact that it was he personally
who caused Great Britain's fall from the greatness
that it had held onto till the end of the '30s of the past century
[Mikhaylov] Britain is now in the role of a follower, and it decided to follow the Americans
[Barnes] Since Churchill, we’ve always said,
'There is a special relationship!'
[Barnes] It goes up and down, depending on who is Prime Minister and who is the president.
[Khazin] Trump was for Johnson
[Khazin] Then Biden came in, and Johnson was now 'bad'
[Khazin] Then Liz Truss came in, and Biden was happy with her,
and the same goes for Sunak
[Khazin] It's clear that Sunak is definitely a banker flunky, just like Biden
[VO] After Johnson's and May's departure,
the British elites changed.
[VO] If May represented the country's old aristocracy,
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is a representative of globalist financiers.
[Mikhaylov] These are two different clans:
Sunak is from the financiers,
and Johnson is more of an old-school classic conservative
[GEO] LONDON, FEBRUARY, 2023
[VO] Although many Britons have high hopes for the new PM,
he’s paying more attention towards supporting Ukraine
and savaging his own country's economy right now.
[Barnes] But, as a nation, we face the highest taxation since the war.
[Barnes] The national debt is running at massive levels.
[Barnes] Because we’re supporting Ukraine,
because of the cost of Covid, all the reasons are there.
[Barnes] But it’s still the highest debt we’ve ever had.
WITH ANNA CHAPMAN RED ALERT | BRITISH ROULETTE
[VO] Something that in the near future the United States
will become the boss of the economic macroregion.
[VO] It will consist of just 5 states:
the US, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada,
based on the AUKUS military bloc created in 2021.
[Khazin] Biden has messed so much up in 2 years,
it's now unclear how to rectify the situation
[Khazin] And at that point,
the American elites started to say aloud
that they needed to return to Trump's plan
[Khazin] This plan has 3 parts
[Khazin] The first is to throw out Biden's team and the international financiers
[Khazin] The second is to implement Trump's plan,
not at the US level, but at the AUKUS level
[Khazin] The 3rd is to cast off the financial superstructure,
as real sector investment is impossible while it still exists
[Anna] The US sees a conflict emerging with the UK,
which used to be its main partner
[Khazin] The UK will be brought down
because the US has no need for a 2nd centre of power within AUKUS,
especially since Britain's monarch is formally
Canada's and Australia's commander-in-chief
[Anna] Destroying the EU and militarily supporting Ukraine
are just means for reviving the British Empire
[Anna] The alternative is the collapse of the UK into 4 independent countries
[Anna] Will London be able to hold its own in the global power struggle?