Davos<\/em>\u00a0and Brexit the chance to really change the dynamic between not only the US and the UK but also between those two and Russia\/China.<\/p>\nThere was an opportunity for a negotiated settlement with them on behalf of the Global South and avoid the crisis we are in right now.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth understood this as well, but was mostly powerless to stop the train because the UK government and its entrenched aristocracy is a cesspit.<\/p>\n
Trump also understood that Charles was as compromised a figure as you could be. \u00a0The manila folder on Charles is more than thick enough to ensure he does as he\u2019s told.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth, on the other hand, was no one\u2019s toady. \u00a0It simply wasn\u2019t her. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t mean she was an heroic figure we should lionize. People are complicated. \u00a0Stories are never as cut and dried as we would like them to believe. Charles is still taking the throne after all.<\/p>\n
I view the British Crown the same way I view the Vatican \u2014 corrupt and the power it wielded caused mission creep over the centuries in defining \u201ctheir interests.\u201d You\u2019ll note how they\u2019ve corrupted the United States with this same idea of \u201cinterests.\u201d<\/p>\n
The imperial mindset is one of the stickiest things in human behavior. But at some point pure survival takes over and pragmatism trumps all those old ambitions and machinations. The problem, of course, is that the jackals have weakened everything to the point of unleashing the worst people to run around\u00a0doin\u2019 stuff.<\/em><\/p>\nSo, when Trump \u201clost\u201d the stage was set to off Johnson and reverse Brexit. \u00a0Davos<\/em>\u00a0made their move against Johnson this summer because, as Alex Krainer reminded me in an email the other day, the British Cabinet actually runs the country, not Parliament.<\/p>\nThis was why Marc Sedwill being both Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service under Theresa May was so dangerous. \u00a0He was really Prime Minister, directing Brexit negotiations doing\u00a0Davos\u2019<\/em>\u00a0bidding.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s also why Johnson firing him as nearly the first thing he did when taking power was the definitive statement of his position on Brexit, the Queen and the UK as a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n
Sedwill\u2019s power and betrayal of the UK showed in the Brexit deal May negotiated and left for Johnson to clean up. \u00a0One of the things she left behind was the Northern Ireland Protocol.<\/p>\n
It was Elizabeth that helped along the destruction of May and the ascension of Johnson. \u00a0None of this excuses their activities in Ukraine, of course, but that\u2019s a different matter.<\/p>\n
Davos wanted Johnson gone because they wanted Brexit undermined. \u00a0The Northern Ireland protocol is the key to this. \u00a0There is a provision in the Brexit agreement where the NI protocol is to expire in a couple of weeks. There was a two-year time limit on it and if UK didn\u2019t think the EU were acting in good faith (or whatever) they could cancel it and the UK would now be in charge of the border crossings.<\/p>\n
Conversely, if the NI protocol remains in place, the EU will still set trade policy for the UK. \u00a0Sunak was supposed to win and make sure the UK negotiated down.<\/p>\n
Liz Truss has been at the forefront of pushing the legislation, now in the House of Lords, that would invoke that Article within the Brexit agreement and end the tussle over Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
So, this is the issue on which Brexit hangs. \u00a0It\u2019s why\u00a0Davos\u00a0<\/em>couldn\u2019t wait for Liz to die before removing Johnson and creating a fight within the Tories for control over the party.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s why Johnson kept saying they would have to remove him from office bodily. \u00a0In the end BoJo may have been a clown but it looks like he was, on balance, a patriot.<\/p>\n
The goal was for\u00a0Davos\u00a0<\/em>to get their dark-skinned Tony Blair, Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\nThey failed and got Johnson\u2019s Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss.<\/p>\n
And I think Elizabeth held on long enough to see this through to completion, for the UK to be independent of Europe and re-establish its sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Truss then looks like a counterweight to Charles\u2019 clear alliance with\u00a0Davos\u00a0<\/em>on Climate Change and the Great Reset. \u00a0Then again, he may surprise us now that he has the crown. \u00a0\u00a0I won\u2019t speculate further.<\/p>\nThe path to that is having nationalists in control of the cabinet who, in turn, control Parliament and the Civil Service.<\/p>\n
Now, all of this analysis depends on how Truss handles Northern Ireland. \u00a0If she stands her ground and wins then the above is correct and Brexit will eventually be achieved. Elizabeth\u2019s legacy will be preserved.<\/p>\n
If she caves Theresa May style, then the UK will be torn apart by Brussels\/Davos<\/em>\u00a0to strip mine it. Remember, for Schwab\u2019s plan to work in his mind, everyone must be brought low. \u00a0If only Europe is destroyed he wins nothing except historical vilification.<\/p>\nRemember what I said about Elizabeth hating Commies?<\/p>\n
Now, as for Truss, if she begins backing off on the foreign policy front and focuses all of her attention on domestic policy, then the UK could avoid some of the damage clearly aimed at them.<\/p>\n
If she doesn\u2019t and continues Johnson\u2019s insane belligerence against Russia then the UK\u2019s future is far murkier.<\/p>\n
For now, the early returns are good. \u00a0Her lifting the ban on fracking and oil\/gas exploration is exactly the thing the UK needs to do. \u00a0It will put the Scottish Nationals led by Nicola Sturgeon on their back foot. \u00a0Expect increasingly strident calls for Scottish independence in the coming months.<\/p>\n
Will Truss have the strength to ride herd over all of this? \u00a0I doubt it, especially with Biden\/Obama in the White House. \u00a0This may all change post-mid-terms here in the US and Italy\u2019s elections in two weeks.<\/p>\n
As it stands, on balance, Elizabeth did the best she could with a terrible post-war hand as monarch. The march towards this moment was well beyond her control. If, in the end, she was able to help the UK out of the mess she couldn\u2019t or didn\u2019t do enough to stop, then her legacy will have been a good one.<\/p>\n