Five fronts moved at once

Edition 10, 1 June 2026

Trump's 25 May Truth Social post moved the Abraham Accords from a regional curiosity to a new architecture for the Middle East. The same week, Kevin Warsh became the new Fed Chair, China unlocked retail gold, JD Vance was put in charge of federal fraud, and Keir Starmer is proposing to allow Ministers to rewrite primary legislation without recourse to Parliament.

Five fronts moved at once, and all traced to the same source.

The Abraham Accords go regional

Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action read Trump's post as the moment he showed his hand. The president named eight countries that he wanted to join the Accords: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, with Iran to follow.

Kokinda noted Trump used the word "mandatory" and invited Gulf states outside the Accords to join.

Brigadier General Blaine Holt (ret'd USAF) provided a different perspective. The Accords are usually framed as Arab states accepting Israel. Holt said that Trump's post inverts that. Now, Israel and its government must recognise the right of every other state in the Middle East to exist, and lose the lone-fortress posture that has justified its hostility to its neighbours.

There's no reason that traffic can't move through the Straits of Hormuz. Lloyd's went back to all the shipping companies and said, if you take up the United States Navy on escort duty, you'll never see an insurance wrapper from us in the world.

Blaine Holt

That was Holt, pointing to the mechanism that has shut the Strait. This issue has not been resolved. Lloyd's of London, the shipping insurance monopoly, has quietly told carriers they would be uninsurable if they allowed themselves to be escorted by American ships out of the Strait.

Brian Cates referenced the White House counter-terrorism strategy that released named the Muslim Brotherhood as the primary source of regional terrorism. Cates read that as a direct message to London. Bessant's Operation Economic Fury, which Cates and Kokinda both referred to, pinned the laundering of Iranian flows on Rachel Reeves's UK Treasury.

The post-war rules-based order ran on the principle that the imperial centre controlled finance, raw materials and the choke points. According to Kokinda, the American System starts from a different premise that nations should be economically sovereign and trade as equals to their mutual benefit.

Trump's post, read in that light, is an attempt to convert the Middle East from a battleground into a market.

The new monetary architecture

Cates returned the next day on the Fed handover. Warsh had been sworn in the week before as the new Fed Chair. Cates expects Jay Powell to keep his board seat and use delaying tactics from inside.

Donald Trump is disengaging us from the European Union style monetary system of fiat currency, fiat debt, where they literally print money out of thin air.

Brian Cates

The mechanism that Trump's administration is creating, is a parallel currency. A new note bearing Trump's signature, is set to be introduced. It will be backed by gold and silver, and according to Tom Luongo, with Bitcoin and dollar stablecoins. The fiat dollar system will continue to run alongside it.

Mark Attwood noted that Warsh is the seventeenth Fed chairman. He spoke of the significance of 17 with Q being the 17th letter of the alphabet. Attwood argued the City of London's grip on US monetary policy is breaking at the institutional level.

Beijing recently eased the retail restrictions on gold ownership that it had imposed in January. Tom Luongo and commodities analyst, Vince Lanci discussed the significance of this policy change and how it will further weaken the City of London.

A week after Trump leaves China, China opens up the gold market and they put the squeeze on London again.

Tom Luongo

Lanci looked at what the technical charts are saying. The Dow Transports broke out in January and held while the Dow Industrials tanked. By this week the Industrials had broken back above fifty thousand and confirmed the move. That is the classic Dow Theory signal that the real economy is leading the financialised one.

Stephen Kuhn, recording with Ace, was unsure of the changes that Trump is making. Is Trump really making things better for Americans? What, he asked, are ordinary Americans getting while healthcare, fuel and student debt keep climbing? He asserted American citizens could exert real influence at the local level, with school board and other local vacancies waiting to be filled unopposed.

Ukraine, Iran, and the slow squeeze

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 26th May to remove US diplomats from Kyiv. Blaine Holt read this as a clear warning. Russia is sending Oreshnik hypersonic missiles into the Ukranian capital which Holt sees as a decisive Russian escalation.

Kokinda noted that with their arms donated and depleted by Ukraine and European industry deindustrialised by the loss of cheap Russian energy, the globalist sponsors of Zelensky no longer have the military strength they once had.

Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD has openly called for US forces to leave Germany. Holt noted that Trump and Rubio both let that statement pass without rebuttal, an indication perhaps that Trump's administration agreed with Weidel.

On Iran, Ace and Stephen Khun pulled apart the latest "peace deal is close" rumours. Ace laid out three possible paths for Trump. Iran capitulates under economic pressure, the population rises and removes the regime, or the United States strikes. All three, he argued, produce outcomes that weakens the City of London's hold on the Middle East.

Kuhn commented on how Iran, Russia and China sit outside the City's financial architecture. Lloyd's of London is losing its monopoly on shipping insurance, and with it the intelligence on cargo movements that gave the City of London an edge to its trading.

The City's hidden lines

JD Vance has been appointed as the fraud czar. Ace, of the Ace Fire channel, looked at the fraud already exposed.

Los Angeles was running roughly eight hundred hospice facilities absorbing half of the national hospice funding. Not one has requested that their funding be reinstated after Vance's office cut the funding off.

Ace argued that this is large scale grift. The fraud flows trace back to NGOs handling migrant placement, benefits processing and voter registration, and through them to the Open Society, SPLC network and other similar organisations. Cutting the fraud is the practical mechanism by which the federal slush fund taht has been underwriting replacement migration is being severed.

EM Burlingame took the argument into the corporate suite. Rubio's remarks in India on rising anti-Indian sentiment marked a shift in policy towards the H1B visa programme. Burlingame's reading is that BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard have placed Indian executives at the head of Microsoft, Google, Adobe and other national-security-impacting firms, passing over American candidates. He described the change as a soft re-occupation of the Anglosphere by the British Empire, using Indians as proxies, with the H-1B programme as the vehicle.

Tom Luongo stated that Guatemala's authorisation of US strikes on drug cartels is another assault on the City of London's money flows. As well as Guatemala, Trump is targetting drug cartels in Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico, with other South American nations to follow.

By taking control of maritime choke points: Panama, Greenland, Hormuz, Gibraltar, and Malacca, Trump is further limiting the international money flows that the City of London manages and controls.

President Trump rarely makes a move for one specific reason. He likes to get four or five wins out of a single move.

Tom Luongo

Read singly, the moves look opportunistic and chaotic. Taken together, they form part of a global assault on London.

Britain, the Crown, and controlled opposition

EM Burlingame's discussed the continuing erosion of civil liberties under Starmer, who planning to table a bill that would let ministers amend primary legislation by order, without returning to Parliament. This alongside the abolition of jury trials for offences carrying three years or less, the removal of the remaining hereditary peers from the Lords, and Tony Blair's earlier replacement of the Law Lords with a Supreme Court the executive appoints, all mark significant departures from the English Constitution. Burlingame argued that the Crown retains the constitutional right to dissolve Parliament, and history shows that it has been the lever of last resort when the government has acted against the interests of the peoples of the Isles.

If Parliament can be bypassed by ministerial order and the judiciary by executive appointment, the Crown's dissolution power becomes ceremonial. Burlingame's reading is that the bill is being pushed through precisely because the King's reset button is the one tool the City cannot legislate around.

Nick Buckley, a member of Ben Habib's Advance UK, joined Reform after the last general election and resigned within four months, disgusted with what he had witnessed. The final straw was a sequence in which Richard Tice laughed off the projection that white British will be a minority by 2060. David Bull recited the standard "nation of immigrants" line on becoming chairman, and Nigel Farage defined a Welshman as anyone who has lived in Wales for five years and paid tax, thus marginalising the native Welsh.

Reform UK are basically the party we needed thirty years ago, but everything's moved on in thirty years.

Nick Buckley

Buckley sees Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain as an authentic sovereigntist vehicle with the Makerfield by-election as the first hard test, with Advance UK standing down to give Restore a clear run at defeating Andy Burnham's and thus destroying his chances of becoming Labour Party's new leader.

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Seeing through the fog

Five fronts moved this week, and they trace to one address.

The Abraham Accords push isolates Israel from the City's stable of regional proxies. The Warsh appointment and the new Trump-signed note are the first real challenge to the privately owned dollar since 1913. China's gold move and the Dow Transports breakout are the bond market pricing the same shift.

The fraud office, the H-1B argument and the Guatemala strikes are three faces of one operation; all are assaults on a rising sovereigntist United States. Starmer's bill is the cover being put into place to prevent a future king from standing up for the people by dissolving Parliament.

The Crown is not the enemy. The Crown sits under duress. The work in front of British subjects is the work of separating the institution from its captors, and the lawful and peaceful route is Trust law. The mechanism is set out at notaxforwar.com whereby British tax payers can lawfully, legally and peacefully withhold their taxes as a protest against the UK government's policies.

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