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We’re excited to share the latest episode of Promethean Overviews. In this installment, Mike Steger examines the rise of a modern confederacy—a system built through globalization that hollowed out American cities, dismantled manufacturing, and replaced production with dependency and control.
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In this episode, Mike Steger lays out the case that the United States is living under a modern confederacy — a system created by globalization that dismantled American manufacturing, hollowed out cities, and replaced productive work with dependency, disorder, and control. Today’s political unrest is not accidental. It is the predictable outcome of decades of economic policy designed to benefit financial elites while stripping the working class of real opportunity.
Placing modern urban decay within a long historical arc, Steger traces this system from ancient empires through the British financial order and the American Civil War. He contrasts globalization’s plantation-style economy with the American System of Hamilton, Washington, and Lincoln, and argues that President Trump’s manufacturing and trade policies represent a direct challenge to the global order that engineered America’s decline.
Watch the full episode to understand how this modern confederacy was built, who it serves, and why rebuilding American industry is the only path to restoring national sovereignty, shared wealth, and a unified nation.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 The Rise of a Modern Confederacy
01:16 Sanctuary Cities and Globalist Power
01:50 What Globalization Did to Our Cities
03:55 Who the Globalists Really Are
07:52 The Modern Plantation Economy
11:17 The Only Cure: Industrial Growth
16:24 Rebuilding Civilization
18:19 Time to Build
Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran sent shockwaves — but the real story isn't military. It's economic. He's breaking the City of London's centuries-old chokehold on global energy pricing. The armchair generals on social media are missing the big picture.
Trump rejected Israel's South Pars strike and blasted NATO as "cowards" — both serve Britain's Great Game. The Japan deal shows what replaces it: sovereign energy, nuclear power, and critical minerals.
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