Trump's "Project Freedom" — the U.S. Navy will escort neutral-country ships through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday — and how the President is wielding America's energy abundance to dismantle London's petrodollar system and the propaganda apparatus built to defend it.
A third bullet at the Hilton, King Charles begging in DC, DOJ indicting Comey, Iran admitting collapse, the UAE walking out of OPEC, and a Trump–Putin call buried by every major outlet. The British Empire is dying in public.
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Trump's "Project Freedom" — the U.S. Navy will escort neutral-country ships through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday — and how the President is wielding America's energy abundance to dismantle London's petrodollar system and the propaganda apparatus built to defend it.
President Trump announces “Project Freedom,” directing the U.S. Navy to escort neutral-country ships through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday and warning that interference will be attacked, while noting positive U.S.-Iran discussions and framing the move as a test of whether Iran’s negotiators control the IRGC. The episode argues Trump is using oil and gas to rebuild the U.S. economy and to displace London’s oil-pricing power, citing April 20 Presidential Determinations under the Defense Production Act, a National Energy Dominance Council led by Doug Burgum and Chris Wright, and rising U.S. production (EIA March 2026: ~24 million bpd) driving lower prices, a manufacturing revival, and a shrinking trade deficit. It contrasts this with post-1971 “petrodollar” strategy, OPEC shocks, “controlled disintegration,” and Iran-related destabilization, and claims modern media propaganda—from Lippmann to Operation Mockingbird to recent censorship networks—drives anti-Trump narratives.
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