HOW INDEPENDENT IS AMERICA FROM BRITAIN?
1. 4 July: Political Independence, Economic Entanglement
The U.S. declared its political break from Britain on this day in 1776. But beneath the flags and fireworks, a deeper entanglement remains, especially in the financial, intelligence, and elite spheres. The question isn’t whether America governs itself, but whether it does so free of the old imperial circuitry.
2. Empire Repackaged as Finance
The City of London is no ordinary district. It’s a sovereign-like financial enclave, a global hub for offshore money, derivatives, forex, and tax avoidance. Many of America’s biggest corporations and hedge funds still operate through its looser regulations and offshore extensions like the Cayman Islands and Jersey. This isn’t colonialism—it’s soft entrapment, entrapment by design.
3. Still Whispering in the Corridors
Old ties never died, they just adapted. A network of shared education (Oxbridge, Ivy League), think tanks (Chatham House, Council on Foreign Relations), media (Economist, WSJ), and global finance (The City, Cambridge, Wall Street, rhe offshore treasure islands), continues to align U.S. and British elite interests. Quigley called it the Anglo-American Establishment. It’s not conspiracy, it’s structure. You can trace it from Bretton Woods to BlackRock.
4. Strategic Culture – The Shadow of Empire (The Five Eyes intelligence alliance) binds the UK and U.S. in near-total surveillance cooperation, with a sifnificant regional role for Israel. Military strategies, especially in the Middle East and Russia, often follow old British imperial routes and date back to the First Crimean War and Mackinder. Even soft power (the BBC, English common law, royal mystique) maintains a ghostly grip on America’s elite imagination.
5. Conclusion – Free, but not unentangled,
America is sovereign on paper, but in finance, strategy, and elite thinking, it remains woven into Britain’s imperial after-life, in particular via the City of London. The real independence war never ended, it just moved offshore.
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