Stewart Battle- The world is tired of the old, imperial ways of Britain's King Charles III and his admirers
The disintegration of global
institutions and norms is proceeding at a record pace. But at the same
time, growing factions in the world are pushing back. At the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference on April 27, Iran was elected
as one of 34 Vice Presidents, over the shrieks of the U.S. And
Thailand, a strong U.S. ally, has revealed that the war against Iran has
caused them to “rethink some relationships,” including by reaching out
to Russia and China.
At the same time, the specter of war and the
danger of catastrophe are skyrocketing. United Nations Secretary General
Antonio Guterres opened the same NPT Conference by warning: “For the
first time in decades, the number of nuclear warheads is on the rise.
Nuclear testing is back on the table. Some governments are openly
mulling the acquisition of these horrific weapons.” After reminding the
world of the danger of nuclear weapons, he commented, “Today, a state of
collective amnesia has taken hold.” Similarly, the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute reports that global military
spending has reached a new record of almost $2.9 trillion in 2025—the
11th consecutive year of growth—all while poverty rates around the world
are on the rise and populations in every country are facing increased
costs of living.
However, even this grim outlook pales in
comparison with the outrageous welcome given by President Trump to
Britain’s King Charles III in Washington this week, where he was met prominently
by LaRouche movement activists. Trump hosted the British King for a
grandiose state visit, complete with formal ceremonies, a small military
parade, and even an invitation to address a joint session of Congress.
Despite his recent harsh words and aggressive tone toward British Prime
Minister Keir Starmer, Trump showed the world that these are only
surface-level disagreements, and expressed his belief that, at its core,
the U.S. is heir to Great Britain’s “majestic inheritance.”
Shamelessly, Trump praised the British Empire’s “culture,” “character,”
and “creed,” and even claimed that “our ancestors would surely be filled
with awe and pride that the Anglo-American revolution in human freedom” has spread across the world (emphasis added). Clearly, Trump is now a wholly-controlled entity.
Anyone who knows the true history of the American
Revolution knows this is a travesty against the United States—made all
the worse by occurring on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence. Not only did Trump praise the history of the bloody
British Empire—the same empire which starved to death 3 million Indians
during World War II and brutalized tens of millions of others under its
colonial rule—but also he falsely claimed that Britain’s intellectual
and philosophical influence created the United States. The same points
were made by King Charles in his address to Congress, to which he
received repeated standing ovations from the amnesia-ridden officials.
In
defiance of the British liberal philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, John
Locke, and Adam Smith, who justified slavery as one’s “right to
property,” as well as the positive law concept of the Magna Carta, the
United States’ Founding Fathers insisted that the foundation of any
government is natural law. Human beings are not solely driven by their
personal wants and desires, leading them into perpetual conflict with
each other and necessitating a ruler, or “commonwealth” to keep them all
in check. Rather, all men and women are created in the image of the
Creator, and endowed with the ability to knowably “do Good” and advance
mankind’s mastery over nature. Or, as Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen
put it upon returning from the Moon: “Humans are just great people in
general. We don’t always do great things … but our default is to be good
and to be good to one another.”
Perhaps it is such a spirit,
increasingly gripping the world as the vestiges of the dying British
imperial system become more evident, that is driving the creation of a
new global system today. Perhaps the world is finally rejecting the
depraved view of humanity embodied in the arrogance displayed in
Washington, and exemplified in waging destructive wars of aggression in
the name of “peace.”
Either way, it is past time to bring such a
world into existence, and kick out the unnatural king-like thinking for
good—including in the United States.