re: PBD: British Imperial Expert: The Force Behind King Charles, Iran & Every War Since 1900

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British influence is exactly what they discuss. I've never heard them talk about Britain having military power nor other power over the US.
That the London banking system, especially their offshore banking, has financial power is factual.

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They assert that the British have the power to control warfare. That all of the major wars are caused by the British. That’s is foolishness.

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Of negligible importance: I’m very puzzled at your insistence on spelling “Strait” wrong. It has to be intentional at this point?

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You just got destroyed

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The argument presented uses a classic "plumbing vs. storefront" analogy to mask a shift in the global financial hierarchy. While the technical data regarding London’s Foreign Exchange (FX) and Interest Rate Derivative (IRD) volumes is accurate, the conclusion—that this creates a relationship of British control over the U.S.—is a fundamental misreading of financial sovereignty and market depth.

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1. The "International" Trap: Dominance vs. Dependence
The central flaw in the argument is the conflation of transactional volume with systemic authority. London’s massive FX and derivative numbers are high specifically because the UK’s domestic economy is too small to sustain its banking sector. It must act as a global clearinghouse to survive.

Conversely, the U.S. banking industry has achieved such a level of domestic scale and vertical integration that it does not require "international trading" in the same way. The U.S. system is a self-sustaining ecosystem; the "water" (capital) and the "pipes" (clearing) are increasingly housed within the same borders. New York handles the equities, the debt issuance, and the primary regulation. London is essentially a high-volume service provider for a product—the U.S. Dollar—that it does not control.

2. The Liquidity Illusion
The argument suggests that if London "stopped trading dollar-denominated swaps," the U.S. would lose its ability to hedge risk. This is a logistical misunderstanding:

Mobility of Capital: Liquidity is not a physical commodity stored in a London warehouse; it is digital and mobile. If London’s regulatory or geopolitical environment became hostile, that $3.8 trillion in daily volume would migrate to New York, Singapore, or Paris within a business cycle.

The Fed as the Ultimate Plumber: The "overnight liquidity" the argument mentions ultimately flows from the Federal Reserve. Through swap lines and the repo market, the U.S. central bank—not the City of London—is the lender of last resort that keeps the "pipes" pressurized.

3. Influence: The Regulatory Reality
In finance, true influence is the power to set the rules. Over the last decade, the U.S. has moved the "pipes" through regulation:

Extraterritoriality: Through the Dodd-Frank Act and the power of the Treasury, the U.S. effectively dictates how dollar-denominated trades are handled worldwide.

Onshoring: Since the 2008 crisis, there has been a massive push to move derivative clearing to U.S.-based Central Counterparties (CCPs).

4. The Storefront vs. Warehouse Analogy
The analogy that "the store has nothing to sell if the warehouse closes" is backwards. In the global economy, the U.S. is the Manufacturer, the Store, and the Currency. London is the logistics contractor. If a logistics contractor goes on strike, the manufacturer may face a temporary backlog, but they simply hire a new contractor or build their own fleet.

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Remember hearing about how ISIS was created so that there is always a boogeyman. Think about all those men lined up at the ocean shore to be beheaded and cages being dropped in pools with people in them to drown.

Notice that propaganda isn't all over TV's anymore? They moved on to scary scary Iran. I think this lady in the OP gets detailc about how the U K is a part of making Iran the new ISIS bogeyman.

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