Podcast Summary: TFTC #691

"Understanding the Real Globalist Power Structure" with Susan Kokinda

Host: Marty Bent
Guest: Susan Kokinda
Date: December 8, 2025

Episode Overview

In this episode, Marty Bent welcomes political organizer and geopolitical analyst Susan Kokinda to explore what she describes as the real “globalist power structure,” with a deep focus on the modern influence of the City of London. The pair discuss the historical roots of British imperial financial control, its relevance to today’s geopolitics, global drug trafficking, the current Trump administration’s response, the reindustrialization of America, and the challenges facing the U.S. in reclaiming sovereignty.

Main Themes and Purpose

• The Enduring Influence of the City of London: Kokinda lays out the thesis that many globalist institutions and financial mechanisms have roots in the British imperial model, particularly the City of London.
• Imperial Systems in Modern Geopolitics: How modern U.S. and global policy are shaped by old-world imperial, financial, and intelligence networks.
• Trump Administration as a Disruptor: The guest posits that President Trump represents a significant departure from “managed decline,” seeking to restore U.S. sovereignty, challenge globalist institutions, and re-industrialize America.
• Economic and Political Warfare: Insights into how fights over economic systems, drug trafficking, and legislative priorities are central fronts in this larger struggle.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Historical Background: The City of London’s Role

• Susan frames the City of London as the heart of a global financial empire dating back to the days of the British Empire and the American Revolution.
  • Quote:

    “When you think City of London, think about this entire imperial complex, which is no different again than what we fought the American Revolution against.”
    — Susan (03:54)

• Connection between private financial power (e.g., Bank of England, British East India Company) and control over nominal governments.
• The American Revolution sought both political and economic sovereignty, in part by establishing a national bank serving national interests.

2. Current Geopolitics: Old Structures, New Fronts

The Venezuela Example and Drug Trafficking

• Marty and Susan discuss U.S. military and policy action off Venezuela’s coast as a battle not just against narco cartels but a larger financial cabal with roots in imperial Britain.
  • Quote:

    “Narco terrorists ... are part of this global financier elite. This just happens to be their Latin or Central American division of it.”
    — Susan (07:22)

• Britain’s legacy in offshore finance (Caribbean islands), dark money flows, and “dope incorporated.”
• Trump’s national emergency declaration and targeting of narco-terrorists as a strike against this system (08:44).

U.S. Institutions Infiltrated

• Susan is skeptical of overblown claims about foreign machine-tampering in U.S. elections but details deep-rooted ideological subversion of American institutions by British imperial thinking.
  • Quote:

    “Our entire foreign policy establishment for over 100 years has been inculcated in British imperial thinking.”
    — Susan (11:27)

• Influence of institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as deliberate instruments of imperial management.

3. Europe and Western Sovereignty

• The European Union is portrayed as a political and economic colony, with the British and the City of London still exerting “perfectly capable” influence post-Brexit (16:46–17:29).
• Rise of digital ID laws, censorship, anti-sovereignty policies across Europe.

4. Trump Administration Policies: Re-Industrialization and Sovereignty

Economic Revolution

• Trump’s new National Security Strategy centers economic sovereignty—manufacturing, infrastructure, skilled labor—as foundational to national security.
  • Quote:

    “The future belongs to makers. The United States will re-industrialize its economy, reshore industrial production …”
    — Susan reading the Strategy (24:00)

• Money, jobs, reshoring production to America; “revolution as big as anything since Lincoln or Washington.”
• Trump’s team is focused on building “an alternative to the Fed” by channeling foreign investment directly into productive industries (53:52).

Key Cabinet Figures: Scott Besant

• Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is praised as pivotal in economic restructuring.
  • Quote:

    “Every Treasury Secretary that we've seen in my lifetime has just been a rubber stamp for Wall Street and the City of London. And this guy Bessant gets it in terms of workers, Main Street, industry, changing the direction of this country.”
    — Susan (34:58)

• Emphasis on using treasury power for national security, tracking dark money, and reorienting money flows (36:57–38:26).

5. International Diplomacy, Multipolarity, and The “Trumpian World”

• U.S. policy moves away from a globalist “rules-based order” to direct, sovereign nation-to-nation dealings (26:54).
• Multipolar world: U.S., Russia, China, and India as four pillars capable of counterbalancing the old financial order.
  • Quote:

    “Why do you need BRICS? Why not just nation to nation to nation to nation and we figure out what's best.”
    — Susan (29:06)

6. Challenges and Political Realities

• Trump controls government at the cabinet and, at best, one level down; “deep state” remains entrenched below (29:44).
• Incremental approach: Not promising immediate abolition of the Fed or NATO, but building alternative structures and winning legislative and public support (53:52–56:19).
  • Quote:

    “Give this administration credit for doing what they're doing, recognizing that there are certain things legislatively or institutionally they may not be able to do immediately.”
    — Susan (56:04)

7. Western Hemisphere and Allies

• “Work in progress” in Latin America—Argentina on board, Honduras being influenced, Mexico a complex case, Canada “in the hands of the central banker Mark Carney” (41:08–42:20).

8. Upcoming Challenges—2026 Midterm Election

• 2026 midterms seen as “make or break,” equated to the stakes of the Civil War (48:51).
• Threat: City of London’s strategy is to take Congress from Trump, hampering further progress (47:35–48:41).

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the City of London as Imperial Power:

  “It is where the major financial flows of the world go through … this is what we actually fought the American Revolution against.”
  — Susan (02:09)

• On the War on Drugs:

  “People say, well, we've had failed wars on drugs. No, we haven't. We've never fought one. Because the real war on drugs has got to be against these financier interests.”
  — Susan (07:22)

• On the Council on Foreign Relations:

  “... founded in 1922 as a direct outgrowth of the British Roundtable. And the British Roundtable was very clear along with the Cecil Rhodes, will we have to bring the United States back into the imperial fold?”
  — Susan (11:27)

• On Trump’s Security Strategy:

  “The future belongs to makers. The United States will re-industrialize …”
  — Susan quoting (24:00)
  “This is a revolution as big as anything we've had since Abraham Lincoln or George Washington.”
  — Susan (23:45)

• On Political Realities:

  “At best, [Trump] controls his government at the level of the cabinet secretaries and maybe one level down.”
  — Susan (29:44)

• On the Midterms:

  “I think it's make or break. I mean, I think this is the equivalent of what Lincoln had to do to win the Civil War.”
  — Susan (48:51)

Key Timestamps

• [01:27] – Susan outlines the City of London power complex
• [05:51] – Role of drug trafficking in British imperial model, Venezuela as a nodal point
• [10:04] – British influence in US institutions, “deep state”
• [16:42] – Europe’s loss of sovereignty, influence of the EU
• [20:41] – Trump’s “revolutionary” economic shift and new National Security Strategy
• [24:00] – National Security Strategy excerpt: The future belongs to makers
• [34:58] – Praise of Treasury Secretary Scott Besant as a paradigm shift
• [41:08] – [42:20] – Allies and adversaries in the Western Hemisphere
• [47:15] – Strategic importance of the 2026 midterms
• [53:52] – Building alternative financial structures to the Fed; gradual approach to institutional changes
• [56:49] – Final call to action to engage for the coming political battles

Final Thoughts & Call to Action

Susan Kokinda urges listeners and viewers to stay informed, get politically engaged, and recognize the high historical stakes in the current struggle for U.S. sovereignty:

“People have to be engaged politically and not just sitting there doom scrolling the latest social media scandal.”
— Susan (57:48)

Recommended Actions:

• Read the new National Security Strategy document.
• Engage at the local and state political level.
• Stay vigilant about economic restructuring and sovereignty.
• Follow Susan’s further commentary at prometheanaction.com.