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Something remarkable broke loose yesterday, and the corporate media —preoccupied with its usual obsessions— completely missed it. Or maybe they didn’t miss it; maybe they just couldn’t figure out how to frame it without accidentally making Trump look like a genius. Let’s start with Ukraine —the linchpin of 2016-26 geopolitics— because that’s where this story really begins. Two days ago, Reuters reported, “Allies sent Ukraine ‘signals’ on reducing strikes on Russian oil, Zelenskiy says.”
For the last two years, the collective West cheered every time Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery. Zelensky was glowingly described as David slinging precision drones at Goliath’s wallet, cutting an estimated $150 million per day from Moscow’s war chest. He was a hero! He got standing ovations in Congress. He got magazine covers. The works.
Then Iran happened.
When the Strait of Hormuz closed in early March, twenty percent of the world’s oil supply vanished overnight. Brent crude (what the Europeans pay) rocketed to $116 a barrel —a 60% surge in a single month, the largest on record. European gas prices shot up 70%. Western Australia literally declared a state of fuel emergency this week.
And the first thing the West did —the very first thing— was ease sanctions on Russian oil. Because suddenly they needed it. It wasn’t optional. It wasn’t a “nice to have.” It’s existential.
The not-so-funny comedian watched his leverage vanish into the Ukrainian mud. The sanctions he’d spent two years fighting for were quietly rolled back, because (1) Europeans needed to heat their citizens’ homes and fill their tanks, and (2) everybody is getting sick of him anyway. So Zelensky did the only thing he knows how to do: he escalated. On March 26th, he told Reuters his strikes on Russian refineries were specifically because the West had eased sanctions — “By lifting sanctions on the aggressor, who makes money every day,” he explained.
Two days later, Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Baltic export terminals at Primorsk and Ust-Luga— ports that pipe oil to Europe.
That’s when all the phone calls started. Reuters, Bloomberg, and the BBC all reported that unnamed “allies” sent Zelensky “signals” to knock it off. Scale back the strikes. You’re hurting us. Six months ago, Zelensky was Europe’s Churchill. This week, he became the guy standing between London and affordable petrol.
Zelensky nervously read the room. On March 30th, he publicly proposed a mutual “energy ceasefire”— Ukraine would stop hitting Russian refineries if Russia stopped hitting Ukrainian power plants. It was an optics move intended to make him look reasonable and shift the ball into Moscow’s court. But Russia, predictably, rejected it. They launched 339 drones overnight just to make the point.
? What just became abundantly and astonishingly clear was: the Iran war is doing more to end the Ukraine war than two years of diplomacy ever did. Not necessarily by design— or maybe entirely by design. Because the cascade didn’t stop with Vladimir’s conundrum.
On March 31st, President Trump apparently had enough of his “allies.” Italy had just refused to let American bombers use Sigonella air base. France denied airspace for weapons transport. Spain blocked base access. Poland said no to Patriot deployments.
Trump’s response was vintage: he called them “cowards,” told them to “build up some delayed courage,” and delivered the line of the year: “Go get your own oil!”
Within hours —not days, not weeks, hours— the dominoes started falling. The UK Home Office, which had spent years studiously ignoring the grooming gangs scandal, suddenly announced a full national inquiry to “explicitly examine the role of ethnicity, religion, and culture.” The same day —the same day— they announced they were scrapping Non-Crime Hate Incidents, ending the Orwellian practice of investigating ordinary, law-abiding British citizens for legal social media posts. That tweet got 30,000 likes. When a government announcement goes viral, you know something fundamental has shifted.
Then, puffy-faced UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer made an emergency address to the United Kingdom announcing that UK military planners would meet to discuss how to make the Strait of Hormuz “accessible and safe.” His exact words to the British people: “I do have to level with people on this. This will not be easy.”
CLIP: Starmer ‘levels’ with people, finally (2:28).
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2039281040326296047
Twelve thousand miles away, Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, gave a nearly identical emergency speech. “The months ahead may not be easy. I want to be upfront about that.” Almost word for word. If those weren’t shared talking points from a Five Eyes briefing, I’ll eat my cordless keyboard.
? Meanwhile, Germany’s Chancellor Merz suddenly found the courage to admit that “a considerable proportion of violence” in Germany comes “from immigrant groups” — a sentence that would have ended a German political career six months ago. Germany’s Economy Minister called their nuclear phase-out a “huge mistake.” (In related news, the captain of the Titanic was quoted as saying, ‘icebergs are underestimated.’)
Even France, which had just refused American bomber access, sent Macron scurrying to Tokyo for emergency energy talks with Japan — America’s closest Pacific ally. Macron is trying to build a coalition around the United States by lobbying America’s best friends, which tells you everything you need to know about how much leverage France actually has with Trump right now.
The pattern is unmistakable. Trump said go get your own oil, and within 24 hours:
The UK addressed the grooming gangs, restored free speech protections, and committed military assets;
Australia declared a fuel emergency and started rationing talk;
Germany admitted immigration is causing violence and its energy policy was wrong; and
Zelensky offered to stop hitting Russian oil and asked Trump to broker an Easter truce.
Some of these —like Australia’s fuel emergency— are genuinely driven by the energy crisis. But the grooming gangs? Non-Crime Hate Incidents? Those aren’t about oil prices. Those are political concessions that have nothing to do with the Strait of Hormuz and much more to do with staying in their own public’s good graces.
In other words, the energy crisis is forcing Europe to start embracing populism.
The energy crisis is doing what years of populist movements, Brexit, Yellow Vests, and AfD couldn’t— it’s forcing the establishment to adopt populist positions just to survive. Grooming gangs, free speech, immigration honesty, nuclear power— these were all “far right” talking points six months ago. Now suddenly, they’re government policy.
The irony! European elites spent a decade calling populism a threat to democracy. Now they’re adopting it to save their own skins. Somebody should look into how this happened.
Finally —and most significantly— President Trump has scheduled another emergency address about Iran at 9pm tonight (after the markets close). Many think he plans to announce the next phase in the Iran war —a phase that will be even less easy for the Europeans.
Useless corporate media will report all this separately, as a series of unrelated events. That’s not even close to the real story. What you’re watching is the post-American world order being renegotiated in real time, and the negotiator is a guy who builds hotels for a living.
This will not be easy. True, not for them. But President Trump is making it look pretty easy for him. The sooner the Europeans figure out what TAW stands for, the better it will go for them.
Europe is undergoing its own conversion therapy right now — converting from globalism to populism. I’m pretty sure the Supreme Court just ruled you can’t ban that.