Venezuela, Iran, Greenland - they’re all connected.
Likewise, the Starmer surrender of the Chagos islands to a Chinese ally and the Starmer approval of the Chinese mega-embassy in London.
It’s also no coincidence that President Trump and the United States let hell rain down on Venezuela’s Maduro just 24 hours after the drug-trafficking dictator welcomed a Chinese delegation to Caracas.
China was heavily invested in Venezuelan oil, and the CCP was making moves to cement its presence in Latin America on the USA’s doorstep.
Maduro is now gone, and China stands to lose billions of dollars in loans it made to Venezuela in return for the oil. The CCP has now also lost half a million barrels of oil a day it was getting from Maduro - about four per cent of its total oil imports.
And it’s not by chance that Trump’s tariff threat on European nations came just 24 hours after Canadian PM Mark Carney travelled to Beijing to herald a ‘new world order’ with President Xi.
Carney, the globalist former governor of the Bank of England, even had the cheek to say China was now a more trusted partner than the United States. I guess communists feel safer in each other’s company.
I highlighted the Carney connection on air last week in an attempt to explain why I understood President Trump’s tariff threat over Greenland.
I was attacked by thousands of lefties for my efforts. I was called a traitor, Lord Haw Haw and accused of celebrating a US attack on Britain.
Absolute baloney, of course. I never once said I agreed with economic warfare on your own allies, and I have been clear that a hostile takeover of Greenland by the US would be insanity. Not that I think either scenario would ever happen.
Lefties can say what they want about me, I understand Donald Trump's tariff threats over Greenland - Ben Leo
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But I do understand the method to Trump’s madness - even if he seems to be failing to win the communications war about what he’s doing.
He needs to do better at telling people, every day Joes, about his plan to defeat what is clearly a Chinese globalist takeover.
Just hours ago, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron took to the stage to declare: “China is welcome. What we need is more Chinese direct investment in Europe!”
You can't get any clearer than that.
His unbelievably naive speech came just hours after Starmer’s government approved the hugely controversial Chinese mega-embassy in London - despite concerns that the building’s basement could be a hub for espionage.
The embassy site would be the largest in Europe, hosting more than 200 staff. Critics say it would become a hub for Chinese spying and intimidation of dissidents, including from Hong Kong.
Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel said Starmer was giving China’s president Xi Jinping “what he wants – a colossal spy hub in the heart of our capital”.
The embassy approval now paves the way for Keir Starmer to visit Beijing in a couple of weeks.
And let’s not get started on Keir Starmer’s absolutely insane Chagos Islands surrender to China's ally, Mauritius.
How can you possibly explain that our Government is absolutely obsessed with giving away sovereign British territory to a nation that’s never owned that territory before, and we’re paying them billions of pounds of taxpayer money for the privilege?
As an isolated incident, it just doesn't make sense. But when you look at the wider picture, a different conclusion might begin to emerge.
Keir Starmer’s good friend and confidant, Philippe Sands KC, has been head of legal counsel FOR Mauritius since 2010.
Sands has acted against Britain, his own country, at three international tribunals, including the 2017 case at the International Court of Justice, which ruled the UK should give up Chagos.
Trump let rip this morning over the Chagos surrender - despite his administration backing the UK deal last year. He posted on Truth Social: “Shockingly, our 'brilliant' NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
"There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.
“The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired.”
Greenland is also clear as day to see. For multiple reasons and on numerous occasions, the United States has wanted to acquire Greenland since the 1800s.
It is a prime location for intercepting missiles from Russia, a new Arctic maritime route is opening up thanks to the melting ice-caps - connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic for the first time in what would essentially be a new Panama canal - and of course, the absolute swathes of rare earth minerals lodged deep in Greenland's ice sheets.
China would control 99 per cent of the world's technology production supply if it ever got its hands on Greenland's minerals.
It's safe to say our grandchildren would all be speaking Mandarin in generations to come if that happened.
Lobbing threats of economic warfare and threatening an invasion of allies isn't helpful. It's wrong. But I completely understand President Trump's intentions.
I absolutely stand by my assessment that I believe Trump is attempting to save the West from its own demise - and protect Western civilisation from its own weak leaders.
The blot on Trump’s copybook is the disjointed way he’s going about all this. The US government needs to improve its comms game because right now, to outsiders, it looks like a bull in a China shop (excuse the pun).