
F. William Engdahl | The Lost Hegemon, The Oligarchs’ Decline, & What Comes Next
Strategic risk consultant F. William Engdahl details the erosion of American global dominance in a comprehensive analysis of the shadow state and its manipulation of Middle Eastern geopolitics. The transition from the British Empire to the post-1945 American Century, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations, established a hegemony now facing systemic collapse. Engdahl argues that the use of atomic weapons in 1945 was a calculated signal to Joseph Stalin rather than a military necessity for Japanese surrender. The CIA maintained a long-term operational link with the Muslim Brotherhood, a relationship tracing back to Miles Copeland and the recruitment of Nazi-aligned networks in Munich. Zbigniew Brzezinski utilized this infrastructure in 1979 to draw the Soviet Union into a costly conflict in Afghanistan by supporting the Mujahideen. Meanwhile, the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton leveraged the Arab Spring to install Brotherhood regimes for regional energy control. In response, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have formed a counter-pole through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the One Belt One Road initiative, utilizing Russian military technology and Chinese financing to bypass the U.S. dollar. F. William Engdahl highlights the irony of the 2016 election, framing the choice between the Clinton dynasty and Donald Trump as a selection between two factions of the same elite structure. He points to the Russian Duma's ban on GMOs and the Brexit vote as pivotal moments where national sovereignty triumphed over the global agribusiness cartel and Brussels bureaucracy. The conversation concludes with a critique of Pope Francis and the Jesuit Order, characterizing the current refugee crisis as a deliberate strategy to destabilize national borders.



















