Geopolitics and Empire is joined by author, blogger, and journalist Ian Davis of Ian Davies.com.

He also contributes to UK column and geopolitics and Empire. Now, welcome back, Ian.

Thanks very much, Havoy. It's very nice to be here. And yeah, it's great to be writing for geopolitics and empire.

Brilliant. Yeah, I love your work.

You do great analysis, and so I look forward to more pieces from you for geopolitics and Empire.

And maybe just to start off on a light note, I saw you tweet, I think Kit Knightley's piece from Off a Guardian about the Trump circus.

I'm just not interested in anything byton or trump anymore i just i feel like it's all um a distraction from what is really

important that we should be focusing on what's your take with the whole trump arrest stuff

yeah i mean it's just pretty kind of crazy stuff, really.

I mean, I don't, I agree with you.

I mean, I don't really think it's that, I don't find it particularly interesting.

I find it entertaining more than anything.

I mean, it's, it's good for that from an entertainment perspective.

But other than that, I mean, you know, I'm firmly of the view that, you know, the policy is set, the policy agendas are set above kind of even president's heads.

And, you know, what we get is a translation of those policy agendas, which is set at the global governance level in my view.

I think it's actually meant to be entertainment, like reality TV for us.

So getting then on to the more serious stuff I was listening to your interview with my

TNT radio colleague, Jesse Zerwell, you were on his show talking about the article you

wrote, the banking collapse.

And everything just seems to be playing out like all of us have been talking about the last couple of years, where, you know, my running theory is Peter Thiel, you know, pulled the money.

He, he, he's the guy who, you know, implanted the nanothermite and World Trade Center 7, so to speak, symbolically.

Like, he pulls SVB.

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