“Called it!” – 2026 & “the end of US hegemony”
Kit Knightly
In January, following Mark Carney’s well-publicised Davos speech, I wrote an article headlined…
2026 – The Year US Hegemony Ends?
Two-and-a-half months later, I feel like we can resolve that dangling question mark – the answer is “yes”.
At least, according to a lot of the mainstream media.
Even when that article was published, when the war with Iran was barely a twinkle in the Pentagon’s eye, articles were appearing urging Europe to “reckon with what the US has become”.
Things have obviously escalated since then.
Writing in the Guardian, Owen Jones calls the coup in Venezuela and war in Iran “the morbid symptoms of a collapsing hegemony.” He argues this tide of chaos is the thrashing of a dying Empire.
In same publication, Larry Elliot compares Trump’s Iran war to the Boer War “a hollow victory that marks the beginning of the end of empire”
In a similar vein, writing in the South China Morning Post, Toronto-based Alex Lo compares the Iran war to the Suez Crisis, which “signalled the last hurrah of European imperialism”, before concluding:
However oppressive the regime in Tehran is, it’s clear the US-Israel axis is the real threat to world peace, and not just the global economy.
Granted, it’s the SCMP, but still.
Former Spanish minister Ione Belarra Urteaga is openly calling the US and Israel “terrorist states”.
Project Syndicate – “the world’s opinion page” – features Swedish political scientist Professor Carla Norrlöf arguing “American Hegemony Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes”
The Financial Times has a professor of their own – of history, from Cornell this time – who claims that “The era of US dominance in economic warfare is over”, adding in the sub-head:
America has long used sanctions to coerce adversaries, but Iran and China can wield powerful economic weapons too
All this aligns with what I wrote in January…
It’s been a predictable for a long while, but 2026 may be the year the USA officially becomes “the bad guy”, a paper dragon for our globalist heroes to slay.
That’s exactly where we find ourselves.
Trump and his administration have gleefully embraced almost cartoonish villainy, culminating in his brash, childish threat to “end a civilization” tonight.
Meanwhile, other nations are being extremely patient and grown-up. The USA’s formerly staunch NATO allies are rejecting calls for aid and even refusing the use of bases or airspace.
There is widespread talk of “the end of uni-polar moment” and the rise of the multipolar “new world order”.
We’ve got to the point that even US-based outlets are touting pro-China talking points.
The Hill reports that “China is topping the US in global approval ratings”, which – as with all such polling – is largely meaningless…excepting the fact that a Western source is somewhat gleefully reporting it.
Setting us up for the final prediction of my article…
The old (imaginary) “rules-based international order” will collapse, and we will build back better.
What this means moving forward, and how it will come about, are questions worth in-depth examination and discussion. There is a GLUT of reading material on this subject, with more emerging every day.
For now, I just wanted to point out the messaging and highlight another “we told you so” for OffG. It’s getting to be quite a trend.
Oh and one more thing – if the US does finally sink below the waves the empire will not go down with it. It will just change its name and move house.
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Multipolarity – the gift that keeps on giving. Trump/USA hss been handed the script of the bogeyman role.
Further evidence of this role comes from the following:
I came across an article in the Daily Fail with the clickbait headline ‘Why British banks fear Trump could use “kill switch” to turn off Visa and Mastercard’. The rationale was that the Tango Man (TM) was upset with NATO allies over the ‘war’ in Iran.
I then noticed a similar article in the Grauniad, pre-Iran ‘war’, from February 2026 but the rationale then was that the TM was upset over NATO allies regarding the Greenland theatrical production.
Two articles, two different reasons, but both blaming the TM.
This reminded me off the Ukie war saga when Mastercard and Visa cut off their card payment systems to Russia due to US sanctions. At the time 60% of Russian card transactions passed through these two giants. The UK currently has 95% of its card transactions (very little cash use) handled by the two.
Russia got around this using its own national card payment system called Mir owned by the Central Bank of Russia and has been developing it further. Multipolarity in action.
Next, more multipolarity in action but this time from the once considered unipolar ‘side’:
Sixteen major EU banks and payments processors launched their own card payments system called Wero.
https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/europe-s-banks-launch-wero-payments-to-dislodge-visa-mastercard/21097087.html
Also, according the Grauniad article from Feb 2026:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/uk-bank-bosses-plan-visa-mastercard-alternative
So what is Britain’s plan?
Similar to that in the E.U – a home grown card payments system. The UK one will be called ‘Delivery Company’ or DeliveryCo. for short ….sounds like takeway food delivery company, but I digress.
Now this is where it gets interesting. This new payment system was already seeking out expressions of interest in July 2025 and was fleshed out properly by October 2025. That was well before the Tango Man really let rip about Greenland in January of this year.
Digging further I found the following:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2025/july/a-new-approach-to-retail-payments-infrastructure
In amongst the word salad is the key ingredient:
Oh yes, digital currency. While the world has been distracted with non-stop geopolitical chickenfeed, the real work of the Agenda continues in the background.
Adding to the story’s lack of credibility regarding its stated goal (rather than its real one) is that two of the financial backers of the card element (DeliveryCo) of Britain’s soon to be new independent payment ecosystem are …you guesed it… the same Amercian giants – Mastercard and Visa – as the current system.
Again from the Grauniad article:
If that isn’t enough:
Surprise, surprise that date – again.
In summary:
We have the Tango Man, the great ‘disrupter’, playing a role. He is acting as the current catalyst to justify all things multipolar which simply hasten UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030.
Multipolarity is no longer just a ‘solution’ to be used against the old unipolar world order where traditional ‘enemies’ and competitive trade blocs create their own ‘independent’ systems – financial, economic, military. It has extended into the realms of those once viewed as united and part of the unipolar world order.
I believe that in order for the controllers plan to sell their digital panopticon world of the future they are and will script more geopolitical tensions using (insert here) whichever scripted bogeyman leader, nation(s), existing supranational organisations or group of vested interests (including the existing establishment/deep state) to justify on the face of it new so-called independent national solutions to the problems that they have manufactured.
However, the ‘solutions’ instead of overt global governance will be more decentralised to appear organic. As public awareness and sentiment pushes back against globalism, the facade of rising nationalism will be used to create the impression that so-called nation states are taking decisions that seem sovereign but in reality are anything but. All the solutions will lead to the same result in all nations – the technocratic digital control grid . Yet, the public will be fooled into thinking that it was to in order to protect national interests against the interests of other world stage players (in reality LARPers) – even those who were once considered friends and allies.
If these crises were genuine and organic, simple probability would indicate that there should be set-backs along the way, yet, it is interesting to note that every ‘crisis’ has a habit of advancing the technocratic agendas.
The unipolar world is splitting as per the script and the USA, with Trump as its figurehead, is the catalyst to hasten the globalists multipolar NWO.
That is by design – it is not chaos, it is Ordo ab Chao.
Well founded analysis.
What is occurring is NOT a war between US/Israel and Iran. It is a conflict between branches of TPTB. A multipolar world is emerging, negotiated by TPTB before Trump’s election, but you need to know much more.
Bear in mind a few abbreviations, then listen to one fairly easy video.
MIC Military Industrial Complex, FIC Financial Industrial Complex, TIC Technical Industrial
ESG
The Environmental Social and Governance factors are a subset of non-financial performance indicators which include ethical, sustainable, and corporate governance issues such as making sure there are systems in place to ensure accountability and manage the corporation’s carbon footprint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnTbfNgBhg Easiest Simon Dixon
A rundown of Trump’s major remarks on Iran.
“Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.
Mar 3: “We won the war.”
Mar 7: “We defeated Iran.”
Mar 9: “We must attack Iran.”
Mar 9: “The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.”
Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: “We did win, but we haven’t won completely yet.”
Mar 13: “We won the war.”
Mar 14: “Please help us.”
Mar 15: “If you don’t help us, I will certainly remember it.”
Mar 16: “Actually, we don’t need any help at all.”
Mar 16: “I was just testing to see who’s listening to me.”
Mar 16: “If NATO doesn’t help, they will suffer something very bad.”
Mar 17: “We neither need nor want NATO’s help.”
Mar 17: “I don’t need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO.”
Mar 18: “Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.”
Mar 19: “US allies need to get a grip – step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz.”
Mar 20: “NATO are cowards.”
Mar 21: “The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don’t use it, we don’t need to open it.”
Mar 22: “This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait”
Mar 22: “Iran is Dead”
Mar 23: “We had very good and productive talks with Iran.”
Mar 24: “We’re making progress.”
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: “Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away.”
Mar 27: “We don’t have to be there for NATO.”
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: “Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences.”
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was “very close” and that Iran would “do the right thing”
Apr 1: “We’ll see what happens very soon.”
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: “Something big is going to happen.”
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply “immediately” or face further consequences.
Apr 5: “Open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell”
Apr 7: Trump threatens a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Armageddon beginning later this evening via Iran (potentially).
Or perhaps just another oil futures trade 10 minutes prior to a placatory Trump Truth Social post? Time will tell.
“47 years of extortion, corruption and death” (Trump 2026). The CIA clearly wanting its Shah back (as per pre-1979).
https://www.ibtimes.com/reza-pahlavi-meets-trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-amid-escalating-iran-unrest-3795197
Vance in Hungary indicative of the CIA’s love of propping up of right-wing dictators. If it worked in the 20th century, then the same model should also work now. Orban, Putin’s man also, but no worries if he’s right-wing.
A new Space Race? The US vs China. Just what NASA ordered. What would a Space Race be without competition. China replacing the Commie Russkies of old in that regard.
End of US hegemony? So is a “whole civilisation” to be wiped out before or after that end?
So, it’s 2020 déjà vu time i.e. when the arrival of The Book of Covid signalled “The End of Capitalism” and The Left (can’t even be bothered doing the scare quotes with that lot) jumped on it like a video starved pervert who’d just received an unlimited supply of porn.
And by God did they all whack their pants down to get themselves juiced up. Well after all, it was the non-stop Viral Armageddon Show with Boris J “being dragged kicking and screaming into lockdown”. I’ll never forget that one. The Cardboard Villain Tories being forced into Cersei’s walk of shame and the comrades storming the barricades without the slightest suspicion that this whole production was being trumpeted by the very forces who were supposedly being thrashed.
It will all happen again of course. “The End of America” playing everywhere to houses stocked up on that toilet roll to cart away the jism. And the biggest laugh will be that if you don’t join the phony celebrations, you will be tagged a MAGA nut. Speaking of which our tubthumping US patriots will obligingly line up on the opposite side. Splendid.