Two zombie empires shake hands across the Atlantic, not to forge a new future—but to rehearse their own obsolescence.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 8, 2025
Act I: Smoke, Mirrors, and a “Breakthrough Deal”
Al Jazeera’s unsigned piece plays the loyal court scribe, upholding the illusion of “objectivity” while reproducing the dominant class narrative. Their tone is neutral; their framing, bourgeois. Trump, Vance, Mandelson, and Greer are quoted like high priests of rational governance, not the technofascist bagmen they are. There’s no mention that Mandelson helped engineer Britain’s neoliberal dismemberment under New Labour, or that Vance is the squire of Silicon Valley’s shadow aristocracy.
Strip the varnish and what remains is imperial rot in designer suits. This “breakthrough” deal? A handshake between two asset-stripped economies that haven’t manufactured anything real in decades—except crisis. Aluminum tweaks and customs “streamlining” are sold as tectonic shifts in global trade, but this is theater. Performed not for the working class, but for hedge funds, lobbyists, and the remnants of empire’s faithful.
This is a trade pact between two decaying monopolies cosplaying relevance. The deal doesn’t reflect resurgence—it reflects fear. Fear of the multipolar tide rising in BRICS+, fear of sovereignty in the Global South, fear of a world they can no longer dominate with warships and spreadsheets alone.
Rusted Rivets: The Material Realities of Anglo-American Decline
This agreement wasn’t signed in a vacuum—it was inked in the ruins of post-industrial failure. In the U.S., manufacturing employment peaked in 1979; since then, over 7 million factory jobs have been lost, replaced not by “innovation,” but by logistics warehouses, gig work, and mass incarceration. In the UK, the collapse was even more surgical: Thatcherism deindustrialized the North and Midlands with deliberate precision, crushing unions and selling off state-owned industries to corporate cronies. What remains today is a service economy in name only—a precarious labyrinth of finance, real estate, military contracting, and low-wage labor.
Together, the U.S. and UK now resemble parasitic command centers rather than productive economies. As of 2025, services make up 82.4% of UK GDP and roughly 78.8% of U.S. GDP. Manufacturing, in both cases, is outsourced—either to cheap labor zones in Southeast Asia or to maquiladora corridors in Mexico. The real wealth doesn’t come from making things—it comes from owning things: patents, platforms, supply chains, and central banking privileges. This is not industrial strength. It’s imperial rent collection.
And when that rent starts to dry up—when nations like Indonesia, Brazil, or South Africa assert their own development paths—what do the Anglo-American elites do? They scramble to “reshore,” but not through productive investment. Instead, they militarize commerce and rebrand monopolies as national security. The “pharmaceutical supply chain” section of this trade deal? A backdoor extension of Pfizer and Moderna’s patent power. The ethanol agreement? A gift to ADM and Cargill, locking in agribusiness subsidies under the cover of “energy diversification.”
This isn’t economic strategy. It’s imperial surplus management—an attempt to stabilize capital flows through legalized racketeering. There is no innovation here. No development. Only the choreography of decay, masked in technocratic buzzwords and neoliberal ritual. What’s collapsing is not just industry—it’s legitimacy.
Deal of the Dying: Reframing Anglo-American Empire
Let’s be precise: this isn’t a “deal”—it’s a pact between two exhausted hegemonies trying to script their decline as destiny. The language of “partnership” hides the deeper truth: the U.S. and UK are no longer strategic powerhouses, but co-dependent failures clinging to a dying world order. Their true exports are crisis, sanctions, and narrative control.
The real architects of this agreement are not politicians—they’re the institutional managers of global capital. BlackRock manages $10.5 trillion. Vanguard, over $9 trillion. These firms own controlling shares in every sector discussed in this deal: aerospace, biotech, agriculture, energy. Lockheed Martin will see expanded munitions contracts under “security cooperation.” McKinsey and Deloitte will oversee the customs integration. The state is not the negotiator—it’s the enforcer of capitalist class demands.
And as the BRICS+ bloc grows—now with over 40 countries signaling alignment—this pact is less about China and more about discipline. Discipline over Europe, which is increasingly split between Atlanticism and Eurasianism. Discipline over the Global South, where debt restructuring talks are being redefined outside of IMF control. And discipline over their own populations, who are becoming harder to pacify with breadlines disguised as job creation.
What we’re witnessing is the emergence of a transatlantic necroeconomy: an economic bloc that survives not by producing life, but by managing decline through crisis governance, sustained through death. Technofascism is not the exception—it is the administrative software of a decaying empire. It packages war as peace, monopoly as resilience, and mass immiseration as progress.
So no—this is not a pivot. It’s not a “new chapter.” It’s a terminal document. And what it reveals is a class afraid not just of multipolarity—but of relevance itself.
To Bury the Empire, Begin Below
Don’t be fooled. This handshake was not a moment of global history—it was a sad encore for a dying show. Nothing about this deal serves the working class in Ohio or Manchester. It’s not about jobs. It’s about headlines. It’s imperial CPR—public spectacle to hide private collapse.
But history doesn’t pause for propaganda. In 2019, when Trump crowned Guaidó, anti-imperialists in D.C. occupied the Venezuelan Embassy to defend sovereignty. That spirit must return. Because the Atlantic elite will keep scripting decline as success, feeding the masses mythology while the global economy shifts beneath their feet.
We must meet their script with sabotage—intellectual, material, and political. Here’s how:
- Expose the Parasites: Name the corporations profiting from this deal. Trace the blood trail from subsidies to sanctions to sweatshops.
- Weaponize the Worker’s Voice: Build class consciousness inside unions, gig networks, and labor orgs. Link “free trade” to wage suppression and imperial theft.
- Reclaim Public Space: Interrupt their rituals. Protest at consulates. Sabotage the PR events. Force contradiction into the open.
- Build Material Solidarity: Support communes, co-ops, and resistance economies in the Global South. Raise funds. Share tech. Defend autonomy.
- Train for the Long War: Form revolutionary study groups. Analyze sanctions regimes. Map finance flows. Build cadre that can tear the empire down, root and stem.
This is not just a moment to analyze—it’s a moment to act. The empire is flailing. Let’s make sure it falls. And when it does, let it be known: we were not spectators. We were grave diggers with blueprints.
Let this handshake be remembered not as a treaty—but as a farewell.
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