[Maru]

Interesting theory about current developments that appeared in my feed and since it directly involves Britain and has potential entertainment value, I'm sharing it here:

NEW: While every talking head screams "Iraq 2.0," @Barbaramboyd
explains what they'll NEVER tell you — 118 years of British financial control over Iran, and why Trump just struck the last piece on the Empire's chessboard.

It's 15 minutes but life is still short so here are some of the talking points:

-Every govt in Iran is backed by London to protect Middle Eastern oil since 1908 and directly supports Britain financially
-Board of Peace is partially designed to dismantle all this
-History: Iranians got nothing out of relationship with Britain and when they tried to nationalize themselves, British and CIA overthrew Iranian govt in 1951 and installed the Shah using the Muslim Brotherhood (yes, those)
-Both govts allowed for Khomeini revolution because the Shah stopped being useful
-Endless war between Israel, Arab states and Iran have been profitable for London (but definitely not the US)

The video ends by saying this is a great way to celebrate our 250th anniversary by "finishing off the British empire once and for all". Which for most Americans is probably like:



Internet:



The timing at least supports the potential setup of Board of Peace:

With a Golden Gavel and a Threat to Iran, Trump Launches His Board of Peace
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...e-meeting.html

To begin with, there was the timing. Mr. Trump was hosting this meeting just as he was moving a mighty array of military hardware into place near Iran. He used his peace summit to threaten all-out war. “Bad things will happen” if Iran doesn’t make a deal with him about its nuclear program, he warned. “You’re going to be finding out over the next probably 10 days.”

Also, there was the location. The Trump-led Board of Peace met at the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace (it’s just down the street from the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts). “Marco named it after me,” Mr. Trump explained about the venue while his secretary of state sat a few feet away. “I had nothing to do with it, I swear I didn’t. I swear. I had no idea.”

And there was the very nature of the thing. What is the Board of Peace, really? To see it come together for the first time is to understand it as a manifestation of a Trump World Order.

Countries on the Board of Peace (highlighting countries relatively adjacent to Israel/Iran):

While invitations were sent out to dozens of countries, not all have agreed to join the board alongside the U.S.

Those countries that have accepted are:

Albania
Argentina
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Belarus
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Egypt
El Salvador
Hungary
Indonesia
Israel
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kosovo
Morocco
Mongolia
Pakistan
Paraguay
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

Others have opted out, including multiple European nations.

Quoted:

President Donald Trump, at the meeting: “Someday I won’t be here. The United Nations will be. I think it is going to be much stronger, and the Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly.”

S: Trump’s Board of Peace: Full List of Members and Countries Represented (Feb 19th 2026)
https://www.newsweek.com/board-of-pe...-gaza-11550384

How UK's strained relationship with Iran impacts Middle East crisis diplomacy (2024)
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-strained...crisis-3224958

UK’s commercial links to Iranian oil – and what went wrong

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a British firm, controlled Iran’s oil industry from the early 20th century. In 1951, under prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s parliament voted to nationalise the oil industry.

Britain fought against its nationalisation, bringing a complaint to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, but the court ruled against Britain on 22 July, 1952.

The following year, a coup d’état funded and orchestrated by the US and the UK occurred in Iran and removed Mosaddegh from power. Power was then consolidated under the monarch Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the former king’s son, and also known as the Shah.
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Retired Colonel Simon Diggins, a military and defence analyst, told i the UK’s involvement with the overthrow of the democratic regime of Mosaddegh was “a strategic disaster”.

“We could probably have had what we wanted in terms of access to the oil, but we had to permit a degree of development, and we chose to align ourselves with a man who turned out to be extremely authoritarian.”

He added: “We have never really owned up to our responsibility for the coup in 1953 or recognised what the consequences were.

“It basically destabilised Iran, which was on a sort of slow post-colonial path to development, and we asserted and put in place an authoritarian leader who suited our interests, but he increasingly found himself out of favour, and became more and more oppressive towards the Iranian people.”

Professor Gerges said: “I think it is unlikely to see any kind of improvement in British-Iranian relations, without improvement in US-Iranian relations. There is relative consensus – both in Iran, in the region and in Western circles – that wherever the United States goes, British foreign policy follows.”

He added that he has no doubt that if Trump wins the election in November, the United States could get into war with Iran.

It's those meddling British! (Meanwhile, ignore our own involvement)

S: https://x.com/observerfiles/status/2027899224138912044

Excerpt:

The Observer
@observerfiles

For those crashing out, and unable/unwilling to understand the Trump Administration's rationale here:

Over the past 125 years, the British Empire has maintained a strategic stranglehold on the Middle East through a calculated policy of geopolitical and financial destabilization. Operating on the imperial maxim of geopolitics and "divide and rule," British policymakers have systematically manipulated religious and ethnic tensions to prevent the emergence of sovereign, industrialized nation-states in the region.

End British meddling, restore order to the region.

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