Guest Column
Promethean Action Live Q&A: Trump's Middle East Strategy, Michigan's Midterm Test, and the Broader Fight Against Globalism
In a recent Thursday live question-and-answer broadcast, Promethean Action hosts Adam, Barbara Boyd, and Susan Kokinda framed the current moment around two interlocking fronts: Donald Trump's approach to the Middle East and the political battle in Michigan as a national test case for the midterms. The discussion repeatedly returned to a core claim — that both arenas are part of a larger effort to dismantle a post-1971 globalist financial and geopolitical system centered on the City of London, while rebuilding sovereign national economies and the American System.
Middle East: Peace Through Sovereign Nations and Economic Leverage
Boyd opened by rejecting two common internet narratives: that Trump should simply bomb Iran into oblivion without regard for consequences, or that U.S. actions are primarily driven by Israel. Instead, she argued the administration's goal is to end the long-running Middle East conflict by removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a destabilizing force while creating conditions for sovereign nations rather than what she called terrorist gangs controlled by outside forces.
The “Board of Peace,” she said, is already functioning and involves regional and extra-regional players, including Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia. Its purpose is to give local nations a real voice in any U.S. military steps that could further destabilize the region, while shifting economic flows — particularly Gulf oil-related capital that previously supported the City of London — toward U.S. investment and factory-building under Trump's industrial program. Kokinda and the hosts stressed that the objective is stability that benefits the world economy, not perpetual war. Trump's earlier moves, including energy dominance, financial pressure on Iranian networks, the Venezuela operation, and Space Force intelligence, were presented as deliberate preparation rather than improvisation.
Audience questions about supporting Kurdish or other internal Iranian forces were met with the same framing: the priority is avoiding an endless military entanglement while addressing the economic choke points, such as the Strait of Hormuz, that the old system exploited.
Michigan as the Domestic Battleground
The conversation turned sharply to Michigan, where Democratic socialist candidate Abdul El-Sayed's primary performance raised alarms among the hosts. They cited J.D. Vance's recent comments on “downwardly mobile, hyper-progressive, well-educated” voters who feel sold a bill of goods by universities — debt without useful skills or jobs — as the real base of support, not simply Muslim voters, whom they noted make up roughly 2% of the state's population.
Kokinda, speaking from direct experience campaigning in the state, argued that focusing solely on cultural or religious demographics misses the point. The DSA phenomenon, she said, is not a spontaneous communist upsurge but a long-standing hybrid of European, especially British Labour and Fabian, socialism and the American New Left, now being leveraged by globalist interests to capture legitimate discontent with the post-NAFTA, financialized economy. Trump's tariffs, reshoring, and emphasis on skilled trades, described as “AI-proof” six-figure jobs, are the correct response, but the industrial recovery cannot occur overnight after decades of deindustrialization. Messaging must therefore offer a positive mission — productive work, family-supporting wages, and education that prioritizes literacy — rather than pure opposition to socialism.
Republican gubernatorial nominee John James and Senate candidate Mike Rogers were praised for emphasizing exactly this: telling young people they are made in the Creator's image and have a role to play, treating the state's collapse in education rankings, from top ten to near the bottom, as a civil-rights issue, and framing the fight as restoring a functioning country rather than merely blocking the left. Promethean PAC materials and weekly midterm “boot camps” were promoted as practical tools for activists to spread these talking points.
Systemic Critique: Globalism, the Yen Carry Trade, and Images of Man
Much of the later discussion expanded outward. The hosts portrayed the post-1971 floating-dollar, speculative system — the yen carry trade, Eurodollar markets, environmentalist constraints on growth — as a sophisticated form of debt servitude that hollowed out productive economies. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's interventions, particularly around the Japanese yen, were described as careful efforts to unwind speculative positions without triggering a broader crash, while encouraging Japan toward capital investment rather than zero-interest arbitrage. One viewer noted Bessent's earlier steps to expand bank capacity to hold Treasuries as a firewall protecting the U.S. and Japan relative to Europe and the UK.
Questions linking data centers, CBDCs, Peter Thiel, vaccine mandates, and J.D. Vance into a single “panopticon” were pushed back against as noun-stacking rather than causal analysis. Data centers, the hosts argued, are tools whose character depends on who controls them and whether they draw from the public grid; the administration has pushed hyperscalers to supply their own power. CBDC opposition from the administration was cited to reject the conspiracy chain. The deeper fight, Kokinda insisted, is between two images of man: human beings in the image of the Creator with creative powers versus animals to be managed by oligarchs.
Similar methodological caution was applied to concerns about Muslims in Dearborn, Cuban influence on the American left, Tony Blair's role in Middle East diplomacy, and Anthony Fauci. Cultural non-assimilation and political Islam were acknowledged as real problems where they exist, but the hosts repeatedly redirected attention to the larger British and globalist operations that, in their view, instrumentally deploy such forces. Historical references — Schiller on the Thirty Years' War, the Treaty of Westphalia, Palmerston-era artificial movements, and the evolution of Cuban networks after the Soviet collapse — were offered as context for hybrid warfare and elite manipulation of identity conflicts.
Closing Emphasis
The broadcast closed with a call to focus energy on the midterms: winning large Republican margins to change the judicial and prosecutorial landscape, while persuading swing and downwardly mobile voters with the concrete results of industrial and educational renewal. Legal accountability for past figures was welcomed where possible, but the larger “justice” was framed as dismantling oligarchical systems so that ordinary citizens can again operate in an unrigged environment.
Promethean Action positioned its weekly live shows, newsletters, half-page flyers, and PAC boot camps as vehicles for that work. Whether one accepts the City-of-London-centric analysis or not, the session offered a coherent, highly developed narrative that ties foreign policy, domestic elections, monetary mechanics, and cultural questions into a single strategic picture centered on Trump's second-term agenda.