As the world’s climate delegations gather in Belém for COP30 (November 10th-21st), they do so under a very different geopolitical sky. The United States has withdrawn from the UN’s climate process altogether, and its diplomats have just led a successful rebellion at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to block a global carbon tax on shipping. The episode marks not only a turning point for global climate policy but a moment of historical resonance. Europe’s effort to impose its moral and regulatory hegemony on the world has been checked by the US. As in 1956, when President Eisenhower forced his European allies to abort their attempt to take over the Suez Canal, Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” approach to energy policy in 2025 has re-asserted the primacy of national interest over imperial pretension.
The IMO Revolt
In April 2025, the IMO unveiled what Carbon Brief – a European climate policy advocacy website – described as “the first in the world to combine mandatory emissions limits and greenhouse-gas pricing across an entire industry sector”. The “Net-Zero Framework” would have imposed an effective global levy on ships not meeting emissions-intensity targets and funnelled revenues into an UN-run global decarbonisation fund.
By October, that project lay in tatters. As Climate Home News – a UK-based green advocacy media outlet – reported: “The IMO’s Net-Zero Framework will be up for approval again in October 2026, after the US and Saudi Arabia persuaded countries not to vote on it as planned.” The
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Thank God for the Donald !
Dear President Trump: After dismantling the IMO and the BBC, could you please turn your mind to dismantling the UN and all its subsidiaries (inc the EU).
Many thanks
A Wonderful article, thank you. We do have some outstanding and very bright people in the Trump gov’t including the Secretary of Energy. Pray Trump is allowed to carry on his mission to shutdown the climate scam. The powers that be, are determined to destroy his efforts as president via the Epstein debacle.
Could anyone imagine how frightened we would be without President Trump in the White House. Make no mistake, God sent President Trump 🙏
‘…. the EU tried to build its moral stature through multiculturalism, mass immigration and the Net Zero crusade…..’
That just about says it all: a mass delusion brought about by moral pigmies.
The question is what madcap carbon capture schemes, in which those advocating carbon tax on shipping have shares, was the money to be invested in.
The usual graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels looks like Gee-Whiz graph as described by Darrell Huff in how book ‘How to lie with statistics’. The data is decapitated from any reference to zero and the scale exaggerated to imply a runaway increase. However, if we add a zero reference this doesn’t look quite a scary and if the correct scale of 1,000,000 used then the increase in CO2 is not detectable. Context is everything and when someone works hard to remove context it should be apparent they are up to no good.
‘Context is everything and when someone works hard to remove context it should be apparent they are up to no good.’
BBC being a prime example.
“As in 1956, when President Eisenhower forced his European allies to abort their attempt to take over the Suez Canal…”
Which resulted in the rise of Pan-Arab nationalism, destabilisation of a tribal region, emergence of rival extremist groups, tribal conflicts, dictatorships, two wars against Israel and the ongoing attempt to annihilate Israel and the Jews, and an oil cartel that was and is used for political reasons to hold the World to ransom. Top marks Ike.
He did subsequently have the good grace to admit he had made a mistake.
So I don’t think this is Trump’s Eisenhower moment, he’s got it right and the result will be stabilising rather than destabilising, and taking oil and gas as a weapon out of the hands of OPEC. In fact Trump has put “imperial pretension” first because he understands that actually is in the best interests of the USA and as its President he has a wider responsibility.
The big question is whether this US rebellion against the “European-led neocolonial export of global climate regulations” will continue post Trump.
No doubt the climate colonialists are going to try wait Trump out. They’ll only be defeated if whoever succeeds Trump continues his policy.
The real question is whether US climate imperalism will resume post-Trump-II again and to which degree the existing European rebellion against that will succeed. Eg, will the AfD in Germany succeed with getting rid of what it usually refers to as the climate swindle
despite the desire to do so is probably one of the main real reason why the German lackeys of the US climate imperalists want to outlaw it (opposition to the EU and especially, the the German-underwritten Euro experiment would be another).
I think some US agency declared CO₂ a pollutant.
Donald Wimp still needs to tackle his domestic political enemies at home instead of beating up their European poodles because that’s seemingly easier to do. As it stands, as European, the only message from Donald Wimp is “I’m no friend of yours!”. Neither are we, Mister. Without the USA-with-no-memory, we wouldn’t have to worry about decolonizing the transclimate and other shit like that.
Without the US you’d probably be speaking Russian and would have been doing so for the last 70 or so years.
“Turn on, tune in, drop out” is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966.
The Climate cultists adopted the phrase “Turn off, tune out, drop down”.
The Trump phrase could be “Turn on, tune in, raise up”. Although “Drill, baby, drill” is more memorable.
Suez was not about colonialisation. It was about protecting national economic interests and western geopolitical interests. In subsequent decades the YSA has not hesitated to do these things.
In the mid 1950s the US was going through a period of withdrawal after WWII and the Korean War when Britain and France were dependent on them financially. As with their pressure to rush decolonisation and our withdrawal from (just) east of suez, many mistakes from that period have come back to bite us.
“Us” the west.
Suez also wasn’t about “Europe”, at least not in the sense the author of the article pretends. By that time, the Suez canal was essentially British property which the Egyptian revolutionaries misappropriated. This led to a military action to recover it and the US government effectively halted that by debt-based blackmail. Churchill is on record for stating that he’d have ignored that. Eden lacked backbone and probably also, motivation for this. Generally, this was some internal spat among the so-called victorious powers of the second world war who’d control what in the 1950s and has no relation to EU of today executing or trying to execute policies of the US goverment of yesterday (and of the UN).
“Trump, like Eisenhower, has torpedoed it” For now, but who knows what injunctions the deranged climate terrorists supported by activist judges will come up with.
Starmer and Miliband are sill clinging to the global warming lifeboat. They are determined not to admit the ship has sunk. Instead they want to double down harder on the impoverishment they are causing. Climate Change has all the hallmarks of a modern day scam. Instead of admitting none of the crap is coming true, they just move the goal posts back 10 years, and insist we are not saving the planet hard and fast enough.
The Socialist refrain – “We must try harder, this time it will be different”.
For those two hypocrites it’s not a lifeboat, it’s first class seat in a transatlantic jet. That goes double for Milliband.
The Biased Broadcasting Corp wouldn’t let them ditch it, even IF they wanted to (they don’t).
If Trump either bankrupts or brings the BBC to heel, things might change.
‘NATO that steadily crept eastwards to the Russian border’
More of this nonsense. Even after Finland’s accession, only 11% of Russia’s land border is shared with NATO countries.
Russia is party to the 1975 Helsinki accords which clearly state the right of each State to define and conduct as it wishes its relations with other States in accordance with international law and in the spirit of the Helsinki Declaration including the right to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of alliance.
NATO does not have its own army, but member states can take collective military action in response to international crises.
Before Russia’s aggressive actions against Ukraine in 2014, there was no permanent deployment of multinational NATO troops in the eastern part of the Alliance. As the security environment changed following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of eastern Ukraine, NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia, while maintaining political and military dialogue, and deployed four multinational battlegroups to the Baltic States and Poland in 2016.
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“only 11% of Russia’s land border is shared with NATO countries”.Thanks to Belarus and Ukraine.
‘I think – frankly – the British and French were certainly right in their disagreements with Eisenhower about the Suez Canal’
J.D. Vance Apr 2025
Britain and France, Israel, did not ‘try to take the Suez Canal. The military operation was successful.
Then politics got in the way, Eisenhower with an election to win, Macmillan with a leader, Eden, to dethrone,
The Houthi have tried something similar in the Red Sea. The U.S. and Britain have combined to prevent any blockade.
Time we joined President Trump and the U.S. in withdrawing from the IMO and junking nut zero.
Doshi is just another “global majority” guy with a manic hatred for of white people which usually gets the better of him. That he nominally attached himself to Trump doesn’t really differentiate his anti-European ranting from the anti-European ranting of Trump’s American political opponents. He even uses their phrases, eg, coloniziation/ decolonization.
It’s time that we understand that thoroughly balkanized Europe will only ever be a political football for American politicians and do something against that ourselves.