Tom Luongo - Controlled Opposition, Bitcoin and Why America Is Already at War

Feb 24, 2026

Tom Luongo, a political and macro analyst focused on geopolitics and monetary history, argues Western chaos traces to lingering European power networks. He links monetary policy to geopolitical strategy. He discusses controlled opposition, the strategic use of leverage in U.S. foreign policy, and Bitcoin as a rejection of the British central-bank debt model.

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Europe As The Hidden Geopolitical Engine

Tom Luongo argues Europe's old colonial powers, especially Britain, are the primary driver behind Western geopolitical chaos and influence over U.S. policy.
He cites deep ties between City of London, MI6, CIA, finance, and a persistent British central-bank model extracting American wealth.

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Using Legal Battles To Define Executive Power

Luongo sees Trump's moves as deliberate timing to force legal rulings and define presidential foreign-policy powers.
He points to injunctions and expected Supreme Court decisions as part of a strategy to expand executive authority amid opposition.

ANECDOTE

Epstein Files Used As Terms Of Surrender

Luongo recounts Trump's handling of Epstein files as an offer of strategic surrender to avoid wider damage.
He suggests Trump knew the material and chose to negotiate peace rather than weaponize the files immediately.

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In this episode, I’m sitting down with Tom Luongo for the sixth time, and he makes a bold case: the chaos you’re watching in Western politics, the wars, the censorship, the financial pressure, it doesn’t trace back to China, it doesn’t trace back to Russia. It traces back to Europe. And specifically to a colonial power structure that never really let go.

We’re diving into why Trump’s second term is less about one man and more about a historic battle over who actually controls American monetary and foreign policy. This one goes deep into geopolitics, monetary history, capital markets, and what it really means to opt out of a system that was never designed to work in your favour.

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