By Independent News Roundup
Barbara
Boyd argues President Trump’s Truth Social post aimed not to humiliate
Keir Starmer but to warn the City of London, claiming Britain stayed out
of the Iran conflict because war is bad for City business. She says
headlines about oil spikes and Hormuz chaos are a manufactured panic,
driven by Lloyd’s of London pulling war-risk coverage to engineer a
price rise and profit from disruption. Boyd highlights Trump’s
counter-moves: a $20B U.S. maritime reinsurance and escort plan to
replace Lloyd’s leverage, criticism of the Financial Times and JP
Morgan, and lifting Russian sanctions to keep oil flowing and collapse
the spike. She connects this to a broader push targeting London-linked
dirty-money networks via hemispheric anti-cartel cooperation and joint
development of resources in nations like Argentina and Chile, framing it
as a break from the postwar “special relationship.”
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