# FF: The Financialist Kill Chain: 400 Years of Global Looting with E.M. Burlingame

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Podcast: [Lions of Liberty Network](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417)
Published: 2026-05-25T12:00:00+00:00
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Author, financial analyst, and former Green Beret E.M. Burlingame joins John Odermatt to expose a 400-year-old predatory financial system — what he calls the "Financialist Kill Chain" — and argues that the same seven-step playbook used to hollow out empires throughout history is now being run on the United States. Burlingame traces the system's origins from the Praetorians of Rome through Venice, Amsterdam, and finally to the City of London, which he describes as a separate financial power occupying the Anglosphere since 1688. The conversation covers how debt, asset seizure, economic destabilization, and elite coercion have been used as weapons against civilizational peoples — and why Burlingame believes the U.S. is currently in the final phase of collapse and abandonment. He also examines why Russia and China have so far resisted the kill chain, what Trump's constraints are, and what ordinary Americans can actually do to push back. Burlingame's unique background — spanning investment analysis, algorithmic trading, Special Forces targeting, and computational engineering — gives him a rare lens to see patterns most analysts miss. Chapters 0:00 – Introduction & episode preview 1:17 – Sponsor: Good To Go Body 90 Day Fitness Program 2:10 – Guest intro: Who is E.M. Burlingame? 4:27 – Burlingame's background: finance, Special Forces & pattern recognition 19:51 – The Financialist Kill Chain explained: 400 years of predatory finance 20:05 – Walking through all 7 steps of the kill chain 20:35 – Where is the U.S. in the kill chain right now? 25:52 – Israel, scapegoating, and the real power behind the curtain 30:41 – Are Russia and China also targets? 39:14 – Why Trump can't simply stop Ukraine funding 45:35 – The upside-down flag signal: What it meant when King Charles visited t…

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