Lyndon LaRouche identified the City of London as the center of operations against the U.S., even as it adopted the "special relationship", i.e., to make the U.S. a "partner", in its defense of the modern empire.
A January 1 NY Times op ed by British intelligence operative Gould-Davies is an example of how hybrid warfare works to undermine the American system, through "geopolitics." To better understand why we must end the era of geopolitics, read what Lyndon LaRouche wrote in 1999 about geopolitics, linked here: