“Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power.”

American media executive and Republican political strategist

Stephen Kevin Bannon is an American media executive, Republican political strategist, pundit, and former investment banker. He served as chief strategist in the White House for the first seven months of Donald Trump’s first administration, before Trump fired him. He was also executive chairman of Breitbart News and, since 2019, has hosted the War Room podcast. His public profile is tied to American conservative politics and media.