THE HIGH COST OF WEAK LEADERSHIP

In this hard-hitting Connecting the Dots episode, guest host Mark Sutherland is joined by Jonathan and Mike Sheer to issue a British warning to the Western world, a sobering look at how the collapse of true leadership is accelerating our cultural and moral decline.

Guests:

Jonathan
A British writer and academic based in the Lake District, Jonathan specializes in Latin American Studies, international business, and history. A retired senior lecturer from the University of Salford, Manchester, he has authored numerous works including Brexit: KBO (2018) and a forthcoming geopolitical analysis of Russia, the USSR, and their shifting relations with neighboring nations.

Mike Sheer
A former career soldier and British military spokesman, Mike Sheer brings decades of firsthand experience in defense strategy, communications, and leadership under fire. Now a respected geopolitical defense commentator, he frequently appears on major UK media outlets offering grounded, uncompromising analysis of global security and Western defense readiness.

Guest Host:
Mark Sutherland is a British filmmaker, producer, and political commentator known for connecting the cultural, moral, and political dots across the UK, Europe, and America. His films and broadcasts challenge mainstream narratives and call for a return to moral courage, truth, and faith as the foundation of a free society.

They expose how:

• Political and military leaders have lost courage, conviction, and accountability, trading truth for comfort and globalist approval.

• Moral relativism and global ideology have replaced duty, faith, and national sovereignty, leaving citizens leaderless and nations adrift.

• Weak men in powerful positions have invited chaos, eroding trust, readiness, and the very foundations of freedom.

From the halls of Westminster to the front lines of failed policy, the discussion reveals how the West’s greatest threat isn’t foreign invasion, it’s the vacuum of moral and spiritual leadership within.

Mark Sutherland, Jonathan, and Mike Sheer connect the dots between weak leadership, propaganda, and the deliberate dismantling of Western courage and issue a call for strength rooted in truth, faith, and accountability before it’s too late.

1. The West’s Leadership Vacuum
   The moral backbone and strategic strength that once defined Western civilization have eroded. Political leaders now serve global systems and personal interests rather than the people they represent.

2. Globalism’s Hidden Agenda
   Under the guise of cooperation, sustainability, and humanitarianism, Western nations are being drawn into a managed decline — a system of technocratic control that weakens sovereignty and self-determination.

3. Moral Relativism as a Weapon
   The moral confusion seen in education, media, and government isn’t accidental — it’s engineered to dissolve absolute truth and replace it with compliance and emotional manipulation.

4. Spiritual Warfare Beneath the Politics
   The panel stresses that today’s global crises are ultimately spiritual, not just political. Evil flourishes when truth and faith are abandoned; reclaiming both is the first step toward national renewal.

5. The Military Mirror
   As Mike Sheer explains, military unpreparedness and loss of discipline reflect a deeper societal rot — a generation of leaders more concerned with ideology and optics than defense and readiness.

6. The Role of Propaganda
   Information warfare now shapes perception more effectively than traditional conflict. Censorship, narrative engineering, and fear-based messaging are the modern battlefield tools of control.

7. The Cost of Apathy
   Both guests warn that the erosion of liberty continues not because of the strength of tyrants, but because of the silence of citizens. Western collapse is self-inflicted through indifference.

8. Reclaiming Moral Courage
   The solution begins with individuals rediscovering conviction — speaking truth, defending faith, and holding leaders accountable. Real leadership starts at the local level, not in global institutions.

9. Faith as the Anchor
   Across the discussion, all three voices return to one foundation: without moral clarity rooted in faith, even the most powerful nations lose their purpose and direction.