Is Britain the people or its rulers?

I keep hearing about how Russia is a threat to Britain. Now I keep hearing America is a threat to Britain.

It seems obvious to me that America and Russia won’t invade Britain. It would be a pointless massive loss of lives and resources.

It seems to me when the media talks about Britain, they actually mean The Establishment. The threat is to the globalist liberal order, not the people of Britain.

It feels very much like we live in an era of Neo-Feudalism, not just because the people are massively indebted to the elites through debt and taxation, but also on an identity level.

The Establishment (global elites) rule the country, but they don’t feel connected to the culture of the working people. This is similar to how the Norman’s spoke French, and didn’t identify as English, for quite some time.

To the nobles, England was initially just the land they ruled. An attack on the nobles, was an attack on England. An attack on England was an attack on the nobles.

It feels much the same today. It’s not really Britain under threat, it’s the nobles/elites which rule it. The populist movements are just modern day peasant uprisings.