London, United Kingdom

A distant, time‑shifted capital that registers in the Oval Office as a waiting room of embassies, ministers, and clipped communications. London exists offstage as phone lines, terse cables, and primed officials pacing corridors who await the President’s instruction. The city’s presence is felt as diplomatic weight and procedural momentum: wakeful desks in different time zones, the low hum of consular protocol, and the expectation that a single presidential decision will ricochet through its Foreign Office and embassy network.