The National is a publication from the United Arab Emirates based in Abu Dhabi. Their interests appear to be world-wide. Today they have an article by a Brit about the U.K. searching for a post-Brexit role. It makes an interesting point.
There is an intelligence-sharing consortium called "Five Eyes," which includes the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Its name probably stems from it including five Intelligence services, all of them on the lookout for knowledge others would rather wasn't known. Five organizations with the initial I or five sets of eyeballs looking under rocks and behind locked doors, either way it is a play on words.
Five Eyes is a linkage of five predominantly English-speaking nations which nearly always find themselves on the same side in conflict situations, even if not all send troops to a particular dust-up. The article hints it could be the beginning of something bigger, the often-mentioned but never openly pursued "Anglosphere."
These are nations whose dominant cultures more-or-less directly evolved from that of England. Even if the U.S. didn't join, a combination of the other four would be a substantial world player.
Aside: The Five Eyes name and intelligence context reminds me of the Eye of Horus symbol utilized by the intelligence service of planet Barrayar, in the excellent Miles Vorkosigan novels by Lois McMaster Bujold. The falcon's eye is legendarily keen and farseeing.
