I said the following in my very first piece of writing in the Info War …
As Miyamoto Musashi said in the Book of the Five Rings, “once you understand the way completely, you can see it in all things.”
In this way, whether you have arrived at your nexus of truth through a certain letter of the alphabet, Patel’s Devolution Series, SLAG’s Wartime Presidency, Will Zoll’s Prussiagate, NeonRevolt’s musings on the Second American Revolution or that one COVID meme that got the noggin joggin in all the right (or wrong) directions, each of you is particularly wired not to discern truth, but to sniff out and expose lies.
Much like archeologists, the discovery of something tends to be preceded by weeks, months and even years of uncovering what is NOT rather than what IS.
We are not seekers of truth, then, but rather hunters of lies.
Put another way, once a lie is exposed, the truth cannot help but to be closer at hand than it was moments before.
And to that I hold.
And so, years ago, when the first true contours of the Shadow War began resolving into something that could be named rather than merely felt, I set out to write what became the Righteous Russia series.
It was never meant to be hero worship seeking different colors to add to the Orange conflagration Donald Trump had set across the Mindscape, but rather an exercise in pattern recognition and inversion, as I could not help but to notice that the same media-industrial complex that spent a decade painting Donald Trump as a vulgar American aberration had spent far longer painting Vladimir Putin as the eternal Slavic threat.
The symmetry was too clean, the language too identical and the moral panic too convenient.
And so, sure, the enemy of my enemy framing I employed in the opening of that series was easy, and perhaps reductive, but then, isn’t that how all theories begin, and how suppositions are first sparked and later distilled?
Thus, when both enemies—the US and Russia, Trump and Vladimir Putin—are being hysterically framed by the same set of storytellers using the same narrative weapons, a hunter of lies is obligated to ask harder questions.
What emerged from that series was the Sovereign Alliance theory: the idea that the preeminent Christian, resource-rich, nuclear-armed nations of East and West—America and Russia—represented the single greatest existential threat to a globalist architecture built on division, debt and perpetual managed conflict.
The result, then was not an alliance built on shared ideology, but rather one of necessity, running along a vision of the manifestation of an emergent era of cooperative competition more so than true brotherhood, except for that forged in Christ.
And the key vector of power projection and the core governing strategy of that shadow alliance that was no longer content to keep to the shadows is one of mutual accelerationism against a System of Systems that had spent a century treating both peoples as raw material for their infernal machine.
This is why I employed the imagery of the eagle and the tiger in that series, and though the Russians themselves have reminded the Mindscape that they prefer to be symbolized by the Bear, the point remains, with the Invisible Enemy lamenting the coming together of two primal forces, and two primordial ones, each of which they have had great trouble in slowing and which they have been unable to dominate except for in part and for a time.
That was the story I told, and despite the fact that I was originally inspired by a Q Drop that suggests just such a story had merit, even still, and contrary to popular belief, it was not popular in every corner of the Truth Community at the time, least of all because of the time in which I chose to start telling it, just six weeks before the launch of Putin’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
As a matter of fact, it still isn’t particularly popular framing.
And yet, stories do not require universal applause, least of all true ones.
Instead, they require internal coherence … and the ability to predict—at least on the macro—what the enemy will do next, and how the theorized allies will respond, both of which I believe this audience will attest my close allies and I have done just about as well as you can, and that many of you have mirrored in your own right.
Which brings us to the War of Stories itself, my most ardent framing that suggests we are not primarily in a kinetic war, though kinetic theaters exist in that war, but rather a war over which story the Collective mind is permitted to inhabit.
Narrative pattern recognition is the primary weapon and the primary defense in such a war, which is why I have sought to both cultivate and radiate that ability outward, as, once you learn to see the shape a story will take before its first chapters are even told, the world that would be made on the back of that story rearranges itself, and the tapestry comes alive in the mind’s eye long before it is rendered real in the corporeal sense.
From where I’m sitting, the Russia Collusion story was the first such story told on the Macro, and with coordination and projected finality as the opening salvo in what we now recognize as a long-running Info War that spilled into the open when the orange man came down that golden escalator and declared it publicly, and on an enemy he wished to render visible en route to making its ending real.
And that story, in my estimation was not merely the first major psyop of the Trump era, but which doubled as the story that launched the modern public phase of the Mind War.
In other words, Trump’s declaration of Information Wafare was answered in kind with a response, and so, what had been a Shadow War conducted in the dark for generations spilled into the light the moment a real-estate developer from Queens became the vessel for something the System could not control through ordinary institutional channels, nor from compromise in said shadows.
With the benefit of hindsight, then, Trump’s 2016 campaign looks less like a traditional political effort and more like a counter-insurgency operation that accidentally (or not) went kinetic in the information domain, something the aforementioned Q drops said directly, and that many of us have spent a decade living out, in a manner of speaking.
The response from the permanent bureaucracy was immediate and hysterical: this man is a Russian agent.
The charge was absurd on its face and catastrophic in its implications.
It was also the most revealing choice the enemy could have made.
The surface reading, even inside much of the Truth Community has long been that the Deep State saddled Trump with the Russia narrative simply because it was the most efficient way to flood the zone with anti-Trump rhetoric, to justify surveillance on his campaign (both political and strategic) and delegitimize the man and the budding American myth in advance.
That reading is not wrong, but I believe it is incomplete.
I believe they chose Russia for two distinct and interlocking reasons inherent in any reading of the game board through the lens of game theory.
First—as I argued in earnest throughout the Righteous Russia series—I believe the proverbial [they] have long feared an alliance between East and West.
Not a vague and diplomatic thawing, but more a culturally-accepted, codified and radiant alignment between the two remaining—and now resurgent—great Christian civilizational powers, since such an alignment could and would render the entire architecture of a post-Cold War managed rivalry obsolete overnight, thereby threatening to collapse the permission structure for endless proxy wars, financial and institutional weaponization while blunting the sort of permanent existential threat paradigm that keeps populations compliant, mandate concealed and budgets flowing in perpetuity.
And so, under this framing, the Deep State sought either to stop any such alliance in its tracks or, failing that, to poison the collective American and Russian psyches against the very possibility of that alliance’s codification in the central narrative they were desperate to keep control of.
Make the idea radioactive. Make any contact treasonous by definition.
Make the word ‘collusion’ itself a political death sentence.
Second—and this is the part I have been ‘joking’ about for years—I believe that Russia Collusion was real, in a manner of speaking … and that it was a good thing.
To wit, the enemy always attacks what it fears most. That’s true. But I also believe the enemy knows more than we have traditionally given it credit for.
And so, it is possible—likely, even—that the Sovereign Alliance between Trump and Putin, between American and Russian patriots who share a common adversary has been in the offing for far longer than the public timeline suggests.
Thus, it is possible that Russian assistance during the 2016 cycle was not the cartoonish ‘troll farm’ version sold to the public, but something closer to mutual recognition: a shared understanding that the alternative to whatever was done on the eve of that election cycle—and in the eye of its orange storm—was to allow the machine to come into its final form in service of the crystalization of its final dark vision.
After all, many in this community agree with the general reading that patriots ‘unrigged’ the 2016 election.
Well, who said those patriots had to be American?
Which member of the incoming Trump Administration did the Deep State’s intel apparatus target first?
Which nation state was he accused of sharing intelligence with?
What sort of intelligence might have been shared with him?
With this in mind, are we looking at Collusion … or Coordination against a common foe who had already declared war on both entities, and the Peoples they sought to represent?
And if that holds, then the recent headlines that appear to clash on the surface are not clashing at all.
They are, rather soaked with the sort of Sovereign Signal some still refuse to see.
That’s right, the Trump Department of Justice and the White House are finally adopting a posture long promised: the declassification and release of materials showing that the FBI opened a full criminal investigation into the sitting President of the United States as a potential Russian agent immediately after he fired James Comey.
This is representative of the same period in which internal FBI communications already acknowledged there was “no there there.”
And yet, as we know, the probe proceeded anyway, helped birth the Mueller special counsel and was closed only after years of mass psychological damage, and with no charges ultimately delivered against Trump, at least through the justice system.
But, was there truly no “there there?”
That probably depends on what you think of the other recent headlines occupying the same contextual battlespace, as that same administration’s FBI Director is publicly forging new law-enforcement partnerships with Russia (and China) on transnational crime comprising personnel exchanges, joint operations and daily communication that “has never happened before.”
Or … which has never been disclosed before outside the the infamous backchannels between the Kennedy and Khrushchev regimes, which I have written about extensively around these parts, and for good reason.
Now, against the backdrop of what could be the final public unraveling of the hoax that started it all—a planned trip to Moscow by the now-head of the same institution that launched said hoax—and the very word the Deep State spent a decade turning into poison … collusion itself is now being practiced in the open, and by the same institutions that once treated it as the highest form of treason.
Which is to say, coordination is the new collusion.
The Ouroboros is completing its circle.
The story the enemy spent a decade weaponizing against Trump and Putin is now being inverted in real time by the very institutions they once controlled.
Now, the same Russia that was supposed to be the existential threat is being treated as a practical partner against the actual transnational predators.
The same narrative apparatus that insisted any contact was evidence of betrayal is watching the contact happen in daylight and struggling to explain why it is suddenly acceptable.
How far are we, then from the final closing of the book on the subversive storytellers who caught wind of that signal earliest—who recognized the danger [to them] of an East-West sovereign realignment before most of us did—and who spent a decade and more attempting to ensure it would never see the light of day?
The hunters of lies do not need every detail of the backchannel history to recognize the shape of the thing. We only need to see the pattern complete itself in the light of day.
The Russia they tried to make radioactive is being reintroduced as a necessary partner.
The collusion they criminalized is being practiced as common, coordinated realpolitik.
Because the alliance they feared is no longer theoretical, and the coordination is no longer collusive, but constructive.
What emerges on the other side of this original story arc coming back around will not be the unipolar order they spent generations constructing, and in its place, I hope and believe will be something older, something harder and something more resilient because it is representative of something true and Godly.
As I have argued before, the Golden Age will not so much resemble a future we could scarcely have imagined as a past that we can no longer remember.
And one that we would have back.
And that we’re not alone in fighting for.
Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.
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