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The Face. The Story. The War.

The War of Stories donned a new face of tragedy, trauma and mandate cultivation to start the week, and another to end it.

Herein, a stream of consciousness delivered to you regarding my thoughts on both—with a little detour in between.

I hope that it can provide you with some comfort, either of the cognitive, emotional or spiritual variety, because I’m going to tell you from the jump that if you think anyone attempting to navigate this war for and against our minds, hearts and yes, even our very souls can see all ends, you are mistaken.

And yet, try we must, sometimes, on all three levels at once.

To kick off the week, the tragic fate of Iryna Zarutska emerged not as mere happenstance, but as a searing emblem—a cognitive shatterpoint engineered by the very System it indicts.

This Ukrainian refugee, ostensibly fleeing the proxy meat grinder of Kiev only to meet her end on American soil at the hands of a recidivist predator enabled by blue-state compassion shields and cashless bail absurdities embodies the Reverse Hegelian Dialectic in its most visceral form.

The Globalist Cartel's predatory architecture, woven from open borders, sanctuary havens and the weaponized empathy of puppet regimes has boomeranged with lethal precision, exposing the Hydra's tendrils from cartel infiltration on the streets to the gilded enablers in corporate boardrooms.

To wit, as Trump brandished her image from the podium, declaring "This is the picture of it," he wasn’t just channeling righteous fury; he was amplifying a feedback loop that retroactively condemns the System for seeding such entropy in the first place.

And now, with Elon Musk committing a cool million to murals of Iryna splashed across nationwide public spaces—transforming urban canvases into battlegrounds of awakening, bolstered by Silicon Valley CEOs offering half-million grants for artists to immortalize her face in high-profile city locations, from Times Square billboards to LA street art installations—this symbol becomes a global mural campaign, turning tragedy into tribute and piercing the Collective Mind with the stark reality of imported chaos, for better or worse.

Her story, captured in haunting Instagram posts from just months before her stabbing on a Charlotte light rail bridges the macro horrors of endless foreign entanglements to the micro devastations on domestic soil, forcing the gatekeepers to confront the crumbling facade of their manufactured order, where the very policies peddled as progress reveal themselves as portals for predation.

Yet, as this domestic entropy pulses through the veins of the American sovereign, it serves as a microcosm—a prelude—to the grander theater of escalation unfolding on the global stage.

To wit, in the midst of the domestic drama, the collectivists, sensing the noose of sovereignty tightening around their unipolar hegemony are lashing out with desperate bids for the only salve that can stave off their collapse: chaos.

This macro theme of provocation ripples across multiple fronts, at home and abroad, designed to incite the peace-seeking sovereigns of the world into kinetic frenzy, feeding the beast of division that sustains their crumbling empire.

From the engineered border crises that import terror under the guise of humanitarianism to the geopolitical flashpoints where warmongers fabricate threats to perpetuate proxy wars, the pattern is unmistakable: escalation as the last refuge of the exposed.

It's a multi-spectrum assault, where apparent aggressions—be they drone incursions, tariff threats or small-scale, but no less traumatic because of it tragedies—are inverted into exposures, priming the Collective for a multipolar dawn where nationalism supplants collectivist illusions, and the Sovereign Alliance and the Sovereign Man rise as the true architects of stability, weaving economic interdependencies that bind without subjugating.

Transitioning from the face of Iryna—symbol of the System's self-inflicted wounds—to the battlespace writ large, this week also found Poland at the vanguard of this contrived march toward madness.

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Under the thin veil of defense, Warsaw kicked off the weak by sealing its border with Belarus, bracing for Russia's Zapad war games as if the exercises—routine displays of readiness involving nuclear simulations and hypersonic drills—herald an imminent invasion.

And then the narrative unraveled: for no sooner did Poland trigger NATO's Article 4 consultations after claiming NATO jets engaged Russian drones in allied airspace than the Kremlin dismissed it outright, pointing to a glaring absence of evidence.

To wit, these "drones," allegedly breaching from Ukraine's frayed defenses amid Russian strikes that left Kyiv oblast grappling with rare power and gas outages bear no verifiable ties to Moscow's military intent—echoing past incidents like the 2022 Polish missile mishap—remember that one?—initially blamed on Russia, but later traced to Ukrainian error.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte condemned the violations, activating air defenses to "successfully ensure the defense," while Russia's envoy retorts that accusations are "groundless" without proof, dismissing technical impossibilities in drone trajectories and highlighting the lack of shared radar data or international verification.

Along the way, Gazprom's boss warns of a cold winter ahead for the EU, underscoring the energy dependencies the warmongers ignore in their rush to provocation, while the Kremlin's retort highlights the lack of debris or verifiable remnants to substantiate Warsaw's claims, suggesting these provocations are less about actual threats and more about justifying bloated defense budgets and perpetual alliance entanglements.

These recent escalations amplify a developing macro.

No doubt, from where I’m sitting, this latest provocation masquerading as a retaliation is no isolated incident, but a trend in keeping with the EU and NATO's unyielding drumbeat: the Ukraine war MUST not end, despite the Sovereign Alliance's tireless overtures toward peace, as these partial or complete fabrications serve to justify endless aid funnels and proxy perpetuation, eroding public trust in the very institutions they claim to protect.

Enter Donald Trump, the unflappable disruptor, who signals to the observing mind that escalation is precisely the Globalist Machine's desired endgame—and thus, the very trap to sidestep, which I’ve been chronicling since I launched this publication on the eve of Russia’s Special Military Operation, aka. ‘Denazification’ effort.

As European leaders returned to the US earlier in the week to discuss the Russia-Ukraine quagmire—and before Poland’s move masquerading as a counter move, Trump dangled a gauntlet: he's ready to slap 100% tariffs on China and India to squeeze Putin's flanks, but only if Europe joins the fray, a masterful inversion that places the EU in the driver's seat of continued escalation, forcing the warmongers to own their proxy addictions while Trump projects strength through restraint.

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After all, Trump knows Putin well, as he's oft proclaimed, and wishes for peace—a sentiment echoed in recent recaps of breakthroughs in Ukraine talks, where Trump shifts from ceasefire calls to a comprehensive peace deal, promising U.S. assurances for Ukraine's security without NATO membership, potentially ceding parts of the Donbas for a rapid resolution, all while leveraging economic pressure to bring parties to the table without kinetic overcommitment.

This emergent and only seemingly-shifting stance aligns with his post-Putin summit promises of a "peace agreement," reversing earlier rhetoric to emphasize long-term stability, even as he lobbies the EU to align against Russia by targeting its economic partners, exposing the hypocrisy of nations decrying aggression while profiting from Russian energy flows.

Such maneuvers—and make no mistake, they are maneuvers—expose the fractures within the bloc itself, where Viktor Orban, that steadfast EU outlier offers an alternate security guarantee for Ukraine: carving a demilitarized buffer that acknowledges realities on the ground, dividing spheres of influence to foster stability over endless conflict.

What’s more, Orban pushes for direct Russia talks, opposes EU summit declarations on Ukraine and argues that its membership provides no real security, urging a rethink of financing support amid his ongoing legal challenges to EU procedures, positioning Hungary as a bridge between East and West in a multipolar realignment.

Meanwhile, Slovakia's Robert Fico and Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic recently joined the Victory Day Parade in Beijing—a symbolic defection from the fracturing EU monolith, splitting between peacemakers and warmongers, as I detailed in my latest feature, "The Sovereign War."

There, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's symphony of sovereignty in Tianjin continues to illuminate Central Asia's pivot from periphery to heartland, with Xi, Putin and Modi orchestrating a multipolar harmony that inverts the Axis and Allies narrative, exposing the Invisible Enemy's overreach through economic meshes like the Belt and Road Initiative and Power of Siberia pipelines, fostering cooperative competition that erodes Western dependencies and highlights the peacemakers' vision of mutual prosperity over mutual destruction.

Now, the mass psychological attention fixes upon these warmongers, scrutinizing their next moves amid Trump's calibrated projections of escalation tempered by olive branches.

And in the midst of the engineered—by one side AND the other, albeit for opposite reasons—tensions, one of the Kremlin's top negotiators, Kirill Dmitriev has signaled the very endgame I've projected since the dawn of the Righteous Russia series, where the maligned figures of Trump and Putin emerge not as tyrants, but as righteous peacekeepers thwarting the globalist subversion.

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That’s right … Dmitriev has declared that Putin and Trump "will prevent WW3," evoking the Yalta ghosts of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill while underscoring that dialogue, respect and mutual sovereignty are the antidotes to the Deep State's failures, where apparent enmities might—and perhaps already have—dissolve into alliances against a common invisible foe.

This theme of the Peacemakers being a more literal framing device than some would believe posits sovereignty as the root of strength, and strength as the root of peace—where apparent conflicts expose corruption, priming the Collective for a global awakening and the dissolution of unipolar chains, guiding the world through a silent war for peace that paralyzes kinetic conflict on a grand scale, transforming proxy battlegrounds into negotiation tables.

And yet, as the macro escalations abroad seek to drag sovereigns into the abyss to avoid that very thing, the micro attempts at martyrdom at home aim to fracture the mind from within.

Consider the horror at Utah Valley University, where the MAGA movement lost one of its most amplified faces, an assassin’s bullet making good on the dark promise of July 13, 2024 as it ripped Charlie Kirk's life away.

The tragedy is obvious and inherent: a human life destroyed for all the world to see, his family included, and no doubt on the back of dark designs, even if we can only guess at them now, and long after the mass psychological dust settles.

Either way, Kirk, the Turning Point USA co-founder known for campus debates and fiery advocacy—as well as the cultivation of a tapestry of rallying youth to America First principles, no matter what I or any other sovereign thought of him or any other voice endeavoring to lend its mandate to the sifting chorus of American determinism—now becomes a far more literal flashpoint in the Info War, and one we would do well to consider with sober minds and heavy hearts.

Trump, for his part responded as he should—as we would expect him to: by calling for prayer, calling for justice—against ALL of those involved—and most importantly … peace.

And yet, the tragedy’s ripple effects—amplified by live streams and viral footage—underscore the raw division festering in the cultural battlespace I began this piece with.

In the fog of the Info War, debates rage between PsyOps and PsyActs—staged deceptions versus raw kineticism—but such binaries distract from the essence: the Narrative emerging from the chaos, weaponized to push division to the point of no return.

Therefore—and as I have been arguing for years—attempting to determine whether something is real or fake in this arena is of lesser importance than discerning the net effects and narrative intent of the stories being told about it, for the veracity of the event pales against the psychological payload it delivers, shaping perceptions and reactions in ways that serve the tellers' agendas.

As the one side seeks to traumatize, enrage and incite, the other seeks to free, and perhaps to educate along the way, all in an effort to avoid the very schism Trump and true patriots in the America First movement have labored to avoid at all costs, guarding the Republic's soul against the collectivists' bids for civil entropy.

Kirk, as the face of this trauma event isn't just a victim, then; he's the embodiment of the assault visited not merely on the nation, but on the core vision Donald Trump and this movement have manifested for its impending future—a vision of reclaimed sovereignty, economic resurgence and cultural revival that the Deep State stands opposed to, and so, will oppose by any means necessary, from rhetorical incitement to kinetic strikes, all designed to fracture the collective psyche … and to provoke retaliatory cycles, which are so named for a reason.

This is the enemy's death spiral, a frantic lashing out as their illusions shatter, where it always seems darkest before the dawn.

Engaging in the War of Stories and the Mind War means discerning narrative intent—even, or perhaps especially, on the back of Actual events, where the story's trajectory toward violence reveals the hand of those who thrive on chaos, not harmony.

As the fallout of the latest cascade of trauma events filter across the macro mindscape over the coming days, weeks and months, then, always begin at the desired end point of the story you're being told, and reverse engineer it to guide your present reaction.

The Hegelian Dialectic hasn't been wielded against the Collective Mind for generations because it was invented, but because it is inherent to the human condition, which is the human psyche.

In moments of engineered chaos, then, by any and all sides in the Info War, in which the macro and the micro psyche find themselves spinning in a void without horizon, consider leaving the psyche to the side temporarily, and concentrating on the signal, which is to say, the soul, and the story YOU were attempting to tell all along might just remain when the psychospiritual dust has settled.

If the end of the story is trying to guide you toward violence ... the story isn't being written by people who have your best interests in mind, nor those of this country.

To wit, the reason I approach things from the War of Stories framing isn't because I think it's all fake ... or real. It's because the only thing I can know with certainty are the stories being told, and their intended end points.

Trump wants peace. We want peace.

They do not, and if you’re having trouble discerning which is which and who is whom, look to the whip and lash of their words, and what those words would have writ large across the battlespace and the realm of the real.

So, whether it's Martyrdom on the Macro nation state level, or the Micro putting a face to a movement and taking it away in alternatively terrifying and enraging fashion ... perceiving the desired end state—the culmination—of the story itself is the key to defecting from it, and letting the light shine out the clearer in the aftermath, where we remain who we were before the story was begun, and after it was told, while those who would stand against the core tenets of what we represent are rendered exposed in the dawning light of awakening.

As for the latest mass trauma event visited on the back of a micro—and no less traumatic because of it—tragedy, my thoughts are simple, as is my hope:

Trump wasn't targeted just because they feared him, but because they WANTED to Martyr him, while guiding the mass psychological fallout of a mass trauma event ...

Right into a Civil War.

The enemy is desperate, my friends.

And now, it’s not just me saying that … it’s them.

They have LOST the story.

They WANT the war.

Don’t give it to them.

Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk.

And until next time, and no matter how difficult it gets in the interim, endeavor to stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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