Bright Brief - Axis, Allies ... or Both?
Exploring the Actual Threat of a Narrative War
First of all, I’ve got to kick off this Brief (and it actually WILL be Brief, for a change,) by giving a shout out to two men: Donald Trump and
.As for the former, I knew he still had some love for Our Boy Blue in him, but I must say, I was genuinely taken aback by his commitment to the bit.
In a beautiful and mesmerizing—not to mention genius—call-back to the ghost of Joseph R. Biden, Donald Trump and his team reportedly “called a lid” on White House communications Tuesday evening … ostensibly because they’re just having too much damn fun.
Of course, the Media Industrial Complex jumped at the chance to frame said ‘lid’ as evidence of both the inevitability of the war that was foretold—the one they’ve been telling us is just beyond the horizon for, well, our whole lives, come to think of it, AND of Trump’s seeming lack of control over the Actual Battlespace.
Now, as any who’ve been reading my work for any length of time can attest, I’m far less interested in the Actual than I am in the Narrative, and on that account, there’s a reason I refer to Donald Trump as The Master of Narrative Warfare.
(I wrote a whole damn series on it, as a matter of fact, which I’ve been told hasn’t quite gone out of style.)
The Master - Part 1
The Master explores Donald Trump’s mastery of Narrative Warfare, his Narrative Fighting Style and his importance to the Sovereign Alliance in this Fifth-Generation War against the Globalist Deep State.
Then again, at the risk of dissuading you from reading (or re-reading) that particular deep dive (which you should totally do,) I don’t think you need to in order to form a baseline understanding after at least SOME earnest study of Trump’s narrative deployments that, well, he knows what he’s doing.
But then, I’ve lost the thread, which is the other man I need to give props—my good friend
, who called the second rug in as many days—and certainly not the last—hours before it happened, when he said:
All of which is to say, the inspiration for this Brief is less about what I think is actually going on in the Middle Eastern theater, and much more about some initial impressions of Trump’s handling of the narratives spilling out of it, and seeded into it … many by himself, of course.
And to give you that snapshot, I need to first speak Bicamerally, and then Socratically, and I hope, if nothing else, you find the exercise worthwhile not so much as a commentary on what has been, but more so, what WILL be when it comes to the ongoing and engineered chaos the storytellers are likely to weave in the days, weeks and months ahead.
First up, let’s go Bicameral with Donald Trump's Iran Deployments, which currently have the Collective Mind spinning.
To do this, I'm simply going to take some of Trump's recent statements and run them through the most literal filter imaginable in an attempt to demonstrate that, while the messaging COULD be contradictory from the perspective of those expecting the Peacemaker story arc to be accelerating in place of an apparent escalation campaign, it doesn’t actually have to be.
To start, let's look at the statement Trump likes so much, he seems to be saying it word-for-word several times per day:
"IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!"
Surface = Exactly what it sounds like. Trump is trying to stop Iran from attaining nuclear weapons.
Bicameral = Exactly what it reads like. Iran CAN NOT have a nuclear weapon ... because they DO NOT and WILL NOT, either because such weapons are entirely narrative, or, perhaps more likely, because whatever deal will prevent Iran from attaining said weapons is already done.
"It certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that."
Surface = Trump is working on an advanced War Campaign to deal with the Iranian Regime.
Bicameral = That War Campaign is informational and psychological. What's more, the only thing BIGGER than a Cease Fire in this context would be ... a PEACE DEAL ... the very deal that's no longer on the table, because Iran already agreed to it.
"I have not reached out to Iran for 'Peace Talks' in any way, shape or form."
Surface = Trump is playing hardball with the current controllers of the bad acting factions in the region.
Bicameral = In keeping with the Bicameral Reading of Statement #2, Trump doesn't need to reach out to Iran to make a deal that's already done. What we're watching, then is the narrative translation of a war that was fought (and won) in the shadows some time ago, now increasingly being forced into the light while all players on the game board (including Trump) save face to their respective populations.
The same template is playing out in Ukraine, and likely will play out in Taiwan.
"We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran."
Surface = US MIL assets are protecting National Essential Functions by preventing the kinetic kickoff of WW3.
Bicameral = Honestly, not too far off from the Surface Reading: Having control over the skies in the region does not have to imply US MIL assets on the ground or directly involved.
Ever heard of Starlink?
Weapons aren't the only thing that pass through the skies. Information does, too.
So, who's controlling the information flow?
"We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding."
Surface = Whoever IS pulling strings over there is caught dead to rights.
Bicameral = Trump is leaving SERIOUS wiggle room when it comes to WHO he is referring to, which nation he represents, and how he/they is/are being neutralized ... or exposed.
Who really controls Iran? How is Iran being freed?
Who really wants war?
So … that enough Bicameral for you?
Fine … how about we try the Socratic on for size?
If we know the endgame (peace,) then what does it say about the pathway there? All Narrative? All translation?
If we know the media's push to paint Trump as a warmonger will fail, then what is the point of his current rhetoric?
If we are told Trump is attacking Iran, and he recently told you he could do so without anybody dying, because "nobody would be in the labs," then are we watching a hot war, or the reenactment of one that's already over?
Is Trump drawing out enemies within the media matrix? Does anyone listen to the MSM anymore? If not them, then who is Trump drawing out?
How many Con Inc. accounts are currently exposing themselves? How many foreign governments? How many Congressional hawks and RINOs? How many advisors?
If we knew Iran WOULD be free, is it possible that it already is free? That it has been free, and that we are going to be TOLD it has freed itself from a regime that lost power some time ago?
If strings were cut to North Korea, and if we know those strings led back to US, UK and Israeli intel, and if we knew those same intel apparatus coordinated to effect regime change in Iran in 1953, and if the Iranian people claim those same intel apparatus coordinated to install a proxy regime on the back of the 'organic' 1979 revolution, which destabilized the region for the next 40 years, would it not make sense for those strings to have been cut as part of patriot plans during the first Trump Administration?
If we knew there would be regime change, which regime are we talking about? The Iranian regime, or the regime behind the Iranian regime?
If Iran is commonly looped into a triumvirate on both Actual (trade, energy and military equipment deals) and Narrative levels with both Russia and China, if the MSM and the aforementioned intel agencies are attempting to brand said triumvirate as the 'New Axis,' as I have posited for some time, AND if we believe that the leaders of both Russia AND China are coordinating with POTUS to "eliminate the NWO," then what does it mean for Iran to be "freed" while Trump is on his Peacemaker arc?
Is it possible to reconcile patriot control with free will?
Does patriot control mean what many claim it means? Is it realistic for patriots to control all kinetic events worldwide?
Is it realistic for patriots to control the Narrative, and to cultivate public mandate for the emergence of a new, multipolar world in keeping with the vision of the Sovereign Alliance on the back of it?
One of these interpretations of control is far more likely than the other, and I believe you're seeing one of the best encapsulations of it with the Iran Narrative, which is likely just a precursor to even more dramatic translations when Russia and China join the game, which is to say, the story in earnest.
So, I’d recommend adjusting your timelines.
You are watching the narrative translation of a war that's already been fought, and won.
To wit …
Trump wants peace.
Russia wants peace, and is willing to broker negotiations.
Iran wants peace, and is now looping in the Saudis and Qataris, two stops along Trump's recent peace tour.
Again, in my view, you are witnessing mandate cultivation for the disclosure of done deals.
So, who wants war?
And finally, what’s the initial conclusion here?
Simply put, assuming that Donald Trump knows what he’s doing will generally avail you better when navigating the kaleidoscopic chaos of the Info War than the opposite.
So … as he alternates between stately calls for peace and ALL CAPS blitzes on his presumed enemies … what’s he doing?
Remember that the last war is a War for Peace, and it’s being contested in a mass psychological battlespace defined by Narrative, which is why Trump is navigating it while generating daily bouts of engineered whiplash that only looks like chaos from the outside.
Put another way … it’s worth keeping in mind that, in the midst of the very serious build-up to the very real threat of the very real war that has been promised for generations, two of the men ostensibly destined to fight on opposite sides of it are having friendly birthday calls in the interim.
And it’s not the only tell.
I discussed this entertaining bit of narrative seeding and convergence with my friend Brad on Sunday night’s episode of The Narrative, in fact.
Okay … so, I COULD spin out into about a THOUSAND spider-webbed directions from here, but I’m actually going to try to stick to my guns and keep this one Brief.
I am, after all working on the follow-up to the somewhat gargantuan—only to expand—Acceleratia series, which seeks to both distill and expound upon the 2025 narrative battlespace in ‘real time,’ which is to say, narrative time.
This one marks a bit of an evolution for me, as I’m attempting to chronicle something of an Info War Journal so that we might not only parse the Macro Narratives while they’re in the midst of visiting whatever mass psychological and even actual effects onto the realm of the real they will, but also document just how quickly the BIGGEST, most SERIOUS stories in the ether come and go like ghosts in the wind … or in the machine, depending on your perspective, quite as if they were deployed with specific purposes in mind, guiding toward specific ends.
Ends we’re told we’re going to like quite a bit.
Catch up on Part 1 below, and stay subscribed to get Part 2—which will focus on everything from the California Riots and re-emergence of the Nuclear Narrative to the fallout and future of the Trump-Musk Saga on the War of Stories—straight to your inbox when it’s ready
Acceleratia - Part 1
(Author’s Note: Some of you may have noticed it’s been a hot minute since I dropped a Brief, a long-form feature or, well, much of anything around these parts aside from links to recent episodes of The Narrative, which I hope you’ve been enjoying.
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People with TDR think Trump is a bumbling idiot. He plays the role well when it serves his purpose. We can see right through it to the bicameral, but (as I stated in today’s News Brief) his communication strategy is amazing to behold.
Thanks BB! It's always very helpful to read your breakdown of the narrative. My husband and I have committed to NO TV! Just movies and lots of reading. We gain so much peace and in this case, ignorance is bliss of what Fox is spewing!