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A Ukraine U-Turn, A Cacophony of Clowns & Broke Beer

Bright Army!

As many of you know, last week was a bit of a whirlwind for me … not that there’s a week in recent months that couldn’t be described in the same vein.

Still, flying out to Chandler, Arizona to meet over 200 patriots in person at the first edition of the Great American Restoration Tour was an absolute trip. I was blessed and humbled to meet so many of the find folks who read this blog, and who watch my appearances on the Badlands Media Rumble channel. I’ll have more thoughts on that in my next feature, but, while I’m still fighting through a fog of jet lag and a serious case of the work week Mondays that seem to have stretched all the way into Friday, I wanted to put together some quick-hit thoughts on the top stories that grabbed me over the course of the week that was.

Now, onto the news …

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Ukraine in the Membrane

It’s not the most original subsection title, I’ll grant you, but I told you I’m tired and I’m sticking with it.

For any who’ve been following my work for any significant length of time, you’ll know that I’m sort of known as the ‘Russia Guy’ at Badlands Media, and perhaps one of the more prominent ‘Russia Guys’ in the Anon world.

Of course, I’m far from the only Anon who felt compelled—even called—enough by Vladimir Putin’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine to join the Information War in an active manner after passively observing this Fifth-Gen War for several years, but what separates my analysis from most others—for better or worse—is the Macro Narrative lens I attempt to observe ongoing deployments through.

(On that note, if there are any among you who’ve NOT read the series that first brought Burning Bright to the dance, consider checking out Righteous Russia today. I think it’s held up quite well, all things considered.)

While others dig into the Micro—the nitty gritty WHAT’s and WHO’s of various national and international political, kinetic and cultural theaters—I tend to zoom out and examine the Macro Narratives being advanced. This is why I tend to pay close attention to the pillar publications of the Media Industrial Complex even as I implore my readers and viewers to take every single deployment emanating from them with a metric ton of Himalayan salt. While the enemy’s information dissemination (and obfuscation) program is not to be trusted, the narratives originated, codified and deployed therein represent illuminating glimpses into the collective thinking of the collectivists I believe sovereigns around the world are in a war against.

As for what this war is over, well, as many know, I believe it is for the Collective Mind of American—and world—society, and without getting too far down that particular pathway today, I believe that’s a war we’re winning, and that we ultimately will win.

That said, reeling myself back in here, where it concerns the Russia-Ukraine theater, undoubtedly one of the most contentious and impactful in a seemingly-endless line of controversies, narrative, political and kinetic deployments by both sides in recent years, I think headlines like the one pictured above in the professional DC hack site known as Politico paint an encouraging picture for us and a rather bleak one for [them] when it comes to their former goals in the liberated Russian Donbas and the Globalist Proxy State that is Ukraine.

For months, I’ve been pointing out that everyone from the US State Department to Volodymyr Zelensky himself have been redefining the terms and definitions of ‘victory’ in the collective mind of the western world, hoping the plebs won’t quite notice how uncannily similar the ‘new’ definition of success in Ukraine resembles the clear and concise definition for the very same word as delivered and detailed by Putin shortly after Russian forces crossed the would-be NATO line in February, 2022.

My fellow Badlanders and I, from Jon Herold to Just Human have passed theories back and forth for months regarding the particular hat color of Zelensky and many of the other players on the international game board, but, while I find such mental and bicameral exercises both engaging and useful when it comes to stretching cognitive bounds and unlocking new cognitive constellations in the Info War, my most confident assertions tend to come back to the Net Effects of it all.

What are the Net Effects of this sort of headline?

Simple.

The Biden Administration (however you’d like to define it,) and their handlers and defenders in the Media Industrial Complex have already accepted that defeat at the hands of Russia and Putin is inevitable, and are only trying to figure out how they’re going to spin tens of billions in US taxpayer spending and 14+ months breathlessly bloviating about the imminent collapse of the western world now that their confident and illusory predictions and stated goals are being rendered stark, naked and exposed for the world to see.

As for the most tantalizing (for us) prospect regarding this media and establishment turn on the Ukraine Narrative?

What do [they] stand to lose?

Surely the Deep State has no real need to best Russia on the kinetic battlefield. So what is it they stand to gain—or rather, to lose—by giving up the Donbas?

• An international hub of trafficking, from drugs and money to the human variety.

• A proxy state—both geographic and political—through which to wage war against the rising sovereign powers in the east, powers that I believe have forged an alliance with Donald Trump and western patriots.

• International psychological standing in the Collective Mind of NATO, and by extension the post-WW2 age of American jingoism and western hegemony, characterized by exploitative forever wars, a parasitic petrodollar and a destabilized chaos zone in the Middle East.

• The express mandate of much of the western world to determine the manner and scope of both kinetic and financial power projection.

Nothing much, in other words.

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Clowns. Clowns Everywhere …

Do you really need to do a reverse image search in order to know that the squinty, dead-eyed man pictured above is a CIA agent?

Of course not.

But then, even that characterization isn’t ENTIRELY accurate. After all, if recent reports are to be taken at face value, Mike Morell is either a “former” or “ex” CIA Senior Official.

But I digress …

The reason Morell captured the attention of my peers Jon Herold and Just Human over the course of the last few days runs in parallel to my own reasons: namely, a CIA operative who was directly involved in the trumping up of the infamous peddling of the Russia Collusion hoax also—and admittedly—had his hands in the Hunter cookie jar. That is, Morell testified before the House judiciary and intelligence committees and admitted that he helped to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 … and at the direction of Anthony Blinken and the Biden Campaign.

Sounds eerily similar to some of the shenanigans that went on during the 2016 election cycle, does it not?

Weird, that these same intel agency spooks seem to pop up time and time again, so confident in their ‘fortification’ of ‘our Democracy’ that they’ll go to any lengths to ensure that plebs like us don’t actually know what’s going on when it comes to foreign interference, or even of very real crimes committed by the children—and perhaps the sires—of any number of American political dynasties that would rule over us given the chance.

Honestly, I don’t know how we’ve ever managed to get along without patriots such as Morell working behind the scenes.

But then, all joking aside, Morell and his clownish ilk have plagued the American political system for decades—and perhaps for far longer, considering the dark origins of the CIA and other clandestine organizations that have sought to pull the strings of world powers since time immemorial. They are a scourge that are seemingly answerable to no one but the unseen masters who puppet their strings, engaging in political and media obfuscation at the least and regime change at the worst … even if that regime change takes place within what are ostensibly their own borders.

The years 1963 and 2020 come to mind. And 2016 … albeit a failure on their part, and a hindsight beacon of hope on ours.

While I’ll leave deep-dive analysis on Morell and the CIA’s involvement in the suppression of the Biden laptop to minds more geared toward that particular form of digging and connecting, I’ll return to my usual refrain and zoom out to consider the Net Effects of YET ANOTHER CIA clown making headlines in all the worst ways.

In order to free the Collective Mind from the invisible tyranny of the System of Systems, those Systems MUST be exposed.

From the political to the financial, the media to the military, the clandestine to the overt, every piece of the puzzle must be rendered clear as day.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, after all … and the CIA is getting a lot of sun lately.

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The Brokening …

First of all, let me say that I apologize for subjecting you to the above image.

Much as we joke about woke ideology and transgenderism in particular in this community, I don’t think there’s anything funny about grooming a generation of children into gender dysphoria, depression, sexual-social anxiety and all around confusion by everything from the public school system to the cartoons their unsuspecting parents put on to entertain them while they try to get a bit of work done around the house.

That said, I really didn’t see the ‘woke’ turn coming for Bud Light, mainstream sports and action/adventure franchises in Hollywood quite so suddenly, which is both good and bad.

As for the bad, well … that’s self-explanatory. As I’ve written about at length around these parts, the Entertainment Industrial Complex (including sports) is one of the most influential to the formation of shared cultural identity in the United States. The heroes and villains represented on screen and on the page in any given generation tend to be representative of the moralistic or hedonistic zeitgeist at that point in time, either presenting a snapshot of it or perhaps a reaction to it.

If our current entertainment is characterized by an inability to suss out the difference between a man and a woman—hell, if it’s characterized by an inability to even ask a question ABOUT the inability to suss out the difference between a man and a woman, we’re not dealing with a cultural zeitgeist being represented organically and accurately … we’re dealing with the intentional Marxist subversion of it.

This is the Hegelian Dialectic I write about so frequently at Burning Bright. Problem, Reaction, Solution.

By presenting American society with a false problem—transgenders’ fight for equality, when they already enjoy all the same rights and privileges as anyone else in our shared Republic—the powers that would be hope to reverse engineer the end result they put on display—that being a generation of selfish, vapid women lording over a population of increasingly demoralized, feminized or transgender males.

After all, a society is only as strong as its male representation, and it’s only as pure as its female representation. The two form a perfect feedback loop of impression and desire, honor and union. Which is exactly why [they] want to break that union apart by taking a hacksaw to the very definitions underlying the male and female form—and maybe, in a more literal sense to the genitals of those crazy or insecure enough to fall prey to the subversive spell.

That said, this post isn’t meant to be doom-tinged, as there are myriad signs that the Wokening is coming to an end as it transitions steadily into the Brokening. From Bud Light stock—both financial and literal shelf and bar space—to the recent announcement of 7,000 layoffs across the crumbling and embattled Disney Empire, I believe we’re beginning to see some of the positive and difficult to predict Net Effects of the era of easy money coming to an end.

Ironically, and in keeping with my Macro economic theory known as the Spider-Man 2 Effect, I believe this is one of the key markers of the patriots’ Reverse Hegelian Dialectic, as the acceleration of money printing kicked off under Donald Trump in 2020 has put the false economy on the knife’s edge, resulting in a financial Crisis Cascade that is squeezing the American citizen while running ruthlessly rampant over the illusory wealth held by boutique banks, hedge funds and woke corporations all over the nation.

And while this process will seem slow—has seemed slow—I believe it will follow the other trends, the other dominoes of victory we continue to track in this multi-layered, multi-year, perhaps multi-generation war for the future of the United States.

Winning happens very slowly … and then all at once.

Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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