Bright Brief - The Cards

Lessons in Leverage for the Awakening World

“You don’t have the cards.”

Much has been written and spoken in the aftermath of the highly entertaining, highly combustible and highly effective—depending on your perspective—Oval Office confrontation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, two men occupying such opposite points on the line separating sovereign leadership from its approximate proxification that to consider it a meeting between leaders in the first place is to betray one’s fundamental lack of understanding as to the makeup of the battlespace we currently exist within, and are in the process of breaking out of.

And yet, for all that writing—much of which I contributed in the days following the meeting—those five words SHOULD have been the signal most loudly received by the sleepers among us, those without the minds or psychospiritual drives that have compelled them to delve in the darkness in search of the light like those of you reading these words.

And perhaps they were.

In fact, it could be that, given our propensity to assign assymetric readings to most sociopolitical deployments, the sleepers among us actually did receive that message loud and clear, a message that’s no doubt being broadcast in various channels and across various layers throughout the Info War, all by the cognitive cyphers—the chosen leaders—of what we call the Sovereign Alliance around these parts.

“You don’t have the cards.”

What Trump cut to the heart of was the truth of the matter, a baseline truth that has always nested at the heart of every honest and dishonest exchange between interested parties on either side of the human condition: those who want something and those who have it. Those with power and those who covet it, or else cower in front of it.

This is a refrain—power is power—that I’ve been writing about for ages, dating all the way back to the Righteous Russia series that started it all at Burning Bright, and it seems to be the foundational principle being advanced through Trump’s most public and firmly-delivered deployments at the advent of the new American Golden Age.

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From hard-line negotiations with Prussian Proxy States that are really just statements of fact—if not outright demands—to the continuation of the most one-sided trade war—that between the sovereign American Empire and the globalist communist morasse masquerading as a superstate—in history, Trump isn’t taking prisoners this time, and in so doing, he’s forcing the American Mind—even those up until now reticent to his particular style—to reconcile the difference between the desire to do something and the ability to.

Of course, Trump’s row—planned or otherwise—with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office served to both underscore and buoy this power-based theme, which continues to reverberate throughout the battlespace, and it’s a stance that’s being mirrored by other members of the theorized Sovereign Alliance, including Vladimir Putin, the only figure I’ve dedicated ALMOST as much digital ink chronicling in this strange war as Trump himself.

After all, as I've been saying for three years, whatever peace deal is brokered between Russia and Ukraine is going to be identical to the one Putin offered in March 2022.

What are the terms of that agreement?

• The Donbas is Russian. (And always was.)

• NATO fucks off. (Please excuse the French.)

These have always been the terms. Putin has always held the cards. Zelenskyy—and by extension—his handlers, never have.

But then … that’s not entirely true, is it? And Trump knows it’s not true.

This is why he can and often does speak out of both sides of his mouth where it concerns his ‘tough,’ but ultimately ‘fair’ stance on Putin.

Trump knows what those of you who’ve been reading this work and who’ve been following the writings and commentary of my friend

Jon Herold

for any length of time understand, and that is that the most powerful trump card in the history of the world—the modern world, in any event—is the one that quantifies and deploys the power of the US Military over the kinetic—meaning the actual—battlespace.

Or, perhaps more importantly … doesn’t.

That’s right, it doesn’t take a sociopolitical analyst or a 5GW genius to point out that the US Military is and has been the most powerful fighting force—and therefore, the most devastating actual form of power projection ever assembled—since the aftermath of World War 2, just as it doesn’t take much digging or diving to come to the realization that said fighting force has been weaponized in causes against peace and in the very furtherance of the collectivist system this nation was founded to oppose far more often than in defense of sovereignty on the Micro or the Macro.

This is why the Devolution Operation—the theorized continuity of government plan likely implemented by Trump on the doorstep or in the aftermath of the stolen 2020 presidential election—stands as a key pivot point in this war between the forces of sovereignty and collectivism the world over.

It’s not just about the United States, and it never has been. While the domestic effects of the Biden Administration were highly concentrated in both the economic and the mass psychological realms, overseas, things took an actual turn, with Putin launching his long-awaited denazification operation in the Donbas while Trump silently cheered him on—or at the very least, pointedly looked away—removed from the public levers of power, or at least the appearance of them.

Putin’s war on the globalist oligarchy could ONLY be fought on the real battlefield—in the realm of the real—because that’s where the war had been taken to the would-be heirs of the Russian Empire exiled to its outskirts due to the imaginary line-drawing of the western hegemon. Trump knew this, just as Putin did, and, I suspect, just as the screeching and screaming harpies in Brussels, Paris, Berlin and London knew it … even if they never really thought it would come to pass.

And yet, Trump held the cards, which is to say, Trump has always been where the buck stops, or the ruble, and so, however far you believe Putin has taken things in his sometimes-real and perhaps sometimes-exaggerated war in the Donbas, I firmly believe he has only taken them so far as Trump has allowed him to, which is as close to a de facto denazification deal as we’re ever likely to get disclosed in a war it has been both our privilege and perhaps our burden to know is in the offing, and that may not be remembered.

So, if Putin has truly got the collectivist enemy where he wants them in one theater, and if Trump has them routed in another, why the delay on the eventual and inevitable peacemaking? Why not get the pens out and the deals done in full view of the Collective Mind?

Well, as I’ve said many times in these digital pages, I truly believe the aim of this war—kinetic and actual goals aside—is in the reunification and reorientation of the collective sovereign mind, especially the western mind in recognition of its true enemies and in reconciliation with its no-longer enemies.

And that takes time, timing and awakening.

To wit, as we examined in a recent brief, does it seem like the collectivist class in Brussels is more or less exposed with each passing week in the Info War?

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It’s been said that you can’t simply tell the people the truth. You have to show them. And what better way to show them than to put the enemy in such a position wherein their only options seem to be to affect a bizarre capitulation-rebellion ritual that sees them alternatively kissing the proverbial ring in increasingly-humiliating visits to Washington and bloviating from EU lecterns about the need to run the dastardly red Russians to the ends of the earth, all so that what’s left of their precious—and admittedly quite enduring—nazi experiment might live on just a bit longer in the frozen mires and wastes of a now-thawing gray zone?

And so, yes, we’ve been told that the brave Ukrainian freedom fighters have been surrounded in Russian Kursk, and yes, we’ve been told that Putin is wondering aloud what to do with the lot as Trump implores him to show the sort of mercy one wonders whether or not would have been proferred in the other direction, and yet, I don’t think that’s the last card Ukraine had left to play, or the EU bureacrats behind them and above them.

I believe that card was the US Military, and I believe it’s been off the table and tucked firmly into Donald Trump’s sly hand for some time, now. Whether or not the carrion crows in the collapsing collectivist state have known this all along, or are finally bearing witness to its consequences in the open is another matter entirely, but from where I’m sitting, the clock is ticking faster of late, and those screaming the loudest seem to be those who never thought they would lose.

Of course, Trump likes to do what we call a little trolling, while delivering timely reminders of this fact to his friends across the sea. I’d like to think his decision to cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine was a multi-layered shot across the bow, considering the Russian side has been accusing US intel of waging proxy war in the region since the infamous Obama-approved Maidan coup of 2014, which prepped the battlespace we see being cleansed and turned over now.

The fact that Trump deployed this narrative-actual in the midst of mass layoffs at CIA headquarters in Langley is an understated and underappreciated masterstroak by a master of narrative warfare whose genius continues to be missed by most … but not by us.

And if Trump is our cognitive cypher—this community, of course, but more importantly that of the awake and awakening sovereign American spirit—then Zelenskyy, Macron, Starmer et al are currently animating the enemy’s engine.

In other words, these are the players at the table, and the game has grown alternatively tense and entertaining enough to draw more than the occasional wandering eye from the bar, as now, the whole town seems poised on a knife’s edge, with prying and peering eyes leaning and leaving stools and half-drawn pints to catch a glimpse of the hands that have yet to fold, if only to see which are beginning to shake, and to see which quirk of a lip is less a quiver and more a tell, and one of a victory long decided and short coming.

Strings.

Strings have been revealed in the aftermath of Trump’s drubbing of everyone from Zelenskyy to Trudeau, Sheinbaum to Rutte, even if he’s effected most of them with a smile, something he didn’t afford the former, and something that frightens the latter even more because of it.

Many a string ties back to Ukraine, and all the secrets it held, which are coming undone in time with a faux history and all the stories told about it.

And so, as you witness the capitulation pattern on one side of the sea resemble a panic pattern on the other, know that the flies caught closest to the center of the web struggle most mightily, most desperately before the killing comes, and know that all the eyes in the woods are watching as the hunter unfurls, and as the knuckles knock, and as the cards are laid down before more eyes than have ever watched the game before.

Power is power.

Not the appearance of it. Not the threat of it. Not the promise.

The thing is the thing. Always has been. Always will be.

And for the first time in a long time, we can say with confidence that the great power in the world—economically, socially, spiritually and yes, kinetically—resides with its greatest people in its greatest land.

All that remains to be seen is just how far the table takes it, which will determine just how far that power has to run before the final point is made.

In other words …

Some play the river.

Others win the game.

Either way, everyone loves to see the cards laid out.

Until then, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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