The Path of the Torpedo

The Only Way Out Is Through

Author’s Note: This Brief is a follow-up to the recently-published Axis … or Allies feature, which represents a July 2025 update on where the story of the Sovereign Alliance stands. It is best read with that writing in mind, though I will reference a few others from the early days of Burning Bright in order to flesh out the current nature of the battlespace, as I see it.

I apologize for threading in so many links to past features, but sometimes, I do feel the whole forms a more complete tapestry than the sum of its parts, and many seem to like the call-backs.

Now … on to the writing.

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In the ever-unfolding War of Stories, where the Collective Mind is the ultimate battlespace, we've long anticipated the convergence of threads that seem, at first glance, to pull us toward the abyss.

Yet, as I've posited time and again, these apparent descents into chaos are often the very mechanisms by which the Sovereign Alliance—those elusive architects of a reclaimed Republic, one writ large over the mass collective of humanity—engineer a series of mass psychological inversions that continue to awaken the slumbering masses, one bright node at a time.

Today, as Donald Trump's rhetoric sharpens against the backdrop of a crumbling Russiagate facade, we're witnessing precisely such a maneuver: a deliberate escalation that shields the truth while paving the path to peace.

To wit—and as long-time readers know I have been predicting in some detail since the inception of this publication—it's no coincidence that Trump, the consummate storyteller, is dialing up the tension with Russia just as the Deep State's most insidious plot unravels in broad daylight. This is narrative warfare at its finest, a Reverse Hegelian Dialectic in motion, transforming trauma into catharsis and turning engineered enemies into unlikely allies, all while providing copius—and temporary—narrative shielding in the interim.

So, let’s dissect the current script, shall we?

(And, in keeping with themes explored in the Q Drops and in these writings for years, we know patriots aren’t just aping traditional and archetypal narrative structure—which is to say, plot structure—because they’re big fans of movies, but rather because they understand that humans think in stories, and that if a structure isn’t broken, there’s no use trying to fix it.)

In the current chapter, then, Trump's recent musings on the Russia-Ukraine conflict reveal a man unbound by the illusions that have ensnared his predecessors. In a candid admission, he confessed that sanctions—those blunt instruments of economic coercion so beloved by the globalist cadre—simply aren't fazing Vladimir Putin.

"I don’t know that sanctions bother him," Trump remarked in between bouts of cartoonish escalation with the very same ‘unbothered’ prospective enemy, underscoring how Russia's economy has weathered the storm of Western isolation with surprising resilience.

Which I happened to write about in my most recent Brief, if you’ll recall.

As I argued therein, in the midst of entertaining, but fake reports that Donald Trump is attempting to escalate toward the WW3 precipice with Russia, most missed the culmination of one of the Sovereign Alliance's most delightful pincer moves ever.

And it's directly responsible for the EU's current capitulation pattern, which I projected in the Righteous Russia series way back in 2022.

So, how did Russia help Trump bring the EU to heel?

By reminding them that Power is Power ...

"The globalist bloc, in its hubris, sought to move away from hydrocarbons toward a WEF-orchestrated scarcity model, where energy rationing justified control. But the sanctions war they launched against Russia—largely at Biden's behest—backfired spectacularly, creating the very pickle Trump now exploits.

As I've written for ages about various—and ongoing—US-Russia pincer moves, this wasn't a blunder, in my estimation; it was a baited trap in the grand theater of emergent multipolarity, and it worked spectacularly.

Recall: the West's sanctions aimed to cripple Russia, but as predicted, they had little effect beyond forcing Moscow to diversify eastward, forging unbreakable ties with BRICS nations and accelerating a de-dollarized trade system.

In fact, the Kremlin so much as confirmed this with recent statements from Dmitry Peskov, wherein he likened the Russian response to the western hegemon’s sanctions war as being akin to, well, a vaccine.

'We have been living under a huge number of sanctions for quite a long time. Our economy operates under a huge number of restrictions. Therefore, of course, we have already developed a certain immunity to this,' Peskov told reporters.

Russia didn't collapse, then; it thrived, its economy growing while the EU's withered under self-inflicted wounds. Nord Stream's sabotage—whether by deep state actors or otherwise—severed Europe's cheap Russian gas lifeline, making them even more reliant on U.S. LNG.

Enter Trump, who now has Europe exactly where he wants them: begging for American energy at premium prices, investing billions in U.S. infrastructure, and boosting our military-industrial base to boot.

This pincer—U.S. resurgence on one flank, Russian resilience on the other—squeezes the Hegelian Hydra dry.

Trump's not just negotiating deals; he's deploying narratives that appeal directly to the common people of those lands.

In his UK oil post, he's telling Brits: blame your Starmer-types, the collectivist slaves to Brussels, for your high bills and dim futures.

The path forward?

Sovereignty in energy and defense, self-reliance that demands ditching the bureaucrats now genuflecting before him. It's a reverse dialectic: the globalists' thesis of control breeds its own antithesis in exposure, synthesizing into multipolar abundance."

But then … maybe just read the whole thing, if you missed it.

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Now, back to Trump’s recent raging at the dying of the collectivist light … his continued escalating rhetoric against the conflict in Ukraine isn't mere frustration; it's a narrative seed planted to expose the futility of the Establishment's playbook.

The war, Trump insists, "should be stopped. It’s a disgrace," and he's set an August 8 deadline for a ceasefire, with the U.S. ready to impose "additional measures" if needed.

But peel back the layers, and you see the subtext: sanctions were never about peace; they were about perpetuating a proxy war that funnels billions into the pockets of the military-industrial complex while bleeding the American taxpayer dry. Trump's dismissal of them isn't defeatism in this context—it's defiance, a signal that the real resolution lies beyond the tired tactics of isolation and escalation.

And escalate he has, in a move that echoes the high-stakes drama of Cold War thrillers.

Responding to provocative barbs from Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council—and a man who somewhat notoriously plays the obstinate bad cop to Putin’s good—Trump took to Truth Social with a statement that sent ripples through the media echo chamber:

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Here, Trump positions himself as the vigilant guardian, deploying nuclear assets not as an act of aggression, but as a precautionary tale. Medvedev's rhetoric, then, laced with threats of escalation, becomes the foil for Trump's measured response—a dance of words that heightens tension without igniting flames.

But why now? Why this public posturing amid fruitless secret talks with Moscow, where Putin boasts of advances along the frontline?

The answer lies in the unraveling Russiagate narrative, that foundational psyop designed to delegitimize Trump's presidency before it even began, and which I described as an accelerated Ouroboros pattern in another recent writing.

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As disclosures from the DOJ and DNI continue to pour forth—exposing the FBI's fabricated dossier, the Clinton campaign's machinations, and the complicity of intelligence agencies—Trump's escalation with the very subject of the original MASS psyop serves as the ultimate narrative shield.

How absurd it becomes to paint him as Putin's puppet when he's publicly rattling sabers, ordering submarines into position, and demanding an end to the very conflict the Deep State has prolonged for their own ends.

This is maximum absurdity amplification, as any lingering insinuation of collusion crumbles under the weight of these optics.

The same intel apparatus that waged war on Trump since 2016—the one Putin has openly battled since at least 2014—is now being laid bare, its operatives scrambling as the truth cascades into the Collective Mind. More revelations are coming; the Durham probe's echoes, the Danchenko trial's resurfacing threads, all converging to invert the script.

Trump isn't just defending himself; he's applying narrative pressure to force the exposure, making the Russiagate hoax look not just false, but farcical in retrospect.

And this public dismantling of Russiagate doesn't merely exonerate Trump; it begins to sow the seeds for a Russian redemption arc in the collective Western mind.

For decades, Russia has been painted as the ultimate boogeyman, a salivating tiger ready to devour the West, prodded relentlessly by the very hegemon that claims to defend against it. Yet, consider the scars etched into the Russian soul: the Bolshevik Revolution, that red reign of terror from 1922 to 1991, which stamped out tsarist legacy and unleashed communist horrors, while imprisoning and executing the last Romanovs. Then came the World Wars, where Russia lost a staggering 30 million souls—2% of its population in the first, 15% in the second—amid broken infrastructure and sustained attacks, both martial and subversive.

As I detailed in the Righteous Russia series, this wasn't random calamity; it was a confluence of assaults that left Russia reeling, only to be recast in Western media as the "prime evil," the eminent threat in Hollywood blockbusters like Rambo and Rocky IV, where Russians are amoral killers, and in political narratives from Kennedy to Obama, where fear of the "gorging Soviet bear" justified endless militarism.

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Russiagate's exposure flips this: the true villains are the globalists who poked the bear, using Russia as a cautionary tale to mask their own subversion. And as the hoax crumbles, the Western mind awakens to Russia's shared victimhood, paving the way for empathy and alliance against the collectivist forces that have divided us.

Trump himself has signaled this awareness, as evidenced by his lengthy and productive phone call with Putin earlier this year, where he reflected on the great history of our nations and the fact that "we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many!"

In that exchange, they discussed not just the pressing issues of Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, AI, and the dollar's power, but the strengths of their respective nations and the mutual benefit of working together. We’re told that, all those weeks ago, Trump's campaign motto of "COMMON SENSE" resonated with Putin, leading to agreements on close collaboration, including visits to each other's nations and immediate negotiations to stop the senseless deaths in the Russia-Ukraine war.

By tasking a team including Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, Michael Waltz, and Steve Witkoff to lead talks, and thanking Putin for the release of Marc Fogel, Trump underscored a shared purpose. This isn't mere diplomacy; it's a nod to the struggles Russia has endured at the hands of the same oppressors now targeting America—the collectivist shadows that engineered revolutions, wars, and psyops to divide sovereign peoples.

It should be obvious to most at this stage of the game that Trump and Putin appear acutely aware of the engineered story they've been trapped in, a narrative of enmity scripted by globalists to perpetuate control. By breaking free, they aim to blaze new paths, writing a shared history of common purpose, where eagles and tigers hunt together rather than clash.

If this feels familiar, it's because I've been charting this course for years.

Back in 2022, in Righteous Russia - Part 4 - The Death of War, I suggested that on the road to a very public codification of peace between the US and Russia, both Trump and Putin would escalate rhetorically toward war, writing,

“I believe Trump will allow all of this to play out until both military AND psychological missions have been accomplished, and, unfortunately for our fellow, unawakened and utterly unaware man, the psychological mission will not likely be accomplished until 95% of humanity is crying out for new leadership—or old leadership—to respond to the cascade of crisis.

When the narrative ground is fertile enough, and the Deep State exposed enough, I believe Devolution will go overt, either through a formal decertification of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, charges of treason against sitting members—and possibly very high up members of the U.S. government—a declaration of temporary military government, or all at once.

In the wake of all this, Trump will either be reinstated or reelected by We, the People, and as his first act as our returned Commander-in-Chief, he will ‘demand’ peace with Vladimir Putin, Russia and perhaps China, should they join the great game in the intervening months of engineered turmoil.

Trump is not a man who will sue for peace. He does not plead. He does not beg. Trump will not request peace. He will have it, and Vladimir Putin will share in it.

When the two leaders—the two Emperors—finally shake hands once more on the world stage, they will be known as Peacemakers. Their enemies will have been exposed and weakened, if not eliminated, and their sovereign mandates, both implied and codified will be ironclad.

Through them, the beginnings of a sovereign mesh of peace will begin to take shape, with Putin having the opportunity to unify former Soviet States from the Baltics to the Balkans as Trump takes the lead in the west—sovereigns lifting up smaller sovereigns against current and future attempts at centralization and subversion.”

It’s another one you might want to read, even if my Devolution prediction didn’t necessarily come to pass in the manner many of us predicted, although we all allow for some level of patriot control none of us can truly prove or disprove.

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This writing wasn't mere speculation; it was pattern recognition drawn from the War of Stories, where apparent adversaries move in parallel to undercut the globalist paradigm.

Trump, I argued, would demand peace upon reclaiming his mantle, but only after a period of engineered turmoil—a ‘scare event’ to awaken the normies to the horrors of endless proxy wars. Putin, portrayed as the villain in the media's fever dream, would play his part, turning threats into tools for revelation. The Ukraine conflict, I posited, was a stage for exposing the Invisible Enemy, with both leaders complementing each other's actions to weaken the strings of the puppeteers.

As for that Scare Event?

I have always pegged it as nuclear in nature, a mimicry of the Cold War's plotline, designed to tap into generational trauma and unify the world through shared fear.

In fact, not long after penning the Righteous Russia series, I explored how such an all-consuming threat—imminent nuclear annihilation—would meet the criteria for mass awakening: frightening, immediate, and unifying.

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Under this framing, Pelosi's Taiwan jaunt, Putin's nuclear warnings, the energy crises—they were precursors, building toward a climax where the Collective Mind confronts the abyss. But this isn't the Establishment's Hegelian Dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, where trauma leads to paralysis and surrender.

No, this is the Reverse: trauma leading to catharsis, where the scare shatters illusions, paving the way for epiphany and reclamation.

In writings since—some of them quite recent—I even foresaw the specifics: the movement of nuclear submarines as a narrative translation layer, escalating perceptions toward WW3 while setting the stage for aversion.

In ‘The 'N' Word,’ I wrote,

"This was a year before Trump signed a series of Nuclear-themed Executive Orders, mind you—and obviously far before the War of Stories entered its most climactic arc that has yet to play out, but that I suspect will involve submarines and, as my friend

Chris Paul

would say, ‘magical bombs.'"

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That piece dissected the shift from nuclear fear to prosperity, with Trump's orders restarting sites like Three Mile Island and rebranding Iran's program as civilian energy.

Submarines, those ghosts of the deep from The Hunt for Red October, become symbols in this drama—echoed ALL the way back in older writings like ‘Combat Tactics,’ where I suggested that narrative analogues to Cold War standoffs and illustrated combat maneuvers that close distances to disarm threats were being used not just as motifs, but templates, in keeping with the hints dropped back on anonymous image boards in 2017.

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Even in ‘The Harvest,’ I tied it to converging narratives: Russia's OCEAN 2024 drills, China's Taiwan strafe, all spun as "MUH NUKES!" to engineer catharsis over paralysis.

But The Hunt for Red October remains prime signal above all else, as it’s not just a film to many in this community—nor, I expect, to the white hats who planned it all out and referenced it toward the beginning of the public deployment phase—but a blueprint for the tactics at play.

In Tom Clancy's thriller-turned cinematic gold with Sean Connery as the defecting Soviet captain Marko Ramius, the climax hinges on an audacious submarine maneuver: facing an incoming torpedo from the pursuing Alfa-class sub V.K. Konovalov, Ramius orders Red October to accelerate directly into its path.

Why?

Torpedoes have safety fuses that prevent arming too close to the firing vessel, a failsafe against friendly fire. By closing the distance at flank speed, Red October forces the torpedo to impact before detonation, harmlessly crumpling against the hull.

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It’s not just a tense scene—and one infamous in this community—but it’s also representative of counterintuitive brilliance—heading straight into danger to neutralize it, turning the enemy's weapon into a dud.

This isn't mere evasion; it's aggressive convergence, a pincer on the threat itself.

The film, set against Cold War paranoia, mirrors our current saga: apparent defection (Ramius to the West), silent running (covert ops), and yes, at the root of it all, the slow and then quite sudden inversion of previous alliances, and more importantly, adversaries.

This refrain echoes through the Info War, seeded early by the infamous Q Drops.

In some, Q painted submarines as metaphors for stealth warfare—silent hunters dismantling Deep State networks from the shadows.

But the torpedo tactic?

It's foundational to the white hat plan: instead of fleeing the engineered catastrophe, you charge toward it, disarming the fuse before it explodes.

Q's allusions to "Red October"—a nod to Bolshevik roots, inverted—and projections like Hillary's Russia reset or Obama's hot mic flexibility hinted at this: the globalists' armageddon script—nuclear escalation, endless war—is the torpedo. Trump and Putin, by seemingly barreling full throttle toward it, apply this tactic on a narrative scale. Their rhetorical collisions—sub deployments, Medvedev barbs—close the gap, forcing the Collective Mind to confront the horror up close, only for the "boom" to fizzle into revelation.

So, while applicable to myriad ops (COVID exposures, election integrity), here, in the closest analogue to the original template itself, the comparison reaches its apex: heading into engineered armageddon paves the off-ramp, mandating public codification of peace. As a result of this narrative gambit masquerading as an actual one, the conflict foretold never arrives, and catharsis—not to mention, peace—fills the void it leaves behind.

This convergence isn't happenstance; it's the signal at the heart of the peacemakers saga, a theme I've attempted to nurture for years, where resurfacing threads—Russiagate, financial resets, Q-adjacent signals—align to favor the Sovereign Alliance.

The Reverse Hegelian Dialectic, in this context, posits that patriots are undoing centuries of trauma-paralysis—where globalists deploy crises to consolidate power—by flipping it to trauma-catharsis.

Expose the wound, apply the pressure, then release into healing.

Russiagate's public dismantling, tied to the same intel Putin wars against, represents the perfect inversion opportunity. What was meant to depose Trump now elevates him, turning accusations of puppetry into badges of independence.

Enter the Axis and Allies inversion, a motif I have explored heavily in my recent writings, wherein I have argued that the expected WW3 narrative—pitting the West against a branded "Axis" of Russia, Iran, and perhaps China—is being rewritten.

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Under this framing, proxy wars in Ukraine, Israel, and potentially Taiwan aren't kinetic escalations, but revelations, exposing the globalist manipulations that have puppeteered nations for decades. Trump and Putin, far from foes, form the core of a Sovereign Alliance, using narrative pincers to disarm fears while advancing de-nazification and denuclearization.

The "Russia Collusion" hoax, then, might have inadvertently spotlighted a positive Russian influence in 2016—exposing Clinton's fraud and aligning with Trump's agenda—and that’s only the beginning of the thread being unwound as the exposure phase morphs before our eyes into the codified disclosure phase we have long anticipated.

This inversion flips the script: the true Axis is the Deep State, and the Allies are the peacemakers mandating a new era.

Which is why, of all the arcs in the War of Stories, the Peacemakers saga stands as the most pivotal, a grand convergence where East meets West in defiance of the globalist script.

This narrative thread weaves Trump, Putin, and even Xi Jinping into a trinity of sovereignty, with figures like Mohammed bin Salman acting as the glue to bind alliances in the public eye.

Why?

Well, as I’ve been saying since my very first piece in the Info War,

"I can think of no greater story than an alliance of East and West, and no more terrifying a nationalistic, sovereign pincer for the Globalist Deep State to be caught in than one between the talons of an eagle and the fangs of a tiger … "

At the time, I emphasized how this arc resolves the Info War's core conflict: the dismantling of the New World Order through coordinated exposure and peace deals already shadowed in the informational future.

Trump's recent phone calls with Putin exemplifies this, a public marker of deals long done, where shared history and common enemies forge not just ceasefires, but a reclaimed narrative. In this saga, the Russia-Ukraine resolution—predicted to favor Russia's initial 2022 terms, including territory swaps and NATO capitulation—becomes the keystone, acting as retroactive Sovereign Alliance proofs and inverting the Deep State's divide-and-conquer playbook.

Trump's birthday phone call with Putin, that seemingly innocuous exchange, was the calm before this storm—a marker signaling turbulence ahead, which, yes, I predicted in advance.

As I said then:

“Keep 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.

Plain sight.”

Amid friendly overtures, it hinted at underlying cooperation, a quiet assurance that the escalations to come are scripted for the audience's benefit.

And these references to my previous writings aren’t meant to come off like a victory lap—though I apologize if they do—but rather to encode the understanding that the choice, as I've always maintained, has been ours: defect from the turbulence clinging to outdated paradigms, or embrace it, recognizing the ride as necessary for arrival at sovereignty's shore.

As we hurtle toward this climax, then, the themes converge: Russiagate's exposure amplifies Trump's shielding escalation, the nuclear scare mimics Cold War ghosts to unify through fear, and the Reverse Dialectic inverts centuries of control, and if you've been following the signal—the subtle cues in Trump's words, Putin's actions, the Sovereign Alliance's maneuvers—you saw this coming.

The peacemakers saga isn't about heroes and villains; it's about storytellers reclaiming the narrative, turning escalation into catharsis, and war into peace.

In exploring the mirrored struggles of East and West, we find not just potential allies, but a shared resistance against the globalist agenda, where the enemy of our enemy may indeed become our friend.

The tale of Righteous Russia and a Reclaimed and Resurgent America challenges us to see beyond lies, envisioning a united front against collectivism, where sovereign nations stand tall together.

As we discern the truths hidden beneath the Great Lie, then, the possibility of our two great nations—and more importantly, peoples—united offers hope for a future free from the chains of globalist control. And the Collective American Mind is slowly warming to this realization.

Only together can the US and Russia not just endeavor to attain world peace, but mandate it—not through threat or force alone, but through the reconciliation of peoples who share so much: a fierce nationalism, a Christian heritage, a history of subversion by the same collectivist shadows.

Divided, we've been prodded into proxy wars; united, we end them, forging a sovereignty that echoes across the globe.

Some will be forced to endure the War of Stories that helps guide us to those ends.

I choose to embrace it, to enjoy watching the masters weave their grand tale knowing the vision that lays at the end of it, and perhaps even to help prod it along, where I can.

We don’t remember The Hunt for Red October in spite of its tension, but because of it.

So until the next chapter, I bid you stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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