The Narrative Episode 63 - The Iranian Knot
How Is Donald Trump Escalating to De-Escalate in the Middle East?
Bright Army!
The Narrative is back with a banger of an episode with now-frequent guest GhostofBasedPatrickHenry.
This week, we take some inspiration from my recent long-form on the subject and dive into the Iranian Knot, and more importantly, how Donald Trump’s analogues to Captain James T. Kirk are FAR more than mere allegory.
Almost everyone on all layers of the Info War discuss various incarnations of ‘The Plan,’ but few lay it out in mechanistic detail.
This is our attempt, as applied to the current geopolitical and, more importantly, narrative theater.
I hope you enjoy it!
The Week That Was …
The longer the Iranian Kobayashi Maru drags on, the more fun I’m having parsing all angles and dimensions of the fifth-gen warfare Trump and patriots are navigating.
That has led me to craft what has turned into a de facto trilogy on the subject, starting with ‘Donald Trump and the Path of the Torpedo,’ and continuing with ‘Trump’s Test.’
Well, my latest inspired the name of this episode.
In ‘The Iranian Knot,’ we start by exploring more of the ‘Actual’ than we’re used to arround these parts, while spending a good deal of time on what I believe even many MAGA-coded Truthers still get wrong in their evaluation of Donald Trump, the Narrative Warmaster.
Check it out, if you fancy.
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The day Charlie Kirk was shot, my first utterance was “If true, this will be a turning point for the USA”(verbatim). This was before he was dead, and without even calling to mind the name of his organization. In the next 48 hours I saw multiple narrative spokes protruding from the hub of Charlie Kirk.
As I watch the dueling controlled op dynamics, I notice that almost all spokes now lead to a wagon wheel which represents the exposure of the duplicitous relationship between the State of Israel and our illegitimate government.
If Charlie Kirk was a flash point, this war is an accelerant. Eyes are opening as emotions are running high.
I owe any clarity I feel about this situation to a few people who continue to be bold while dissecting the stories. No shrinking violets are still part of my circle of trust when it comes to world “events.”
That was a great show last night. Sparks (of wisdom) always fly when you put your two minds together. Ghost's take on Joe Kent is intriguing. I hope it's true but it's hard to trust anything Tucker says lately. I'm not sure how I feel about the story being told regarding how much power Charlie Kirk had with Trump. A trusted "advisor"? Hmmm... But it was certainly a dynamic show.