The Wars That Were ... 2025 Edition
Along the Rapid, Rocky Road to the Golden Age
This feature is a follow-up to 2024’s The Wars to Come, and is best read with it in mind.
In the waning days of 2025, as the year flips its final pages and the world pauses in that liminal space between reflection and anticipation, we find ourselves once again at the threshold of … something.
Not in the simplistic sense of forecasting events as if they were dominoes tumbling in a predetermined line, but rather in the deeper, more alchemical art of mapping the contours of the story yet to unfold.
We are, after all in a War of Stories, as I have been arguing since I launched this publication.
Far from acting as observers alone, however, my core conception, my belief, perhaps even my growing sense of faith posits that, if we dare to wield the narrative on the Micro with intention, we might have some ability to help steer its Macro course toward the horizons we envision, and that Donald Trump, the prime Signal Setter of our age laid out in advance, and continues to chart with posture and resolve.
And that posture is especially important now, after a year that has seen the Info War's fronts erupt with revelations and reckonings that have reshaped the collective psyche in ways both seismic and subtle.
Last December, in ‘The Wars to Come,’ I laid out this very intent: to peer into the fog of the Info War, that grand theater of the Mind where shadows dance and signals flicker in an attempt to simultaneously expand and contract, and in so doing, to delineate the fronts upon which the battles for sovereignty, truth and yes, perhaps even the American soul would rage under the resurgent banner of Trump 2.0.
In that piece, I attempted to project not so much outcomes, but rather the key narrative arcs that might awaken the slumbering masses to the machinations of the System of Systems, and in so doing, to help grease the rails to its dissolution, and our ascension on the back of it.
Trump himself, after all has always treated the geopolitical battlespace as a serialized epic, broken into chapters wherein each escalation begets de-escalation, each exposure informs a pending revelation and each apparent bout of emergent chaos precedes a controlled demolition designed to illuminate the traps laid by the Hegelian architects in the first place.
Traps Trump and company are simultaneously springing and disarming … often at the same time.
Now, here we stand—if you are still among those endeavoring to awaken, but who acknowledge the process as a lifelong pursuit, and one not possible to hand over to your perceived betters—having traversed the tumultuous terrain of the 2025 Info War, we can reconcile those projections with the lived reality, which is to say, the perceived story, bolstering our understanding of how the Mind War has advanced while charting an accelerated path into 2026, where the Sovereign Alliance’s multipolar vision and the broader awakening edges ever closer to manifestation amid the Hegemon’s desperate flailing, no matter the copious dooming and gnashing of teeth that would implore you to see anything but.
In other words … how did it go? How is it going?
And how WILL it go from here, theater by theater, front by front?
Below, you’ll find my not-so-brief attempt to provide answers to my own questing mind … at least, to narrow down on the right sort of questions, which always seems to be the more worthwhile endeavor.
Most of all, I do not seek to tell you—nor to pretend even to myself to know—how the world has actually changed in the last 12 months, but more so, how the story it tells itself has, which is all I need concern myself with.
I. The War on the Media Industrial Complex
In the original projection, I argued that Donald Trump had declared war on the Media Industrial Complex as far back as 2015, when he descended that golden escalator and began dismantling the guardians of the False Reality—these narrative architects who, like the Agents in The Matrix, hold the keys and guard the doors to the collective psyche.
And onward they’d have continued since and for time immemorial were it not for the prime signal setter of our age … which is to say, disruptor.
So yes, bold as it may be to some, I’ll start this piece in the same place I started the last one, and with an even more ironclad stance that this is the front the truth movement has dominated to such a degree that I feel the end for the Hegelian apparatus isn’t just inevitable … but upon us, should you cultivate the eyes to see it.
To wit, in place of a resurgence in relevance, the carrion crows within the media protectorate have found themselves routed in phases: having been provoked into battling Trump so exhaustively in his first term, they defined themselves in direct opposition to his movement, which is to say, his story.
In so doing, they hitched their wagon either deterministically or de facto to whatever followed Trump, and quickly found themselves isolated on an island of exposure during the interregnum of the Biden simulacrum—which some might refer to as the Devolution Term.
In other words, they went all in on Fake anti-progress, on the back of a Fake Administration, led by a Fake President coming off of a Fake victory.
And now, in what we might call Trump’s third act, the media machine has been utterly routed from the field as the public mandate surges like a tidal wave against their crumbling edifice, a thesis that 2025 has not only confirmed, but amplified through a cascade of reputational collapses and business hemorrhages that have left the legacy press gasping for relevance in an era where citizen journalism and decentralized truth-telling command the high ground, warts and all.
Indeed, the year unfolded with polls registering trust in newspapers, television and radio (it still exists) at historic lows, a sharp decline that saw a majority of Americans voicing outright distrust, cutting across partisan lines and exposing the Media Complex's role as the narrative enforcers of the Uniparty, which has never been more apparent to a greater plurality of first principles-minded Americans than ever before, now that Trump has been able to step over the still-twitching carcass of the Liberal Establishment to focus the full ire of his sovereign stare on the wolves in the house … those who’ve been masquerading as MAGA throughout the decade without ever having bathed in its core animating principles.
This erosion in media trust—already well underway before Trump and dramatically accelerated after—has been mirrored by all of the stalwarts in the media protectorate, where CNN made significant staff cuts in a desperate pivot to digital amid cratering ratings, MSNBC endured similar reductions across its parent company's news division and The New York Times shuttered bureaus and trimmed its workforce as subscriptions stagnated and ad revenue evaporated, contributing to an industry-wide bloodletting that marked the media's obsolescence as not just narrative hopium, but tangible fact.
And that’s not even getting into the full-scale evisceration of the Entertainment Industrial Complex, from a true cascade in Late Night show cancellations to the glorious—and utterly predictible—seppuku both the Hollywood Writers’ and Directors’ Guilds committed by demanding MORE from a system and from a people that couldn’t value them any less than they do in the current epoch of tainted tales.
2025 may be contentious in other theaters, then, but where it concerns the full-scale collapse of legacy narrative, a sowing has quite given way to a revelatory reaping.
Attempted scandal cultivation over biased coverage of Trump's reforms—from DOGE's bureaucracy purges to border victories—further alienated audiences and accelerated the shift to alternative platforms, leaving the mainstream not just financially precarious, but culturally irrelevant, a shadow of the once-mighty Complex that once shaped reality itself.
At least, the stories told about it.
Which, again, is quite the point of it all.
Yet, as we peer into 2026, the pattern I noted in the latter half of 2025—the shifting of the Collective American Mind's ire from the traditional MSM to those who would supplant it—promises to intensify with even greater ferocity, as the Con Inc. doom brigade and career grifters, those who donned MAGA like a porcelain veneer while secretly clinging to the Uniparty's comforts posture in an attempt to stake their fading relevance on a midterm push that echoes the subversion of 2022.
As I detailed in ‘The Wolves Among Us,’ these hyenas and crows have continuously exploited perceived weaknesses within the MAGA movement to sow division, undermine Trump’s message—which is our story—and most of all, preserve the System of Systems by inverting reputations, appealing to manufactured authority and peddling narratives of despair over destiny.
Only now, with the public increasingly awakened to their games through exposures—not to mention an utterly exhausting, annoying and desperate pattern of perceived infighting—their efforts will likely catalyze an even greater reckoning, purging the wolves from the house and hills alike, fracturing their echo chambers and solidifying the signal of authentic voices in the Info War, potentially culminating in a midterm mandate that entrenches Trump’s reforms against all pretenders, or else exposing the election system itself as being as anathema to the American Republic as only a select few in the Info War continue to have the courage to say openly … other than Trump himself, of course.
Either way, from where I’m sitting, the Con Inc. crowd will only set asside their manufactured differences in order to unify around the concept of toxic unity itself.
Put another way, I believe they will coalesce around the System that made them, the System that guards them, and the System they will guard with whatever’s left of their decaying reputations.
And in the end, either the System rises with these ‘independent’ voices fully exposed as its new protectorate, or it collapses, sucking any who ventured too near to its tendrils down into the depths alongside it.
And if you look closely, you can already see them starting.
II. The War on the Administrative State
Turning to the mechanistic heart of the Deep State, the Administrative State itself drew the direct ire and attention of Donald Trump and his renewed Actual power projection capabilities more so than any other pillar of the System of Systems throughout 2025.
A fitting target, as that sprawling bureaucracy of unelected overlords whose tendrils entwine every facet of American life has siphoned power from the people and into a parasitic web of regulations and mandates for far too long.
In December 2024, I posited that Trump’s prime directive in his return would center on this front, wielding tools like the newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to excise the corruption not just from individuals—the cogs in the machinery—but from the institutions themselves—the infernal engines—thereby awakening the populace to the seismic truth that the bureaucracy, far from a benign administrator is the prime enabler of systemic tyranny, a projection that 2025 has realized through a relentless campaign of cuts and exposures that have not only trimmed the fat, but translated the entire apparatus as perhaps THE prime villain in the American epic.
Under Trump’s direction and Elon Musk’s narrative stewardship—kayfabian flirtations and dramatic faux departures aside—the DOGE initiative, which myself and a small number of my peers have ever and always put forth as a narrative translation layer of the actual drainage Trump promised a decade ago orchestrated what analyses hailed as the largest peacetime federal workforce cut on record, with substantial numbers of employees departing—surpassing initial goals and shrinking the overall federal rank and file—through executive orders mandating hiring freezes, attrition targets in key sectors and streamlined terminations … to say nothing of the intangible disincentive net that’s now been draped over the idea of government jobs being synonymous with security in the first place.
Additionally, in 2025, the agencies found themselves harried perhaps like no other time in American history … at least, since they have clung like barnacles to the once-proud hull of the Republican dreadnought.
The EPA saw regulations optimized—which is to say, its power eroded, if not destroyed—and the DOJ underwent internal purges that continue to this day, eliminating positions across the board—perhaps even entire floors, if you can believe it—while the IRS saw such a reduction in both force and power projection capabilities that there are some who wonder if the time to ‘try’ them—either by Trump’s administration or the sovereigns he ostensibly represents—is soon to be at hand.
Which is to say nothing of the utter devastation wrought upon USAID and the international laundering arm of the Deep State.
And all of this has occurred amidst a narrative blitz that highlighted the true depths of the corruption in the first place—vast swaths of wasteful—some might say, criminal—laundering disguised as spending.
This actual and perceptual assault, bolstered by Supreme Court rulings revoking improper mandates from the prior administration and congressional reviews that exposed bureaucratic overreach has truly begun to foster a cultural awakening on the Macro that has long persisted in Micros like those you and I belong to—that we have cultivated—where growing sentiment reflects widespread support for downsizing, if not dissolving, transforming the Administrative State from an invisible monolith into a public enemy whose precarious balance marks 2025 as the year the swamp began its true draining.
Looking ahead to 2026, then, despite the fair criticism of ‘not enough’ being done to truly rout this particular enemy from this particular entrenchment, I believe the (Deep) Administrative State is poised for deeper incisions, as the awakened mandate empowers further consolidations in an industry that gilds itself in efficiency while gorging itself on expanse and excess.
Might we see the dissolution of entire agencies amidst the twin and only seemingly contradictory emergent trends of Trump 2.0: austerity and acceleration?
Either way, if it wasn’t clear to enough before that true sovereignty begins with reclaiming governance from the unelected shadows, thereby setting the stage for a streamlined federal apparatus that serves rather than subjugates, the fight against the entrenched bureaucracy is far from settled, and I didn’t hear no bell.
III. The War on the (Banking) Cartels
If you want to break the world, break its money.
If you want to fix it … well, then maybe you should start by reading ‘Reality Wars’ and an assortment of other finance-themed features I wrote in 2025.
Alas, in the confluence where drug cartels bleed into banking cartels—that vampiric nexus of laundering, trafficking and financial predation—I’ll frame Trump’s public declaration of war on the South American syndicates from Mexico to Venezuela as a bicameral assault, one that would converge narratives of border security with scrutiny on Western Hemispheric institutions, starving the hydra by severing its monetary lifelines under Executive Order while exposing the fraudulent economy as a deliberate poison pill ripe for a purge and an ensuing restoration … a vision that 2025 has brought to vivid life through a multifaceted offensive that strangled cartel operations across the board and on multiple layers of reality itself, thereby conflating the kinetic with the financial in the public consciousness.
At least, to those tuned in to that particular frequency.
The administration’s early campaign, involving mass deportations and cooperative pacts with Mexico drastically reduced migrant encounters in keeping with Trump’s earliest campaign promises—and I do mean his FIRST campaign—while FinCEN’s targeting orders and sanctions under Secretary Scott Bessent—whom I dubbed ‘The Wolf of Main Street’ in 2025 for good reason—focused on entities like the Clan del Golfo—now one of a growing list of outfits designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations—and fuel-theft networks, leading to substantial penalties for banks, blockades on Venezuelan oil tankers—that are Venezuelan in the same way the State Department is ‘American’—and unprecedented designations of Mexican financial institutions as primary money laundering vectors, effectively barring them from the very US systems that propped them up as proxies, and imposing broad prohibitions to stop it ever happening again.
These measures, amplified by alerts on oil smuggling and the prioritization of transnational criminal organizations in anti-laundering efforts has severely curtailed drug and human trafficking flows, placing the cartels in their most vulnerable position ever, their hydra heads starved by disrupted pipelines, frozen assets and a still-unfolding narrative fusion that is just beginning to paint banking enablers as complicit in the poison plaguing American communities, and as accessories to—and perhaps worse—the darkest paths in the Info War.
As we project into 2026, then, this front teeters on the brink of a final major offensive, where the starved hydra faces a multi-pronged strike—potentially including military incursions alongside intensified sanctions and asset seizures that redistribute seized wealth to victims, even if that won’t be directly translated in the central narrative.
What did you think the US bailout of Argentina was really about?
What do you think Trump’s posturing toward Venezuela … namely, the cartels IN Venezuela, is really about?
There never were cartels … there was only ever THE cartel, and Trump is stamping out its on-the-ground remnants while reclaiming the Western Hemisphere from the institutional vampires who propped it up, and so, will ride its burning corpse down into the depths where it was forged in blood.
IV. The War on the Globalist Hegemon
Ah … and now we come to the grandest and perhaps most insidious theater of them all, and no doubt the one I spend the majority of my time thinking about and writing on.
This is the theater that spawned the Sovereign Alliance in the first place.
It’s the great HOW and WHY of the System.
To foment war and to leech the blood from all its consequences.
And I am very pleased to say that the most seismic sign yet that this theater too is turning in our direction came to us quite recently, as the collectivist superstate that has been bleeding America dry through endless wars and exploitative alliances found its most direct declaration of impending death yet in Trump’s November 2025 National Security Strategy, a document I recently highlighted as the boldest administrative assault on globalism itself and the not-so-subtlest affirmation of the Sovereign Alliance theory I originally built this name on, wherein Trump, as the American pillar in a trinity alongside Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping accelerates multipolarity by inverting old paradigms, baiting the Hegemon into continued existential exposures that fracture its mandate while draining its now-limited resources.
Most recently, in ‘A Multipolar War,’ I detailed how the NSS, echoing the 2017 strategy’s critique of post-Cold War misguided bets on globalism lambasted allies as free-loaders, pledged a “Monroe Doctrine for the 21st century” while emphasizing energy dominance and regional balance, and set principles of “non-interventionism” and “flexible realism” while committing to heightened defense spending requirements for NATO members, effectively decoupling US policy from European entanglements and prioritizing Western Hemisphere security amid tariff threats that elicited capitulations from Canada and Mexico in the West, all made easy and digestible for all layers of the Collective Mind through Trump’s masterful invocation of pragmatism over paradigm perpetuation.
Disruption, in other words.
Throughout 2025, this disruption manifested in a gradual US retreat from globalist—not necessarily global—affairs that have reshaped NATO’s gravitational pull, which, it turns out isn’t so very strong without the strongest military in world history acting as its de facto actual power projection arm.
Now, with European defense budgets surging, new mutual defense pacts among EU states and a noticeable drop in favorable European attitudes toward the US—cry me a river—Trump has narratively and increasingly actually isolated the EU and NATO in their quixotic march toward escalation with Russia while emboldening the very Eastern European divisions I’ve been projecting for some time, most recently in ‘Pebble and Avalanche.’
Since 2024 and long before it, I have been banging the drum that the deals—from Russia to China and everything in between—are already done on an actual level. At least, agreed to in form, and certainly in principle.
That said, there’s still a lot of dot connecting that needs to be done along the way … and while the enemy does get a vote, I think it’s becoming increasingly clear said vote is only good for determining the place and manner of their demise.
The demise of the idea, that is, which is the surest way to kill a thing, or to stop it being done.
In short, either the Globalist Hegemon capitulates to the rise of Multipolarity, the core animating engine of the Sovereign Alliance, and dies as a result … or it resists, and is brought to heel by a ratcheting of the twin pincers I have written about more than any other topics in the Info War: the kinetic pincer between Trump and Putin, the US and Russia on the NATO bloc … and the financial pincer between Trump and Xi, the US and, yes, China on the EU bureaucracy.
I wrote about the former most extensively in the Righteous Russia series that started it all on Burning Bright—and if you haven’t read that series yet, I don’t even know if we can be friends—and the latter in ‘Multipolar Margin Call’ just a short time ago, along with the extensive Doomed Dynasty mega piece. If there are essential writings for the geopolitical worldview of Burning Bright, surely these are among them.
Entering 2026, then, the European Union and NATO occupy a Bicameral Island of their own making, their collectivist war drums against Russia serving only to further alienate them from a Trump-led America wielding increasing public mandate to fully embrace multipolarity, thereby emboldening emergent sovereigns within Europe to break ranks publicly, joining the Sovereign Alliance in a cascade that shatters the Hegemon’s facade, fosters regional pragmatism and ushers in an era where sovereignty, not subjugation defines the new global order.
Or, as I put it most recently, the Multipolar War isn’t about tossing the rules out, but about making sure everyone agrees on what they are.
And while 2025 didn’t tell us what the new rules are … the year went a LONG way toward telling us decidedly what they are NOT.
Which is a lot more than a start.
V. The War for Justice
Perhaps the most fractious and debated front in the Info War, the march for Justice—where accountability for the architects of hoaxes like Russiagate and the weaponized levers of the DOJ continue to clash with cries of politicization—remains a theater of shadows, with arguments swirling as to its pace and efficacy.
And I’m not here to disabuse any of the notion that justice and accountability—and PUBLIC editions of both—are entirely necessary for that whole ‘catharsis’ phase of the Reverse Hegelian Dialectic I’ve been writing about for years, now.
That said, I contended last year that the sort of justice this community was largely built on the hunt for represents a long game—perhaps the longest—a controlled demolition being translated into a controlled revelation, where exposures, scandals and even weaponized narratives deployed as defensive counter measures by the enemy apparatus always seem to inadvertently advance the very investigations we’ve been told will unwind them.
Under this framing, the resurfacing of buried scandals signals the inexorable tide toward disclosure, a dynamic that 2025 has propelled forward through declassifications, subpoenas and document drips that have kept the targets on edge even as some who’ve been calling for their heads for a decade waver in the wake.
As rote as it can be to this community, 2025 saw Russiagate resurface in a way we haven’t seen since Trump’s first term, with House Judiciary referrals leading to a federal grand jury now issuing subpoenas to some of the most notorious figures implicated in the saga—and no doubt, some of the first characters introduced in the Trump chapter of the War of Stories—including to John Brennan for allegedly lying about the Steele dossier, alongside Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, prompting defensive accusations of “judge shopping” amidst targeted leaks that betray his fear, a pattern that suggests that, even as skepticism grows in the community, the implicated continue to operate as if their days in the sun are numbered.
But the sub theater that truly dominated this particular front in the Mind War was a name that is as notorious as it is controversial, and now on all sides of the Mindscape.
Epstein, that ultimate Bicameral Cypher—a myth-wrapped man embodying the cabal’s blackmail temple—has further illuminated a mass psychological divide that hasn’t even spared the Truth Community with its myriad readings, its Ouroborosian twists, turns and loops, with the Establishment’s desperate attempts to saddle Trump with fabricated logs backfiring as the DOJ releases extensive—and no less illuminating because of it—investigative files and grand jury materials in phases that seems only to be unifying the Collective Mind in mutual distrust of the very institutions doing the releasing.
Which isn’t a bad thing, from where I’m sitting.
As detailed in ‘The Temple Trap,’ my most-read feature of the year, as a matter of fact, I believe the very tension inherent in this particular rabbit hole is a feature of the Awakening, and a core animating engine of the march to justice rather than a bug.
I also believe it’s leading the Uniparty down a path of self-exposure, where selective outrage begins to gnaw against the foundations of their carefully-crafted mask of righteousness, even as the Trump Administration continues to make good on its war for the light and against the darkness of this darkest path to the tune of well over 60,000 missing children now accounted for as the whole diseased, corrupt temple begins to shake and shudder under a coordinated assault the likes of which it has never seen before, no matter what narrative tricks it attempts by hitching an entire industry to one name and one island.
As 2026 draws closer, then, this war for justice seemes poised for an increase in velocity, with ongoing probes potentially yielding the sort of indictments this community was founded on the yearning for.
And yet, as so many of us have learned to do in the intervening years of exposure, disclosure and most of all, awakening, I have learned to let go of specific expectations not because I’ve learned to make friends with the worst outcomes … but rather because I have begun to believe with increasing clarity that victory, while assured as long as our hearts remain pure and our minds unclouded … doesn’t always arrive in the manner in which it was foretold, though it arrives nonetheless.
And I for one look forward to welcoming it, should I cultivate the eyes to recognize it when it’s here.
So, while one man and one island—and all those who spin out from it—have not lost importance in the War of Stories, sometimes, I think it’s worth spending some time ruminating on the 60,000 … and the fact that those are names we’ll never know, innocents who’ve been spirited out of the shadows and back into the light.
And may the reign of those mighty children be as long and properous in the new age as the torment of their tormentors.
VI. The War for Peace
The ultimate bicameral.
The ultimate paradox.
The War for Peace, where escalation begets de-escalation and the specter of conflict illuminates the off-ramps to harmony.
This is a theater that converges with all others. It is the Macro solution that stands anathema to the foundational problem at the heart of the enemy’s Hegelian Dialectic.
In 2024, I projected that Donald Trump, a self-described peacemaker would, upon ascending into public office for the second time adopt an accelerated pattern with the other pillars of the Sovereign Alliance—Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping—as one of narrative feints and backchannel accords, with alternating bouts of escalation and de-escalation all coming up wanting to the few who pay attention to the ultimate signal represented by the freely-discussed prospects of joint economic projects set to kick off in the immediate wake of the many wars’ endings … which is to say, of the Hegemonic Humiliation of those who set the conditions in place to spark them all to life in the first place.
These joint projects—rather, the fact that Trump, Putin and Xi discuss them with frequency and confidence—point to the existence of a Golden Age beyond the Hegemon’s grasp.
Which means, again, and by definition that the deals are very literally done, and that the rest is a matter of timing, and awakening.
Which comes on the back of a story, told in parts, and by degrees.
This alternating pattern of intermittent escalation I’ve been writing about since I first named it in 2022 is a rhythm that 2025 did not abandon, but played out masterfully through diplomatic pivots that isolated and defined the sort of warmongers this community has been calling out for years while fostering the beginnings of an emergent sovereign mandate for the sort of mutual interdependencies a true multipolar world will require as the old system collapses under the weight of its own sins.
On the Trump-Putin front, US-Russia relations have oscillated from threats of arming Ukraine to secret—and almost laughably frequent—negotiations yielding mediated peace plans drawing from Russian inputs and constantly revised amid predicted rejections that have continued to ratchet up the pressure on the Prussian Proxy—but most of all, its handlers—into concession after concession in full view of an increasingly-restless Collective Mind, especially within those populaces closest to the action.
Similarly, Trump-Xi summits—more so, tweet storms—de-escalated a trade war we were told was going to mark the end of the economic world … but that has only begun to deliver on the promise of marking the end of the current economic order.
Which are decidedly not the same thing.
They have achieved this through the aforementioned pincer I named the Multipolar Margin Call, leeching proxy power from the Hegemon through direct bilateral agreements that have reduced tariffs, suspended export controls on key materials, paused port fees and resumed agricultural purchases while averting steeper penalties and easing tensions via executive orders that lowered rates on Chinese goods while prioritizing fentanyl crackdowns—there’s a bit of convergence with the cartel theater—all within a framework that has preserved economic ties without full confrontation, and after the very escalation of said tensions forced a rapid and dramatic global rebalancing away from, well, globalism itself.
Which some of us saw coming.
Now, with the Hegemon’s grip loosening, 2026 should mark a dual crescendo: for the normie hivemind, heightened narrative escalation as the isolated Establishment spins tales of impending doom to cling to relevance, while for those attuned to the war beneath the war, the off-ramps glow ever brighter, with potential breakthroughs in joint ventures—perhaps US-Russia pipelines or U.S.-China tech and energy pacts, if I may be so bold—heralding the multipolar pivot toward a world where sovereignty thrives and the age of engineered scarcity yields to abundance.
But then, as I always say, I am something of an optimist.
Which reminds me …
VII. The War for Time … and of it
And so, as we stand at the precipice of another chapter in an unfolding epoch we have been privileged enough to both suffer and see, we arrive at the final front, which is also the first—albeit, one I didn’t delineate the last time around, and yet, which has occupied the bulk of the thought layer I keep humming along just below the conscious ones you see most often in my writings.
And while it is a theater I have written about in pieces like ‘The Bridge,’ ‘Temporal Trump Card’ and ‘Amerigeddon,’ I believe its relevance will not just increase by degrees, but by quantum leaps in the days ahead.
I am speaking of the War for Time itself, that primordial battle all others serve to bolster or retard, where the Info War cultivates the mass cultural mandate to reclaim stolen futures from the vampires of centralization, and where, as I explored in ‘The Master Plan,’ the Weapons of the Future—decentralized energy, technological autonomy and the convergence of visionaries, which is to say, cognitive cyphers like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, among others—reveal not coincidence, but the deliberate disclosure of a sovereign blueprint of the world that was not only kept from us, but stolen from us.
A future made of the very past the Hegelian Hydra weaponized against us through the inversion of the first Manhattan Project and all the nightmares—and their many consequences—that followed in its wake.
Now, I believe we stand on the cusp of inverting the globalist dystopias we were born into and transforming the Great Reset into a Good one, a thesis that 2025 has advanced through executive accelerations that have begun to illuminate the path ahead, drawing together the threads of media routing, bureaucratic dismantling, cartel strangulation, hegemonic isolation, a creeping culture of accounability and paradoxically peaceful escalations into a unified narrative of refinement amid engineered chaos.
In this theater, the year known as 2025 laid the groundwork with Trumpian orders, which is to say, promises expanding nuclear capacity, streamlining fusion pursuits amidst supersonic overtures to the sort of futurism once reserved for art deco musings and genre fiction, while Musk’s Tesla Master Plan aligns with Trump’s AI initiatives to marry unrelenting energy with automated prosperity, closing the pincer on scarcity agendas and nurturing undercurrents of innovation free from hegemonic oversight, all amid a narrative of decentralization that has seeped into public discourse through the efficient exposure of inefficiency and all it hath wrought on the battlespace, a convergence that is transforming a slow and inevitable Hegelian grind into the spark that ignites the collective psyche with renewed hope in the form of a resurgent American dream.
And it is in this theater wherein I see 2026 poised to carve out a niche for itself as the ‘first’ of something, albeit not in ways most in this community focus on as they continue to track the many narrative and actual victories and setbacks in the six theaters I have covered up to now while ignoring the one that has bound them more than any other, and so, which stands poised to free them once the mass psychological shackles are shattered.
Call it esoteric if you like.
Broad.
Wishful.
But then, I have always believed hope to be more rational and logical than we’ve been led to believe, and its antithesis more fragile and in need of convincing.
As 2026 unfolds, then, I believe this war for the future and OF it—and I do mean that more literally than you might think—reaches an inflection point of public awareness, where the accelerated decade ahead bursts into view—decentralized grids empowering individuals, sovereign energy alliances reshaping geopolitics and a Trump-Musk symbiosis accelerating disclosures that embed autonomy in the cultural DNA.
Yet amid this promise, the true victory lies not merely in technological triumphs, but in the personal resilience forged through the sifting process en route to that very paradigm, where each of us, by leaning into the deliberate provocations and psyops that amplify tensions we now ride like expectant waves to a gentle shore learns to curate signals from the surrounding noise, maintaining unyielding control over mind and spirit against the collectivist illusions that seek to dilute resolve, allowing the chaos to refine rather than unravel us, turning us from passive observers into active authors of the story.
Carriers of light who, through voluntary discernment and adherence with core truths, to first principles reclaim the narrative mantle and step into the Golden Age not as inheritors of a scripted fate, but as unbreakable embers that endure, and in so doing, illuminate a dawn where the future is the one we make.
And take.
And until we do, I implore you to stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.
A Brief Note from the Author
I have always kept the deep watches in the night, and tonight is no different.
But I think I can muster a bit more cognitive energy to pivot from macro to micro, global to personal as I round into closing on another year of life, and yes, I grasp, toward death, whenever it may come.
In 2025, I battled illness, I battled what might pass to some for demons given the pain they have attempted to cause my friends, my family and at times, my self as the sifting accelerates in the midst of awakening, and I battled purpose, above all else.
Why am I here?
What is my charge?
What is my message?
What is my calling?
And I can’t say I can answer any of those questions any more suredly now than I could at the advent of the year.
And yet, as I often say, perhaps the answer lies within the question itself, and I saw both wrapped in the beautiful, paradoxical enigma that was and is my son, whom my wife bore for me on the first day of the year, at the advent of the Golden Age.
A boy whose inherent joy is all the proof of God I will ever need. Proof that was not asked for, and yet, which was freely given.
A boy whose mind is his. And whose hopes and dreams have yet to be made manifest.
And whose story has yet to be told.
A boy who holds my heart, and who is my purpose.
And that is a steadying thought in unsteady times.
And to you, those members of the Bright Army who’ve been here from the start, and stuck with me through all the engineered trials and tribulations this strange war that has as many names as persuasions has put each of us and all of us through, and that most in our lives don’t know exists, I say thank you.
Thank you for your readership. Thank you for your encouragement.
Thank you for being in this time, and in whatever place, and to whatever end.
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Burning Bright, you are brilliant! Sending love to you and your family.
Have been getting your email blasts, and I finally read one. Good thing I did. Great writing. Great insight, and so I just subscribed today. I am hearing that Trump will declare a national emergency early in 2026, regarding elections, which will exclude non-citizens. Citizens must have ID to prove it, and all of us will be required to re-register, only paper ballots, no machines, same day voting (except in special circumstances, e.g., military ballots, etc. I am a former establishment Democrat who folowed Q and realized what Trump was up to. I voted for him in 2020 and was promptly excommunicated from the Dem and Repub Uniparty. 2026 is our year, baby! Our year!