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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

Burning Bright is pointing at something most readers will miss on the first pass.

This essay isn’t really about Iran. It’s about story control.

The hidden idea is that modern wars are increasingly fought on the narrative plane first, with the physical layer often trailing behind. If you control the story that the public believes, you control whether the war machine receives the one resource it cannot manufacture itself: public consent.

That’s why the contradictory Trump messaging matters. One headline screams escalation while the next whispers resolution. The result is confusion inside the media machine itself. They amplify both signals and fracture their own narrative authority in real time.

Whether you agree with the author’s conclusions or not, the key insight is worth sitting with: the real battlefield may not be the Strait of Hormuz or the Iranian desert at all. It may be the collective mind of the audience watching the story unfold.

And once people stop believing the script, the script stops working.

—Lone Wolf 🐺

ALtab's avatar

Exactly! Concur completely.

Billy Bob's avatar

The public sphere has been relentlessly attacked and manipulated since we learned to speak and debate. Once the printing press and wireless communications entered the forum, all hell broke loose. Add in the craft of public relations and psychological research, up could be made down and down could be made up…

The Cosmic Onion's avatar

The battlefield shifted when information became mass-manufactured.

Printing presses, radio waves, television, and now the algorithm — each step amplified the ability to bend perception.

Public relations turned language into a weapon system, where reality is less important than the story about reality.

Once psychology was folded into the mix, persuasion became engineering.

At that point, “up is down and down is up” stopped being a metaphor and became a strategy.

— Lone Wolf 🐺

Korpijarvi's avatar

> This is why Marco Rubio said the American pre-emptive strike was meant to pre-empt an Israeli pre-emptive strike, in order to avoid a pre-emptive (meaning, pre-seeded) ‘response’ to said strike that would have justified a 9/11-style invasion dialectic.

This was my assumption, watching things unfold. US projection of force not meaning intervening for "interests" in the conventional sense, but intervening in patterns of how conflict can be expected to play out for others. A bigger, defter shaping of destiny. Aikido too.

So when Rubio said that it caught my ear.

> It also might just be why Donald Trump, when asked directly last week if Israel had “forced his hand,” responded by saying, “I might have forced theirs.”

I didn't miss that comment and booya'ed bigly.

My uncle, the maritime draftsman, taught me chess, gave me my first set, and gave me clips he'd collected of Bobby Fischer's column from a magazine for boys.

I never mastered chess, but parts of the game's structure took root, and applied to so much else in life. Like, control the center, develop your pieces quickly. Or, with a lead in development open your position.

Or the one my Teacher (who taught for over 35 years at a highly regarded military college in Pennsylvania) later imparted: When you have or anticipate a good move or position, look for an even better one. And: If you're seeing a flank attack develop, drive into the center.

I've heard people dismiss as "Q garbage" or whatever the possibility that Trump's team is playing chess. It always amazes me to see how few people have room for basic concepts of war strategy and tactics that guys like my dad learned by 8th grade in public school. Never mind the ones his dad/my GF learned at West Point or my Teacher taught at PMC. Or the ones laid out by Alfred Thayer Mahan, required reading in my growing up household of shipbuilders (both men and women) and Navy men.

I guess that's all just stupid white male racism now. Or, !worse!, "Boomer" stuff.

Burning Bright's avatar

It's pretty crazy to me right now that HUGE swaths of even the Q community are getting angry with writers like me and some of my peers for doubting the central narrative ... when that is the entire point of 5GW haha.

To each their own!

ALtab's avatar

Yes, but they’ve not ‘nailed it’ as you have been able to do.

Bryce E. 'Esquire' Rasmussen's avatar

What I've been thinking. Which could indicate that there are revelations yet to come, designed to break the collective mind from it's programming. In a series of steps. The next one confuses media and some minds more.

Bobby's avatar

What a truly amazing article, it started me really thinking the only word I could think of was Exposed. Thank you for your work truly God Bless you for allowing me to read this.

ALtab's avatar

Once again, Fearless Tiger, your gifted mind has identified both the public and more hidden patterns that are slowly but surely moving forward to the inevitable conclusion. It’s hard for me to understand how some (none I follow) in the truth community can still be hoodwinked at this point. Unless, as some posit, it’s for the publicity and/or the profits.

This seems so very obvious to me, but I’ve had several years of your ‘training’ practices. ‘What looks like contradiction and chaos when viewed through a conventional lens, then becomes coherent strategy when understood through the proper framework.’ Once awake, the patterns of control are literally visible everywhere. I have watched several older series and movies just to practice identifying them.

This is an amazing time to be living in for many reasons, primarily leaving the world better for our children who follow, but to watch so very many, uniquely gifted by God for His specific roles has underscored my faith in His continual presence in the lives of His creation. Man must remember why we are here and turn back to acknowledging His sovereignty. It’s the best form of governance there is.

We do know this cannot be stopped at this point and even though the surface still often appears muddied and chaotic, much progress has occurred over the last decade.

Thank you, BB! Thank your wife for her support as well, as it matters much!

Burning Bright's avatar

It's been a bit crazy to observe, to be honest.

Very hard to separate the incentive structures from earnest confusion and discombobulation out there.

I continue to operate on the same first principles.

Not all do.

Thank you for following and supporting all this time.

Featherjourney's avatar

Beautiful comment, ALtab ❤️🌟

ALtab's avatar

Thank you, Feather!🩷

Joe Kronner's avatar

“Wag the Dog” was the best Story Hour episode you and Chris Paul have done to date.

I have often time in recent years commented to my wife that I am amazed at how God has provided me with experiences that gave me skills that I would never have applied to work God now has me doing. In my career I could not have imagined me doing what I have been prepared to do now. In this same way as I look back over Trump 1.0 and Trump’s unofficial 2nd term (Sleepy Pedo Joe time) I see things that Trump did and/or said back then that perfectly allow Trump 2.0 to win while discombobulating. And BB in your writings you are the best at recognizing and pointing this fun fact out. It really makes for the greatest mind game ever and I am constantly entertained😊

Your refrain of “This War is a Narrative and We have the Better Writers” (maybe not an exact quote, but close enough for government work😊) is never more obvious then what you point out in this Substack article. It highlights the truth in your point: “These translators of narrative who don’t have a true writer’s bone in their psyches—earnest or otherwise—are missing the point so completely that it almost feels intentional.”

And BB while this may be the longest sentence ever written 😊 it is a pure gold gem: “To wit—and as mentioned earlier—the public backlash against even the suggestion of another open-ended American commitment in the Middle East has been swift, intense and remarkably broad-based across traditional political lines, which means that the psychological groundwork for a genuine sovereign disentanglement has progressed more rapidly than many expected, and which suggests the Great Awakening is not some future event awaiting the perfect alignment of mass psychological stars, but that it is already active in many more hearts than we thought, even if it hasn’t quite traced a pathway up into the conscious mind for most.” It provides testament to what I feel is actual and that is that we are very close to that 1st BOOM and subsequent domino cascade.

I think you got right to the core with this gem: “Because the greatest challenge facing the man currently occupying the Oval Office has never been the acquisition or exercise of power, but rather whether he can successfully provoke a free people into remembering that they are the source of all legitimate authority, and into actively taking back what they unconsciously surrendered long ago.”

And the logical conclusion to that core gem is as you so eloquently wrote: “In this context, Trump’s paradoxically-consistent messaging, then, woven through every action and statement has been that the power was always ours to begin with.”

BB this was a true masterpiece! Thank you for sharing it with the World (flat or round😊).

I have always been resistant to the group or group think (team work is totally different) and maybe that is why I began my Awakening Journey sooner than most but we were all asleep at some point in our life and like the current Normies had to find our way free. This article shows that Trump and team really did and still does need to wake up the Normies and that their plan is actually working while many could not see how. This article makes the how very clear.

Glad you and family survived the Winter Storm and came around to releasing this gem!

Keep up the great writing.

God Wins!

God Bless!!!

Burning Bright's avatar

Well damn!

It seems like you actually DID read this, Joe!

I never know which pieces are going to travel far and wide and which remain cloistered in our corner of the Info War.

Either way, when long-time readers like you, who GET what I'm trying to do get a lot out of a writing, it truly does retroactively justify the time.

Thank you.

Kelly McCulloch's avatar

The Vice Gripper in Chief is forcing seismic global economic change, and disarming the warmongers at the same time. It is an amazing and ingenious orchestration. I only wish I knew how and who planned this, and when they began collaborating with God.

Burning Bright's avatar

Haha well said!

I have to wonder how much of it is being allowed to be improvised.

Improvization on rails.

Kelly McCulloch's avatar

That is a good way to describe how I perceive the nature of the execution.

David Hammond's avatar

"dominance achieved through superior framing" may be the most salient and succinct description of Trump's methodology I've ever seen. Thank you for this article; it really rustled my jimmies. Thank you.

Burning Bright's avatar

Always good for me to see which lines/framing lands best. Thanks for the feedback, David.

And for rustling thy jimmies.

Underlying Truths's avatar

Your article explains all the conflicting statements.

Iran's bombing attacks on American bases will give Trump the excuse to pull out completely from these bases rather than rebuilding, removing America from the forever conflict paradigm of the old world.

Burning Bright's avatar

Thanks for reading!

PatriotP's avatar

Another thought provoking piece! Thank you. Your writings have been a great blessing to me on my journey for truth, and I am sure they will be a great support for many in the future who are currently under the influence of the discombobulator!

Burning Bright's avatar

Thanks so much for reading!

@MichaelAyles's avatar

High level multiple transnational geopolitical communications all at one time and 77,000 languages and 7,000 cultures yeah I think you're doing just fine guys

eileen's avatar

Timelines are set by the people on the timeline. There always were at least two: the Golden Age one and the Forever War one, and they are close. This is why people on these two timelines see what is in the other one. While I do not have any inside information, I do sense energetic shifts. In my opinion, the two timelines are beginning to separate.

Everything about Iran has a glass half empty, glass half full narrative to it. On the Golden Age timeline for example, one is willing to question these statements by the Supreme Leader, because unlike his father, who made appearances on media when he spoke, the new one has yet to appear. Glass half-empty- something like he doesn't want to get blown up. Glass half-full, he is a cardboard cutout who learned how to speak. In English no less. While Iranians, Arabs, Israelis and American military are dying, those on the first timeline can see the dots and the dots tell them that Trump is providing even Iran with an off-ramp that will eventually expose Israel and Congress. Those on the second timeline still accept the establishment media regardless of the lies they know are being told. And that is why the first timeline will reach the Golden Age.

Think of Matthew 24 about two people doing the same thing and one will disappear, regardless of which timeline you are on. Your perception of what's going on will set your reality. This is why the Iran operation is hard to understand because it has many facets: neocons (RINOs), truthers, who are black pillers, establishment media, Congress and to a lesser extent, Israel and other globalist nations. It was not designed for play-by-play, unlike the Epstein files or election fraud. Following Iran's play by play would drive anyone batty unless you believe that Iran's Supreme Leader is a piece of cardboard shaped like a mullah. Then it becomes a comedy. And following the videos of Iranians doing the Trump dance will be enough to make it a great day.

If my hunches about Iran and Israel are true, then this would be the most brilliant operation I have ever seen. While Trump did a masterful job, Putin and Xi did a much better job at execution.

Bryce E. 'Esquire' Rasmussen's avatar

Of interest - the typo, 'stoping' means, in mining, excavating a series of steps or layers in the ground rock. Possibly informing interested parties that he's got to dig in and excavate let's say the bad guys in a series of steps. Possibly also indicating they've gone underground. Likely to change from the system's hoped for endless war into something else. Could also indicate rebuilding there at some point.

Chuck Furlong's avatar

You've got me wondering about your intent with something.

When you write of the "invisible enemy", I assume you're referring to the Deep State cabal which has been--among other things--instigating and fomenting perpetual wars to keep itself alive and in power. I get that (assuming I'm correct).

What I don't get is why you include Zionists in that enemy group. Zionism is simply the belief that Jews are entitled to their own God-given land in the Middle East, should return there, and WILL return there fully according to God's will. Such a belief is biblical. It is NOT, and never has been a desire to foment war at all, let alone a "forever war". The last thing the Jews in Israel want is war. Most of them would like--as Trump said early on in this conflict--to "finish the job" regarding groups who devote themselves to Israel's destruction, and this operation with Iran is part of eliminating that threat.

I do think that Israel has--as does the U.S.--their own "Deep State problem", but that doesn't mean that Israel or Zionism itself IS the problem, any more than the U.S. is the problem. (The Iranian Mullahs think we both are. That makes them a problem, which Trump is dealing with.)

Certainly the Deep State has an interest in continuing the Middle East conflict for their own ends, seeing to it that it is never resolved. It's a fire that is easy to maintain, given that Satan himself has a vested interest in the destruction of Israel, intends to fight until Israel IS destroyed (something that will never happen because GOD has a vested interest in blessing Israel and fulfilling every prophecy regarding that nation). And of course, there are fake "Zionists" who exploit the label for their own nefarious ends, just as there are fake "conservatives" (neocons), fake "MAGA" etc.

We all need to be VERY careful when we discuss Israel, try to discern Israel's place in history, especially with what's going on now. A failure to grasp the biblical program for Israel--as it regards the future in particular--will lead to serious error. Along that line, it would be woefully, tragically WRONG to brand Zionism as an arm of the Deep State. Doing so will only undermine your very noble attempts to awaken people to what's going on.

An interesting aside: My wife works in a retail store along with a few people who happen to be Persian. Last week one of them greeted my wife, saying "I LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP!" referring to Epic Fury. They have family contacts in Tehran. One said that they would rather have the bombing than the IRGC, and that the bombing is so precise they've gotten used to it. She also said that the IRGC are "the most evil people in the world." Sounds like the Iranian people are just fine with the "regime change" idea.

Featherjourney's avatar

There is a reason Trump is more popular in Israel than Netanyahu.

One needs to distinguish between Radical Zionism and the Jewish faith.

Radical Zionism connects to the British Imperial Empire…with deeper roots that trace back to the Khazarian Mafia

https://dn721805.ca.archive.org/0/items/khazarian-mafia-hidden-history/Khazarian%20Mafia%20Hidden%20History.pdf

Chuck Furlong's avatar

One needs to distinguish between historical fact and quasi-historical fiction.

That linked document is so full of half-facts, false premises and toward its end, out-and-out slander, it is difficult to decide where to focus. But, in an effort to be brief, and since the piece is obviously an attempt to defame Israel and cast them as the cause of all the trouble, I'll address this one allegation from it:

"The Rothschild KM sets up Nazi Work Camps as a pretext to later manipulate the

Allies into granting them their own private colony in Palestine, using land stolen

from the Palestinians: "

The whole "land stolen from the Palestinians" narrative is bunk, a textbook example of a false narrative. It also serves as a red flag, revealing complete ignorance of Israel's post-WWII history (not to mention Israel's BIBLICAL history) on the part of the author.

As long as we're posting links, you may wish to view the following short (11:37) video regarding Israel's history since 1947...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U

We've all seen the tactics of Israel's enemies; cause trouble, get people killed, make sure Israel is blamed for it. THERE is your Satanic plot.

I refuse to fall for it.

Featherjourney's avatar

For one thing, I am not against Israel as a nation state nor the everyday citizens who live there. I am against Netanyahu and his radical Zionist regime. I am 100% against Israel having anything to do with our Foreign Policy especially since 9/11 and I am against Israel meddling in our domestic affairs. They are one of the largest lobbying organizations in DC. I am against dual citizenship by anyone holding government positions.

The Balfour Declaration which gave British controlled land to create the state of Israel was compliments of The City of London banking cartels - which has quite a lot do with the Rothschilds.

Clif High also wrote a shorter article citing the same historical information about the Khazarian Mafia.

Israel has never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) primarily due to its policy of deliberate ambiguity—neither confirming nor denying the possession of nuclear weapons!?

MF01's avatar

I think the author is writing more about how events are happening versus what is being engineered.

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Bobby's avatar

Then if you didn’t read the whole thing Ernie shut up! It’s a great article.