Experiencing War on X
when you get to see under the hood
During the last week or so of Epic Fury and and Roaring Lion the effect of a de-censored X has become apparent to me.
As an ordinary X subscriber I get to receive the Narrative of all kinds of propaganda sources: US, Israeli, liberal influencers, Iran regime and opponents. And I gotta admit, it is pretty confusing. If I weren’t as smart as paint…
It makes me understand why all warring states need to impose censorship. And also why the narrative never ends. We are still hearing how World War II was the noblest and greatest war of all time and that the Nazis were the worst thing since Attila the Hun. Or maybe Genghis Khan.
And I get why the Bidenoids did a full court press on social media during World War COVID. It would never do for people to start questioning lockdowns and vaccinations. Not after our beloved leaders had told us that The Science required it. Because once you admit that, hey, maybe we don’t need to shut down the beaches in California, or maybe the lockdowns weren’t such a good idea, then people may start to doubt other aspects of the regime strategy and tactics.
It has become clear to me, especially in the last week, that a warring state absolutely needs to assure its army and its people that we are the good guys, the Other is evil, and everything is going well, our boys are heroes, and victory is assured. Otherwise…
And if you start to do your own investigation, you start to wonder whether it was a good idea for the Brits and the French to ally against Germany in the Entente Cordiale in 1904 and surround Germany from east and west in the Triple Entente with Russia in 1907. I get it: a united Germany, that had invented modern philosophy and modern chemistry and modern physics after centuries of being a disunited Holy Roman Empire, was a fearsome thing, the scariest thing since the Ottomans at the gates of Vienna in 1683. And don’t get me started on the Treaty of Versailles.
But it’s all too easy to second-guess the politicians a century later.
Meanwhile, what really is going on? Are the US and Israel really beheading the Iranian regime? Can the Iranian people really hope to put an end to their subjection without US troops on the ground? Will the IRGC keep popping off missiles forever?
Then there’s the big picture. Can a US president that once was a TV star really hope to end the Maduro regime in Venezuela, the Islamist regime in Iran and the Communist regime in Cuba? All in one year? Are you kidding? Where are the experts, the wise ones, the foreign policy analysts on all this?
And now President Trump is announcing a war on drug cartels with his Shield of the Americas. Really? If this is such a great idea, how come the experts didn’t figure it out decades ago?
Meanwhile President Trump had a press conference today where he announced “major strides” in Epic Fury and Datarepublican has a comprehensive data analysis of the state of the conflict so far.
To be continued…