A Slow Unraveling, The Beginning of the End

"The descent into war is a numbing journey. It is a collective spell, a shared hallucination. And once the spell is cast, it has a perverse beauty, a seduction, a cleansing of the chaos of daily life. But it is also a lie." - Chris Hedges

"Appeals to patriotism, to national greatness, and to the glories of past empires are used to justify war and conquest today. But the realities are exploitation, suffering, and silence imposed on the subjugated." - Edward Said

"You are already in the early stages of World War III. You just don’t know it yet because it doesn’t look like the last one. It’s economic, it’s technological, it’s institutional, and it’s creeping into every facet of global stability." - Eric Weinstein

It's difficult to completely comprehend the magnitude of the change we're experiencing. The post-World War II world in which we were raised is gradually disintegrating beneath us. We sense the rumblings of world turmoil, and many of us secretly believe what Eric Weinstein claims: that World War III has already broken out. Not as a big reveal, but as a slow, insidious unravelling.

Tanks and guns aren't the only weapons used in this conflict. It is mechanized, digital, psychological, economic, cyber, and uncannily invisible. The sci-fi future of robots and artificial intelligence that we once dreamed of is not some far-off possibility. It is already here, not in the form of gleaming metal and cables, but rather in the disintegration of our common reality and the accelerating rate of world unrest.

We see real-time flashes of hypersonic missiles on our cell phone and computer screens. Drones and other flying machines are visible, stalking the skies and hunting humans like predators. We hear about the people of ancient cities like Tehran fleeing to safety when they are struck. We no longer merely observe from the sidelines. Whether we like it or not, we're involved.

We’re trying to make sense of it all. The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Ukraine turned into a testing ground for Western military tech, backed by billion-dollar defense corporations, while both Ukraine and Russia send millions to their death, devastating both economies. And all the while, the chaos spreads.

The U.S. insists the dollar remains the world’s Petro currency. It imposes tariffs and sanctions across the globe. Some African nations even offer their natural resources in exchange for friendship and cooperation, but the U.S. responds with threats against BRICS or any move toward economic independence is conflict.

Meanwhile, the major world powers are locked in a precarious standoff, growing more dangerous by the day.

We’re told it’s all just a tragedy

But it feels more like a controlled unraveling or collapse

We see how narratives are crafted to shape public opinion, how war is turned into spectacle on social media. Drones are a major player, we watch live streams of unmanned flying killing machines crashing into vehicles and apartment buildings. We see soldiers stalked from above, easily hunted by killing mechanical birds that once seemed like sci-fi. These drones, with their cold efficiency and programmed AGI automation, are the new weapons of terror. Not terrifying because of mass destruction, but because of how close, personal, mechanical and ease of human loss of life has become.

And while Europe loses its industrial might and its military influence fades, what once kept the world relatively stable is now slipping away. Deep inside, we can feel it, the ground we’re standing on isn’t steady anymore.

The world is shifting fast

There is no doubt about it, countries throughout the world, their militaries, and their military industrial complexes are learning from such conflicts; what works and what doesn't and they're equipping themselves.