It is very important keep in mind that many gamers driving the Ramadan Battle, together with senior members of the U.S. cupboards, are working in a psychological body work of apocalyptic non secular fervor, end-times eschaton and are gripped by doomsday delusions.
Don’t Name It Operation Epstein Fury, Traitor!
Even the title of the battle is a area for dueling psyops.
Some name it the Ramadan Battle, others use its ridiculous American Authorities official title Operation Epic Fury, and a few even select to take part in what the ADL calls “conspiratorial rebranding” by calling it Operation Epstein Fury.
Please, I urge of you do NOT click on on the AI created conspiracy video under
JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S WAR!pic.twitter.com/aukRYfBesz
— Christopher Helali (@ChrisHelali) March 11, 2026
Washington Publish bot-like entity scribe Will Oremus has extra to say about evil Iranian propaganda, citing main “disinformation researchers,” and referring to “Epstein conspiracy theories” (as a result of US Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel each swore beneath oath that there’s no proof of prison conspiracy and there aren’t even any such factor because the Epstein recordsdata, and now stand accused of perjury by Rep. Ted Lieu, however I digress):
To erode public help for the joint U.S.-Israel navy operation, Iranian state media has sought to painting these nations’ leaders as a part of a corrupt and wicked “Epstein class” or “Epstein regime.” Whereas such content material typically fails to realize a lot traction exterior Iran, the message is spreading via generically named “information” accounts that researchers say look like utilizing the Epstein conspiracy theories to serve pro-Iran speaking factors to a world viewers.
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The Epstein posts are a part of a maelstrom of Iran-related misinformation that has engulfed social media since Feb. 28, when strikes by the US and Israel killed the nation’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and touched off a battle that has unfold throughout the Center East. Combined in with actual footage of the battle are dramatic movies of missile strikes, downed fighter jets and earth-shaking explosions which have racked up tens of millions of views on X, TikTok, Instagram and Telegram, solely to be debunked as AI-generated fakes, actual footage from previous conflicts being handed off as new, or scenes from video video games.HDX Information was a part of a community of at the very least 15 nameless X accounts churning out content material that aligns with the messaging of Iran’s Islamist regime and resharing each other’s posts, in keeping with ISD researchers who recognized the marketing campaign. One other, known as GPX Information, posted the identical faux Epstein video — a mishmash of imaginary, AI-generated scenes with bits of actual footage — and obtained greater than 4.7 million views, in keeping with X’s publicly viewable metrics.
Each accounts have been suspended by X after The Publish reached out for remark, although others within the community remained energetic as of Monday. X didn’t reply apart from asking for examples of the posts and accounts.
Schafer mentioned it’s not clear whether or not the accounts are engaged on behalf of Iran’s authorities or merely help it. However he added that the pro-regime propaganda they promoted was “not delicate.”Their posts included triumphant reviews of profitable Iranian strikes on American and Israeli targets; requires followers to “stand with Iran”; and ideas that China and Russia stand able to again Iran in a cataclysmic world conflict. All 15 accounts ISD discovered have been created up to now two years, and 9 of them have been verified on X, which means they pay a subscription price to Elon Musk’s social community in return for options that may embody better visibility, a blue checkmark verifying their authenticity and the prospect to generate income from their posts.
And to suppose it was only a decade in the past that the WaPo was publishing false and defamatory claims that this very web page was “pushing faux information and Russian propaganda” that they by no means retracted.
Too unhealthy that Jeff Bezos has gutted the wonderful defenders towards Democracy Dying in Darkness, as a result of they appear to be defending a distinctively minority opinion, per Drop Website Information:
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) March 11, 2026
Outdated methods appear to be all of the US authorities and MSM have left to maintain the Interregnum of Unreality.
However finally issues that can’t final perpetually, like fraud-based credit score cycles, stop.
The Risks of Deliberate Lies and Delusions
Former USMC Captain and State Division Officer, Iraq Battle fight veteran and Afghanistan Battle State Division officer Matthew Hoh who in 2009, “resigned in protest from his publish in Afghanistan with the State Division over the American escalation of the conflict” was on Choose Napolitano’s present as we speak and warned that the timeless lies of the 2000s are nonetheless main us into wars 23 years later.
However he additionally factors out the massive distinction between the GW Bush and Trump administrations’ lies:
Choose Andrew Napolitano: I do wish to discuss to you (about) the persistence of those lies about Iraq, lies push nations towards conflict. You fought in Iraq, a conflict you now remorse. Nonetheless, you’ve firsthand data of the killings there and the lies that obtained us there. and the lies persist to at the present time. Please handle the core Trump and Lindsey Graham lies that People have been killed by Iraqis on orders from Iran.
Matthew Hoh: It’s simply astounding and sickening that they’re nonetheless mendacity about Iraq.
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You’ve got a lie that was began by the Bush administration with a purpose to justify a conflict on Iran by the Bush administration 20 some odd years in the past. This concept was that we’re going to blame Iran for the violence in Iraq, for the killing and wounding of our troopers in Iraq on Iran and that’s going to be one among our justifications to launch (a) conflict on Iran. And the George W. Bush administration to be clear, the Bush administration uh went to nice lengths to arrange this lie and to orchestrate this lie after which to current it publicly and it was a humiliation.
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What’s perhaps extra maddening to me than the rest is the truth that you’ve so many in the US, together with the media, who simply settle for(the lie that Iran was chargeable for violence towards U.S. troops in Iraq within the Second Gulf Battle) They hear the president say this. They hear members of Congress say it. they hear Pete Hegseth say it or whoever they usually simply enable it. They settle for it as if it’s true and it’s merely not true.
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Right here’s one of many variations. In 2003, the women and men in cost have been competent liars. And right here we’ve incompetent liars. And so I believe that’s one of many nice variations between these two wars.
One of many issues we could also be coping with is that what have been as soon as understanding deceptions at the moment are full-blown delusions.
Danny Haiphong warned about delusional Western management on his present final evening.
Danny Haiphong: all we’ve are delusions at this level popping out of the political management in Washington proper now and and look that is that is one other delusion (from Trump):
POTUS Trump: all the things’s advantageous our nation is uh doing actually Effectively, I stronger and our nation is uh doing rather well. I imply, at a degree that no one thought. We took a little bit tour as a result of we felt we had to try this to eliminate some evil. And uh I believe you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term tour. How good? It’ll be a short-term tour. All the pieces goes effectively.
Danny goes on to debunk Trump’s numerous claims concerning the success of the conflict and the way restricted its affect might be on the worldwide financial system.
Trump’s delusional beliefs are possible extra associated to his quickly declining psychological colleges, Chief of Employees Susie Wile’s more and more tight management of his informational consumption, and his deeply-held perception in his personal cult of character.
Religion leaders gathered within the Oval Workplace to hope over President Trump — captured in a video launched by a Trump adviser. pic.twitter.com/KpJgiv0FQZ
— euronews (@euronews) March 6, 2026
Sadly, lots of these round Trump really consider he’s a real non secular chief and coincidentally a few of them are believers in end-times cults. Like Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth.
Fox Information Warmonger Fool Believes What?
Right here’s how Hegseth’s public expressions of his delusions and derangements are coated within the Guardian:
Hegseth, 45, a former Fox Information TV host who now instructions the world’s strongest navy, has this week change into the face of Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran. That has set off alarm bells for critics who warn that the Secretary of Protection – pointedly rebranded “Secretary of Battle” – has quickly remodeled the Pentagon into the staging floor for an ideological and non secular campaign.
With machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness towards the lives of US troops, they are saying, Hegseth’s puerile shows on TV are aimed toward sating Trump’s want for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.
In addition they have some good background from Pete’s CV:
Hegseth’s rise would have been unthinkable beneath some other commander-in-chief. Born in Minneapolis, he studied politics at Princeton College and have become writer and editor of the Princeton Tory, a conservative scholar journal, the place he continuously waded into culture-war points similar to feminism and homosexuality.
After leaving Princeton, Hegseth joined the US military nationwide guard as an infantry officer. His service included deployments to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and excursions of Iraq and Afghanistan. He later revealed in a e book that he instructed troopers beneath his command in Iraq to disregard authorized recommendation about once they have been permitted to kill enemy combatants beneath their guidelines of engagement.
Hegseth turned chief government of Involved Veterans for America, a conservative advocacy group, however departed in 2016 amid allegations of economic mismanagement, sexual impropriety and private misconduct.
And just a bit bit about his precise beliefs:
There was one other side of Hegseth’s character barely addressed by the Senate: his sympathy for Christian nationalism. Images have proven him bearing two tattoos related to crusader imagery. One depicts the Jerusalem cross – a cluster of 5 crosses lengthy related to medieval crusader iconography – on his chest.
Close by is a picture of a sword accompanied by the Latin phrase “Deus vult”, which means “God wills it”, a slogan traditionally linked to the crusades and revived in recent times by numerous far-right teams. It appeared on clothes and flags carried by some contributors within the January 6 Capitol assault.
Nor are the references merely symbolic. In his 2020 e book, American Campaign, Hegseth wrote that those that profit from “western civilisation” ought to “thank a crusader”. The e book means that democratic politics alone might not suffice to realize the targets of his political allies, declaring: “Voting is a weapon, nevertheless it’s not sufficient. We don’t wish to struggle, however, like our fellow Christians one thousand years in the past, we should.”
The Guardian factors us to a 2024 New Yorker piece that provides alleged drunkenness to the Secretary’s record of psychological maladies:
A beforehand undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure because the president of Involved Veterans for America, from 2013 till 2016, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated whereas performing in his official capability—to the purpose of needing to be carried out of the group’s occasions. The detailed seven-page report—which was compiled by a number of former C.V.A. staff and despatched to the group’s senior administration in February, 2015—states that, at one level, Hegseth needed to be restrained whereas drunk from becoming a member of the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip membership, the place he had introduced his staff.
However others say he’s simply drunk on Jesus and wanting to expedite a fiery Second Coming (TM).
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth has enshrined evangelical Christianity on the uppermost ranges of the U.S. navy, airing month-to-month prayer conferences all through the Pentagon. Final yr, the Pentagon confirmed to me that Hegseth attends a weekly White Home Bible research. It’s led by a preacher who says God instructions America to help Israel.
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Some Christians declare biblical prophecy requires Israel to exist for Jesus to return. However Hegseth’s Bible research chief, preacher Ralph Drollinger, teaches that the explanation to help Israel is that God nonetheless blesses Israel’s allies and curses Israel’s enemies, though Israel killed Jesus (this smear, the historic root of antisemitism, has been rejected by each main faith).After Israel’s assault on Iran final yr, Drollinger devoted two weeks of classes to preaching help for Israel. His classes went out to White Home cupboard members and members of Congress whilst Israel, too, was lobbying for U.S. engagement.
Larson solely mentions Drollinger, nevertheless it seems Hegseth contains a rotating solid of God-talkers at his breakfasts together with the charming and pleasant Doug Wilson, about whom Phrase & Method reviews:
Controversial Christian Nationalist preacher Doug Wilson stood at a podium contained in the Pentagon on Tuesday (Feb. 17) because the visitor preacher for the newest month-to-month Christian worship service held there for leaders of the U.S. navy. The Idaho pastor and self-described “paleo-Accomplice” preached concerning the significance of trusting God for defense in battle and praised the month-to-month worship providers as maybe an indication of a brand new revival just like the Nice Awakening or the biblical Day of Pentecost.
As soon as thought-about a fringe far-right Christian determine, Wilson in recent times has discovered himself more and more embraced by the broader evangelical world and the conservative political motion within the age of Donald Trump. The most important proof of his rise is that Pete Hegseth, who likes to name himself the “Secretary of Battle,” is a part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Church buildings, a denomination based by Wilson. Brooks Potteiger, Hegseth’s CREC pastor in Tennessee from earlier than becoming a member of the Trump administration, preached on the first Pentagon worship service in Could and once more final month. Wilson just lately introduced he’s sending Potteiger to Washington, D.C., to guide the brand new CREC church plant there, which Hegseth has been attending.
Wilson, an outspoken proponent of Christian Nationalism, has sparked quite a few controversies over time for what he preaches and teaches. He has downplayed the horrors of slavery and defended enslavers. He additionally pushes a hardline model of patriarchy, not simply insisting solely males can function pastors or in different church management roles but additionally that they need to rule in households. That latter perception bleeds into civic life as Wilson argues the US ought to undertake family voting, the place the male head of the family casts the votes for everybody within the household. Wilson additionally pushes for codifying in U.S. legislation different theological beliefs he holds, together with bans on abortion, same-sex marriage, and Pleasure parades. Moreover, he garnered headlines for main his church members in Moscow, Idaho, to disobey public well being measures through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apparently, the phrase Israel isn’t talked about in that article, so I’m undecided that Wilson is a Christian Zionist along with his different fascinating beliefs, however his insights into navy idea are of be aware:
“We must always not need God merely to win. We would like God to get nice glory in profitable, getting nice glory in and thru profitable. And getting nice glory signifies that Gideon goes into battle with 300 as an alternative of with 10,000. Getting nice glory means Jehoshaphat goes into battle with the choir out within the vanguard,” Wilson added. “If you discover ways to stand agency within the Lord and within the energy of his may, you’re going to begin sounding to your spouse like a religious model of Chesty Puller after the Chinese language got here into the Korean Battle: ‘We’ve been on the lookout for the enemy for a while now. We lastly discovered him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies issues.’ And he additionally mentioned, in fact, ‘All proper, they’re on our left, they’re on our proper, they’re in entrance of us, they’re behind us, they’ll’t get away from us now.’ And your spouse goes to stare at you and say, ‘What have you ever been studying?’ Your Bible.”
Apocalyptic Perception Trickles Down on the Troops
The Army Spiritual Freedom Basis has been doing the work on this side of our collective psychosis:
“This morning our commander opened up the fight readiness standing briefing by urging us to not be “afraid” as to what’s occurring with our fight operations in Iran proper now. He urged us to inform our troops that this was “all a part of God’s divine plan” and he particularly referenced quite a few citations out of the E book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the upcoming return of Jesus Christ. He mentioned that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to mild the sign fireplace in Iran to trigger Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”
— MRFF energetic obligation NCO consumer, writing on behalf of themself and 15 different unit members
MRFF has obtained over 200 calls from greater than 50 navy installations throughout all of the providers since Saturday reporting related disturbing pronouncements from their Christian zealot commanders.
Earlier than we wrap this up, we’ve to detour to my house state of Texas.
From the newest problem of Texas Month-to-month, headlined “One Man’s Quest for the Finish of the World Began on a Ranch in Texas” and subheaded, “A Texas businessman believes he was divinely chosen to assist usher within the Second Coming of Christ—by discovering unblemished crimson heifers and getting them to Israel.”
The piece focuses on Texas rancher Jerome Urbanosky’s expertise with a delegation “high-ranking rabbis who’d flown straight from Israel, a U.S. documentary crew toting a number of cameras, and a Texas businessman named Byron Stinson” who wished to buy a really particular heifer from him.
4 males wearing black tactical gear and carrying navy rifles approached and instructed him they wanted to brush the property to ensure no “overseas brokers” have been current. “They have been armed to the tooth,” Urbanosky remembered. He wasn’t inclined to face of their approach. His spouse, Jane, who was within the kitchen making ready the weekly Sunday meal, stared saucer-eyed because the armed males entered her house.
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4 males wearing black tactical gear and carrying navy rifles approached and instructed him they wanted to brush the property to ensure no “overseas brokers” have been current. “They have been armed to the tooth,” Urbanosky remembered. He wasn’t inclined to face of their approach. His spouse, Jane, who was within the kitchen making ready the weekly Sunday meal, stared saucer-eyed because the armed males entered her house.As soon as the safety staff cleared the property, Urbanosky led the rabbis to a crimson barn, the place two calves awaited. Urbanosky Ranch is house to a herd of greater than 450 Santa Gertrudis cattle, a hardy breed that’s recognized to provide good beef and whose origins hint again to the King Ranch, in South Texas. However as Urbanosky knew, this delegation wasn’t right here for a steak.
Santa Gertrudis cattle even have placing coats of deep rusty crimson, which is what had initially attracted Stinson’s consideration. A seventy-year-old Glen Rose enterprise proprietor who’s described himself as a “Jesus zealot,” Stinson had visited Urbanosky at his ranch as soon as earlier than and defined that he was in the hunt for an unblemished, fully crimson heifer—a scratch or a single white hair, and it wouldn’t do. Such a heifer hadn’t been recognized in two thousand years, nevertheless it was key to unlocking an historic Jewish ritual described within the e book of Numbers, a needed precursor to establishing the Third Temple in Jerusalem and, in the end, bringing concerning the Second Coming of Christ. It’s a fringe however nonetheless influential perception, and Stinson’s Israeli affiliate, Yitshak Mamo, had satisfied Urbanosky that he, too, was important to this journey.
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Fantastical as Stinson’s end-time scheme might sound, its real-world penalties are grave—and have the potential to change into much more explosive. The pursuit has already heightened tensions within the Israeli-Palestinian battle and was cited by Hamas as one motive for the October 7, 2023, assault on Israel. Stinson’s efforts have sparked headlines throughout the Center East, been criticized by worldwide Christian leaders, and made him an unlikely however consequential determine in one of the vital delicate and contentious religiopolitical points on this planet.
The loopy is actual and it’s obtained cash and weapons.
In future editions, I hope to publish on the apocalyptic beliefs of a number of Israeli cupboard members and what some are pondering on the Islamic aspect of the fence.
Earlier Makes an attempt to Parse the Psychology of Our Misleaders:
