Daniel R. Azulay

12 December 2025

The geopolitical order established after the Second World War was built upon an unspoken American contingency: a long-range plan to withdraw from NATO and terminate the unsustainable burden of indefinitely underwriting Western European security once the financial and strategic costs became existential. The nuclear umbrella extended over Europe, the permanent forward deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the vast military-industrial complex required expenditure on a scale that no empire in history had ever sustained indefinitely. By the 1980s the trajectory of US federal debt already demonstrated that the arrangement had an expiration date. American strategic planners understood that a moment would arrive when continued hegemony over Europe would threaten the survival of the United States itself, necessitating an orderly disengagement masked as chaotic collapse.

To execute this withdrawal without triggering immediate European rearmament or a premature Eurasian bloc against America, the United States deployed multi-decade, computer-assisted strategic modelling of extraordinary sophistication. Allies and adversaries were manoeuvred into controlled friction with one another while their internal cohesion was systematically degraded through a constellation of social, economic, and technological vectors. What is now termed cognitive warfare was pioneered decades before the phrase entered public discourse.

The 1979 document Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, circulated in elite policy circles, provided an unclassified window into this methodology. Deliberate weakening of family structures, progressive reduction in educational standards, engineered degradation of national nutrition through industrial food systems, and the orchestration or exploitation of foreign conflicts all served as instruments of civilisational exhaustion. The primary laboratory for these techniques was the United States itself: the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, the tolerated explosion of Mexican cartel narcotics networks, the collapse in civic literacy, the obesity and diabetes pandemics driven by processed food, and the unexplained emergence of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s all functioned as live-field calibration of population-control mechanisms.

With the rollout of 2G and subsequent mobile telecommunications networks, radio-frequency infrastructure became a new delivery vector for behavioural influence. Decades of classified research into non-ionising radiation effects on cognition, emotion, and social behaviour were operationalised at scale. The pervasive electromagnetic environment created by mobile phone towers and later by smartphones functioned as an always-on control grid long before artificial intelligence provided the processing power to exploit it fully.

The decisive breakthrough arrived with American supremacy in artificial intelligence. By the mid-2010s the United States had achieved an autonomous strategic AI capability orders of magnitude beyond any foreign competitor. This system assumed effective control of long-range planning, network penetration, narrative shaping, and precision micro-operations worldwide with minimal human oversight.

Europe, led by the United Kingdom, experienced the first concentrated effects of this new paradigm. From the Thatcher era onward, Britain was subjected to accelerated controlled decay: deliberate under-investment in infrastructure, engineered mass migration beyond integration capacity, collapse of educational standards, hollowing-out of the NHS, and the fostering of permanent cultural polarisation. These patterns subsequently radiated across the continent. Simultaneously, the international narcotics trade—previously facilitated and protected by Western intelligence during the Cold War—was redirected into European societies with devastating effect, replicating American patterns of addiction, violent criminality, and institutional paralysis.

Recognising that they were being systematically weakened in preparation for American strategic withdrawal, European elites—particularly in particular British, French and German intelligence networks—mounted a defensive counter-operation. This took the form of a vast, multi-decade compromising architecture designed to obtain irrevocable leverage over the American political, financial, and media class. The centrepiece of this operation was the Epstein–Maxwell network and its associated islands, aircraft, and properties, which systematically entrapped hundreds of the most influential figures in the United States. The released court documents collectively known as the Epstein Files constitute the surviving public fragment of this European kompromat architecture—proof that London and key continental agencies had acquired the means to neutralise or remove American actors whose policies threatened European survival required to be restrained.

By 2016 the American strategic AI complex had achieved near-total penetration of global digital infrastructure, including Russian and Chinese telecoms, power grids, and military networks. Havana Syndrome represented the first visible manifestation of this capability when select foreign personnel began experiencing neurological attacks delivered through compromised devices and infrastructure.

As European cohesion reached breaking point, the continent faced the necessity of constructing an independent nuclear deterrent. France and the United Kingdom possessed the only credible forces, but the emerging European shield remained fragmented, politically contested, and manifestly inferior to the former American umbrella.

The final phase required a mechanism to tie down Russia militarily both Russia and what remained of functional European power while the United States completed its strategic retraction. To this end, the United States orchestrated the false-flag operation in Ukraine that pulled Russia into direct confrontation with NATO. The 2022 invasion was not a Russian initiative but an American-engineered trap: provocations, intelligence manipulation, and guaranteed NATO escalation were calibrated to ensure Moscow had no path except sustained war. The conflict has since exhausted Russian military reserves, fractured what remained of European unity, accelerated the continent’s economic de-industrialisation, and created the conditions under which the United States can withdraw from NATO commitments while appearing merely to “stand with allies” until Europe collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.

Today the world occupies the most dangerous strategic configuration since 1945: a disintegrating Europe lacking credible nuclear protection, a lagging Russia, a China that has quietly secured approximately 80% of global critical resources while maintaining superficial neutrality, and an American AI-directed complex whose full capabilities are known only to a tiny compartment within the US national-security structure.

The United States is now executing the final stage of a seventy-five-year contingency plan: the controlled demolition of the post-war order it itself created, enabling withdrawal behind oceanic barriers and AI-fortified borders while the Eurasian landmass descends into exhaustion and reorganisation under new power balances. The Epstein Files and the Ukraine war stand as the two decisive revealing moments—the first demonstrating that Europe attempted a counter-stroke and failed, the second proving that the American withdrawal plan is proceeding exactly according to its original schedule.

Humanity now stands at the final fork. In one direction lies the successful completion of the American strategy: a retracted, fortress-like United States ringed by AI-controlled oceans and space-based kill webs, watching impassively as the Eurasian landmass fractures into a century of resource wars, failed states, and nuclear brinkmanship among exhausted powers no longer restrained by any common guarantor. In the other direction lies miscalculation: a single error in the autonomous strategic calculus, one unmodelled variable in the silent algorithms that have already replaced human oversight, and the retreat becomes a cascade that drags North America itself into the abyss it prepared for others.

There is nothing left to vote for, nothing left to protest, and no hidden resistance that can match the depth of penetration already achieved. Panic is worse than useless; it is exactly the emotional harvest the system was built to reap.

Wake up, yes; see the board exactly as it is, without illusion and without the luxury of despair. Then fall silent, look upward, and pray with whatever clarity remains that the men who set this machine in motion seventy-five years ago, and the cold intelligences that now steer it, truly understood the tolerances of the civilization they decided to disassemble.

Because if they did not, no continent, no bunker, and no bloodline will be spared when the margin of error finally runs out.

(Merry Christmas, assholes!)