Weaponizing Time: Elite Anxiety and the Fight for a Closing Window
The first of a two-part analysis. Here, we dissect the ideological and historical roots of Western elite panic. Next, we examine its material base and the dangerous military doctrines it has spawned.
Prelude: The Mist That Never Burns Off
We stand at an inflection point where the very architecture of global order is being recalibrated. Dmitry Trenin, former colonel of Russian military intelligence, director emeritus of the Carnegie Moscow Center, and astute chronicler of an emergent multipolarity, frames this process in early July 2025 as he observed:
“Many are now talking about humanity drifting toward a ‘third world war’... In fact, the world war is already here, even if not everyone has noticed or realized it. The pre-war period ended for Russia in 2014, for China in 2017, and for Iran in 2023... This is not a ‘second cold war.’ Beginning in 2022, the West’s war against Russia took on a decisive character.”
Teil 1: https://themindness.substack.com/p/we...
Teil 2: https://themindness.substack.com/p/we...
Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony
From Nord Stream’s sabotage to NATO’s 5 % arms push: Inside the Networks Fueling Transatlantic Madness.
Prelude: The Lansing Memo Comes to Berlin
Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, dictated the 1924 “ambitious young Mexicans” memo. You know the line: open our universities to their élite, drench them in American values, and they’ll govern Mexico for us: better, cheaper, and without a single Marine. The method rings depressingly true today.
One hundred years after Lansing spelled out the blueprint, Germany has become its most perfected specimen. When Olaf Scholz’s cabinet greenlit the destruction of Nord Stream 2, an act of economic self-sabotage with no plausible strategic benefit for Germany, and Merz, now Chancellor, pledged never to use it again, they were betraying Germany. At the same time, they were fulfilling a biographical destiny forged out of their limited horizons, manufactured in Ivy League seminars, Pentagon workshops, and the velvet-lined chambers of the Atlantik-Brücke.
This is the story of an elite cohort trained to regard Atlanticism as synonymous with "Western civilization" itself. The costs: collapsing industrial output, energy poverty, and the specter of conscription, are borne by everyone else. By Nel Bronilla Worldlines 28.06.2025
