Weaponizing Time – Part II: The Global Operating System of Western Power

"This characterization of the 'Gray Zone' is an expression of the civilizatory lens of supremacy. The underlying logic pathologizes any form of development or international engagement that is not subservient to the US-led order. It operates on the premise that the only legitimate state behavior is alignment with Western interests. This is the intellectual foundation that allows the entirety of geopolitics to be redefined as a "military problem." By framing multipolarity itself as a "gray zone" threat, the doctrine of Multi-Domain Operations receives its moral and strategic license: the entire world becomes a battlespace, and every independent actor a legitimate target."

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Weaponizing Time: Elite Anxiety and the Fight for a Closing Window

"When Trenin speaks of a war 'already here,' he describes a reality where development itself, technological leaps, infrastructure corridors, and resource sovereignty are seen as weapons by Western (elite) perception. The mist that grows out of these worldviews is obscuring the chessboard, and it is (partly) manufactured. This, then, is a dissection of that fog’s composition:

• Elite panic over narrowing resource access and fading ideological monopoly.
• Strategic ambiguity: a deliberate weaponization of time and uncertainty that forces rivals to hedge everywhere at once.
• Multi-Domain Operations (MDO): the doctrine that stitches finance, information, cyber, and kinetic force into one rolling, low-visibility offensive.

Washington and its closest allies (or vassals) are not even trying to out-develop BRICS on civilian terms; they aim to bleed them, to overextend them, to underpower them: economically, diplomatically, kinetically—before the technological gap flips irreversibly. What we are observing is a desperate game of chance based on the assumption that military attrition can (at least) stall a tectonic shift in the current global order. That choice, rooted in an older colonial logic which framed “non-Western development” as inherently threatening, explains why every Russian drone or Chinese port deal is read as casus belli.

The hourglass drains as Western elites weaponize time itself, turning uncertainty into their sharpest weapon through a fog deliberately engineered not to burn off; for in this manufactured mist, they seek to stall the very shift they cannot prevent."

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How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

Fantastic overview of how the U.S. drove Ukraine (and Georgia) into a war.

Gates was not alone in his misgivings about NATO expansion. The ambassador to Moscow at the time was William Burns, a highly regarded diplomat who was well qualified for his post with his knowledge of Russian and prior experience in the country. The plan to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO alarmed him too. As he famously warned his boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in February 2008, “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all red lines for the Russian elite” from “the knuckle-draggers” in the Kremlin to “Putin’s sharpest liberal critics.” If Washington insisted on pushing Georgian membership, the ambassador predicted, the “prospects of subsequent Russian-Georgian armed conflict” would be high.

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