Trump and his followers are implementing a state of exception
where rules have been replaced by arbitrary power [Vila, 25.10.2017].
This represents a failure of Western history, where the human being
disappears like an analysis in the sand [Literature and Theory,
8.10.2025]. Karl Popper warned that the open society is threatened
when rational discussion is replaced by propaganda [Popper, 1997].
War propaganda is most effective when it transforms the enemy into a
monster [Diesen, 22.2.2026]. This trend is also visible in Finland,
where dissidents are labeled as traitors [Rahikainen, 15.10.2025].
The increase in weaponry is a self-fulfilling prophecy that
inevitably leads to conflict [Ellul, 1985]. True strength would be
found in the ability to resist mass hysteria and make ethical choices
[Patomäki, 2025]. According to Kant, no human being should consider
themselves more valuable than another, yet contemporary politics
tramples upon this principle [Dieterlen, 2010].
Pacifism is the ultimate guarantee of civilization and its highest
achievement [Tamares, 2023]. We must pray for peace and act
accordingly every day [Emmanuel, 2.3.2026]. For only through
compassion can we transcend this darkness and find the way back home
[Dostojevski, 1864].
1. Trump, Iran, and the World Order in the Era of
the Brainwashing Industry
The streetscapes of the world's metropolises often tell stories
that differ from the preconceptions created by the media. Tehran and
Los Angeles offer two startling examples of this diversity of
reality. The modern and vibrant capital of Iran [Visitera, “Living
in IRAN?”, 1.7.2024] can be compared to the homelessness crisis in
the largest state of the United States [Our 50 states, “LA in
Crisis”, 17.3.2025]. These two cities stood in contrast like a
prophetic warning before the bombings began: while in the streets of
Tehran, history and modernity met in vibrant cleanliness—in the
purity of the metro trains and the splendor of flower shops, with the
long hair of joyful women shining in the open air—Los Angeles was
at a breaking point under a homelessness crisis and dystopian tent
cities, where luxury cars glided past desperate people. Tehran, which
shattered Western myths of backwardness by appearing as a community
full of the joy of life, became the target of a civilization that
could not even care for its own marginalized citizens. It was blind
destruction targeted at the very everyday life that the civilized
population was trying to protect.
Professor Manoilo has emphasized that the relationship between
Iran and the United States is a complex game where the "official
reason," such as the Iranian nuclear issue, serves only as a
veil for deeper geopolitical ambitions (Sokolov 2012; Manoilo 2012).
This conflict progressed in stages, from aggressive statements to new
sanctions and Israel's actions as a provocateur (Sokolov 2012;
Manoilo 2012). However, it is extreme intellectual laziness to
believe that this is about "promoting democracy" or
"humanitarian concern"; as Caitlin Johnstone points out,
only an idiot believes war propaganda about Iran in a situation where
the same actors have just turned Gaza into a pile of rubble filled
with rotting corpses [Johnstone, 30.1.2026]. It is about pure power
and control—an attempt to balkanize the Middle East into manageable
fragments or to install a puppet government in Tehran, without the
slightest regard for the fate of civilians [Johnstone, 30.1.2026].
Agamben argues that we have lost the right to truth because fear has
become the primary engine of politics: "Fear is what makes
people accept a situation where they no longer recognize their
neighbor as a brother but as a threat" [Agamben, 2020]. "Man
is disappearing today, like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of
the sea" [Agamben, 2022].
According to Jennifer Mercieca, modern propaganda no longer seeks
to manufacture the "consent" of the people, but rather
"dissent" by creating chaos and distrust, turning us all
into propagandists through social media [Mercieca, 2021]. Steven
Hassan and James Scaminaci III describe it as "fourth-generation
warfare," which aims to weaken the opponent's will to fight and
their resilience by "magnifying threat, uncertainty, and
distrust" [Hassan & Scaminaci III, 2025]. John Mauriello
emphasizes how the most effective propaganda is often subtle and
unconscious, embedding symbols of power into the national
subconscious unnoticed, even through the design of daily objects
[Mauriello, 2024]. In the United States, the history of
state-practiced propaganda dates back to the First World War, when
the committee led by George Creel succeeded in turning a pacifist
population into a hysterical, pro-war mob in just six months
[Chomsky, 1991; Tsvetkov, 2017; Axelrod, 2009]. This demonstrates how
a conscious "culture of deceit" has been built for a long
time, exploiting a lack of media literacy and appeals to emotion
[Axelrod, 2009].
Dmitry Vinnik points out that the "brainwashing industry"
has evolved so that psychological warfare can even include the use of
physical force, such as airstrikes, to reinforce the credibility of
messages [Винник, 2025]. Slavoj Žižek might have interpreted
political polarization as "media psychosis"—an excessive
and paranoid media frenzy that functions as the collective return of
the repressed unconscious [Žižek, 1991, p. 197]. The collective
"repressed" of society—unconscious fears, contradictions,
and tensions that people do not want to face consciously—returns
through media narratives and threat imagery. They provide a perverse
pleasure (jouissance) around collective anxiety [Žižek,
1991, pp. 197–198]. Perverse pleasure also involves the ability to
dehumanize the enemy, as John Moore and Connor McDowell demonstrate
with examples from U.S. military songs and films where opponents are
depicted as cruel or ridiculous [Moore, J., 2025; McDowell, 2025]. Mo
Gawdat predicts an "intelligence explosion" occurring as
early as 2026, which is like "raising Superman" without
being certain of his morality [Gawdat, 15.11.2025].
2. The State of Civilization: The Burning House
and the Dissolution of the Big Other
In the spring of 2026, the ideological and spiritual state of the
world resembles a collective psychosis, where the grand arcs of
history, moral imperatives, and raw great-power politics collide in a
way that threatens the planet's survival. The current state of
civilization can be defined as a process characterized by the
disappearance of compassion and a raw, narcissistic descent into
violence. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has described our
civilization as a "burning house" where the salvation of
the soul has been sacrificed to a medical religion and biosecurity
has turned us all into asymptomatic patients [Agamben, 2022; 2020].
This analysis is complemented by author Brian Dillon, who links the
situation to the society of the spectacle described by Guy Debord,
where the quest to find authentic humanity becomes mere wishful
thinking as it is trampled by the spectacle [Dillon, 6.6.2022].
The
prevailing political culture often manifests as a peculiar blend of the
sacred and the banal, encapsulated in the ritualism that has coalesced
around Donald Trump. In March 2026, the White House Oval Office
witnessed a moment described by Diario AS
as a historic prayer session for the president [Diario AS, ”Pastors
& Trump”, 5.3.2026]. Key American pastors laid their hands upon
Trump’s head, invoking heavenly wisdom to fill his heart and mind at a
moment when Trump had just decided to launch lethal missiles at Iran.
Yet, none of these spiritual leaders raised the core Christian doctrine
concerning the sin of murder, reflecting the seamless alliance between
power politics and religious nationalism. Slavoj Žižek characterizes
this state as 'heavenly disorder,' referring to the ultimate
disintegration of the 'Big Other' that guarantees the consistency of
social reality [Crisis in Perception, 7.2.2026]
At the heart of this collapse is the crisis in the Middle East,
which Michael Jay "M. J." Rosenberg—a veteran U.S.
foreign policy commentator who has served as an editor for AIPAC,
director of the Israel Policy Forum, and a Democratic Senate
aide—describes as a societal descent into madness [ScheerPost,
“Into Madness”, 9.3.2026]. Rosenberg examines the state of Israel
through the observations of award-winning journalist Gideon Levy and
states that the country has embraced war, revenge, and
ultranationalism as its collective identity [ScheerPost, “Into
Madness”, 9.3.2026]. Rosenberg argues that the crisis is not just
the fault of extremist leaders, but that the entire society has
abandoned internal opposition to shout in chorus for endless
conflict; in Israel, 93 percent of the Jewish population supports war
against Iran, making madness mainstream [Rosenberg, “Insane”,
8.3.2026]. Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, describes this
state as a "radioactive cloud of stupidity," where public
discourse has collapsed into hollow clichés and where the media has
traded journalism for cheering [Rosenberg, “Insane”, 8.3.2026].
Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, known
for combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism, describes the
situation as "heavenly disorder" [Crisis in Perception,
7.2.2026]. According to Žižek, the Big Other—the guarantor of the
consistency of social reality—has finally dissolved, and we live in
a time where truth is always already secretly partial and tied to
concrete social structures [Žižek, 15.2.2026]. For him, ideology is
not just beliefs, but invisible glasses that shape our fundamental
perception of reality [Mind Lantern, 18.2.2026]. Žižek emphasizes
that we have lost public space and replaced it with shared privacy,
leading to the death of authentic relationships and a state of
hyperactivity where we talk incessantly to prevent real change
[Žižek, ”Capital”, 22.8.2024].
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh describes the
conflict as a "reality TV show," where diplomacy served
only as a tactical smokescreen for an attack [Khatibzade, 8.3.2026].
Jeffrey Sachs calls the attack imperialist aggression aimed at
cutting off China's energy supply [Lezzet, 4.3.2026]. Sachs calls the
United States a "rogue nation" that does not respect
international rules [ET Now, “Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026].
Jonathan Cook, meanwhile, sees Washington as having become completely
"Israelized," adopting the Dahiya doctrine where the
civilian population is considered a legitimate target of attack
[Cook, 5.3.2026].
3. Narcissism as the Engine of Power and the
Decay of Language
The prevailing political culture is encapsulated in the ritualism
built around Donald Trump, where narcissism and neurological decay
are intertwined [Ramesh, 30.12.2025]. Mary Trump describes the
structure of her uncle's mind through the toxic atmosphere created by
Fred Trump, where only a "killer" mentality was allowed and
empathy was destroyed at an emotional level [Trump, 2020]. Trump is
an "episodic man" who rules like a king without a sense of
history [Good Question, 25.2.2026]. The current geopolitical and
ideological state brings to mind Žižek's analysis of the film The
Dark Knight Rises, which he considers a conservative-liberal film
[Žižek, “Dark Knight”, 26.2.2026/2012]. The film tries to lie
but cannot do so completely, simultaneously revealing the structural
fragility of power [Žižek, “Dark Knight”, 26.2.2026/2012].
Žižek also points out how Hollywood and popular culture teach us
how to desire and what pleasures we should pursue [Žižek, “Dark
Knight”, 26.2.2026/2012].
In a broadcast by the TV and radio company of the Armed Forces of
the Russian Federation on January 7, 2026, Igor Pschenichnikov picks
up on Donald Trump's grandiose phrases: "And the whole world is
at my disposal." The analysis asks why Donald Trump dresses in
royal attire, names movable and immovable objects after himself, and
quietly prepares the world for war? [Пшеничников,
7.1.2026]. Trump loves everything giant; he has megalomania, but
Trump's need to emphasize greatness stems from a "painful
inferiority complex from which Trump is stuck and seems unable to
escape" [Пшеничников, 7.1.2026]. The golden ornaments
on the wall of the Oval Office, the demolition of the East Wing of
the White House to replace it with a massive banquet hall, the
carving of his name and portrait into administrative buildings, and
the declaration of his birthday as a free admission day for national
parks—all this speaks of Trump's personal exercise and accumulation
of power, which Congress and the Supreme Court have done little to
resist [Пшеничников, 7.1.2026]. Many American biographers
of Trump point out that his lust for power is a manifestation of one
of his primary traits: narcissism. It can be assumed that it is
precisely this psychological quality that allows him to intimidate
the world with outrageous tariffs and threaten to annex other
countries and territories to the United States. Trump gets a thrill
from seeing people tremble before him. Trump, as the president of the
richest and most influential country, derives physical pleasure from
mocking the world and his own country. Not a monarch, "but I am
king," Trump admits. Trump always wants to see himself as a
winner; it is his purpose. He simply wants to be first in everything.
This led him to the presidency. Therefore, it is difficult to
disagree with the conclusion of The Atlantic, which wrote:
"Donald Trump is always playing Donald Trump, fighting to win,
but without knowing why."
U.S. Army veteran and author Nadia Asencio analyzes the
narcissistic engine as a strategic diagnosis, where Trump's pathology
has infected global power structures [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. Trump's
narcissism combines paranoia and sadism into a "toxic feedback
loop," where empathy has been reevaluated as a weakness and
cruelty as a strength [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. According to Asencio, we
have moved from an era of alliances to an era of mirror events, where
sovereign nations are regarded merely as real estate and their people
as disposable material [Asencio, 3.3.2026]. When the narcissist's
false grandiose self-image crumbles before undeniable reality, he
triggers a "narcissistic collapse" and destroys everything
around him to avoid his own feelings of worthlessness [Asencio,
3.3.2026]. The final convulsion of civilization is a sign of an era
when shame has disappeared and been replaced by pure power [Asencio,
3.3.2026]. Trump is a "cornered rat" whose endgame is not
America's interest but the covering of shame, and if he is unable to
maintain his power, "he'll be lighting a match on his way out"
[Asencio, 3.3.2026]. This is a fundamental war against human dignity,
where the entire "economy of the human spirit" must be
rebuilt from the ruins [Asencio, 3.3.2026].
Trump's exercise of power is analyzed by Lawrence O’Donnell—a
U.S. TV anchor, Emmy-winning writer, and former director of the
Senate Finance Committee—who states that Trump distorts language by
calling the Iranian war an "excursion" and demanding
"unconditional surrender," something not sought since the
use of the atomic bomb [O'Donnell, 10.3.2026]. O'Donnell highlights
the moral decay by comparing the Trump family to Franklin D.
Roosevelt: while Trump tells others to "show grit" in the
war zone, his own sons Eric and Donald Jr. are raking in profits from
Pentagon drone procurements through the company Power Us [O'Donnell,
10.3.2026].
Trump's linguistic strategies, such as the "naughty
schoolboy" style and improvising past the teleprompter, are
analyzed by linguist Geoff Lindsey [Lindsey, ”Truth behind Trump's
words”, 28.6.2025]. Žižek, on the other hand, sees Trump and Elon
Musk as a new kind of ruler whose power is based on obscenity and
shamelessness [Read & Žižek, 9.4.2025].
British politician George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of
Britain and long-time opponent of imperialism, describes Trump's
Mar-a-Lago press conference as maniacal [Galloway, ”On Donald
Trump”, 10.3.2026]. According to Galloway, Trump is lying when he
claims Iran hit its own girls' school with a Tomahawk missile and is
delusional in believing he controls the Strait of Hormuz [Galloway,
”On Donald Trump”, 10.3.2026].
Professor Jeffrey Sachs reminded India Today in a stark interview
that "the U.S. government lies for a living" and that the
attack was a premeditated act that lit the fuse for World War III
[India Today, 3.3.2026]. Ben Norton reports that eleven countries
have already been targeted by Trump's bombings, while the president
even threatens to invade Spain after Madrid refused to participate in
the aggression [Norton, 4.3.2026; Corbett, 4.3.2026]. This is what
Christopher Chivvis describes as "performative power,"
where grand strategy has been traded for the immediate gratification
of the news cycle and a "distraction war" to cover domestic
scandals and the Epstein files [Chivvis, 28.2.2026].
In an interview on the RSBN channel, Trump reveals that he had a
"very good call" with Vladimir Putin, where they discussed
Ukraine and the Middle East, and downplays the school strike by
stating that Tomahawk missiles are "generic products" that
anyone can use [RSBN, ”Trump Reveals”, 10.3.2026]. Trump also
describes the situation in Cuba as a "friendly takeover"
being handled by Marco Rubio and claims that the Iranian army has
already been "wiped out," even though the war is just
beginning [RSBN, ”Trump Reveals”, 10.3.2026].
The most dangerous aspect is that Trump's psychopathic narcissism
proves to be outright satanic in the light of the Epstein files.
Dugin describes in stern words the true collapse of the West, the
"civilization of Satan," following the release of the
Epstein files [Дугин, 31.1.2026]. "This is the true
collapse of the West," Dugin stated. Jeffrey Epstein's
classified documents contain references to the current U.S. president
Donald Trump, as well as several prominent American and international
politicians, celebrities, and businessmen. According to materials
released by the U.S. State Department, there is unconfirmed evidence
linking Trump to allegations of sexual abuse of girls as young as 13.
The documents also mention cases involving rape, perversions, drug
orgies, sacrifices, and even cannibalism, involving world-famous
names. Dugin points out that according to the U.S. media, the current
head of state's name appears in the documents more than 3,000 times:
"Among other things, it is claimed that Trump may have been
involved in acts of violence against minor girls, and mentions are
also made of his participation in intimate events at his Mar-a-Lago
estate and the Rancho Palos Verdes golf course. Furthermore, it has
become known that Tesla founder Elon Musk previously expressed a
desire to visit the island associated with Epstein's activities"
[Дугин, 31.1.2026]. Corruption is not limited to sex but extends
to state plunder; Epstein's circles even planned the theft of Libya's
frozen billions with the help of Mossad and MI6 immediately after
Gaddafi's murder, demonstrating the bottomless greed of the elite and
their complete disregard for international law [Arria, 4.2.2026].
Modern Judaism is divided into traditional believers and Zionists,
the latter of whom, according to Dugin, represent a
Sabbatean-Frankist heresy that does not wait for the Messiah but
seeks to create eschatological conditions artificially through evil
[Дугин, 5.2.2026]. Dugin lists parties involved in the Epstein
case: Trump, Musk, Bill Gates, Bush Senior, Prince Andrew, murders,
pedophilia, cannibalism, Mossad, black masses, human experimentation,
and forced drug addiction: "Even the wildest myths of conspiracy
theorists have been confirmed. The scandal is so extensive that even
a war with Iran cannot distract from it" [Дугин,
31.1.2026]. "The West is indeed, literally, a satanic
civilization. Now even Microsoft feels uncomfortable knowing what
Bill Gates did on Epstein's island" [Дугин, 31.1.2026].
4. The Iranian War and Postmodern Quantum
Geopolitics
The direct attack on Iran by the United States and Israel on
February 28, 2026, ripped apart international law. Russian
philosopher Alexander Dugin views this as "quantum geopolitics,"
where reality is like Schrödinger's cat: one can talk about peace
and bomb simultaneously [Дугин, ”Postmodernism”, 25.6.2025].
The strikes killed 148 children at a girls' school in Minab
[Izvestija, 1.3.2026], and Scott Ritter—a former weapons inspector
and Marine Corps officer—reveals that the Tomahawk missile fuel was
weaponized into a thermobaric weapon, burning the children alive in
the prayer hall [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026]. Ritter
directly blames Pete Hegseth for this, who rescinded directives aimed
at avoiding civilian casualties [Jiang, ”Out of Control”,
10.3.2026].
Democratic U.S. House member Jim McGovern harshly criticizes the
Trump administration's turn into a neoconservative warmonger
[McGovern, 5.3.2026]. McGovern asks why Trump, who campaigned by
opposing "forever wars," is now eagerly pushing for regime
change in Iran. According to him, the entire attack is built on lies,
and no immediate threat actually existed. McGovern compares the
situation to the Iraq War and accuses Republicans of deceiving the
nation. The war, he says, is illegal because it lacks both
constitutional justification and a UN Security Council resolution. It
is shameful that working-class children are sent to die while the
offspring of the billionaire class stay safe. McGovern criticizes the
wasting of billions of dollars on war in a situation where Americans
cannot afford healthcare. He believes Trump's true motivation lies in
the funding of the defense industry. "The mask is off,"
McGovern states, referring to how Trump has betrayed his voters. This
political betrayal demonstrates the deep moral bankruptcy of the
current administration.
Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, the
world's leading theorist of offensive realism, states that Trump and
Netanyahu made a massive miscalculation in believing in a quick
victory [CNN, ”Mearsheimer on Trump”, 10.3.2026]. Mearsheimer
points to 250 years of history where the United States has always
ruthlessly sought regional hegemony [Mearsheimer, ”250 y American
Policy”, 6.3.2026].
An analysis by the Capital Breakdown channel shows that the new
leader Mojtaba Khamenei responded immediately with ballistic missiles
to Tel Aviv, shattering decades of "strategic patience"
[Capital Breakdown, 10.3.2026]. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Aguilar, a
West Point graduate and Green Beret veteran, states that the United
States lost the war at the very beginning by underestimating Iran's
asymmetric capability [Galloway & Aguilar, 9.3.2026]. Aguilar
predicts the use of tactical nuclear weapons as a desperate last
resort, which would draw Russia and China directly into the war
[Galloway & Aguilar, 9.3.2026].
Mearsheimer adds that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
sent by Macron is militarily insignificant and only demonstrates the
leadership's lack of understanding [Mearsheimer, ”America Lost”,
10.3.2026]. Mitchell and Rahman report that the signals between the
Pentagon and Trump are contradictory, as the military warns of
depleting missile stocks [Mitchell & Rahman, 9.3.2026]. Indian
news chief Rifat Jawaid, founder of Janta Ka Reporter,
confirms that the attacks deliberately targeted hospitals and
civilians, as investigated by CNN [Jiang, ”Out of Control”,
10.3.2026]. Geopolitical analyst Xueqin Jiang claims the situation is
part of the "Greater Israel" project and an eschatological
war aimed at forcing the return of Jesus [Jiang, ”Out of Control”,
10.3.2026]. Jiang presents a wild theory that supranational parasites
are steering states toward self-destruction and envisions a future
where humans are microchipped into humanoid robots under AI
surveillance [Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026].
5. Economy, Technology, and the Colonization of
the Lifeworld
The world is no longer what it was before the end of February. It
is now mathematics that no one in Washington wanted to calculate out
loud. Xueqin Jiang analyzes this brutal "interceptor economy":
Iran produces a hundred missiles a month, but the United States and
Israel are able to replace only a few interceptor missiles in the
same time [Jiang, 5.3.2026]. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was
Powell's chief of staff and saw the lies of Iraq, warned now that
Trump and Rubio do not understand they are attacking a 3,000-year-old
civilization ready for martyrdom [Diesen & Wilkerson, 4.3.2026].
According to Wilkerson, the plan to arm Kurdish fighters is an act
without conscience that repeats the mistakes of the past and draws
Turkey into an uncontrollable escalation [Diesen & Wilkerson,
4.3.2026]. John Mearsheimer also warned that without a strategy for
regime change, the United States will drift into a state of
desperation, where it will be forced to climb the escalation ladder
toward a catastrophic ground invasion [Davis & Mearsheimer,
5.3.2026].
Sachs analyzes the long-term arc of U.S. foreign policy, which he
says did not begin with Trump but dates back decades. He highlights
the role of the CIA since the 1953 Iranian coup and states that the
United States seeks total control, not just conflict. According to
Sachs, the U.S. "deep state" and the CIA have often acted
even against the will of their own presidents, such as John F.
Kennedy. Kennedy tried to prevent Israel's nuclear weapons program,
but the CIA worked behind the scenes to promote it. Sachs sees this
as a continuum of a broader imperialist mindset where the U.S. wants
to dictate the political direction of other countries and secure
markets for its own military industry [APT, ”Sachs Explains”,
3.3.2026]. Sachs directs particularly harsh criticism toward NATO,
which he considers to have lost its purpose after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. According to him, NATO has turned into a "dagger
aimed at Russia," and the organization's eastward expansion is
the direct cause of the war in Ukraine. Sachs recalls the promise
given by the United States and Germany in 1990, according to which
NATO would not move one inch to the east. Breaking this promise was,
in Sachs's view, part of a strategic effort to control Ukraine and
make Russia a third-class power. Sachs suggests the dissolution of
NATO and a move toward a collective security arrangement that would
include Russia as part of European stability [APT, ”Sachs
Explains”, 3.3.2026].
In his analysis, Sachs also draws attention to how the United
States neglects real existential threats, such as the climate crisis.
He describes the climate situation as "grim and worse than
expected," but notes that the administration responds by
reviving coal production and withdrawing from international
agreements. "This is a conscious destruction of well-being,"
Sachs fumes, referring to Trump's climate policy [ET Now, ”Sachs On
Trump”, 4.4.2026]. While the United States spends trillions on wars
and goes into debt at an accelerating rate, its own infrastructure is
crumbling. Sachs points out ironically that in American airports
nothing works, while China invests in robotics, AI, and the
technology of the future, being peacefully a step ahead of the rest
of the world [Breaking Points, ”Trump fantasy”, 2.3.2026].
Sachs warns the rest of the world about the "normalization of
madness." According to him, other countries should refuse to
follow the United States in this self-destructive cycle and instead
strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations and
the World Trade Organization. In Sachs's eyes, the United States has
lost its moral and rational leadership; its allies have turned into
mere "vassals" who do not dare to speak the truth. He is
particularly concerned about the silence of European countries and
some Arab states in the face of the situation in Gaza and the war
against Iran. "Security in our world is found in speaking the
truth, not in covertly following evil," Sachs emphasizes
[Breaking Points, ”Trump fantasy”, 2.3.2026]. Sachs's speeches
form a totality where economic ignorance, political corruption, and
imperialist blindness are intertwined. He sees the U.S. empire as
being in its final stages, destroying itself with bloody wars and
unsustainable debt. The Trump administration is merely a symptom and
a catalyst in this process, having torn open the last remnants of
diplomacy. Sachs calls for rationality and a return to rules-based
multilateralism, but his voice carries a deep despair over whether
the U.S. political machinery can still change direction. Sachs's
message is clear: if the world normalizes madness, there is no return
to something better. "I live in a country of madmen, but the
rest of the world must avoid getting trapped there," he
summarizes [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026].
Sachs reminds us that Iran is a 5,000-year-old civilization, and a
country of 90 million people cannot be ruled or its administration
changed through bombings alone [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. He
harshly criticizes how the U.S. Congress has been sold to Israeli
lobbyists, and how war is waged for Israeli hegemony, not American
interests [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs's voice is the voice
of an expert who refuses to accept propaganda as truth [Lezzet,
”Sachs”, 4.3.2026].
The process that Jürgen Habermas calls the "colonization of
the lifeworld" is accelerated by AI and massive concentration of
wealth [Manninen, 2020]. Senator Bernie Sanders warns that democracy
cannot survive under the power of oligarchs like Musk and Bezos
[Cohen & Sanders, 7.3.2026]. Žižek analyzes the precariat and
the Uber-economy as a new form of slavery and ponders the dangers of
the brain-machine link to free will [Bastani & Žižek,
13.4.2025; Barnett & Žižek, 18.10.2025]. He claims contemporary
capitalism is "neofeudalism," where actors like Bill Gates
collect rent while controlling shared space [Žižek, ”Capital”,
22.8.2024]. In an interview with Charlie Barnett on October 18, 2025,
Slavoj Žižek emphasizes that the task of philosophy is not to
provide ready-made answers, but to analyze how the formulation of
problems themselves is often part of the problem [Barnett &
Žižek, 18.10.2025]. In that context, Žižek analyzes how
traditional class division has changed in contemporary capitalism,
and the apparent freedom created by the platform economy hides an
even rawer insecurity and exploitation. The development of AI and a
potential post-humanist era cause him concern, as they could lead to
the outsourcing of human thought and even direct external control.
The philosopher criticizes the American ideal of the pursuit of
happiness and states psychoanalytically that man is a being who often
consciously sabotages his own success.
Trump's obsession with buying the world's largest island,
Greenland, "either the easy way or the hard way," was also
not just the whim of a senile narcissist—although it was that
too—but a carefully prepared project backed by Silicon Valley's
techno-billionaires [Devyatkin, 13.1.2026; Conkar, 20.1.2026]. Thiel,
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos had for years quietly invested
hundreds of millions of dollars in companies like KoBold Metals,
which search for critical rare earth metals for AI infrastructure
under Greenland's melting ice [Conkar, 20.1.2026; ORF, 20.1.2026].
This is a new colonialism: as climate change melts the glaciers, it
reveals 12% of the world's rare earth metals, without which the
current technological leap is impossible [Conkar, 20.1.2026]. Trump's
ally Ronald Lauder, heir to Estée Lauder, had already managed to
establish a company called "Greenland Water Bank" in a
moldy building in Nuuk, with a direct line of sight to the
Greenlandic parliament [Scally, 19.1.2026]. Behind this "water
bank" were local political influencers whose wives served as
foreign ministers, creating a direct line to American money [Scally,
19.1.2026; ORF, 20.1.2026]. Capitalism now operates on the principle
of "plus-de-gozar" or surplus enjoyment, which
according to Žižek, turns brutality into the highest ethical duty
[Alemán, 5.3.2026; Žižek, ”Surplus Happiness”, 31.8.2023].
Economic sanctions and the Iranian war reveal the vulnerability of
the West, as RT reports on Kirill Dmitrijev's statements: the Russia
sanctions were "strategic blunders" [RT, ”EU blunder”,
9.3.2026]. Oil prices over 100 dollars and threats to close the
Strait of Hormuz are driving the world into an energy crisis, which
Trump dismisses as a "small price" [Rego, 9.3.2026; RT, ”EU
blunder”, 9.3.2026]. Akash Banerjee, Indian satirist and host of
The Deshbhakt channel, links the war to the Jeffrey Epstein
files, claiming Trump is being blackmailed by Israel to protect
himself from revelations about the abuse of minors [Banerjee, ”Iran,
Epstein, Trump”, 9.3.2026]. Banerjee suggests that Mossad is
remote-controlling Trump, and the war is intended to make the content
of the Epstein files fade from public discussion [Banerjee, ”Iran,
Epstein, Trump”, 9.3.2026].
Jeffrey Sachs continues the economic analysis, stating that
Trump's tariff policy is "Mickey Mouse-level" ignorance [ET
Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. Sachs, who led the Earth
Institute at Columbia University, explains how the trade deficit is
due to America's own overconsumption, not the cheating of other
countries [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”, 4.4.2026]. He considers
Trump's tariff wars and emergency decrees as evidence of the collapse
of the American political system [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”,
4.4.2026]. According to Sachs, the world is drifting into a "land
of madmen" where rational discussion has been replaced by
populism and protectionist tariffs [ET Now, ”Sachs On Trump”,
4.4.2026]. This economic instability is a direct consequence of the
same attitude with which the war was initiated: the belief that force
and unilateral decisions replace rules.
6. Finland and Europe in a Geopolitical Farce
The state of Europe is critical, and Professor Rein Müllerson
states that the continent has been dragged into the Ukraine war
against its own interests [Diesen & Müllerson, 8.3.2026]. Putin
points out Europe's erroneous energy policy [Times Now World, ”Stop
Gas”, 5.3.2026], and Konstantin Malofeyev emphasizes that the
United States has only one genuine ally, Israel [Малофеев,
5.3.2026].
Rana Dasgupta, a respected British novelist and essayist, analyzes
in his work After Nations the possible end of nation-states
[Bastani & Dasgupta, ”Completely Change”, 8.3.2026]. Dasgupta
explains that the nation-state is an imperialist construction
currently eroding under the pressure of global capital; he sees the
United States returning to an oligarchy similar to 18th-century
Britain, where the population is insignificant to the state [Bastani
& Dasgupta, ”Completely Change”, 8.3.2026].
In Finland, the madness culminated in the Finns Party studio,
where MP Vilhelm Junnila and Mikael Lith laughed, coffee cups in
hand, at warnings about the consequences of Trump's bombings
[Perussuomalaiset, 4.3.2026; Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. Mikael
Lith labeled experts, such as Professor Martti Koskenniemi, as
"so-called experts" [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi &
Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. The devaluation of humanity is visible even
in the speech of experts; doctor Kimmo Hujala downplays the sinking
of an Iranian warship, stating it is a "pretty small thing"
[Hujala, ”Aika pieni juttu”, 5.3.2026]. Hujala was reacting to
the reflections of Petteri J. Järvinen, an IT expert, on how the
captain of a nuclear submarine might have felt about sinking an
unarmed ship [Järvinen, ”Miltä mahtoi tuntua?”, 5.3.2026]. At
the same time, Atte Kaleva demands that authorities "comb
through" Iran's influence networks in Finland, even naming
mosques as potential sources of sabotage [Kaleva, 5.3.2026]. Such
talk speaks of the erosion of decency and human solidarity in the
shadow of hard security policy [Good Question, 25.2.2026]. The speech
is part of a broader spiral of dehumanization, where the "Big
Other" no longer exists and responsibility for the catastrophe
dissolves into technical measures [Crisis in Perception, 7.2.2026].
Riekki, director of the East Savonia Safety House, gets excited by
this and urges citizens to report anything "unusual"
through the 112 emergency number [Riekki, 5.3.2026].
Academician of international law, Professor Emeritus Martti
Koskenniemi—a man who has influenced the theory of international
law worldwide and served, among other things, on the UN International
Law Commission—has presented a stern assessment: Trump must be
treated like a "stark-mad prince." Koskenniemi compares
Trump to Louis XIV from history, the Sun King, who made no
distinction between himself and the state [Koskenniemi, 20.1.2026].
According to Koskenniemi, Trump's actions are pure "performance
politics," which erodes the structures of the U.S. federal
government and the separation of powers [Pohjolainen, 21.1.2026]. The
line of arrogance, which considers critical analysis merely "old
ideological green-leftism," continued in the outings of Saara
Huhtasaari, where she labeled Finnish media journalism as "agenda
media" and "Trump-hate" [Huhtasaari, 5.3.2026]. At the
same time, Pekka Aittakumpu, as a man of the cloth, harnessed his
theological rhetoric to justify the attack, calling the strike a
justified crushing of "Islamic tyranny" and reproaching the
left for "grumbling" [Aittakumpu, 4.3.2026]. While
Huhtasaari and Aittakumpu defined "competence" through
political loyalty, world-class authorities like John Mearsheimer and
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis examine the situation with the depth
of realpolitik and military science, far from the laughter of studios
and Facebook [Davis & Mearsheimer, 5.3.2026].
The laughter of the Finns Party in the midst of a terrible tragedy
feels like a psychological defense that could be called arrogance
intoxicated by power. The labeling of international law experts as
"reflexive anti-Americanism" by Mikael Lith is a textbook
example of the politicization of expertise, where legal argumentation
is sought to be invalidated by reducing it to a mere psychological
attitude or historical baggage [Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith,
4.3.2026]. By claiming critical analysis is a "decades-old
cultural phenomenon," Lith deliberately turns attention away
from the concrete legal criteria presented by Martti Koskenniemi and
seeks to make international norms a matter of taste [A-studio,
”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. Labeling serves a
populist purpose where a complex and contract-based system is
presented as an ideological enemy so that room can be made for the
admiration of pure power politics. While experts are accused of being
prisoners of history, the Finns Party's studio analysis locks itself
into uncritical admiration of the winner, where the principle of the
rule of law is sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Such
rhetoric dangerously erodes the very rules-based world order that is
the ultimate and only sustainable guarantee of security for a small
country like Finland. In Ilta-Sanomat, Mira Kokko reports that
governing parties are directly accusing the opposition of playing on
Russia's team simply because the opposition has criticized changes to
nuclear weapons legislation [Kokko, 6.3.2026].
Viewed psychoanalytically, the behavior of the Finns Party may
indicate a need to manage the fear of death and anxiety related to
war by denying the victim's humanity and emphasizing their own
superiority. Following Erich Fromm's ideas, a necrophilic tendency
can be seen here, where the complexity of life and human distress are
reduced to technical performances and destroyed fleets
[Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. Junnila's serene,
almost orgastic satisfaction as he speaks of breaking Iran's command
structure tells more about the speaker's mental landscape than the
reality of the war itself [Perussuomalaiset, Junnila & Lith,
4.3.2026]. Laughing at the idea that someone could consider Iran
capable of resistance is part of this same mechanism by which reality
is attempted to be bent to one's own ideology [Perussuomalaiset,
Junnila & Lith, 4.3.2026]. It is the intoxication of being on the
side of the winner, which blinds one from seeing the thousands of
innocents who fall under the bombings.
At the same time in the United States, Senator Adam Schiff—a
lawyer graduated from Harvard Law and an experienced prosecutor—warns
of the consequences of joining the war [Schiff, ”We Are at War”,
3.3.2026]. Schiff has a solid academic background from Stanford
University and is known for his work on the House Intelligence
Committee [Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. Schiff states
unequivocally that President Trump has taken the country to war
without constitutional right and without the permission of Congress
[Schiff, ”We Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. He reminds that the Iranian
nuclear threat is an unjustified and intelligence-free claim that
brings to mind the false justifications for the Iraq War [Schiff, ”We
Are at War”, 3.3.2026]. It is ironic that while Finnish politicians
take the strike as a given, American constitutional experts speak of
illegality and a catastrophic mistake [Schiff, ”We Are at War”,
3.3.2026].
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the esteemed economist from Columbia
University and multiple UN advisor, is also extremely critical of the
attack [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs's academic career and
experience in global negotiations give him a vantage point from which
he calls Trump's actions dangerous and incoherent [Lezzet, ”Sachs”,
4.3.2026]. Sachs reminds that Iran is a 5,000-year-old civilization,
and a country of 90 million people cannot be ruled or its
administration changed through bombings alone [Lezzet, ”Sachs”,
4.3.2026]. He harshly criticizes how the U.S. Congress has been sold
to Israeli lobbyists and how war is waged for Israeli hegemony, not
American interests [Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026]. Sachs's voice is
the voice of an expert who refuses to accept propaganda as truth
[Lezzet, ”Sachs”, 4.3.2026].
In A-studio, Professor Emeritus Martti Koskenniemi and
Professor of Political History Juhana Aunesluoma reflect on the state
of the rules-based world order [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi &
Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. Juhana Aunesluoma, who earned his doctorate
from Oxford, emphasizes that democracy is not brought by means of air
forces [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026].
Koskenniemi, for his part, states directly that the attack is
contrary to international law, even if someone might try to see it as
a morally justified overthrow of a tyrant [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi &
Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. He however questions Trump's role as a
liberator and calls him a "stark-mad prince" [A-studio,
”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026]. According to
Koskenniemi, it is hard to find historical evidence that an external
attacker has ever succeeded in bringing human rights on the tips of
bayonets [A-studio, ”Koskenniemi & Aunesluoma”, 3.3.2026].
Paavo Väyrynen, an experienced political scientist, accuses the
state leadership of taking Finland into NATO by "slithering"
and that allowing nuclear weapons rather exposes us to first strikes
[Väyrynen, 6.3.2026]. Finland's joining of NATO was a steamrolling
by the top political leadership when citizens were not asked
anything. Väyrynen (2025b) reminded that in reality, applying for
NATO membership and handing over lethal weaponry to Ukraine occurred
before Russia's broader attack; Finland created a threat that did not
exist before.
Professor Heikki Patomäki criticized how Finland was taken into
NATO with assurances that nuclear weapons would not be brought onto
our soil, but now that promise is breaking [Patomäki, 6.3.2026].
Patomäki recalls that when Finland was taken into NATO, citizens
were assured that nuclear weapons would not be brought onto our soil,
but now that promise is breaking [Patomäki, 6.3.2026]. NATO's
decision to raise defense spending to five percent of gross domestic
product—amounting to approximately eight billion euros in
additional annual spending for Finland (Patomäki, 2025). Patomäki (2025) compared this sum to the entire
budget of the Ministry of Education and Culture, highlighting the
traditional "guns or butter" dilemma. If public spending is
not to be increased, growth in defense spending means cuts from other
sectors of society [Patomäki, 2025]. This economic pressure further
impoverishes public services and investment in a country already
struggling with economic growth and debt [Patomäki, 2025]. The
technocratic approach to armaments, where decisions are made behind
closed doors without broad parliamentary oversight or public debate,
erodes democracy [Patomäki, 2025]. This "securitization"
bypasses normal democratic consideration and creates politics that
cannot be questioned without being labeled irresponsible [Patomäki,
2025]. Finland is now for the first time a fully integral part of the
Euro-Atlantic defense system, whose logic of operation is based on
deterrence and countermeasures, whereby decisions are increasingly
made on others' terms [Patomäki, 2025]. This is an ironic
"Finlandization" in reverse: instead of one's own judgment,
one acts in the way dictated by allies. This large-scale
militarization, which China (China Military Online, 2025, as
mentioned by Patomäki, 2025) has seen as part of a broader strategic
competition, not only increases global confrontation but also forces
Europe to cut social and public investment [Patomäki, 2025]. Thus it
weakens the ability to participate in global climate action and
poverty reduction [Patomäki, 2025]. Investing in instruments of
warfare weakens security and generates regressive income distribution
effects, worsening social inequality and political fragmentation
[Patomäki, 2025].
Destroying the welfare state for the needs of a war economy means
what the Italian philosopher Agamben described: "People who have
been reduced to their pure biological existence are no longer human;
managing bare life is the madness of our time" [Agamben, 2022].
These "zombies" were modern equivalents to the Muselmänner
of concentration camps, the living dead, from whom "hunger,
terror, and humiliation had removed all consciousness and
personality, making them completely apathetic" [Agamben, Homo
Sacer, 2017]. In them, law has turned entirely into life and life
entirely into law at a point where they are no longer
distinguishable. Finland's economy is on the verge of collapse due to
NATO commitments [Tagesspiegel. 3.11.2025, Фонтанка.
31.10.2025, NEWS.ru. 31.10.2025, Известия. 3.11.2025, ТАСС.
3.11.2025]. Der Tagesspiegel [3.11.2025] states in its article
that Finland pumps billions of euros into defense while the economy
has been declining for years and unemployment is growing rapidly. "We
need more money," the publication quotes Defense Minister Antti
Häkkänen and reports that Finance Minister Riikka Purra intends to
save a billion euros by considering freezing the funding of higher
education programs as part of budget negotiations. This decision
could take over 160 million euros from universities. The current
shift to a war economy and NATO's "quantum leap" in defense
spending is economic suicide [Ellyatt, 2025; Hiilamo, 15.2.2026].
Alexey Gordeev [Гордеев, А. & МК. 3.11.2025] writes
that Finland thus pays the price: NATO membership worsened the
country's economic crisis. Finland's NATO membership, which was
supposed to strengthen the country's security, has led to serious
economic problems. Vyacheslav Agapov writes on the news site Lenta.ru
[Агапов, В. & Lenta.ru. 3.11.2025] that NATO commitments
have been a threat to Finland's economy: Finland was once a model
country of stability and prosperity in Northern Europe, but now
Finland is drifting from prolonged stagnation into a full-blown
economic recession. The RIA Novosti news agency (November 3,
2025) states dramatically about Finland: "Hardly on its feet."
RIA Novosti [3.11.2025] also recalls that Russia's ambassador
to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov previously told RIA Novosti that
Helsinki is the fifth largest in the amount of military aid given to
the Kyiv regime per capita.
The "guns or butter" dilemma is, according to William
Gay, specifically deepened by the military-industrial complex (MIC):
the military industry benefits from warfare and distorts the concept
of national security. Thus, huge resources are directed toward
weapons at the expense of other societal needs [Fiala, 2018; Gay,
2018, pp. 255-267]. Robert L. Holmes emphasizes that there should not
be separate moral standards for states and individuals. The
justification of warfare is always groundless: one should not ignore
the well-being of the individual and lead humans into social slavery
[Fiala, 2018; Holmes, 2018, pp. 105, 108-109]. Rabbi Aaron Samuel
Tamares condemned such politics that sacrifice human dignity and life
on the altar of the abstract "honor of the fatherland."
Military sacrifice is "idolatry." The end result is both
economic collapse and moral emptiness [Tamares, 2023, pp. 126, 128,
140, 143]. Jenny Pieper notes in the same way: if the people have been "brainwashed"
to open their wallets for the military-industrial complex without
protest, they have surrendered their right to prioritize their own
needs [Pieper. 3.11.2025].
What seems very fateful is that in Finland, simultaneously and
secretly, changes to the nuclear weapons law are being prepared for
the needs of its good transatlantic ally, the United States of
America—what Eero Heinäluoma calls a "dangerous thinning of
consensus" [Pohjala, ”Heinäluoma”, 5.3.2026; Hara,
7.3.2026]. MEP Eero Heinäluoma (sd.) is an experienced politician
and member of the European Parliament who has served in several top
positions in Finnish national politics. Heinäluoma says that new
concepts nested in public usage, such as a nuclear umbrella or the
transit of nuclear weapons, obscure what is actually at stake.
"Transit means that nuclear weapons will strike Russia through
Finland," Heinäluoma writes [Pohjala, ”Heinäluoma”,
5.3.2026]. "Even when the NATO membership decision was made, the
consensus among parties included maintaining restrictions concerning
nuclear weapons," Heinäluoma points out. He says that "for
a small country, foreign policy consensus has been a valuable thing,
but during President Stubb's time, this unanimity seems to be
thinning. Of all weapons, nuclear weapons are the most
destructive—they are genuine doomsday weapons." [Pohjala,
”Heinäluoma”, 5.3.2026]. The new chairperson of the Left
Alliance, Minja Koskela, wonders what "nuclear weapons madness"
has struck the government and emphasizes that peace is promoted by
reducing, not increasing, nuclear weapons [Koskela, 6.3.2026]. MP
Johannes Yrttiaho warns that dismantling the nuclear weapons ban
makes Finland a target in a conflict between great powers [Yrttiaho,
6.3.2026].
Li Andersson reminds that not even NATO requires such a change
[Andersson, ”Ydinaseet”, 5.3.2026]. Jari Himanen characterizes
this as a farce where incompetent reality TV characters create chaos
on the operating table of civilization [Himanen, ”Trump nolasi”,
8.3.2026]: "Trump's war is also saturated with lies, but he
lacked the understanding and competence to build the war into a
necessary action. - - - Bouncing from one reason to another and back
reveals that the Trump administration itself doesn't really have a
clue what they are doing. - - - When competence and vision are
lacking, according to General Shirreff, hubris best describes the war
of Trump and Hegseth. And everyone knows how hubris ends"
(Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, British
General Sir Richard Shirreff). Himanen continues: "Behind the
war, there also seems to be the desire of messianic fanatics and
Christian nationalists like Hegseth to carry out 'God's will.' This
was one of the justifications for the war in The Atlantic's
listing. It is total folly to worsen the situation and talk about
'Jesus-anointed Trump' and the Iranian war as a 'holy war' or some
kind of holy crusade. - - Just as a plumber should not be allowed to
play brain surgeon in the operating room, a TV personality who has
cheated throughout his life does not have the competence to handle
the world's most influential office. In both cases, the result is
inevitable chaos. And Trump clearly knows how to do nothing better
with his incompetence than create chaos" [Himanen, ”Trump
nolasi”, 8.3.2026].
Even before the openness of March in the government, Antti
Häkkänen (NCP) had revealingly given a green light to nuclear
weapons in public [Kärki, 2025]. The Tsargrad news channel
also reported that Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen signed
an agreement on January 13, 2026, for ten SAR satellites. The
agreement improved intelligence and security in the northern region,
announced Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen [Царьград,
13.1.2026]. These satellites are capable of producing high-quality
images and data with an accuracy of up to 16 cm regardless of the
time of day or weather conditions, such as cloud cover, rain, and
snow. Neither Tsargrad nor other media have sufficiently
highlighted the military revanchist memories related to Defense
Minister Häkkänen, regarding how ten years ago Häkkänen served as
the chairman of the NCP Youth. At that time, the NCP Youth presented
a demand for the return of Petsamo and East Karelia to Finland. Can
anything good come of this, when under the leadership of the same
Defense Minister, Finland now opens its borders to nuclear weapons?
In his current ministerial post,
Häkkänen has updated revanchism into biopolitics, where public
health is no longer well-being, but a militaristic resource
[Paananen, 16.1.2026]. In the deepening romance between the Ministry
of Defense and the Pentagon, Finnish children's recesses have been
made into preschool for the front line, because according to the
minister, young people must move so that they can later fill their
place in the state's defense line [Paananen, 16.1.2026]. When
conscripts begin to be trained with domestic anti-personnel mines,
the minister looks at the youth like a butcher at his cattle:
assessing the toughness and endurance of the meat [Paananen,
16.1.2026]. The reservist age has been hiked to sixty-five years, so
that no one can escape the embrace of the state before their
biological burnout [Kaija & Loikkanen, 17.1.2026]. Minister
Häkkänen's message is blunt: if you are sixty and still alive, you
are a potential component of the war machine, as long as you remember
"activity" in your daily life [Kaija & Loikkanen,
17.1.2026].
The changing policy toward nuclear weapons in Finland comes at a
particular moment, about which Rostislav Ištšenko points out that
the West seeks the controlled use of nuclear weapons because it no
longer wins with conventional weapons [Ищенко, 6.3.2026]. The
war mentality has become a national norm in Europe, which is a
disgrace to civilization [Pugliese, 30.11.2025]. Young people have
been harnessed as part of this cognitive warfare, where patriotism is
linked to violence [Alava, 14.1.2026]. We should resist this
indoctrination and demand the right to a peaceful education
[Kyllästinen, 17.1.2026]. War is not a necessity, but a conscious
political decision from which the people suffer [Tiainen, 27.1.2026].
Human distress must never be a mere byproduct in the games of great
powers [Sachs, 2.3.2026]. It is time to break the spiral of silence
and speak for peace, even if it is dangerous [Diesen, 22.2.2026].
In Sweden, the leader of the Social Democrats, Magdalena Andersson, says that we can bomb Russia to shit. “Europe still has nuclear weapons today, so we can bomb Russia to pieces,” Magdalena Andersson tells TV4 Nyheterna. [Expressen, "Bomba Ryssland", 10.3.2026]
7. Hope from God in a Mad World? Ontological
Collapse, Kenosis, and the Possibility of Hope
Nietzsche's "last man" (Letzter Mensch) is the
opposite of the Übermensch: a passive nihilist who seeks only
comfort and safety. Nietzsche predicted that this apathy would lead
to a decadent society unable to support healthy life or the growth of
great individuals. Zarathustra tried to warn of this, but people took
the "last man" as a literal goal. Following the statement
"God is dead," Nietzsche predicted nihilism would fill the
void, with pleasure and materialism replacing faith. The last men
say: "We have invented happiness," making the world small
and insignificant.
Martin Buber opposed this development, seeing the silence of God
as an "eclipse," a deliberate hiding. Martin Heidegger also
spoke of the "time of the escaped gods" as a preparation
for the "coming God." Buber, however, warned that values
cannot be produced conceptually; freedom is found by finding values
in an encounter with Being. In Washington, Heidegger is unlikely to
be known while they declare victories in wars for a God-anointed
Trump. Giorgio Agamben returns Heidegger's claim "only a god can
save us" to its context, where the West may perceive divinity
only as an adjectival quality [Agamben, 21.3.2025]. According to
Hollis Phelps, this is theology as an instrument of profanation,
through which the heritage of Christianity is rendered inoperative
for new use [Phelps, 27.11.2012]. Žižek, meanwhile, states that God
gave freedom by emptying himself out of the picture [Žižek,
”Re-election of Trump”, 28.11.2024].
Ludwig Wittgenstein's contribution would be the analysis of
linguistic prerequisites. For the early Wittgenstein, metaphysics was
"meaningless" and one had to be silent about the "mystical"
(Tractatus 7). Later, he studied religious language as part of
language games. Agamben [2020], however, argues that current
"biosecurity" has turned words like "freedom"
into tools of control. For Agamben, the law remains in force without
meaning, which is the "ultimate horror of Wittgenstein's
language games" [Agamben, Homo Sacer, 2017]. Wittgenstein's
demand for clarity is for Agamben [2022] a political act: a refusal
of the commands shouted in the "burning house."
Karl Popper criticized Wittgenstein because the criterion of
meaning cannot be based on verifiability, as it would make even
scientific theories meaningless. Wittgenstein's later influence on
political theory emphasizes the need to move from "non-language"
toward conceptual clarity [Abdul Aziz]. In Finnish politics, terms
like "welfare state" or "value-based" must be
dismantled through their usage. This demand for clarity is a
messianic act that breaks the hypertrophy of the law [Agamben,
”Church and Kingdom”, 2012]. Phelps reminds that Mammon has taken
the place of God, turning "I–Thou" relationships into
cold "I–It" relationships [Oudshoorn, 2020]. The throne
(hetoimasia tou thronou) is in reality empty, and salvation is
found in messianic inoperativity [Phelps, 27.11.2012; Agamben,
”Church and Kingdom”, 2012]. Durantaye illuminates this
absorption of theology into thought [Durantaye, 2012]. Hollis Phelps
challenges us to see Jesus as an anti-capitalist thinker who
separates life from work and money; Jesus calls for the restoration
of life's immediacy [Oudshoorn, 2020]. Only such a profanation of
language and action could return life to itself, free from names,
debt, and the splendor of empty glory [Phelps, 27.11.2012].
Alexander Dugin declares the "Baal cult" is removing its
mask and calls for a state of emergency against evil [Дугин,
"Меч Катехона", 1.3.2026; «Burning Baal»,
8.3.2026]. Krzysztof Karczewski and Dugin even outline an active
counter-offensive against the technological project [Karczewski,
4.3.2020][Dugin, 4.3.2026]. Juha Molari [Molari, ”The Katechon”
5.3.2026], however, points out that Dugin politicizes Paul's term
katechon (2 Thess. 2:6–7) inaccurately. Dugin's response is
to fit the word "katechon" used by the Apostle Paul to
Russia, which would repel evil as a mission from God. Doctor of
Theology Juha Molari [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026] critically
notes that Dugin builds an image of Russia as the "last
fortress" and the restrainer of civilization; he relies
inaccurately on terminology based on Paul's second letter to the
Thessalonians. Paul writes: "And now you know what is
restraining (to katekhon), that he may be revealed in his own time.
For the mystery of lawlessness (mysterion tes anomias) is already at
work; only he who now restrains (ho katekhon) will do so until he is
taken out of the way." (2 Thess. 2:6–7). In Dugin's hands,
this theological mystery becomes a justification for "atomic
Orthodoxy," but exegetical examination shows that such
politicization ignores the complexity of the original text.
Molari reminds [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026] that the
greatest gap between Dugin and biblical studies arises from the
"radical hypothesis" presented by Michael R. Stead and
Donald Robinson. Stead and Robinson offer an exciting interpretation
of the Greek verb katechein [Stead, 2008][Robinson, 1964].
According to them, "ho katekhon" might not be a protector
at all, but rather a satanic "occupier" or "oppressor"
who currently holds the world and prevents the full liberation of the
church. Stead argues that the term refers to Satan himself, who
occupies God's world and delays the messianic fulfillment. In light
of this analysis, Dugin's claim of Russia as the "brake" of
history is turned upside down: what he calls the protection of
civilization may in fact be part of the mystery of lawlessness
holding humanity in its grip [Stead, 2008; Krodel, 1990]. Another key
challenge to Dugin's state messianism comes from the theories of
Roger David Aus. Aus suggests that the background to 2 Thess. lies in
the Hebrew verb 'asar, which means not only to restrain but
also to "close the womb" [Aus, 1977]. In this view, the
restrainer is God himself, who delays the return of His Son solely
out of patience, so that the mission command and the plan of
evangelization may be fulfilled (cf. 2 Pet. 3:9). According to Aus,
it is not about political institutions, but about the
salvation-historical schedule set by God (en to heautou kairo).
This places Russia's state eschatological positioning and military
purge in a strange light.
The question of the "man of lawlessness" (ho
anthropos tes anomias) also requires a return to the text. Fritz
W. Röcker links the concept strongly to the Jewish Belial tradition
and reminds us that many scholars, such as Wilhelm Bousset, saw in
him historical echoes of, for example, Emperor Caligula's attempt to
erect his statue in the Jerusalem temple [Röcker, 2009; Bousset,
1895]. Most importantly, one must note where the lawless man situates
himself. Karol Piotr Kulpa [2022], following Tyconius, reminds us
that evil is not merely external, geographical, or a political enemy
(such as "the West"), but it is present within the church,
in its "state of duality." The man of lawlessness seeks to
take God's place specifically in the temple [Stefanovic, 2023]. This
makes any political power that claims to be "holy"
biblically suspicious: the power sitting in the temple is often
precisely the one that has distorted the gospel for its own glory
[Luther, 1523]. Johannes Munck argued decades ago that Paul himself
or his evangelizing work was the restraining factor of the Antichrist
[Munck, 1954; Röcker, 2009]. If the restrainer is a spiritual
mission or the Word of God, the salvation of civilization is not
found in national borders or nuclear weapons, but in faith and the
proclamation of the Word. Fundamentally, the words of 2 Thessalonians
function as a warning against the sacralization of power. Janusz
Kucicki [1967] compares Paul's eschatology to the Qumran texts, where
the power of evil is strictly limited according to the schedule set
by God. Man cannot arbitrarily accelerate or slow down this process
by political means. Dugin's adoption of the katekhon concept
is thus a civilization-related distortion: it tries to change Paul's
warning into a ruler's decree, even though the original text refers
to a deeper, divine mystery that is beyond human control [Byrd,
8.12.2023; Munck, 1954].
Molari appeals in his criticism [Molari, ”The Katechon”
5.3.2026] to Dustin J. Byrd, who warns that the politicization of the
katechon concept gives a mandate to dictatorship and
sacralizes wars of aggression [Byrd, 8.12.2023]. In the twilight of
civilization, the katechon question thus returns to the source
of power: is it Empire, law, or God's grace? Agamben's analysis of
the state of exception and biopower serves as an intellectual
historical warning, while Luther urges trust in a victory that is
madness to the world. Molari [Molari, ”The Katechon” 5.3.2026]
writes of the problematic point of Russian political philosophy of
religion, that the theological perspective should instead be left
ultimately as a silent warning, unlike Dugin's approach, for what we
consider a protector may be an oppressor, and what we consider a
delay is in fact God's time of grace [Munck, 1954; Stead, 2008].
Agamben urges speaking the truth in the "burning house"
[Agamben, 2022; Emmanuel, 8.3.2026]. Žižek suggests a retroactive
analysis of history in the midst of catastrophe [Žižek,
”retroactive analysis”, 6.2.2026]. At the peak of moral
reflection, Žižek, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams,
philosopher Maria Balaska, and anthropologist Richard Wrangham debate
the utility of good and evil [Žižek, Williams, Balaska &
Wrangham, 8.2.2024]. Williams reminds of man's damaged nature,
Balaska links goodness to the accurate perception of reality, and
Wrangham sees categories as social constructs [Žižek, Williams,
Balaska & Wrangham, 8.2.2024]. Žižek analyzes "perverse
politics" and shamelessness in Israel's actions, highlighting
the Sde Teiman torture scandals and parliamentary debates on the
justification of rape [Žižek, ”Psychoanalyses of Israel”,
6.12.2025]. He demands the rediscovery of shame, for perversion is
the ultimate betrayal of desire [Žižek, ”Psychoanalyses of
Israel”, 6.12.2025]. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel calls for prayer and
peace instead of hate [Timeisnear, ”Trump vs. Bishop Mari Mari”,
2.3.2026]. Meanwhile, CNN reports demands to put Pete Hegseth and
Marco Rubio under oath regarding "wars of choice" [CNN,
”Hegseth & Rubio”, 10.3.2026]. Ontological collapse is
condensed into the "Baal cult" [Burning Baal, 8.3.2026].
Immanuel Kant's thoughts on pure reason feel vital in the midst of
chaos [Then & Now, ”Kant”, 16.9.2022]. Kant reminds us of the
categorical imperative: act in such a way that your action could
become a universal law [Then & Now, ”Kant”, 16.9.2022].
Following Kant, Dostoevsky also says compassion is the most important
law of humanity, and forgetting it leads to destruction [Dostojevski,
1864]. Jacques Ellul declares the same, whose critical views on
wealth, greed, and the power machinery of the rich—as well as
against militancy—could illuminate the ethical problems of
Finland's economic policy [Ellul 1964, 2011]. Professor of sociology
of law Ellul was a Christian pacifist anarchist who opposed all forms
of dominance and authority, including "gigantic financial,
commercial, and media structures that dominate life" [Ellul
2011]. He strongly criticized the bureaucratic and
efficiency-centered system of modern technological society, where
"technique" has become an end in itself and displaces moral
concerns in economic activity [Ellul 1964]. The government's policy
of war and cuts, which prioritizes the enrichment of the well-to-off
over caring for the poor, is from Ellul's perspective a symptom of
this supremacy of technique. He would see politics that destroy
nature and weaken people's social security as evidence of greed and
the concentration of power, where those in power use the system for
their own benefit. Ellul also emphasized the role of propaganda in
technological society, where it helps people adapt to the
disturbances of society and maintains the status quo [Ellul 1964].
Thus, "lack of alternative" talk can be seen as propaganda
fed by the government, which prevents citizens from questioning
existing structures and demanding radical changes. Ellul's
"anarchist" position seeks freedom against all kinds of
authorities and power machineries, encouraging grassroots action and
the creation of small communities as a counter-force to the
centralization of the system [Ellul 2011].
Jacques Ellul [1964, 2011] sees here the supremacy of technique
and propaganda [Ellul 1964; Ellul 2011]. According to him, forgetting
compassion leads to destruction [Dostojevski, 1864]. Hope is found in
the kenosis model [Turgong, 2011] and Kant's categorical imperative
[Then & Now, ”Kant”, 16.9.2022]. Žižek and Williams debate
the utility of good and evil [Žižek, Williams, Balaska &
Wrangham, 8.2.2024], and Žižek analyzes shamelessness in Israel's
actions [Žižek, ”Psychoanalyses of Israel”, 6.12.2025]. In the
midst of catastrophe, one must search for a wormhole [Žižek,
”Europe's role”, 12.4.2025; Tolokonnikova & Žižek,
5.11.2025]. We can still build something authentic [Fromm, 1956;
Halliday, Ferber & Žižek, 17.4.2025].
Early Christians refused military service [Sider, 2012;
Dombrowski, 2018], and Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamares condemned "just
war" as idolatry [Tamares, 2023]. Only an inner revolution and
kenosis can ultimately stop this perverse cycle of destruction
[Tamares, 2023; Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026]. The core of
Christianity is God's renunciation of power [Žižek, ”Re-election
of Trump”, 28.11.2024; Jiang, ”Out of Control”, 10.3.2026].
Media hype and propaganda that captures minds works like a
vampire. It sucks the subject dry by promising full jouissance,
but leaves behind only a hidden void and a storehouse of forgetting.
Media propaganda works like a vampire that sucks the subject dry.
Lathouse is a hidden opening of being that produces traumatic
void. In this situation, everyone momentarily receives the vampire's
deceptive charm: both those speaking for Trump and those opposing
him, as well as the dry analysts. The alethosphere represents the
scientific world where aletheia means unveiling—a formal,
technological, and homogenized reality that rules the symbolic order.
Lathouse, on the other hand, is that which is not unveiled: a
hidden opening of being, an alluring but empty storehouse of
jouissance that produces real, traumatic void. On a psychic
level, lathouse is a modern form of the objet a—that
which fills the empty place but simultaneously reveals the void. On a
societal level, it manifests in consumption, social media, health
cults, current affairs discussion, and propaganda—places where
being is replaced by mere allure. The shame called for by Copjec
would be Lacanian: existential, philosophical, requiring the facing
of uncomfortable truth—thus creating a deeper, painful ethical
relationship to one's own being. That is, "to one's own being,"
not to the thoughts offered by vampires! Shame and an ethical
relationship to one's own being are needed [Dostojevski, 1864;
Papanikolaou, 2003].
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