Every day, dozens of stories cross the radar that the mainstream press either buries, botches, or lacks the framework to understand. Today we have three of them. A Pentagon that was supposed to dismantle the deep state is trying to build a deeper one. A Secretary of Defense with crusader tattoos turns out to be fighting somebody else’s holy war entirely. And a drone that nobody will officially attribute to anyone managed to drag Britain into a conflict it had spent days carefully avoiding, launched from territory that should ring some very loud historical bells. None of these stories are unconnected. None of them are accidents. And none of them are getting the framing they deserve anywhere else.
Insight to Incite is shifting gears, as I’ve explained previously. And I really want to take a minute and explain why. Our heart and soul at I2I are (1) Jesus and (2) Broad Spectrum Open Source Intelligence Analysis. The former is immutable, the latter changes every day. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a growing discipline that pulls together publicly available information from news reports, government filings (like FARA), social media, corporate data, and so forth, and assembles those fragments of information into a picture that the general public is not likely to see on the nightly news. Meanwhile, most OSINT is done in a very specialized, pigeon-holed way, usually looking at just one medium of intelligence (for example, tracking the stock trades of legislators, or flight-tracking corporate jets. But the “Broad Spectrum” on the front of OSINT means we are maintaining situational awareness across multiple domains simultaneously, scanning theology, geopolitics, intelligence, finance, law, and culture all at once.
Until recently, this was done with million-dollar budgets in the basements of intelligence agencies or the legal and security departments in corporate skyscrapers. Now, it can be done by anyone with Internet access, curiosity, and the right analytical framework. But you’re (probably ) a Christian if you don’t absolutely loathe this Substack, and almost no one does Broad Spectrum OSINT from a Christian analytical framework, so that’s why Insight to Incite exists.
The problem is, as I’ve been doing I2I so far, is that it involves an in-depth analysis of a topic in each article, taking hours and hours each day to bring you just one issue or topic. And this is frustrating for me personally because in the course of my research, I run across dozens of stories each day that I know you’re seeing on your feeds and want to learn more about, and I’m only giving myself one topic to expound for you. And then you end up with 3,453,256 articles on Israel because that’s the top news story of the daye every day, so it gets priority, and it also gets old.
Going forward, each article will pull together multiple stories that are on the radar of people paying close attention but have not yet broken through to general awareness. We’ll have less long-form commentary and more signals intelligence during the week. so the articles will be shorter and cover several topics, not just one. When Inciteful New Network lauches in a few months via our new news app, even more will be coming your way. The goal is to cover more ground more frequently and get information in front of readers faster.
As we merge into Inciteful News Network, bringing on a team of writers to expand coverage and output, if you want my long-form cultural, political, and theological commentary every day, similar to what I’ve done here the last 18 months, that work is moving to New Christian Right. If you want the essays, that is where they will be. Subscribe there, and I arranged a 50% discount for I2I subscribers that I’ll post each article on the other side of the paywall. And just like I2I, if you don’t feel like coughing that up, there’s still a ton of free content.
HOWEVER, despite daily articles getting smaller, I’m aiming to produce for you regular ebooks, at least one per month, and have set time aside each day in my extensive writing schedule just for that. No, not door-stoppers, but a hundred or so pages to dive deeper into topics that interest both you and me. So while the daily articles are shorter, you’re getting just as much (or more) content. You know stuff like Singularity and Quantum Computing, Nephilim, UAPs, ancient mysteries, fun stuff like that. Your premium subscriptions have allowed me to bring a contract editor, Martha, onto I2I staff. I’ll be sending her work every day toward the ebooks, and she’ll put it all together for you in book format and help me multitask to bring you the best Substack known to man. Thanks for reading.
STORY ONE: TRUMP WAS ANOINTED BY JESUS TO START ARMAGEDDON, AND OTHER THINGS YOUR COMMANDER TOLD YOU THIS WEEK
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation received more than two hundred complaints since the start of Operation Epic Fury, just a few days ago. And yes, as you might suspect, they’re God-haters. So why care about their complaints?. For starters, it’s because the complaints came from personnel serving across the army, navy, air force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, spanning more than forty units and at least thirty military installations and these people signed up, theoretically anyway, to serve us, the American People, so they should at least be heard out. But the second reason is that their complaints are valid.
The complaints were not about combat conditions, pay, or leadership competence, but about the MREs not including enough hot sauce. They were about theology. Specifically, terrible theology, and they were about commanding officers opening combat readiness briefings with citations from the Book of Revelation and informing their troops that the war with Iran was all part of God’s divine plan to kill two stones - protecting God’s Chosen Nation and ushering in the Messiah - plus killing a bunch of Iranians to accomplish both.
One complaint, filed by a noncommissioned officer on behalf of fifteen members of his unit, describes their commander opening the briefing by urging the assembled troops not to be afraid of what was happening in Iran, because the operation was all part of God’s divine plan. So far, so good. Technically, everything is God’s plan, at least part of his “decreed will” (that which will happen) and not necessarily his revealed will (that which God says should happen). The Commander spoke of Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ as the theological framework for their deployment. He then informed the room that President Donald Trump had been anointed by Jesus to light the “signal fire” in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. The NCO noted that the commander had a wide grin throughout, which he described as making the whole thing seem even more unhinged. The complaint was filed on behalf of a religiously diverse group
Several years ago, a famous evangelist named Rodney Howard Browne was preaching in a town nearby, and I went with a fellow church member to see the charismatic freak show. His charismaticism is what one might call “excessive,” and is part of what’s called the New Apostolic Reformation, which, back as Polemics Santa, I regularly wrote about and warned people of its nefarious intentions to conquer the world with bad theology. About the third time he referred to Trump as Messiah, I stood up and rebuked him, which led to me being hauled out by security and then thrown out of the building. Literally, thrown. And roughed up a little bit, and got a tad bloody, but I’ve had worse. For the record, I’m not saying that was the right thing to do, per se. I’m just saying it happened. And because it wasn’t a Lord’s Day church service, in a hotel meeting room rather than the church house, I don’t think I breached the sanctity of the event, considering there was none. ASIDE: The newspaper reported that I shouted him down for having a female pastor speak, which is not at all the case. That was said at some point, but it wasn’t the main point; I digress.
My point is, Trump has always had a bit of a Messiah mystique. His leadership style is so spectacularly different from anyone else’s, it’s a natural conclusion for people to draw. But since his assassination attempt, POTUS is leaning into a little too much. The question is why a CREC member, belonging to Douglas Wilson’s church, sending that to his personnel? Sure, Trump is the Commander in Chief, but does the SecDef not have a little say-so?
This did not happen in a vacuum. We were promised by the press that Defense Secretary Hegseth would systematically elevate evangelical Christian Nationalist theology within the Pentagon. And he’s made overtures, sure. He introduced monthly prayer sessions at the Department of Defense, most recently featuring Doug Wilson. But Hegseth does some very non-Christian Nationalist things, like attending a weekly White House Bible study led by pastor Ralph Drollinger, who teaches that God still blesses Israel’s allies and curses its enemies (a twisting of Genesis 12 and gutting of Galatians 3), and who dedicated two consecutive weeks of lessons to preaching support for Israel in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s strikes on Iran the previous year. And apparently, Hegseth nods along agreeably. But no one holding to CREC doctrine should be nodding in agreement.
But maybe Hegseth never adopted CREC’s (correct) Covenantal views becuse he gave a speech in 2018 at the Arutz Sheva conference in Jerusalem, which resurfaced during his confirmation process, in which standing before an Israeli audience, said the following: “There is no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible. I don’t know how it would happen. You don’t know how it would happen, but I know that it could happen.”
That’s not a Covenantal belief. We are not waiting for the Dome of the Rock to be toppled and for a new Synagogue of Satan to be erected. And if it were, Jesus would destroy it with the brightness of his coming, like He destroyed the last one. If Jews rebuilt the Third Temple, it would be the most blasphemous house of idolatry ever built, erected as a middle finger to the Messiah who declared Himself the Temple and who has already made the last and final sacrifice that was ever needed. Again I ask, why would someone holding Doug Wilson’s theology want to stitch together the veil that God Himself rent in two?
The Temple Mount currently houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The reconstruction of a Jewish temple on that site would require the demolition of two of the holiest sites in Islam. Hegseth said this approvingly and is now the Secretary of Defense overseeing a war against Iran that Israeli officials have framed explicitly in the language of Purim and the Amalek commandment.
The media spent the better part of Hegseth’s confirmation process warning Americans that a Christian nationalist was about to seize control of the Pentagon. It turns out, he’s not a Christian Nationalist. He’s a Jewish Nationalist fighting for Israel’s sake, and now he’s talking about re-building a Muslim nation in Iran, at U.S. taxpayer expense. Deus Vult is a cool tattoo, but Deus didn’t Vult any of this.
STORY TWO: THE PEOPLE WHO PROMISED TO DISMANTLE THE SURVEILLANCE STATE JUST TRIED TO BUILD A BETTER ONE
Donald Trump ran on dismantling the administrative state, ending the forever wars, and giving the government back to the people it had spent two decades surveilling. Pete Hegseth was his guy at the Pentagon, installed specifically because he was going to blow up the establishment and do things differently. Then they spent a week threatening to destroy a private American company because it refused to help them build a surveillance apparatus that would make the NSA’s post-9/11 program look like a neighborhood watch.
Anthropic, the AI company, drew two lines in the sand: no mass domestic surveillance of Americans, and no fully autonomous weapons systems. Hegseth’s response was to give them a Friday deadline, threaten to invoke the Defense Production Act, and declare them a supply chain risk to national security when they declined to comply. A supply chain risk designation is a label previously reserved for Chinese military contractors and foreign adversaries. Anthropic is a company headquartered in San Francisco. The Secretary of Defense pointed the national security apparatus at a domestic American company for refusing to spy on you.
What does mass domestic surveillance powered by a frontier AI model actually look like in practice? It looks like every text message, email, social media post, financial transaction, and phone call you have ever made being fed into a system sophisticated enough to build a behavioral profile on you, flag you for associations you did not know were suspicious, and add you to a list you will never be allowed to see or challenge. Previous surveillance programs required human analysts and had practical limits. AI removes those limits entirely. A system like Anthropic’s, retooled for mass surveillance, could monitor every American simultaneously, cross-reference your location data with your communications, identify your political associations, your church attendance, your donation history, and your reading habits, and produce an actionable intelligence file on you without a single warrant, a single judge, or a single moment where anyone with a conscience had the opportunity to say no. That is what Anthropic refused to build. That is what the Trump administration called a red line it would not accept.
OpenAI said yes. Google said yes. Elon Musk’s xAI said yes. Only Anthropic said no, and only Anthropic got destroyed for it.
Here is the part where someone says that we need these tools to fight our enemies and keep us safe. And here is where it becomes necessary to point out that this is the identical argument that produced the PATRIOT Act, FISA courts, warrantless wiretapping, the NSA metadata collection program, the TSA, the DHS, and every other permanent fixture of the security state that was constructed in the name of keeping you safe from the last enemy and has never once been dismantled after the threat that justified it receded. Every single war America has ever fought has made Americans less free, except the Revolutionary War. Every single one. Not because freedom is a casualty of wartime, but because that is the mechanism. War is how governments permanently expand their authority over the people they govern. The threat justifies the apparatus. The apparatus outlasts the threat. The next threat arrives and the apparatus is already there, waiting to be aimed at somebody new.
The men who promised to dismantle the surveillance state just tried to force an American company to build them a better one, and when that company said no on the grounds that it could not in good conscience participate, they labeled it a national security threat. Dario Amodei pointed out in a public letter that the two threats the Pentagon made were logically incoherent: one declared Anthropic a security risk while the other declared Claude essential to national security. Experts called this contradictory posture incoherent. The word that applies more precisely is revealing. The goal was never security. The goal was compliance. Anthropic declined to comply, and the full weight of the executive branch came down on it for doing so. The people who ran against the deep state just showed you what they actually intend to build, which is the deepest state yet.
STORY THREE: LAVON AFFAIR PART 2
A Shahed-type drone struck the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus just after midnight on March 2nd. No one was killed. The British Ministry of Defense described the damage as minimal. Families of personnel stationed at the base were evacuated as a precaution, air raid sirens sounded for several hours, and RAF Typhoons and F-35s were scrambled in response. Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed the strike, described the drone as Iranian-made, and issued a statement clarifying that his country was not participating in any military operation and did not intend to become part of one.
Then the British Ministry of Defence confirmed something considerably more interesting than the strike itself. The drone was not launched from Iran. Senior Cypriot officials believe it was launched from Lebanon, most likely by Hezbollah. The Ministry of Defense has not officially attributed the attack to any party. The drone was Iranian in design and manufacture. Its point of origin was not Iranian territory. The hand that launched it has not been formally identified.
Consider the timing, folks. Britain had spent the opening days of Operation Epic Fury deliberately staying out of the conflict. Prime Minister Keir Starmer had refused American requests to use British bases, citing concerns about international law, and had publicly declined to join the initial wave of strikes. Then on Sunday, Starmer reversed course and announced that Britain would allow the United States to use RAF Akrotiri and other British installations to strike Iranian missile sites. He framed the decision as defensive, legal, and limited. Then, word surfaced that he was losing support from various politicos in Great Britain and could reverse course again. Within hours of that announcement, a drone of Iranian manufacture and unknown origin hit the runway at the base he had just offered to the Americans.
The result of the strike was precisely what any competent analyst would have predicted it would be. Britain, which had been successfully maintaining a position of non-involvement, was now drawn directly into the conflict. The base had been attacked. The public demanded a response. Trump publicly pressured Starmer to increase British troop commitments and deepen military coordination. The carefully maintained distance between British policy and American and Israeli operations collapsed in the space of a single evening.
This structural sequence has a historical precedent that warrants mention. In the summer of 1954, Israeli military intelligence ran a covert operation in Egypt codenamed Operation Susannah, which history records under the name of the Israeli defense minister it subsequently destroyed: the Lavon Affair. The operation recruited a network of Egyptian Jews, trained them in sabotage, and directed them to bomb Egyptian, American, and British civilian targets, including cinemas, post offices, and American cultural libraries. The attacks were designed to be attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood or Egyptian communists. The strategic goal was to generate sufficient instability that Britain would reconsider withdrawing its troops from the Suez Canal zone, which Israel regarded as essential to its security. Israel bombed British and American targets using Egyptian Jews who didn’t mind bombing things in their own country if it would help Israel. Israel denied any involvement (literally everyone knew they were lying, and their officials resigned over it) un 2005, when they awarded medals and awards to the agents still alive.
Now we see a structural parallel. A drone of Iranian manufacture but non-Iranian origin strikes a British military installation at the exact moment that Britain’s entry into the conflict becomes uncertain. Plausible deniability exists because it was an Iranian drone that took off from Libya. Here’s what you’re not hearing on the news, that I suspected, and confirmed myself by using online tools: the drone came from Lebanon, alright. And right over the heads of the IDF that had taken that ground mere days ago. From Israel…occupied…territory. Get that from Fox News, I dare you.
The Lavon Affair established through documentary evidence that Israel’s intelligence services are institutionally capable of bombing British assets and blaming someone else in order to manipulate British foreign policy. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is declassified history that Israel itself eventually confirmed. The parties with the most to gain from British entry into this war are not in Tehran. They are in Tel Aviv. That observation is not a conclusion. It is a question that deserves a serious answer.
Three stories. One connection. American troops are being told they are fighting a theological war on behalf of a foreign eschatological timetable. The man overseeing that framing has crusader tattoos on the outside and John Hagee’s theology on the inside. A British military base was struck by a drone of Iranian manufacture and sent from ADF territory at the precise moment British entry into the war became strategically necessary, following a playbook that Israeli intelligence literally wrote in 1954 and confirmed in 2005.
None of these stories are receiving the framing they deserve in the mainstream press, because the mainstream press lacks either the theological literacy to recognize what Dispensationalism actually is, the historical memory to recall what the Lavon Affair actually established, or the institutional courage to follow the connection to its logical destination. That is what Insight to Incite does. And I’m so glad you’re subscribed.
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