The architects of post-truth: How Netanyahu and Trump are scripting the Apocalypse |
For decades, American foreign policy was built on a hybrid of realism, self -interest and idealism. Today, it is being rebuilt on the hallucinatory terrain of a ‘post-truth’ era where Benjamin Netanyahu acts as the master architect. By framing a modern regional war as a biblical struggle against ‘Amalek’, Netanyahu has successfully aligned his own political survival with the fever dreams of American evangelical eschatology. It is a high-stakes strategy that offers Donald Trump exactly what he craves: a world where geopolitical strategy is replaced by a transactional theatre of ‘good versus evil,’ and where the machinery of the state is used as a personal shield against the accountability of facts. Together, they are no longer just fighting a war; they are inviting the Apocalypse to the negotiating table.
The key to understanding the current moment is recognising that these elements – evangelical end of times theology, Zionist expansionism, Trump’s transactional politics, and the post- truth information environment, are not merely parallel phenomena. They are symbiotic. Each feeds the other, creating a self-sustaining cycle of chaos that makes the dystopian feel normal.
And while the missiles dominate the headlines, the Epstein files are the unspoken context: a potential byproduct of a compromised leadership across the political spectrum. Their full release and their potential for blackmail would be catastrophic, not just for Trump, but for an entire network of elites who have spent years ensuring the truth stays buried. This war has now pushed every inconvenient story off the frontpage, and any congressional inquiries onto the back burner.
Narcissist incentives:
Trump’s need for adoration is clinical; his view of power is absolute. Everything is a deal: money, loyalty, missiles. He sees war not as a human tragedy, but as ratings, as distraction, as the thing that finally makes people stop talking about whatever scandal is currently circling his legal team. In Trump’s binary world, there are only winners and losers, good guys and bad guys. He speaks of the Middle East the way a fourth grader describes a video game: ‘we hit them hard’ he says, ‘they’re tough guys, but we’re tougher’. On a scale of 1 to 10 on how the Iran war was going in the first 48 hours, Trump stated it was 1 out of 15. On day nine, he said the war is ‘very complete, pretty much’, adding ‘We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough’. As of 13th March, POTUS declared he would end the US/Israeli war on Iran ‘when I feel it in my bones’.
The vocabulary is simple and the syntax is stunted. Pundits have for years dismissed this as colourful rhetoric, but this is missing the........