…America good, Russia bad. It is so easy to fall into it. Until you remember that there are two Americas and the one on display since the Russia-Ukraine crisis began  two years ago this month is being led by Barack Hussein Obama and the Deep State globalists. Indeed, this encroachment on the Russian border apparently goes back much further than this, which may make you wonder if Putin as the leader of the Russian people has any choice in the matter….

Read more of Part 1 here.

Instead of remaining relatively quiet and docile as he is when he is later accused by Annas, Caiaphas, and Pontius Pilate, Jesus here flips–quite cunningly–their false binary on top of them and creates a new one, one that does two things: 1) it handcuffs their devious hands and silences any of his disciples’ doubt that could have arisen from a potentially unanswered question; and 2) plainly, it speaks truth. For the only true binary that should exist is good and evil, God and not-God.

Image on the coin? Caesar’s. Then give the coin to Caesar. Image on your heart? God’s. Then give your whole heart to God.

God and not-God. It is the only binary that matters.

That’s it. All the other created binaries–whether they be what Christ’s enemies do here or Ukraine and Russia or Israel and Palestine or Yankees and Red Sox or all the other silly tribal polarizations we politicize and make a religion (Team Edward and Team Jacob!)–are contrived by the enemy simply to deceive us into forfeiting our faith and our sense of loyalty to an arbitrary tribe when it is both tribes that are being eaten from within by corruption and sin.

Russia is a fallen nation. Putin is a fallen man. So is Ukraine and Israel and the LSU Tigers–all things we pledge our allegiances to at times.

Man is fallen. And so are the infiltrated governments around the world made up of them.

Such mutual exclusivity by its inherent nature is meant to create, oftentimes arbitrarily and dishonestly, an enemy. That enemy is obviously Putin for a lot of people. It is a classic Saul Alinsky tactic, a radical socialist who worked his nefarious dealings under the label of “community organizer.” Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were more than fans. In Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals, he discusses the importance of this contrived enemy as a thing to be triumphed over by the community in a goal of all goals scenario. In the film A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Father Mitch Pacwa discusses a personal testimony about Alinsky arranging Mexicans, Blacks, and Italians–three antagonists–in a binary trap whereby the Mexicans and Blacks were convinced that the Italians were the true enemy. So they joined forces against them. Three (nuance) gets pared down to two (simplicity and easier to control) and a “community organizer” is hailed as a savior by one victorious “side” of the community.

It is yet another example of the Hegelian Dialectic, another sociological principle I have explored in my work.

Rule #13 in Rules for Radicals is “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” This is the foundation of the binary trap. Create arbitrary polarization, two tribes, and pit them against each other like dogs while the real enemy–who set it all up in the first place–watches with the achieved position of power, wealth, and, dare I say, pleasure.

Who is Saul Alinsky’s hero, the being whom he celebrated as the first radical? None other than Lucifer himself. I explored this Luciferian trap of the binary in a recent article “To the American Government: Get Out of Israel’s Way,” using a personal confession about my fall for the trick back in the early 2000s with Bush, 9/11, and Afghanistan.

Just think of how corrupt our own government is as you consider how often this type of polarization must happen on the geopolitical stage. The Mockingbird government-media apparatus has frozen Russia into the boogeyman over the decades (admittedly, sometimes for good reason). They have personalized it because of the country’s Communist history and our distrust of it. And they have used this freezing and the personalizing to trick well-meaning Americans into thinking that if Russia is one pole (devils and demons!) then Ukraine must be the opposite pole–and therefore a country inhabited exclusively of angels and saints.

This couldn’t be further from the truth, as I have explored in a number of articles going back to the conflict’s early stages, analysis that has now become part of the mainstream. Ukraine is an absolute cesspool of corruption and sin.

Throughout that interview, Putin was consistent in at least one point–it has always been the US and NATO, with the CIA as a more specific villain, that has consistently refused the peace everyone thinks Putin himself is rejecting. Could it be propaganda? Of course. But given the wholly deceptive nature of our own government and its media megaphone, aren’t we in the least bit curious to wonder if Putin is actually telling the truth?

Many of us, many of us, as I am finding this past week as I explore this story, are long past the curiosity stage. For them, what Putin said last Thursday was just confirmation for the truths they already knew.

Did you know that Biden is beholden to both China and Ukraine? What happens when China sides with Russia, as is already happening? Who will be the Cowboys in our simplistic way of thinking? Who will be the Indians?

This is why we must prepare our minds now for the confusion, the cognitive dissonance, the inevitable schizophrenic posture that could cripple political discourse worse than it already is, when we either admit that we cannot stand by certain “allies” anymore or else go all in with whatever they stand for, whether that be evil or not–simply because our collective American mind cannot handle any more nuance than that. We must must must avoid going all in with either Team A or Team B, because it has long been more complicated than that, and it’s only going to get worse.

Not to mention, of course, that there will be this cowboy against that cowboy, and then we won’t know what to do with the raging internal inferno.

Let’s just go bomb the Indians!

That is how we handle cognitive dissonance so often in America. We let our emotions rule the day because we’re not smart enough as a society to think through the complexities.

We’re not smart like Christ.

To be smart, we have to realize that America is more than just America First. There is an underbelly of corruption and evil that the world over has had enough of. The Clinton-Bush-Obama regime is the figurehead of this monster, and while Putin and Russia may or may not have their own skeletons, Americans are learning to hear a world leader’s voice and not pledge total allegiance to him.

This is what it means to avoid the binary trap. This is what detractors mean when they speak out against yet more funding for Ukraine. This is what people mean when they insist that we at least listen to what Putin has to say. This is what it means to look enemies in the eye–whether those enemies be external or in our own inner conditioning–and navigate our way through the deceit instead of going all in with a “team.”

This is what it means to expose the father of all lies, including those in the geopolitical arena, Satan himself.

Let us conclude with where we started, with the Alpha and the Omega….

In Jesus’ time, both the Herodians and the Pharisees were Jews, as of course was Christ. The Herodians supported Roman occupation, while the Pharisees hated it. But these two bitter enemies, like Alinsky’s Mexicans and Blacks, found a common enemy in Christ, like the Italians. The conflict apparently cannot exist beyond the pair, beyond the binary, and still allow the phantom menace behind it all to grow in power. The Herodians and Pharisees chose to join forces to trap the Messiah himself, and it ended up blowing up in their faces when Jesus juxtaposed the image of Caesar on the coin with the image of God in our hearts. We would be well served to be as wise as Jesus is here and obey him in his direction, for if we as a society don’t make the only binary that matters God vs not-God, then it ultimately doesn’t matter what countries we “Stand With” or what Putin-type boogeymen we choose to hate. In the end, God Almighty himself will continue to keep us fools and hypocrites confused and babbling around our meaningless towers, at each other’s throats as to what is and what isn’t the truth, while the real enemy lurks in the shadows laughing hysterically at our lunacy.

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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.

Jeff LeJeune is the author of several books, writer for RVIVR, editor, master of English and avid historian, teacher and tutor, aspiring ghostwriter and podcaster, and creator of LeJeune Said. Visit his website at jefflejeune.com, where you can find a conglomerate of content.