Quite possibly, the most important story in American politics this spring hasn’t even happened yet. It isn’t in DC or Mar-a-Lago. It’s not even in Tel Aviv or Kyiv.

Quite possibly, because of a seeming coming collision between equally seeming-disparate narratives, it’s wherever Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin might next appear—together.

A good guess where it might take place is Saudi Arabia—just a hunch.

Because something strange is happening–and has really been happening–if we’re honest and follow the narratives and the message instead of cheerleading the R’s against the D’s. The MAGA movement is fracturing—visibly, vocally, and violently. And as I have intimated time and time again regarding the binary trap in political thinking, that is a good thing.

As a quick testimony, I lost a “close” Facebook friend over this. She couldn’t grasp the possibility of someone supporting Trump but reminding people to keep an eye on him out of the same measure of self-respect and liberation Trump himself has been fighting for for us. I even have reason to believe her dissonance prevented her from reading correctly a certain article where I was actually giving Trump supporters ammunition against their detractors—I believe she read it as a linking of Trump to Obama in some conspiratorial, nefarious way.

And this is someone who had been following my work and agreeing with everything I’d been pointing out about Trump’s idiosyncrasies and “weaves” for months–in the face of other conservatives’ sometimes-mockery.

The entire time, I was writing in support of views she held. I never stopped.

I’m telling you, once again, that the binary trap is real and incredibly powerful. It’s not just psychological—it’s seismic.

Every time you question one side of the aisle, a tremor rattles through the temple of our false narratives.

You feel it in your gut. You feel it in your friendships.

These aren’t just disagreements. They’re pre-quake tremors.

And the quake is coming.

In an adjacent story that couples with the breakage of this binary, not to mention the uselessness of all of these “taskforces” and “committees,” here is General Michael Flynn:

Loyalties, dogmas, party scripts—they’re all being crucified, destroyed, transfigured. If we support any of these people without question, especially those two-dimensional TV characters on the screen, not only are we keeping ourselves enslaved, we are setting ourselves up for a most difficult trap when the supposedly united R’s begin splintering over what we thought were bedrock issues.

Israel is one of those bedrock issues.

So is Russia, although that spell appears to be breaking.

And all of this is in play–right now.

The fracturing is a good thing—if only we’ll let it be. Not good like Fox News “good”—that pasted, pixelated grin of fake unity among good-looking talking heads on the camera. No, this is good like Good Friday: a rupture, a betrayal, and a crucifixion. Of what you ask? Of the false narratives in which both sides of the aisle have been keeping us enslaved for decades.

And like every Good Friday, it sets the stage for something much more dangerous to the system.

Resurrection.

That person I mentioned above was also a staunch Catholic and loved my religious/political work too, by the way. Have I mentioned how powerful the binary trap is?

Talks are taking place and the debate is still raging within the Trump administration—and between the US and Israel—over whether diplomacy or military strikes are more likely to prevent Iran from obtaining the dreaded nuclear bomb.

Didn’t I see just two weeks ago that someone in Iranian leadership was speaking up for a nuclear-free Middle East entirely?

Maybe I just missed something.

Regarding this seeming tension between Iran and Israel, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios that “The president is proud that he has a team with different views. He listens to all of them and finally takes the decision that thinks is in the best interest of the American people.”

For years, the populist right has been stuck in a fake binary: war-hawk neocons on one side, America First businessmen on the other. But both wore red ties. Both saluted the flag. Both agreed on the gender insanity. Both love low egg prices. Both opposed Colin Kaepernick. Both played nice on cable news.

It fooled millions. And it kept the war machine humming.

Not anymore.

Axios presents a most interesting dilemma for the American conservative accustomed to tying their lot in with any-and everyone who has the ‘R’ after their name:

Behind the scenes: One camp, unofficially led by Vice President Vance, believes a diplomatic solution is both preferable and possible and that the U.S. should be ready to make compromises in order to make it happen. Vance is highly involved in the Iran policy discussions, another U.S. official said.

• This camp includes also Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff — who represented the U.S. at the first round of Iran talks on Saturday — and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It also gets outside support from MAGA influencer and Trump whisperer Tucker Carlson.
• This group is concerned that striking Iran’s nuclear facilities would put U.S. soldiers in the region in harm’s way when Iran strikes back.
• They also argue a new conflict in the region would send oil prices skyrocketing at a sensitive time for the U.S. economy.

The other side: The other camp, which includes national security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is highly suspicious of Iran and extremely skeptical of the chances of a deal that significantly rolls back Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. officials say.

• Senators close to Trump like Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) also hold that view.

• This camp believes Iran is weaker than ever, and therefore the U.S. should not compromise but insist Tehran fully dismantle its nuclear program — and should either strike Iran directly or support an Israeli strike if they don’t.

• Iran hawks like Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, are lobbying hard for that approach. “The president once called the 2015 Obama deal fatally flawed. The question now is whether he still believes it,” Dubowitz told Axios, warning against accepting “a warmed-over Obama deal.”

This is a good thing.

We are witness to the split out in the open: Steve Witkoff, Pete Hegseth, and even Tucker Carlson on the side of peace—something Trump wants through negotiation. Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and Tom Cotton on the side of Netanyahu—leader of Israel, our greatest ally, often said to be in step with Trump himself.

Something has to give. Or else, you must do what so many do in this situation—turn off the television for this particular round of political stories because it’s just too much work to unknot the cognitive dissonance.

We’ve been warning about this compromising, self-annihilating posture for a long time:

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.

Many a narrative has been simultaneously breaking this spell for some and deepening it for others, but perhaps the most notable is Russia-Ukraine. And as the fracturing continues, note that Russia-Ukraine is still right in the middle of all of this.

Witkoff and his circle are bypassing Netanyahu entirely, trying to de-escalate Iran tensions with talks and meetings. At the same time, Israel is openly preparing to strike Iran without waiting for a US green light. Here is Axios on the Trump-Netanyahu stance on this:

Friction point: One particularly prominent opponent of diplomacy with Iran is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• Netanyahu’s White House visit last week was tense, particularly when he and Trump discussed Iran, U.S. and Israeli officials say.

• “The president kinda relished sticking it to him on Iran. The same dynamic you saw in public is what happened in private,” one official said, referring to the press conference in which Trump revealed the Iran talks and Netanyahu was visibly uncomfortable.

• “Trump and Bibi see things very differently on the issue of a military strike in Iran,” the official said. Some in the “deal camp” also see Netanyahu’s insistence that Iran must eliminate its entire nuclear program under any deal as unrealistic.

And again, it’s not just Iran. Trump has reiterated over and over his desire to bring peace to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The peace faction understands that a war in either the Middle East or Eastern Europe would not serve America—it would only serve the men who profit from dead children and endless military contracts.

The war faction sees it differently–and that should wake us up to something important.

The realignment is so clear, even the legacy press cannot ignore it, even though admittedly they try to present–in vain–the inside fracturing as cause for concern for conservatives. What was once a battle between right and left is now a battle between warmongers and peacemakers, between TV-script patriots and real-world leaders. And the final showdown may be near.

Actually, it’s been unraveling in this way for a long time. For true liberty to take place, Americans have to first admit to seeing it; then they have to take the pivotal next step and admit that it isn’t TV characters we should be idolizing. Not the senators who cosplay as patriots on Hannity. Not the smirking Fox panelists who have never lifted a finger in a real-world negotiation.

It is the message, it is virtue, it is truth for which we should all be fighting. Not conservatism.

And that is revolutionary.

Trump and Putin are almost certainly going to meet. The moment they do, the twin narratives of Ukraine and Israel—crafted by think tanks, curated by intelligence operatives, and sold to Americans through sanitized soundbites—will collide. And the villains will be trapped.

Two of the world’s most hated and most independent leaders, resounding voices of the worldwide sovereign movement against globalism, sharing a stage in a neutral nation, say, like a Saudi Arabia?

That wouldn’t just be a news story. It would be a carefully crafted act staging a certain collision of narratives precisely for the world to see—and process in their minds.

Putin, for his part, doesn’t frame his battles only in terms of political gain or regional influence. He speaks of civilization, of defending “the moral foundations” of society, of protecting Christianity from the corrosive acid of Western liberalism. Hell he’s also called out the Satanic pedophiles in DC. Whatever your opinion of him, it is language far more resonant with Trump’s campaign rhetoric than anything coming from Netanyahu’s bunker or Lindsey Graham’s green room. This is not the voice of a mere nationalist—it’s the voice of a counter-revolutionary. Whether or not it is authentic or not remains to be seen, but what else are we supposed to go by, especially when our “allies” continue to spout exactly the opposite—and have for years?

Think about it: the deep state faction of the US and its propagandic media arm has spent the last decade (and longer) telling us that both Trump and Putin are authoritarian lunatics, bent on global domination. But what happens when those same two men meet in person and call for peace—all in allowing each nation on the gameboard to keep its dignity, self-respect, and sovereignty?

Including Israel and Iran.

Including Ukraine and Russia.

Including everyone.

All while the “conservative” politicians back home foam at the mouth, begging for war in the face of such beautiful and never-before-seen peace?

The spell breaks.

That’s the most important developing story at the moment: not the conflict in Ukraine or the nuclear bluff in Iran—but the conflict inside America, inside “conservatism,” inside MAGA.

And the nuclear panic in DC over the possibility that Trump might actually stop nuclear war instead of start one.

One GhostofBasedPatrickHenry may have nailed it:

We are hurling, full speed, toward a Trump and Putin bromance, and the moment couldn’t have come at a more dire inflection point.

It is becoming more and more clear that certain elements inside the US government want war, no matter what. The mandate Putin has imposed on himself to liberate the people of eastern Ukraine is non-negotiable, and securing stability and security for the country is the most logical and righteous solution.

It seems that a peaceful solution may be subverted and prevented until Putin and Trump meet face to face, and Trump is allowed to do what he does best: Negotiate.

How many career politicians, bureaucrats, and useless media figures are going to be exposed in the process?

On a personal level, it is a collision most delicious, the very reason I’ve written so much on Ukraine-Russia and Saudi Arabia, and to a lesser extent Israel-Iran.

Yes indeed, the binary deception is breaking. And thank God.

Because every time another faux-patriot reveals himself as a war-thirsty degenerate, the American people remember something—ever so faintly–the TV taught them to forget:

Real conservatism doesn’t bomb children.

It builds strength and respect through peace.

It places it’s hope in God.

And the most dangerous thing Donald Trump could do in 2025 is hardly start a war. It’s to shake Vladimir Putin’s hand when all of this is on the line.

Because peace, in a world built by the money families—over centuries–for perpetual conflict and senseless bloodshed, is not just a scandal.

It’s not just exposure.

It’s not even just peace.

It is a resurrection.

For resurrection is rebellion, and peace is the final disruption. Christ is the template for Trump and Putin shaking hands in defiance of every war script the ruling class has ever written.

And just like the greatest Resurrection we celebrate now and for the next 50 days of the full Easter season, it would threaten every empire built on fear, every priest puffed up on power, every binary peddling death as the destiny of mankind.

Let them quake. Resurrection shakes harder than war.

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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.