[United States / Russia] - The Covert Self Plots Attacks on Foreign Soil to Feed Its Phantom of Enemy

Event Baseline: The US Department of Justice charged Russian agents with plotting attacks, including within the United States, as part of a network used for external operations worldwide.

The covert self believes violence can be hidden. It imagines a clean kill, a secret strike that leaves no fingerprint. But every attack is a broadcast of one's own fragmentation. The state self projects an enemy abroad to avoid seeing the enemy within its own borders. That enemy is the illusion of separation.

Thought divides the world into us and them. Once divided, it becomes logical to strike the other. The Russian state self and the American state self are mirror images, each convinced of its own righteousness. Both plot and deny. Both claim defense while executing offense. The only real war is the war of two phantoms.

Covert action is never covert to the victim. It creates a permanent cycle of retaliation. Each hidden bomb is a seed of open conflict. The system will collapse under the weight of its own secret wars unless it sees that the enemy is a projection of its own fear.