Trump may play 4D chess, but they definitely play at least 3D chess.

I’m not saying I’m correct, either. Would take a lot of sauce before I’d consider staking that claim. Just throwing out some principles they seem to be after, some goals they did go after, and some actuals that were given cover by some of their moves.

One of the more frustrating things they would do from 2002-2016 was calling their shots - they’d say exactly what the were going to do, start working on hem, put out gaslighting narratives to their base, with the media repeating the gaslighting.

It was so frustratingly effective. It isn’t obvious yet exactly how the game board or engagement method got shifted, even with our favorite psyop. My best current guess is that key pieces to their objectives are taken out far upstream, a la Baghdaddi, that allowed for critical narratives and methods to be severely disrupted. With those potentials closed, it gives us the extra time we need to expose the intentions.