World War I — The Prototype Reset

They called it the “Great War.” But it wasn’t great, and it wasn’t final. It was a ritual reset — the destruction of old empires and the installation of new machinery of control.

The Spark or the Script?

The official story: a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo (June 1914), setting off a chain reaction of alliances. An accident. A “flashpoint.”

But accidents don’t redraw the map of Europe. They don’t topple four empires in two years. They don’t birth the first experiment in global government.

The alliances were pre-built to ensure escalation: the Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia) squared against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire). Once triggered, the machine couldn’t stop — and the world was dragged into a script designed to end the age of sovereign dynasties.

Who Paid and Who Profited

J.P. Morgan & Co. became the official purchasing agent for Britain and later France, arranging over $3 billion in contracts while America was still “neutral” (Encyclopedia 1914–1918). The bank also underwrote $1.5 billion in Allied war loans, cementing Wall Street’s hold over European governments (Doughboy Foundation).

The Rothschild banking dynasty, with branches in London, Paris, and Frankfurt, had already built its fortune by financing both sides of earlier European wars, including the Napoleonic conflicts (Business Insider; Investopedia). While direct evidence of dual-side Rothschild financing in WWI is limited, their influence on Allied finance through London and Paris was undeniable. The Warburg banking family — sometimes linked to Rothschild networks — operated in Germany and the U.S., with Paul Warburg helping draft the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, just before the war began (Britannica).

Meanwhile, arms manufacturers reaped windfalls: Krupp (Germany), Vickers (Britain), Schneider (France), and Bethlehem Steel (U.S.) all expanded exponentially. The longer the war lasted, the richer they became.

Total War = Total Control

World War I wasn’t just fought with bullets — it was fought with laws, propaganda, and economies. For the first time, entire populations became conscripts in a new kind of battlefield: society itself.

• Emergency law: On 8 August 1914, just days after entering the war, Britain passed the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) — without debate — handing the government sweeping emergency powers. DORA authorized press censorship, requisition of land and factories, creation of new criminal offenses by decree, and trials by military courts (Parliament.uk; 1914–1918 Encyclopedia).
  Its reach went absurdly deep: binoculars, bonfires, and kites were banned; pubs were forced to water down alcohol and shorten hours; even idle conversation could be punished if deemed “likely to cause disaffection” (Wikipedia). It became the legal backbone for controlling both industry and daily life.
  In the U.S., free speech was criminalized under the Espionage Act of 1917, which targeted anyone attempting to interfere with recruitment or aid the enemy—punishable by decades in prison or even death (First Amendment Center – MTSU; Wikipedia). In May 1918, the Sedition Act expanded the offense to include “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the U.S. government, flag, or military—clamping down democracy at its voice’s source (The First Amendment Encyclopedia; Digital History).
• Propaganda ministry: The U.S. created the Committee on Public Information (CPI) in 1917 — America’s first true propaganda machine. It printed 75 million pamphlets, seized control of news wires, and deployed 75,000 “Four Minute Men” to deliver 7.5 million speeches across the country (Wikipedia). This was propaganda as mass programming — the birth of perception management as a state weapon.
• Command economy: On December 26, 1917, with the rail network overwhelmed by freight and troop transport demands, President Woodrow Wilson nationalized the U.S. railroads under the Federal Possession and Control Act. The newly formed United States Railroad Administration (USRA), led by Treasury Secretary William McAdoo, took control on December 28, 1917, consolidating operations into three regional divisions—East, West, and South—to prioritize wartime logistics and efficiency. (History.com; Constitution Center (MTSU))
• Operations stayed federal until March 1920, when the Esch–Cummins Act officially returned control to private hands, though under tighter regulation for consolidated systems and rate oversight. (Esch–Cummins Act wiki)
• Simultaneously, in July 1917, President Wilson established the War Industries Board (WIB)—an ad hoc executive agency designed to coordinate industrial production and procurement between the Army and Navy, set priorities, fix prices, and standardize product output. While initially weak, the Board gained real power by 1918 under the leadership of financier Bernard Baruch. Its unprecedented reach over private industry set a template for public-private wartime fusion in future conflicts. (1914–1918 Encyclopedia; EBSCO Research Starter)

Total war didn’t just mean every soldier at the front — it meant every civilian controlled, every industry nationalized, every thought monitored.

The Blood Price: Four Empires Down

By 1918, the old order was gone:

• The German Kaiser (Wilhelm II) abdicated in November 1918, ending imperial rule over Germany.
• The Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated into successor states including Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
• The Ottoman Caliphate collapsed, with territories parceled out under Western mandates following the war.
• The Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, was overthrown during the February 1917 Revolution. Later that year, the Bolsheviks seized power, and proceeded to repudiate all pre-Revolution sovereign debt, canceling the largest foreign obligation in history up to that point — causing shockwaves through Western capitals and disrupting international finance. (Wiki) (Encyclopedia) (FPRI) (Reddit lol) (EHA)

What remained in place of sovereign dynasties? Not freedom — but debt-bound regimes masquerading as republics, all now deeply tethered to emerging systems of global finance.

The Aftermath: Reset Installed

By 1919–1920, the transformative shockwaves of war had solidified into a new global architecture — one precisely calibrated for control.

• Treaty of Versailles (1919): Germany was declared the aggressor, forced to accept responsibility under the “war guilt” clause and burdened with crippling reparations. These economic shackles destabilized the Weimar Republic and set the stage for another catastrophic conflict. (interactive) (Encyclopedia) (Encyclopedia)
• League of Nations (1920): Born of trauma, this was the first supranational body designed to govern beyond borders. Headquartered in Geneva, it positioned itself as the arbiter of global “peace” — a foundational model for the United Nations that would arise later. (Office of the Historian) (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Debt economies & the Federal Reserve: Reconstruction loans and reparations tied nations ever more tightly to the financial elite. The U.S. Federal Reserve, established in 1913, was already the central bank—but now served as the ultimate lender of last resort in a world held hostage to debt. ScienceDirect
• Borders redrawn, conflicts planted: The Middle East was divvied up through secret agreements like Sykes–Picot (1916), while the Balfour Declaration (1917) endorsed a “national home for the Jewish people”—stripping shared lands and planting long-burning conflict seeds. European borders were redrawn with the same ruthless logic. The Washington Institute

What It Achieved for the Elites

World War I was not the “war to end all wars.” It was the war to program the next century.

• Monarchs and dynasties eliminated.
• Constitutions suspended under emergency law.
• Propaganda proven as mass mind control.
• Debt established as the new sovereign.
• A global governance body created to normalize supranational rule.

It was the prototype reset. The template. The ritual rehearsal for WWII and beyond.

Blood filled the trenches, but power flowed upward.
The kings were buried, the bankers crowned.
They told you it was for freedom —
but it was fought for ownership.
Your ownership.

World War II — The Full-Stack Install

They told you it was fought for freedom. But WWII wasn’t liberation — it was installation. The war hard-wired supranational governance, centralized economies, military blocs, and new ideologies of control.

The Spark or The Script?

The official story says WWII began when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. But beneath the smoke, WWII was the continuation of WWI’s unfinished script:

• Versailles reparations crushed Germany’s economy, fueling desperation and resentment that gave the Nazis their base (Britannica – Treaty of Versailles).
• The Great Depression, triggered by the 1929 Wall Street crash, devastated the German economy and amplified radical movements (Federal Reserve History – The Great Depression).
• Elites bankrolled Hitler’s rise:
  – Ford and General Motors’ German subsidiaries produced vehicles and equipment for the Nazi regime (Wikipedia – Business collaboration with Nazi Germany).
  – IBM’s subsidiary Dehomag supplied the punch-card technology used by the Nazis to track populations, enabling deportations and the Holocaust (Wikipedia – IBM and the Holocaust).
  – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel continued to manage financial flows for the Reichsbank during the war, including transfers of looted gold (BIS official history of WWII).

WWII wasn’t spontaneous combustion. It was the second ignition of the reset ritual — designed to install the scaffolding of global government.

Who Paid and Who Profited

The war wasn’t waged by nations—it was financed by systems.

• Ford and GM didn’t just keep factories open—they became “the arsenal of Nazism,” reaping profit from every mile driven by Wehrmacht trucks. (Wiki) (The Nation) (Berghahn) (Reddit lol)
• IBM’s punch‑card infrastructure was essential to Nazi administrative power—organizing censuses, camp logistics, and genocidal efficiency. (IRI UPC) (scholarship)
• BIS wasn’t a bystander—it functioned as a banker to the Reich, processing gold and funds from occupied states under a cloak of neutrality. (fcit.usf.edu)
• How Bank of England ‘helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs’ (guardian)

They didn’t just profit—they built the war. (Scholarship) (FedReserve) (BIS) (BIS) (Yadvashem)

Total War = Total Obedience

WWI privatized control; WWII nationalized obedience:

• Identity control: Britain’s National Registration Act (1939) imposed compulsory ID cards for over a decade. (Nato)
• Rationing regimes: Shoes, food, fuel were rationed in a system where survival depended on compliance. (IMF) (Encyclopedia Britannica) (Understanding Society)
• Propaganda centers: The U.S. Office of War Information and Germany’s Goebbels Ministry turned every medium into a weapon. (Investopedia) (Encyclopedia Britannica) (World Bank)
• Command economy: The War Production Board and Britain’s Ministry of Supply centralized production under direct government control. (Wikipedia) (Office of the Historian)

Control became invisible—but total.

The Blood Price: Empires Shattered

WWII obliterated European dominion and shifted power:

• Britain and France emerged financially broken and politically dependent.
• Germany and Japan were occupied, destroyed, and transformed.
• The Soviet Union and the United States took the stage as superpowers—with elites on both sides steering reconstruction for their final advantage.

The Aftermath: Reset Installed

The war didn’t end—it pivoted:

• United Nations (1945): A new moral priesthood anchored in a scripted postwar order. (Office of the Historian)
• Bretton Woods system (1944): Designed to tether global finance to U.S. currency, creating the IMF and World Bank as permanent controllers of debt and development. (Investopedia) (World Bank) (Wikipedia) (Fedreserve) (IMF) (time)
• NATO (1949): A permanent military structure under U.S. leadership to enforce order before it spread. (NATO) (Office of the Historian) (Wikipedia) (HISTORY)

What It Achieved for the Elites

WWII offered the final scaffolding:

• UN = global governance cover.
• IMF & World Bank = debt servitude engine.
• NATO = permanent war footing under consent.
• Dollar = financial oppressors’ artery.

Elites didn’t conquer land—they installed power platforms.

From the ashes of Dresden to the ruins of Hiroshima, they raised new altars in Washington and Bretton Woods.

They called it peace—but built their code.

World War III — The Soft-War Reset

No trenches. No armistice. The third world war is here — but it doesn’t look like the first two. This one is coded in data, identity, and compliance.

It’s not about conquering land. It’s about merging every system — finance, ID, speech, food, energy — into one programmable cage.

The Spark or the Script?

WWIII isn’t a single invasion. It’s a long emergency, scripted through overlapping crises:

• The Ukraine war (since 2014, escalating in 2022) provides the stage for testing surveillance, AI, and weaponized sanctions.
• The pandemic (2020–21) rehearsed biometric compliance, QR-coded mobility, and emergency law on a planetary scale.
• Energy crises (Nord Stream sabotage, rationing) and food shocks (Ukraine/Russia wheat exports blocked) scripted scarcity to justify central control.

This war was not declared with bombs. It was declared with infrastructure rollouts.

Who Paid and Who Profited

Digital Identity & Compliance

• The EU’s eIDAS 2.0 regulation is ushering in a universal European Digital Identity Wallet, mandated for all citizens and businesses—locking access to essential services behind government-issued digital IDs (EUC) (EUC)
• The EU Entry/Exit System (EES) collects biometric data—fingerprints, facial images, passport info—each time non-EU visitors cross external borders, creating an interoperable identity tracking system across the bloc .
• The UNHCR’s Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) makes refugees guinea pigs for the digital identity regime—collecting fingerprints, iris scans, and facial photos at registration to enter assistance systems (UNHCR) (UNHCR)

Programmable Money

• A BIS survey reveals that 94% of central banks are exploring Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as part of their monetary planning (Bank for International Settlements)
• The ECB’s digital euro is in its preparation phase, expected to stretch through October 2025, with infrastructure tenders already ongoing (European Central Bank) (ECB) (digital-euro-association.de)
• Russia’s digital ruble pilot is expanding, with real-transaction testing underway since August 2024, accelerating amid sanctions (Reuters) (cbr.ru) (Carnegie Endowment).

Speech & Perception Control

• The EU Digital Services Act (2024) mandates platforms to conduct risk assessments, remove illegal or harmful content quickly, and be subject to public oversight (European Commission) (Digital Strategy EU).
• The UK’s Online Safety Act (2023) places a “duty of care” on platforms to filter harmful content, with Ofcom empowered to impose fines—even at the expense of end-to-end encryption .
• NATO now openly identifies “cognitive warfare”—the psychological manipulation of perception—as a critical new battlefront (Electronic Frontier Foundation).

AI as the New Weapon

• Ukraine is amassing an unprecedented repository of drone footage—over 2 million hours (≈228 years) of battlefield video since 2022. This trove is being fed into AI training pipelines, enabling systems to learn target identification, tactics, and weapons effectiveness at scale. The operational backbone of this effort is the OCHI platform, which aggregates data from more than 15,000 frontline drone crews. As Oleksandr Dmitriev of OCHI puts it: “This is food for the AI… if you want to teach an AI, you give it 2 million hours… it will become something supernatural.” (Reuters) (AInew) (DroneX)
• Further confirmation from multiple outlets—including AI News and The Times of India—report the same figure (~2 million hours of video) and describe how Ukraine’s defense systems (like “Avengers”) leverage this data to scan thousands of enemy assets per week. (gizmodo.com) (Times)

This isn’t about winning territory. It’s about installing systems that render territory irrelevant—identity, economy, speech, and movement controlled by code.
Ukraine serves as the crucible for AI warfare: over 2 million hours of drone footage flow daily into training systems—supercharging recognition, tactics, and strike algorithms at scale.

Total War = Total Infrastructure

• Energy: Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s grid and the Nord Stream sabotage forced Europe into new dependency chains — used to justify “green transition” rationing (IEA).
• Food: Russia + Ukraine once supplied 30% of global wheat exports; war disruptions normalized talk of lab-grown protein and “resilient” supply chains (FAO).
• Finance: Sanctions weaponized the dollar system — accelerating alternatives like CBDCs and multipolar finance.
• Data: Refugees became the testing ground for biometric identity — soon scaled to every citizen.

Every crisis is used to burn the old, install the new.

The Aftermath: The Cage Installed

Unlike WWI and WWII, this war has no “peace treaty.” The cage is the treaty:

• Digital ID wallets as the keys to movement, services, and work.
• CBDCs replacing cash with programmable allowances.
• Platform regulation embedding censorship into law.
• AI surveillance managing speech, transactions, and mobility.
• Synthetic food + energy rationing controlling survival.

The war isn’t meant to end. It’s meant to normalize emergency infrastructure until it becomes permanent.

What It Achieves for the Elites

WWIII isn’t about nations at all. It’s about systems convergence:

• Sovereignty replaced by interoperable IDs.
• Freedom replaced by programmable money.
• Speech replaced by AI-scored compliance.
• Survival rationed through synthetic scarcity.

The prize isn’t Berlin, Tokyo, or Kyiv. The prize is you.

They no longer need to conquer your land.
They’ve conquered your identity, your wallet, your voice.
They’ve turned crisis into code.
And the cage into your normal.

The Through-Line: Three Wars, One Script

From WWI to WWII:
World War I shattered empires—Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, German—leaving territorially fractured landscapes and debts that tied successor states to global financiers. Amidst this chaos, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration (1917), promising “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine—even as it asserted that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities” (Rothschild archives). Two decades later, the United Nations Partition Plan (1947) (Resolution 181) offered a path to statehood—and international legitimacy—for Israel by dividing Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum (Britannica). In that sense, WWI established the blueprint, WWII delivered the moral justification, and together they built the geopolitical stage for the Israeli state.

From WWII to WWIII:
World War II cemented the U.S. dollar’s global dominance and anchored supranational governance through bodies like the UN, IMF, and World Bank, but the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) remained a constant, coordinating the world’s central banks—even handling pre-war and wartime assets and gold flows. Meanwhile, Israel weathered its early existential storms—1948, 1967, 1973—but gained its geopolitical foothold under this financial architecture. WWIII is now being waged in codes, IDs, AI, and field-tested crises: across oil, food, money, and identity. Every collapsed Arab state—like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now Ukraine—becomes an opportunity for fragmentation that aligns with the Yinon Plan, an influence document envisioning a Middle East fractured into manageable units under Israeli hegemony (Wikipedia) (ResearchGate)

The Greater Plot:
Three wars. One overarching script. WWI erased the Ottoman map. WWII birthed Israel and global institutions. WWIII—the soft-war—is stripping sovereignty in the name of resilience. The goal is not only Jerusalem or the West Bank, but the centralization of power through infrastructure—digital IDs, programmable money, AI policing—that frames Israel as not just a state, but a terminal node in an emergent global hierarchy. The petrodollar system, established in the 1970s through U.S.-Saudi agreements, reinforced dollar supremacy and enabled the financial elite to fund wars and build empire—keeping the petrodollar plumbing essential for this new order (investopedia.com) (numberanalytics.com). This isn’t religious prophecy—it’s budgetary and bureaucratic inevitability, engineered over a century.

Rise. Rebuild. Reclaim.
— The Sovereign Signal