Opinion/Editorial
THE CHAIN OF FIRE
First, before all else, the chain of fire must be established. The fuse igniter must be attached to the fuse cord. The fuse cord is attached to the detonation cord. The detonation cord must be properly inserted into the small block of the supplementary charge, and finally, the supplementary charge should be in very close proximity to the main charge. Once the chain of fire, as taught in Explosives Ordnance Disposal School, is reviewed, inspected, and then approved, the fuse cord igniter cord ring attached to the fuse by another small steel ring, must be pulled. This initiates what’s called the chain of fire. The fuse burns for some time as laid down by tables judging by its length. The longer the cord the more time the fuse will take to burn before reaching the detonation cord and beginning the truly explosive part of the chain. The detonation cord blows up at a speed of about 26,000 feet per second. The explosion is just a fast fire but seen as a single burst of detonation, as it occurs so fast. The detonation cord then blows up the supplementary charge which burns at about 24,000 feet per second. Finally, due to the ‘sympathetic’ closeness of that small charge to the main charge, the main charge blows with whatever force was determined by its pre-conceived size, all the way from an ounce of explosive in a hand grenade to the kiloton (thousands of pounds) to Megaton (millions of pounds) burst of a nuclear device.
Cultures going through rapid change can be closely compared to how explosives are prepared and set off, but usually, as in the case of the current situation of the United States of America, this chain of fire is neither recognized, discussed if recognized, or even admitted to when the fuse cord is pulled. Right now, as this new administration takes over and begins to deliberately make this abrupt cultural change, The only way to stop the detonation of the final main charge is neither doing anything with the detonation cord nor the supplementary charge. Once the fire reaches those in order then the main charge is going to blow, and if that’s a cultural nuclear explosion there is simply and absolutely no way to measure what will be the CEP of the social device, just as in many of the earlier nuclear bomb explosion tests. The CEP is a set of letters that stand for the circular probable error (CEP), defined as the radius of a circle centered at the aim point, which has a 50% probability of hit. That’s an artillery phrase used to measure the effectiveness of killing or wounding people when rounds are fired out of cannons and howitzers at them.
What is happening in Washington D.C. as you watch whatever station or results, because those are different depending on what station you are watching, you are seeing the beginnings of what can quite easily be viewed by an old-weathered and combat experienced artilleryman, as the pulling of the ring at the very tip of the fuse cord. Without understanding it, the general public and almost all of its leaders and newsmen are inexperienced in being able to figure out this chain of cultural fire or what the result of it might lead to. Whereas the election of 2024 was about politics, applied beliefs, and also a good bit of cheating and lying all over the place, it was not something that could be identified, right off the bat, as the establishment of this cultural chain of fire.
Now, however, as one begins to look closely at the assembly of anti-cultural decisions and applications of those decisions, it becomes that half of the population that was grieving and holding its breath is no longer in that emotional state. Instead, it is in a state of developing anger and moving rapidly from that to outrage until ultimately reaching a point of what may best be described as survival terror. People, many of them, now used to their rightful Social Security payments, Veterans benefits, Medicaid, and Medicare, cannot envision survival without those hugely beneficial payments or treatments.
The current administration’s first real act of initiating the chain of fire was experimental. The doing away with USAID, a way of showing the public that it means business when Elon Musk, the administration’s right-hand man, says he is after getting rid of Social Security and those other benefits mentioned herein. This offhand threat was made right before this administration was appointed and Congress approved the person responsible for writing and putting out the 2525 document, which also gets rid of those mentioned benefits, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. At this point of these true revelations, it can be easily ascertained that the chain of fire is in existence as described in EOD school but with the social application I have interpreted here.
The ring was not yet pulled on the fuse cord, but there were the administration’s right-hand man and his director of the OMB constructive fingers in that ring. Publics around the world are notoriously complacent to the devastating moves made by dictators everywhere, including now Israel, Poland, Russia, China, and 64 more of the 197 countries on Earth according to the World Population Review. All of those countries are in danger of entering into a cultural chain of fire situation at any time, but the United States, with such a cultural heritage of stubborn patriotism, demand for freedom possessing a real active democracy, and holding in citizens’ hands over 50,000,000 weapons, all in private hands, is in the most danger.
The current administration does not study history, anthropology, sociology or any of that. It appears clueless. If any of the benefits are terminated, that are mentioned here, then that will represent a pulling of the fuse igniter. The active fuse cord can still be cut, but if the burning of the fuse (or the institutional supports) isn’t stopped, then the detonation cord is next, and there’s no coming back from that one. If that happens then it will only be a matter of whomever survives to measure the CEP as it occurred and the toll of its effects.
