Originally published Feb 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
STAFF
“Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.” – Psalm 119:97-104
INTRODUCTION
This is not a full analysis of world events, but rather an analysis of bellwether events, regions, trends, and countries that tell the overarching story of the world in February 2026.
Our analysis is from an Americanist perspective, nested within our Christian belief system, using prophetic language.
The bellwether story of all bellwether stories ecumenically is the battle for the heart of governance in the land we currently call the United States of America. That story pits the Progmerican faction against the Trump faction, with the Progmericans wanting to replace individual liberty with social justice, and the Trump faction not fully understanding what true Americanism is (it’s not merely prosperity and military might).
Every nation in the world that is able to has its hands up America’s skirt, attempting to manipulate her towards their preferred outcomes. All of them have one thing in common, a need to see the American project end.
The rise of AI as the new world power defining resource has made Americanism even more of a liability to the nations of the world than it already was, especially now that America’s closest allies, Britian, Australia, and Canada, have all fallen to anti-American projects. Britain’s Gorton and Denton by-election gave the Islamist-courting Green Party a decisive win over both Reform and Labour, a sure sign the road back to western civilization will be a long one for our former closest ally.
The need for states to move rapidly in their AI machine building is what makes Americanism so dangerous, for it slows down the state more than any other existing project. The stories of the past month have only made that reality of power clearer.
A. AMERICA
- INSURRECTION -The symbol of the DNC’s hatred for America, and its true alienation from it, was crystalized in President Trump’s SOTU address, when he asked them to stand for Americans over illegal aliens. Afterwards, one Democrat accused the President of racism for even DARING to ask American politicians to stand for Americans over illegal aliens.
The open rebellion of the President is seen in the old guard’s former priest of culture, the celebrity, like Robert DeNiro, who openly calls for Americans to revolt (he’s really only talking to Progmericans, for Americans find him to be a stench in the land).
But the Democrats are still doing real damage beyond rhetoric, especially in Virginia where they hope to take guns, wealth, free thought, and the unborn in a bid to fully convert Virginia over to Progmerica.
More chilling though, might be the news that the FISA court (the de facto Star Chamber Court, a constitutional violation in and of itself), has selected Biden’s former disinformation lawyer to advise them on surveillance.
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- EPSTEIN FILES – As we cover in our Bellwether of the month, (pg. 2), the Epstein Files saga is not going away, despite President Trump’s best efforts to make that happen. With more foreign countries arresting Epstein conspirators, Americans are wondering when we are going to see arrests. The DOJ recently backtracked a bit from its claim that the Epstein File releases were over. Now, they claim they MIGHT have been mistaken, there may be more files to release after all.
As a side note, BoingBoing’s headline for the news Larry Summers has resigned after showing up in the Epstein Files shows you their hierarchy of sin. In their hierarchy, being racist is worst than being a pedophile. Their headline read “Larry Summers used racist language in message to Epstein.”
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- 2026 ELECTIONS – So far, the 2026 midterm elections do not look good for the GOP. Even in Texas, DNC early voting in their primaries is outpacing Republicans. The racist anti-American “firebrand” Jasmine Crocket is leading that DNC primary by double digits.
The gerrymandering wars have mostly been won by the DNC, with Virginia hoping the people deliver what would be a decisive gerrymandering victory.
While President Trump has hinted he might make ID mandatory for U.S. elections, one doubts he’ll have the courts to back him. The Republicans continue to hold rearguard protection of the DNC in the Senate, with their own majority leader refusing to act decisively, to force an oral filibuster that would ultimately force the DNC to break and allow for the passage of this vital legislation.
Failure to pass the legislation, or failure for Trump to triumph in the courts should he use an executive order, will most likely result in at least a DNC House majority, which will assure more rounds of impeachments, subpoenas, etc.
The one bright note is two republicans currently lead the polling in the California gubernatorial race.
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- DEPORTATIONS – The lawlessness of the DNC and its pathological hatred for America can be seen in its zeal for using violence, directly through paid and organized street fighters, and indirectly through agit prop campaigns orchestrated by DNC-controlled-aligned media.
The SOTU crystalized that alignment, not just in the stand for Americans moment, but for the fact that one democrat, Ilhan Omar, brought one of the street fighters to the SOTU (who was promptly arrested for alleged documented attacks on ICE agents). Another Democrat, Seth Moulton, brought an illegal alien to the SOTU, and then helped that illegal alien evade law enforcement.
The violent rhetoric of the press, left unchecked by the DOJ, is the real driver of the violence, that and the foreign money that is helping to fund this de facto DNC street army.
We are watching the expansion of the deportation operations and the growth of deportation centers with growing skepticism. A report soon on the full extent of the operation and its plans going forward might be forthcoming should events warrant it (and we suspect they will).
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B. WORLD
- OUR NEIGHBORS – America is becoming more and more isolated from its neighbors at home and Europe abroad. Mexico and Canada are taking increasingly oppositional views to the U.S. on the world stage, while Mexico actively works to subvert us. Mexico itself is under siege as the cartels move aggressively to punish the Mexican government for killing one of their top generals.
- JAPAN – After their last parliamentary election, Japan is positioning itself to be a partner with America as a beacon of liberty, or perhaps one day the sole beacon. If America stays American, Japan will become America’s closest ally, at least until Britian can reclaim herself.
- ISRAEL – Trump ended the Gaza War, though his Board of Peace has failed to gain ground from any noted power in the West, a further testament to the gulf growing between Americans in general and the West as well. Though in the West, pro-American factions, or at least American-aligned factions (like Restore Britian), could change the conditions in a hurry should they ever throw off the shackles of the global leftist world order.
- UKRAINE – The Ukraine War is most likely headed for continuation, despite more promises and more talks that we suspect will fizzle to nothing. Neither side is reserved in their total war approach to the other, and neither side has the strength to decisively move the other. With Ukraine abutting against central European nations like Slovakia, risk of the war’s expansion remains high.
- IRAN – There are almost daily unsubstantiated reports of resistance in Iran to the current regime. China and Russia have maneuvered to protect Iran, a key geopolitical partner for both of them in the region. Trump has moved military assets into the region but has yet to pull the trigger. Some reports suggest America simply lacks the military power to do the job OR the presence of Chinese and Russian assets alone is deterring them, as they are not wishing to risk a dramatic escalation of the war.
- AGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN – On Thursday night, February 26, the Taliban of Afghanistan began a massive offensive campaign against Pakistani border positions along the Durand Line. Pakistan has returned with airstrikes on Taliban leadership targets, hitting military posts, headquarters, and ammunition depots. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has declared “open war” with the Taliban.
Unsubstantiated rumors have claimed the Taliban leader has been killed. Accurate casualty numbers on both sides are not currently available, though the potential numbers could, for both sides, be in the hundreds.
- MYANMAR – We make a quick note of Myanmar here, though we intend on visiting it in more detail soon (perhaps even as a special supplement). As of now the Junta is now calling its first parliament after elections that we have little detail on (other than skepticism of its legitimacy). It now has a veneer of legitimacy it didn’t have before. This will surely adversely affect the resistance to the former junta’s now quasi-legitimate government.
C. CULTURE
- ABORTION – Life saw a victory in Puerto Rico where state law now recognizes the unborn as being individuals, human beings, but across the country death marches on. In Virginia, the DNC-controlled state is now pushing for abortion up to birth. The last election cycle they painted people who claimed Democrats want abortion up to birth as being misogynists using disinformation to scare people into supporting them. Now they want Virginians to cosign the bloody contract.
The unborn child murder pill is still readily available, even as more cases of men murdering their own unborn without the mother’s consent pile up.
Abortion continues to be an unrepentant sin of America that accounts for maybe a third of the DNC’s real political power. Without it, they would never win an election in a white majority state again. The white woman of “choice” is the backbone of the Democrat Party.
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- EUTHANASIA – Canada appears to be ground zero for the emergence and spreading of Euthanasia laws, laws that allow doctors to murder patients for an increasing variety of reasons. We all understand what euthanasia really is, eugenics, weeding out the liabilities by nudging them towards suicide.
Canada is exposing the spirit of euthanasia as it takes hold of institutions. The incentive to drive people to suicide grows as the profits rise and the expenses go down. In Canada, we have cases of families claiming their loved one was manipulated into killing themselves. The families themselves were isolated from the patient to allow the suicide groomers to do their work.
They’re now considering euthanasia for babies, euthanizing children without parental consent, and are already expanding the reasons to approve state-assisted suicide. For instance, seasonal affective disorder is enough to grant you the “right” to have a doctor murder you, for the good of the whole.
Canada herself is becoming a petri dish of the leftist global order virus. Her ruination will be a caution to us all, though she still has hope in her. She may one day soon return to the family of man. For now, she has chosen the anti-human path of the leftist global order, death.
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- TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY – The phenomenon of a spike in transgender violence at the extreme of mass killer violence continues, with the most recent trans shooter, Blue Zeke Daly, 26, failing mercifully in their attempt to murder a U.S. border patrol agent. Yet outside of this extreme violence category, there appears to be no uptick in violence from the transgender community.
The transgendered expression itself is a challenge to Americanism. First, it assaults our liberty with “trans rights,” which is really coerced acceptance and coerced cultural framing to favor their reality over the binary sex reality; Second, it challenges Americans to extend to the transgendered individual an opportunity to demonstrate their Americanism without being classified outside of it because of the social group they belong to.
Transgenderism as an expression is not anti-American, but the forced framing of a transgendered reality on a binary people, along with the forced acceptance of and participation in that transgendered expression IS anti-American. This is the transgender ideology, which is a key part of DNC-CCP power that can be leveled against Americanism in the name of being “kind.”
Even if they are a minority, there ARE transgendered Americans. Not all transgendered people are transgendered ideologues, and most transgender ideologs are NOT transgendered themselves.
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- DEI/ESG – On the surface, it appears DEI is in retreat, but mostly because of President Trump’s pen, not through longer-lasting legislation to follow up on favorable SCOTUS rulings. More companies are ditching DEI, though Democrats have threatened that those who comply with Trump’s wishes, demands, will face potential criminal prosecution should they return to power.
The recent Vanguard settlement with Texas that will see the investment firm drop its ESG demands might be a more lasting victory than Trump’s XOs will prove to be. If the Dems gain back the White House, will Vanguard executives be arrested?
We suspect DEI is dead not because corporations developed an American conscience, but because of the AI arms race. Whatever power holds this land, Progmerica or America, either one needs excellent people to develop excellent AI. DEI was designed to clog up the institutions, to bring America down. But now the AI arms race will force the Progmericans to jettison the program just as surely as they have been quietly preparing, we believe, to jettison the global warming monster.
California Governor Gavin Newsome, whose state embraced DEI early and often, became the poster boy for the true pandering and patronizing nature of DEI to the communities it alleges to favor, the POC (people of color). He told a black audience that he was just like them, he scored low on his SAT’s and he “can’t read.”
Were the corporate press merely American alone, Gavin Newsome’s career would be done after this. The corporate media barely covered it, for Gavin is a possible 2028 Presidential contender.
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D. TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN
The Supreme Court Ruling that struck down much of President Trump’s tariffs under the emergency claim has sent the markets into a volatile state, though overall the markets continue to grow. Expect a full report on the Tariff ruling and the fallout from it in the next issue of MIA (March 6, 2026).
Overall, the world markets are trending generally upward, but with mostly modest growth reported. The tariff ruling is seen as an overall plus for markets by policy experts. What it means in the war between America and the leftist global order, however, might be another matter altogether.
The emergence and rapid evolution of AI is also changing world market parameters in ways that have yet to be fully realized. It is a process we are tracking, but there is not enough data for us to analyze it fully.
GO DEEPER ON TRUMP TARIFFS
E. AI
The pitfalls and opportunities of AI were highlighted this month. China tried to use ChatGPT to destroy the current Prime Minister of Japan’s reputation at home. The plan failed, but it is still noteworthy they tried.
More and more people are beginning to realize AI is humanity’s latest greatest challenge. Can the species survive the invention of AI? While a growing number of voices call for AI’s destruction, we doubt there is any real chance to do that. Slowing down AI’s development would require global power alone, never mind the power needed to stop it altogether.
As militaries seek to integrate with AI, the “ethics” of the AI they choose is essential to sustaining the military culture they hope to sustain. We see this friction with Anthropic, which is getting a rebuff from the military over its ethics parameters, which favor a leftist globalist order framing. Anthropic seems ready to jettison the safeguard, should the military wish to reconsider.
Data center plans are conflicting with local interests, and the battles are only going to heat up. One data center requires as much as 900 acres of land and uses more water daily than many small towns do. While technologies are emerging that might significantly reduce resource demand, for the foreseeable future, the push for those who are capable to build massively and quickly continues.
Countries with less individual rights offer great advantage over countries with more individual rights, though AI companies in the U.S. who might be tempted to build overseas where it’s easier to invade local stewardship, must consider their vulnerability to that same state that made their destruction of local wellbeing so easy in the first place.
We do not believe we are using hyperbole when we say EVERYONE who is able should be learning the principles of AI, AI structure, its physical components, and how to manage it as a resource.
One way or another, AI will touch your life, and if it touches your life as a digital pope, you are in danger of becoming its machine. If it touches you as a machine that you understand and can visualize (I visualize data centers and cooling pools intentionally when I interact with AI), it remains your machine.
Being grounded in yourself is more important than ever, lest you become the AI’s machine. For some of us, that grounding comes through our daily immersion in scripture. Our story is in that total story, not in the atomized presence of the now where AI machines become digital popes.
SYNTHESIS SUMMARY
Be sure to read our quarterly sitrep in our April 10, 2026, issue for our Predictive Analysis for the next quarter.
The world is in the last death throes of the old-world order, the U.S. pax, and is now entering uncertain world orders. Despite attempts to claw back the broken American pax by leftist global order disciples, including U.S. politicians, there is little doubt at this point that even a post-Trump world is incapable of returning to that now broken order.
The current major hotspots of the world, Ukraine, Iran, and now possibly Pakistan-Afghanistan, can quickly be joined by numerous potential hotspots, from the Koreas to Mexico (whose already in a near civil war state as it is.
While AI rises, the battle that began before its rise, the battle over global order versus nation-state order, is coming to its near-completion. Britain might be the bellwether of that battle, with the rise of the British nation-state disciples through Restore Britain serving as the opposition to overwhelming leftist global order power. How Britian goes may determine how the other nation-states go.
America, however, is uniquely positioned to both preserve the nation-state over the global order while undermining the ethnic essentialism found in most nation-state models today, including Britain, Japan, and Turkey, to name a few (which is nearly EVERY nation state).
Every aspect of human life in one way, shape, or form, is (or soon will be), confronted with a new human paradigm, AI in the wild, at the consumer level. In our quarterly sitrep, we will offer our predictions on the immediate worlds that will come because of both the potential in AI and the hearts of the people who build, maintain, and utilize its services.
We cannot stress to our readers enough the importance of grounding yourselves in a script, whether it’s the Vedas or scripture, whatever aligns with your current beliefs. The people who are without a cosmic narrative outside of creation itself are the most at risk to be subsumed by the rising AI spirit in the land.
If you don’t want to be absorbed, become self-stewarded in your beliefs and preferences, and anchor that stewardship in the script of those beliefs. For most of our staff, we choose the Protestant canon of scripture. Whatever you choose though, beginning daily meditating on that script today.
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