The Theater of War, Choreography of Chaos, and the Beautiful Disaster of American Foreign Policy

Mike Waltz is center stage, looking like a fool right now. However, the reasons for why this entire series of events has taken place remains shrouded in mystery. The title of this piece is an homage to a classic Christmas-time play: The Nutcracker. That sets the stage for a very profound, meaningful metaphor. An allegory even. For the American people, a standing ovation is not the end game. But rather, throwing cabbage and rotting vegetables at the actors. Allow the curtain to open, along with your eyes.

🩰 Act I: A Signal: The Flood Gate of Corruption Is Open

There’s something almost delicate about the way the “SignalGate” scandal has unfolded. Like a soft pirouette across a war room floor. Yet behind the elegance lies orchestration – a performance carefully arranged that may only seem accidental. This has left many wondering if this was a misstep – or choreography.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz now finds himself at the center of this peculiar ballet – a group chat reportedly filled with high-profile figures commenting on national security and war strategy, which somehow included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. That alone caused a media firestorm which has not calmed down yet.

But, the question isn’t just how this all happened.

The question is: why did this happen?

Was Goldberg added by mistake? Is Goldberg confused in Waltz’s phone for Tulsi Gabbard whose initials are close (“TG”) or JD Vance (“JD”)? Was it Mike Waltz or his staffer Alex Wong who committed the error? Or was it never an error at all – but instead, a quiet act in a much bigger play?

None of these questions have clear answers, yet far too many people are ready to declare they have certainty about it. This article is about understanding the aspects of this scandal which have not been dealt with: who is behind the scenes, back stage, and financing the ridiculous flop now known as the American federal government?

💐 Act II: Reevaluating the Bouquet

Let’s be honest: this group chat wasn’t just a communications blunder. It was a bouquet, carefully arranged. And each participant was like a flower with some being pruned, while others remain wild, but all were carefully selected for effect. Until one unexpected bloom disrupted the symmetry.

🥀Tulsi Gabbard – The Thorned Rose

Once vibrant, now drooping, Tulsi Gabbard went from being the Democratic primary candidate who torched Kamala Harris out of contention in 2020, to being a shill for the Trump regime. She is now a symbol of conflict and danger. Her petals used to scream anti-establishment, but now her roots have been steeped in contradictions. Under congressional scrutiny, she wilted. She deflected like someone watching the mirror crack and insisting it’s fog. Echoing the nonsense from CIA director Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard is no longer a leader of any kind. She is following in all the wrong footsteps.

However, she has been questioned multiple times by many members of the government about her loyalty. Her tacit support of foreign nations aside, she has had an unclear stance about Edward Snowden – who of course famously leaked government secrets.

🌻 John Ratcliffe – The Sunflower

At the first Congressional hearing, Ratcliffe repeated the statement that Signal was not only approved for government use, but pre-installed on devices: by the Biden administration. Sure, the government uses commercial products from all kinds of companies for their computing and communications. However, there is no clear evidence that Signal is approved from interdepartmental communications related to classified or unclassified (since this has become a contentious definition) conversations related to operational and tactical maneuvering.

It is also not clear why all of these different agencies were required for this conversation which appears to squarely fall on the shoulders of the DoD and branches of the military. Ironically, the only thing that adding all these other departments related to intelligence gathering did – was make it less secure.

Ratcliffe may have stood tall, looking confident, but when questioned on the hill, he looked like someone trying to face the sun without sunglasses – blinded, blinking, disoriented.

🌷 JD Vance – The Bright Tulip

Vance is a hybrid, cultivated in a lab of venture capital and Appalachian cosplay. Lovely (for some) to look at, but bred for resale. He brings color to the arrangement, but there’s no scent. Some tulips have no smell – because they’re about optics, not substance. However, JD Vance stinks.

🌼 Pete Hegseth – The Daffodil

Cheerful, golden, attention-grabbing. But also an early bloomer, easily lost in frost. His downfall, if engineered (as some say) would be poetic justice for someone who pretended to be post-partisan while preening for Trump’s shadow cabinet.

Charlie Kirk and other sycophants in the so-called MAGA movement have begun questioning if this entire affair was orchestrated simply to oust Hegseth from his position. Remembering that JD Vance was the tie-breaking vote which allowed Hegseth to take this position in the first place, it may have been opportune.

But Kirk’s statements on his program are strange. He claims that neoconservatives dislike Hegseth because of his anti-war stance. Odd. His entire campaign to become Secretary of Defense was to improve warfighting, lethality, and strength within the armed forces. Also, this failure of communication (if we can call it that) was all about a bombing campaign for hire. Using the American military as a shadow militia for the President’s personal financial gain is hardly a peace-keeping effort.

🌿 Jeffrey Goldberg – The Dandelion

Waltz claimed on a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham that Goldberg was mistakenly in his phone under another contact…or something. Like a weed disguised as a flower. Uninvited, but persistent. Fluffy and light, yet with roots that invade and spread. A plant only kids wish on and adults try to eliminate. Was he “sucked in” by accident? Or deliberately planted to provoke allergic reactions?

🤷🏼‍♂️Mike Waltz – The Florist

Waltz is the arranger of this perverse sequence. Either he was bumbling with the shears, accidentally sticking in a weed instead of a fellow flower, or he was subtly crafting this whole thing like a soldier trained in psychological operations and plausible deniability. Together, this was a performance disguised as policy. A Nutcracker Suite with drones instead of snowflakes.

💂🏼‍♂️🪆 Act III: The Nutcracker and the Theater of War

Here’s the kicker no one can afford to ignore: The Nutcracker is a Russian play.

The Nutcracker is a ballet about illusion, dreams, and children’s toys springing to life and going to war. Toy soldiers. Staged combat. Shimmering fantasy.

And now, in 2025, we’re watching real American military figures move like props in a similar performance – choreographed – and terrifying in the implications. Just like the Nutcracker’s story, we’ve got actors trapped in an elaborate dream while the real power lies backstage. It’s not just irony. It’s a prophecy.

👨‍💼 Act IV: No Witches Left To Hunt

Behind every show, there’s someone cutting checks, rewriting scripts, and demanding applause before the curtain lifts

 In this case, the lead executive producer is none other than President Donald J. Trump.

He’s already calling this scandal a “witch hunt,” a phrase he’s used so often it’s become utterly meaningless. Whether or not he ordered this operation directly doesn’t matter anymore. The reality is: everyone in that bouquet is there because of him.

Mike Waltz may be holding the florist’s knife, but Trump owns the flower shop. And the stage. And lighting. He’s not being hunted. He’s in the lobby waiting for the end.

🎟️ Side Note: The Producers – Trump & Witkoff’s Broadway Disaster

There’s an almost-too-perfect comparison here to Mel Brooks’ The Producers. In it, Bialystok and Bloom try to produce a Broadway flop so they can pocket the investment money. They find a guaranteed disaster of a musical – Springtime for Hitler – but it accidentally becomes a hit. No, the fascistic undertone is not lost on anybody anymore.

Trump and his real estate partner Steven Witkoff are our modern Bialystok and Bloom. Their cryptocurrency firm (owned by them and their sons) World Liberty Financial, has already been involved in an international bribery or extortion racket from Israel/Gaza, to Ukraine. They’ve overleveraged American influence, underdelivered on policy, and watched their flaming bouquet somehow keep burning.

The markets are crashing. The economy is stalling. And yet they smile, raise more money, and sell more tickets.

Elon Musk and his DOGE brigade continue on as a sideshow, while the real power has already created a backchannel into our Treasury.

🤡 Act V: Polichinelles Revealed

This is the question everyone keeps circling: Was it a simple mistake? Did Mike Waltz or Alex Wong hit the wrong contact and accidentally invite a journalist into a private national security circle? Or was this event carefully choreographed – a planted weed meant to trigger chaos, fire someone, shift media narratives, or cover up a larger move behind the scenes?

Conservative influencers like Charlie Kirk are calling it a psyop against Pete Hegseth, as if he’s just a petal caught in the wind. But Hegseth, like the rest, chose to bloom in this particular bouquet. No one forced these flowers to dance.

Note that Republicans are beginning to turn on one another.

That is actually evidence that things are getting out of control, even for Trump himself.

🎬 Final Curtain: Don’t Get Distracted by the Scenery

This isn’t about Goldberg. Or Waltz. Or even Gabbard or Hegseth.

This is about a shadow state being performed in plain sight – backed by an off-ledger financial coup, manufactured legitimacy, and military loyalty being repurposed for private gain. While everyone debates the guest list on a group chat, the real operation is happening offstage:

• Who’s funding these shadow strategies?
• How are international alliances being manipulated or sold off?
• Why is no one asking how the Europeans are supposed to “pay for” a military plan Trump is orchestrating?

This isn’t an accident. It’s a script.

And as long as we treat these players like confused performers, we miss the fact that they’re profiting from the performance – while America, and its allies, are stuck watching the same tired act.

Sure, Pete Hegseth should probably resign.

Those Senators calling for him to be fired are missing the point, and inadvertently conceding to Trump, despite his own treasonous behavior. It’s time to walk out of the theater, demand our money back, and fire the producer once and for all. Impeach Donald Trump. Remove him from office. Or force him to resign in shame.

Only then can we get to the Apotheosis.