In the USA Capital, Washington DC, people visit historic sites every other day. For example, the very first scenes in the film “War Game” depict a man staring through the windshield of a car at a Capitol building, and later, at the Washington Monument. But it isn’t some traveller who’s trying to snap some iconic buildings and show them to his friends on Instagram. He quietly shares with a passenger sat in the car that he hopes the US soldiers will ‘kill patriotic Americans’ and adds something about setting the Pentagon on fire. This is disturbing. And then, when we learn who he really is and the terrifying plot he has in mind, it is horrifying.
On The 6th of Jan 2021, Trump’s supporters conquered and besieged Capitol Hill, the seat of the U.S. Congress, to protest the official confirmation of Joe Biden as the President of America. Whereas some maintain that they were no more than walking in the capital as “tourists”, the videos imply otherwise since they broke barriers and even crashed through locked doors. Some in the mob, and some in law enforcement both, were hurt and some died. Even members of Congress had to leave until the situation was brought under control.
This happened for the first time when there was a violent effort to physically disrupt the process of transferring power from one to other hands which is a fundamental virtue of a democracy. That led to most of the people that organized or participated in it getting arrested and President Trump being impeached the second time at an unusual scenario whereby, the president urged the other mob to go to Capitol hill and protest the “stolen” election or use violence to oppose the certification. It has also brought in its firmness, for the first time in history, which saw a new a dimension where investments in the United States were evaluated for political risk.
Those men we saw in the car were not coming out for an ambush. They were coming out to see the ambush.
Quite a lot of people, including several veterans and some current and former government officials, passed this day in a rather different role play in which a better organized and better armed faction laid siege to the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2024 elections. This is how it was referred to as a tabletop exercise or simple “game.” It seeks to comprehend the gravity of the concern, the extent of the absence of faith in democracy from those who question the need of our government, the urgency of action from our leaders and army.
The details are rather intricate, logical, and at times most unpleasant. It involves the simulation of the White House briefing room and new video reports on the events, which in real life unfold through news clips of the day and various noise—false information—to be created by certain people. The enemy utilizes social media to the full (in order to fight their propaganda) and fake footage, uses the manipulation of their followers and logically positions to them that every time there is an attempt to assail them, they have instant fans who will make them martyrs instead.
Every one of the players has so awful and rich experience and that’s very curious to watch how they navigate through options.
Steve Bullock, a Democratist and the ex-Governor of Montana, operates as the President of the Party who has just edged back into office with close to less than 1 percentage point margin victory. The person assisting him is former senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat from North Dakota. One of the advisors in creating the fact situation is Alexander Vindman, former Director for European affairs at the White House, and who was a whistleblower on president Trump trying to get Ukrainian president Zelenskyy, a politician who is the son of the man Trump wanted to compete against in the 2020 elections, to persuade – or some may say bribe – the father’s son’s business partner to investigate the son’s business dealings. It is chilling to discover that the people who constructed the exercise are Americans who have served on active duty and who possess first-hand knowledge of the problem posed by insiders. Heitkamp emphasizes this form of internal unity: ‘It was always possible to bring the country together when an outer enemy was threatening it.’ To such an extent that we have been guilty of an overreaching — ‘exemptionism’ — view in regards to the US even in situations such as this where there are aggressors who can be described as political crazies with military capabilities.
There was one curveball during the exercise that made me very nearly immobilised with astonishment: because I understood just how vulnerable we are: within seconds, the most powerful rulers in the given nation proceed from considering how best to use army power to a midget with a signboard written with the words – Commander in Chief – who can’t even dispatch the army if need be.
There are countless movie shows in which the civilization is almost wiped out with high commanding officers and representatives from a tiny amount of females in space and situation rooms with military and CIA members trying to look through computer screens focusing on the threat level versus the available strategies. Rather, the emphasis has always been on the action: the men who donned the image of Bond and Ryan, all the action heroes that Seagal and Cruise played. However, it is difficult not to grab popcorn since we are aware of the outcome of those movies. James and Jack, Steve and Tom will do it again, save the day. It is why nobody really cares about the details of the circumstances. We get a couple of details about some McGuffin of a powerful thing that’s bad which is plugging in our heroes with siege of throwing all sorts of weapons, going after them and all manners of illusions which showcase their talent, wisdom and technology.
A handful of films address the issues of the individuals wearing suits, ties, and different types of accord when the heroes are being deployed, the most interesting I think of being seen in the cruelly funny classic – Dr. Strangelove (and the more sober drama with the same plot released that year, Fail Safe) and the criminally underseen Eye in the Sky which deals with the ethics, politics, and danger of drone warfare.
“War Game” provides all the relevant findings, in this instance, me severely – I sit outside Washington DC. War Game is the creepiest movie of the year and especially so considering who wasn’t running the exercise, it wasn’t Homeland Security, NSA, Pentagon or even Congress – Dryden Studios: a bunch of ex-military people, men, and women, called the VetVoice Foundation, coming in due to their perception of how dangerously underestimated, to certain people, such as this group, the potential threat from armed “extremists” is. At the end there is a note which informs us that they conducted a debrief on the government regarding their information. I sure hope they did.
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