The Spectacle of Power: When Wars Become Games for the Elite

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It is no longer just a whispered suspicion, no longer a theory that some classify as illusory. It is a conviction that penetrates deep into the fabric of my thoughts, a painful certainty: behind the curtain of dust and tears of global conflicts, an insidious elite orchestrates everything as a grand spectacle. A sinister game, with stakes that exceed imagination, in which we are the pawns thrown on a geopolitical chessboard, and they – the invisible and perfect directors, with their cryptic agendas. We are all caught in the net of a theater of cruelty, where every human drama is a well-lit stage, and every disaster a meticulously directed act. The cheers and the cries mix in a macabre symphony, orchestrated by those who have stakes in the game.

Game2: Winter — A Hoax Or A Signal? The Distorted Mirror of Mentality

The years 2016-2017 brought a concept that shocked and fascinated in equal measure: Game2: Winter. The idea of a Russian millionaire, Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, an extreme reality show, directly inspired by the post-apocalyptic brutality of The Hunger Games franchise. The participants were to be abandoned in the Siberian wilderness for 9 months, without rules, in a permissive chaos where any crime could be broadcast live, under the gaze of billions of eyes glued to the screens. Although it turned out to be a media hoax, a marketing exercise at the limit of human decency, the echo of the project remained, like a premonition.

What kind of mind, cut off from any connection with moral reality, can conceive such a sadistic experiment, a simulacrum of life transformed into entertainment? What society, so morally numb, can allow the promotion of an idea in which violence, abuse, and death become mere entertainment? To me, that project was not a bad joke, but a sinister wake-up call. It was a distorted but brutally honest mirror of a mentality that extended far beyond the television screen—it infiltrated politics, economics, and, ultimately, ended up rewriting the rules of war. It was proof that the fine line between reality and spectacle had become dangerously blurred, leaving us to wonder if we are all ready for what is to come.

From Spectacle to War—Battlefields Become Game Stages

As i look closely at the chaos that is consuming the world today, i cannot help but make a disturbing connection. What began as a perverse concept in Siberia has become, metaphorically speaking, reality on the hottest fronts.

The war in Ukraine has been transformed into a testing ground, not just for cutting-edge weapons, but also for propaganda and influence strategies. While innocent civilians die under bombardment, political and economic elites consolidate their positions, expand their empires, and negotiate their future spheres of influence. Scenarios are written, heroes are created, histories are rewritten, all to keep us connected to the drama. Tragedy becomes a backdrop for geopolitical bets.

The conflict in Gaza is more than a humanitarian tragedy. It is a media spectacle with predefined roles. Behind the smokescreen and ruins, energy, territorial, and ideological interests are at play, and human suffering becomes mere bargaining chips in cold, calculated negotiations. Every viral image, every tragic story, is absorbed into the constant stream of news, transformed into ratings, and forgotten as quickly as it appeared. We are no longer witnesses, but consumers.

I don’t believe these conflicts are random. I believe they are orchestrated, maintained, and exploited by groups whose only religion is profit and whose only compass is power. They feed off chaos, gamble on the fate of nations, and turn tragedy into opportunity.

The Game of the Elites—Who’s Pulling the Strings?

This is not some vague, indefinable conspiracy. It is a visible reality, unfolding before our eyes, if we have the courage to look:

Giant corporations making billions from post-conflict reconstruction, securing fabulous contracts to “heal” the wounds they left behind.
Banks that finance both sides of a conflict, regardless of who wins or loses, as long as the financial dependency is perpetuated.
Leaders who use fear, hate speech, and the threat of war to maintain their power, presenting themselves as the only saviors in the face of the apocalypse.
Media platforms that turn suffering into ratings, creating a cycle of sensationalism and public amnesia, injecting narratives from one side or the other.

None of this is a coincidence. It is a symptom of a sick system in which entertainment, control, and manipulation are weapons. And we, the observers, are invited to applaud, to be outraged, to share news... but, above all, to change nothing.

Game2: Winter was not real in a logistical sense, but it was terribly real in an ideological sense. It was a mirror—one that showed us how far we are willing to go for attention, control, or profit. Current wars are not just tragedies. They are scenes from a global spectacle, in which elites play their roles, and we are, unfortunately, the scenery. We are no longer just passive witnesses, but consumers of suffering, addicted to drama. We have come to view disasters as a show, and a low rating means we are no longer interested.

I tried to stop watching passively, to stop believing that everything is pure chaos. But i saw a pattern, an intention, an orchestration. I firmly believe that behind the curtain there are people playing — not with ideas, but with lives, with destinies and the future of nations. We would like to think that we can take off a mask, that we can refuse the narrative. But the reality is that the show goes on, and we sit in the hall, with tickets bought and eyes glued to the stage. We are not just victims of the game; we are the captive audience that feeds the machine. We applaud, we distribute, we are outraged ... and we demand the next act - Yep, just a mirror of our society where unfortunately we are all complicit