We’re watching something disturbing unfold in Minneapolis, and it’s not what you think.

The threat isn’t the guns.

A woman is dead, killed at point-blank range by the cowards at ICE, and that’s not the worst of it. As bad as murder is, it’s a distraction.

What everyone gets wrong is that they engage with the content, debate it, and get sucked into a world where they define the terms and create the context. It isn’t a war about what happened, that’s clear. It’s a war of context.

Key Takeaways:

* The Kuleshov Effect from 1920 and its relevance today.

* How the government uses context to minimize killing civilians.

* Similarities to Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing show where this can go.

* When information gets narrower, context manipulation gets stronger

Here’s your defense: Get suspicious when the frame gets narrow. One camera angle instead of five. One quote instead of the full conversation. One data point instead of the trend.

Narrowness is the tell.

And push back, because whoever controls the context controls not just how evidence gets interpreted, but what counts as evidence in the first place. You don’t need to lie when you can decide what people see first, last, and most often.

Robert Greene never quite named this in his 48 Laws of Power, but we may need a new one: Define the frame before entering the arena.

The only question that matters:

What context are they trying to hide?