If you want to call it blood, if you want war, you have to declare war. And maybe we’re already there.

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Premises

This article does not intend to pass judgment on Charlie Kirk, who was killed on September 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, United States, during a political rally, struck by a bullet fired by a sniper from a distance.

The analysis carried out concerns the facts, the available data, and, above all, the informative dimension of the event. You will find no pro or anti fan clubs, nor sensationalism or uncontrolled emotions.

You will probably read some things that will bother you, but don’t worry, sooner or later the truth will come out… or not.

We express our condolences to Charlie Kirk and his family.

Who was Charlie Kirk?

Charles James “Charlie” Kirk was born on October 14, 1993, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in the United States, and grew up in the suburbs of Arlington Heights and Prospect Heights. His parents hold modest positions: his mother is a mental health counselor and his father is an architect. From a young age, Kirk was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.

After graduating from Wheeling High School, he attended Harper College, a community college in Illinois, but did not complete a degree. He chose to devote himself entirely to political activism, leaving college. He was already politically active in high school: as a student, he supported Mark Kirk’s (Republican senator, no relation) Senate campaign in Illinois. In addition, during his senior year of high school, he took a stand on local issues and wrote an article for Breitbart News criticizing what he perceived as liberal bias in school textbooks.

Bill Montgomery, a conservative activist associated with the Tea Party movement, was an important figure for Kirk: he met him through youth political events such as Youth Empowerment Day and became an early mentor. Other conservative donors and influential figures on the right wing of the Republican Party supported him, such as Foster Friess. Over the years, Kirk has become closely associated with the conservative MAGA movement and President Donald Trump. While not initially a strong personal supporter, as Trump rose in politics, Kirk aligned his activities with them.

His main goal was to attract more and more young people, both men and women, to vote for the right. He wanted to spread conservative ideas on college campuses and counter what he and the entire Trump universe considered to be deviations from progressive ideologies and the “leftist propaganda” he frequently cited.

At the age of 18, thanks to funding from his mentor Bill Montgomery, he founded Turning Point USA, an organization created with the aim of touring American colleges and bringing as many students as possible closer to the U.S. libertarian right. His rhetorical skills, demonstrated in years of debates and public speeches, have consolidated his notoriety, popularity, and support among both young people and a more mature audience.

Over time, TpUSA has become a constant presence in American universities, with branches on many campuses: it organizes events with conservative guests, builds a national network for student leaders in that political area, identifies potential “patriotic” voters, and, in fact, plays a role similar to a permanent election campaign, an old-fashioned political militancy.

At the same time, the flow of donations—both small and large—to the organization has also grown. In 2012, its first year, it raised $78,890: a relatively modest amount in the world of American political organizations, but significant considering that it was a fledgling initiative led by a virtually unknown 18-year-old. From then on, growth has been continuous and exponential.

In 2015, the association reported revenue of $2.05 million; in 2017, the figure had already exceeded $8 million; in 2019, the balance sheet reached $28.6 million. In 2022, revenues exceeded $80 million, reaching just under $85 million in 2024. As a non-profit organization, 99.2% of these revenues came from contributions and donations, but this was offset by equally substantial expenses, which amounted to approximately $81 million in 2024.

The available data show that in 2024, the main compensation paid by TpUSA went to seven executives, including manager John McGovern (approximately $420,000) and President Charles Kirk himself (nearly $286,000). The official list of donors is not public, but over the years, funds have come from wealthy Republican families, GOP figures, national politicians, and libertarian and conservative foundations.

One example is the Donors Trust, which protects the anonymity of its supporters and has contributed $906,000 to the organization. In 2022, however, $8 million was donated by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the most active foundations in supporting Zionism and the ideological struggle against Islam. In addition, the large fundraising events organized by Kirk have attracted thousands of participants, willing to pay several thousand dollars to take part in the evenings.

Among Kirk’s interesting activities are the Professor Watchlist and the School Board Watchlist, which report professors or school boards considered “left-wing” and opposed to conservative values, a sort of proscription list in perfect American Neocon style. The usual U.S. cultural soft power, nothing new.

Obviously, for generational reasons—he was a Millennial targeting a Gen Z audience—he had launched his own media career with The Charlie Kirk Show and the You’re Being Brainwashed Tour, two well-calibrated media weapons for spreading the Neocon narrative, treading on the hot topics of the conservative world: family, homeland, ethnicity, liberalism.

Unfortunately, Charlie’s life ended in a tragic attack while he was speaking to young people, doing what he loved.

Support for Israel, hatred of the Arab world

When it came to the Neocon world, Charlie did not fail to fully meet all the necessary requirements.

His fixation with American-style messianism was a constant feature of his speeches, both in public and on social media.

Israel was an existential issue, as befits any Evangelical Protestant, convinced as they are that they must fight for the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem so that Christ the Messiah can finally return, thus justifying the Zionist entity and its crimes as ‘necessary evils’. It is no coincidence that, upon his death, the first expression of support came from Bibi Netanyahu and true Zionist commentators, both in America and in

On July 29, he dedicated an entire episode of his talk show to debunking the news that Israel was starving Gaza, arguing that not only was it all false, but that it was fake news spread by the Islamic media to attack the U.S.-Israel “Axis of Good.”

His personal connection to Israel had even led him to a sort of conversion: “Israel changed my life. Strengthened my faith, made the Bible pop into reality, and gave me the most precious memories with Erika.” It mattered little to him that the Talmud spits on Jesus Christ; he was interested in being a good American Christian. During a visit to Jerusalem in 2019, he said: “I’m very pro-Israel… and my whole life I have defended Israel.” In August 2025, he said: “I have a bulletproof resume showing my defense of Israel… I believe in the scriptural land rights given to Israel. I believe in the fulfillment of prophecy,” adding that he would “fight for” Israel.

He opposed a bipartisan bill to extend anti-BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions against Israel) rules, arguing that it could fuel anti-Semitism or narratives that “Israel controls the U.S. government.”

He supported the Republican crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests in 2024 on university campuses, and in April 2025 he rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to punish pro-Palestinian students on campuses as an attack on free speech, obviously accusing pro-Palestinians of “anti-Semitism.” Very intelligently, however, he opposed U.S. involvement in the Iran-Israel war.

Although Kirk was a staunch defender of Israel, he also shared some critical views of the Israeli government. Shortly after the October 7 attacks, he promoted an all-American theory that the Israeli government knew Hamas would launch the attack and that Netanyahu allowed it as part of a plan to remain in power. Shortly before his death, he even dared to claim that Jeffrey Epstein had been an agent of the Israeli secret service. It was precisely after these statements and an unclear revision of his Zionist positions that Kirk was assassinated.

Evidently, for the “good Christian” Charlie, Palestinians did not enjoy the same human rights as others, regardless of whether they were men, women, or children, because, as we know, it is their fault that they occupy a land that, according to the biblical mandate of the God of the Old Testament—the same God who ordered the Israelites to invade and exterminate those lands? – belongs to the Jews, but not to all of them, only to the Zionists, of course, those who have understood how the world should be.

This is a perfectly American, perfectly political hypocrisy. He was no different from any of his party comrades or even well-known politicians, from Trump to his predecessors.

Kirk, as a good son of the psy-op known as 9/11, could not help but be anti-Islamic and anti-Arab. Perhaps he did not even know the difference between the two. On the other hand, he declared himself opposed to anti-Semitism, not knowing that Arabs are also Semites, but that matters little, as in the United States the truth of the facts has always counted for little.

Assad, for example, was referred to as ‘an animal’, whom he wished would end up like the alleged civilian victims of his so-called dictatorial regime. The same was true of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. In short, everything that was “that Arab stuff, where people have beards and turbans on their heads” was to be wiped out, teaching them democracy with bombs.

His participation in anti-Islamic conferences, such as ACT For America, was a regular activity. To what end? To the conservative military doctrine that considers the destruction of countries 8,000 kilometers away a matter of “national security,” of course. Who among you does not feel threatened by someone living on the other side of the world? If that someone also has a lot of oil, so much the better.

Weapons for everybody

Weapons play an educational role in all this.

In 2023, a week after three children were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, he said that deaths from firearms are “unfortunately” the price Americans pay for the Second Amendment, but a “worthy” price.

Again, nothing new on the American front: gun ownership is one of the “sacred” principles of a nation born of war and violence, which since its founding has spread only war and death throughout the world. The conservative world has always made guns a battle horse, even though it is guns that cause the deaths of more than 2,500 children every year, with an average of 200 shootings every year in schools, exceeding the average of 18,000 victims per year from shootings by armed civilians. If you didn’t know it was America, you would think, common sense dictates, that it was a country in a constant civil war, legalized in the Constitution. A model of civilization to be exported, right?

What happened in Utah, tragic as it is, is an all too common scenario in the United States. The problem is indeed guns, as the Democratic left says, but also Americans in general, because guns don’t shoot themselves. A country that legalizes the possibility of killing with great freedom at any time by anyone can only expect a flood of deaths.

“Some gun-related deaths each year are an acceptable price to pay to preserve the Second Amendment and other God-given rights,” he repeatedly said at a TpUSA Faith Event in 2023. God-given rights. This is the spirit of an American patriot. The right to kill, to educate through violence, to impose death, destruction, and hegemony throughout the world, because one feels invested with a divine mandate. “Having armed citizens comes at a price,” he said, “and it’s part of freedom,” urging people to carry weapons even to the supermarket, as he stated in an October 2023 episode of his talk show.

Who knows if Charlie was really so happy to have his children live in a country where experiencing a shooting while at school is considered “normal,” or where you might encounter a customer with a loaded rifle slung over their shoulder while going to buy ice cream. This was the future that was being preached to the young people of America.

Charlie called himself pro-life, even though, logically speaking, he was more pro-birth than pro-life. Either you defend life in its entirety, or else you defend it only at the beginning and then liberalize its destruction, and even consider some lives more dignified than others, which is not very consistent. Certainly, his political activity in favor of so-called “traditional values” was exceptional. But what values are we talking about? Here confusion reigns, because the perversion of the ontology and epistemology of “traditional” values is at the heart of the moral manipulation of American politics. This is a deception that I now see many Christians, especially Catholics, crying over Charlie’s death. Because we need to analyze carefully what values we are really talking about: the values of America, of neocon Zionist Christianity, have nothing to do with the Gospel and with Christ.

Murder by decapitation and some obscure facts

Regardless of how one feels about it, what happened to Charlie is a tragedy. However, this type of murder attack is not for amateurs. We will not go into the technical details of what happened, because much information is still missing and the federal authorities have not yet released any relevant information. We know that the sniper was quite far away and that he shot Charlie in the neck.

A decapitation, literally. A shot that has a huge media impact because it produces a lot of blood. Decapitating as one decapitates a condemned man or a political opponent. Whoever organized this did so with a very specific purpose.

It is not easy to hit such a small part of the body from such a distance, so much so that the first military commentators who viewed the footage of the tragic event commented that it was certainly a trained shooter, who followed a type of execution very reminiscent of that of special forces and secret services.

Why, in fact, decapitate in front of the cameras? Simple: because they want to send a message, leave a mark, and provoke a reaction.

It is no coincidence that the whole procedure was almost identical to that of the alleged attack on Donald Trump. Do you remember when he was shot and the bullet ‘miraculously’ deflected and hit his ear, while he raised his hand victoriously with photographers ready to capture the pose of the century? Same dynamics: political rally, lots of people, great effect for the mass media. The instigators and perpetrators of this infamous act knew very well what they were doing.

It is also curious that the city where the event took place, Orem, is a city of great importance to the Zionist Jewish world and to the Mormon communities, already known to be very dangerous due to crime and shootings. Orem, in Hebrew, according to Kabbalistic gematria, has a special value. The sum of the letters Alef, Vav, Resh, and Mem adds up to 247, the number of the “step before fulfillment,” and the word Orem means “Light incarnate in the world,” not coincidentally that of Lucifer, the bringer of Light.

Astrologically, the event occurred between two eclipses that bring enormous turmoil (September 7 and September 21) with enormous consequences for the spread of global violence and severe instability. The selected conjunction, which we do not report here for the sake of brevity, considering the murder on September 10 at 12:23 PM MDT, I see a collective lesson that will push for an analysis of the inner world, in an analytical way, with a strong collective escalation and strong reactions, given by the feeling of lack of protection and rootedness, which call for the defense of values and the earth. All this with a risk of exploitation and distortion of messages, discussed in a massive and therefore unclear and inattentive manner, increasing the contrasting dichotomy between criticism and controversy. Violent action takes on a symbolic framework of justice perceived in a disharmonious way, polarizing its consequences in a political sense. And, again, the end of a cycle of intense intensity, which ends dramatically with fatal consequences, also given by the predictable sudden act within a large community.

It is an epochal transition between power dynamics, which is inaugurated with this human sacrifice, with a collective effect that the instigators of the murder already knew beforehand. Charlie was not killed at random.

Trump’s political opportunity

Blood spilled calls for more blood. Donald Trump now has an important assist to adopt policies already announced, distancing himself from the Democrats, who are politically very weakened. The first narrative impression was in fact that of a murder motivated by hatred of ideas. Trump will now be able to strengthen control and surveillance policies, speeding up the repression of opponents, organized crime, illegal immigration, and the policies of the American left.

The event comes just a few days after the murder of Ukrainian girl Iryna Zarutska, which sparked strong anger and heightened tensions, culminating in the attack on Charlie, just before September 11.

Three days of fire. Three days of blood. Three days of revenge.

Politically speaking, Trump now has a very different popular legitimacy than before and will be able to ride the wave of anger and discontent. The necessary civil war in the U.S., as explained many times, could be just around the corner. A war that has already been going on for years but has been kept under wraps, without media coverage, in a country in collapse.

America is paying the price—karma, shall we call it?—for its actions, at all levels of society, including its politicians.

Without the destruction of the American system, an American civilization can never arise.

Trump’s next moves on the domestic front will also be decisive for those abroad. The world is watching what has happened.

Mr. President has already commented on the tragic event on several occasions, assuring that Charlie will be honored as a national hero, a move that consolidates a very divided and conflicted MAGA front, reaffirming Trump’s dominance in a state of “emergency.”

The value of this event in U.S. infowarfare

In conclusion, let us now attempt a quick but accurate reading of the event from an infowarfare perspective. Please note that this is not about dwelling on the news or even the morality of it, but rather about understanding how what happened works in a war logic.

The U.S. loves this kind of event and has often invented them at the drawing board. The cognitive dimension is at the heart of at least 70 years of warfare. Charlie was the perfect subject for such an event: he was young, married, a father, had a large following among young people, was an American patriot, supported the President, and believed in the founding ‘values’ of the United States of America.

The perfect resume. Killing Charlie meant attacking a certain model of America, a certain way of thinking, a distillation of noble and courageous ideas, in a Western world in ruins and inexorable decline.

The management of the communication frame is taking place according to rather classic patterns. The culprit is there and he is not there, he is a young man with mental illness, then he is a transsexual who has gone mad, then again a disappointed old man. It is not important who he is, it is important to keep the tension high, hunting for the suspect. The entire population must remain on alert, with a sufficiently stressful level of cortisol to lower their cognitive defenses and let in the information selected by the narrative’s creators.

Look, for example, at the Christian world, even in Europe: suddenly, everyone is a fan of Charlie, in a sort of collective hysteria, commented on by everyone, with an overabundance of multimedia material being produced. A rapid saturation of the infosphere. Charlie has become a saint, even a martyr, thus stirring up a wide range of emotions and ideas in the collective imagination. With so much material, it is very easy to manipulate.

Charlie is used as a model-hero-martyr, in a condition of imminent collapse or revolution, where the dichotomy of political visions is quickly exacerbated to the point of unsustainability, always remaining on the edge of the perimeter, where people believe they have control and can escape but are actually still inside the cognitive cage. Fanaticism is accentuated: either for or against, just as always happens.

The involvement of influencers, politicians, and specific topical groups is fundamental in defining the contours and filling the narrative frame with content. There is something for everyone, don’t worry. Charlie will be celebrated in any case, both by his ‘lovers’ and his ‘haters’, immediately falling into the categories managed by those in power. The actual capture of the real attacker, the possible Israeli, Ukrainian or American trail, are all secondary details that can be conveniently dealt with at a later date.

It is also incredible how quickly the news has affected the European media, becoming the main topic of discussion. In countries such as Italy, affected by a sense of inferiority and servility towards the U.S., everyone has started talking only about that, showing that American news is worth more than Italian news. Evidently, there is such a poverty of topics.

It is also embarrassing how the Catholic world felt the urgency to elevate an American as a model of its values, inciting battles against his tormentors, even though no one has yet identified them and, probably, they will once again be the same men of the system that Catholics themselves go to vote for. We have plenty of examples of this kind. It is curious, however, that they have not spent as much effort denouncing the genocide of the Palestinians, many of whom are Catholic Christians and with whom there is a continuity of civilizational models, preferring instead the Protestant neocon Zionists on the other side of the world, light years away in terms of civilization.

With this move, like it or not, the U.S. is taking a leap forward in the international arena and setting the trend for solving a problem that afflicts many Western countries. Charlie will be used as an icon of a certain type of values and a battle against another type of values. He is a symbol, and symbols control the imagery and language with which we construct our ideas, reasoning, and perceptual paradigms with which we interpret reality.

In the coming hours, we will see saturation in the mainstream media, but also on social networks and in counter-information. Many political actors will exploit the news, especially candidates for important positions. We will also see NGOs and think tanks release reports and analyses to legitimise their version of the discourse, both for and against Charlie, or rather what he now represents. The Dem/progressive narrative will clash with the Rep/MAGA narrative. The word ‘truth’ will change its structure significantly.

Maximum amplification of the different frames, political martyrdom of the drama, a setting of arguments to be passed under the radar and, of course, a myriad of small internal psy-ops, which will have effects on legislation, electoral mobilization, and the perception of American life.

The logic of the stars and stripes war—the one that subverts states, crushes cultures, and subverts systems—will not fail to make itself felt this time either. Charlie died with his ideas, for his ideas, and, perhaps, because it suited someone to sacrifice him.

If you want to call it blood, if you want war, you have to declare war. And maybe we’re already there.