In a world where headlines scream about proxy wars and trade spats, the actual battle lines are drawn elsewhere: Not between nations, but between visions of human destiny. Toby Rogers nailed it in his Substack manifesto: This is ideological World War III, a clash between Team Tyranny, the elite grift machine masquerading as progress, and Team Freedom, the ragtag alliance of everyday folks clawing back liberty from the jaws of technocratic overreach. As of September 2025, with Robert Kennedy Jr. shaking up HHS, the WHO's Pandemic Agreement locked in, and CBDCs rolling out in pilots worldwide, the stakes couldn't be higher. Team Tyranny? That's Leftism's endgame: Centralised control wrapped in "equity" and "sustainability" bows. Team Freedom? It's the raw, messy push for individual sovereignty, echoing the Enlightenment's best hits.
Drawing from Rogers' blueprint (see below), let's map the battlefield, add some 2025 updates, and tweak the rosters for clarity. To reduce the size of the article we will at some points write in abbreviated note form; but still readable I hope!
Team Tyranny: The Leftist Leviathan in Full Stride
Team Tyranny isn't your grandpa's socialism; it's turbocharged corporatism, where billionaires and bureaucrats fuse into a high-tech hydra. Their base? Elites who view the masses as obsolete code to be patched or deleted. In 2025, they're riding high: The WHO's Pandemic Agreement, adopted in May, greenlights "equitable" global responses, code for coordinated lockdowns and mandates, sovereignty be damned. WEF's Davos 2025? A lovefest for "Collaboration in the Intelligent Age," pushing AI-driven economies that "stimulate growth" while herding us into 15-minute cages, eating bugs. Subtract: Any pretence of benevolence, their "equity" is just a velvet glove on an iron fist.
Updated Base (2025 Edition): Elites, billionaires (Gates, Soros 2.0), the biowarfare cartel (hello, gain-of-function labs), intel spooks (NSA's data hoover), and virtue-signalling technocrats who've traded souls for TED Talks.
Institutions Locked Down: WEF (plotting "just energy transitions" that crush small farmers), WHO/UN (Pandemic Treaty enforcers), BMGF (funding "health equity" via mRNA mandates), World Bank/IMF (debt traps for the Global South), Ivy League echo chambers (churning DEI drones), MSM (CNN's "trust the science" reruns), and blue-state governors (California's carbon credit casinos).
Economic Philosophy: Crony socialism on steroids. Hoard all wealth via inflation (Fed's printing press hit $35T debt this year), then pivot to CBDCs for programmable serfdom. Pilots in China (e-CNY at $350B circulation) and India (e-rupee at $122M) show the blueprint: Track every transaction, ration "unapproved" buys. U.S.? Trump's EO halted retail CBDC, but stablecoins are the sneaky backdoor, dollar hegemony via private chains. Add: AI job-killers from WEF's Future of Jobs Report, displacing 85M roles by 2030 while elites yacht in Monaco.
Political Philosophy: Totalitarian technocracy. "Elites know best," so swallow the narrative, or face cancellation. High-tech feudalism: Social credit via WHO's "One Health" surveillance, climate scores docking your UBI. Subtract: The myth of democracy; it's astroturfed "consensus" from Davos boardrooms.
Philosophy of Medicine: Pharma-fuelled transhumanism. Jab, scan, upload your soul to the cloud. Bodies as beta-tested hardware, ignore regeneration, embrace gene tweaks. 2025 twist: MAHA's critics (like WaPo) decry Robert Kennedy's pushback as "cruel irony," but Tyranny's playbook is vax passports 2.0 under the Pandemic Accord.
Currency: Fed funny money morphing into CBDC chains. By mid-2025, 137 countries (98% global GDP) are exploring; EU's digital euro decision looms, promising "privacy" that's pure PR.
Policy Arsenal: Pandemic Treaty (global emergency powers), WEF boycotts flipped to mandates, ESG scores as loyalty oaths, vax/digital IDs, farm culls (bye, livestock), corporate food/water monopolies (BlackRock's land grabs), astroturf activism (BLM as Soros LLC), 15-minute gulags. Add: AI ethics codes that censor "misinfo" dissent.
Military Tactics: Bioweapons (lab leaks as "natural"), psyops (TikTok doom-scrolls), and compliance jabs. In 2025, it's deepfakes and drone swarms — WEF's "geopolitical shocks" response is pre-emptive control.
Team Tyranny's win condition? A borderless Borg communist collective where you're a node, not a soul.
Team Freedom: The Decentralised Rebellion Rising
Flip the script: Team Freedom isn't utopian fluff; it's the gritty defence of human agency against the machine. Our base? Salt-of-the-earth resisters who've tasted the boot and spat it out. 2025's fire? Robert Kennedy Jr.'s HHS tenure, MAHA's 100+ ideas for kid health, from banning junk in SNAP to "medical freedom" bills banning vax mandates in schools and jobs. States like Idaho (MAHA proclamation) and Florida (anti-mandate laws) are bastions; even AMA docs are grumbling about Robert Kennedy's reforms. Add: Grassroots surges, like AFLDS's Freedom Summit in September, rallying 1,000+ for truth over tyranny. Subtract: Overly niche silos, unite the homeopaths and libertarians under one banner.
Updated Base (2025 Edition): Med-freedom warriors (post-vax injured leading charges), constitutional diehards, small-l libertarians, regenerative farmers (raw milk rebels), pirate coders, holistic healers (chiro, naturo, functional MDs), and osteos bucking Big Pharma.
Aligned Strongholds: CHD/ICAN (vax transparency lawsuits), Brownstone (policy think-tank nukes), NVIC (state-level vax fights), SFHF (food sovereignty), Robert Kennedy's MAHA machine (HHS overhauls).
Economic Philosophy: True capitalism, competition as chaos theory's gift. Entrepreneurship over edicts: Break monopolies, unleash DPC (direct primary care) for cash-pay docs. Add: Localism boost, farmers' markets as economic nukes against corporate control. The truly informed go to Douglas social credit.
Political Philosophy: Classical liberalism reborn. Decentralise to the bone: Blockchain internets, nullification of fed overreach. Elites? Step aside, ingenuity scales better than edicts. Human flourishing via hands-off governance. 2025 add: Robert Kennedy's "gold-standard science" mandate, exposing cronies.
Philosophy of Medicine: Vitalism 2.0. Bodies as self-healing symphonies — listen, nourish, regenerate. Nature over needles; informed consent as sacred. Subtract: Woo-woo extremes; ground in evidence like MAHA's chronic disease probes.
Currency: Cash (untraceable king), gold (timeless hedge), crypto (decentralised dynamite, barter, the Douglas social credit dividend. Love it or lump it, crypto's our Trojan horse against CBDC.
Policy Power Moves: Exit WHO (Trump's vow, now Robert Kennedy's hammer), WEF blacklists (boycott BlackRock), repeal Bayh-Dole/NCVIA/PATRIOT/PREP (liability shields gone), constitutional med-freedom amendment, Nuremberg 2.0 for Fauci frauds, gut NIH/FDA/CDC/EPA/USDA/FCC/DoD/intel (fire 10k+ as RFK started), open-source all fed science, ban congressional insider trades, shield organics/farmers, smash monopolies (AT&T 2.0), slash fed to 25% size. Add: MAHA wins, fluoride bans, ultra-processed food regs, vax injury funds.
Tools of Liberation: Memes and manifestos, empathy-fuelled coalitions, razor-sharp reason, folk wisdom, symphonies of protest, and flash-mob uprisings. In 2025: X threads exposing WEF hypocrisy, raw milk raids as civil disobedience.
Team Freedom's endgame? A mosaic of free nodes — prosperous, plural, unbreakable.
October 2025 snapshot: Tyranny's Pandemic Treaty is live, mandating "shared data" that smells like surveillance. WEF's AI utopia? It's job-eating algorithms with a side of carbon taxes. But Freedom's counterpunch: Robert Kennedy's MAHA report guts chronic disease drivers (ultra-processed poison, overmedication), while states like Texas eye "sweeping reforms" to torch mandates. Medical freedom's surging; Idaho's "Keep Idaho Healthy Month" bans vax coercion; even AMA's in turmoil over Robert Kennedy's push. The movement's no fringe: 40% of Americans now question mandates, per KFF polls.
Tweaks to Rogers (see below article extract): For Tyranny, add AI ethics as censorship; subtract naive "global good" spin. For Freedom, amplify state-level wins (Chip Roy's Direct Medical Care Act for HSA freedom), subtract crypto infighting, unite or die. Overall? Add a unity call: Left-libertarians and Right-constitutionalists, link arms.
This war's no fair fight — Tyranny's got the jets, we've got the grit. But history's on our side: Empires centralise, then crack. As entropy claims the bloated beast (WEF's "competence crisis" real?), Freedom's decentralised web endures. Robert Kennedy's HHS purge? A breach in the walls. Pandemic Treaty's "no mandates" clause? A Trojan horse we can exploit.
Join Team Freedom: Boycott the grift, build the gardens, code the escapes. Tyranny thrives on apathy; we win with awakening the people!
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/this-really-is-world-war-iii
"The different sides in this war are not nation-states. Instead, Team Tyranny is a bunch of different business interests pushing what has become a giant multi-trillion dollar grift. And Team Freedom is ordinary people throughout the world just trying to return to the classical economic and political liberalism that drove human progress from 1776 until 2020.
Here's how I see the battle lines being drawn:
TEAM TYRANNY
Their base: Elites, billionaires, the ruling class, the biowarfare industrial complex, intelligence agencies, and bougie technocrats.
Institutions they control: WEF, WHO, UN, BMGF, World Bank, IMF, most universities, the mainstream media, and liberal governments throughout the developed world.
Economic philosophy: The billionaires should control all wealth on earth. The peasants should only be allowed to exist to serve the billionaires, grow food, and fix the machines when necessary. Robots and Artificial Intelligence will soon be able to replace most of the peasants.
Political philosophy: Centralized control of everything. Elites know best. The 90% should shut up, pay their taxes, take their vaccines, develop chronic disease, and die. High tech global totalitarianism is the best form of government. Billionaires are God.
Philosophy of medicine: Allopathic. Cut, poison, burn, kill. Corporations create all knowledge. Bodies are machines. Transhumanism is ideal. The billionaires will soon live forever in the digital cloud.
Their currency: For now, inflationary Federal Reserve policies. Soon, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that will put the peasants in their place once and for all.
Policy vehicles to advance their agenda: One Health; WHO Pandemic Treaty; social credit scores; climate scores; vaccine mandates/passports; lockdowns and quarantine camps; elimination of small farms and livestock; corporate control of all food, land, water, transportation, and the weather; corporate control of social movements; and 15-minute cities for the peasants.
Military strategy: Gain-of-function viruses, propaganda, and vaccines.
TEAM FREEDOM
Our base: The medical freedom movement, Constitutionalists, small "l" libertarians, independent farmers, natural meat and milk producers, pirate parties, natural healers, homeopaths, chiropractors, integrative and functional medicine doctors, and osteopaths.
Aligned institutions: CHD, ICAN, Brownstone Institute, NVIC, SFHF, the RFK Jr. campaign, the Republican party at the county level...
Economic philosophy: Small "c" capitalism. Competition. Entrepreneurship.
Political philosophy: Classical liberalism. The people, using their own ingenuity, will generally figure out the best way to do things. Decentralize everything including the internet. If the elites would just leave us alone the world would be a much more peaceful, creative, and prosperous place. Human freedom leads to human flourishing.
Philosophy of medicine: Nature is infinite in its wisdom. Listen to the body. Systems have the ability to heal and regenerate.
Our currency: Cash, gold, crypto, and barter. (I don't love crypto but lots of smart people in our movement do.)
Policy ideas: Exit the WHO. Boycott WEF companies. Repeal the Bayh-Dole Act, NCVIA Act, Patriot Act, and PREP Act. Add medical freedom to the Constitution. Prosecute the Faucistas at Nuremberg 2.0. Overhaul the NIH, FDA, CDC, EPA, USDA, FCC, DoD, and intelligence agencies. Make all publicly-funded scientific data available to the public. Ban insider trading by Congress. Support and protect organic food, farms, and farmers' markets. Break up monopolies. Cut the size of the federal government in half (or more).
Our preferred tools to create change: Ideas, love for humanity, logic & reason, common sense, art & music, and popular uprising.