Mark Rutte and the Lethal Certainty of War
How estimates become facts, language becomes policy, and uncertainty is compressed into a certainty that drains away the time in which a war might still be stopped.
Method is what separates an archive from an opinion. These chapters explain how The Manifest Archive reads power: forensic analysis of systems, timing and ownership, evidence graded claim by claim, and narrative substitution, the discipline of reading structure rather than intention.