Something Shifts, Something Stalls

The planet is trying to shift onto peaceful tracks, but the rust of the old order isn’t giving up just yet. The Committee seems to be coping, but not everything is going smoothly. Jim specializes in the sharp moments, while I’ll take a timeout in the blog for now – I want to gather some positive material about what’s working out well.

Jim Hall: Gaza Strip

It was fast. And brutal. The Committee didn't bother with warnings. When Hamas squads tried to fire on a humanitarian convoy near Deir al-Balah, the sky over the sector changed color. Jamming drones and autonomous combat spheres responded with surgical precision. In 11 minutes, it was over. The shelter neutralized, the base in ruins, the commanders cuffed. Hamas is no longer an armed force.

But I keep asking, why destroy the base? Could it have been blocked and disarmed without destruction? Or was the show of force more important than operational cleanliness?

Jim Hall: Southern Lebanon

In the village of Marjayoun, locals didn't immediately understand what was happening. After a Hezbollah night raid, all power shut down, communications went dark, and isolated fire bursts lit up the warehouses. The jamming drones completed their operation instantly. By morning, silence. Full disarmament. Hezbollah surrendered on February 7.

But I heard not only relief in people's voices, but also fear. No one warned about anything, as the IDF had before. They simply turned off the lights, and with them the war. How long can fear, not trust, be used to maintain order?

Jim Hall: Red Sea, Yemen

The civilian vessel had almost cleared the danger zone when the Houthis intercepted it. The Committee didn't hesitate; neutron rounds were deployed. No smoke or explosions, just silence and bodies disabled. No casualties among the crew, no damage. By March 22, the depots were sealed, the group disarmed.

Here I must mention Eli Cohen: both he himself and his team – nicknamed “the Corps” – performed flawlessly.

But where were the fleet coordinators? Why did the ship end up in the “gray zone”? In other words, it wasn’t the Committee’s military that was late, but its logistics. Eli was in contact with Sam and handed me the phone. In the coming weeks, the Committee will launch a special AI model to coordinate all its resources.

We Are No Longer Alone

For almost four months, I haven't commented on the news. It's simply impossible to cover everything happening in all areas of life. This post isn't about any one event – it's about how people are reacting to the changes.

Psychologists and social analysts are documenting a new phenomenon, 'the Wanderers syndrome.' It's a strange blend of fear and awe. Fear of a force that proved real. Awe at the fact that we are not alone in the Universe.

Last month, following a complex debate, the UN formally acknowledged the existence of 'unilateral contact' in an official document. That's not just a declaration. It's the legitimization of a new era.

The Wanderers are silent, but we survived. I want to believe this is the beginning of a new era – an era without wars.

Jim Hall: Western Sudan

RSF1 tried to take control of a refugee camp. The Committee didn't wait; spherical platforms appeared in the sky. Everything that hummed, moved, or shot shut down. People were evacuated. Within three days, disarmament is complete; surviving militants (the majority of all) were taken to filtration centers. The Committee is successfully using the military technologies provided by the Wanderers.

Eli Cohen’s Corps was once again at its best, but for me, the question is not how quickly they managed to cope. The problem is that the Wanderers’ “super-technologies” are still being used by the Committee mostly to suppress incidents rather than prevent them. Sam?

Jim Hall: Donetsk Region, Ukraine

Scattered Russian units, lacking Kremlin communication, attempted to advance toward Mariupol. The Committee cut off communication, access to munitions, and disabled equipment. The advance collapsed without a single shot. Units were evacuated, weapons confiscated.

It was a brilliant operation, but afterwards… No one explained anything to the soldiers – they were simply isolated. How many of them will return home still human?

Jim Hall: Myanmar

Junta groups attacked international observers. The Committee responded with the 'Veil' system. For five minutes, the world vanished: signal jamming, total blindness. The attackers were disoriented, and the equipment was immobilized. No one died. All were disarmed.

I want to note that, in recent weeks, this is probably the only case where the Committee had to use military force again, and the Corps handled the task without causing destruction or injury.

Jim Hall: Beirut, Lebanon / La Paz, Bolivia

In Beirut, I observed how remnants of Hezbollah continue to exert influence in the southern districts. However, they lack resources, effective communication, and adequate support. Their 'operations' are reduced to isolated raids and intimidation of civilians. Locals no longer give in. Control has turned into fear, and fear into exhaustion.

In La Paz, the front is different, indirect influence from the U.S. Radical groups tied to Trump's circle are trying to destabilize the situation through street protests and disinformation campaigns. They have no clear agenda, only aggression and an attempt to stir conflict. Their slogans are echoes of the past that no longer resonate.

As for those still trying to play the global game, by name:

- Xi. The secret labs in Hebei aren't resistance, they're fear. Xi doesn't control the future, so he clings to the past. Without technology, without allies, without a chance.

- Putin. A morally dead leader with living bots. His security services now launch semi-blind attacks in networks. They no longer believe their messages. On the Georgian border, I saw their 'sabotage' amount to fake texts and planted rumors that no one fears. And the armor is corroding – not from time, but from unusefulness.

- Khamenei. His support for the Houthis is the last remnant of his former influence. Yemen is no longer a puppet, just a drone crater. No logistics, no faith. Only inertial raids.

- Trump. Mobilizing the angry, armed with myths, that's his last card. He no longer leads; he throws stones and smiles at the dents. He no longer shocks America; it has simply stopped listening.

- Milon Bask. The most insidious of all. Hiding behind terms like 'humanitarian mission' while launching surveillance satellites and microdrones. I witnessed one launch in La Paz. The cargo was labeled 'water purification system,' but it was loaded onto a ship from a military base without any inspections. Commerce disguises militarism.

None of these actions demonstrates the return of power. They show how weakened regimes cling to the remnants of influence. These old orders no longer control the future; they only hinder the present.

Sam Pinsky: Jim and His Help

I've known Jim Hall for a long time. Our acquaintance wasn't easy: in the mid-2000s, Gitana López brought us together, and at the same time, divided us. Back then, she was his girlfriend. Later, she became my wife. In 2006, she died in Darfur during a journalistic investigation.

Jim was nearby, in the same zone. He was the first to begin searching when it became clear she was missing. He activated local contacts, searched with three guides and one satellite phone for dozens of kilometers across the savanna. He didn't find her. No one did. I went to Tibet then, and the connection between us was broken.

In 2020, when I recreated Gitana's digital self and she started this blog, Jim reached out to me. By then, he was already a recognized war and political reporter, with frontline experience and a reputation for speaking the truth even when no one wanted to hear it.

He agreed to be the field correspondent for Gitana, the virtual Gitana. The Committee I lead, and I personally, are grateful to Jim for his work. He remains independent, and that's his strength.

We not only refrain from censoring his publications, but we also study them. The mistakes he uncovers reveal blind spots in our system. His criticism helps us improve. Because freedom of the press isn't a formality – it's how to keep the field in balance.

Resistance of the Old World

Let me try to sum up this year:

Despite the paralysis of military infrastructure, the remnants of old regimes have not given in.

As Jim reported, Xi is building underground laboratories for secret military developments, Putin, the bunker’s ghost, conducts information sabotage through the special services, Khamenei supports the Yemeni Houthis attacking ports, Trump fuels internal conflicts and mobilizes pro-fascist groups, and Milon Bask, under the guise of “humanitarian missions,” is putting dual-purpose satellites into orbit.

Some firearms are still in the hands of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, but ammo is running out, and the "sponsors" are gone. Putin's armored vehicles are still operational, but they lack effective communication, sufficient ammunition, and morale. Orders aren't fulfilled. In short, resistance remains, but it's the death throes of the old world.

Jim Hall: Darfur, Sudan

A year has passed since the Ultimatum. Yes, large-scale wars with catastrophic losses and destruction are gone, and it seems we’ve begun to realize they won’t return.

Unfortunately, this hasn’t meant that war reporters like me have been left without work. I'm standing on the main street of Darfur. The very one where, twenty years ago, tanks rolled in, then peaceful demonstrations, then tanks again. Now people walk it with rebar, sticks, and chains. Sometimes with nothing but bare hands and teeth clenched to the point of grinding. There's no more shooting here. But that doesn't mean the killing has stopped.

I saw two teenagers beat a third to death over a box of canned food. Saw women from both sides fighting, twisting each other's hair into their fists. It isn't chaos, it's habit. Blood is the primitive form of persuasion.

The Committee disarmed everyone. It worked, mechanically. But it didn't stop the feud. People just remembered how to fight without technology. The aggression hasn't vanished. It's just stepped out into the street, raw and intact.

I'm not looking for the guilty. But I see what happens when peace enters the "no missiles, just fists" phase. A phase where truth is again on the side of the one who is angrier and stronger.

A Transitional Peace?

I want to congratulate everyone on the first New Year after the Ultimatum.

It's been half a year since the effective demilitarization. All weapons of mass destruction are gone. All military production shut down. Armies disbanded or repurposed. Peace should have come. But it didn't.

The cracks appeared where we didn't expect them. People stopped shooting, but didn't stop hating. Dozens of reports have come in about violence flaring up in various regions. From stabbings in vegetable stalls to mobs tearing each other apart over a sack of flour. There have even been attacks on humanitarian convoys. In cities where explosions once roared, now we hear screams and groans, just as terrifying, only closer, dirtier, more primitive.

The world in transition has grown quieter – but it’s a silence that grits its teeth. Like the moment before an explosion. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but these are no longer isolated incidents. They are something far more troubling. People are dying by the thousands in hand-to-hand combat.

Jim Hall: Homs, Syria

Kids run through the streets with chains wrapped around their arms. It's their 'game.' Imitating those who fight for real. Fear no longer restrains. Memory no longer teaches. We look at the new generation and see the old pain. Homs hasn't realized the war is over.

Healthcare After the Ultimatum

Jim, this is yet another troubling sign. Old grievances did not vanish at the Wanderers’ command, and hot spots remain hot spots.

All we can do is hope that hostility in these places will fade as living conditions improve. One such improvement I want to talk about today is the medicine of the future.

We often forget that war is not only about death, but also a primary financial priority. When budgets stopped draining into armaments, medicine got its chance – we began rewriting its structure. Not only because “the aliens gave us technologies,” but also because they lifted the blocks – the rest we did ourselves.

Today at the South Pole, tissue regeneration trials using nanopolymers took place – soon this technology will be available everywhere. In January, diagnostic AIs were rolled out at scale across Africa and Asia. At the end of last year, the first artificial virus of genomic resistance stopped cancer without surgery.

Medicine will no longer be divided into “rich” and “poor” – the old boundary has disappeared. Everything that was once considered a luxury is now being built into the system. A huge amount of data has been collected, and the bio-protected access registry already covers 84% of the population. This is not utopia. This is our new norm.

Bioengineering has ceased to be a fetish. At the end of last year, an autonomous lung was grown in Atlanta. At the same time, the emergence of the first bio-implant neural interfaces. Within the year, we expect biosynthetic limbs with full sensitivity. These will no longer be prosthetics, but living extensions of the body. Not an addition, but the return of what was lost.

Jim Hall: Mexico City, Mexico

Our successes in medicine are astonishing, but I fear they will have to be applied more often than we would like.

San Cristobal Street hums with shouting at night. There's no more gunfire, but the old grudges remain. The cartels lost their guns, not their ambitions. They fight to the death, with sticks, metal rods, and bare hands. No police. No Committee intervention. Chaos is being naturalized.

Jim Hall: Quito, Ecuador

A few hours’ flight from Mexico City, but here in Ecuador, everything is completely different.

Batteries are no longer used here. Not because they're gone, but because they're no longer needed. I stood on the rooftop of the house where I stayed for three days. There were no solar panels, no turbines, just strange black strips. Thermal redistributors. They take what they need from the air, cool and heat. No noise. No energy consumption.

My host, Ines, said, "We used to have two months of heat and four of cold. Now, it's just even. The kids stopped getting sick. The elders are smiling."

Yes, this was the first experiment, but it was successful. If P&A is to be believed, this will be the new heating standard in Project O.

Unfortunately, in our ‘new life’, it’s not only the achievements that are striking. Our world is still skewed, and every day we see evidence of two global processes moving in opposite directions.

Reason and new technologies are leading us into a ‘bright future’, while the primate’s genetic aggressiveness wants to turn us back to the Dark Ages. I hope that reason will prevail.

Jim Hall: Raqqa, Syria

People here, too, are not yet ready for technological innovations. It’s quiet now, but this quiet has come at far too high a price. Clans recall old debts: no guns, but knives. Bodies show up by school gates, in the back streets of the markets. It isn't revenge, it's a habit – an inherited habit of reprisal.

We Ride and Fly

Jim reports from hot spots that, unfortunately, have not gone away. I agree with his conclusions: new technologies and support from local authorities are improving our lives, but so far, this is happening only in places that were relatively calm even before the Ultimatum.

Spreading progress across the entire planet must become the Committee’s main task – they have the technologies, the authority, and the best minds. I don’t want to take Jim’s work from him, so I’ll tell you what’s happening with transport.

When military logistics disappeared, the entire infrastructure – rails, roads, bridges – was repurposed for peaceful use. In a year and a half, the transport network has firmly shifted toward full autonomy and away from traditional fuel. Already about 10% of urban routes run on photosynthetic batteries, intercity ones on electromagnetic rails. In megacities, taxis are gradually becoming modular: no steering wheel – only a screen with a map. You step into a capsule, and it already knows which route you traveled.
In New York, Tokyo, and Guangzhou, an armada of aerial modules is growing, flying as if merging with the city. They are silent, autonomous, powered by atmospheric condensers, and their routes are managed in real time. This is no longer a luxury, but the very air of a new way of life. You don’t fly – you glide along the city’s invisible arteries, reaching another district in six minutes.

For intercontinental travel, gravimodules have begun to be used, sliding along density layers. For example, Beijing – São Paulo in 1 hour 40 minutes – it’s only the beginning, but soon it will be the norm.

Jim Hall: Mariupol, Ukraine

Progress in transport is wonderful for those lucky enough to live in places where there hasn’t been any war for many years.

I am back in Ukraine, but not near Kyiv, where I was wounded six years ago, but in Mariupol, bombed and almost destroyed by Russian airstrikes in 2022.

Since then, normal life in the city has never been restored. Three days after the Ultimatum, control over the city passed completely from the Russian administration to the Committee. There are no weapons in the city, but there is no peace either.

I am standing in a warehouse where humanitarian aid was distributed just yesterday. Today, it is a battlefield. Three people were killed – beaten with metal pipes. A fight over a place on the aid list. Not a single shot – but the blood is real. People orphaned by war are now killing each other for a place in line.

I ask myself – where are we heading: into the future or back to the Stone Age?

Jim Hall: Space Is Becoming Useful

I’m intruding on Gitana’s territory, because today I unexpectedly ended up in a place where people are not killing each other with their bare hands.

And this is Yemen – one of the former hot spots. Today, it is an important hub of the new transport network, and the Committee has chosen Aden’s former military airfield to test the new orbital and long-range modules of Project O.

In the past, space flights were either a demonstration of military-industrial might or a showcase of a distant future. After the Ultimatum, space is gradually becoming part of planetary logistics. Orbital stations are turning into assembly hubs, and resources from the Moon and asteroids are flowing directly into production. New ion-drive modules deliver cargo into orbit in 19 minutes. One of Project O’s ambitious goals is to enable two-way routes to the Moon and Mars.

Of course, the Wanderers’ technologies played a role here, but space is no longer an elitist domain. Every launch is part of the system. At the Aden site, I watched a container rise into the sky – no noise, no applause. In six hours, it will be on the Moon. Engineer Khaled said, "This is not space – this is our warehouse." And perhaps that is the real "space expansion."

And yes, here it is, nothing like Syrian Raqqa or war-ravaged Mariupol, where blood is still being spilled. Maybe it’s because the Committee has come here seriously and for the long term? Could it be that prosperity can only be imposed by force?

Jim Hall: Karachi, Pakistan

Time to come back down from space to the mortal earth. I promised one of my subscribers I would post once I reached Pakistan. Here’s a short note, since I haven’t fully grasped the situation yet.

It’s still tense here, and there are casualties. The port in Karachi is covered in smoke. Two gangs clashed over the distribution of cargo – someone set a fire.

It’s not just a warehouse burning – it’s rage. No guns, but with chains, brass knuckles, knives, and fire. I counted five bodies on the ground before the drones arrived. The Committee arrived in eight minutes – already too late.

In the past, such outbreaks were suppressed by armed force wielded by the authorities. Now weapons are only with the Committee, but it cannot keep people from slaughter on a planetary scale. So what are we to do?

Jim Hall: Food Is No Longer a Commodity

I’m in Nigeria on personal medical matters – I’ll talk about that later if everything “works out.”

But that’s not the point right now. Here I was able to catch my breath a little – and also enjoy a good meal.

Agricultural corporations, together with P&A, carried out large-scale studies, and it became clear that hunger is not a shortage of resources but a failure of distribution.

In just a year and a half, the food industry has changed more than in the previous half-century. For six months now, Project O has been deploying mini-biofarms. They can be set up on the roof of a school or a library, even in the subway. Production is autonomous, logistics are local. Food adapts to the body in real time, not by recipe but by function.

At a school in Ikeja, Nigeria, children eat lunches tailored by an algorithm. Chef Olumide says: They turned up their noses at first, now they ask for seaweed pizza with lobster flavor.

Nutrition has evolved from a product to a project. And the most important thing is that no animals were killed last month for food, in a city of twenty million.

Maybe this is our salvation – simply to feed people?

Jim Hall: Basra, Iraq

I didn’t get a long vacation – I’m gathering material for Fox News about bloody clashes across the planet.

An old oil terminal turned into an arena for hand-to-hand combat. Former guards and laid-off workers fought over who was now “in charge.” Eleven dead from blows with rebar. This is not war – in war, someone gives orders and bears responsibility for them. This is just slaughter – without orders and without brakes.

My statistics don’t lie – such incidents are growing, and I don’t see hatred settling down on its own anywhere.

Housing as a Right, Not an Investment

Jim has already discussed the new food trends, and I will discuss housing.

For the first time since the Ultimatum, the housing crisis is finally ceasing to plague densely populated and underdeveloped countries. The issue has become solvable – modular homes are assembled in a single day. Walls are 3D-printed from bioactive materials. Roofs are equipped with solar panels. Water supply and ventilation are autonomous.

This kind of housing is no longer a commodity, but a quickly achievable task of Project O. In São Paulo, an entire block rose within a week on an empty lot. Juan Carlos says, “People just came, put it all together, and by morning, we were already sleeping under a roof."

Such a house requires no connection to external networks. A family that once lived in a car now has a kitchen, a bathroom, and peace. People simply live – because now it has become possible. The modular housing industry is now expanding where needed.

Jim Hall: Juba, South Sudan

Clan clashes have flared up here again. This time – without firearms, but with the same fury. I saw elders trying to pull apart teenagers with machetes. Four dead. The Committee arrived half an hour after the bloody outcome. They are investigating, looking for the instigators, but what to do about the causes – no one knows yet.

A Society Without Threats

Jim is right – the world is still fractured, and there is no end in sight to bloody incidents. As far as I can tell, neither authoritative scholars nor the Committee have yet found a simple way out of this deadly trap.

But beneath the surface, processes are unfolding that inspire a measure of hope. And they are happening not only in the fields of technology or economics, but in the social and political life of the planet.

When the threat of world war disappeared, so did the familiar tremor in the mass media. The media flow, of course, has not dried up, but it has become more reliable and less intrusive. News algorithms now work by need: if you want it, you get it instantly; if you want time to think, you get a digest. Anonymity without responsibility has vanished – every statement is verified.

Politics has lost its old anchors: competition, threat, and scarcity. Instead of ministries, now clusters of tasks. Instead of parties, almost everywhere, expert councils. Instead of elections, delegation. States are now responsible not for defense, but for the implementation of joint projects.

International relations are now defined mostly not by alliances and sanctions, but by mutual compatibility – like modules in a living system.

At the Balkans summit, they discussed how to distribute medmodules faster. No flags, no guards, just maps and schedules. A coordinator from Albania said, "There's no point in conflicts. There is one criterion - the outcome."

Politics has become an engineering problem – not the art of compromise, but the science of configurations. And the silence in the hall, it's not apathy. It's work.

Jim Hall: Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Gitana, things may look wonderful on your social and political front – enough to bring tears of tenderness.

But here in Haiti, people have very different tears. The city lives in a “every man for himself” mode. This morning, two fights at the water station and one car hijacking. Groups of teenagers with metal rods at intersections. No war. Just collapse. Rage that no one redirected. Over the past six months, the Committee has counted 327 dead.

The Wanderers Did Not Deceive Us

As I mentioned earlier, the package of technologies was transferred to the Committee by the Wanderers during the first three days of 2027. At the time, the primary focus was understandably on the military components. Those who allowed us to stop violence and take control of critical infrastructure.

However, we now know for sure: the package also contained civilian technologies, food, medicine, transportation, materials, energy, and bioengineering.

It was technically impossible to sort through all of this in the early days after the Ultimatum. There simply weren't enough people, the interfaces were unclear, and the ciphers unfamiliar. Moreover, many files in the transmitted array were locked behind access conditions. The Committee gained access only after specific transition phases were completed, most often after the suppression of armed resistance.

Now, almost all of these technologies have been implemented. They spread across the world – like roots through soil. Some quietly, at the infrastructure level. Others have directly entered our lives: food replication, first autonomous lungs, neural linkages, gravity modules, new methods for growing tissue, and synthetic interfaces. These are not Committee inventions – they are decrypted instructions. We didn't create them. We learned to read.

Map of Rage

With technology, it seems everything really is working out well, but today I updated the map of bloody incidents over the past two months. Hot spots now burn hot, not just metaphorically, but literally.

Southern Sudan, clan conflicts again, this time with machetes. Northern Iraq, no more gunfire, but food control has turned into ongoing street warfare. Raqqa, blood feuds once frozen now flare again. Karachi's port zone saw groups clash right in the aid warehouses. In Mexico City, old street cartels now fight with rods and chains, but fight to the death.

The weapons are gone, but not the reasons people held them. As if we looked in the mirror for the first time – and realized the world hasn’t grown crueler. We’re the ones who made it this way.

Resistance Without Chances

Global corporations linked to the military-industrial complex are losing influence. Bask's SpaceZ faced financial blockade, and major banks froze funding after leaked info about plans to build an autonomous orbital weapons platform.

Putin tried to spread fake news about the "Wanderers' invasion" of Earth into the world media. It didn't work – new monitoring systems block disinformation instantly.

Xi announced an 'independent Chinese path to the stars', but his first satellite went dark after three orbits.

Trump in the U.S. tried to push fake bills through Congress to block the Committee's work, but most Western countries refused to back him.

The Committee doesn’t wage war – it squeezes out the remnants of the old world like pus from an old wound. And it clears the field – slowly, but irreversibly.

A Slaughter Without War

A total of 1,300 confirmed major incidents this year: no missile strikes, no armies, no drones. Just chains, knives, and rebar, but the death toll is nearing a million.

I'm not sure how to explain it. Not aggression as a system, but aggression as a pulse. As if someone turned off the alarm, and the primate within us felt, now's the time.

It isn't a return to the past – it's a parallel shift. We haven't become a peaceful species. We've just been left alone with ourselves – no weapons, but also no brakes.

Like in a shooter game where the players were stripped of all their ammo but left with knives and batons – and now they're just beating each other to death with what's left.

Disarmed, but Not Transformed

Today I tried to write a report, but at some point, I just froze. The images came back: people with stones, chains, rebar, and baseball bats. Screaming in pain or rage. Not in trenches, not in uniforms, but in alleyways, at warehouses, at wells. As if everything we call civilization were just a thin layer over primal instincts.

I'm not a technologist or strategist. My background is in the humanities. I'm one of those who write – and right now – I just can’t lift my hand to do it. I studied languages, history, and culture. And it hurts to watch that very "culture" start to come apart at the seams. To see language shrink to screams. To watch history, which we tried to rewrite, burst in with fists.

We who supported the Ultimatum hoped that disarming humanity would stop the killing. We meant well – but we underestimated the beast under the skin. But now I see, it was wishful thinking. What was needed was foresight into the behavior of a biological species – a species with the genome of an aggressive primate.

The Wanderers took our nukes and missiles and left us our fists. Apparently, on purpose, to see whether we could transform not just our structures, but our nature. But transformation doesn't happen on its own. It takes effort.

And now I don't know what's scarier, that we were disarmed, or that we weren't ready. We're without tanks, but still filled with anger. Without guns, but still ruled by fear. In a new world, but with the same aggressive genome. And perhaps the most challenging part is still ahead: not to build something new, but to rebuild ourselves. Can we?

Jim Hall: Raqqa, Syria

I’m looking now at the statistics on deaths from hand-to-hand clashes that Gitana presented just three months ago – and I simply don’t understand.

I was here a little over a year ago. Then, rusty knives, burning houses, faces twisted with rage. Today, a shawarma stand, an older man playing backgammon with a teenager, and a polite line for rice. I walked through the same neighborhoods where chaos ruled, and heard no shouting, no threats. I spoke to a woman who lost her husband in last year's massacre. "I'm not scared anymore. I don't know why, but I feel calmer. It's like everyone got tired of the rage," she said. As if the wave passed, and no one wants it back.

Something has fundamentally changed in these people. These changes are clearly for the better, but my experience as a journalist gives me no answer – how could it have happened so quickly and unexpectedly?

Sam, the New “Center of the World?”

Global media have begun, albeit half-jokingly, calling Sam the 'new Jesus Christ,' and he hates it. Yes, he's the head of the Committee, but he's not creating a 'Sam party' or founding a 'Sam church.'

Together with the P&A team, he continues to coordinate the process through Project O – like an electrician fixing faults in the grid: no drama, but always mindful of the phase.

No 'great mission' here – just disarmament, redirection, retraining. If there’s anything from Scripture that Sam is even remotely close to, it’s the Second Commandment, “Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image.”

When Peace Became the Norm

It is already clear now – wars are gone for good, not just in words, but in fact.

On the maps and in the news, there are no more war zones and combat operations. In national budgets, no more defense allocations. Terror networks collapsed on their own once the supply chains, weapons, equipment, and money were cut off.

In Gaza, Islamic Jihad militants scattered after the tunnels were destroyed and weapons shipments ceased. Funding dried up due to sanctions on intermediaries.

In Yemen, Houthi units began to disband when drone, missile, and cash supplies stopped due to the Committee's blockade and tight financial oversight.

The largest Lockheed factories and other military corporations were either retooled for civilian use or shut down.

Humanity has done what it failed to do throughout all of its history: it stopped killing itself.

But that’s not all. Until quite recently, in almost every corner of the planet where racial, ethnic, criminal, or clan conflicts had flared up before the Ultimatum, people went on killing each other – now without weapons, but with knives, sticks, bare hands. I kept count: in three years, more than a million victims. It seemed that even disarmed, we were rolling into the abyss of blood feuds.

And then, about eight months ago, as if someone had switched off this destructive mode. Where blood once flowed, it became quiet. Old grudges probably remain, but they no longer lead to murder.

Scientists are racking their brains, the public speculates – either the Wanderers cast some of their rays, or it truly is a miracle from above. For me, this is a miracle – and for now I can only be glad of it.

The Economy of the New World

The global economy, which had breathed war for centuries, suddenly turned – as if it had been shaken awake.

SpaceZ now produces satellites for environmental monitoring. Lockheed Martin shifted its focus to medical nanotechnology and global transportation ecosystems. Former missile plants in Russia now assemble agrodrones for African nations. Middle Eastern oil giants are investing in solar farms and desalination systems.

Science shifted its focus from weapons to humanity. Business is booming. In the three years since the Ultimatum, economic activity has tripled, and progress in medicine, transport, and other fields boggles the mind. In such a short time, the planetary economy has become nothing short of astonishing.

Jim Hall: Lagos, Nigeria

I’m in a hospital in Lagos. I was here a year and a half ago for my own medical matters, related to the injury I received in Ukraine in 2022.

Back then, in 2028, it was a half-ruined building, with devastation all around and the risk of getting stabbed. But the Committee decided to launch Project O’s bioengineering program right here, and I went to see the place – it mattered to me personally.

Now there is glass, quiet, and AI screening in seven minutes, and the widest smiles in the world, directed not only at me but at each other. I am one of the first patients undergoing limb regeneration.

The doctor, once a motorcycle paramedic, is now the chief diagnostician. A woman with liver cancer told me, "They registered me when I was buying rice. Said everyone has the right now." Eleven days later, the tumor stopped.

A young doctor with a tablet said, "I don’t care who gave it to us – my job is to implement it. Now there's funding, and no one's standing in the way."

In 2022, near Izyum, I lost a leg and went blind in one eye. Back then, bandages and morphine saved me. Today, I have a grown leg and a new eye. I walk again, feel sand underfoot, and see with both eyes. Sometimes I blink at the mirror to make sure it's real.

In that same hospital was a boy who lost his arm in a fire. His mother said, "Now he can pet the dog again." I had no words. I just nodded.

These bioregenerative technologies were part of the civilian package that the Wanderers transferred to the Committee in the first days after the Ultimatum. The regenerated tissue used in his prosthesis was created according to protocols established by Wanderers in February 2028, and the bio-optical interface implanted in me is also from the same source.

But I still cannot understand how all this could have happened here – in one of the most troubled places on the planet – and in such a short time.

A Leap or a Takeoff?

Jim, I'm very happy for you. I just want to add that Eli, Fannie's husband and the father of our twins, is in line for a similar procedure for his leg here in Palo Alto.

Yes, the Wanderers gave us a great boost with their technologies, but we’re also pushing this cart up the hill on our own. Before, technology kept stalling. Every breakthrough would die out in the corridor of approvals, smothered by paperwork and budget brakes. After the Ultimatum, we removed those brakes, so now it’s different: from idea to implementation, a couple of months, at most half a year.

In energy, autonomous thermal redistributors have replaced traditional heating and cooling systems without a single battery.

In logistics, fully drone-based chains with local routing. In education, neuroadaptive platforms that reduce professional training to six months.

We’re not leaping – we’re laying down steps. Stone by stone, module by module – and always upward.

Jim Hall: Mexico City, Mexico

I keep coming back to this topic. A neighborhood once controlled by gangs now smells of corn and soap. The street where shop windows were smashed with chains is now covered in cheerful graffiti. I asked an elderly shopkeeper how they managed it. She laughed, “No one really knows. We used to live as if by a volcano. And now – in the shade of a tree."

Teenagers who once trained to kill are now learning to brew coffee and write code. What is this? Mental exhaustion? A new kind of fear? Or, as one young man joked, “Maybe the Wanderers irradiated us while we were asleep?"

Jim Hall: El Geneina, Sudan

I am making a second round through all the places where not long ago I was gathering material for Fox News about violence, hostility, and killings.

At the end of the year before last, I saw this field covered with the dead and wounded. Today, barefoot children play football here, the UN flag waving above them. One man showed me his arm with scars and said, "I don’t even remember why I struck my neighbor or how I got this. As if it were someone else’s dream."

In the refugee camp, women are holding lessons in peace – reading fairy tales and teaching how to listen. The strangest thing is not the silence itself, but how quickly it became the norm.

Jim Hall: A Quiet and Strange Shift

This question does not let me rest. Just a year ago, we saw outbreaks of aggression all over the world that began immediately after the Ultimatum. In those “hot spots” where battles had once raged, and rocket and drone strikes had claimed thousands of lives, centers of hand-to-hand slaughter erupted. At the time, it seemed to me that evil was part of human nature, and that the destruction of weapons would not change its essence.

I was wrong. We overcame it – and quickly. Mass outbursts of rage suddenly vanished about a year ago, and cases of violence almost disappeared. Fear dissipated, stress eased, and envy lost its meaning. People found an inner horizon – not a dream, but a sense of spaciousness.

Pain and loneliness remain, but they're no longer dead ends. More and more people meditate – not because it’s trendy, but to focus on what truly matters. They study, not to catch up, but to understand. Domestic violence has been declining for the third year in a row.

I went back to Labuan Bajo, where two years ago, fishermen butchered each other over boats. Now, silence. Ali, who lost his brother at the time, teaches breathing courses. He said, "It wasn't anger. It was fear. And now I'm not afraid. Even when it's hard."

I keep hearing this. And I don't understand how it worked. As if someone turned off the hate generator – or rebooted something in the base firmware of our species.

Interestingly, the neurointerfaces used to treat cognitive trauma were among the technologies transferred by the Wanderers, and the Committee was actively implementing them.