Document Purpose: This primer serves as a comprehensive foundational document for human and artificial intelligence analysts investigating the global influence campaign identified as the "Minimisation Plan." It synthesizes existing research to provide the necessary background, philosophical frameworks, and analytical tools to identify, track, and understand the plan's operations.
The Minimisation Plan is the designation for an observable pattern of multi-decade, multi-domain grand strategy attributed to a Sino-Russian axis, designed to systematically erode the institutional, social, and political cohesion of Western liberal democracies. Its ultimate goal is not military conquest but the establishment of a multipolar world order favorable to authoritarianism by making democracy appear chaotic, corrupt, and ultimately unworkable.
This conflict is not waged on traditional battlefields. It is a rhizomatic war, operating like an underground root system. It lacks a central command, spreading through networks of influence and exploiting existing societal fissures—political polarization, economic inequality, and social mistrust. Its primary weapon is not the bomb, but the narrative.
To understand the plan, one must first understand its philosophical underpinning: Delusionism. Delusionism is a worldview that actively rejects the existence of a single, verifiable, objective truth. Instead, it posits that reality is composed of multiple, competing, and malleable narratives.
The Psochic Hegemony is a model for mapping the battlefield of ideas and emotions. It is defined by two axes:
The Minimisation Plan's core tactic is to push societies away from the Greater Good (high potentiality, low requirement) and towards The Greater Lie (low potentiality, high requirement).
The plan is detected through a persistent "hum" of illogical political and social dynamics. This is the action/reaction chain:
The plan's most effective defense mechanism is its own perceived implausibility. Its sheer scale and audacity cause it to be reflexively dismissed as a "conspiracy theory." This is by design. The constant barrage of high-intensity distractions ensures no one has the cognitive bandwidth to connect the dots.
The conflict space is not a simple binary. Society can be functionally divided into three groups:
A core tactic of the Minimisation Plan is to create the very problems it claims to solve. Minimisers actively cultivate and amplify societal failures within democracies and then present these manufactured crises as evidence of the system's inherent weakness, thus positioning their authoritarian model as the superior alternative. This is a strategy of manufactured justification.
Their propaganda follows a consistent script, pointing to Western democracies and stating:
The strategy is to turn the population against itself. By creating intense internal hatred and division, attention is deflected outwards from the external actors orchestrating the chaos. The case of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a prime example: the "Nazi threat" was first manufactured as a pretext. Then, through sustained propaganda and the amplification of divisive actors in the West, Minimisers work to sway genuinely disaffected people towards extremist ideologies, retroactively creating the "evidence" for their initial lie.
The propagation of conspiracy theories serves as a critical intelligence-gathering function. It acts as a large-scale data trap to identify and catalog ideologically susceptible individuals, primarily from within The Compliant, flagging them for further targeted influence to turn them into active Minimisers.
Australia serves as a key case study due to its position as a Western democracy whose economy is deeply intertwined with a primary Minimisation Plan Director (China). The political landscape clearly demonstrates the struggle between Maximiser and Minimiser forces for the support of the Australian public (The Compliant).
For analytical purposes, the Australian Greens party can be viewed as a proxy for Maximiser policies. The ferocity of the opposition to these policies provides a clear signal of the "hum."
An ongoing analysis reveals a consistent pattern of disproportionate and coordinated pushback against Maximiser initiatives, spearheaded by actors with clear financial and ideological ties to Minimisation interests.
Analysts should use the Psochic Hegemony to map current events:
A series of leading questions has been developed to gauge an individual's ideological alignment. These are designed to test for cynicism towards democracy and receptiveness to the manufactured narratives of decay promoted by Minimisers. The framework is available in attraction_tensor_questions.md.
This investigation is ongoing. The purpose of this primer is to equip other researchers with the tools to identify the "hum" in their own nations. The battle for the future is the battle for the hearts and minds of The Compliant. Resisting the plan begins with recognizing its existence.