the Entertainment as war-trigger: the device for O.N.A.N.'s final self-destruction
the device for extending O.N.A.N.’s self-destructing logic to its final conclusion lay within their arduous grasp
Context
The Entertainment named as the war's trigger in the A.F.R.'s own doctrinal terms: the samizdat is "the device for extending O.N.A.N.'s self-destructing logic to its final conclusion." This is 072's DuPlessis doctrine come to fruition — America has already chosen death-by-pleasure, and the Entertainment merely completes a suicide already underway. The found copy proving "Read-Only," they now know the weapon is real and must pivot to seizing the duplicable Master; but the political thesis is fixed: the A.F.R. does not attack the U.S. so much as hand it the instrument of a self-destruction it has invited.