The Daily Wire has been going through huge financial struggles which have resulted in many layoffs. However, most didn’t know what happened behind the scenes. The former CEO and co-founder of the company Jeremy Boreign recently revealed the issues with their movie and TV production as a hedge fund looking to buy or partner with the Daily Wire has said it lost $50 million dollars making a anti-woke Game of Thrones.
Yeah the full picture only really comes into focus once you’ve read A World of Ice and Fire. It literally just lays the plot all out, or at least the first part of the cycle is laid out, and we can see that we are in the history repeats itself as tragedy then farce portion of it. GRRM does this more than any other author, he always foreshadows everything and hides parallels to everything. Even character names are usually an amalgamation of one or two historical figures, fictional characters, archetypes or concepts - and they always stay true to those parallels or break the tropes very explicitly.
Basically GRRM loves showing off his big literary brain and all the tropes he knows.