this is cover for Russia, Trump+Putin want to scare the world into a Ukraine war settlement

Russia will do what Russia was always going to do: performatively detonate a nuclear weapon over the northern North Sea.

at a macroscopic level obviously what they describe must look like "time" to match what we see

but time ticking because of some dynamic interaction mechanism between some things (like a mechanical clock) is very different than some fundamental/abstract/irreducible "time" which just is (like in einstein)