Well, we've managed to undo WWII and Civil Rights.
The Project 2025 plan is to undo Women's suffrage, WWI and the Civil War. too.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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As we return to violence, hate and force all humanity faces a challenge. FTFY.
Yes, yes we are headed towards another global war, citizens are being gunned down in the streets, but what about the billionaires?
They will make a ton of money and use the chaos to target their critics
They will get theirs
The world knows what the American empire and Western civilization are. Maybe Americans and Westerners don't and that's why things are seemingly so shocking. And it's a very exciting time for any nation outside of the West, a dangerous time but one for perhaps positive changes and self determination.
Positive changes and self determination? I feel like increasingly more "might makes right" world with more countries feeling free to bully their neighbors is going to cause the opposite. At least there was some, however tiny, effort in pretending that wasn't how it worked.
There was no effort, tell that to the victims of the American empire, of Israel, who quite literally raped women while wearing their underwear, what there was in the West was spin. Nobody has ever been more might makes right than them, Pax Americana was just subjugation, but conflict, especially in such a chaotic times, is inevitable. But I bet that, the moment Israel stops being supported by America and has to deal with their neighbours cordially and normalize, peace will come to the Middle East (barring another American/Western incursion), even the UAE and Saudi Arabia would have to play along, because it's hard to sell war to people who aren't amoral and bloodthirsty, really.
So you prefer the alternative multipolar order in which the USA, China, Russia and (maybe) India project their will in their regional influence zones by strength. That is certainly a point of view.
There was no effort
Dunno how you understood what I wrote but bringing freedom, liberty, civilization, whatever, that was the tiny effort to pretend it wasn't just about subjugation and resources.
What liberty was brought? Liberty by enforcing your systems and puppets? Freedom from their resources and lives? Civilization? What's in Western civ besides violence, man? That's what was brought. No, the tiny effort was the SPIN, the narratives, that repeated enough times can sound true, I guess? And yes, even the spin is gone, which is dangerous for Americans more than the rest of the world, because it means the people in power 1)are not focusing externally as much (but they're still vampires, ofc) 2)think they're past needing to pretend to have values.
You might've missed the word "pretending" in my first reply.
As close to honest I've ever seen from a Western venue.
The 1973 coup in Chile against left-wing Prime Minister Salvador Allende "wasn't orchestrated by the CIA but the United States said it would accept a coup", he added.
Lol. Yes it was.