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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Caitlin once again puts a spotlight on the real machinations of empire.

As we are speculating why there is a discrepancy in the reaction to the empire wars that were waged before without sustained world wide protests as is happening now - with Israel's carpet bombing of Gaza and the massacre of Palestinians amounting to genocide - one would like to think maybe people are waking up to being caring human beings, who want justice for others, not only for themselves.

The reality is that time is running out for a decaying empire and its vassals. It is only a bunch of oligarchs.They are rapidly losing control and there is no time to create necessary illusions and manufacture consent. Even their own people, specially the young are beginning to be immune to the propaganda and mind control that kept them apathetic. No longer can they keep up the farce.They are bogged down in an utterly useless, cynical proxy war in Ukraine and thankfully aren't succeeding in diminishing Russia or balkanising it, then dreaming of going onto create misery in Taiwan so as to start a war with China. Let's hope that in future humanity won't allow it.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Would to God that you prove prophetic.

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