as pogo said, we have met the enemy and he is us, or as this writer says, the empire is attacking itself;


Except: something does not add up here.
For years and decades, you were told how free you were. And how oppressed, unfree, those against whom you are being protected, are.
You were told how rich you are, and how miserable “the others” were.
To stop those deprived and deranged hordes, some serious measures had to be applied. A right-wing death-squad in some Central American or Southeast Asian country had to be trained in US military camps; a thoroughly absolutist and corrupt monarch had to be supported and pampered; a military fascist coup had to be arranged. Millions raped, tens of thousands of corpses. Not pretty at all, but you know… necessary. For your own good, North American or European citizens; for your own good…. Even for the good of the country that we designated for our ‘liberation’.
Few dissidents in the West have been protesting, for decades. No one has been paying much attention to them. Most of them became ‘unemployable’, and were silenced through misery and the inability to pay their basic bills.
But suddenly…
What happened, suddenly? Because something really happened…
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The Empire got tired of plundering the non-Western parts of the world, exclusively.............https://www.globalresearch.ca/west-oppressed-third-world-it-became-third-world-itself/5688022