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Ok hold on a sec there, I agree these developments are awful but the US was never a hero country and has been illegally permanently jailing and torturing people for decades, besides all the couping democratically elected governments, murdering native people, not letting go of slavery, and so on and so on.
No, Putin has orchestrated the fall of the USA from a competent evil superpower to an incompetent evil large power.
You know what? I agree. I guess what I meant to say was that the US stopped being too open about our evil doings. Usually we mask things...the war on drugs, the civil rights movement acceptance. The Vietnam war was much more out in the open. Shock and awe and fucking 20 years of combat in civilian cities and encampments. The USA hasn't really every been real nice. We just haven't been evil openly. But now we're doing it. We just had our coming out president. Hello world! You guessed it! We're evil!
You don't understand that it has always been the hyper capitalist agenda, after Soviet fell since then Russia has chosen capitalism and now it's a super hyper capitalist union where corporations are worshipped as post human entities and is governed by their demonic rage fueled consumption that supports the exponential growth. It will always attack when exponential growth seems impossible and eat something new. Both superpowers are fully enslaved by these entities and no one person or even billionaire is its master. As soon as someone doesn't comply, the megacorp "restructures" and swaps out the used up humans replacing them with new human puppets that are oh so eager to prove they are loyal only to the growth and not to humanity. No one lasts. But the entity is timeless and has no other directive than to grow mercilessly and without compassion. It chooses only the most psychopathic humans to do its more important biddings. This is the model that has scientifically ruined the happiness and standards of living for anyone living in close proximity to the host state, and several orders of magnitude worse for the states that control the resources the entity requires. Where policy has made people improve in happiness and welfare, a complicated propaganda machine relentlessly works to entice the population that the capitalist model is prevailing. Its main weapon becomes apathy and subjugation via hypnosis, bathing the children and young adults minds in dopamine, creating an imbalance where the will to act or improve gets overshadowed by the immediate injections of entertainment at any time of leisure until they should work again in the morning. The megacorps needs humanity only to serve and reproduce in an orderly fashion while longing for the next flush of seratonin they are allowed. We seem to be unable to resist this most of us, some know intuitively we shouldn't because we get sick and die, but we have no biological mechanism to defend ourselves with, it's easy to hijack the mind of someone that is not struggling. A pacified mind is easy to abuse. But when struggles begin, if it doesn't happen in designated war zones, it's terrorism. Most men that cannot take this conveniently travel to the nearest proxy war and participate in slaying like minded boys and girls. The entities have since long ago been ascended to have more rights than humans, and their acolytes that keep it impervious are called lawyers and lobbyists, whose sole purpose is to secure the consumption of the planet so nothing can stop it. The most zealous and ruthless are promoted so they can feel responsible for the exponential infinite growth. It is the working class, the pacified masses, that are the biggest threat to them. When they decide to strike or boycott, they can topple entities in one stroke. Often the officers will abandon the entity and merge or plant new growths as the ecosystem is perfect for them right now.