The Empire will never let a good crisis go to waste. They're great at coups, regime change and using proxies and they are masters and mistresses of propaganda and media manipulation. Opposition to both the 'covid' measures and to the genocide in Gaza were of course to be expected. The freedom and pro-Palestinian protests were genuine, however that doesn't mean they aren't being used by the Empire to stir up trouble. The health freedom movement was expertly led somewhere else entirely; into opposition to all left wing and green policies. And the Gaza protests are being used to falsely claim that there's antisemitism everywhere.
However, the Empire is crap at near-peer warfare; being good at using high tech drone strikes on 'terrorist' leaders and 'insurgents', they are at a complete loss in a war of attrition where recruits must be able to use simple equipment and have access to lots of it.
Owing to the stupidity of the Empire of instigating a hot war with military experts in the Rest of the Whole World, their psy-op manipulation expertise will come to nothing on the battle field. The US elites will be defeated militarily, economically and politically by the Global Majority, who increasingly aren't falling for the propaganda crap anymore.
Ideally, instead of isolating ourselves, we’d be negotiating and trading peacefully with BRICS right now, there is no reason why not to, apart from the egos of our leaders. However, we can ask for BRICS assistance once our leaders are defeated and we come to rebuild our economies and societies. Being bigger men, and women, I think they will aid us.
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