Take a good hard look at American culture right now.
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Agreed. “There is trouble in the west” when the majority political party (hopefully ending November 8, 2022) promotes communists, Queer Theory, Race Theory, God mocking and baby butchering!
True that. But perhaps equally important, at least in geopolitical terms, is that the U.S. "smart" people think it's best to brainwash the masses into hating their country, hating their race, and hating themselves. That's not what you see among the BRISACS nations. The Russians don't think being Russia is automatically evil. They are motivated. The same with China. The same with South Africa. They are as motivated as we used to be when American pride was a thing, like during the space race or during the Reagan revolution. Their schools don't teach them the "evils" of nationalism.
refusal to protect our own border, runaway spending, depletion of strategic oil reserves, vaccine mandates/lockdowns/deaths, illegal incarcerations, allowing anarchy in the streets (codling criminals), allowing harassment of high supreme court justices, ignoring or supporting attacks on our food supply, waging war against 2 nuclear powers, the global weather patterns, and the most dangerous enemy at all: The people who pay for it all.
... and by the way: over the last half century, we’re really not good at winning wars.
just sayin’
my $0.02