Then pay attention to history:

Hitler kept ratcheting-up the leverage, until he could remove opponent-leverage.

Trump’s now got laws in-place that give him the power to “de-naturalize” all citizens except Republicans, letting ICE control/manage the population, while he gets to be the worshipped ruler, by his cult’s members.

The escalation is going to continue, until machine-gunning protestors becomes “enforcement”, & probably level-off there, stable.

Narcissism’s dictatorship wants what it wants, & when the people/laws/agencies which were supposed to prevent dictatorship won’t do their job, … then dictatorship’s totalitarianism happens

The only way this could have been prevented, would have been to enforce that quality critical-thinking education reach all kids, AND that sufficient-percentage of the population became identifying within that kind of thinking-competenced.

It was a lost-cause years ago, but it’ll only be Civil War Part2 beginning in 2026, sometime.

You have to actively get sufficient-fraction of the population in critical-thinking, XOR … reversion-to-ideological-rampaging is going to be happening, sooner or later.

Same as Palestine could have been protected, but that would have required enforcing completely-neutral, ZERO-politics UN-gov’t there, & neither side wanted to be blocked-out from their future-veneance…

Uprightness costs, & non-uprightness costs, too.

Choose which cost to pay, because cost, itself, is intrinsic to existence…

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You may never have heard of the AAAA, the Advertisers Against Advertising Alliance…

Imagine a cigarette-company wants some advertising-work done…

Imagine that you’re dead set against cigarette-companies, but they don’t know that…

Imagine getting the contract, & doing advertising-design for them, where they get an advertising-campaign which to them looks good, but … doesn’t work on people…

Imagine that that is exactly what you had intended…

No card-carrying, no meetings, no visible-connections: only independent people contributing independently.

( I suspect that the drugstore “Life” brand, at Shopper’s Drug Mart was done by a member of the AAAA: NOBODY with health-sense would buy that shit, as a result of the campaign they had, years ago, when I lived in a city )

Now remap it from AAAA to someone ordered to redact evil, to protect the regime against accountability…

Imagine you know exactly that this highlighting-with-black won’t work…

Imagine that this is exactly why you use the method: to protect accountability, in a dying-empire’s deathspasms…

It then becomes possible to “do one’s job” & be complicit within the regime ( but notice those falsifying-quotes! ),

while one protects integrity, Justice, & accountability, by doing one’s “job” in a way which enables actual-Journalism, should there be any left, to dig-in…

Beauty, eh?

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XOR he’s aware of the consequences of getting China turned into a raging-wasp’s-nest against him.

On the world-stage, diplomacy actually is important, believe it or not.

Consistent-correlation’s good-enough to convince me, though.

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That is what national-narcissism is about, certainly…

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I can’t understand why Rayleigh Scattering is presumed to be the only reason our sky is blue.

Oxygen’s blue!

Isn’t there enough oxygen in our atmosphere to affect its apparent-color??

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No you don’t run-out:

Factionalism will always provide more “enemies” for that-Way.

“Corps Business: the 30 Management Principles of the US Marines” identified something in our nature, in 1 of the principles:

IF you just keep accumulating people, in say a village, or orgnaization, there is a point around 150-people, where factionalism sets-in.

Al Gore & Associates ( Goretex ) intentionally limits the parking-lot size, so that when it’s visible that there are now enough people working at a site, that some are parking on the lawn, then they need another site.

Militaries all 'round the world have a 150-person “company” or equivalent, but not a 200-person one…

Even if some rabid ideology exterminates all “others”, then it’ll fractally divide-up & begin its civil-war, because factionalism is intrinsic to our unconscious-minds…

That’d be true for all except people who trained to dismantle unconscious-narcissism from their unconscious-mind’s ruling-of-their-life…

& nobody I’ve encountered has earned that, except perhaps the Society of Believers ( the Shakers ) community it the US ( @ Sabbath Day Lake, iirc: Christians: they identify that THE primary cause of people not-staying is “too much community” ).

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63-million women genocided ( when newborn, all the way to husbands burning-to-death their wives, from what I’d read in other stuff, through past years ) proves that India isn’t protecting women’s lives…

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/news/2024/4/why_are_millions_of_women_missing_in_india/

There’s another article here on lemmy.world/c/world that was posted recently, about how now women are allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia, but the regime is exterminating criticism, through executions.

The truth is hidden-in-the-murk, unfortunately…

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract

Males bullying females is the “wedge” that they use to get far-right totalitarianism’s basis in…

It’s consistent, through different cultures, & it may be hardwired in our limbic system: bullying women is the basis for male-fascism-totalitarianism.

Counter it XOR fail the Great Filter, humankind…

Having-exterminated-ourselves is a “valid” choice, in Universe’s Natural Selection’s eyes…

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better, more sensical translation, by DeepL.com, I’m doing it piece by piece, with a couple of comments thrown-in:

It is “in the interests of the United States and Europe” that the European Union be dissolved. That is what Nile Gardiner, director of the European branch of the Heritage Foundation, told Nieuwsuur. This conservative think tank is known as the main architect of US President Donald Trump’s second-term policy.

( converting countries to oligarchy, then… https://www.project2025.observer/en which may no-longer be getting updated, for whatever reason, & https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/ gives a little taste of the ideology-policy )

The Trump administration supports “movements and political leaders in Europe” who are “pro-American and believe that Europe must take a different direction,” Gardiner said. These include leaders from Italy, Poland, and Hungary, whom the conservative thinker sees as “important allies.”

In February, Vice President J.D. Vance already voiced sharp criticism of Europe. This summer, further indications emerged that the US is seeking a change of power.

( political-interference in national politics? isn’t that illegal? )

I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.

Nile Gardiner

According to the new US security strategy, published this month, Europe is in danger of “losing its civilization through immigration and the erosion of national identities.” The document praises nationalist parties “that seek to preserve the individual character and history of European countries” and supports patriotic parties in their struggle to dismantle the EU from within.

( notice that a strengthening EU-identity is unthinkable to these agents )

In response, European Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty called for courage in the face of US criticism of the EU. European government leaders responded with remarkable silence. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was fierce, calling the plan “unacceptable and inadmissible.”

( silence is accommodation, among humankind… dangerous method to use )

The chair of the European Parliament committee that maintains contact with the US called the security strategy “a frontal attack on the EU.” According to him, the White House’s words amount to interference in European elections.

( THAT one gets it. )

‘Warning for Europe’

Right-wing parties have also responded positively to the American policy document. MEP Mieke Andriese (PVV) called it a “clear strategic warning for Europe” this week. “Mass immigration threatens our European identity.”

( sigh half true: immigration isn’t handled correctly: you have to have people sign their agreement that the country outranks their-religion, & that they’re NOT going to try highjacking the country for their religion, something like that, & then you’ve got leverage to deport the country-highjackers )

MEP Sander Smit (BBB), member of a committee for strengthening European democracy ( I think that is this link: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/nl/euds/home/highlights ), also agrees with parts of the American criticism. “BBB does not support abolishing the EU, but believes that the EU urgently needs internal reforms due to a democratic deficit, declining legitimacy, and excessive bureaucracy,” he told Nieuwsuur. Read his full response here.

https://bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-24247524/Reactie_Sander_Smit_op_uitspraken_Nile_Gardiner.pdf

Nile Gardiner is now going a step further with his plea for the abolition of the EU. “I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.”

There are “deep-rooted concerns in the US capital Washington about what is seen as the suppression of freedom of expression within the European Union,” says Gardiner. The EU has too much power over its member states, he argues.

The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines imposed by the European Commission on social media platform X, owned by tech billionaire and former Trump advisor Elon Musk. The fines totaled €120 million and were imposed for violations of an internet law. With these kinds of “attacks on American tech companies,” the EU is undermining American security.

( so, it’s actually EU-sovreignty-from-the-US that is offensive/intolerable to the US? … Gaslighting, as usual )

Furthermore, the Union would not listen to the voice of the people and would limit the power of right-wing radical parties such as the AfD. And the EU would open its doors to mass migration. Gardiner fears that this would lead to the increasing influence of Islam. “All of this means that the EU is doomed.”

( LMAO: highjacking by far-right is obliged, but highjacking by Islam isn’t?? Only others’ highjacking, not their highjacking, that’s problematic, then, I see! )

( here’s a grey block of text )

‘Europe’s response is too weak’

According to leading Irish researcher Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Institute), the European Union’s response to the Trump administration’s attacks is too weak and too slow. “Europeans are not looking at themselves, but simply saying: don’t you dare criticize our democracy.”

Dempsey, who researches international relations, argues that the EU is not making sufficient use of its large internal market as a geopolitical instrument. “The EU is not confident and does not know how to sell itself.”

Trump is capitalizing on this by influencing and dividing Europe politically, says the researcher. “The idea that a divided EU would be to the advantage of the US is at odds with the transatlantic vision that has prevailed since 1945.”

“The weakness of Europeans is that they do not confront far-right populist parties, whether in France, the Netherlands, Germany, or Italy.”

( spot-on, Dempsey! )

According to Gardiner, the plan to turn the EU into a defense force conflicts with American interests. “This undermines the NATO alliance while diverting military resources,” he says. “NATO will hopefully exist for centuries to come, but the EU will eventually disappear.”

( notice how this sets-up the destruction of the EU when Trump GUTS NATO: Russia will then have a more completely unprepared EU to butcher, as Trump wants…

Here is evidence that the Trump-regime’s gutting/ditching NATO isn’t just my belief, for the last decade or so: https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato )

Under Trump, the US supports right-wing nationalist parties in Europe that “insist on more sovereignty and self-determination,” says Gardiner. He mentions, among others, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, and the party chairman of France’s Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella. Gardiner emphasizes that this is political support; there is no question of financial aid.

( interesting: I hadn’t understood that the right had already-won in some countries )

some links from that last bit…

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/e6d5db69-e0ab-4bec-9dc0-3867b4373019_en?filename=White+paper+for+European+defence+–+Readiness+2030.pdf

https://nos.nl/artikel/2563896-meloni-bezoekt-trump-met-hoop-dat-goede-band-helpt-tegen-heffingen

https://nos.nl/artikel/2581156-nieuwe-poolse-president-nawrocki-trekt-eigen-plan-en-zegt-veel-nee

https://nos.nl/collectie/13972/artikel/2522387-jordan-bardella-is-voor-eu-verkiezingen-nieuwe-politieke-ster-in-frankrijk

( if anybody here can communicat in Dutch, please ask the site that this article is of, if they could please use DeepL to INCLUDE the entire English-speaking-world in their readership??

They’re pointing-out important things, & it isn’t only Science which is balkanized by language, it is civil-rights, too! )

( here’s the last grey-text-block )

Discussion within the Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation is an independent right-wing conservative think tank in Washington. They developed ‘Project 2025’, policy proposals that the government is now implementing. Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the European branch of The Heritage Foundation.

The extreme course that the Heritage Foundation has been pursuing since this year has led to ideological discussions within the institute: in recent weeks, some fifteen employees have left the institute. Differences of opinion included the cessation of support for Ukraine and President Trump’s controversial tax policy. Heritage director Kevin Roberts also initially refused to condemn statements made by the far-right, anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes.

This summer, Nieuwsuur investigated how the Trump administration was already actively interfering in the political future of the European Union:

( then there’s a video )

I used https://www.deepl.com/en/translator to give me sensical English rendition of the article, because some Asian Redditor identified that it was the ONLY choice which worked for the languages that they knew, & I figured they’d be more competent to judge its effectiveness than I, an English-only person would…

Since then, years ago, it’s helped clarify things that other translators botch, badly.

( Firefox’s translation can be … incompetent )

This all brings-up a point:

IF the EU isn’t willing to oppose the far-right, THEN the EU’s going to be ruled by far-right.

Same as 1930’s Germany & 2024+ US…

in which case the population-reduction happening in The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this-century, is going to … cut-down more Europeans … than I’d assumed.

( you can’t earn your viability/survival, when you’re allowing narcissist-nihilists to rule )

That it was going to be cutting-down people among the Americas, among Asia, & among the Middle-East & Africa, was obvious.

But I’d wrongly presumed that the EU would be certain to stand for its life against narcissist-nihilism.

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The Trump-cult ones, not all Albertans, want this, so they can join Trump’s rampaging of the “woke” Canada, after Trump annexes Canada, using Alaska & Greenland to cut-off all trade-by-ocean to us ( NO food imports to Canada, by land or sea, … how long will Canada live?? )

It’s part of Putin’s & Trump’s & CCP’s divide-and-conquer imperialism…

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Worse, if ONLY they vote: they win.

( same as how the Democrats “won” the election of Harris by sitting-out the election in droves )

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India’s betting on having time, then, before China “gets physical” against India??

Foolish…

China’s military-spending massively outclasses India’s…

gambling in that way, on that scale, can have bad costs.

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How does 40-yo somehow mean “teenager”??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman

Thank you for causing me to understand more of what’s going-on.

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Here’s what’s going-on re WW3:

Once Trump & Putin clue-in that they may exterminate “wokeism” from the entire planet, completely, by collaborating/dividing-and-conquering, they’ll stop jamming each-other, & act “with 1 mind, against their combined Western enemy”, ie Canada & the EU.

Trump’s unconscious-or-conscious strategy: owning Alaska / Pacific ( navy & airforce ) / mainland / Atlantic / Greenland.

Then Canada’s got ZERO trade left, right?

NO food-import, no NOTHING.

Trump’s annexation of Canada … has to work, then, unless Canada comes-up-with some super-innovation-machine, or something, to mutate the odds…

That liberates Putin ( backed by BRICS ) to be rampaging on the now-abandoned EU.

Russia’s only a “shell company”, now: China being the “hand inside the glove” more…

…but that’s what Putin accepted, & what China wants

( let Russia have the losses of that war: China needs to vanquish Asia, right? )

WHILE that’s going-on, who of the West is going to be backing anybody in Asia OR in the Middle-East??

Nobody?

China gets its Asian empire, &

Saudi gets its Empire, then: all of the Middle-East, all of Africa…

Should take only about 7y to establish, give or take ( this goes for ALL of the imperialism-rampaging that’s going to be going on, once the “fuze” now lit, reaches the powderkeg )

Then, once the world has been consolidated into 3 empires, & whatever’s left of TrueNATO, …

( I expect Putin & Trump will have been discarded by humankind’s collective-unconscious, by then:

their national-right regimes discarded roughly 2032?

the individuals aren’t needed: only “avatars for the zeitgeist”, so they can have replacements, & I’m certain Musk wants to succeed Trump )

… then the BIG/TOTAL war can begin, in the early 2030’s, between the 3x empires & the TrueNATO-remnant alliance …

These last few years have clued me in to just how long it takes for world-change to happen…

I’d been misunderstanding everything because of calibrating to human-timescale…

• Conquering ( regional ), for about 7-ish years
• WAR of attrition, between the regions/empires, for some decades
• then the food-chains should die, & the challenge of survival gets more fundamental, while the war continues grinding on …

The Great Filter ( that naive-fools believe we’ve “already” survived ).

Absolutely inevitable: it is the species-equivalent to individual-puberty: NO mere-believing can prevent it from overthrowing us, to its process.

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I hadn’t known about that angle, thank you!

The imperialism in it, though, … incompatible with civil-rights, obviously…

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Excellent concept!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Thank you for identifying it, eh?

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The tundra between Alaska & Greenland is Canada’s territory, Nunavut.

He’s already declared his intent to annex Canada: he’s imperial, not civil-rights, & like Putin, imperial-greed is “blood”…

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He’s committed to his imperial continent-kingdom:

His intent to annex Canada’s real.

WITH Alaska AND Greenland, he can kill all ships bringing supplies to Canada…

He’s going to be waging war on 3 fronts: northward, Civil War Part2, & southward, once he “de-naturalizes” all non-Republicans, converting all outside his cult into “illegals”…

His enmity against NATO has been visible for over a decade, btw…

https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato is independent of Trump, but it does communicate that NATO isn’t safe, now…

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Trump intends to completely cut-off Canada’s trade, Alaska, Pacific, mainland, Atlantic, Greenland ( a base ), so that he can butcher Canada, & successfully annex it, just like Putin wants Ukraina: for subjugated possession.

He isn’t joking about his “Department of War”:

He’ll be waging war on 3 fronts: northward, enforcing his annexing of Canada,

Civil War Part2, once he “de-naturalizes” all non-Republicans, making everybody not in his cult into illegals,

AND war to the south, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, etc, as his imperialism “needs” to be doing…

The only obstacle left is the portion of his brain which fights-against absolute-psychopathy, & when that portion of his brain fails, in a “stroke”, if the psychopathy wins, the ocean-of-blood begins spilling.

Prep.

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This is totally-blind to the motivation to butcher the “woke” from their world, because the values of the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, emotionally/spiritually burn their-kind…

This also is totally-blind to the Negative-Sum-Game motivation of making absolutely-certain that nobody is “important” or “significant” after one has finished one’s mass-shooting/dictatorial-equivalent.

It isn’t mere-narcissism: multiple of the dimensions of human-evil are in-play…

• narcissism
• machiavellianism ( does need to be intentional )
• sociopathy( induced )/psychopathy( brain-intrinsic )
• sadism/cruelty ( whomever pretends that this isn’t a motivation of them, is gaslighting us )
• nihilism ( the dishonest “glory” of mass-shooters )
• systemic-dishonesty, possibly including gaslighting ( doesn’t need to be intentional )
• displacing objectivity ( an instinct-level NEED, for ideologues )
• displacing correct-reasoning from lives ( huge with cults, ideologues, & conspiracists, & many “religions”, too )
• displacing uprighting/evolution from lives, jamming them in ignorance/dysfunction, which is instinct in bullies

I may have forgotten or missed 1 or more dimensions, but those I’m certain of, now.

The “Dark Triad” obviously is only 1/3rd of those…, & some psychologists accept sadism’s being a dimension of human evil, so they have the “Dark Tetrad”…

but understanding all of the motivations in an enemy-of-our-lives is wiser than just having a convenient oversimplification.

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