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It's interesting to see the US still investing billions in maintaining their military supremacy, while its adversaries have been fighting a much cheaper and more effective warfare of information for decades now. The effects are becoming increasingly apparent in the political and social instability we're seeing in western countries.

All the fancy planes and bombs can't save you from your society and government collapsing from the inside out, amid the confusion of not knowing who the real enemy is. The crazy thing is that the US built the perfect weapons (social media) and made them available to its enemies to use as they please, and it still can't figure out ways to stop it.

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American society is not “collapsing.” Compared to the civil rights era, the past few decades have been a blip.

What you’re seeing is American society dealing with the fallout of a new gilded age and a minor political realignment - something that has happened before, and will happen again.

We’re still spending money on military supremacy because at the end of the day, only boots on the ground can control territory and every one of our adversaries knows it. That’s why they’re using the information warfare tactics to begin with.

A looming Christofascist dictatorship is not what I’d consider a minor political realignment, but potato potato, I guess

Idk, it's looking better than the ziopsycho control we are under now.

Just so we’re clear and you can be on record with it: you support fascism?

What is "ziopsycho"? There's one hit in DDG, and it's no more illustrative than your comment!

> Compared to the civil rights era, the past few decades have been a blip.

The difference is that in no moment in history have foreign agents been able to influence the psychology of US citizens as much as in the past 20 years. Considering the effectiveness of information warfare, the link between the appearance of these weapons and the effects we would expect to see, and are indeed seeing now, a generation later, is pretty clear to an outsider.

While you are still in disbelief that anything nefarious is happening, and can be in outright denial and even label those who mention this possibility as xenophobic, you will continue to see the progressive destabilization of your system. This is the way information warfare works.

Boots on the ground won't protect you from an invisible enemy.

Here’s an overt example for anyone who doesn’t think this is happening

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4516261-tiktok-urges-u....

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