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Things are in terrible state in the world.

Gaza exposed it even more:

* No one accepts high western "morality" anymore

* Most US politicians are blackmailed via Epstein who worked for Israel, with high probability, including Trump

* ICE is just the beginning, they're trained by IDF, send more people and 1940 is not too far away from us

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>Most US politicians are blackmailed via Epstein

??? Most? His network was certainly extensive but "most politicians" seems like a significantly overextended extrapolation.

I wouldn’t point to Epstein, but there is a very powerful lobby that will protect the image of any Israeli government. A lot of Evangelicals also consider Israel important in bringing about the apocalypse, without which they can’t access eternal life. I wish I was kidding on that last one, but there are people actively trying to bring down civilisation so they can go to heaven.

Need source for the last one?

Sadly I don’t.

ICE is not trained by the IDF??

Not Israel, but Russia - good old KGB honeytrap.

The russian bots are here too downvoting? Great.

> * No one accepts high western "morality" anymore

Is that an accurate trend on an individual basis?

Travel to Middle East, some parts of Africa and China, ask what people think. Most say have similar opinion that west is not "morally" superior.

Travel to anywhere, anywhere at all, ask people if they consider themselves morally superior ...

Well, in this case, they are correct

suuure

South America as well, in particular with regard to the US. Too many coups and sponsorship of military dictatorships will do that.

I think when people say "West", they automatically think US and UK - and given their war crimes in recent history, you do get this sentiment, yes. I suspect, however, that this view has exacerbated and now includes other "western" countries that are silent/complicit in current horrific war crimes.

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