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"Western globalism – whether economic, political, or cultural – cannot tolerate alternative civilizational models."

This key point of Trenin, used properly, can shed much light on the history of Western Imperialism. The very idea of a civilizational alternative threatens a capitalist system that imprisons its population in wage slavery to private capital while skimming off profits of labor to an ever more wealthy and powerful financial oligarchy. Some examples of the frightened reaction that exposed the hypocrisy of Western ideals are:

1) faced with the Soviet alternative, WWII begat a powerful socialist movement in Europe. Western finance hurriedly injected funds to finance the reconstruction under capitalist control (the Marshall Plan) and finally was forced into a compromise with organized labor in Europe that allowed 'social democracy', a kinder, gentler capitalism to emerge for a while to pacify the proletariat.

2) the use of mass murder to take down an Indonesian Sukarno regime, guilty of no more than leadership of the global anti-imperialist movement.

3) Vicious economic warfare against any socialist experiment, such as Cuba and Venezuela, so matter how small the country.

4) The suppression for decades of socialist China's entry into the international community

5) Finally, the Trump administration's mere articulation of previously taboo views and policy goals activated a weaponization, fully backed by the mass media, of the Democratic Party (and liberals generally) in repeated projects to destroy Trump's presidency. This desperate action occurred despite the fact that the US deep state easily neutralized any attempt on Trump's part to carry out his expressed policy goals.

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War is waged by each ruling group primarily against its own subjects, to keep the ruling class powerful and in power, while the lower class remains powerless and out of power. A secret East-West alliance has been in effect since the start of the Cold War, or to put it an other way, there is a dark force controlling both the East and West. Look beyond the veil of illusion.

At the Top, They’re ALL on the SAME SIDE – Part 1 & 2 – Video #103 & #104 (Makia Freeman ~ April 2024)

https://thefreedomarticles.com/at-the-top-theyre-all-on-the-same-side-part-1/

https://thefreedomarticles.com/at-the-top-theyre-all-on-the-same-side-part-2/

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