[mardifoufs]

Yes but a lot of people actually are starting to think that things have actually gotten worse (especially since 2020, and they are obviously totally wrong imo)

And yes of course it's demoralizing, his theory was that if you think your country is evil or based on evil and not much better than anything else why would you ever fight for it? Especially when faced with an enemy who actually believes that he is dying for a great cause, and the best system.

From a cold war perspective, if the other side doesn't believe his system to be superior anymore that could've been decisive to win a war. Just look at the vietnam war and how it (thankfully) ended.

[pempem]

The first feeling I had upon reading your comment was that it felt like it was pulled from the Milosevich playbook, who used Russian support and at one point had potential for Russian troops to help him continue to further divide his country and and basically pursue genocide.

Then my normalcy bias kicked in and I thought "it would never get that bad"

[alar44]

We're you alive before 9/11? Things are far worse in the US than 20 years ago. Literally everything.