If you're a dissident inside the west, are you going to be attracted towards the other half of the world in some way? I think itd behave much as china behaves, right? That's the difficulty here. We're stuck in this like almost a escalating symmetric strategy. What the simplest answer isn't to fix what's broken, but merely eliminate alternatives to what is broken. Thereby keeping people stuck. Globalism is retreating from the idea that russia and china, iran are one day going to be integrated in the same systems. But can you imagine a sort of besieged europea doubling down on persecuting domestic enemies,. Even while the empire becomes less