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And to think Trump flows so clearly from #GWBush and #DickCheney doing a profit-making #InvasionOfIraq under the cover of #OsamaBinLaden's #NineEleven.


9/11, militarize USA, FoxNews ubiquitous, invade Iraq, promote religious division in Iraq, ISIS sweeps area, refugees flee to Europe, Europe goes nationalist, [Obama over John McCain & then Mitt Romney], militarized USA voters support Trump, [COVID, Biden], militarized USA voters support Trump.

First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
—Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

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