... and the whole world laughs at you
The irony of a country, already on the brink of devastation and a debt so deep you'll never see the bottom of it, spending more reserves to meddle in another country's business is truly next level tone deaf of a joke. Is anyone finding this funny at all or is it just beyond pathetic at this point? But that's how you do it! To constantly flood people's newsfeed on other affairs, then move on to another topic the next week. What your stand on a certain issue this week will be different for next week. Nobody will bother to remember. Anybody that does, make sure they're silenced. Seize the news, seize the social media, make sure the people only know what you want them to know. Create an echo chamber so big that you can fit everyone in it. Whoever is outside of it gets the stick. Harassment, online witch hunts, income audits, prison time, death sentence. To keep people on this giant hamster wheel feeding them shit and tiring them out, at the same time making sure the kids coming out of these specimens are being fed the same shit. No scratch that, shit that is even worse than the shit their parents were eating up. Keep moving them kids to an inferior cycle every rotation until you basically get worthless slaves to just do all your bidding for you and not have any power to go against you. That's the ultimate goal of power. It is not the luxurious handbags or watches you can hoard in your walk in wardrobe. It is not the sports car that you can fit in your bungalow. It is not the multiple 0's you have in your bank account. It is not the attention you get when you walk into a room full of people. It is the control you have over someone, the ability to manipulate a person's thinking and the circumstances around that person. And to do it on a grander scale, to control the tools to control every human being living on this planet. That is the ultimate power.