Western "Leadership" Hates Their People

"Germany" is taking a hard line against Putin's war in Ukraine and is going to severely punish their own citizens to prove it. They're going to curtail gas imports from Russia. Israel and the US are going to help supply Europe with more expensive LNG. Hurray! But the infrastructure for that doesn't exist yet; in the meantime, the Germans are going to have power outages, freeze in the winter, and severely damage their economy.

It's hard to find a western country where the government and the people have the same or even slightly aligned interests. Most of the governments seem to be in a kind of war with their citizens, which is pretty weird. It's strange people put up with it. It's an extended Stockholm syndrome.

Antagonism between parasitic governments and the people is, perhaps, the norm. It seems more unusual in ostensible democracies or republics, but voting doesn't really seem to have much impact on what governments do.

I think there's going to be a generalized dissolution of central authorities all around the world over the next years. They only work when there's an illusion of expansion and enough for all. In a time of contraction it's every man for himself.