I think it's the weapons/defence tech advancements that have emboldened them. They fully have bought in to the end of times and that their weapons will protect them or their descendents.
It's because they view the same propaganda media we do. There used to be a separation between high and "low" culture and media amongst workers and art, news, etc. Now they're viewing the same bullshit propaganda we are and believing it. Trump believed the US propaganda that the foreign US bases are actually to other countries' benefits. Tou can see the shift in papers like The Economist and other-pseudo financial papers that used to straight-up justify slavery in unsavoury terms because the bourgeoisie who read it are already OK with it, but now they have to increasingly be subtle and propagandic about it. While papers like Financial Times might still be more honest with their intentions because normies aren't reading it as much, unlike Bloomberg or Forbes.
I think it's the weapons/defence tech advancements that have emboldened them. They fully have bought in to the end of times and that their weapons will protect them or their descendents.
It's because they view the same propaganda media we do. There used to be a separation between high and "low" culture and media amongst workers and art, news, etc. Now they're viewing the same bullshit propaganda we are and believing it. Trump believed the US propaganda that the foreign US bases are actually to other countries' benefits. Tou can see the shift in papers like The Economist and other-pseudo financial papers that used to straight-up justify slavery in unsavoury terms because the bourgeoisie who read it are already OK with it, but now they have to increasingly be subtle and propagandic about it. While papers like Financial Times might still be more honest with their intentions because normies aren't reading it as much, unlike Bloomberg or Forbes.