 The oligarchic empire is actually simple and easy to understand. If you're like me and spend entirely too much time on political Twitter, you may have recently observed a bunch of people saying you shouldn't post your opinion about the Afghanistan situation unless you're an expert who has studied the nation's dynamics in depth. Like an empire invading a nation and murdering a bunch of people for decades is some super complicated and esoteric matter that you need a PhD to have an opinion about. You see fairly simple abuses framed as highly complicated issues all the time by people who defend those abuses. War is rarely apartheid. My abusive ex used to go around telling people that what happened between us was more complicated than I was making it sound. Before he became Trump's national security advisor in 2018, John Bolton faced a contentious interview on Fox News where he was criticized for his role in Bush's invasion of Iraq. And he responded that, the point I think you need to understand is, life is complicated in the Middle East. When you say the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was a mistake, it's simplistic. Bolton is now among the experts on Afghanistan doing mainstream media tours on CNN and NPR explaining to the public that the decision to end the 20-year military occupation was a mistake. Yeah, don't you worry your pretty little heads about war. It will just confuse you because it's far too complicated to understand. These important matters should be left to men like John Bolton who are consistently wrong about every foreign policy issue. This carefully promoted idea serves only the powerful and entirely too many people buy into it. You'll even see dedicated leftists shying away from commentary on Western imperialism in favor of domestic policy because they don't feel confident talking about something they've been trained to believe is very difficult and complex. Which is silly because war is actually the easiest aspect of the oligarchic empire to understand. Murdering people with military explosives for power and profit is plainly wrong. You don't need to be an Ivy League university graduate to understand this. And given the track record of Ivy League university graduates on this matter, it's probably better if you are not. A globe-spanning power structure loosely centralized around the United States orchestrates murder at mass scale to ensure perpetual domination of the planet. It really is that simple. Now you can spend the rest of your life studying the details of precisely how this is the case, but they're just that. Details about how this dynamic is taking place. You can learn all about the various ways the oligarchic empire advances its geostrategic agendas using wars, proxy conflicts, coups, sanctions, special ups, cold war brinkmanship, and the so-called war on terror. But you will only be discovering further detail about this simple overarching truth. And the same is true of all the other aspects of the status quo power structure. They're meant to look complicated, but what you actually need to know about them to orient yourself in our world is fairly simple. The systems of capitalism are very complex by design, and a tremendous amount of thievery happens in those mysterious knowledge gaps on financial and economic matters where only the cleverest manipulators understand what's going on. But the basics of our problem is quite simple. Money, rewards, and uplifts sociopathy. The more willing you are to do whatever it takes to become wealthy, the wealthier you will be. Those who rise to the top are those who are sufficiently lacking in human empathy to step on whoever they need to step on to get ahead. As a result, we've had many generations of wealthy sociopaths using their fortunes to influence governmental, media, financial, and economic systems in a way that advantages them more and more with each passing year. This is why we are ruled by sociopaths who understand that money is power and power is relative, which means the less money everyone else has, the more power they get to have over everyone else. They've been widening the wealth gap further and further over the years, a trend they seek to continue with the so-called great reset you've been hearing so much about lately. You can spend the rest of your life learning to follow the money, study the dynamics of currency, banking, and economics, but what you'll be learning is more and more details about the way the dynamic I just described is taking place. Sociopaths rise to the top, the most powerful of which understand that things like money, governments, and the lines drawn between nations are all collective narrative constructs which can be altered in whatever way benefits them and ignored whenever it's convenient. For this reason, controlling the stories the public tell themselves about what's going on in their world is of paramount importance, which is why so much wealth gets poured into buying up media and media influence in the form of advertising, funding think tanks and NGOs, and buying up politicians with campaign contributions and corporate lobbying. These powerful sociopaths tend to form loose alliances with each other and with the heads of government agencies as often as possible since it's always easier to move with power than against it. So what you get is an alliance of depraved oligarchs with no loyalty to any nation using powerful governments as tools to bomb, bully, and plunder the rest of the world for their own power and profit, and using mass-scale media psyops to keep the public from rising up and stopping them. And that is it, really. So simple it can be summed up in a few paragraphs. Don't let elitists use the illusion of complexity to cal you out of talking about what's going on in your world. You can see what's going on well enough to begin speaking out, and the more you learn, the more detailed the picture will become. Speak. You are infinitely more qualified to comment on the way power is moving in the world than the people who've been consistently wrong about everything throughout their entire careers yet remain widely platformed by the oligarchic media. If John Bolton gets a voice, so do you.