Divide and conquer.

I mean, yes, that’s what gradual escalation doctrine means. Unfortunately that system is comprehensive, it works from the ground up this way, and any system modeled after it (which after the Cold War became most of the world) reinforces it and impedes the cure to it.

The cure would be not only many leftist ideologies, but also, for example, things like ancaps and sovcits. The problem is that all of these are so negatively perceived that even denying them voice is not seen as a problem for many people.

People think it’s normal, this gradual process. That it is democracy, waiting for your enemy to do vile shit like this and then argue it “by the law”, and never God forbid start first.

While the solution would be preventive rebellion, and none of popular philosophy substantiates that. Everyone thinks that’s something only terrorists, bad-bad fascists and bad-bad bolsheviks do. With plenty of history to support that viewpoint, of course, except millions of dead under colonial rule in Africa and from British blockades even in the two world wars were killed by neither bolsheviks nor fascists.

Getting back to the system, I mean culture of social interactions by that, which is beneficial for them in most of the world. As a reaction to other transgressions, maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact.