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How western wars turned liberal democracies into police states
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Empire turns inwardsTrump's sacrifice of white people in pursuit of his openly racist policies also extends to America's white Western European and Canadian allies.
Liberal complicityBut Canada and Western European governments were not the only ones who understood how they benefited from the US propaganda system.
So too did their white liberal intellectuals and artists, who since World War Two have largely supported these policies against the Third World while celebrating liberal democratic privileges enjoyed by white citizens of their "liberal democracies".
The destruction of international law and institutions in order to facilitate Israeli genocide is now being turned against America's own liberal white citizensFor Cesaire, Nazism was European colonialism turned inwards.
It is Trump's repression of white liberal citizens and attack on America's white partners that is principally seen as intolerable.