Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, “1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in ‘The Matrix’ and I laughed because that obviously wouldn’t age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point.”
FTFY
If you don’t think the anti terror bullshit panic didn’t spread around the world, then you weren’t paying attention. A lot of governments used it to pass all kinds of anti democratic bullshit in guise of “security”
That AND the war on terror was something the west and Putin could “agree on” regardless of what their definition of terror meant.
It helped Putin do his thing without it being so shocking
Freedom fries.
Not even nearly as bad as the USA though