Turned out they were never really at war with Eastasia
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In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
-Georgi Arbatov, Soviet apparatchik apologizing on TV to the US elites for the fall of communist Russia
Maybe the USSR was America's Carthage. It only took 13 years after the Romans destroyed Carthage for them to turn on themselves and murder Tiberius Gracchus.
You're onto something. Harvard and Soros looted Russia like Scipio Africanus looted Carthage, leading to complacent decadency among the aristocracy that no longer had to care about the plebs.
This is a great way of putting it.
It is. It's from 1984.
Wow. I thought you were just describing what is going on right now!