On the one hand, this is certainly a blow to the built-up delusion of the liberal-internationalist woke-globalist elite. For decades, the West has been ruled by people who live in a fantasy world, a world where there are "international laws" that everyone agrees on, a world where we really don't have to bother with things like war, or investing in our own defense, because we've created this homogeneous global society where everyone shares our values and believes in our goals.

The issue is that these people have an astonishing resistance to the effects of reality on their delusions. Even now, they're clinging to narratives like "Putin is now an international pariah because of what he's done." He's not. Half of the world is rooting for him, specifically because he's given a black eye to the West, but these are the kinds of things that are being bandied about in woke-globalist circles.

They simply cannot fathom and refuse to accept the basic reality that their vaunted "international law" is meaningless without the power or the will to enforce it, and that because of the expansion of the welfare state and the erosion of ingenuity in our societies, both the result of the the cultural cancer that is their belief system, we no longer have either.

I'm beginning to wonder if even the advent of World War III will be enough to make these people engage in any introspection, or if they'll genuinely go to their graves still believing that if they just censor enough wrongthinkers, the nukes will magically stop flying.