I've spent over a year living, studying, or traveling in Europe, and I was shocked when European countries agreed to join the US proxy war. Of course, Britain didn't surprise me; it's a sad, old empire hanging onto the US like a high school dweeb hoping to portray relevance and self-importance.

Most of Western Europe colonized the world, and the EU is so goddamn undemocratic and neoliberal that it blows my mind there hasn't been a mass uprising. Still, I did not think European governments would throw their economies and people in the garbage to back US hegemony.

Australian elites also joined the white imperialists' team, and the government happily cheered them on, fueling the proxy war and kicking China and its economy into the gutter. The anti-China and Russia propaganda fill Australian minds and empty their stomachs.

Perhaps, the oligarchs teamed up and consumed the remaining democratic crumbs. It's mindboggling, but the only thing that makes sense is Western capitalists aligned to maintain the power structure that enriched them.

I don't get it, but the global populist and right-wing fascist movements are the desperate response to a broken system. Obama was the hope and change we needed. Yet, he bailed out the banks, leaving us hopelessly stagnant until Trump campaigned as an anti-establishment politician who understood the people's frustration and spoke its mindless language, but he was the establishment's offspring.

The anger that elected Trump won't disappear, and there will be another Trump. What it looks like is anyone's guess, but it won't be pleasant, and despite the fascist title, Trump was a populist. We're one skip and a hop from fascism if we're not already in flight.