The Americans believe that all one needs to portray power are ships, planes, and bombs; they believe this makes them untouchable. They believe that acting like Hollywood mobsters will win back the respect that they've lost over the last thirty years. But these leaders lack the cunning of Carlo Gambio, the organization of Charles Luciano, the precision brawn of Joseph Bonanno. But most of all, modern American leaders lack the brain and the honor that accompanied these old-world leaders. The brutes of the past knew who they were and what they had to do, but since the end of World War Two, leaders have hid behind the mask of liberalism, law, democracy, and equality; this mask has been taken off. They have removed this mask willingly in the false hope of getting respect back in this world, but they do not have the heart for this; they don't know how to truly be powerful.

Much of this has to do with upbringing; the recently murdered Ayatollah Khamenei had been a political activist in his youth and was tortured by the Shah's secret police, the SAVAK. He served as defense minister during the Iran-Iraq War, one of the bloodiest wars in the 20th century, and he turned Iran into a regional industrial superpower, able to face down Israel and America for decades. Xi Jinping had lived in a cave as a child after his father had fallen out of favor in the government, his sister was "persecuted to death," his father beaten and paraded around by a mob. He now governs over a billion people, keeps order within his party, and has helped to make China the future global hegemon. Vladimir Putin served as a KGB officer for sixteen years; as president, he challenged and defeated the oligarchs, Putin had taken over in a time when the "Bratva" had effectively run the country. He turned Russia into what American economists couldn't during their shock therapy: an industrial power that is now facing down the entirety of NATO in Ukraine. What about the leaders of the West? Ivy League graduates, businessmen, lawyers, attendees at Epstein's parties, bombers of schools that kills 153 people. While speaking to reporters on an airfield, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had claimed:

"The world is changing very fast, the old world is gone frankly, the world I grew up in. We live in a new era of geopolitics and it's gonna require all of us to reexamine what our role is gonna be."

The old world was the most important line of defense for the American state, as laid out in the essay "Between the State and the Insurrection: Tactics of Regime Survival and Overthrow." America's power is currently based on perception. If Maduro were a Marxist of the old school, like Castro or Stalin, he could've seen the fragility of liberal tactics, which take the form of law enforcement raids that could've been dealt a major blow if he would've just lived in the city surrounded by plainclothed soldiers like Aidid in 1993 Somalia and not on a military base. But more important is the collapse of the perception of the white working and middle classes in the country. For decades they have complained about taxation and government overreach; they were consistently ignored when forced integration was introduced, when immigrants flooded into the country, and when their children were sent to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now when their boys are being bombed because the entire Republican party has been bought by the Jews to aid a foreign power.