it is depressing to read about what is going on currently in the world right now, but it is important to understand why it is happening, and this book helps with that. it peels back the curtain to the dark machinations of the Western empire, and urges you to not act in self-interest like they are doing. maybe because i'm not american, i don't fully understand the continuous referencing to liberalism, and there were many passages that i had to read more than once (but maybe that's just me and my phone-fried brain). this is a book i will definitely come back to, and a book that should be required reading for these current times.