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 Yes that's what I just said basically. 
 I claim that the US was not always an evil tyrant.  And while the CIA assassinated JFK, and many undeclared wars fought since WW2, the real evil began in the late 1990s by my reckoning.  That was when they began centralizing the internet with ICANN, TLS cabal, and SaS, and when the Neocons plotted their conquest of the Middle East in 1998. 
 https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
 
 Nixon took the USD off the gold standard for international transactions.  This removed the last restraint on money printing by the unconstitutional "Federal Reserve". 
 Also, that's when real income of the poorest in the US began going down.  Until then, it had gone up fairly consistently on average.