CV,
I'm glad you concede the point.
The agenda for most western governments is to make us afraid, very afraid, so they can then 'protect' us at the cost of our freedom. They 'protected' us from a deadly virus (that turned out to be not so deadly) by putting us under house arrest. They then coerced (most of) us into taking an experimental vaccine as it would 'protect' us from catching Covid and becoming hospitalised - only it did neither. They want to 'protect' us from fake news and online predators at the expense of our free speech. So on and so forth. This will only stop when the penny drops with the masses that we're being sold a pup nine times out of ten and that we either don't need the protection in the first place or that the protection they so generously provide doesn't work. It's a serial scam played over and over again. We have to plough billions of $USD and £GBP into Ukraine to perpetuate a war that the west can't possibly win without direct Nato intervention in order to 'protect' us from Putin who will definitely - no ifs or buts about it - invade the U.K., Italy and everyone in between if we don't stop him. That there's zero evidence to support this insane theory doesn't matter. All the powers that be have to do is plant the idea in the minds of Joe Public and then stoke the fear. Fear is great for politicians and MSM, as the former can use it to impose any amount of draconian policies and the latter can flog their tatty, tawdry rags without having to lift a finger or do any real journalism. If people don't wake up to what's going on and where this all leads - we'll end up where we deserve to be - living in a totalitarian society that resembles China and Russia far more than the supposed free and democratic society that most people in the U.K. erroneously believe they're living in.
Tim.