This is so similar to the situation in the early 2000s. A far-right administration presides over an attack that they were warned about, uses it as an excuse to unleash hell on thousands of civilians who had nothing to do with it, the UN is turned into a joke and a tool to facilitate the atrocities, dissenting voices are cut from the mainstream press and run off of the internet wherever possible, people get fired for speaking out. It’s just like Iraq/Afghanistan but unfolding much faster.