You know what my favorite thing is with this systematic region destabilization led by Chinese/Russian state money? We Americans, as we are want to do, see ourselves at the forefront, but we forget England led the way first. This campaign got the fucking British to effectively dismantle themselves via brexit, wildly weakening both England and Europe. I'm not saying Sinclair broadcasting hasn't done a bang up job here too, but England gets the First!
I really do wish we'd cotton on to it and stop pointing the guns inward. I'm getting a little tired of fighting for the basic fate of my country.
Please, let this be the brief upheaval of the Principate followed by a period of stability and peace, not the long upheaval of the Crisis of the Third Century!
Have you ever read any Asimov? He modeled his whole Foundation series on the fall of the Roman empire. Impressively insightful extrapolations based on what, at times, feel like the decline of the West. That's myopic, of course, as the whole intention of all this misinformation is to make us feel that way. At the end of the day, I know I got at least you and some fine lemmings here that see the whole picture.
I swear I do more than correct idioms, but I think you mean “cotton on,” which means to come to understand. To “cotton to” something is to come to like it. They’re bizarrely similar, so it’s easy to mistake.