Everything was going along smoothly (within the parameters that the wealthy allowed) then came 9/11 and the world changed.
Bush started hitting out at everyone (all the wrong ones) and completely destabilised the whole Middle East, starting wars he could not win.
Immigration went berserk as people fled war zones and economic/political pressures came to bear (subsequently exacerbated by global warming, droughts, floods, heat, crop failures and hurricanes).
Bin Laden was laughing.
Muslim terrorism sparked racism. Brexit empowered racists and nationalists and broke up the EU.
Trump empowered racists, white supremacists, nationalists and Christian evangelists in an unholy alliance.
Fear, hate and division tore the West apart.
Putin seized his chance with sycophant Trump in power.
Netanyahu kept his ultra-right religious nutcases together by genocide against the Palestinians.
China and North Korea saw the vacuum. India is hovering with another ultra-right nut in charge.
the EU is in disarray. Hungary has a far-right nincompoop as a leader. Britain has lost influence in Europe and the US. Trump is a brain-dead fascist dictator who is siding with Putin (probably due to either bribes or blackmail over sex tapes) and shitting on alliances.
Immigration and Islamic fundamentalism is behind it all.
Osama Bin Laden won. He turned the apple cart over.
Trump is backing war criminal Netanyahu and his fascist government in their genocide because Trump sees easy black and white ‘answers’ to complex situations and always sides with fascist authoritarians. Then throw in the deranged Christian nationalists and white supremacy groups, Brexit and Musk (a deranged child with more cash than he knows what to do with – seeking power and attention – stirring up hate and division and siding with fascists) and you have the mess that Putin and Netanyahu are exploiting.
Who knows where this will lead?
A new world order – China/North Korea/Russia/India??
A third world war??
The USA as a Fascist Christian Nationalist state – just like Margaret Atwood described in The Midwife’s Tale.
Or will everyone come to their senses and kick self-serving conmen Trump, Farage, Tommy Robinson, Oban and Modi back into the holes they crawled out of??
Osama achieved more than he could ever have dreamed of. He overthrew the West.