Always has been

That imperialism shit doesn't care what you think because it's bigger and meaner than you are and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.

Once normal people get desperate and mean enough, imperialism tends to loose in a big way. History has proven it at great cost.

Yep, the "great cost" is something that seems to get lost in the shuffle sometimes in conversations about this. No leadership realizes the error of their ways before a lot of suffering.