7/2/2024 Episode 92 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Dust James and Greg Rosen.
The panel discusses the delicate situation engulfing the EU and the United States, where the anti-immigrant issue has gathered considerable momentum, presenting difficult problems (and opportunities) for the reigning oligarchy. It's noteworthy, says Dust James, that in both the US (capital/imperial core) and Europe (the periphery, where a "labor aristocracy" developed) the capitalists are drifting toward fascism. In America, 

Something similar is being seen in Europe, with similar political results—the public is swinging toward the right. In both cases, however, the kindling for the fire was provided by many decades of "liberal interventionist" policies that catered to the military industrial complex while betraying the needs and aspirations of ordinary workers. The tyrannical imperialist/rightist "Woke" regime —essentially centrist-rightist liberals, wrongly identified  by many as "the left"—has only acted as an accelerant to this socially explosive process.