To get back to subject in my comment, It is not the US empire, it is Democrats. Call it like it is.
BTW who runs this state and denies you your gun rights?
It sure as hell isn't the useless Republicans.

Yes, the Democrats are nothing but the other butt cheek of the same US imperial buttock. However, the move to WWIII goes beyond both political parties. The decision to go forward with WWIII is the last thing that the Deep State, American oligarchs, Power Okole, or whatever you want to call them can do to prevent the end of the US empire.
With Saudi Arabia selectively deciding to sell their oil in other currencies other than the Petrodollar, the increasing number of nations joining BRICS and China's Belt and Road Initiative, and China, India, the Global South, and many African nations deciding not to participate in the US empire led sanctions against Russia, the US empire and her vassal states are on their way to economic collapse.
Why do you think the US allowed the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline? Whether the Brits did it or not, the US empire made sure its European vassals did not join Russia and China by keeping them energy locked to expensive US imperial natural gas.