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How the “Country-First” Wave Took Over

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Carmen Broesder
Oct 05, 2025
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It Was Never About Patriotism. It Was About Power

From Japan to France, from the U.S. to Poland, the same slogans echo through different languages:

“Our country first.”

But beneath the flags and rhetoric lies the same global pattern, a class struggle disguised as nationalism, accelerated by digital capitalism and the concentration of power at the very top …

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