If i would tell you from how much different cultures my rl-friends are from... :)

They are encircled already for a long time now: To me it seems that their hardcore administration just seems to keep denying this simple fact and that is why they only can do their shitty executed cloak and dagger shady tactics.

There exist bonds between smart humans no money on the world can break and we don't even need the same religion to achieve this...

In fact i sometimes just feel sorry for them, bc. they are so entrenched, that they maybe never can get out of their DIY-trenches again, that of course: self-explanatory are smarter build than everybody else's trenches.