1. your conclusion is based on a remark by one hardly representative american journalist. you said yourself this has been going on since the 40s. it's cycles of "oh no, crazy republican goes to war", then reasonable democrat continues the war. we know the drill.
if you write كلب which is an arabic word written right to left in the middle of an english sentence, you want to preserve the order of the characters in the stream for computer processing purposes. meaning the chararacter ك must come before the ل and after the e and the space with respect to the memory layout. whereas when displayed, it must be inverted to be legible. the solution is to have an invisible character that indicates a switch in text direction. if you were wondering, the situation where you want to write text in a foreign language within your text is very common outside english speaking countries.
Look I'm writing sdrawkcab (amazingly, I did it without using Unicode!). Layout is the job of your text formatting program. It's easy to fix a text editor to support right-to-left text entry.
The switch in text direction has resulted in malicious code injection attacks, as the reversed text becomes invisible. I had to change my compiler to reject those Unicode characters for that reason. It can be used in other cases to have hidden, malicious text.
Have you checked your SQL code for invisible backwards text that injects malware?
Your mistake is you think your point of view can be universal. It can't because "the game" you're talking about is already playing and if you were iranian being killed because you don't have the nuclear bomb, the only thing that would make sense for you is to have your own nuclear bomb. The same goes for any non white majority state which sees the return of colonialism and thinks the only way to stay safe from aggression is having the nuclear bomb.
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