Essentially every war since WW2 has been a proxy war. That's was kind the whole idea behind the Cold War. It ain't new. Those didn't escalate and this is unlikely to. All the powers involved know the stakes.
Bruh, people still think 5G is gonna either give them cancer or turn them into zombies. They'll think 6G will cause their head to explode ala Scanners or open a demonic portal to hell.
To get the Dog ending you have to get all 3 normal endings or just the Rebirth ending in previous playthroughs. Since the Rebirth ending is only available after the first NG, you need to finish the game at least three times to get the Dog ending. So if his friend got the Rebirth ending previously and he was using his NG+ instead of a new file he could have gotten it, but his friend would have needed to beat the game multiple times.
Yeah, their version of "Stop the culture war" isn't "Stop attacking vulnerable groups and focus on the bigger threat" it's "Stop fighting back and let us destroy these vulnerable groups and focus on those people instead". It's just an attempt to distract.
Yeah, now they can claim the problem is fixed, wash their hands of this whole thing and go back to corruption as usual. It's a completely empty gesture.
There is no greater force in the universe than the feeling of "Fuck that guy in particular"