I can't believe I'm going to say this, but SAO:Alicization actually sort of did that, with a driving theme of "the artificial human souls in this simulated world are still ultimately human and deserve their own liberation and safety, while the imperialist warmongers fucking with them to make automated weapons are ontologically evil". It even made the point that the "evil" races of the world were also still literally just people who were being forced into a role they didn't want and in fact actively rebelled against.

It's just that it's still SAO and has more of the other kind of SA than ever before too. But on the other hand it does have Kirito depowered and/or in a coma for like 95% of it.

It's not good by any measure, but it's the least bad that mainline SAO ever was. It's an enjoyable hate-watch that somehow ends up with sort of ok major themes to it.

What about the isekai doctor manga where it's just a doctor teaching people medicine and the only people who have a problem with it are human supremacists who wish to monopolize (flawed, not omnipotent) healing magic to do imperialism on others

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57505/his-soul-is-marching-on-to-another-world-or-the

Try the OG isekai - Aura Battler Dunbine. It's a Yoshiyuki Tomino joint, so there's imperialism and a spiraling arms race but the author is trying to tell folks that's a bad thing.

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let be a multi coalition power of friendship deal that saves the day

Lord of the Rings without the questionable bits lol

Digimon

It's about Venezuela idk if that's better or worst than Freiren debates.

No no it's pretty close to a struggle about I Was Kidnapped And Taken To The Demon King's Castle And Now I Can't Get A Good Night's Sleep

I mean not really, the plot goes to some lengths to point out all kinds of background heroes did alot of the heavy lifting tackling the bulk of the demon army

In fact there are hints that the disillusionment over the lack of recognition for these acts may be behind a certain character's motivation to commit homicidal actions against mages

In games you have to kill all the demon generals before you get to fight the big bad! Each one unlocks a new region.

Removing Maduro didn't do anything beyond appeasing the egos of American politicians. He was open to a lot of the stuff the current government is doing, but the US wouldn't negotiate with him at all.

I don't think "do decapitation strikes work" was ever the right angle to approach it. The conditions in Venezuela took time to work to the point where a decap worked. That process happened slowly, the decap happened suddenly. A materialist approach would be to analyze how venezuela got to this point, where a country like Iran was so much more resilient.

Decapitation strikes work, when they can tip the balance in struggle between two or more relatively equal factions, and fail, when one faction is absolutely dominant.