When in human history have STO forces had a decisive victory?
It seems to me that it just doesn't work that way. STO can't really beat STS in their own game, i.e. "earthy" manipulation, lying, scheming etc., that's what STS simply does best. They are super-good when it comes to achieving their goals on the material realm; that's all they know and love and care about. But they are very bad with succeeding in the
invisible world, because they don't care, deny it, even hate it. I mean, did JFK fail? Did MLK? Cesar? The apostle Paul? In an earthy sense, they did; but their legacy still lives on, they left a deep imprint on the "information field", to the point that they are still revered by those today who
can see. And that's the crucial point: they succeeded in the unseen world.
It's a similar story with intellectual history - there are so many great, deep and uplifting thoughts written down. But they are not sensationalist, over-exegerating, world-shaking, ideology-founding. They are more subtle, soft, more balanced, more honest and truth-loving. So they were erased from ordinary collective memory, but they are still there for people who
care to look. And that's the point: there are no "decisive victories" perhaps, but uplifting traces, inspiration for those wanting to rise.
It's all about acting and seeing in the unseen world, while still living on the material plane. And for those, the rules are different, and so:
At the end of the day, during macro-cosmic collapses or changes like this, we really have not other option than to believe that "the universe" (or some kind of intelligence) knows what it is doing.
To quote Ibn al-Arabi from the Ertugrul series: "God is the best of plotters". And Goethe's Mephisto, the devil who defines himself as "Part of that force that always wills the evil and always produces the good". So while STS wins in this world, indeed BY them winning in this world, at the end of the day, we may win in the other world. Hopefully while we are still
part of the material world!