Although he had spoken optimistically to Athena about Latveria's cause, the reality was that even with the City of Immortals' Intelligence Department possessing an extremely efficient team and chain of command, along with compromising material on numerous European and American officials and their families, imitating the methods of the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy would not be easy. The United States' hegemony in the cultural sphere was deeply entrenched. Whether popular culture or religious groups, they were all loyal adherents of the American Spirit. Even if Latveria, like the National Endowment for Democracy, showered money upon the cultural circles and intellectuals of hostile nations, it could not achieve the point of buying off vast numbers of spies and having them subtly spread ideology and smear their enemies through cultural channels such as textbooks, photography, films, animation, and music.
The fundamental reason was that Latveria was too realistic, while everyone dreamed of pursuing something beautiful.
American popular culture and religious culture could both tell you that as long as you were devout enough and believed in democracy strongly enough, you could possess wealth, wisdom, and power. You could immerse yourself in utterly selfish hedonism and freely enjoy freedom and rights without any boundaries. This ideology wrapped people up like a soft blanket, lulling them into beautiful dreams and making them turn a blind eye to the terrible state of reality. Even when they saw the Hideous truth, all they needed was to satisfy themselves through formalities such as mourning.
Latveria's ideology, stitched together with Marxism-Leninism, instead laid bare the Hideous reality and told people that humanity had to unite to overcome its difficulties, abandon indulgence and selfishness, and recognize that only the collective and the survival of the Human Race mattered most. This ideology told you what reality was