YMMV / America's Stepbrother, America's Enemy V2.0

• Catharsis Factor: Anyone who's read 1984 knows how vile the Party is, so it's refreshing to read about its forces being repeatedly curb-stomped by the US and them desperately having to doublethink to cope.
• Nightmare Fuel: The depiction of Obliteration of the Self, AKA death worship. A man is compelled to commit a protracted ritual suicide because he had the audacity to have his own identity for a moment. Said self-destruction is gruesomely detailed.