Men are more easy to brainwash through neoconservative and nationalistic ideas of make X country great again. In a world where the oppressed ethnicities (which were slaves till very recently) women (which still in many countries have no rights) and other minority groups historically discriminated have stronger voice and power than ever, the people who feel loosing power with all that changes are men. Young men specifically can feel they are loosing the privileges previous generations of men had, and so becoming more conservatives and against change.

So at the end is the forces of occupation, colonization and war against all changes needed in the world for all people to be free.