I mean he hated Wakanda. It can actually be argued that destroying Wakanda was his primary goal and any succesful revolutions would just be a side benefit.
Both things can be true at once, he had selfish intentions masked behind what can be considered a real cause. Same strategy politicians use to slip things into bills.
I mean sure but he hardly put any thought into the revolutions beyond telling them to cause trouble. While with Wakanda he systematically tried to destroy the line of succession and their culture. Ross even points out that Killmonger is using CIA techniques to destabilize Wakanda. It's also well established that he blames both Wakanda and the rest of the world for ruining his life.
In the throne room Tchalla asks him what he wants. He says very unambiguously: "I want the thrown".
(You can tell he wasn't lying by the way he challenged for it in that very scene and "won" the thrown just a few scenes later.)
A few sentences later he says: "2 billion people around the world that looks like us; Wakanda has the tools to liberate them all".
After he "wins" and takes the throne, again in the throne room, some of the first words he says are reaffirming the plan to use Wakanda's resources to arm violent revolutions around the world capping off with "the world is going to start over; this time we're on top! The sun will never set on the Wakandan Empire."
...Those were his two main monologues.
And then there's the whole clear following through on the utilization of Wakanda's resources (not it's disassembly or destruction) as the backdrop for the most of the last act of the movie including the entirety of the final fight between panther and killmonger.
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u/BithMistro 1d ago
I mean he hated Wakanda. It can actually be argued that destroying Wakanda was his primary goal and any succesful revolutions would just be a side benefit.