It was never about stopping communism. It was about stopping an alternative. An alternative to markets without mercy. Profits without borders. Extraction without end.

Sony Thang

@nxt888

Jeff, thank you. Few speak from within the empire with such clarity and conscience. You’re right. It was never about stopping communism. It was about stopping an alternative. An alternative to markets without mercy. Profits without borders. Extraction without end. They didn’t fear communism as a political threat. They feared it as a moral one. A world where a nation might choose land reform over landlords. Nationalization over foreign shareholders. Education and health care over permanent debt. That was the real danger. A bad example. If Vietnam could resist, survive, and stand on its own, what would stop others from trying? So they called it containment. But it was conquest. They called it democracy. But it was domination. And you’re right again. It wasn’t just Vietnam. Guatemala. Iran. Congo. Chile. Indonesia. Iraq. Syria. Libya. Haiti. Nicaragua. All left in ruins. Not because they threatened the American people, but because they threatened American control. The lie was global. The death toll was endless. And the justification was always the same. Thank you for naming it. And thank you for still caring. Most forget. You didn’t.

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Sony, this is a great summary. I grew up in the Vietnam War era. The defining mantra and justification for the U.S. involvement in it was to “stop the spread of communism”. One must ask “As opposed to what?” Most political pundits glom onto the preferred definition of the

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