What you’ve outlined is the skeleton beneath the empire. A story that begins not with freedom, but with fear.
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What you’ve outlined is the skeleton beneath the empire. A story that begins not with freedom, but with fear.
Fear of redistribution.
Fear of accountability.
Fear of a world that might not bow to capital.
From the Palmer Raids to the Red Scare, from McCarthy to the CIA, every institution of American power was shaped to protect wealth first, and democracy second, if at all.
You’re absolutely right about the industrialists. Many of them admired Hitler, not despite his brutality, but because of it.
He crushed unions. He jailed communists. He kept the trains running for capital.
He was everything they wished America could be, without the inconvenience of elections.
After World War II, the mask came off.
The USSR became the new threat.
The Dulles brothers turned diplomacy into corporate warfare.
The CIA stopped gathering information and started enforcing obedience.
What followed wasn’t a Cold War. It was a permanent global assault on any system that refused to serve capital.
It began with sabotage and ended in fire.
The Korean War wasn't about saving Korea. It was about dividing it.
A united, sovereign Korea under its own banner was never allowed.
Millions perished. Cities were turned to ash. And to this day, the peninsula remains split, not by the will of Koreans, but by the needs of empire.
Then came the "China threat."
Not because China invaded anyone. Not because it threatened the United States.
But because it stood up. On its own terms.
A country of peasants defeated warlords, imperial powers, and foreign armies.
It unified. It rebuilt. It succeeded. Without American permission.
That was the real threat.
Not aggression, but independence.
The fear was never China's military. It was China's defiance.
That a quarter of humanity might reject Western capital and survive.
That a civilization long marked for subjugation might stand again with its own voice.
That was unthinkable.
And so the myth of an aggressive China was born.
Not as a reflection of what China did, but as a pretext for what the United States planned to do.
It expanded military bases across Asia.
It surrounded China’s waters.
It fueled proxy wars and stoked fear, not to defend freedom, but to protect markets.
Because the United States was never fighting communism.
It was fighting sovereignty.
It was fighting self-determination.
It was fighting the right of nations to say no.
That is why Vietnam had to be punished.
Not just for resisting the French.
Not just for defeating the Americans.
But for surviving it all and standing up with its spine intact.
The war was never about Southeast Asia alone.
It was about precedent.
Because if one poor, colonized nation could break its chains and still stand, then maybe others could too.
That was the real domino theory.
Not the spread of communism.
But the spread of courage.
And that was the beginning of empire’s end.
Not with a bang, but with a truth it could no longer bury.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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