The United States has a ritual when it loses wars. It pretends the defeat was a choice.
The United States has a ritual when it loses wars.
It pretends the defeat was a choice.
It stages a conference.
It drafts an "accord."
It signs a "peace" that was never its to give.
That was Paris in 1973.
After a decade of napalm and massacres, after failing to break Vietnam’s spirit, Washington sat at the table not to end the war but to hide its humiliation.
It called it peace.
But Vietnam had already written the real terms on the battlefield.
Now it is Ukraine.
Another proxy war. Another defeat.
After billions in weapons, after rivers of blood, after trying and failing to break Russia, Washington once again reaches for theater.
It calls it "peace."
But the world sees what it is: retreat.
This is Saigon with new geography.
Kiev is today’s puppet capital.
Propped up by American dollars.
Abandoned when the bill comes due.
The empire’s ritual never changes.
America wages wars it cannot win, then rebrands its defeat as strategy.
It launders humiliation through conferences and accords, hoping fiction will pass for fact.
It is the same hand that armed the proxy now reaching for a handshake when the guns fall silent.
But the world has memorized this script.
From the Mekong to the Donbass.
From Vietnam to Ukraine.
The people know what it means when America talks of "peace."
It means the empire is cornered.
It means the mask of invincibility is cracking.
And each time it happens, the lie grows thinner.
The mask slips further.
The world sees what America fears most.
Not the loss of a war.
But the loss of the illusion that it never lost.
Kiev is not just America’s new Saigon.
It is another gravestone in the empire’s cemetery.
Proof that every empire digs its own.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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