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as a filipino artist, i am conflicted about this news

The United States built its entire Cold War foreign policy on one simple premise: No poor country gets to choose its own path. Not Vietnam. Not Korea. Not Cuba. Not Guatemala. Not Chile. Not the Congo. Not Iran. Not Nicaragua. Not anywhere. The moment a government, elected or revolutionary, tried to control its own resources, redistribute land to its own people, or simply refuse American military bases on its soil, the machinery activated. Sanctions first. Then coups. Then if those failed, bombs. Vietnam was supposed to be the loudest example. The most total destruction. The clearest message. Instead it became the clearest proof that the machinery could be broken. They spent two decades trying to destroy one country's will to be free. Two full decades. Trillions of dollars. Millions of lives. The full weight of the most powerful military ever assembled. And the will did not break. Think about what that means for the entire system built on making you believe resistance is futile. If the will of the Vietnamese people could not be broken by all of that, what exactly are you afraid of? The spell is broken. Vietnam broke it. What you’re feeling when you read about sanctions and aircraft carriers and "consequences," that feeling isn’t respect for power. That's a habit. And habits can end.

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Asia was occupied, Africa was colonized. Big difference

Heartbreaking reality. A father of 5 in the Philippines breaks down as Trump's disastrous war on Iran doubles fuel costs, leaving his children starving. With 98 percent of oil routes blocked, the country is 40 days away from total collapse. The world is suffering.