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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They sermonized about democracy and protected Epstein's network.

They sermonized about human rights and armed Israel as it carried out genocide in Gaza.

They sermonized about the rule of law and prosecuted whistleblowers, the people who revealed the crimes, while the people who committed the crimes received security clearances and consulting contracts.

They sermonized about a free press and prosecuted Julian Assange for the crime of publishing documents that proved war crimes, documents whose accuracy no one disputed, documents that showed the people prosecuting him had lied under oath to Congress and murdered journalists and laughed about it on radio intercepts.

They sermonized about financial responsibility and bailed out the banks that crashed the global economy and then hired the regulators who approved the bailout.

This is not hypocrisy as a character flaw.

This is hypocrisy as an operating system.

A system in which the sermon is not meant to describe what they will do.

The sermon is what they do instead of what they will not do.

The sermon is the product.

The outrage is the product.

The investigation that goes nowhere is the product.

The bipartisan commission with its measured, multi-year report, released after all the relevant statutes of limitations have expired, is the product.

The product is the management of your anger.

Not its resolution.

And they are very, very good at it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

136 years ago, the man who broke the spell was born.

If Hồ Chí Minh could see today’s world, he would not be surprised.

He knew that history bends toward balance, not empire.

He would look at Vietnam's victory, still standing, still sovereign, still proof that the most powerful military on earth can be defeated by a people who refuse to disappear.

He would look at China’s rise, at Russia's defiance, at Africa’s awakening, at Cuba's endurance, at Iran's resistance, and smile.

Not because the struggle is over.

But because the world is finally beginning to resemble the one he died believing in.

A world where power no longer means domination.

Where sovereignty is not a privilege but a birthright.

He would say what he later gave Vietnam as an immortal truth:

"Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom."

That spirit has outlived its borders.

It lives wherever the Global South refuses to bow.

Happy birthday, Uncle Hồ.

The spell is broken.

The prophecy holds.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Notice how the word "freedom" works in American political language.

Freedom to bomb another country: called defense.

Freedom to sanction a population into poverty: called pressure.

Freedom to support a coup against an elected government: called stability.

But freedom for another country to choose its own economic system? Threat.

Freedom for another people to elect a government Washington doesn't approve of? Crisis.

Freedom for the Global South to trade outside the dollar system? Aggression.

The word means: our freedom to do what we want, everywhere, to everyone.

It does not mean what the dictionary says.

It never did.

And the citizens who repeat it most fervently are usually the ones who have thought least carefully about what they're actually saying.

They're not lying.

They genuinely don't know.

The empire translated the word for them before they were old enough to question the translation.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Your "respect" is hollow.

You replaced Westmoreland's biological racism with geopolitical infantilization.

Different packaging. Same refusal to admit that an Asian nation defeated a Western superpower on its own terms.

To suggest millions of Vietnamese endured napalm, Agent Orange, and carpet-bombing because a "despot" told them to is imperial arrogance in its purest form.

We were not fighting for an ideology. We were expelling a foreign invader.

America was not fighting despots. It was fighting the immune system of a nation.

And it lost.

Yes. The Soviets sent weapons and aid.

Yes, China sent anti-aircraft and logistical support.

But the men and women in the tunnels, the people who broke Westmoreland's army psychologically, were Vietnamese.

America brought half a million troops, total air and naval supremacy, allies from South Korea to Australia, and dropped more bombs than all of World War II combined.

And still it left by helicopter from a rooftop.

Do not blame China for American military humiliation.

Vietnam's post-war poverty was not caused by socialism.

Vietnam was physically obliterated by American explosives, its agriculture poisoned with millions of gallons of Agent Orange, and then strangled by a vindictive, two-decade U.S. trade embargo meant to starve it for winning.

Vietnam thrives today not because it "broke free" of its allies, but because it survived an American-made apocalypse and rebuilt from the ashes.

You can try to rewrite history to soothe the American ego.

The scoreboard does not change.

The Vietnamese fought. The Vietnamese won.

You just can't let that sentence stand alone.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The sanctions playbook was rehearsed on Vietnam.

After the war, the U.S. blocked Vietnam from the IMF, the World Bank, and virtually every major international financial institution.

It maintained a trade embargo that isolated the Vietnamese economy for two decades.

It pressured other countries to cut ties.

It tried to build an economic wall around a country that had just survived a military one.

The logic was the same logic it always is:

If we can't destroy you with bombs, we'll destroy you with poverty.

Make the economy scream.

Make ordinary people suffer until they associate their suffering with their government's independence rather than with the foreign power squeezing them.

Wait for collapse.

Wait for desperation.

Wait for the next coup, the next "color revolution," the next government that will finally do what Washington wants.

They waited for twenty years.

Vietnam didn't collapse.

It didn't beg.

It reformed on its own terms, through its own process, at its own pace.

It eventually normalized relations, not because it surrendered, but because it was strong enough that America eventually decided engagement served its interests better than isolation.

Vietnam outlasted the embargo.

The same country that outlasted B-52s outlasted economic strangulation.

Every nation currently living under American sanctions should study the Vietnamese experience.

Not as a perfect model, nothing is, but as proof that the embargo is not a death sentence.

It is a test of endurance.

And some peoples are very, very good at endurance.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I’m actually writing this from the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, in sovereign, thriving Vietnam.

So yes, John, I am living it.

The difference is that the Vietnam Dream was built from the ashes your "liberators" left behind.

It’s a dream of self-reliance and dignity that doesn't require a global network of 800 military bases to sustain.

The American Dream is a hallucination that only exists because the rest of the world is forced to endure the American Nightmare.

Your "prosperity" is a debt-fueled luxury suite built on the backs of countries you’ve spent a century trying to break.

You don't have a "dream." You have a global protection racket.

We were supposed to be the "example" of failure.

Instead, we are the prophecy of your decline.

You're still obsessed with being "invincible," but we’re the ones who proved you aren't.

While you’re busy drowning in your own "regime changes" and internal rot, we’re just busy being free.

The Vietnam Dream is real because it belongs to us.

Yours only exists as long as you can keep the rest of us under your boot.

And as 1975 proved, your boots aren't as heavy as you think.

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

I’m in Vietnam a “communist” country and they are clearly on an upward swing

It’s clean safe beautiful, zero homeless, free healthcare and little crime

Their GDP is growing 4 times faster than in America

Now I'm not a communist but this isn’t the horror we were told

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

In 1972, Nixon bombed Hanoi at Christmas.

Operation Linebacker II.

Twelve days.

Hundreds of B-52 sorties.

Targets included hospitals, residential areas, and Bach Mai Hospital, a civilian medical facility struck multiple times, killing doctors and patients.

The world protested.

The images were everywhere.

Even American allies expressed horror.

Nixon called it "peace with honor."

The Vietnamese called it what it was: the desperate escalation of a power that knew it had lost, trying to bomb its way to a negotiating position that would allow it to leave without complete humiliation.

It didn't work.

The Paris Peace Accords were signed six weeks later, on essentially the same terms that had been available before the Christmas bombing.

Fifty years later, the grandchildren of the people who survived that bombing are signing contracts to build the infrastructure that will power Vietnam's future.

The grandchildren of the pilots are writing think pieces about concerning partnerships.

History's verdict on who made the right decisions is already written.

It was written on April 30, 1975.

It is being written again today, in the language of kilowatts and construction contracts and sovereign infrastructure decisions made without asking Washington's permission.

The arc of this story does not bend toward American preferences.

It bends toward Vietnamese determination.

It always has.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Iranian Professor Marandi is unstoppable:

“You've messed with the wrong country,

Your propaganda doesn't work anymore,

What you have done to the Palestinian people, to the Iraqi people, to the Cuban people, to the Venezuelan people — you cannot do to the Iranian people.” 🔥

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They said no one could stand against empire.

But Vietnam did.

And we didn’t fight with words alone.

We fought with steel in our spine and fire in our lungs.

We fought barefoot in the mud, with rusted rifles, against superpowers who thought the world was theirs to rule.

We made them bleed until they crawled back across oceans—beaten, broken, and no longer so sure of themselves.

And we built what they said could never rise—a nation that never forgot the cost of freedom.

Empire is not eternal.

Resistance is.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

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Hong Kong lawmaker Dominic Lee to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva:

“What moral authority does the U.S., a country ruled by the Epstein class, have over my country which has lifted 800 million people out of poverty? What moral authority do NATO countries have who preach human rights while turning a blind eye to the Zionist genocide in Gaza?”

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

On this day in 1968:

US forces carried out the My Lai massacre in Vietnam🇻🇳, killing up to 500 unarmed villagers in My Lai, using the pretext that it was a stronghold of the communist Viet Cong.

The US’ mass atrocities against civilians that you’re seeing in Iran is not new.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Linkin Park, at their peak, invited a fan on stage to play 'Faint' on guitar and he nailed it!

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