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Jun 19 13 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Part IV: The Global Battlefield

They told you the world was at peace. They lied. Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, the Sahel. These aren’t random. They’re pressure points in a global game. The U.S. isn’t defending freedom. It’s enforcing control. Here's how the empire really works. 🧵
Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran, Gaza. These aren’t random crises.

They’re pressure points. Frontlines in a global effort to punish defiance and protect the illusion of control. (1/12)
Ukraine was never about democracy.

It was about crippling Russia and locking Europe back under U.S. command. Ukrainians were sacrificed to weaken Moscow. Nothing more. (2/12)
Taiwan isn’t a moral stand. It’s a semiconductor hostage.

The U.S. doesn’t care about freedom on the island. It cares about keeping chip supply out of Beijing’s hands. (3/12)
Iran has been targeted for 70 years.

The real issue was never nuclear weapons. It was oil, sovereignty, and refusal to bow. That’s why it gets sanctions, assassinations, and sabotage. (4/12)
Gaza isn’t a humanitarian crisis. It’s a message.

Support for Israel is about enforcing fear across the Arab world. Bombs speak louder than diplomacy. (5/12)
The Sahel is fighting back.

France is out. AFRICOM is expanding. The U.S. calls it counterterrorism. What it really fears is African sovereignty. (6/12)
Latin America hasn’t surrendered either.

Bolivia kicked out the DEA. Mexico pushes back on U.S. interference. Argentina flirts with autonomy and gets slapped by markets. (7/12)
The empire isn’t retreating. It’s retooling.

It no longer needs boots on the ground. It uses drones, sanctions, color revolutions, and media warfare. (8/12)
This is war without declarations. Occupation without uniforms.
The goal isn’t victory. It’s permanent instability. (9/12)
But the machine is breaking.

Fewer governments obey. Fewer societies believe. The spell is fading. The illusion of control is harder to sell. (10/12)
What we call the “rules-based order” is just imperial choreography.

And it only works if the audience claps. Fewer are clapping. (11/12)
The battlefield is global. The war is constant.
But the empire is aging, desperate, and running out of time. (12/12)

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