Everybody seems to be accused of interfering with USA
elections over the years, even Iran now. This is a 'red herring' still
being used today but is getting stale and hardly effective. Four years
of trying to uncover Russian interference with the 2016 election ended
up as an empty wild goose chase. The USA will have to come up with a
more innovative and persuasive narrative and I think it is running out
of barrel bottoms to scrape. It is still stuck with Russian and Chinese
interference. Soon, India will also be dragged over the coals if what is
happening is any indication.
'In the past, the 'red herring' was
all about communism trying to destroy democracy and the voters fell for
the fabricated fear mongering. This narrative resulted in the Vietnam
War, the domino effect they call it, that if Vietnam falls, the whole of
South-East Asia will go the communist way. Well, South Vietnam did
fall, and what were the North Vietnamese doing by not expanding
communism southwards? It was more an attempt to regain hegemony over the
countries in Indochina, which the French failed to retain. It was
democracy trying to demolish communism instead of the other way round.
For
several years the narrative then focused towards fighting terrorism.
More like a master terrorist fighting wannabe terrorists to show it is
on the right side. Anyone fighting against USA's interest is branded a
terrorist. The USA has no lack of terrorist to fight for several long
years.
The USA had been trying to promote democracy in Iraq and
look what happens to the country. Afghanistan was thought to be left to
go downhill with the defeat of the USA but look what is happening to the
country. Things are working without the USA fermenting gloom and
inviting doom.
Anonymous
While communism did not expand Southwards after the fall of South Vietnam, look at what happened in Eastern Europe. NATO kept expanding over there after the West had an agreement with the Soviet Union that NATO will not expand an inch Eastward after the fall of the Soviets. Did the West honor their words? They now claim that there was no written agreement, so they can just merrily expand NATO Eastward to threaten Moscow, thinking that Putin has forgotten what Gorbachev had agreed with the West.
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In South-East Asia, decades ago, Deng Xiaoping had a meeting with Elder Lee and subsequently agreed to stop the communist infiltration into South-East Asia and Chin Peng was reined in. This is according to the words of Elder Lee, in a video post, which is still on Youtube, talking about Deng Xiaoping as being the 'most impressive person he ever met in his life'. Lee's admiration of Deng's trustworthiness cannot be underestimated. Beijing stopped its support of the communist activities in Malaya after that and communism never threatens South-East Asia.
This is the way that credible leaders should be acting, honoring their words to the letter. Was there even a written agreement, I am not sure. Unlike 'garbage' leaders overturning their agreed stance the moment they turn their backs, I would not hesitate to say that their 'iron clad' commitments are also all a mirage, unless you are a White country.