> Most of the independence stories are complete B.S. Not most. All. Including ours. All independence stories are nonsense if you bother to think about it. > T

> Most of the independence stories are complete B.S. Not most. All. Including ours. All independence stories are nonsense if you bother to think about it. > They were enabled by the US to kick out the Europeans out of their colonies. That's some serious revisionist nonsense. Not only was the US was one of major 'european' colonizers in east asia since the early 1800s, it was also a major guarantor/protector of european colonial interests in east asia. The US fought the japanese in ww2 mainly to protect european colonial interests. Delve a little deeper than superficial propaganda. The vietnam war was the US fighting the vietnamese to protect european/french colonial interests. Heck today, the US is the major 'european' colonial power in east asia, and the rest of the world, protecting european colonial interests. > The punchline is that this is hurting the US even more now as that keeping these governments aligned is a much harder job than imagined and they are being scooped by Chinese influence in the present day. 'Scooped by china'. What gibberish. Does that mean they were 'scooped by the US' after ww2?