Sony Thăng

Every one of these wars is not a separate story.

It is the same operating system trying to reinstall itself in different regions.

Lebanon. Syria. Venezuela. Mali. Burkina Faso. Ukraine. Iran. Taiwan. Gaza.

Different maps. Same code.

Sanctions. Proxies. Media cover.

“Humanitarian” pretext. Financial choke points.

The locations change so the pattern can hide.

Once you see the pattern, you cannot unsee it.

Where I agree with you completely is this: there can be no “safe exit lane” for empire.

No protected Monroe backyard.

No deal where the Global South trades its own people so Washington can retreat to a smaller, cleaner hegemony and call it restraint.

If this system survives as a “regional” empire, it will grow back into a global one the second the world looks away.

The only real safety is when nobody has the leverage to sanction half the planet, starve entire nations, and bomb civilians while calling it security policy.

But the “exorbitant price” it must pay cannot only be measured in body counts.

That cycle has already devoured too many of us.

It has to be a price in legitimacy.

In credibility.

In access.

In uncontested control over money, narratives, and choke points.

When Washington and its clients can no longer:

Weaponize their currencies without blowback.

Hire “rebels” and “NGOs” on small budgets to implode entire regions.

Flip governments with a few billion in weapons and bribery.

Buy silence with “aid” and investment.

Then the machinery of proxy war starts to seize up.

What you are really describing is a world where the empire’s money and networks no longer move like water.

Where every attempt to destabilize a country leaves it weaker, poorer, and more isolated than before.

Where private capital starts to treat alignment with Washington as a risk, not a guarantee.

That is how the misery stops.

Not by trusting a new savior empire.

But by building a world where no state, no bloc, can afford to use the rest of us as a permanent battlefield and still call itself “the international community”.