“The Great American Amnesia: When the Oppressor Became the Oppressed (Or So They Claim)” The World's Most Convincing Performance. By General Tetramegistus

The World's Most Convincing Performance

There was a time not so long ago when the word “America” conjured images of Marlboro men and military coups. 

The "land of the free" paradoxically stood as the world’s most sophisticated architect of unfreedom. Across continents, Americans were suspected of being CIA operatives by default, even by allies. The nation was seen as a place that exported not only pop culture and capitalism but also proxy wars, regime changes, and a polished brand of democratic hegemony. 

Today, somehow, those same citizens walk around wearing the badge of global victimhood, waving the banner of "free speech," "cancel culture," and "tyranny"—as if the world hadn't tasted the bitter fruits of American imperialism for over a century.

Something has changed. Or more accurately, something has been forgotten.

 A Legacy of Intervention: Receipts from History’s Ledger

Before we get into the current collective amnesia, let us remember the Greatest Hits of America’s international interventions direct and indirect that shaped a world order more loyal to Wall Street than to justice.

1. Mexican-American War (1846–1848)

An outright land grab that ended with the U.S. annexing nearly half of Mexico's territory—including modern-day California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. Manifest Destiny, they called it. Colonialism, the rest of the world understood.

2. Philippines (1899–1902)

After "liberating" the Philippines from Spain, the U.S. conducted a brutal counterinsurgency war against Filipino independence fighters, killing hundreds of thousands in the name of civilization.

3. Iran (1953 – Operation Ajax)

A democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was overthrown with CIA and British help for daring to nationalize oil. The Shah was installed—a puppet monarchy with a brutal secret police. Iran hasn’t forgotten. But has America?

4. Chile (1973)

Salvador Allende, another democratically elected socialist, was overthrown in a military coup supported by the U.S. Pinochet's reign of terror followed, with torture chambers and disappearances. Kissinger famously said, “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.”

5. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1955–1975 and beyond)

An entire region devastated under the domino theory. Millions dead. Laos remains the most heavily bombed country per capita in history—bombs that still maim farmers today.

6. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras (1980s)

Proxies, death squads, and CIA-trained militia turned Central America into a nightmare, feeding today’s immigration crises. The term "Banana Republic" wasn’t born in fiction.

7. Afghanistan (1979–present)

First armed against the Soviets, then bombed in retribution, then abandoned to the Taliban—the Afghans learned what being an American pawn means.

8. Iraq (2003)

Weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. Over 500,000 civilian deaths. Destabilization that birthed ISIS. And no war crimes tribunal in sight.

9. Libya (2011)

Gaddafi was toppled in a NATO operation cheered by American leadership. Today, Libya is a failed state with open-air slave markets.

The Manufactured Shock of Trump

Enter Donald J. Trump

a crude, narcissistic spectacle of a man whose sins are not unique, but simply unfiltered. Trump is not a glitch in the American matrix; he is its honest echo. 

He did not create the rot; he exposed it. 

He is the reality TV version of systemic decay a manifestation of policies, prejudices, and powers that long preceded him.

He simulated a blowjob on stage. He bragged about sexual assault. He banned Muslims. He cuddled with dictators. 

Yet, despite all this—or perhaps because of it—he was elected. Twice, if we consider the popular movement and legal disputes around 2020.

What shocks the world about Trump is not that he is uniquely vile, but that he was democratically chosen—by millions. He was not America’s fall. He was its mirror.

The Curious Case of Global Amnesia

So what is this strange alchemy happening now?

Why, in a world that once rightly criminalized the American Empire, are we now witnessing a rhetorical rebranding of Americans as the "new oppressed"? 

Why is the loudest voice on global injustice suddenly wearing a hoodie and yelling into a podcast mic about “tyranny” for being fact-checked?

Why are Americans acting as though censorship began with Elon Musk’s Twitter?

Where were these voices when American-made bombs fell on wedding parties in Yemen? When Haitians were whipped at the border in 2021? When Gaza burned again and again under American vetoes in the UN Security Council?

Where were these free speech champions when Chelsea Manning was imprisoned, or when Julian Assange was hunted like an animal for revealing America’s war crimes?

The answer: American victimhood is a well-marketed export. It sells better than liberation ever could.

Elon Musk and the “Fake White Man”

Elon Musk is a peculiar symbol—celebrated, then hated, then celebrated again. His critics accuse him of being erratic and egotistical. His defenders see him as a maverick.

But Musk’s real crime, perhaps, is exposing white America's fantasy: that power is noble if it comes with tech startups and TED Talks.

Musk is a walking contradiction: African-born, apartheid-adjacent, drug-using, baby-fathering, libertarian-capitalist messiah. He embodies the very hypocrisies the West once denied it had. The issue is not that he is unique—but that he is so American in his contradictions.

The Performance of Oppression

Today, the privileged perform oppression as identity. Americans who once voted for mass surveillance now cry "Orwell!" when banned from Facebook. Billionaires like Musk whine about censorship, while silencing employees.

White America has not become oppressed—it has become unmasked. 

And like any actor caught without a costume, the panic is palpable.

But as the world begins to shift—with the rise of BRICS, the decline of the petrodollar, and increasing multipolarity—the global south remembers what the West hopes it has forgotten.

If the world seems confused, it is because two Americas are colliding:

1. The America that thinks it is the world’s underdog.

2. The America that has long been the world’s bully.

Until the oppressed within previously self centered [ Authentic America First way before Trump ] America acknowledge the oppressed beyond America—no healing, no justice, and certainly no truth can prevail: remember.....memory is a weapon of the authentically, [ not the braggadocios self creating ] oppressed.