Posted on 12/26/2025 11:26:14 AM PST by Glad2bnuts
Interview James Bradley: Domino Theory and media lies for imperialist wars, from Vietnam to Venezuela
Finian Cunningham
December 25, 2025 © Photo: Public domain Best-selling American author James Bradley talks about his latest book, Precious Freedom.
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James Bradley, author of Precious Freedom
Finian Cunningham, author of Killing Democracy
Best-selling American author James Bradley talks about his latest book, Precious Freedom, and how the genocidal war against Vietnam (1965-75) was enabled by the U.S. media’s false propaganda of the “Domino Theory.”
The theory was that Vietnam was falling under Soviet and Chinese communism and that the U.S. was defending the “free world” and “democracy.”
Bradley spent 10 years living in Vietnam, talking with Vietnamese veterans and survivors of a war that killed over three million of their people. He tells about the horror of mass violence from the Vietnamese perspective and how they defeated an imperialist aggressor that dropped more bombs on their small country than all the explosives that were used in the Second World War.
Our interview focuses on the “Domino Theory” and how a giant deception was played on the American public to justify.......
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Is he talking about the Soviet Empire?
They were the ones behind the Reds in SE Asia.
In 1963 we moved almost 17,000 troops to Vietnam, 1965 was an escalation of something we had already moved into.
Show me the math on how the heart of our deficit is war. You said it now prove it. I suggest you look at defense spending as a % of the federal budget. Then decide how much of that spending was needed to defend our country and how much was extra for conducting war.
I’m not suggesting that war spending is or is not necessary only that you need to prove that the heart of the deficit is war.
College Prof Henry Kissinger published articles in the late ‘50s. Those papers have been the measuring point from which all US action from then to now can be measured.
Eisenhower had “advisors” who were labeled as “ugly Americans” due to their dismissive demeanor. JFK created the myth of Special Forces, Green Beret: quality, not quantity.
LBJ and the Whiz kids (in both the War on Poverty and War on Vietnam) pushed QUANTITY, NOT QUALITY. When I was in Vietnam 66-67 there were 500,000 in uniform. We didn’t know why LBJ sent us there, nor what we were supposed to do. Many of the guys went into town, raped the local women which turned the entire village against us, got drunk, flipped their jeeps into the the rice patty and drowned in 18” of mud. But as personnel clerks, we sent the body home with a letter: Your loved one died a hero. I never saw an “enemy”. I never met any other person (in Pleiku) who saw an enemy. A lot of “duty to dead” due to drunken vehicle tragedies. I left Vietnam Christmas eve 1 week before the Tet offensive.
” genocidal war against Vietnam (1965-75) was enabled by the U.S. media’s false propaganda of the “Domino Theory.” “
Whew
So much BS in so few words
Avoiding bombing Hanoi in ‘68 was “genocidal”? If we had bombed the dikes on the Yellow River and mined Haiphong harbor they would have had to sue for peace immediately. Johnson backed off, allowing them to continue to get weapons from the Soviet Union and even their “enemy of my enemy is my friend” the Red Chinese.
Domino effect was wrong? Tell it to the Cambodians and the Laotians. US SF troops were still fighting in western Cambodia in ‘76 against Pathet Lao AND Khmer Rouge instigators. Had friends who went up against them.
Utter BS.
Maybe “eternal war” is a function of the arms industry profits, but the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Peoples Republic were not playing around to provide said profits.
Gee...we only saw Communist take over Russia - then most of Eastern Europe, then China, then half of Korea, Cuba, and saw the British stop a communist insurgency in Maylaysia...
Who would have thought they would stop at Vietnam?
After Vietnam, they took Laos, then Cambodia...
But the domino theory must be incorrect!
The heart of our deficit is the entitlement programs, not defense spending.
Who pushes the entitlement programs to such excess? The Progressive Left. It is the Cloward-Piven strategy.
Truman sent the first advisors in 1950 although some Americans had been used there under FDR, Eisenhower kept the advisors and all was fine, he kept them his second term and then JFK had them, and then 1963 and JFK happened, there were a lot of crack units and crack troops in Vietnam during the war.
What was the myth about Special Forces?
You can easily spot the propaganda when an author pulls out the “genocide card” for military operations that were not in fact anything remotely resembling genocide, as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese that resettled in the US to avoid the communists.
It would certainly seem so. Perhaps the author lived in the wrong part of VN for ten years and talked with the wrong people
...the U.S. media’s false propaganda of the “Domino Theory.”...a giant deception...played on the American public...
JFK talked with America on TV and in press interviews about the Domino Theory, it was not at all a media construct. Moreover, history accurately shows how the Theory succinctly describes the USSR's global strategy.
The U.S. began providing military advisors to VN in the early 1950's. What was its interest in doing so?
It was established decades ago that the USSR spent a much greater percentage of its NGP to supply and support its VN allies than did the U.S. What was the USSR's interest?
The “Domino Theory” was a good scapegoat for the Military Industrial Complex to sell politicians, media, and others in America on the idea of going to war. What they failed to really deeply understand was the mindset of the Vietnamese. And anytime we think about sending American resources abroad militarily WE MUST have a strong understanding in America of the geography and other aspects of setting/context of the conflict.
Considering the abysmal functional literacy outcomes of our K-12 schools under the control of the US Department of Education then we’re a long way from having sufficient national understanding of many other countries, including Venezuela, Cuba, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, and former Ottoman Empire lands like Gaza, West Bank, and Syria. Thus, we should stay out of such messes and first fix our problems at home, starting with the National Debt that is fast approaching 40 trillion, more than double what it was when Trump took office in 2017.
Did we win in Vietnam? No, we lost, pulled out and the worst thing that happened was they figured out how good building things and selling them was.
We fight every war since WW 2 for ?????. We’ve lost all, Grenada. Iraq, lost twice. Afghanistan we lost, but supported the Taliban at first, then went in to destroy them, and now they are in charge once more. There is NO LOGICAL reasom for the endless war, except to bankrupt the country, and make certain people wealthy beyond belief.
Just my opinion.
The USSR and the USA are both bankrupt, only in our country have we the bankroll to outlast them. Soon, we will find out the cost. When the de-Dollarization happens, what will we do? Who will bail us out? $1 trillion to defense, yet we defend others.
I see that if we spent $1 million per day since Christs birth, we would have spent $730 Billion. Yet we are now $42 Trillion in debt. We have spent an average of $420 Billion in borrowed money, every year, for in approximately 100 years.
We will collapse as a nation, the only thing is we do not know when. Soon though, very soon unless we cut spending drastically.
The only thing that will save us, is cutting spending drastically. Federal income must be less than spending for many years. $1 Trillion to pay the deficit for 42 years straight?
Reagan said we will outgrow the deficit, it is not possible until spending is less than income.
“crack troops in Vietnam during the war.”
“What was the myth about Special Force”
When I was there in 66-67 S Korea had 50,000 there. Maybe 10,000 of them were close to “crack troops”. I never saw anything close to “crack troops” among Americans in Qui Nhon and Pleiku (mostly Pleiku). My Artillery went out to shoot up the Ho Chi Minh trail “just incase” there was anyone there. Never met any “crack troops” in the field. Americans were a lot of bored stiff out of their minds and getting drunk, mostly because they were bored.
LBJ/Whiz Kid/McNamara strategy of more quantity, less quality did not work.
You seem to be a personality type that runs everything through your negative filter and see little, what Special Forces myth did JFK create?
“Flags of Our Fathers” and “Flyboys” may have been good, but “Imperial Cruise” was wretched. I got the impression Bradley was blaming Teddy Roosevelt for Pearl Harbor. Yes, Teddy —whose imperialism supposedly alienated the Japanese.
Or rather, Bradley’s theory was that TR encouraged Japanese imperialism, as if the Japanese needed Roosevelt to tell them to do that. The book was full of abuse and sarcasm but thin on facts. I wouldn’t expect the new one to be great.
The Japanese wanted to keep up with Jones’ - Europeans(mostly!)\USA (somewhat!) in colonialism. They needed no encouragement from TR! Everyone was in the colony game when not Japan.
Who is to say what would have happened if we didn’t fight the war NOT to make Chinese mad. To win that war, we first needed to commit to chase the North Koreans until they surrendered, or just allowed them to work it out themselves. It wasn’t worth a single US life though in my book.
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