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"The memo was explicit: if developing countries develop politically conscious, resource-nationalist governments responding to their own populations' needs, they will demand control of their oil, their minerals, their agricultural land.
And that control would come at the expense of American access.
The solution proposed was population control programs, funded through USAID and international organizations, targeting those specific countries."
https://substack.com/@nxt888/note/c-314314630

Sony Thăng Substack Note | Friday August 14, 2026

In 1954, President Eisenhower said something at a public press conference that almost nobody remembers.

Speaking to 197 journalists about Southeast Asia, he described the region's significance in terms of tin, tungsten, and rubber. Of access to raw materials. Of what would happen to Japanese and European economies, American allies, if those resources came under the control of governments not aligned with Washington.

Not democracy. Not freedom. Not the domino theory of ideological contagion.

Tin. Tungsten. Rubber.

On the record. In public. Forgotten.

Because in the same press conference, Eisenhower also introduced the falling domino. And the domino was the story that traveled. The domino fit on a textbook page. The domino gave the war the shape of principle rather than the shape of plunder.

The resource rationale did not need to be classified.

It just needed to be stood next to something more useful.

The textbooks took the domino and left the tin and ...