Yankwashing: How the Empire Erases Truth

The U.S. doesn’t just rewrite history, it deletes it by design. The brainwashing is so thorough that Americans live in a constant state of historical amnesia, blind to their country’s failures, overstating its victories, and erasing the contributions of others. From 1812 to World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq, the truth is either reduced to a footnote or buried altogether. The result? A population that cheers for endless wars while clutching a false narrative of moral and military superiority.

Take the War of 1812. In Canada, it’s a cornerstone of national history: a David-and-Goliath tale where British and Canadian forces not only repelled an American invasion but marched into DC and burned the White House. Yet in American textbooks? It’s barely a footnote, and when it is mentioned, it’s Yankeewashed as a “draw.” A draw? The U.S. had every advantage: manpower, geography, and resources. Britain, preoccupied with the Napoleonic Wars, sent limited resources across the Atlantic, yet even with these constraints, British and Canadian forces decisively crushed the U.S. invasion. By 1814, with Napoleon defeated, Britain unleashed fresh reinforcements, delivering the final blows and marching into DC to burn the White House. But the empire prefers its citizens to believe their flag was heroically waving, not that it survived by begging for mercy.

WWII is another glaring example. The sacrifices of the Soviet Union are minimized to prop up the myth of America as the sole savior of freedom. Trump recently claimed that “70 million Soviets died to help the Americans,” which is absurd on many levels. First, the actual number is closer to 26 million. Second, the Soviets didn’t “help” the Americans, they won the war. The Red Army destroyed more than 75% of Nazi forces, fighting the Wehrmacht’s best divisions on the Eastern Front while the Allies faced second-tier troops - Hitler Youth and middle-aged conscripts in Normandy. But you won’t hear that in American classrooms, where D-Day is lionized and Stalingrad is an afterthought.

And then there’s Vietnam: a war most Americans couldn’t even locate on a map, let alone justify. The empire sold it as a crusade against communism, but in reality, it was an illegal invasion and occupation. Millions of Vietnamese civilians were slaughtered, their villages carpet-bombed, their land poisoned with Agent Orange. Yet many Americans still cling to the fantasy that they were the victims. The same script played out in Iraq, with fabricated WMDs and media cheerleading a war that killed a couple million civilians and destabilized an entire region. Americans still ask, “Why do they hate us?” as if the answer isn’t written in the rubble of Baghdad.

Meanwhile, the U.S. lectures its vassals about not paying enough into the NATO protection racket, demanding they spend 5% of GDP on defense. For what? What kind of return on investment does the U.S. get for its trillion-a-year defense spending? To be humiliated by rice farmers in Vietnam and terrorists in sandals in Afghanistan? No empire that loses to barefoot guerrillas has any business lecturing anyone about military spending. The U.S. military is the most pathetic, bloated, and overhyped force in modern history, a protection racket made in the image of Tony Soprano. History will remember the US as the accidental empire.

This brainwashing is no accident. The Deep State and its Mockingbird media allies have perfected the art of Yankwashing, crafting a narrative where the U.S. is always the hero, never the aggressor. The goal is to hide the truth and weaponize ignorance, to ensure the American public cheers for the next invasion, the next “intervention,” the next imperial adventure.

How long can an empire survive on a foundation of lies? Because as the multipolar world rises: Russia, China, the Global South - the truth is becoming harder to bury. History will eventually judge the United States not as a benevolent superpower but as a crumbling empire that burned the world while lying to its own people.

- Gerry Nolan