My life and the US Empire

2026-05-08 · Ho Chanh Nghia

Originally published on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-life-us-empire-khanh-pham-nlowc/

My life and the US Empire

Here are three elements that are often found in movies. Chinese movies anyway. American seem to be missing an entire class of drama.

• The Deception: The bandit leader (or a primary antagonist) orchestrates an attack so he can swoop in as the “hero.” This is a classic “White Knight” trope used in these gritty historical dramas to manipulate a woman who initially rejected him.
• The Brothel Informant: The woman is placed in charge of or works within a brothel specifically to listen to the secrets of powerful men (officials, rival gang members, or merchants) and feed that intel back to the bandit group to facilitate their robberies.
• The Vengeance: The parents’ death is often the catalyst that leaves her with “nowhere else to go,” making her dependent on her “rescuer.”

The colonial power, which transitioned to the collective west, what’s left of Rome. Wanted to bring Vietnam under its boot, and they refused. So in a general sense of the word, the US killed the father and mother.

The children were rescued and raised in the USA. I was one of those fortunate children who got rescued from Vietnam after the war. Actually, my entire family were rescued by the US. The Vietnamese government did everything they could to make my father dies, without actually shooting him. I dont quite understand that philosophy, strategy, or tactic, but that’s very much true. But during the 1970, the entire country was starving, so letting my father die could just be family selections above all.

My father was in the SVN army, and my mother was a secretary at the US embassy. There life was always under threat living in Vietnam. And again, it is an odd situation where they dont want my parents to live, but will not kill them either. Likely a political image issue. Like Killary like to say, you need to keep a public image, which could be the opposite of your private image.

So anyway, we immigrated to the US in 1989. I later joined the USAF in 2001. I went abroad to represent the Empire. Not quite the Capt Kirk or emissary of the white empire. Yet, still an emissary. When I started my first job in 2002 after 1 year of school, they tasked me with managing one program, the computer stuff ADPE. I found it so hard, my boss, my supervisor, and my primary program manager said just put my name on it, he will do all the work. By 2013, I was managing 30 programs, along with full time duty running a maintenance operation across northern Thailand.

Since the white men managed to commit treason against the US, got away with it. Destroyed my life and got away with it. I had to develop new rules to explain the world, and how to operate in this world. The shits that they taught in school, the military leadership were complete fraud. The commander was not my friend. HR, first sergeant was not my friend, the medical doctor were not my friend. Worse, they were conspiring to harm me using their official duty as custodians of US people and assets.

I looked for ways to frame a narrative that can explain this life, which cannot be explained with past education. So I looked toward fictions. And there it was. All the truths of human existence in plain sight.

The bandit would kill the parents (the country government).

The bandit would rescue the selected few children (the people)

The bandit teaches them to serve the it or them. (the empire)

Can you see the real life in the fictions?

So to rewrite my own story. AS in when rabbit gets to tell their story, I had published a book on the Amazon store, ready for order. If I die tomorrow, maybe it will be worth more. If not, you can wait 10 more years, and I may have a better version out.

https://www.amazon.com/Executioner-Prelude-Nghia-Chanh-Ho/dp/B0BRYZQQFS

Having been eating and sleeping with Americans for decades, I doubt many people understand them more than me. Well more than me in my contexts, I don;t know other people’s lives.

This context is relevant to all Americans and non Americans alike. Because it decides who lives and who dies.

You see, as a defender of this empire, it is in the interests of this empire to support and defend its defenders.

What I have established:

The USAF does not support and defend the US constitution. It say it does. It write policies that demonstrate it does. The fact contradicts the narratives.

The USAF/AFTAC is probably 3billions a year. It does not make America safer, it does not make Americans safer. My salary was roughly 50,000 a year, and I was securing holes that AFTAC creates in the military systems. I was doing more to protect the people and mission than the people that feed on those 3 billions. AFTAC had been killing one American a year, and they very much faces no consequences. While not really providing anything for the military or the country. That’s 3 billions a year to an enemy of the country.

Americans in general don’t care about me. active duty soldiers. or veteran. I know they pass legislatures to show they care, to buy loyalties. but they tries hard to let me die.

The institutions that spread propaganda that they support the people fight the corruptions. They are not really there for that. It’s just a way to make money. They are part of the corruption. ACLU. FBI. Police. Congress. Senate. Senate committee. etc. Too close to 100% to say it is not 100% corrupt.

The Asian, the Arabs, the AAPI, they say they represent the minority. voice for the voiceless. They are just surrogates to keep the masses down. That is why you have not seen another MLK or Malcom X for decades.

As Vietnamese, you would think the Vietnamese Americans would rally and ask for justice. As that has a direct impact on the state of existence for their son and daughters. But moral courage is not really what we’re known for as a group. While white supremacy is a problem for Asian in American. White people, Anglo people, in general has more courage to stand up and stop injustice. They are more likely to be educated to understand an injustice against another human is an injustice waiting to happens to them.

This is actually a complex way of viewing events such as this. An eye for an eye would have sufficed. But I have to put up a semi academic attempt.

As I look around at the masses, chasing a few dollars more. They are happy to bring home 1 dollars a day, when the bandit printed 10 dollars a day for itself. It is really hard for me to bring myself to play this monopoly game. How do I find the energy to make a dollar while the enemy gets to print 10 dollars. Wouldn’t it not be better for my interests to print 10 dollars doing nothing while the enemy has to earn 1 dollar working all day?

Obviously analogy is only an analogy. Real life has millions of dimensions while we can only at any given moment think about 1 dimension.

Most of us also lacks to context window to really see life in general. Most are only capable of seeing dinner at the end of the day. A party at the end of a week. A bonus at the end of a year.

I spent a lot of time running simulations about this life. working. success. raising children. Even forming a group or association. and hundred of years later, form a nation.

Then that nation would be trampled by the empire.

So what’s the point of working harder?

Is there a better way to do this?

Is there a better way to live a life?

Than to serve a bandit, who killed your parents, made you his bitch, put you to work in a brothel, provide intel to fleece or destroy the next parents?

Is there a better way to live a life?