The Empire’s New Clothes
The old colonialists would be proud. Once upon a time, imperialism required grand spectacles—gunboats, coups, and puppet dictators giving teary-eyed speeches about “democracy.” Today, it’s much simpler. A few well-placed investment firms, a government that works as their muscle, and a compliant media that sells it as “national security.” No troops, no messy occupations, no need for Marines landing on beaches. Just a quiet financial transaction, a restructuring of assets, and the world keeps spinning.
That’s exactly what happened on March 4, when BlackRock—one of the largest financial firms on the planet—snatched up Panama’s most critical ports on the Atlantic and Pacific ends of the Canal. The purchase was framed as a bold counter to “Chinese influence,” but let’s be serious—this wasn’t about protecting “America.” It was about locking down a strategic trade chokepoint not for the American people, not for the U.S. working class, not even for Panama—but for the financial elite.
And the best part? Trump’s the one handing it to them.
Yes, the same Trump who rants against Wall Street. The same Trump whose base loathes firms like BlackRock for buying up American homes, jacking up rents, and turning workers into permanent renters in their own country. The same Trump who swears he’s fighting the “deep state” and the “globalists” while serving them dinner on a silver platter.
If there was ever a case study in technofascism—the merger of monopoly finance capital, corporate-controlled technology, and state power into a global machine of economic discipline—this is it. BlackRock, the Digerati’s financial warlord, isn’t just seizing ports. It’s securing leverage over entire nations, ensuring that whether goods move or don’t move depends on the whims of Wall Street.
Panama isn’t just a country in this story. It’s a mirror—a reflection of how empire has changed its methods but not its goals.
I. The Panama Canal: An Empire’s Favorite Plaything
The Yankee establishment has always had a soft spot for the Panama Canal. More than just a shortcut for shipping, it’s an economic chokehold. Control it, and you control global trade between the Atlantic and Pacific. This is why, when Colombia refused to hand over control in 1903, the U.S. simply created a new country, called it Panama, and installed a government that knew how to take orders.
The Canal wasn’t just infrastructure—it was a cash machine for American firms, a colonial checkpoint masquerading as an engineering marvel. Even when the U.S. “graciously” handed it back to Panama in 1999, it never really let go.
Fast forward to today. Instead of Marines storming Panama City, we have BlackRock and its financial war chest quietly taking control of the ports that dictate Canal access. Instead of invasion, we have acquisition. Instead of occupation, we have technocratic management by algorithm.
For the Panamanian people, nothing has changed. Whether the man calling the shots wears a general’s uniform or a business suit, the outcome is the same—Washington controls the trade routes, and they get the crumbs.
II. BlackRock, Trump, and the Global Oligarchy’s New Empire
Let’s be clear about what BlackRock is. It’s not a business in any conventional sense. It doesn’t make anything. It doesn’t build, manufacture, or innovate. It extracts, speculates, and controls. With over $10 trillion in assets, it is the financial shadow government of the United States, determining which industries thrive, which collapse, and who gets to own what.
So when BlackRock takes over two of the most critical ports on the Panama Canal, it’s not a nationalist maneuver against China—it’s an act of financial imperialism, ensuring that global trade remains in the hands of Western capital.
And here’s where Trump’s role gets particularly ironic. The man who spent his entire campaign railing against Wall Street, globalists, and corporate elites is actively handing over one of the world’s most strategic trade arteries to… Wall Street, globalists, and corporate elites.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a realignment of power within the U.S. ruling class, where the Cowboy faction (traditional extractive industries like oil and agribusiness) merges with the Digerati (Big Tech and finance capital) to secure control over global trade. The old-school imperialists built naval bases and overthrew governments. The new ones buy up shipping routes and enforce economic dependency through digital banking and supply chain monopolies.
III. The Contradictions of Trump’s Economic Nationalism
The MAGA base should be furious about this. But they won’t be. Because the conservative media apparatus that feeds them their daily dose of nationalist fantasy won’t tell them what’s actually happening. Instead, they’ll be spoon-fed another anti-China narrative, as if the real enemy of the American worker is sitting in Beijing rather than on Wall Street.
But let’s break it down:
BlackRock is the reason millions of working-class Americans can’t afford a home—it’s been buying up housing and turning once-affordable communities into investment properties.
BlackRock is the reason American industry is dead—it shifts capital from production to speculation, leaving real businesses to wither.
BlackRock is the reason wages are stagnant—when finance capital dictates corporate strategy, profit is extracted from labor, not reinvested into it.
And yet, Trump, the supposed warrior against the deep state, is feeding BlackRock an empire. If this is “America First,” then someone should check who’s writing the rules—because it certainly isn’t the American worker.
IV. Chokepoint Imperialism: Technofascism in Action
The U.S. empire isn’t expanding—it’s entrenching itself. The old imperial strategy of direct military control is too costly, too visible, and too prone to failure. Instead, we have a new model of domination:
1. Control the chokepoints – Not just militarily, but financially. Own the ports, own the trade routes, own the logistics chains.
2. Control the flow of capital – If you can dictate where money goes, you don’t need to control land or resources directly.
3. Control the supply chains – The pandemic showed how fragile the global economy is. Those who control distribution control everything.
BlackRock’s takeover of the Panama Canal’s key ports isn’t just about trade—it’s about enforcing discipline. If you can’t control the world through force, you control it by bottlenecking the movement of goods, data, and capital.
This is technofascism in its purest form: a world where states act as enforcers for monopoly capital, ensuring that no alternative to their rule emerges.
V. What Comes Next?
Panama is just one case study in the broader collapse of U.S. hegemony. The empire is scrambling to lock down global chokepoints before the rise of China, BRICS, and the Global South make its control irrelevant.
But here’s the thing about chokeholds: they don’t last forever. The longer an empire relies on economic strangulation, the more desperate its victims become. Resistance doesn’t vanish—it builds.
The question now is whether the American working class will see through the deception. Because if they don’t, they will cheer for their own subjugation, mistaking Wall Street’s victory for their own.
And by the time they realize it, they’ll be living under the very system they thought they were fighting against.
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