They told us North America was integrated. Turns out, it was just stitched together with debt, barbed wire, and bullshit. Now the seams are ripping, and the empire is bleeding out from the inside.
I. Cracks in the Foundation
For decades, we were fed the lie that NAFTA made us partners. That Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. were building a shared future. But that future was always designed in Washington boardrooms and built on the backs of migrant labor, stolen Indigenous land, and deindustrialized towns.
Now the mask is off. Trump’s back in office. The tariffs are flying. The borders are locked down. And the whole fantasy of a unified continent is crumbling.
II. NAFTA Was a Con Game
NAFTA didn’t integrate us—it carved us up. Mexico was turned into a maquiladora graveyard, where workers built cars they could never afford. Canada got stuffed into a resource-export straitjacket. And U.S. workers? They were sold out—then blamed when the jobs vanished.
This was never a partnership. It was a hierarchy with the U.S. on top, and everyone else scraping the bottom. Now that the empire’s in crisis, it’s not fixing the mess—it’s fortifying it.
III. Tariffs, Technofascism, and Trump’s Fortress Empire
Trump’s trade war isn’t about protecting workers—it’s about consolidating power. This is technofascism in real time: militarize the economy, criminalize the border, and turn basic goods into weapons of economic siege.
Tariffs on tomatoes, lumber, steel—none of it builds strength. It builds paranoia. It punishes the poor, the immigrant, the small farmer. Meanwhile, the rich get richer selling scarcity and fear.
IV. Mexico and Canada Start to Squirm
Mexico isn’t stupid. BRICS+ is calling, and President Sheinbaum’s nationalizing lithium, raising wages, and telling Washington to back off. Canada’s elite plays polite, but it’s caught in a chokehold—dependent on U.S. arms and pipelines, while quietly selling grain and energy to China.
The truth is, neither country wants to be a loyal colony anymore. But breaking away from the empire ain’t easy when your economy’s chained to its ankles.
V. The Border as a Battlefield
Let’s talk about that border. Not the one on the map—the real one. The one lined with detention camps, armed agents, drone surveillance, and private contractors. The one where people are turned into labor, labor into fear, and fear into votes.
Trump’s wall isn’t made of steel. It’s made of lies about invasion, about criminality, about “protecting jobs.” It’s settler-colonialism dressed up as national security. And it’s cracking under its own weight.
VI. From Empire to Fragment
North America was supposed to be the stable wing of the empire. Now it’s a region in revolt. Not through speeches—but through shifts: trade rerouted, alliances questioned, nationalism weaponized.
The so-called “integration” is becoming disintegration. And that’s not a tragedy—it’s an opening.
VII. A New Map is Emerging
The cracks are real. The fault lines are widening. The question isn’t whether the old North American order will fall apart—it’s what we’ll build in its place.
Will we keep following Washington into collapse? Or will we dig deep, link arms, and build something grounded in sovereignty, solidarity, and liberation from below?
One thing is certain: the empire’s leash is fraying. And North America is no longer a bloc—it’s a battlefield.
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