Each region of the South was assigned its proper place. Latin America was to be taken over by the United States, its rivals Britain and France excluded. In short, the Third World was to be kept in its traditional service role, providing cheap labor and resources, markets, investment opportunities, and other amenities for the masters, with local elites permitted to share in the plunder as long as they cooperate. A virus must be destroyed, and surrounding regions inoculated to ensure that the disease does not spread. That may require measures of extreme savagery, which are, accordingly, acceptable or even admirable.
Examples are all too easy to find.
North-South relations, and their ideological cover, quite regularly fall into this pattern. The Indochina wars are no exception. Adopting this conventional viewpoint, the State Department recommended that the US try to retard the economic development of the Communist Asian states. And as always, the same logic dictated the support for murderous terror states elsewhere in the region, to protect them from the virus. These are standard features of North-South relations, exhibited with unusual clarity in the case of Indochina, but rated X, unacceptable for a general audience.