Such is the case of the Vietnam War, where protest was manipulated to justify the vitality and values of the system which produced the war, not to end the injustice and violence of the war itself. The "ending". of the war was only problem of "public opinion."
 

The realm of Disney is not one of fantasy, for it does react to world events. Its vision of Tibet is not identical to its vision of Indochina. Fifteen years ago the Caribbean was a sea of pirates. Disney had to adjust to the fact of Cuba and the invasion of the Dominican Republic. The buccaneer now cries "Viva the Revolution", and has to be defeated. It will be Chile's turn yet.
 

Searching for a jade elephant, Scrooge and his family arrive in Unsteadystan, "where every thug wants to be ruler," and "where there is always someone shooting at someone else." (TR 99, US 7/66, "Treasure of Marco Polo"). A state of civil war is immediately turned into an incomprehensible game of someone-or-other against someone-or-other, a stupid fratricide lacking any ethical direction or socio-economic raison d'etre. The war in Vietnam becomes a mere interchange of unconnected and senseless bullets, and a truce becomes a siesta. "Wahn Beeg Rhat yes, Duckburg, no!" cries a guerilla in support of an ambitious (communist) dictator, as he dynamites the Duckburg embassy. Noticing that his watch is not working properly, the Vietcong (no less) mutters "Shows you can't trust these watches from the 'worker's paradise."' The struggle for power is purely personal, the eccentricity of ambition: "Hail to Wahn Beeg Rhat, dictator of all the happy people," goes the cry and the sotto voice "happy or not." Defending his conquest, the dictator gives orders to kill. "Shoot him, don't let him spoil my revolution." The savior in this chaotic situation is Prince Char Ming, also known [in the Spanish version) as Yho Soy ["I am" - the English is Soy Bheen], names expressive of his magical egocentricity. He comes to reunify the country and "pacify" the people. He is destined to triumph, because the soldiers refuse to obey the orders of a leader who has lost his charisma, who is not "Char Ming." So one guerrilla wonders why they "keep these silly revolutions going forever." Another denounces them, demanding a return to the King, "like in the good old days."

In order to close the circuit and the alliance between Duckburg and Prince Char Ming, Scrooge McDuck presents to Unsteadystan the treasure and the jade elephant which once had belonged to the people of that country.  One of the nephews observes: "They will be of use to the poor." And finally, Scrooge, in his haste to get out of this parody of' Vietnam, promises "When I return to Duckburg, I will do even more for you. I will return the million dollar tail of the jade elephant."
 

But we can bet that Scrooge will forget his promises as soon as he gets back. As proof we find in another comic book (D 445) the following dialogue which takes place in Duckburg:

Nephew: "They got the asiatic flu.as well."

Donald: "I've always said that nothing good could come out of Asia."
 

A similar reduction of a historical situation takes place in the Republic of San Bananador obviously in the Caribbean or Central America( (D 364, CS 4/64, "Captain Blight's Mystery Ship"). Waitingin a port, Donald makes fun of the children playing at being shanghaied: These things just don't happen any more; shanghai-ing, weevly beans, walking the plank, pirate-infested seas - these are all things of the past. But it turns out that there are places where such horrors still survive, and the nephew's game is soon interrupted by a man trying to escape from a ship carrying a dangerous cargo and commanded by a captain who is a living menance. Terror reigns on board. When the man is forcibly brought back to the ship, he invokes the name of liberty ("I'm a free mant Let me go!"), while his kidnappers treat him as a slave. Although Donald, typically, makes light of the incident ("probably only a little rhubarb about wages" or "actors making a film"), he and his nephew are also captured. Life on board is a nightmare; the food is weevly beans, even the rats are prevented from leaving the ship, and there is forced labor,with slaves, slaves, and more slaves. All is subject to the unjust, arbitrary and crazy rule of Blight and his bearded followers.

Surely these must be pirates from olden days. Absolutely not.  They are revolutionaries (Cuban no less) fighting against the government of San Bananador, and pursued by the navy for trying to supply rebels with a shipment of arms. "They'll be scouting with planes! Douse the lights! We'll give 'em the slip in the dark! the radio operator shouts, fist raised on high: "Viva the Revolution!" The only hope, according to Donald, is "the good old navy, symbol of law and order." The rebel opposition is thus automatically cast in the role of tyranny, dictatorship, totalitarianism. The slave society reigning on board ship is the replica of the society which they propose to install in place the legitimately established regime. Apparent in modern times it is the champions of popular insurgency who will bring back human slavery.
 

The political drift of Disney is blatant in the few comics where he is impelled to reveal his intentions openly. It is also inescapable in the bulk of them, where he uses animal symbolism, infantilism, and "noble savagery" to cover over the network of interests arising from a concrete historically determined social system: U.S. imperialism.