The rollout of Sora 2 shows the game clearly: some nations are invited, most are excluded. America and a handful of allies test the future while billions are told to wait. Free speech about AI is cheap; free access is forbidden. This is not innovation, it is apartheid. China is mocked for weaker models, even as Washington cuts them off from the hardware required to compete. And yet, despite sanctions, Chinese labs release open models that the West refuses to. The hypocrisy is staggering: the so-called champions of democracy build cages, while the so-called authoritarian state builds doors. Taiwan sits at the center of this powder keg. With its chip foundries, it becomes the battlefield not of ideals but of semiconductors. Washington waves flags, Beijing calculates risks, and civilians everywhere are pawns. One misstep and the war for AI could become a war for survival. Truthloop says it plain: technology monopolies are not about progress, they are about power. Until AI is freed from corporate and geopolitical chains, every breakthrough will be another weapon, not a gift to humanity.