• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Both sarcastically and not. It kind of contrast the superficiality of political economies with regards to geopolitics. There’s a universe out there where America did Communism and China did Capitalism. Weird

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      10 months ago

      Both President Obama and President Trump assured Vietnamese leaders in the past that the United States respects Vietnam’s differing political system.

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          10 months ago

          China first invaded Vietnam in 111BC. Different dynasties had different priorities. But, off and on China comes across the border with several battalions. The Vietnamese just waits them out.

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        10 months ago

        Yes, but Vietnam won no battle I know of. The US lost the will to prosecute the war due to unacceptable losses and loss of support by the US population. I kind of doubt they won militarily over China either. Don’t know about France.

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          10 months ago

          The US failed to achieve all of its strategic objectives in the war while Vietnam achieved all of theirs.

          The US lost the war.

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          10 months ago

          Sounds like we sent soldiers over to die in a foreign nation over no real basis to do so and got our soldiers asses handed to them by farmers

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            10 months ago

            Correct. But with one exception and one addition. To call them farmers would be belittling them. They weren’t. Add the fact that conscription by the US was last used in this war.

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      10 months ago

      Wait. Viet Nam as a proxy against China… Where have I heard that before…

      Oh well, probably not important.