[Oatka]

After all these years Vietnam and the US are natural allies opposing China’s expansion and acquisition.

Long ago someone (maybe it was H.L. Mencken) said that "You can't tell who your enemies are without a calendar".

[billorites]

"You can't tell who your enemies are without a calendar".

Only a true s.o.b. like Mencken or perhaps Ambrose Bierce would say such a cynical thing. I love it.

We're watching all this play out again in current events and just 90 miles off shore. Our relationship with Cuba is being rewritten.

Necessarily, history will have to be rewritten as well.