[depressed in 06]

How could this guy not have known that would get him into trouble?

He does not look to bright, he lives in a sh!thole, run by a leftist government. What could go wrong?

[ThanhPhero]

Hardly a sh!thole. Việt Nam is prospering. The difference year to year is pretty apparent. The government is "Communist" rather than communist. It is an authoritarian system but no worse than many others and much more amenable to capitalism and actually a lot less corrupt. The society is still too much clan based for a parliamentary democracy to work and there is not the regional differentiation of origins that makes our sort of federal system work. The government here is actually quite good for the society. It is nominally Communist but the Communists are Vietnamese and after the fanatic generation of revolutionaries has passed they are practical people. They know that Việt Nam has to be economically strong - the people have to be prosperous in order to avoid becoming a province of China.

[ThanhPhero]

Hardly a sh!thole. Việt Nam is prospering. The difference year to year is pretty apparent. The government is "Communist" rather than communist. It is an authoritarian system but no worse than many others and much more amenable to capitalism and actually a lot less corrupt. The society is still too much clan based for a parliamentary democracy to work and there is not the regional differentiation of origins that makes our sort of federal system work. The government here is actually quite good for the society. It is nominally Communist but the Communists are Vietnamese and after the fanatic generation of revolutionaries has passed they are practical people. They know that Việt Nam has to be economically strong - the people have to be prosperous in order to avoid becoming a province of China.