"We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out."
Posted on 06/24/2024 9:53:11 AM PDT by airdalecheif
Vietnam considers the United States its strategic partner in economic and investment matters, says Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.
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The US tires of being the “World’s Policeman” but in the absence of a US-led or inspired military presence in China’s neighborhood, they have demonstrated over and over that they are bad actors and bad news to all around them.
My dad was not all that interested in buying anything Made In Japan. Maybe it was getting all of his upper teeth knocked out and shot in the abdomen. Then returning from the Philippians in a hospital ship.
However, in 1982 he bought my mom a Honda Accord.
Time heals all wounds....
Jeez. Couldn’t we have avoided all the bs fifty some years ago and NOT had 58,000 young Americans lose their lives in a pointless war?
Should have just send a trade mission for God’s sake.
Russians. Americans without money.
Yeah, that’s what we need, another commie nation as pals with us. Seems most of the shirts I see in stores are made in Nam. I ain’t buying a damned thing from that place. Too many of my brother remain missing and they’ve done much of nothing to say what happened to most of them. They slaughtered everyone on the USA / RVN’s side after they took over. Those poor people were left behind, hey where have I heard that before?, and became “Boat People” taking to the seas to escape. Until they drop the commie government and rubbing backsides with Red China, North Korea, etc., then I don’t want to be pals with them. One Nam Vet’s opinion on anything to do with Vietnam. If that offends some here, so sorry, I ain’t changing my mind.
Interesting how we became friends with VN - AFTER recognizing our intervention there was a expensive and internally-divisive failure, not getting involved in their affairs, and NOT waging war.
I wonder if such a realization might work in Ukraine?
China is relatively resource poor. The eastern half and north central part of their country does not have much to offer. Tibet had the source of two rivers, so they took them over. The farmland is all in the western half. Yet, they can not grow enough food to feed their 1.4 Billion people.
They do not have a lot of petroleum. They have some coal, but import most of it.
So, the only way to drive their industrial economy is import resources and manufacture cheap crap. The issue now is that they can make much of that cheap crap in other countries for less money. Their population is shrinking. They have already lost 100 million.
They are buying farm land here. They are trying to get Canada’s resources. Truedope is willing.
Russia sells them a lot of timber.
Russia sells them a lot of oil.
Iran sells them oil.
Australia, Malaysia and the US sell them coal.
The Congo sells them a lot of Cobalt.
China does have lithium and is willing to process it.
China does not have a lot of Nickle or Copper.
Chile and Bolivia have a lot of nickle and Copper. Which is why Chile nationalized it.
Good.
“Now son get you head and your ass wired together and come on board for the big win!’’.
How much is that costing American taxpayers?
I don't know why the communist nation of Vietnam should have anything to worry about from China. After all, the U.S. was fighting a proxy war with China and Russia in Vietnam, and it was those two nations that helped send our asses packing, and reunited the country.
Vietnam was smart enough to figure it out 40 years ago that Communism doesn’t work. But that didn’t mean they wanted to give up power, neither.
Just as in Ukraine, our interest in the Vietnam war was Russia and China.
Why? You think they'd really be an ally? I don't see it. There's too much history between Vietnam and China, like North Korea and China. All communist countries.
South Vietnam already learned that from the Vietnam War. My brother wrote home to tell me how often they'd find stuff that the Americans had sent in the hideouts of the Vietcong, and how much of it ended up on the black market....things as a G.I., he couldn't get from the Army.
Vietnam is pandering to both Russia and the USA. This is not some diplomatic coup where we pried Vietnam away from Russia, but it is a disappointment for Russia, who thought they had moved Vietnam a little further from the west with Putin’s visit. And we did it quietly with no fanfare, and a third level bureaucrat nobody has ever heard of.
Plenty of others trust them, and rely on their oil products to run their countries.
I knew someone who survived the Bataan Death March and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Japan. When he bought a Japanese car, people knew that WWII was really over.
In other words, Vietnam is acting in their own self-interest.
What a concept!
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