Looks like even Vietnam is anxious for us to help them.
The title of the article asks — WHY?
It gives it answer which can be summarized with one word -— CHINA
In recent months, China’s neighbours and the US have argued that Beijing has sped up its militarisation of the South China Sea, which has included regularly flying fighter patrols over the disputed waters, and sending Chinese Coast Guard vessels into the area.
In April, the Chinese Navy also sailed a battle group, led by the country’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, past Taiwan’s east coast.
China claims sovereignty over the majority of the South China Sea — the area is marked by a ‘nine-dash line’ which cuts through a swathe of its neighbours’ territorial claims.
Ho Chi Minh said it best in the past that he was rather eat French shit for 5 more years than Chinese shit for 100 years.
If LBJ and the deep state hadn’t created Gulf of Tonkin episode, the Viets might stood against the Chi-Coms with us.
China’s very busy lining up their own successors to Duterte for 2022 election and he knows it. Plus all China’s behavior in the South China Seas has Duterte re-thinking as well. Additionally the UN courts are hot on his heels for how he’s handling the drug use and trafficking in his country.