[redfreedom]

THANK YOU!

Thanks for giving a factual historical account of how the Soth Vietnamese government fell. Our leftist’s have repeated over and over and over that the Vietnam war was a military loss. It was repeated enough where most everyone believes it and this is often repeated here on FR.

It was about the domino effect, it was about fighting communism. How anyone here on FR can fret about communist China and then say the Vietnam war was a waste, all in the same breath, is a moron.

We fought the communists in Korea and Vietnam. The stopper was the democrat party, the same ones in love with commie China today. The same ones turning us commie today.

[FarCenter]

The domino effect was largely BS.

Southeast Asian communism had support because it was anti-imperialist. Prior to WW I, essentially all of SE Asia except Siam was owned by one or another of the Empires. This was largely unchanged by the eve of WW II, although the Japanese had increased their holdings. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan had self-consciously modeled itself on the British Empire.

China, although nominally independent had been subdued by the Opium Wars and other European, US and Japanese military action. The US's Open Door policy helped China remain independent, but only so that it could be freely exploited by all.

[hardspunned]

The war was actually won when Nixon gave it to the South. With the American air power as a guarantee the Vietnamized effort was succeeding. The the dem congress destroyed everything we’d sacrificed for by cutting funding to zero overnight.