The old Soviet Union was scary.
They had a political system that said they had to rule the world.
We really weakened them in Vietnam.
The fight in Vietnam helped to end the Soviet Union and the case for world communism.
Thankyou to those Americans who fought in Vietnam and helped to end the nightmare of a world ruled by a communist dictatorship.
….helped to end the nightmare of a world ruled by a communist dictatorship.
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The commies won Vietnam, after rolling into the South hundreds of thousands were killed and jailed. I don’t see that as a win, it emboldened them to expand.
IMO, Viet Nam was an example of how far the US (a member of the now-defunct SEATO) was willing to go to fight communism even though it was unwinnable - ask the French. That the US then under SEATO and its desire to create the mega-MIC despite all the kickback is eerily similar to the Ukraine and NATO now.
The only difference is that we haven’t sacrificed 50,000+ of our men and women - yet. We’re only killing DOLLARS - dollars that could have been put against a lot of homegrown problems.