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Actually, the US DID win the war, and there’s at least one other source that makes clear we did, which is that Prager University thing I linked earlier. There’s also the book “This Time We Win.”

Also, the reason why Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are now communist is because the anti-war left, taking advantage of Watergate, took advantage of the supermajority they got and deliberately sabotaged our part of the peace treaty signing at Paris (which we had helmed in the first place, making our victor status EXTREMELY obvious, since losers don’t helm the peace treaty signings, the winners do that), which was to make sure the South Vietnamese were well armed. To put it another way, we never lost Vietnam. Our victory was literally stolen from us by sore losers among the anti-war left.

Also, while it IS true that Buddhists had more congregants than Catholics, they’re actually tied with the Confucianists at most in terms of overall religious population, and at a bare minimum are actually one million less than the Confucianists. They’re not an actual majority (and it’s not even close to 70% of the population despite the reporter’s claims. At most, it’s more like 25%. Sure, still more than the 6% that Catholics are composed of, but nowhere near an actual majority (which I define as being over 50%, bare minimum), barely breaking even with Confucianists.).

One last thing, the CIA had little involvement in Diem’s assassination, and in fact was most likely not even sanctioned by them (of the people who literally didn’t get the memo and reviewed it before it occurred, John McCone, the CIA director at the time, was among those, alongside Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Likewise, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell Taylor did get a very brief summary of the cable during lunch at a restaurant, but not much else to go by, and Kennedy’s did give approval via cable, albeit under the explicit condition that they notify Rusk and Namara beforehand, something which they obviously didn’t do. Needless to say, all four of them were downright furious). And just as an FYI, if ANYONE was responsible for Diem’s assassination, it was Halbersham, with even Kennedy condemning him and explicitly comparing him to the guys who got Fidel Castro into power.