• Bernie Ecclestoned
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          10 months ago

          I said battlefield. Vietnam won the Vietnam War against the US. The goal was to prevent communist takeover. That didn’t happen.

              • @[email protected]
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                310 months ago

                Maybe among Millennials or GenZ, but I can assure you the Cold War was a propagandist wet dream.

            • @[email protected]
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              910 months ago

              In US schools they teach it as the US just withdrawaling due to cost and domestic pressure because teaching it as a loss would really tarnish the whole “we never lose wars, USA #1!” narrative.

              • @[email protected]
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                810 months ago

                Can confirm this. My teacher started sweating when I asked if that means Vietnam won. Didn’t get an answer just a subject change and the redneck kids in class eyeballing me funny. Sorry fuckos your daddies raged quit the field. That’s a loss. Git gud scrub 😂

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                210 months ago

                In US schools they teach it as the US just withdrawaling due to cost and domestic pressure

                Also known as “losing.” LOL

                Most modern wars happen like this. Both sides commit until committing becomes untenable for one of the parties. That’s pretty much the only path to victory for Ukraine, for instance.

              • @[email protected]
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                110 months ago

                Technically the domestic/international pressure is the actual reason for the loss. The US had the capability to rule the ashes, but domestic and international pressure caused the withdrawal.

            • @[email protected]
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              910 months ago

              I would consider Korea a draw. I wonder how much people conflate the two wars as they had similar objectives in the same world region.

              • FfaerieOxide
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                010 months ago

                “Korea” is still ongoing.

                It didn’t end in draw because that war/“police action” hasn’t ended yet.

            • @[email protected]
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              010 months ago

              I mean, the US was kicked out, but I don’t know if I’d call what happened to Vietnam “winning” either. It’s more accurate to say they outlasted the Americans.

      • @[email protected]
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        1110 months ago

        Both sarcastically and not. It kind of contrast the superficiality of political economies with regards to geopolitics. There’s a universe out there where America did Communism and China did Capitalism. Weird

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1010 months ago

      Both President Obama and President Trump assured Vietnamese leaders in the past that the United States respects Vietnam’s differing political system.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          410 months ago

          China first invaded Vietnam in 111BC. Different dynasties had different priorities. But, off and on China comes across the border with several battalions. The Vietnamese just waits them out.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        -910 months ago

        Yes, but Vietnam won no battle I know of. The US lost the will to prosecute the war due to unacceptable losses and loss of support by the US population. I kind of doubt they won militarily over China either. Don’t know about France.

        • @[email protected]
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          1310 months ago

          The US failed to achieve all of its strategic objectives in the war while Vietnam achieved all of theirs.

          The US lost the war.

        • bbbbbbbbbbb
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          910 months ago

          Sounds like we sent soldiers over to die in a foreign nation over no real basis to do so and got our soldiers asses handed to them by farmers

          • @[email protected]OP
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            -110 months ago

            Correct. But with one exception and one addition. To call them farmers would be belittling them. They weren’t. Add the fact that conscription by the US was last used in this war.

    • Subverb
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      210 months ago

      Wait. Viet Nam as a proxy against China… Where have I heard that before…

      Oh well, probably not important.