But Vietnam war was essentially an effort to resist foreign invasion. It effectively started when "On 23 September 1945, with the knowledge of the British Comm

But Vietnam war was essentially an effort to resist foreign invasion. It effectively started when "On 23 September 1945, with the knowledge of the British Commander in Saigon, French forces overthrew the local DRV government, and declared French authority restored..."[1] It was one of the awful proxy conflicts of 20th century. I have no idea which is better - to be a colony in a market economy (the dominating effect is that profits from capital leak into the owning country) or a marxist dictatorship. Most dictatorships are kinda shitty - Marxist or not - but I have no calculus to compute is being a colony any better [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War