Ho Chi Minh's successes against the French and then the US stirred a wave of anticolonialism across the globe. If you're arguing "domino theory!" as a political

Ho Chi Minh's successes against the French and then the US stirred a wave of anticolonialism across the globe. If you're arguing "domino theory!" as a political win (which is questionable anyway), then you should also account for the rise of many NATO-hostile nations from anticolonialism as well. However, since you apparently think that death count is the only thing that matters, that must mean that the South won the US civil war, since the North lost more lives. I must say though, it is disturbing that you count civilian dead in the South as being a point towards US victory, given that the US involvement was supposed to be defending those people.