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Vietnam was not a US war of aggression: the US came at the request of the French presence as the communist north tried to take the French allies in the south.
by jjtheblunt 9y ago
Vietnam was not a US war of aggression: the US came at the request of the French presence as the communist north tried to take the French allies in the south. The result was a mess, sadly, predictably.
- thebread 9y agoNo. America supported colonialism (France), then later suspended the Geneva agreement of 1954. The agreement required elections across both north and south that they knew Ho Chi Minh would win. That beget what is known in Vietnam as the American War. Vietnam struggled for 30 years to be one country. Ho Chi Minh took assistance from the OSS in WW2 and styled the Vietnamese declaration of Independence on the American one. He turned to the Communists when America decided colonial rule was more important than freedom.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoAre we talking about the American-Vietnam war or the Sino-Vietnam war? If the latter, China wanted to give Vietnam a taste of Chinese freedom for something going on in Cambodia.
- abalone 9y agoNonsense. As if one colonial power asking another to come slaughter the population would make it any less aggressive. The French agreed to leave and support elections with the Geneva Accords. The U.S. propped up a dictator and organized a campaign of brutal suppression and terror, then outright bombed the hell out of peasants in the south starting in 1962 under JFK to block a political settlement. That's as aggressive as it gets.