I forgot that France lost their control of Vietnam in the 50s, right? The us was incredibly focused on commies hiding everywhere, but they really did want to ta

I forgot that France lost their control of Vietnam in the 50s, right? The us was incredibly focused on commies hiding everywhere, but they really did want to take over the world. The Kennedy's did get us over the cuban missile crisis, even though we went to the brink multiple times (accident or genius, imagine if we had Trump then). I also didn't know Ho Chi Minh was active in the 1920s - just read something about it on reddit. There are so many cases where we supported a dictator. It's important to remember that today's support of a dictator because we think he's better than chaos could lead to something worse tomorrow. I think a challenge for the US today is to help the many democracies in the south china sea maintain their independence against the powerful China - not to hem in China, just that we should help democracies. But I'm sure I'm hopelessly naive about these great power games.