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Maybe if the natives hadn’t had to spend decades struggling for independence against various colonial powers, they would have been nicer after they won. I’d li
by mikeash 8y ago
Maybe if the natives hadn’t had to spend decades struggling for independence against various colonial powers, they would have been nicer after they won.
I’d like to point out that our allies in that war did all that stuff too, and there’s no reason to think they would have been much nicer if they had won. Part of why they lost is that they alientated much of the population by being oppressive and murderous.
- stcredzero 8y agoMaybe if the natives hadn’t had to spend decades struggling for independence against various colonial powers, they would have been nicer after they won. The way it was portrayed in Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War," Ho Chi Minh was an admirer of the US, and would have become an ally, if the US hadn't decided to wholly back France in preserving its colonial interest.