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Interesting! Thats a view I have not been exposed to! Just seems that the whole Vietnam having only a communist party with state capital system would make it o

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Just seems that the whole Vietnam having only a communist party with state capital system would make it obvious that we lost. The alternative explanation is that we won the war, but then handed over South Vietnam anyway. (“We won the war against the VC, but the cost of doing so and the subsequent full-scale NVA invasion led to a determination to not even try to fight the follow-on war with the NVA” is a somewhat more defensible narrative with a broadly similar shape, so there’s arguably something vaguely resembling a point underneath the nationalistic chest-thumping, though artificially dividing the war that way is still a distortion, IMO.)