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There are various bits of history where I'm reasonably well read, and one is the Vietnam War. The Wiki page is here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
by casenmgreen 2y ago
There are various bits of history where I'm reasonably well read, and one is the Vietnam War.
The Wiki page is here;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
To my eye, it presents a wholly and utterly misleading picture of events.
The Vietnamese simply wanted independence, because they were sick of the brutality of French rule. Everything that happened after came from the French not wanting to go away, and hood-winking the Americans into supporting them, and then the French went away anyway, and left the Americans carrying the can.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoA lot of that seems covered in the article about the First Indochina War which is linked to in the first sentence of the article on the Vietnam War. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War Do you perhaps consider them part of the same longer war? It's hard to break continuous history into neat article chunks.