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Actually, anticolonial means opposition to or resistance against the system where one country controls another. It really has nothing to do with their system of
by CalChris 1y ago
Actually, anticolonial means opposition to or resistance against the system where one country controls another. It really has nothing to do with their system of government. BTW, they're run by the socialists now and, thanks to Clinton and McCain, we have normal relations with them. The US Navy makes port of call visits to Cam Ranh Bay. Maybe if we'd just done a deal with that former line manager for General Motors we could have made those port of call visits earlier and saved $800B, a 100K US lives and a couple of million Vietnamese dead. You know, mercantilism.
- corimaith 1y ago>It really has nothing to do with their system of government. It's about who has the power here, which is the same principle you would take against a colonial authority. There is no right why Ho Chi Minh and the CPV should rule autocratically against the wishes of other factions. When they are sending that same opposition to concentration camps it is functionally no different to colonial authority. >$800B, a 100K US lives and a couple of million Vietnamese dead. You know, mercantilism. If North Vietnam didn't invade and kept to themselves we'd also save all that money and lives, and the Vietnamese wouldn't waste decades of economic stagnation. But, in the words of the late Lee Kuan Yew, the war at least gave other Southeast Asian nations the critical time to build their economies against Communism.
- CalChris 1y agoYeah, keep thinking it was about Communism. We backed the Viet Minh during WWII and we backed the Khmer Rouge as a counterweight to big bad Vietnam (where our Navy now makes port calls), even to the point of defending the Khmer seat at the UN well after they lost until 1993. Because Communism.