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It’s not pro or anti war, it’s realpolitik. Neither Nixon nor Kissinger wanted to be in Vietnam, but again, if they evacuated in 1969 it would have been a bloo
by mikrl 7mo ago
It’s not pro or anti war, it’s realpolitik.
Neither Nixon nor Kissinger wanted to be in Vietnam, but again, if they evacuated in 1969 it would have been a bloodbath of American soldiers I think is the point you missed.
The communists had a decisive advantage until the Americans escalated the war to a ceasefire then pulled out in the mid 1970s.
- roenxi 7mo agoDid he claim war was peace and slavery was freedom on the way through? When I say that sounds incredible, I mean that in the sense it is difficult to link it with credibility. That argument's conclusion is that keeping troops in an active warzone will prevent them getting injured, and being driven out of a country represents the fruit of erasing the opponent's decisive advantage. With pretzel-logic of that magnitude that anything is possible. There is a much easier conclusion which is Kissinger was making things up because he'd look like a real monster if he honestly said it was just stupid policy.
- Hikikomori 7mo agoIf they didn't want go be in Vietnam maybe Nixon should not have sabotaged the peace talks.