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While Kennedy and then Johnson escalated US support to South Vietnam significantly, Eisenhower started it.
by KptMarchewa 5mo ago
While Kennedy and then Johnson escalated US support to South Vietnam significantly, Eisenhower started it.
- triceratops 5mo agoAnd Nixon prolonged it in order to win an election. [1] Regular people would call that treason. 1. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-conspired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vie...
- runako 5mo agoThis point came up in a discussion of whether the Iran war is the first US war to be started and lost by the exact same team. Vietnam was floated, but they had a few shift changes before defeat was clear.