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As a Vietnamese whose family was harmed in so many ways by the VCs... the Viets would've fought the French and the Americans to the bitter end anyway. We are an unruly people, as best described by a Chinese ambassador to Vietnam from a few centuries ago. It's hard enough for Vietnamese to rule Vietnam, and we do not want to be ruled by foreigners, period. One brief look at Vietnam's history would've settled that notion. Yet Vietnam would've been an ally of the US from back then if the US didn't fuck up on so many fronts with their bad foreign policy. The domino theory was complete bullshit. There was no way Vietnam would join China, unless someone forgot 3000 years of wars between those two.
They already are. That's why Trump visited Vietnam first in his recent trip to that part of the world. Vietnam would ally with anyone over China, to keep China out once again. If you talk to people on the ground (even in the North) about what they think of America, you'd never realise that there was a bloody war between Vietnam and America still in living memories. Now ask them what they think about Chinese.![[Image: biggrin.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
When modern Vietnam became a country in 1945, it was all set up to be an American ally, even the declaration of independence speech was a direct copy-pasta of the American one, and the first goal was to kick the Japanese out. The US was supportive of Vietnam regaining independence from France initially. However, for whatever reason, America abandoned Vietnam to the French, and that's when the Chinese communists stepped in to provide weapons and supplies, and eventually take control. There are plenty of talks, even recent books written, that Ho Chi Minh (leader of North Vietnam) was "replaced" by a Chinese bootlegged version. He had a different name before, a very Vietnamese name, yet he replaced it with "Ho Chi Minh" which is a very Chinese one for vague reasons. He would suddenly refuse to even meet his own family or close friends, probably from fearing that they would recognise that he's not who he claimed to be.
Regarding the war itself, it could've ended a lot sooner in a much better manner if the CIA had not assassinated President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. The North was very afraid of him, and he would've defeated the commies and their propaganda, and reunited the country. Under Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnam gov was quite good, and was seen as working for the people. The South was prospering, at one point Saigon was the Pearl of South East Asia, doing better than Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok etc of that time. The North's propaganda that the Southern Viets were suffering under American oppression was falling apart as news leaked from people travelling back and forth. People were starving under the VCs, they didn't really want to go fight their brothers. Then after Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination, the South gov went down hill. The officials were getting richer and the people were getting poorer. Essentially that gave the VCs a huge morale boost and the Southerners the opposite.
As a Vietnamese whose family was harmed in so many ways by the VCs... the Viets would've fought the French and the Americans to the bitter end anyway. We are an unruly people, as best described by a Chinese ambassador to Vietnam from a few centuries ago. It's hard enough for Vietnamese to rule Vietnam, and we do not want to be ruled by foreigners, period. One brief look at Vietnam's history would've settled that notion. Yet Vietnam would've been an ally of the US from back then if the US didn't fuck up on so many fronts with their bad foreign policy. The domino theory was complete bullshit. There was no way Vietnam would join China, unless someone forgot 3000 years of wars between those two.
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Funnily enough, if conflict with China ever blow up, Vietnam will be one of the first allies with USA.
They already are. That's why Trump visited Vietnam first in his recent trip to that part of the world. Vietnam would ally with anyone over China, to keep China out once again. If you talk to people on the ground (even in the North) about what they think of America, you'd never realise that there was a bloody war between Vietnam and America still in living memories. Now ask them what they think about Chinese.
When modern Vietnam became a country in 1945, it was all set up to be an American ally, even the declaration of independence speech was a direct copy-pasta of the American one, and the first goal was to kick the Japanese out. The US was supportive of Vietnam regaining independence from France initially. However, for whatever reason, America abandoned Vietnam to the French, and that's when the Chinese communists stepped in to provide weapons and supplies, and eventually take control. There are plenty of talks, even recent books written, that Ho Chi Minh (leader of North Vietnam) was "replaced" by a Chinese bootlegged version. He had a different name before, a very Vietnamese name, yet he replaced it with "Ho Chi Minh" which is a very Chinese one for vague reasons. He would suddenly refuse to even meet his own family or close friends, probably from fearing that they would recognise that he's not who he claimed to be.
Regarding the war itself, it could've ended a lot sooner in a much better manner if the CIA had not assassinated President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. The North was very afraid of him, and he would've defeated the commies and their propaganda, and reunited the country. Under Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnam gov was quite good, and was seen as working for the people. The South was prospering, at one point Saigon was the Pearl of South East Asia, doing better than Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok etc of that time. The North's propaganda that the Southern Viets were suffering under American oppression was falling apart as news leaked from people travelling back and forth. People were starving under the VCs, they didn't really want to go fight their brothers. Then after Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination, the South gov went down hill. The officials were getting richer and the people were getting poorer. Essentially that gave the VCs a huge morale boost and the Southerners the opposite.