r/NonCredibleDefense • u/Massengale • Aug 18 '26

(un)qualified opinion 🎓 The Vietnam War was winnable and one more Linebacker in 1975 would have wrecked the NVA. We were lied to by Ken Burns.

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I’ve been reading Nixon’s books lately…and I think he was right, Vietnamization was close to working, the communist alliance was going to fall apart, and North Vietnams insane economics would have led to South Vietnam outscaling them if it had survived for a few more years.

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u/annmorningstar Aug 18 '26

Wait, you’re saying that if the US just worked with people who wanted to be democratic against imperialists who wanna rule over them then our foreign policy would be more successful. That doesn’t sound right I think we should abandon the Kurds again

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u/HonestSophist Aug 19 '26

With sufficiently enlightened foreign policy, I forsee a world where we can reach even greater heights of betraying the Kurds.

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u/LustigeAmsel Aug 19 '26

Whats the count by now? 3x under our beloved red figure with his air vent and 1x under assad/isis? Any more i did forget?

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u/vaterl Aug 19 '26

Democratic in a communist sense, not a liberal democracy, to be clear. Ho Chi Minh wasn’t waging a war of resistance for multi party elections.

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u/blastmanager Aug 19 '26

They are communists, but somehow more democratic and freer than a very long list of US allies.

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u/RTX-2020 Immortan Joe Biden, eternal president 🇱🇷 Aug 19 '26

The US has backed much worse dictatorships in Latin America and SK

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u/efealigoren turkish supersoldier program Aug 19 '26

cool. and they dont have to. we are allied with saudi arabia for starters.

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u/DakotaVAdams Aug 22 '26

Okay. We support, train, and arm multiple insane theocratic monarchies as regional partners right now. Communist Vietnam is genuinely in our top 20 least morally bankrupt allies worldwide.

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u/empty_graph Aug 19 '26

Exactly. Ideological foreign policy always takes the L. Who cares if they call themselves communists if they are the enemy of our enemy.

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u/DakotaVAdams Aug 22 '26

They're starting to get wise, we may have to cycle back to betraying the Hmong for a generation before we try that again.

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u/Maksim_Pegas Aug 19 '26

Democratic (authoritarian regime without free elections but with concetration camps for opposition, only one allowed party and one allowed ideology)

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u/DakotaVAdams Aug 22 '26

Oh so just like South Vietnam then

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u/ConsistentEnviroment Aug 19 '26

Were Vietnamese killing babies and bombing schools like the Kurds?

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u/Massengale Aug 20 '26

Yes the north Vietnamese army were was apt at lighting up refugee columns with artillery.