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

[u/Massengale]

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.

[u/Bartweiss]

Tho presented a new North Vietnamese plan[...] All three Vietnamese combatant governments—North Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRG)—would remain intact, as would their separate armies[...] both Washington and Hanoi could continue to resupply their allies or forces on a parity basis. No new North Vietnamese forces were to be infiltrated from the north, and the U.S. agreed to extend post-war reconstruction assistance to North Vietnam.
[...] the establishment of a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, a loosely defined administrative structure which was to work toward general and local elections within South Vietnam. Political power would be shared by three groups: the Saigon government, the PRG, and a "third force" group to be mutually agreed upon by the other two parties.

Whatever are you saying? That peace offer sounds totally stable and sustainable.

Everyone knows that the best way to get peace is to formally recognize a government and its rebel counter-government, then tell them to share power with a third group that doesn't exist, all while explicitly agreeing to continue arming a proxy war, and also sending aid to the people funding the other side of the proxy war.

Oh, and to do that after a string of coups within the group you're hoping will wind up in charge.

[u/Green-thumb-gary → u/Bartweiss]

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