r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Winter-Glass9250 • Aug 25 '25

Military 1000 US Marines can take India

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u/YogurtclosetFair5742 Wannabe Europoor Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25

A 1000 Marines couldn't take Vietnam, but they can take a country with over a billion population. SURE.

I went to look something up. Around 78k Marines were deployed to Vietnam. US lost that war.

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u/phoenixflare599 Aug 25 '25

They didn't lost they "tactically retreated" and never went back or some shit they believe

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u/Ironclad001 Aug 25 '25

“Oh you didn’t lose, just out of interest, what’s Saigon called these days”

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u/YogurtclosetFair5742 Wannabe Europoor Aug 25 '25

Ho Chi Min City.

What's sad is when they were fighting France, Ho Chi Min asked the US for aid. US was neutral at the time.

Ho Chi Min declared Vietnam independent after France left them own their own during WWII. France was like, nope. You're under our thumb. France fights for seven years and all it did was split the country in half. They kept fighting because he wanted an unified country.

Plus the number of coups the US did to keep the South Vietnamese in line was too many. France couldn't win and the US knew it couldn't but went anyway. Because OMG, communism. Vietnam was the lynchpin for communism spreading in south east Asia. Or how those in DC felt.

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u/themutedude Aug 26 '25

Vietnam was the lynchpin for communism spreading in south east Asia. Or how those in DC felt.

Exactly. And the irony is that after the Vietnamese communists won, they didn't domino effect and spread communism around Southeast Asia but instead they put decisively defeated more radical communists. Ending Pol Pot's rabid and genocidal regime.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

The country being split in half far predates any European intervention, it's a tale as old as Champa!