Simgrund, the Vietnamese had been trying to get out from under...

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    Simgrund, the Vietnamese had been trying to get out from under the yolk of French colonial rule since the late 19th century

    WW2 seriously disrupted that nationalism push.

    after WW2 finished the French were still living some deluded colonial fantasy and thought they'd resume their exploitation of Indo-China, namely Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

    the French colonial mindset had no basis in reality, its intel was atrocious and ze French arrogance blinded them to most everything.

    The Vietnamese put the French to the sword at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. The location of this set piece battle basically says everything about how out of touch the French were.

    Dien Bien Phu is about 450 kms west northwest of Hanoi, right on the Laos border. In Australian colloquial terms that's the middle of nowhere. For the French it must have seemed like another planet. For the Vietnamese, it was home.

    interestingly, the Vietnamese commander General Giap at the battle was also central in the defeat of the American invaders 20 years later.

    there was no valid reason for the US and its allies including Australia to wreck Vietnam in a war of destruction and genocide of 3 million people. America lied about an incident that never happened in the Gulf of Tonking when a Vietnamese fishing boat neared a US destroyer.

    at the height of the war, B52s rained bombs on civilian areas in Hanoi at Christmas 1972.

    The American war on Vietnam established a cruel pattern that will ultimately bring the downfall of the US.

    Lie to start a war, wreck a nation, commit genocide therein on some flimsy pretense about human rights abuses and introducing democratic values, all so America's military-industrial complex can enjoy the fruits of war. Think of them as the Washington War Party. Biden won't be much different from Trump.

    they have done it in Iraq, Libya, Syria and now their running dog mate Saudi Arabia is involved in massive war crimes in Yemen.

    and they've brainwashed us though such media as Fox News, and News Corpse generally that China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuala are all bad bad bad and will have to be dealt with.

    in March 2017, Forbes magazine reported that US special operations forces deployed to at least 138 countries in 2016. That was in addition to the 200,000 US army, marines, navy, air force and coast guard that were deployed in around 170 countries.

    plenty can go wrong in this scenario and with a madman in charge in America that's pretty much guaranteed.

    Australia has a long standing inability to read where our true interests lie, so as we are seeing now with the friction with China, Australia will be collateral damage. it will hurt..






 
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