re: The True History Of How Vietnam Was Lost

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I link them all together, since they were all Indochina.

ETA: And Thailand was an actual country, not an artificial construction by treaty. That's the difference. The dominoes stopped falling when people felt they had something worth defending.

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You do realize that following WWII just as the US established democratic republics the Soviets likewise sat up puppet Communist ones as well. The South Vietnamese solders fought until the bitter end. The notion that the NVA and VC were all dedicated to the cause while the ARVN solders could care less is one of the biggest liberal lies of the Vietnam war. The only difference is the Soviets stood by their puppet and we didn't.

ETA: To give you an idea of their dedication, it's estimated the ARVN suffered almost 1.4 million casualties during the Vietnam War. That's THREE TIMES the casualties suffered by the US in the same war and about the same as those suffered by the North. So if the soldiers of the South bled at the same rate as those in the north, how can you claim the North troops saw the war as "worth" fighting while trying to make it out that the South troop were just waiting to surrender at the first chance?