Did the us really lose the war in Vietnam?

Did the US achieve the objective of preventing the communist from taking over?

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but as of today Vietnam has a strategic partnership with the US, and the government is communist in name only, a lot of manufacturing that was in china is moving there, so yea we had to withdraw but capitalism eventually won, but was it worth 60,000 dead

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We could have that without a war. Ho Chi Minh fought with us against the Japanese then we double crossed him and sided with the French when they wanted their colonial empire back.

From a milt standpoint, no; the US did not lose the Vietnam War. In fact, it was one of the most lopsided wars in history. Even the so-called “turning point” of the war, the 1968 Tet Offensive was actually an unmitigated disaster for the North Vietnamese Army and effectively destroyed the Vet Cong as an effective military force. It wasn’t until 1972 that the NVA had recovered enough to go on the offensive again. And by this time, almost all US ground forces had already left Vietnam. But like the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 1972 “Easter Offensive” was also a failure forge North. This failure, coupled with the restarting of bombing the North by Nixon that forced the North to sign the Paris Peace Treaty ending the war in 1973 with South Vietnam still standing.

Following the end of the war in 1973, Democrats in Congress moved to cut off all military aid to South Vietnam. Meanwhile, the USSR was flooding military aid into North Vietnam. By 1975 the NVA had rebuilt itself and was ready for its third big offensive in the South. Th South, having been cut off from any help for the past two years, again thanks to Democrats in the US Congress, was in dire straits. Most of their aircraft and vehicles were in bad shape du to lack of parts, morale was low in the armed forces because thy knew they’d been betrayed by what was supposed to be their main ally. It didn’t take long for the rejuvenated NVA to overrun the withered South Vietnamese Army.

The story you’ve been told about the Vietnam War is a lie. We didn’t lose that war. We won it in 1973. But after the war we betrayed our ally and left them in the lurch.

Vietnam was a theater in a much larger war, which was The Cold War. America won that war. The war in Vietnam was to stop the spread of Communism. We would have liked to stop it with a free Vietnam. We failed at that; but we did stop it.

No. We left with a peace agreement in place that basically made it another Korea.

Communists being Communists, it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

We didn’t win, that much is clear. We lost as soon as we entered.

Unfortunately, the scum that ran that war for the US did not want to win that war. They just wanted to make as much money as possible for the military industrial complex - who they went to work for both during the war and after the war.

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Ho Chi Minh fought with us against the Japanese then we double crossed him and sided with the French when they wanted their colonial empire back.

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The French were likewise our allies against the Japanese and Germans in the Second World War. Indochina was theirs prior to losing it to the Japanese. It stands to reason they wanted it back. And unlike the French, Ho Chi Minh was a communist in an era where it wasn't popular to be one.

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Did the us really lose the war in Vietnam?

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Yes.