Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How VIETNAM (and INDONESIA) plan NOT to end up like UKRAINE - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. IIRC, Ho Chi Minh himself thought that enforcing straight ideological Communism was stupid (as was being shown by Mao's China across the border) and that Viet Nam needed to take capitalist measures to develop a stable economic base -- he realized the Deng Xiaoping version of China before China itself did. Unfortunately the 1950s Americans didn't realize that the Communist world was not a unified monolith and tried to prop up a more inept anticommunist South, with the disastrous choices and strategic results that followed.
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  2. If just feeding people and tracking positive/clearing negative COVID cases in Shànghǎi is any indication, the PRC will still be shockingly inept. The virus doesn't shoot back, they're limiting their own options mainly out of suspicion and fear from their own side; now imagine if those logistical assets were specifically targeted, along with their abilities to communicate.
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  3. I feel that Indonesia still has a simmering yet healthy suspicion of anything Communist and/or Chinese too.
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