Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The US Is Building Vietnam's Military Into a Powerhouse" video.

  1. Actually, arms deals between the US and Vietnam is a deterrance to the PLAN and PLA expansionism in SE Asia, so the CCP will naturally whine about it. Cold War 2 has already started, way back in 2014, when the PLA started making artificial islands for military bases in the South China Sea, and in 1988 when the PLA forced out at Vietnamese garrison out of Johnson South Reef. The arms deal is partially game changing. The US might want to sell javelin missiles as well to Vietnam to enhance tactical defence of the Vietnamese army in the case of a land invasion of Vietnam's northern or eastern borders by the PLA. This happened before in 1979 (under Deng Xiaoping), just 40 years ago, so the Vietnamese government is acutely aware of it's own land defence and the US wants now to bolster the status quo in SE Asia, including stopping PLA expansion into SE Asia. Vietnam is on board with this; i am uncertain of how the CCP has corrupted Cambodia or Myanmar into infringing it's own defences. Hence Vietnam is also forced to look westwards these days to it's long eastern borders. An acute geopolitical problem with Vietnam.
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