Comments by "0IIIIII" (@0IIIIII) on "WarLeaks - Military Blog" channel.

  1. Sasha Navruzov Firstly I don't know why you are romanticizing the communists.  They were and are awful, evil people.  The proof is in how they governed.  40 years of power in Vietnam, and the country remains a corrupt, impoverished dictatorship.  Compared to US nationbuilding, such as with Taiwan and South Korea, South Vietnam's destruction was a tragedy, it's not something that should be celebrated.  Secondly, you have no proof for any of the stuff you're saying.  VC were crushed, and would've remained crush if the US remained, and retaliated against the North's violations of the truce.  VC never won a single battle against the Allied forces.  They also suffered far higher casualties, men fought and died to enact a backwards system that doesn't even care for them.  You can't call that strength, I call it stupidity and being dogmatic. 
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  2. Sasha Navruzov shut up please you don't know what you're talking about. After the Tet Offensive the VC was utterly broken. There was no endless insurgency. It was done. VC was finished, at least for a while.
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  3. Sasha Navruzov I think you should take the good with the bad.  All the richest and most powerful countries on Earth are democracies, all democracies are allied with the US, none with either Russia or China, and US nationbuilding is proven effective, such as with Taiwan and South Korea.  All that said, I don't see why you are Anti-War, pro-North Vietnam, or whatever. 
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  4. +Sasha Navruzov It is a fact that every democracy on Earth is allied with the US. Can you name one that isn't? I can't think of any? And while the US was allied with many dictators and did overthrow a few democratic countries, that was in response towards fears of Soviet and Chinese allies establishing themselves in the US's neighborhood. It would give them strategic leverage, and give the Cuban Missle Crisis, and the active communist factions such as the Sandinistas, these fears weren't unfounded. Doesn't Russia feel threatened by NATO in a similar way? Food for thought. But anyways, the Cold War is over and os are these tactics. US no longer competes with another equal. You also neglect to consider the democracies that the US has built. It's unfair and unreasonable to focus only on the ones it took down, and even those claims are shaky in my opinion. US liberalized most of Asia and Eastern Europe, South Korea and Taiwan are shining examples of US nationbuilding.  They started out as dictatorships but turned into democracies over decades, with the help of US aid. South Vietnam would've received similar treatment. My point here is, just because they started out as dictatorships doesn't mean that the US was wrong to support them.
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  5. Sasha Navruzov Your logic is flawed in my opinion.  1. US is the most powerful country on Earth.  So naturally it's going to be involved in more scandals than say Russia.  Simply saying that the US has toppled the most democracies, and then concluding that the US is therefore the most opposed to democracies, is premature.  Other countries in the US's position, like say Russia or China, would probably crush more democracies given that's what they did in the Cold War all the time (US only did it sometimes), and therefore means that they are the ones who are the most opposed to democracy and human rights.  Sandinistas don't seem like good people from what I've read on Wikipedia, and back then, communist governments allied with the US did seem problematic.  They were strategic for military reasons.  Miscalculations could cost the US dearly, so there was suspicion.  Cuban Missile Crisis showed what can happen with Soviet allies in the US's doorstep. 2. US is not the greatest threat to democracies.  It toppled a few in the Cold War, but that's the extent.  Soviet Union (Russia)'s whole existence was dedicated towards destroying democracy and oppressing people, especially in the Eastern Bloc.  By keeping Eastern Europe under its thumb, Soviet Union, which Russia is the successor of, stemmed more democracies than the US.  3.  Regardless of the past, right now in the present, US is working to protect and spread democracy and human rights in the world.  US leads NATO, which protects European democracies from Russian meddling and wars, like what's happening in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova.  US also protects Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia from China and North Korea.  Most of these countries are democratic, definitely Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan are.  4.  Eastern Europe definitely improved since the Cold War, and the US in a sense did liberate them.  Why else did most of those countries join NATO?  They joined because the people living in those countries, like Poland, Romania, and the Baltics, wanted protection.  The fact also that those countries are also in the EU further shows that they have relatively high standards of living and wealth.  They don't seem to be basket cases to me.  5.  Yeah US is allied with a bunch of dictatorships, but I don't see how that makes the US a bad country.  It can't just go and topple them all like in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Those countries just rally around the US because the US leads and polices the world, keeping the peace which is generally what everyone in the world wants. 
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  6. awesomekc oh yeah?  Which ones aren't?
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