Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "What were the Impacts of the Vietnam War? | Animated History" video.

  1. How the Vietnam War is portrayed is also dependent on where you are in Vietnam, in Northern Vietnam it is seen as "a glorious war" and celebrated as a liberation, while in Southern Vietnam you see charities for people born with birth defects and people describe the war as "Hell on Earth". It is clear that it's "a national trauma" to one half of the country and "a glorious chapter of our country's history" in the other half of the country.
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  2. It wasn't pointless, it ended one of the most brutal genocides in history.
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  3.  @conserva-chan2735  it's because the anti-war protestors never really cared about peace, they just didn't want their own money and resources to be spend on the safety of others. Just imagine how horrible South Koreans would suffer under the Kim Dynasty if the U.S. had an anti-Korean War lobby as powerful.
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  4. It's because South Vietnamese soldiers are largely forgotten. Just look at U.S. American coverage of the Korean War, it's portrayed as "America Vs. Korea" and they always show White U.S. American soldiers fighting Communist Koreans, but South Korea is completely left out of the war. But in South Korean media the South Koreans are depicted as having done the bulk of the fighting with U.S. American aid.
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  5. One thing people forget is that Vietnam became the poorest country in the world due to the global sanctions against it as a consequence of its invasion of Cambodia. Despite Cambodian people generally being glad that the Vietnamese kicked out the Khmer Rouge, the international community saw it as an illegal invasion and the Vietnamese economy greatly suffered because of it. In fact, I'd like to call it "the war that broke Vietnam" despite their swift victory, the international reaction crippled the Vietnamese economy for decades.
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  6. Depends on the person you're talking to, many Vietnamese nationalists are very pro-U.S. because they see them as a counter-balance to the Chinese, but the Vietnamese Communists tend to see them as a useful pawn to use against Chinese expansionism in the region. Weirdly enough, not much seems to have changed in this regard since the Vietnam War.
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  7. 08:00 I'd probably blame the Socialist planned economy more than the War.
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  8. 17:05 Which is identical to China, only North Korea and Cuba haven't attempted liberalisation.
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