Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (ft. Overly Sarcastic Productions) | Animated History" video.
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Tragic how the Fourth French Republic & Charles de Gaulle was desperately clinging to their dying imperial power to the point where they didn't care about starting a 3rd World War. Everyone knew that President Truman's concept of the "Domino Theory" was flawed, but the French fanned the flame of fear and war (despite being utterly decimated in the last Great War). They convinced President Eisenhower that the "Domino Theory" could lead to America becoming an island in an ocean of Communism, starting from Vietnam. In "French Indochina", they advocated to brutal subjugation, fighting until the death, & using tactical nuclear weapons (an option that was taboo amongst the rest of NATO European Allied Command).
The legacy of that mentality the French Empire whipped into the United States led countless American soldiers to their graves in the jungles of Vietnam -- while the rest came back with PTSD. And all of it was for nothing; France lost Indochina, thousand of civilians died, US pulled out w/ nothing to show, Ho Chi Minh became vindictive, and Vietnam ended up uniting into a strong deterrence to Chinese expansion -- proving the "Domino Theory" had always been a sham. In truth, an united, indigenous Vietnam (like now) would have made more of a "Western" ally than France.
And the worse part is, unlike the American, Russian, German, or British Empire... the French Empire is still alive today. A true eternal legacy of European Colonization and warmongering.
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