Comments by "diehardcat" (@diehardcat) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. I'm sorry but just listening to your first few sentences, I found your understanding of this matter is fundamentally wrong. First, the war after 1955 wasn't a 'proxy war'. According to dictionary, 'proxy war' means 'a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved'. The US directly involved in that war, commanded its side from 1955 to 1973. Second, the war wasn't between North and South Vietnam but between the US and Vietnam. Those were the two leading/deciding actors of the war. Without one or the other, there would be no war. On the US side, there were the US, its lackeys like Australia, South Korea, and the Saigon regime. On the Vietnam side there were the DRV and the NLF. Third, the Saigon regime was an illegitimate regime created by the US in 1955. It wasn't recognized by most of the people in the south, so you cannot referring to it as 'South Vietnam' because it didn't have the authority or legitimacy to represent the South. It's just a puppet propped up by the US to use as an excuse for its intervention/aggression in Vietnam. Without the US, there would be no RVN and no war!
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