Comments by "diehardcat" (@diehardcat) on "Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War? | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. What a load of crap! There's no 'external communist aggression' in Vietnam or South East Asia. It was indigenous popular movements led by local communists. The Vietnamese people chose local communist leadership because it's the only hope for independence from France. The US didn't help their cause. China did. Helping indigenous people fighting EXTERNAL COLONIAL AGGRESSION is not aggression! You deliberately turn everything up side down. The US instead helped France, an EXTERNAL COLONIAL AGGRESSOR, reoccupying Vietnam. When France lost, the US jumped in directly and created the Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) which was despised by the people because it was created by an EXTERNAL IMPERIAL POWER and made up by the exact same traitors who served the French. Without the US, there would be no RVN. The US created it against the the will of the people so the US IS THE EXTERNAL AGGRESSION IMPERIALIST here. The US used its creation, the RVN, as a front for an invasion and occupation of South Vietnam. Despite all this, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) repeatedly asked and reminded the RVN to hold a general election to unify the country peacefully as stipulated in the Geneva Accords 1954. To answer the goodwill, the RVN started killing not only the communists but the people who supported them too in the South, so those people was forced to take up arms, and all hell broke lose. They were too much for the fake leaders and arm forces of the RVN to deal with so it was about to collapse and so the US had to bring its own troops in to 'defend' the fake country they created. That was in reality an US' invasion to keep its base called South Vietnam. The USSR and China only helped to expel the real EXTERNAL AGGRESSION which was the USA. They hadn't gotten involved in internal politics or military planning, strategy, had never brought troops in to kill people. The Vietnamese communists had every right to defend and unify their country, calling that 'invasion', 'aggression' sounds preposterous especially from the US which was the real EXTERNAL AGGRESSOR, INVADER in this story.
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  2. Well, first, in any war, it's not the opposing sides who find it hard to reconciliate, but the traitors! The UK established relations with the US right after the American Revolution and has become a close ally ever since but how can Benedict Arnold hug the revolutionists?! Second, you don't know but there're also hugging between the RVN's soldiers and the NLF, NVA's right after end of the war, decades before any hugging with US soldiers happens. In fact, many of the former RVN's soldiers and low ranking officers had volunteered to fight alongside the unified Vietnamese Army against the Khmer Rouge in 1978. The ones who can never find reconciliation from both the US and RVN sides are the heavily brainwashed and ridiculous who served in the upper echelon and so had much higher stakes in the war. They had lost hard to find status and lots of money so they can never get over it! It's all personal and has nothing to do with ideologies.
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  3.  @philipmccarthy4975  Well, first, in any war, it's not the opposing sides who find it hard to reconciliate, but the traitors! The UK established relations with the US right after the American Revolution and has become a close ally ever since but how can Benedict Arnold hug the revolutionists?! Second, you don't know but there're also hugging between the RVN's soldiers and the NLF, NVA's right after end of the war, decades before any hugging with US soldiers happens. In fact, many of the former RVN's soldiers and low ranking officers had volunteered to fight alongside the unified Vietnamese Army against the Khmer Rouge in 1978. The ones who can never find reconciliation from both the US and RVN sides are the heavily brainwashed and ridiculous who served in the upper echelon and so had much higher stakes in the war. They had lost hard to find status and lots of money so they can never get over it! It's all personal and has nothing to do with ideologies.
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