Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

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  37.  @slome815  I don't blame North Vietnam from fighting the French; that was their independence movement. I do blame them for starting their war of conquest for the south -I don't have any hypocritical beliefs in this. "Vietnam was split in two by foreign powers" The peace that split the two countries was formed by the Geneva Conference; South Vietnam was formed by anti-communist Vietnamese with the support of the French and North Vietnam was formed by Ho Chih Minh with the aid of the Soviets and Chinese -both of these countries had foreign backers. Idk where you're getting this story of "foreigners came and split the country" when the truth is that Vietnamese split the country due to ideology and foreigners backed whomever was more aligned with theirs. The war against the French was their war for independence, the war against South Vietnam was a war of conquest. Mind you, the South Vietnam was hardly a democracy so it can't ever be claimed to be representative of the people -but still there's no question that North Vietnam chose war and the bloodshed of the accompanying "Vietnam War" lies on their feet just as Nazi Germany's sparking of WW2 places the bodies of its war on its feet. The US backs whomever is against their current enemy. Everyone does it. Hell, Vietnam did it in Cambodia and partially caused the Khmer Rouge to get into power. And to be blunt, the US has not actually been in too many wars; it has been in 3 wars during the Cold War and 2 wars afterwards -3 if you count Yugoslavia.
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  51.  @L98fiero  The objective was to replace the Iraqi government and put into a new more democratic government. By that very metric the US won in that conflict by achieving its objective, much as South Vietnam's survival was the US' goal in the Vietnam War but it failed in that regard. "Super mess" Iraq's new government asked the US to leave, it could not do anything more unless it wanted to violate the new democratic Iraq's sovereignty -which is how ISIS managed to get such gains since Iraq wasn't ready. Now the US is forced to stick around. The new Iraq was financially more secure than Saddam Hussein's Iraq and more stable in that it doesn't require a dictator to crush dissent 24/7 to keep the peace; but it's military was weak and culture would and still will need much time to move on from that era where the majority Sunni suppressed the Shia as well as inter-tribal conflicts. The US did far more to crush ISIS than anyone else sans the Kurds. Edit: And to be blunt, the Iranian militias themselves had caused much mayhem in their time in Iraq, so their time there was not exactly pleasant. They actively engaged in the insurgency against the new Iraqi government and actively attacked US-Iraqi forces in the midst of ISIS' invasion. So spare me your lionizing of Iran's "help". The nations that the US turned into democracies were never economically subservient to the US. The US either goes in for political interests or economic interests; this case was the former. The US took every opportunity it had to gain economically and used it instead to empower the new Iraq, such as making sure all oil rights it sold were to the highest bidder -including China and Russia being those highest bidders, not the US. The only time US interventionism came back to haunt the US was in Afghanistan, really. But even that is questionable since the mujahideen was what the US supported, and there is no reason the Taliban HAD to emerge from that group; it could have easily been a more moderate Islamic group that won over Afghanistan, but I digress.
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