• Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Shame Ukraine couldn’t benefit from Alain Demon’s military expertise

    After he was caught stealing equipment, the Navy gave him a choice of leaving it or extending his commitment from three to five years.

    Towards the end of the war, he was arrested for stealing a jeep and going on a trip during which the vehicle fell into a stream.

    His radio licence was revoked and he was expelled from the Navy.

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    Woulda coulda shoulda, bozo.

    Also, it’s funny just to say the word “flag” in your head while reading these kinds of posts. “I asked my son to take me out behind the woodshed but then the war in flag started. Helping flag in its fight gave me the will to keep going. If I was still spry I’d be joining the flag army to fight for flag.”

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      The Vietnamese fought for decades to free themselves from the colonial rule of the French, the Japanese, and later the US. They didn’t need the USSR to convince them to do so, although the aid provided was certainly a good thing.

      It’s deeply ironic (or betrays your complete ignorance) to call the North “puppets” when they had wide support throughout Vietnam, unlike the Western-backed South government. The US prevented a democratic election of the entire country in 1956 because they knew that the communists would win it. Eisenhower estimated that Ho Chi Minh had 80% support.

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        I don’t know what that comment above said, but it sounds like American brainworms.

        Motherfucker, Ngo Dinh Diem outlawed Buddhism in a country that was over 70% Buddhist at the time and made Catholicism (that came from foreign colonizers) the state religion. But yeah, sure, it was the North who didn’t have people’s support.

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        The southern government was just a continuation of the local colonial government, it can’t get more puppet than that.

        Also, you got a source on the election prevention? Not doubting you, just want to pull that out on chuds.

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          I read about it in the Pentagon Papers, but even pro-Western sources and NATOpedia agree on this. The DRV signed a treaty with French-controlled “State of Vietnam” at Geneva in 1954 that provided for free nationwide elections and the unification of Vietnam in 1956. Ngo Dinh Diem came to power in the South via a rigged election (universally recognized as such) in 1955 with US backing, swapping out the French for the US as colonial masters and backing out of South Vietnam’s obligations for elections and unification in 1956. This was because the US didn’t want to allow Vietnam to become socialist via democratic means.

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      Revisionist. I distinctly remember the Soviets sending Kirov airships and apocalypse tanks to Vietnam. Who can forget the last American building getting captured because a singular Soviet engineer walked into the building and turned it red???