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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·2 months agoApples and oranges. Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.
minus-squareAnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·2 months agoNorth Vietnam also had industrial bases in the Soviet Union AND China supplying and funding them. It’s not like they were all paddy farmers.
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoSo weak, stupid, and with a rigid mindset?
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agohttps://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american I’ve seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American ‘Manifest Destiny’ would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn’t cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.
minus-squaren7gifmdn@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoIt took a while but that’s looks like exactly what they are trying to do.
Apples and oranges.
Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.
North Vietnam also had industrial bases in the Soviet Union AND China supplying and funding them. It’s not like they were all paddy farmers.
So weak, stupid, and with a rigid mindset?
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
I’ve seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American ‘Manifest Destiny’ would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn’t cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.
It took a while but that’s looks like exactly what they are trying to do.