• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I know the history of the Shit show of what was Vietnam but I’ve never considered what would have happened had the u.s stayed out. Any more info on that?

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      3 days ago

      South Vietnam is overrun shortly after the coup of Ngo Dinh Diem, Ho Chi Minh potentially isn’t sidelined by hardliners in the North Vietnamese government, Vietnam becomes Communist but with much less bloodshed and, potentially, a less authoritarian and dogmatic regime.

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      4 days ago

      Vietnam woulda gone to war if we hadn’t intervened to prop them up and end the war.

      It woulda been more war.

      Just … probably shorter and less napalmy.