• Bernie Ecclestoned
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    1 year ago

    I said battlefield. Vietnam won the Vietnam War against the US. The goal was to prevent communist takeover. That didn’t happen.

    • @TokenBoomer
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      51 year ago

      I don’t think people accept that America lost that war. They think it was a draw.

        • @TokenBoomer
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          31 year ago

          Maybe among Millennials or GenZ, but I can assure you the Cold War was a propagandist wet dream.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        In US schools they teach it as the US just withdrawaling due to cost and domestic pressure because teaching it as a loss would really tarnish the whole “we never lose wars, USA #1!” narrative.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          Can confirm this. My teacher started sweating when I asked if that means Vietnam won. Didn’t get an answer just a subject change and the redneck kids in class eyeballing me funny. Sorry fuckos your daddies raged quit the field. That’s a loss. Git gud scrub 😂

        • 1bluepixel
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          21 year ago

          In US schools they teach it as the US just withdrawaling due to cost and domestic pressure

          Also known as “losing.” LOL

          Most modern wars happen like this. Both sides commit until committing becomes untenable for one of the parties. That’s pretty much the only path to victory for Ukraine, for instance.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Technically the domestic/international pressure is the actual reason for the loss. The US had the capability to rule the ashes, but domestic and international pressure caused the withdrawal.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I would consider Korea a draw. I wonder how much people conflate the two wars as they had similar objectives in the same world region.

        • @TokenBoomer
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          11 year ago

          Yeah, that’s probably the case. But not defining the 2 wars could be intentional.

      • @PRUSSIA_x86
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        01 year ago

        I mean, the US was kicked out, but I don’t know if I’d call what happened to Vietnam “winning” either. It’s more accurate to say they outlasted the Americans.