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Imagine telling a Vietnam vet flying on the last chopper out of Saigon that one day the Communist General Secretary of Vietnam would be trying to persuade an American President to embrace free markets https://t.co/arDfzeOY9i
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) April 4, 2025
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Free trade and free markets are not the same
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Vietnam likes both
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/free-trade/index.htm
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Cyber Commies!
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All those babies killed, PTSD vets and agent orange children for what?
Just total ideological victory, lol
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Fun fact, b-word? Actually we won in Vietnam.
!burgers !anticommunists
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Even Ho Chi Minh tried to work with the US. They like anyone who doesn't get along with China
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We did?!
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Yeah, all the places we "colonized" last century love us. Really makes you think.
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Think? I don't have to!
I'm an American!
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As the resident vietnamese riceburner, I can confirm that vietnamese people usually love americans and try to emulate us. They especially like trump and see him as the quintissential american businesman. I often got asked the question "why do some americans dislike him?"
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Leading up to their civil war, the communists were comparing their struggle to US's revolutionary war.
Granted their government was crap, but the US shouldn't have helped the French help us into that civil war. Just sit back (or maybe tell France to frick off), and let Vietnam come to its senses, which it eventually did anyway.
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Yeah there's a lot parallels. Some of the rubber tree plantations started by the French are still around, and lots of old French government buildings in downtown saigon. Though there's a sense of wonder and admiration towards the old french buildings. They are quite beautiful, really rare to see things like that survive a communist takeover.
The most radical elements of the viet cong died during the war, and the postwar intervention in cambodia helped reunify the people. HCM not becoming a tyrant like a lot of communist revolutionaries also helped a lot (cause he died).
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Stock futures disagree with this take
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Snapshots:
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