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"Before Gaza, there was the US Genocide in Vietnam"
Eisenhower didn't accept Vietnam's 1954 victory over France. He thought others would demand independence from the US sphere of control.
So Eisenhower prevented the upcoming elections - saying "80% would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh" - & instead established a puppet government in Saigon.
In the ensuing "war" 3 million Vietnamese died.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/05/before-genocide-vietnam.html
The Gaza genocide: echoes of Vietnam
War without fronts : the USA in Vietnam by Bernd Greiner
The responsibility for the massive atrocities in Vietnam extended all the way to the top.
The leadership's inability to stop the war & fear of a loss of US credibility led to an escalation of violence on the ground: the torture, rape, maiming & murder of countless Vietnamese civilians.
The Gaza genocide: echoes of Vietnam
War without fronts : the USA in Vietnam by Bernd Greiner
The responsibility for the massive atrocities in Vietnam extended all the way to the top.
The leadership's inability to stop the war & fear of a loss of US credibility led to an escalation of violence on the ground: the torture, rape, maiming & murder of countless Vietnamese civilians.
“The nation of South Vietnam still exists in the people who came here after the war,” Sandy said. “It is a nation that ceased existing in 1975 on a map. But there’s this diaspora of people who became Vietnamese American and brought with them their conception of that citizenship and nationality.”
The Gaza genocide: echoes of Vietnam
War without fronts : the USA in Vietnam by Bernd Greiner
The responsibility for the massive atrocities in Vietnam extended all the way to the top.
The leadership's inability to stop the war & fear of a loss of US credibility led to an escalation of violence on the ground: the torture, rape, maiming & murder of countless Vietnamese civilians.
Analysis: "Before Gaza, there was the US Genocide in Vietnam"
Eisenhower didn't accept Vietnam's 1954 victory over France. He thought others would demand independence from the US sphere of control.
So Eisenhower prevented the upcoming elections - saying "80% would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh" - & instead established a puppet government in Saigon.
In the ensuing "war" 3 million Vietnamese died.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/05/before-genocide-vietnam.html
The Gaza genocide: echoes of Vietnam
War without fronts : the USA in Vietnam by Bernd Greiner
The responsibility for the massive atrocities in Vietnam extended all the way to the top.
The leadership's inability to stop the war & fear of a loss of US credibility led to an escalation of violence on the ground: the torture, rape, maiming & murder of countless Vietnamese civilians.
Analysis: "Before Gaza, there was the US Genocide in Vietnam"
Eisenhower didn't accept Vietnam's 1954 victory over France. He thought others would demand independence from the US sphere of control.
So Eisenhower prevented the upcoming elections - saying "80% would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh" - & instead established a puppet government in Saigon.
In the ensuing "war" 3 million Vietnamese died.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/05/before-genocide-vietnam.html
Analysis: "Before Gaza, there was the US Genocide in Vietnam"
Eisenhower didn't accept Vietnam's 1954 victory over France. He thought others would demand independence from the US sphere of control.
So Eisenhower prevented the upcoming elections - saying "80% would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh" - & instead established a puppet government in Saigon.
In the ensuing "war" 3 million Vietnamese died.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/05/before-genocide-vietnam.html
Interview: Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics
"American interference in Southeast Asia goes back to President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, when he rejected Vietnamese demands for independence from France."
There's been "a series of mistakes over the past century", around US refusing to recognise states' rights to self-determination.
~Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/viet_thanh_nguyen_save_and_destroy
#usimperialism #vietnamwar #trump #ElSalvador #resistfascism #uspol #self-determination #racism .
"Congresswoman #RashidaTlaib (MI-12) introduced the #VictimsOfAgentOrangeAct and the #AgentOrangeReliefAct for the 50th anniversary of the end of the #VietnamWar, a legislative package to address the ongoing harms and legacy of the United States’ spraying of approximately 19 million gallons of #AgentOrange and other deadly #herbicides throughout #Vietnam, #Laos, and #Cambodia."
https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-marks-50th-anniversary-of-end-of-vietnam-war-with-legislative-package-to-bring-justice-for-victims-of-agent-orange
#USpol #GuerreDuVietnam #dioxine #armesChimiques #phytovictimes #pesticides
Interview: Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics
"American interference in Southeast Asia goes back to President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, when he rejected Vietnamese demands for independence from France."
There's been "a series of mistakes over the past century", around US refusing to recognise states' rights to self-determination.
~Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/viet_thanh_nguyen_save_and_destroy
#usimperialism #vietnamwar #trump #ElSalvador #resistfascism #uspol #self-determination #racism .
This 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War reminds me of my trip to Vietnam in 1992, and how wonderful everyone was to me. People wanted me in their photos, wanted to practice their English with me, wanted to know if Mr. Bill Clinton was going to lift the trade embargo. No one mentioned the war.
"ΤΗE EMBASSY STAFF AND THE FEW MILITARY PEOPLE LEFT HAD NO CHOICE. THEY HAD TO GO. NEWSMEN DID HAVE THE CHOICE AND A HANDFUL REMAINED TO SEE THE LAST FEW HOURS OF THE COUNTRY THAT HAD FLOWERED JUST BRIEFLY ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE."
—Peter Arnett and George Esper, Associated Press
#FallOfSaigon #FallOfSaigon50
#VietnamWar #Vietnam #Journalism
Image: AP
The Vietnam War ended before most of the current population was born, but like many young people Hoang Ha Linh was swept up in the excitement of the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/30/asia-pacific/vietnam-war-generation-z/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #vietnam #vietnamwar
Oliver Stone Looks Back at the Fall of Saigon 50 Years Later: “We’re Back to Learning Nothing” (Exclusive)
#GeneralNews #OliverStone #VietnamWar
Wow...the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago today. I was a 2nd Lt in the US Army Signal Corp at Ft Gordon, GA. This announcement brought phenomenal relief, I think for the country, but selfishly for me as it meant that I would not be sent to Vietnam. #WarsSuck #VietnamWar #peace
My 15-yo is "learning" about the #VietnamWar in HS, but somehow hasn't been told about the Gulf of Tonkin, Kissinger, the secret bombings in Cambodia, the "domino theory," Walter Cronkite, or any of what actually happened really.
Half a century isn't long enough for us to memory hole this stuff.
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues.
@AssociatedPress reports that Trump administration cuts are threatening vital programs for Vietnamese victims.