To be clear, I'm not making accusations about Vietnam, I was just thinking about it and found it a little strange.
I can think of some fairly plausible reasons, but just because those reasons are plausible doesn't mean they're actually correct, so I was wondering if anybody had a more concrete historical and materialist understanding of the situation.
I remember the Anthony Bourdain episode where he asked a vietnamese fella why didnt he hated him, a US turist, and the vietnamese fella said Vietnam had been at war with basically every major colonizer/ empire country at some point in recent history, so they didnt single out the US