• Hoodoo [love/loves]
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    4 years ago

    The US was nowhere near defeating the Vietnamese. At most, they managed to deplete local partisan forces.

    This was no "Battle of the Bulge" lmao. Empire brains will always minimize away failures

    • sam5673 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The American's only won a single battle against the British over the course of the entire revolution, they won by making the goals of the British state untenable. In a similar way to how the Vietnamese won by leveraging their greater commitment and tactical ability.

      It's also why the confederacy almost beat the north in the civil war and proceeded to win the reconstruction despite their numerical and industrial inferiority they had much more heart for the fight and therefore willingness to accept losses

      • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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        4 years ago

        Damn, wild people will upvote just blatantly wrong information.

        Americans won far, far more than a single battle during the American Revolution, lmfao.

        Here, I will name two off the top of my head: Battle of Trenton and Ticonderoga. Among many, many more. Actually giving me a conniption over here as a history buff.

    • GreenDream [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      After the defeat of the Viet Cong in the Tet Offensive, the remaining opposition to imperialism was the North Vietnamese Army, or NVA.

      It is surmised that the NVA didn't like the competition and encouraged the VC to rise up so that the Americans would crush them. Whether that happened or not, the effect was the same: the VC were not a factor for the rest of the war.