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7/13/2025, 6:47:06 PM
>>510276414
>America is latest in the long line of enemies
Exactly, and now American tourists are wealthy people who bring wealth to their nation. It's easily forgivable from their point of view.
>It was just the scale of destruction that was something entirely different, like basically the entire country was completely leveled
Hue was completely leveled
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huế
>More bombs than WW2
Statistically it's correct, but it wasn't like Dresden (Exception of Hue!). Most of the bombs were ineffective bombs dropped on their supply routes. More Agent Orange was deployed in Laos and Cambodia than Vietnam "technically"
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail
and it's not as simple as that, because I'm guessing you've seen picrel? at least every mutt my age has. It was in our school textbooks. They never explained why Ông Thích Quảng Đức lit himself on fire, I assumed as a kid it was a protest against Americans and the war... But it wasn't! It was against Madam Nhu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Nhu) using her Husband's authority to march through small towns and burn down pagoda's. The Vietnamese hate her more than they could ever imagine hating us.
Im not downplaying America's cruelty, and the massacre of My Lai is not the only event like that, even though it was the most publicized.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
>theyv mostly rebuilt I guess it shows nothing is forever
That's their mentality, they never expect anyone to be their friend... The /pol/ mantra of "never relax" is them to the core.
>>510277709
>never underestimate the racism between gooks
SO VERY TRUE. One of the crazy experiences I had early on, is I was traveling with a colleague from SaiGon (where I lived and where he was from) to HaNoi. He got overcharged for a pack of Cigarettes from an old Lady and I did not. I asked him about it and he explained that the northerners feel betrayed by the southerners where as America was "just another enemy"
>America is latest in the long line of enemies
Exactly, and now American tourists are wealthy people who bring wealth to their nation. It's easily forgivable from their point of view.
>It was just the scale of destruction that was something entirely different, like basically the entire country was completely leveled
Hue was completely leveled
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huế
>More bombs than WW2
Statistically it's correct, but it wasn't like Dresden (Exception of Hue!). Most of the bombs were ineffective bombs dropped on their supply routes. More Agent Orange was deployed in Laos and Cambodia than Vietnam "technically"
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail
and it's not as simple as that, because I'm guessing you've seen picrel? at least every mutt my age has. It was in our school textbooks. They never explained why Ông Thích Quảng Đức lit himself on fire, I assumed as a kid it was a protest against Americans and the war... But it wasn't! It was against Madam Nhu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Nhu) using her Husband's authority to march through small towns and burn down pagoda's. The Vietnamese hate her more than they could ever imagine hating us.
Im not downplaying America's cruelty, and the massacre of My Lai is not the only event like that, even though it was the most publicized.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
>theyv mostly rebuilt I guess it shows nothing is forever
That's their mentality, they never expect anyone to be their friend... The /pol/ mantra of "never relax" is them to the core.
>>510277709
>never underestimate the racism between gooks
SO VERY TRUE. One of the crazy experiences I had early on, is I was traveling with a colleague from SaiGon (where I lived and where he was from) to HaNoi. He got overcharged for a pack of Cigarettes from an old Lady and I did not. I asked him about it and he explained that the northerners feel betrayed by the southerners where as America was "just another enemy"
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