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2021-05-22 Southeast Asia

Britain's Vietnam War right after WW-II using the surrendered Japanese army to fight Ho.

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Posted by 3dc 2021-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 And then the French employed ex-Waffen SS for similar reasons...

Posted by borgboy 2021-05-22 01:26|| 2021-05-22 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Ho should have been on our side. He was a nationalist. But the State Department would have none of it. Instead they got us into a decade long war and lost it. Good job, assholes.

Posted by Albemarle Hitler9781 2021-05-22 03:40|| 2021-05-22 03:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Ho wanted U.S. help to get the French out of Vietnam after WWI. He didn't get it so later he went to the Russians. They wouldn't help, either. After WWII he again went to the U.S. but Truman wouldn't help because Ho had been in contact with the Russians.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-05-22 07:52|| 2021-05-22 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ...The British and French knew full well that FDR - had he lived - would have stomped hard on any effort to reboot their respective empires. They also knew that Harry Truman, though not sympathetic, had other priorities and let them try and do it. That's no reflection on HST, by the by, he just felt that there were other things that we needed to worry about first and as long as it was their troops doing the fighting, it was fine.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-05-22 07:54|| 2021-05-22 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 As far as "someone else's troops doing the fighting" HST took a page out of British history. My reading of history anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-22 08:11|| 2021-05-22 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 And what was wrong with preserving the empires. Given the subsequent events, the Americans should’ve let a transition period. It would’ve saved the world a lot of grief

Posted by Tyranysaurus Bucket2286 2021-05-22 20:38|| 2021-05-22 20:38|| Front Page Top

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