Vietnam was in the middle of a civil war between a brutal dictatorship aligned with the eastern bloc and a brutal republic aligned with France and the USA.
I will always stand against autocracy. The USA and France failed to protect South Vietnam.
In the good timeline, North Vietnam fell. In a better timeline they exist in careful balance similar to thr Korean peninsula.
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 day ago
While I agree that there was no way the Vietnam War would have been an accomplishment instead of a shame, I must point out that the war was neither aggressive nor colonialist.
The war was a horrific crime, murderous in execution, vile ideologically, and utterly unnecessary from every angle.
But the notion that the war was colonialist was a major issue of (effectively) failed communication between the US and North Vietnam. And US involvement in the war was always oriented around the survival of South Vietnam, to the point where there was never a major offensive to take North Vietnamese territory.