Regarding Vietnam

[psi20]

The French taxed and drove people into the mines to make the colony profitable for France?

Despite the fact that Vietnam exported tons tons of rice, Vietnamese peasants starved / are starving?

The U.S. supported France having colonies in Vietnam?

The U.S. put in place a leader who was Catholic and from America, which would alienate him from the majority of the Vietnamese?

Then they overthrew him to take charge of the war?

There were millions of Vietnamese casualties?

There were more explosives dropped on tiny Vietnam than in all of the theators of World War II put together?

The U.S. used chemical warfare against the environment they claimed to be trying to save?

The U.S. tried to use "economic strangulation" after the war?

 

Has the economic strangulation stopped yet?

[Douglas]

Has the economic strangulation stopped yet?

Yes, I just bought something the other day, and was surprised to see that it said "MADE IN VIETNAM"

[Daymare17]

Like China, Vietnam is proof that the totalitarian 'socialism in one country' doesn't work. Sooner or later, it sells out to the advanced capitalist countries. And then capitalism comes, which is even worse than the bureaucratic 'command economy'. The Western companies exploit the Vietnamese workers like mad. They are forced to work long hours and paid very little. Many work until they drop, as in China. The generally recognised Vietnamese death toll for the war is put at 1 million combatants and 4 million civilians. That's roughly 10 per cent of the population, as large a part as Hitler killed in Poland. Poland only had 20 million though, so the US killed 2.5 times as many in total.

 

The US dropped literally megatons of bombs and they are still going off. Unexploded ordnance detonating in childrens hands is a common feature of most victims of U.S. imperial aggression, from Somalia to Iraq.

 

The history of post-1975 Indochina is a very convoluted one. For instance, Kissinger sent an order to the Pentagon demanding a carpet-bombing of Cambodia: "Everything that flies on everything that moves." You might know that they are trying Milosevic in the Hague. Their problem is that they can't find any evidence tying him to the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Imagine if they had found, say, a memo, "I want Kosovo cleaned out. Everything that flies on everything that moves". In fact, there's no such obvious evidence tying Hitler to the Holocaust! And this by one of the most prominent representatives of the US establishment.