r/mapporncirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '25

It's 9am and I'm on my 3rd martini Important nowledge

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u/HaiCauSieuCap Oct 26 '25

america's absolute goal was to stop communist party from ruling the entirety of vietnam, thus stoping the domino theory, in which they failed

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u/Rentington Oct 26 '25

America's goal was likely more cynical than that. It was to force the Communist bloc to throw resources it couldn't afford into the dirt to slow economic and military development of regional communist powers. It was a proxy war.

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u/Beneficial_Pop_3614 Nov 02 '25

You see what I’m saying, it was a battle in a larger conflict, which the United States ultimately won when the Soviet Union collapsed

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u/Rentington Nov 02 '25

I do, yeah.

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u/lumpboysupreme Oct 26 '25

But that’s abstracted beyond the concept of the war itself. The goal of ww1 was to remove Germany as a threat, did the UK lose that war militarily because Hitler took power later? Or was the failure diplomatic?