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0 pointsbaud1472587y ago0 comments

Who started the Vietnam war?

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arethuza7y ago· 1 in thread

I don't think it does have a single simple cause.

You could argue:

- It was the French colonizing the country and imposing a nasty explotative regime

- The French for refusing to decolonize the country post WW2 and fightning (and losing) a war to retain their colony

- The US for refusing to help Ho Chi Minh when asked

- The US for helping the French

- The corrupt and brutal South Vietnamese regime propped up by the US

- The brutal North Vietnam regime encouraged by the Soviets and Chinese to fight a proxy war against the West

- The US for escalating after the Gulf of Tonkin incident

Well, I realised that my question wasn't very precise, still thank you for taking the time to answer it.

The US or the French, depending on when you think the conflict started.

The French in the mid 19th century.

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