Originally Posted by
BanginJimmy
How about the S. Koreans? In Vietnam we dealt with alot of Soviet influance.
China became involved in the conflict on the side of North Korea and we fought them as well. We weren't supplying South Korea with weapons to destabilize China.
In regards to the Soviet Union, I was under the impression you were talking about Afghanistan. There was Soviet Influence, yes, but that doesn't really mean we were arming proxies against them - we were arming proxies against their proxies (and fighting said proxies with our own troops).
China is absolutely an ememy. Not only have they said they would attack US intrests in Asia if we were to support Taiwan, but they have passed a law to that effect.
Well, that would make sense. Taiwan is actually called the "Republic of China", how do you think China feels about that? That it's a chinese problem. It would seem logical that if we intervened in a conflict on the behalf of the Taiwanese that we would be enemies to China seeing as how, you know, it would be an armed conflict.
They're not our enemy because they said if we attack them on behalf of Taiwan they'd attack us back. Use your brain.
Their military is about a decade behind us as far as technology goes.
Farther than that.
Their Navy is a joke and their army is just a mass on conscripts. There are alot of them, but they really dont pose much of a military threat to us. Their Airforce is large and they do have modern weapons thanks to the good ole USA.
Actually, most of their military technology comes from collaborative efforts with Russia and China's biggest arms dealer, Israel.
Russia will probably find this to be unfortuitous when China claims Russia's resources in 30 years via armed conflict after becoming tired of subsidizing its resource needs to other nations.
Actually Soviet backed communists invaded the democratic south. The US was asked by the french for help and we went in slowly at first and continually increased in numbers until 1968.
Which is actually in total agreement with what I said. You really showed me by restating what I said in more words.
Regardless, it demonstrates the fact that it wasn't an issue of Vietnam being "anti-american" pretty clearly.
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