Near the end of the Vietnam war, the US had practically won. Viet Cong were surrendering in record numbers, their main forces annihilated and their leaders begging for peace. Why would the US pull out when they had utterly crushed the Vietnamese?

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Kevin Unruh · 5y

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Original Question Near the end of the Vietnam war, the US had practically won. Viet Cong were surrendering in record numbers, their main forces annihilated and their leaders begging for peace. Why would the US pull out when they had utterly crushed the Vietnamese?

Well, first lets edit this for based on the history as the rest of the world knows it.

Question should be: Near the end of the Vietnam war, the US had practically won. Why would the US pull out when they had utterly crushed the Vietnamese?

Ah, that’s better.

Btw, we hadn’t utterly crushed them, but had made life much more intolerable than it had been the previous 7 years of open conflict. Enough so that the North Vietnamese were willing to negotiate an actual end.

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Do the Chinese who visit Vietnam, or who live in Vietnam, feel that Vietnam is similar to China?

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Tran Minh Ngoc (陳明玉) · Lives in Vietnam (1900–present)7y

I’m not Chinese but from other answers, it’s obvious they said yes.

This is what a Chinese told after visiting Da Nang and HCMC / Saigon:

“Being to Vietnam once, it was shocking to me how similar these two countries could be, from Ming style Buddhist temple to aunties doing square dance at night. Sometimes I even felt like stepping into a different version of ‘China’ in a parallel universe tbh.”

Just want to add this one more similarity between us. In Vietnam you can also find big mothers and aunties doing square-dancing and having fun together in public spaces.

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