1940-1955: How The Vietnam War Became Unavoidable

[@bruceaux174]

As a Vietnam vet, my sadness along with all the loss in Vietnam is the US learned nothing and repeated our mistakes when invading Iraq in 2003.

[@ApolloFreya]

It's very sad all that lost there life's on both sides and the way the world is going where heading for WW3 So sad

[@saoulidany4568]

Those were not mistakes, nobody goes to War by mistake, it was by design....in 1996 the neocons were already lobbying to invade Irak again and starving it in the meanwhile...those are deliberate policies...not mistakes.

[@huongphamthi4946]

Are you Redbull 😂

[@NgocTran-rn9ko]

It could be another mistake to my country again by group of the monk . Leading by the guy name THÍCH MINH TUỆ

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

​@@huongphamthi4946well hello there yellow brindle 😅😅😅

[@maxsportsman2416]

“Unavoidable” really? This video is brought to you by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin 😂

[@richardseip4954]

@@maxsportsman2416 And CIA.

[@petrsovicka]

This war was perfectly avoidable. (G.F. Kennan)

[@Dario-h8g]

WOW EXCELLENT OBSERVATION!!

[@AxmedMahmed-j5b]

This is a very beautiful country.with rich landscape

[@baronimhoof4042]

Of course it was avoidable. It would have been avoided if France had not colonized. It would have been avoided if the Allies had given up colonization after WW I. It would have been avoided in Truman had not turned his back on people who fought the Japanese as our allies during WW II to support France’s colonization of a country where they were not wanted or needed. And it could have been avoided if paranoia over (shudder) those dirty no-good commies had given way to reason: the world didn’t come to an end and capitalism didn’t disappear when we left in the 1970s, and those things wouldn’t have happened if we’d have never fought it in the first place. All we did was waste a helluva lot of lives and treasury for three decades just to get where we are now and where we could have been all along, on good terms with Vietnam as one of our best trading partners in Asia and military cooperation against Chinese expansion.

[@kevinnunes7079]

So when was Russia and China colonized? Germany was colonized when Karl Marx started writing about it?

[@markgarrett3647]

Ho Chi Minh literally studied in Moscow how to be a proper Communist.

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

​@@markgarrett3647Ho Chi Minh sought independence and freedom first and foremost. Communism is merely a tool.

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

​@@markgarrett3647Yet Ho Chi Minh allied with US during WW2 against Imperial Japan. An opportunity missed!

[@markgarrett3647]

@@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj It was ordered by Stalin.

[@david3549tw]

Most of the south Vietnamese who joined the VC had relatives killed in the American's indiscriminate bombing raids.

[@ursodermatt8809]

just wondering where you got that information from?

[@david3549tw]

@@ursodermatt8809 The book "The Politics of Heroin" says the U.S. bombed Laos and Cambodia in secrecy and in LARGE scale. These operations killed 200,000+ peasants and created 2 million+ refugees. I read it somewhere else that the U.S. did the same thing to the peasants in South Vietnam to drive them out of their villages and move into the "Hamlets".

[@david3549tw]

And these bombings and the refugees indirectly created the Pol Pot regime and boosted the ranks of Vietcong.

[@HieuNguyen-pr8mj]

@@ursodermatt8809come to South Vietnam and ask around, you’ll find out

[@ursodermatt8809]

@ why not north korea?

[@bt920]

This is such a one sided view. Unavoidable? Give me a break. Was this clip sponsored by the military industrial complex? Being Vietnamese, i find this so offensive.

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

As an American, I find this offensive too.

[@somboonsaetang6380]

@@ChristopherHamlin-l5o Nah, you shouldn´t be there in the first place, should stay home and make America great! You helped China and now you have a bill to pay.

[@nanabutner]

I had forgotten that horrendous sound of chopper blades announcing Vietnam daily news! it still brings back all the terror!

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

Unavoidable? The American war in Vietnam could have easily been avoided if the US had just abided by the Geneva Accords (which they helped draft in 1954), and let the elections that were scheduled for 1956 to take place as agreed.

[@tenin982000]

Mccarthy scared a lot of people back then

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

@@tenin982000 True, and politicians of the time, such as Eisenhower and Kennedy, catered to that fear instead of facts and sound logic.

[@anthonyperno1348]

One man started the American-Vietnam War in 1956 when he canceled the 1956 elections. John Foster Dulles We should have let Ho win the election and walked away. We promised to stop communist aggression, but their guy was going to win 80% of the popular vote. We could have then simply say that democracy trumps economic philosophy. We could have walked away with no egg on our face. Ho would likely have been our ally, not Moscow's. But then Dulles created instead PM Deim and then helped him win a bogus election against Bo Dai in a southern only election (which he cheated in) , and Dulles then called SVN 'our bright shining of star' of democracy. Dulles then forced SVN into the SEATO treaty, much to Korea and Australia's complaint. Hanoi called on the UN to force the election. But Ho Chi Minh failed in moving the UN and was disgraced. In 1959, Hanoi declared war on Siagon. Ho was pushed out of power (kicked upstairs) to a figurehead presidency. Hanoi then confirmed its relationship with Moscow, and the war was inevitable. The NLF (Vietcong) was created a year later in 1960.

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

@@anthonyperno1348 Thank you for sharing. You really nailed it. Your depth of knowledge on this matter is rare.

[@michaelhoangnguyen4077]

U think free election can occur in a communist country 😂😂😂

[@Ohnyet]

One word- Money!

[@somboonsaetang6380]

Two words: money and arrogant!

[@jefpduct8725]

Based on my Vietnam Vs US war study during my college years. The war started when a Vietnamese ship torpedoed a US destroyer ship on the coast of Vietnam. This action ignited or sparked the war between the two nations. However, the ship who torpedoed the US destroyer did not belong to Vietnam because Vietnam did not have the type of weaponry and ship during that time. It was a friendly fire but Vietnam was blamed for it. Because of this horrendous event, a 20 year war began. The truth is, both US troops and Vietnam warriors did not know what they are really fighting for. The Vietnamese people were under the impression that they fought the French army out of their country to end colonialism just to get colonized again by the Americans. While the US troops were under the impression they are fighting the spread of communism. When the war finally ended in 1975 (Vietnam won the war), US troops were seen negatively in the US, while the Vietnamese people rejoiced their victory. 30 years later, both US and Vietnam warriors met for the first time for a peaceful reunion. The Vietnamese explained that they fought for their liberty and will not accept colonization again. While the US veterans explained that they were fighting for freedom and stop communism from spreading across Asia and beyond. In conclusion, the war was really made up for global interest. The French could not accept their defeat from the Vietnamese people. So, they’ve rather hand it to the US than be seen as weak. The US thought, they won WW2. So what’s a small country like Vietnam. In the end, our politicians are really to blame for this tragedy. It’s a war that should’ve not happened.

[@trankhuongtuyen8095]

Bạn lấy thông tin ở đâu nói chúng tôi bắn chìm tàu mỹ trên đất nước chúng tôi, mỹ xâm lược đất nước và chia rẽ đất nước chúng tôi vì chúng tôi theo chủ nghĩa xã hội buộc chúng tôi phải cầm súng chống lại sự xâm lược của mỹ, một cuộc chiến vô nghĩa kiến đất nước tôi hy sinh hàng triệu người vô tội, và mỹ phải trả giá cho sự xâm lược

[@davinxi5926]

Would be interesting to cover the Laos Vietnam secret war too

[@kongowns7446]

they have a few on their channel!

[@lucass9328]

Unavoidable? 🤔

[@Historyrepeats6728]

lol the title. Propaganda everywhere

[@TEXASdaughter]

My husband was a crew chief on a Huey in Vietnam 67-68

[@louismccomack9524]

Tell your husband welcome home gunner!

[@ApolloFreya]

And America learned nothing they done the same in Afghanistan billions spent for what we live in a bad world

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

ALL wars are AVOIDABLE !

[@tenin982000]

yes and no. it depends on who invaded. some did it simply because.

[@Cody-n7p]

Sure unavoidable LMAO

[@mchristr]

Both Eisenhower and JFK, observing the worldwide (Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Central/South America) spread of communism post-WWII, knew that sooner or later there would a line in the sand. And that line was Vietnam. Yes, it was unavoidable.

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

@@mchristr Don't you think the American war in Vietnam could have been avoided if Eisnhower had honored the Geneva Accords of 1954 and allowed the elections scheduled for 1956 to take place as agreed?

[@TheodoreBear-c1i]

They understood nothing about the country and invented a sand. And sent their own people to die for less than nothing while committing massive war crimes across the region. The VC and NVA were ultimately heroes, and an entire region of the world remembers America for its crimes more than anything.

[@kikflipguy101]

Unavoidable for the CIA

[@samsonbengalilee7144]

​@@kikflipguy101you says right thing.

[@markbarnes1881]

This is not true. There WAS an opportunity not to be involved when the French left. Unfortunately the bogus "domino" theory kicked in.

[@jack2746]

They used that domino propaganda to scare Australians enough not to object when the politicians decided to send our 'defense' forces to join in on the pile on..

[@markgarrett3647]

Well the Malayan Communist party was waging a guerilla war and Sukarno was allying himself with the Communist at the time that that phrase was used by Eisenhower.

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

​@@markgarrett3647The communists in Malaya were Chinese minority. Meanwhile the Vietnamese is the majority here during the war.

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

​@@markgarrett3647That's not a perfect excusing for French reinvasion.

[@jack2746]

@@markgarrett3647 That is true. Malaysia was dragged into the argument and packaged in the Domino theory to feed our fears. The argument was if we lost in Vietnam the dominos would fall. We lost in Vietnam. The dominos did not fall. It turned out those evil Vietcong were in fact freedom fighters not Soviet or Chinese stooges. Sure the politicians and MSM tried to muddy the waters and feed our fears (successfully) by dragging in Malaysia. Unfortunately we will never know if the Malaysian insurgents were freedom fighters or Communist stooges or a mix.

[@edguerra8790]

Philippines was Spanish not Portuguese.

[@NgocNguyen-ik6tq]

⁠cuộc chiến này hoàn toàn có thể tránh được nếu các lãnh đạo Mỹ sáng suốt hơn, hiểu biết hơn về thế giới này và cách thế giới này vận hành, VN là 1 đất nước tôn thờ độc lập tự do, hạnh phúc và hoà bình của nhân dân, dân tộc VN đã đứng dậy từ đống tro tàn trong muôn vàn cuộc chiến, lịch sử VN là khúc anh hùng ca bi tráng và bất diệt, thật tiếc cho nước Mỹ, bao nhiêu thanh niên Mỹ và các nước đồng minh đã chết vì 1 cuộc chiến vô nghĩa

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

Chúc mừng năm mới từ Hà Nội

[@starslight100]

Vietnamese people are friendly and love peace. In thousands of years of history, Vietnamese people have said that they would sacrifice everything and not accept the fate of slaves. War with the Vietnamese people is always a historical mistake. They are ready to unite the whole nation and the people of the world to fight against war.

[@homemadesoviet]

6:14 the Philippines was under Spain, not Portugal. 😂

[@davinxi5926]

Can you cover the secret wars in Laos during the Ho chin Minh trail cu chi tunnels

[@gazzillah]

Long story short, the US bombed the shjet out in Hồ Chí Minh's trails, tons of bomb, but the trail still there. That was a completely failure.

[@parovozovo]

Songs list in this video is awesome 😎

[@KittyNinjas]

I grew up with the influences of both communism and democracy. Ultimately, I discovered there's not much difference but policies and the way of life. But democratic people are often more open mind and less need to control. If you observe little children, as they grow up as well, you can see how their souls develop to either fascism, communism or democracy. These are classifications of characters and people within each category has good and evil from within their souls. Evil genes can be good if they are taught to be good and their experiences are good. Likewise for good turning evil. Sometimes there are multiple layers of influences: family, friends, environment, chemicals, if you are special then brain waves. Each of us is a knot of variations like the stars upon our sky made up of millions of genes segments. Our brains perceive and process information differently. The day we have people who have common shared understanding, interpretation and actions, that's the day we will eliminate differences. It's strange that we always go back to the past but never far enough to explain how people wnd up with so many languages in the world and the variations of our skins and body/face features. Perhaps, in this grand design of our Creator, we are being tested daily for operational excellence individually or collaboratively.

[@Nntanh257]

What a naive thougt but you’re a good person. The world never run the way universe created in the first place. And the democratic people you think are open minded are easily manipulated by their government and media.

[@moonyu189]

@@Nntanh257 I'm Vietnamese and let's me tell yall, every form of government is created to serve those who establish it. Do you think democracies and communists truly care about the people? We, the people, can either benefit if we understand the system and exploit it like those who created it, or we have to gather and fight against the old government only to establish a new one. Ideology is like religion without the unnecessary ceremonies, it's merely a tool for those in power to separate and conveniently manipulate others to die for them

[@jokodihaynes419]

The greatest irony of WW2 is that former waffen SS volunteers fought in Korea and Indochina against communism

[@scrappydoo7887]

That's not ironic at all

[@kylegoodreau2170]

​@scrappydoo7887 sure it is considering it was the armed wing of an outlawed and illegal paramilitary organization setup as an elite force of an outlawed and illegal political party...the whole reason that there recruitment wasn't openly advertised

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

Isn't it more ironic that American OSS agents fought side by side with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh to drive the Japanese out of Vietnam during WWII?

[@TheodoreBear-c1i]

They fought for recolonization, not against communism. The French didn't even let the anti Communists have their own country and kept trying to keep everything during peace talks even after their defeat

[@roccoray227]

They wrote a book about that called the Devil’s guard. The German SS went to France and joined the foreign Legion.

[@DinoDaley-xp2eo]

I don't have a problem independence movement Cause i am anti imperialist I just don't like Marxist economy I rather a constitutional republic and democracy

[@a1k078]

As a Filipino-American, my father was in the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1970 - 1971 and my uncle who was a Marine had his knee cap blown out coming out of a mortar pit in 1968 - 1969. Lucky my dad came out unscathed as an artillery man in a firebase 105mm's.

[@nhahoang5643]

Tự hào có người bố quân đội tay sai

[@stevemartin6144]

What a laugh! The entire war was completely AVOIDABLE. The title of this video is a complete joke!

[@kunthealove.99]

That war had brought to Near countries as Cambodia and Lao and Human Lives lost so much

[@aminecherfa3841]

Did u hear that , their people were sophisticated and advanced before the white european showed up. Thank you

[@frpgplayer]

"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course…" GW

[@Ohnyet]

Isolationist?

[@scrappydoo7887]

Cool copy paste

[@frpgplayer]

​@@OhnyetGeorge Washington

[@ngayxuangannang]

There are multiple intentionally or unintentionally misinformation details in this video. The Central and the South Vietnam used to belong to Champa and Khmer, however due to Viet’s continuous conquest and assimilation for 1000 years, Viet dominated the whole Vietnam before the invasion of French. Our national spirit had silently developed long time before the White came. Don’t alternate the history like the way you did in the past. That’s why you lost the war.

[@Sarun-hw2fu]

Exactly, they made the video like before the western came, Vietnam was split into 3 regions with Vietnamese in the north, Champa in the center and Khmer in the south. This misleading is a terrible shortcut while around 1700 the county was already shapped similar as today.

[@2012photograph]

From my prospective Vietnam War could been prevented at ending of World War 1.Why say this power that be were extremely disrespectful to him(leader of Vietnam).Yet nobody yet mention in history books.

[@DogmaticAtheist]

This is a good take to learn about the Vietnam war👍

[@ursodermatt8809]

many more things were not said

[@danmatt5065]

Where were the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International back then?

[@baronimhoof4042]

One didn't exist until after the Vietnam conflict and the other was not about stopping or preventing wars.

[@HieuNguyen-pr8mj]

Even if they existed in that time, they would be pretty much useless just like now

[@Babyinyourbedroom]

Hahahahaha

[@gazzillah]

Those things are their stick, ya know... They're not gonna use it to hit themself

[@qd4051]

They are condemning the communist regime for appalling human rights abuse since 1975 when the communists won the war, until now the situation is even worse

[@hmong_keeb_kwm]

Not invading the North was the U.S. downfall to lose.

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

What would invading the North have accomplished?

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

Siding with the French was the source for disaster.

[@PeaShooterAutoHunter]

Bro forgot what happened in Korea

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

@@hmong_keeb_kwm Because they can't

[@moonyu189]

"Quote: 'We're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age' - Curtis LeMay, US Air Force General. Have you ever heard about Operation Linebacker I and II? The US dropped more than 20,000 tons of bombs on the North, and its effects still linger today."

[@zhubajie6940]

Nothing about the era of suffering from 1975-1995 as predicted by McNamara in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

[@qd4051]

From 1975 till now, Vietnamese people have no freedom or basic human rights, Vietnam is among worst human rights abusers in Asia and in the world, and communist leaders are corrupt

[@markgarrett3647]

It wasn't unavoidable. Jack Kennedy could've appointed a better Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam and disbanded the CIA and the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem would've kept things stable.

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

Diem was an oppressive dictator who was put in power by the US and did not have the support of the people of South Vietnam. He never was in a position to provide stability.

[@markgarrett3647]

@ChristopherHamlin-l5o Diem is actually a far less oppressive and despotic National Head of State than Ho who among other things sent his troops to block Vietnamese people who attempting to leave the areas under his control in 1954.

[@markgarrett3647]

Diem is actually a far less oppressive and despotic National Head of State than Ho who among other things sent his troops to block Vietnamese people who were attempting to leave the areas under his control in 1954.

[@ChristopherHamlin-l5o]

@@markgarrett3647 What you and I think about Ho and Diem doesn't matter. What matters is that the people of Vietnam at the time wanted Ho, not Diem, to be their leader and they would have elected for Ho if the election that was scheduled for 1956 was allowed to take place. You agree that people should choose their own leaders, don't you?

[@markgarrett3647]

@@ChristopherHamlin-l5o So why did so many of them left or tried to leave the areas under his control in 1954? And again referendums in war-torn parts of the world are not a good idea as the electorate can and do get intimidated into voting either armed camp that has control of their area.

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

Not! that remark about "" He may be an s.o.b. but he s our s.o.b. "" is properly attributed to Roosevelt re Samosa...

[@LiênPhạm-z4h]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Thank you very much

[@rock3times]

This narrative lacks an importance of Ho chi Minh role in Vietnam . After joining Communist party in France, Ho chi Minh was recruited by Soviet to go to party school in Moscow. There he was trained as agent provocateur and subversion of national regimes where International Communism aimed..Ho also joined the Communist party of the Soviet Union and was assigned to work under Trotsky. The key plans are to spread communism all over the world, especially in Third World countries after defeating the colonialism. Ho was sent to China to help Chinese revolution, acting as liason between Soviet and China.When Indochina under France was the target of revolution ,Ho convinced Soviet to stoke up subversion by employing him as the leader working with Mao in China. When France learned about Ho, She gave Ho's files to Truman .So despite Ho's help the US fighting the Japanese, Truman decided not to back Ho but to back Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of anti France nationalist in Indochina, the rest is history ..

[@levanbinh8277]

Thế chúng mày thích đánh nữa ko usa

[@tatdatnguyen6497]

Sai,chính Francisco Franco cũng thừa nhận Bác Hồ là người theo chủ nghĩa dân tộc,thậm chí cả Stalin cũng nhận ra Hồ Chí Minh chiến đấu vì Việt nam.Chủ nghĩa Cộng sản là con đường duy nhưt đúng để đấu tranh cho độc lập tự do của Việt Nam và lịch sử đã chứng minh điều đó.Ngay cả De Gaule cũng phải viết thư cho Bác Hồ năm 1966 ;"giá như chúng ta hiểu nhau".Cần nhớ năm 1946 ông ta khăng khăng Việt Nam ko thể tự quản lý và nhứt định ko gặp Bác Hồ ở Fontaineble 1946,mới dẫn tới cuộc kháng chiến chống Pháp 9 năm và chiến thắng Điện Biên Phủ

[@rock3times]

There is a rumor that Ho is a truly nationalist and patriot and not a communist ..Ho used Communists to help liberate Vietnam but in the end, Ho was played back by Soviet and China, using him as a symbolic leader only .The true power was in the hands of Le Duan and his gang. After 1954, Ho was the puppet only, sidelined by Soviet and Mao, but was kept in leadership because he was very popular among Vietnamese populace . He learned a lesson about Communist...is easy to get in, and not so to get out ..Ironically, it is him who famously said about Communist vs dissidents..." There is only one way, our way, others are to be killed"

[@tatdatnguyen6497]

@@rock3times cừu và sói hiểu tự do theo cach khac nhau...vs cach nhìn khac nhau quan điểm khac nhau ngôn ngữ khac nhau...người ta sẽ hiểu con chim bay trên trời con chuột chạy dưới đât nhìn khac hiểu khac,Hy vọng m có biêt chính biden đã tới Việt Nam xac nhận quan hệ đối tac chiến lược toàn diện Việt Mỹ,nhân tiện nó chỉ là hình thức thôi,con chim ko phải là con chuột

[@rock3times]

@@tatdatnguyen6497 đánh trống lảng.. Wayyyyy off track....your reply proves you are nonplussed and clueless... Read Sophie Quinn-Judge biopic narrative "Ho Chi Minh The missing years " to enlighten yourself.

[@zavierchang4513]

Weak politics 😢 lost the war, go home.

[@knine8154]

LBJ had to get into it, ask JFK

[@Moorsho]

Another western propaganda 😂😂😂😂

[@soumadip_banerjee]

❤️🇻🇳

[@brick7719]

Was completely avoidable, if we would have taken Vietnam seriously when they begged the entire world of leaders to remove colonizers of France from their country. We should have backed Vietnam, as they were correct in wanting freedom from France.

[@2012photograph]

As American citizen got enlightment visting Republic of EL Salvador during their Civil War.I not either side of conflict just visting relatives you saw the effects on its population.Someone once if walk somebody shoes get better grasp of what they going threw.

[@richardbarrow6606]

Free Palestine.

[@whysoserious7553]

Free?where can I get it?

[@donganhacquyen]

Heroism is something Vietnamese and Americans have in common, even if that person is an enemy, they still acknowledge it.

[@qd4051]

Americans are gracious with the vanquished in their civil war; the Vietnamese communists are revengeful towards the South Vietnamese who lost in the Vietnam War. Since, Vietnamese from both the North and the South suffer an inhumane communist regime with an appalling human rights record. Human rights activists from both the North and the South are now locked up in jail

[@jamessenik5147]

What is the we could have won Vietnam war

[@angKhoaNguyen-ko3nj]

The moment when US supported France reinvade, America have lost Vietnam.

[@jamessenik5147]

My cousin was in Vietnam War