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Yes, this is definitely a way to gain leadership that is more amenable. There definitely has not been any historical cases of one country inflecting mass suffering on another country’s innocent population for the other to hold.. let’s say a strong grudge against the aggressor.

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And there are cases like Vietnam that are USA best buddies now. And a lot of people that grew on a morning brew of agent orange and napalm are in their leadership now.

Would you say that the Vietnam War was a success for the US?

Indochina and SEA remained communist free ... according to the domino theory the whole point of USA involvement there was to contain the spread.

> Indochina

Huh, that should be Indonesia... Because Indochina (as in the former French colony) was well and fully communist after the Vietnam war

Indochina is the name of the whole peninsula. Only cambodia and vietnam were. The domino theory was that Thailand and Myanmar will fall too.

well, Indochina wasn't communist free, as Cambodia and Vietnam were (and Laos too).

It failed to contain communism, though. Afterwards, communism spread to Cambodia; a direct domino effect of the US withdrawal.

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