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Ukraine is the West’s Vietnam not Russia’s

Ukraine is the West’s Vietnam not Russia’s

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The story of the Vietnam War was of a constant escalation by the West in the face of continuing defeats. First of all, there was France, which was forced to leave its colony (French Indochina) after the humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 (with the US funding 80% of the French military expenditures). Ho Chih Minh, the Vietnamese communist leader…

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