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, had reached out to the West but was rebuffed; French Indochina was seen as a lesser than to be exploited by the West, not one to be accepted as an equal with its sovereignty respected. In 1954 French Indochina was split into three countries; Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Vietnam was further split into a North and South, with the possibility of reunification after elections in 1956. In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem grabbed the leadership of the South and, backed by the West, reneged on the possibilities of elections and reunification. With aid and advisors from the West, he successfully kept the communist guerillas, the Viet Cong, at bay until 1963 when mass demonstrations by the majority Buddhist community against his Catholic leadership lead to violent repression and then a US-driven coup.
Two typos you should correct. I think that you mean Galician not Silesian. But maybe you know something I didn't.
Then there is Sevastopol in the Baltic. I know that this is the Foreign Office view but..
"..Silesian Waffen SS soldiers in the West). Ukraine was to become the new battering ram for the West to use against Russia, with the Russian naval base at Sevastopol becoming a Western base to help turn the Baltic into a Western dominated sea.."
I think analogies with the US Vietnam debacle are misleading...
Kuwait may provide a better analogy...Recall that the US said nothing to dissuade Saddam from annexing Kuwait...Iraq invaded Kuwait, the trap shut, and Saddam's military was heavily degraded...
Weakening Russia's military has already been stated as a goal...
The break-up of Russia into statelets is now being openly talked about by US/NATO...
That is, it has never been about the Ukraine, the Ukraine is simply a pawn in Pentagon's strategy...
Take notice of the weaponry being supplied (Actually, most of it is not being given to Zelensky to play soldier with. it's being stockpiled ready for quick employment in abutting NATO member countries.). The US needs to end Russia's air superiority over the Ukraine before anything else ( Anti-aircraft batteries), It needs highly mobile Howizter and missile launchers to conduct hit and run (guerrilla) shelling of Donbass population centers and any military concentrations... and so on...
Russia asserted the supplied weapons would fall into the 'wrong hands'. Can you really see 'Islamic' or any terrorists group walking off with the advanced weaponry being delivered ?
In 1982 the Israel Plan for breaking-up surrounding Arab states to make them manageable, and a lesser threats to Israel, was published....It was a blueprint successfully applied for the break-up of Yugoslavia into statelets... It sounds like the idea is going to be applied to Russia...
There's bound to be little men in all the Russia republics whom Soros can bribe to agitate for DEMOCRACY, in return for a share of the loot...
I like this a lot. Excellent overview and unique blend of perspectives. Very well written. Thank you. (Came here from one of your posts on Moon of Alabama.)
Ukraine is the West’s Vietnam not Russia’s
Very good and useful information. Thanks
Two typos you should correct. I think that you mean Galician not Silesian. But maybe you know something I didn't.
Then there is Sevastopol in the Baltic. I know that this is the Foreign Office view but..
"..Silesian Waffen SS soldiers in the West). Ukraine was to become the new battering ram for the West to use against Russia, with the Russian naval base at Sevastopol becoming a Western base to help turn the Baltic into a Western dominated sea.."
I think analogies with the US Vietnam debacle are misleading...
Kuwait may provide a better analogy...Recall that the US said nothing to dissuade Saddam from annexing Kuwait...Iraq invaded Kuwait, the trap shut, and Saddam's military was heavily degraded...
Weakening Russia's military has already been stated as a goal...
The break-up of Russia into statelets is now being openly talked about by US/NATO...
That is, it has never been about the Ukraine, the Ukraine is simply a pawn in Pentagon's strategy...
Take notice of the weaponry being supplied (Actually, most of it is not being given to Zelensky to play soldier with. it's being stockpiled ready for quick employment in abutting NATO member countries.). The US needs to end Russia's air superiority over the Ukraine before anything else ( Anti-aircraft batteries), It needs highly mobile Howizter and missile launchers to conduct hit and run (guerrilla) shelling of Donbass population centers and any military concentrations... and so on...
Russia asserted the supplied weapons would fall into the 'wrong hands'. Can you really see 'Islamic' or any terrorists group walking off with the advanced weaponry being delivered ?
In 1982 the Israel Plan for breaking-up surrounding Arab states to make them manageable, and a lesser threats to Israel, was published....It was a blueprint successfully applied for the break-up of Yugoslavia into statelets... It sounds like the idea is going to be applied to Russia...
There's bound to be little men in all the Russia republics whom Soros can bribe to agitate for DEMOCRACY, in return for a share of the loot...
I think "Kuwait", not "Vietnam"
I like this a lot. Excellent overview and unique blend of perspectives. Very well written. Thank you. (Came here from one of your posts on Moon of Alabama.)