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1. GuestFAUniverse · 1790922334 · focus · HN ↗

   Since when is bullying other countries alright? Those are strategic reserves for real emergencies. To keep the show going _at all_.

   What a fucking narcistic war monger clique.

   1. expedition32 · 1790924822 · focus · HN ↗

      This is the real heart of the problem.

      Trump literally CANNOT admit he made a mistake.

      Nixon may have been a corrupt sleaze ball but he knew he had to get out of Vietnam because it was destroying America and so he did.

      1. Hikikomori · 1790934397 · focus · HN ↗

         Nixon prolonged the war and expanded into Laos and Cambodia. They eventually got out because they were losing.

         1. Paradigma11 · 1790936182 · focus · HN ↗

            They lost because they left, they didn't leave because they lost. There is not that much discrepancy between US and Vietnamese scholars about that.

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