• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    What is it about Vietnam that make them want to colonize it so bad? When I think of Cuba it was cash crops and mafia shit, right? I believe there was an undercurrent of disgust for having a socialist regime so close to America. Is Vietnam pure Bug’s Life posting where they just don’t want to see resistance?

    • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      10 days ago

      Literally yes, they called it the “Domino Effect”

      And they got their ass beat, yet no communist India sadly

    • Barabas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Domino theory and French chauvinism. Cuba was nominally independent long before the revolution. Vietnam was still a French colony before WW2, and France wanted it back.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      it was kinda one big colonial project that the colonists tag teamed on

      France was colonizing it, got kicked out and defeated, so America took up their mantle on their behalf