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It's hard to say what a "real" country is in this case. The modern borders of Vietnam were only drawn in 1802 when Gia Long unified the country. Within 60 years, the French coloniz…

The Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) was absolutely a country that had a right to its own sovereignty. Framing the Vietnam war as a communist struggle against Western invaders i…

Agreed, the piece has a very distinct bias, and it's sad to see what Vietnam has become, especially considering what it could have been had history gone a little differently (South…

This is an un-nuanced analysis of Vietnam's history that basically blames the United States for Vietnam's rampant corruption and the failure of the communist model (can you name a …