Originally posted by Glitch3r
What about the Vietnam war?
Hey we didnt start the Vietnam war, we went there to help out the french, but mostly to stop Communism from spreading.
The real beginnings started a lot early in the '20's when a young Vietnamese nationalist, who would eventually be known as Ho Chi Minh, was in the U.S. studying. He wrote letters to the U.S. presidents asking for their help in ridding his country of French colonialism. They were ignored. During WWII, this same person was contacted by the U.S. military, and told that in return for Vietnamese help in fighting the Japanese, after the war was over, the U.S. would help Vietnam achieve independence from the French. This promise was broken, and various factions of Vietnamese under the eventual command of Minh, united to fight the occupying military of France. Much of the cost of the French presence in Vietnam was borne by the U.S. from the very beginning under the guise of fighting communistic expansion. After the peace accords were signed in 1954-55, one of the stipulations was that Vietnam was to be divided into two countries with elections to be held withing two years in each section regarding total unification into one country. It was the South Vietnam portion, under the control of their U.S. backed gov't that refused to hold these elections. Thus basically the war was born again. It was not so much a war of communistic aggresion, as it was a civil war to reunite the country as a whole. The main reasons it was perceived as a communist threat, were some of the ideology's of the north, and the fact that they North turned to communist countries for the supplies and support they would need in their fight, since the U.S. would not provide them with any aid, and the U.S. clearly sided with the consistently corrupt regimes of the southern divide.
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Originally posted by Omfg
It'd be fun to see a battle between the world if people didn't actually get hurt. Like if everyone used paintball guns! And paintball nukes..?
That would be epic id love to see that more or less be in it lol id be the god and start my own clan lol jk
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Originally posted by Martin710
It's quite nice to see a forum where people present their argument in a logical, structured way. Not just "USA!!!1!!" or "UK!!1!" or "TEH RUSSIA" for once. People seem to be weighing up the different factors eg USA - military spend, UK - training, Russia - Nukes, China - manpower etc.
I know right a thread like this hasn't been around in a long time, lol!