The Fall of Saigon (April 30th, 1975 - The End of the Vietnam War)

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After almost two decades of fighting and millions of lives lost, the Vietnam war came to an end in 1975. Hardly anyone believed that after 19 years of bitter fighting, the conflict would be resolved in just two months. In March 1975, the strength and superiority of the South Vietnamese forces gave the impression that the conflict was still far from over. Yet, on the last day of April the North Vietnamese flag was waving in Saigon.
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Butler, David. The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War. Simon and Schuster, 1985.
Dawson, Alan. 55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam. Prentice-Hall, 1977.
Dunham, George R., and David A. Quinlan. The Bitter End, 1973-1975. History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1990.

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory2 жыл бұрын

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  • @i-dislike-handles

    @i-dislike-handles

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe

  • @unknownplayz2630

    @unknownplayz2630

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kabul is worst then Saigon

  • @hobobaggins8938

    @hobobaggins8938

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah Yes Vietnam War

  • @jusjetz

    @jusjetz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ak-47 and horten 229 flying wing aircraft videos please?

  • @yeboy241

    @yeboy241

    2 жыл бұрын

    Undersandble have a great day

  • @TheEpicShadowGaming
    @TheEpicShadowGaming2 жыл бұрын

    “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme” - Mark Twain

  • @davidgraney3413

    @davidgraney3413

    2 жыл бұрын

    Twas a smart man, my favorite quote by him was always "Never argue with idiots, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

  • @CaptainApathetic

    @CaptainApathetic

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yea definitely not a straight repeat, since the ANA didn't even put up much of a fight. They weren't getting money to feed them and their family so they had no will at all to fight

  • @AlisonBryen

    @AlisonBryen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@davidgraney3413 I'll apply that wisdom to Twitter from now on!

  • @bloxracer3627

    @bloxracer3627

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nah man its a remix

  • @condorsouthernlands4730

    @condorsouthernlands4730

    2 жыл бұрын

    Who’s REAL name was Samuel Clemens.🤓🤪

  • @caleblott399
    @caleblott3992 жыл бұрын

    "This is not going to be another Saigon." "The Afghan Army has a well trained army as good as any country in the world" "That was four days ago" - You-Know-Who

  • @pepperVenge

    @pepperVenge

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you're referring to Biden, He was lied to.

  • @Menaceblue3

    @Menaceblue3

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@pepperVenge Joe Biden lied to Joe Biden?

  • @pepperVenge

    @pepperVenge

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Menaceblue3 No. Joe Biden was lied to by the Military Industrial Complex, and the idiots who built the fake Afghan Republic. The only thing holding Afghanistan together from the first Invasion in 2001 to August 15th 2021 was the US Military and its allies. Once enough of them left, it was only a mater of time.

  • @hmk5123

    @hmk5123

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Afghan Army was a total failure. The recruits had little motivation to defend, instruction was difficult, they could not follow simple orders, illiteracy was high, desertion was common, and very little qualified Afghan leadership could be found.

  • @pepperVenge

    @pepperVenge

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JayRitzy Way to go kiddo. You just figured it all out.

  • @defiant2145
    @defiant21452 жыл бұрын

    Modern-Day US Presidents: "We will never see a second Saigon.." Afghanistan: "hold my sandals..."

  • @luki188

    @luki188

    2 жыл бұрын

    "hold my donkey.."

  • @aviatorgamer3057

    @aviatorgamer3057

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hold my goat

  • @theskullboy8700

    @theskullboy8700

    2 жыл бұрын

    Afghan: I’m about to end this man’s second career

  • @supermario5849

    @supermario5849

    2 жыл бұрын

    This video is literally too perfectly timed!!!

  • @bradley8575

    @bradley8575

    2 жыл бұрын

    Laughs in Soviet.

  • @balthasar6091
    @balthasar60912 жыл бұрын

    "Know your history, or be doomed to repeat it." The trailer of a videogame.

  • @ozonegaming2153

    @ozonegaming2153

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cold War Trailer Event On Warzone

  • @isaiahmiller9142
    @isaiahmiller91422 жыл бұрын

    Nothing suspicious about the timing here.

  • @ferretman6790

    @ferretman6790

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sus

  • @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876

    @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sus?

  • @IdioticCake

    @IdioticCake

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't get it

  • @PonyCraft

    @PonyCraft

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@IdioticCake Afghanistan pullout mirrored saigon

  • @fritzvongerbel8999

    @fritzvongerbel8999

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope not at all. Not like the same person who was in gov during this is president now

  • @CheezeSpartan
    @CheezeSpartan2 жыл бұрын

    "Hey I've seen this one before!" "What do you mean? Its brand new."

  • @davidgraney3413

    @davidgraney3413

    2 жыл бұрын

    1.21 gigawatts!!???

  • @SamTehman10

    @SamTehman10

    2 жыл бұрын

    “I saw it on a re run”

  • @GBooneoh

    @GBooneoh

    2 жыл бұрын

    mandela effect

  • @12Prophet

    @12Prophet

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's a classic.

  • @Nebulasecura

    @Nebulasecura

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SamTehman10 “what’s a re run?”

  • @olefella7561
    @olefella75612 жыл бұрын

    The fact that we get free documentaries on KZread by Simple History is truly a gift. 👍

  • @jayo3074

    @jayo3074

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its not free

  • @philippdolschan7669

    @philippdolschan7669

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jayo3074 you just watched it.... Without paying...

  • @shakmp4

    @shakmp4

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jayo3074 it is free...

  • @adogthatgoesbark2163

    @adogthatgoesbark2163

    2 жыл бұрын

    Capitalism.

  • @jayo3074

    @jayo3074

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shakmp4 its not free...

  • @davidmartinez52420
    @davidmartinez524202 жыл бұрын

    My dad participated in Operation: Frequent Wind. He was on helicopters picking up refugees. He made a few runs to Saigon and back.

  • @LordKrinkle

    @LordKrinkle

    2 жыл бұрын

    My mom was one of those random children evacuated by helicopter. She found her family again 15 years after the war when communications between the US and Vietnam opened up again.

  • @thuytien888

    @thuytien888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cảm ơn Hoa kỳ

  • @thuytien888

    @thuytien888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cảm ơn Hoa Kỳ đã chiến đấu để chống lại sự lan rộng của cộng sản.

  • @azhariarif

    @azhariarif

    Жыл бұрын

    How does he feel like to be a loser?

  • @m551sheridan
    @m551sheridan2 жыл бұрын

    “When evacuating a country, always abandon your most strategic airbase first”- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • @andro7862

    @andro7862

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @konnorrockkonnoisseur4970

    @konnorrockkonnoisseur4970

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love how quickly this meme spread 😂😂

  • @Justanotherconsumer

    @Justanotherconsumer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Was it actually the “most strategic?” That’s where this becomes questionable - it sounds like what they need at the airport isn’t more airport, but more planes.

  • @patrickpayne3773

    @patrickpayne3773

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Justanotherconsumer more runways mean more planes.

  • @joshuaosborne9203

    @joshuaosborne9203

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Justanotherconsumer you sir don’t know what you are talking about.

  • @kingspore5000
    @kingspore50002 жыл бұрын

    Afghan Vet: I can't believe it, 2 decades of American sacrifice gone for nothing in less than a month Vietnam Vet: *1st time?*

  • @moosnatedog

    @moosnatedog

    2 жыл бұрын

    The American people wanted to leave. The native governments were corrurpt both times. We are all responsible.

  • @VMan29397

    @VMan29397

    2 жыл бұрын

    most soldiers in Afghanistan knew this would happen

  • @Iamtheliquor

    @Iamtheliquor

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not just American sacrifice🇬🇧

  • @mrbisshie

    @mrbisshie

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the people leaving Afghanistan are going to get spat on by Hippies?

  • @firstnamelastname4249

    @firstnamelastname4249

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not for nothing they bravely filled the arms contractors pockets and got the politicans votes!

  • @prozergter2
    @prozergter22 жыл бұрын

    My father was a lieutenant in the ARVN and fought to the bitter end while government officials and high ranking military leaders fled. He was thrown into a re-education camp for 3 years and in 1994 our family was sponsored and brought to the US. When I was 21, I enlisted in the USMC and in 2009 I was deployed to Afghanistan. Now seeing Kabul fall similar to how Saigon fell, but this time as a US Marine, fills me with....I don't know...tragic irony I guess.

  • @outdoorscholar6016

    @outdoorscholar6016

    Жыл бұрын

    Once when I was a high schooler I overheard an airman chatting with his buddy about their opinions on Iraq and Afghanistan, mentioning that Iraq wasn’t worth saving but Afghanistan was. I can only imagine how disappointed he must have been to hear that the Afghan army just laid down their weapons the moment they saw the opposition

  • @Spanishfutbol2010

    @Spanishfutbol2010

    Жыл бұрын

    Semper Fi brother.

  • @realdragao6367

    @realdragao6367

    Жыл бұрын

    Usa’s karma for messing with other nations, long live vietnam

  • @scottjoplin3601

    @scottjoplin3601

    11 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/dotkr8Gdnpu9eKg.html

  • @scottjoplin3601

    @scottjoplin3601

    9 ай бұрын

    @@angkhoanguyen6114 due to vietnam being "one and only" they have no human rights and the news and media is controlled by the government and the government lies to the citizens and the history books are biased and the government blocks anything that says the truth of vietnam

  • @thenewpatticakes4214
    @thenewpatticakes42142 жыл бұрын

    It's fascinating that the Fall of Saigon happened exactly 30 years after the Fall of Berlin and Hitler's death in 1945. I guess history really does repeat itself in some ways...

  • @mattharrell3932

    @mattharrell3932

    2 жыл бұрын

    Come on, you and I both know Hitler didnt die in that Bunker.

  • @raptorfromthe6ix833

    @raptorfromthe6ix833

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mattharrell3932 nah hes chilling in argentina

  • @joshuaosborne9203

    @joshuaosborne9203

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@raptorfromthe6ix833 he died in Argentina like 20 or 30 years ago.

  • @bronsonstrange3827

    @bronsonstrange3827

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kind of unrelated, but today, as Ida made landfall in Louisiana, it was 16 years ago to the day that Katrina made landfall there as well.

  • @javieru53

    @javieru53

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mattharrell3932 No, only you and a couple of illiterates "know" that Hitler didn't die un that bunker.

  • @jarnvag1564
    @jarnvag15642 жыл бұрын

    “No one thought it would be resolved in just 2 months” Taliban: those are rookie numbers

  • @jodofe4879

    @jodofe4879

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, the ARVN actually tried to put up some resistance unlike the Afghan forces who mostly just fled en masse.

  • @cmfnmendez

    @cmfnmendez

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Taliban become more powerful than ever in a matter of days compared to 20 years ago

  • @johntitor414

    @johntitor414

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jodofe4879 because ARVN acutally got paid a fraction of wages they were promaised while afghan forces havent been paid for years under the corrupt puppet government

  • @ahalfsesameseedbun7472

    @ahalfsesameseedbun7472

    2 жыл бұрын

    More 0s?

  • @f2ppoorloserjealoustearist454

    @f2ppoorloserjealoustearist454

    2 жыл бұрын

    less than one week for the taliban to take over entire afganistan

  • @coll5342
    @coll53422 жыл бұрын

    “The Americans had left an enormous amount of weapons and equipment” Marty McFly: wait wait I’ve seen this before

  • @LuanNguyen-uk5gw

    @LuanNguyen-uk5gw

    2 жыл бұрын

    And most of them has been used by PAVN. Aircraft, tank and other armored vehicles might been expired but small arm like M16 still use in special force or coastal force, and they also make new M16 based on original because they had like almost 1 million M16 in storage.

  • @tomaszzalewski4541

    @tomaszzalewski4541

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ironically most US allies can't even afford that kind of equipment. But US has no problem giving it for free to their enemies. 👏👏What a great f€cking ally

  • @vunguyenxuanhoang7422

    @vunguyenxuanhoang7422

    2 жыл бұрын

    @OrangeT1cT2c2021 Only some unit keep fighting.The other flee on helicopter,boats and some even bring war ships and military planes to Philippines before seen any enemy units.You can easily find some pictures of Sai Gon at this day and you can see helmets,flak jackets, boots,pants,… even gun thrown everywhere

  • @THEBIGGAME683

    @THEBIGGAME683

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's classic bro!

  • @superspies32

    @superspies32

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just a little information: The Long Binh Armory still has a lot of weapons and military equipments not be used even after fighting against rogue Khmer and China.

  • @gregsmith7428
    @gregsmith74282 жыл бұрын

    I was part of Operation Frequent Wind aboard USS Midway. I'll never forget the sight of a skyful of helos desperate to land on the flightdeck. A sad end to a failed nation building effort. Kabul only brings back a repeat of the same folly.

  • @ShubhamMishrabro

    @ShubhamMishrabro

    2 жыл бұрын

    Damn you have seen stuff

  • @ishrendon6435

    @ishrendon6435

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vietnam wasnt nation build its only objective was to not let the communist takeover it didnt matter after that if the country went another direction like a dictatorship . As long as the communists didnt win the US supported horrific dictators that suppresed communist movements

  • @koharumi1

    @koharumi1

    Жыл бұрын

    At least it is not like north and south Korea. A nation divided...

  • @captainkiddoregon
    @captainkiddoregon2 жыл бұрын

    My wife was only about 3 years old when Saigon fell. She does remember being at her grandmas house and hearing machine guns. She also said she remembers someone carrying someone on their back but wasn't sure if that person was dead or not. She was finally able to be sponsored over to the US with her mother and sister by her father (who escaped in '75) when she was about 19.

  • @iuyfshfiey3105

    @iuyfshfiey3105

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sad

  • @ishrendon6435

    @ishrendon6435

    2 жыл бұрын

    Traitor to her country

  • @capncake8837

    @capncake8837

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ishrendon6435 Shut up.

  • @matthewgibson8245
    @matthewgibson82452 жыл бұрын

    What’s happening today proves as the old saying goes. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

  • @matthewrolfe23

    @matthewrolfe23

    2 жыл бұрын

    There's even a saying after that " those who have learned history are doomed to witness a similar history"

  • @Classicman_269

    @Classicman_269

    2 жыл бұрын

    Funny things is a lot off people that are still ing government watched this first hand and still managed to ignore the warning signs.

  • @m1a1abrams3

    @m1a1abrams3

    2 жыл бұрын

    liberals will tell you afghan is nothing like nam

  • @johnbean9797

    @johnbean9797

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@m1a1abrams3 Nam was against communists and in the modern day it all worked out, and South Korea worked out, we never should have been in Afghanistan in the first place.

  • @manicmangomango8118

    @manicmangomango8118

    2 жыл бұрын

    The fall of Afghanistan was very different to that of south Vietnam

  • @justvincent2083
    @justvincent20832 жыл бұрын

    The most intense video of Simple History this 2021 so far, the video is not only a big part of history but it rhymes on a event currently happening right now.

  • @youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236

    @youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236

    2 жыл бұрын

    and More Importantly how it wasn't gonna be like Saigon - President Cornpops

  • @big_sea

    @big_sea

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @mmxxiii9503

    @mmxxiii9503

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only difference is: language, environment and type of aircrafts used

  • @potato23116

    @potato23116

    2 жыл бұрын

    Comment section is getting strange this days

  • @mmxxiii9503

    @mmxxiii9503

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@potato23116 you have no idea

  • @tylerkiger2895
    @tylerkiger28952 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather Ronald Foster, was in the seals during operation frequent wind, he received 2 purple hearts and a white cross. He sadly passed away 2 weeks ago from battling leukemia. RIP the bravest yet most gentle man I ever knew

  • @baolongnguyeninh3774
    @baolongnguyeninh3774 Жыл бұрын

    My grandfather was a Major of the ARVN. After April 30th incident, he was forced to what the gov called "re-education" camp for 10 years and luckily came back home survived. However, he always refuses to tell most of the things he experienced during that time.

  • @leehyun6513

    @leehyun6513

    2 ай бұрын

    Just like in Hanoi Hilton is it?

  • @ClvrFarmer
    @ClvrFarmer2 жыл бұрын

    10 years from now: “Fall of KABUL, august 2021”. Thx to our sponsor, WAR THUNDER

  • @benni681

    @benni681

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc sorry but I don't like bots. Please just leave

  • @zachirehanderson96

    @zachirehanderson96

    2 жыл бұрын

    @nana yeah bot,just like joe

  • @mouhibgh6928

    @mouhibgh6928

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc say potato

  • @benni681

    @benni681

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc if your a real human being then iam santa claus :D

  • @tacticalfall4505

    @tacticalfall4505

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zachirehanderson96 joe mama

  • @cheezysheen2984
    @cheezysheen29842 жыл бұрын

    “After 19 years of hard fighting, it’s hard to believe the conflict ended in 2 months” Ok these comparisons are getting too scarily similer

  • @shalyfemusic

    @shalyfemusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah

  • @Caligulashorse1453

    @Caligulashorse1453

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah but the main difference was the Taliban attacked us soil….

  • @farhanisraq5102

    @farhanisraq5102

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Caligulashorse1453 when? The Taliban never touched foot on the US

  • @Dude_bruh

    @Dude_bruh

    2 жыл бұрын

    9/11

  • @lordpotato8624

    @lordpotato8624

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Caligulashorse1453 Al Qaeda attack the US not the taliban

  • @MrBrewman95
    @MrBrewman952 жыл бұрын

    “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!”

  • @sirethanthegreat4069
    @sirethanthegreat40692 жыл бұрын

    My grandpa was a Major in the ARVN. After the fall, he was put in prison as a POW. After my grandpa finished his time, he moved to the USA in 1984. He passed away on December 30, 2020.

  • @aimuahanhk3123

    @aimuahanhk3123

    2 жыл бұрын

    dù ông của bạn là 3 que nhưng chia buồn nha;((

  • @hbach5694

    @hbach5694

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aimuahanhk3123 chuẩn ng ae

  • @___alessandro.007

    @___alessandro.007

    Жыл бұрын

    *R.I.P* ARVN heroe🌹💛❤💛👏👏👏👏👏 Long Live South Vietnam💛❤💛🔰

  • @Luis-be9mi
    @Luis-be9mi2 жыл бұрын

    I asked my father how he felt about the US pull out from Afghanistan, he simply said: “You now know how I felt when we pulled out from Vietnam.”

  • @theFLCLguy

    @theFLCLguy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Was it that we should have never gone and thus never would have had to flee like a predator taking on more than they can chew.

  • @LarryWater

    @LarryWater

    2 жыл бұрын

    I felt nothing.

  • @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896

    @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theFLCLguy Oh look its another anti war fruitcake

  • @jimtroy4380

    @jimtroy4380

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 I like fruitcakes , they're awesome

  • @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896

    @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jimtroy4380 They have gei tho

  • @Mechabang
    @Mechabang2 жыл бұрын

    "History shows again and again, how mankind repeats past follys and failures."

  • @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876

    @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876

    2 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @Jar0fMay0

    @Jar0fMay0

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love that song. Go go Godzilla

  • @vladimirmakarov1414

    @vladimirmakarov1414

    2 жыл бұрын

    It wasn’t a failure.

  • @Mechabang

    @Mechabang

    2 жыл бұрын

    @oh no ...Okay

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094

    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094

    2 жыл бұрын

    Every. Single. Time.

  • @Tony-gt1bu
    @Tony-gt1bu2 жыл бұрын

    Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price. - Sun Tzu

  • @aaronlimeuchin7352
    @aaronlimeuchin73522 жыл бұрын

    "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it" ~ George Santayana.

  • @Epic0201
    @Epic02012 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing a documentary about how the US learned from Vietnam with an US general explaining what was the difference, how Afghanistan won't end up like a second Vietnam and how their fighting tactics evolved from it... Pretty sure now this documentary is rated as a comedy...

  • @supremecaffeine2633

    @supremecaffeine2633

    2 жыл бұрын

    The worst part is that there was an extraction plan. But it was scrapped and/or ignored.

  • @Rationalific

    @Rationalific

    2 жыл бұрын

    In at least one way, it's good that this happened. Because it wakes some people up to the propaganda that we are fed all the time, and which most people actually believe.

  • @Karthagast

    @Karthagast

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you remember by chance the tittle of that documentary you mention or any info that could help me to find it?

  • @ZaHandle

    @ZaHandle

    2 жыл бұрын

    Comedy/Documentary

  • @konnorrockkonnoisseur4970

    @konnorrockkonnoisseur4970

    2 жыл бұрын

    We were doing just fine until the Biden administration fucked literally everything

  • @elliot5203
    @elliot52032 жыл бұрын

    “We do a little trolling today” -simple history

  • @THEBIGGAME683

    @THEBIGGAME683

    2 жыл бұрын

    No it's hitler biggest trolling in history

  • @AverageUsernames

    @AverageUsernames

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@THEBIGGAME683 No it's saigon 2.0 biggest trolling today.

  • @MMM-ki7lc

    @MMM-ki7lc

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@THEBIGGAME683 he says that because they post while fall of tabul Afghanistan

  • @Eric0225

    @Eric0225

    2 жыл бұрын

    We keep our tomfoolery to a minimum

  • @suhandatanker

    @suhandatanker

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm your 1000th like, enjoy!

  • @Airland_combat
    @Airland_combat2 жыл бұрын

    "History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." -Sydney J. Harris

  • @sepehrazizi1491
    @sepehrazizi14912 жыл бұрын

    you can literally change the "Saigon" to "Afghanistan" and upload it again nobody would notice

  • @Cabbage22927

    @Cabbage22927

    2 жыл бұрын

    Except no american was abandoned in saigon

  • @renegadebiker24

    @renegadebiker24

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Cabbage22927 Actually, you need to do some more research. There was people who were left behind. Please re view the video over again .

  • @Extremeredfox

    @Extremeredfox

    2 жыл бұрын

    Post 2011 after Osama was killed then yes, it's extremely similar. The primary reason for AFG was to get rid of Al Qaida and to take out Osama. Once those objectives were completed they should have left in all honesty.

  • @sepehrazizi1491

    @sepehrazizi1491

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Extremeredfox well Al Qaida and Taliban are back more powerful than ever so mission failed miserably

  • @Extremeredfox

    @Extremeredfox

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sepehrazizi1491 lol, Al Qaida and the Taliban aren't the same. The Taliban didn't carry out 9/11, and the US killed the the leader of the Al Qaida group and the organization is in disarray. Al Qaida hasn't successfully carried out a major terrorist attack on US soil in 20 years, and the orchestrator of 9/11 was brought to justice. But please feel free to call a cow and a dog the same creature. Fools will agree with you and those that know better will be amused by your folly.

  • @demarcusfaulkner7411
    @demarcusfaulkner74112 жыл бұрын

    "He who doesn't learn from history is doomed to repeat it." Confucius

  • @ReySchultz121

    @ReySchultz121

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought that was Kennedy.

  • @overmind06

    @overmind06

    2 жыл бұрын

    No, it was Sun Tzu

  • @jeffbenton6183

    @jeffbenton6183

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@overmind06 I've read Art of War a few times and don't remember him saying that. Although I do know someone relevant who repeated the quote: "This will be the final message from Saigon (CIA) station. It has been a long fight and we have lost... Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it. Let us hope that we will not have another Vietnam experience and we have learned our lesson. Saigon signing off." - Thomas Polgar, CIA station chief, Saigon April 30, 1975

  • @someperson8151

    @someperson8151

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeffbenton6183 can't learn from history if it isn't taught.

  • @Menaceblue3

    @Menaceblue3

    2 жыл бұрын

    "That was -4 days ago- 46 years ago! C'mon man!"

  • @derbynorington8976
    @derbynorington89762 жыл бұрын

    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

  • @nuclearpugg

    @nuclearpugg

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you don't vote for me you ain't black - Joe Biden

  • @mrdoctor3496

    @mrdoctor3496

    2 жыл бұрын

    Says the guy who invaded russia hahaha

  • @whitezombie10

    @whitezombie10

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mrdoctor3496 yeah, and Russia didn't interrupt him 😂😂

  • @mukiiwah

    @mukiiwah

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mrdoctor3496 Says the guy who legit ruled Europe for a few years

  • @417Owsy

    @417Owsy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mrdoctor3496 says the guy who defeated multiple coalitions until he grew old and tired

  • @FrankCastle-tq9bz
    @FrankCastle-tq9bz2 жыл бұрын

    And now we have a Saigon II: The Sequel! LOL!

  • @facelessman9224
    @facelessman92242 жыл бұрын

    (July 2020): "The fall of Saigon was the most embarrassing moment for the United States in it's history." Biden: "Hold my depends..."

  • @KonglomeratYT

    @KonglomeratYT

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was? That's impressive. I thought Pearl Harbor was our most embarrassing moment. Saigon was meh. We had been out of that conflict for a whole two years by that point and lost nothing by its fall. Pearl Harbor we had our navy crippled in one night and it took months to recover.

  • @harryasoue3599

    @harryasoue3599

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KonglomeratYT It all comes down to personal opinions, I guess. But I think Saigon is considered more embarassing because they spent 20 years preventing it but failed, and could only watch despite knowing it would happen. However no one saw Pearl Harbour coming, so it's not as embarassing.

  • @carl4243

    @carl4243

    2 жыл бұрын

    Afghanistan really isn't that embarrassing to the americans since they just used like 5-10% of their military might, Vietnam though they used jets, carriers, tanks, and even implemented a draft but still failed in the end. Also atleast the US actually kicked the taliban out in the 2000's.

  • @angelarch5352

    @angelarch5352

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KonglomeratYT Pearl Harbor wasn't embarrassing. It was a surprise attack with people picking up guns and fighting valiantly and a day to live in infamy. Saigon had film of Americans desperately trying to escape in helicopters on rooftops, and pushing civilians out of the way... THAT is embarrassing.

  • @bruhman3406

    @bruhman3406

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@carl4243 bruh the american government used 2 trillion dollars in afghanistan and yet they still lose i would call that an embarassment

  • @triadwarfare
    @triadwarfare2 жыл бұрын

    The moral of the story: don't be corrupt, especially during an active war.

  • @johnarviegumapac8360

    @johnarviegumapac8360

    2 жыл бұрын

    indeed

  • @HungPham-hm9yk

    @HungPham-hm9yk

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol it's too much of a simplification!

  • @historycritic4184

    @historycritic4184

    2 жыл бұрын

    also don't invade countries without a good plan to withdrawal maybe don't put corrupt officials into office, maybe analyze the area your in, maybe give better datelines but sure ya simply don't be corrupt

  • @FrankCastle-tq9bz

    @FrankCastle-tq9bz

    2 жыл бұрын

    More like “don’t do imperialism - it never ends well.”

  • @suiryuudannojutsu2754

    @suiryuudannojutsu2754

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@historycritic4184 you do have no idea what is the vietnam war ,don't you ?

  • @comradeconnolly4538
    @comradeconnolly45382 жыл бұрын

    “The Evacuation was code named Frequent Wind” Far too frequent lol

  • @danielbertrand6675

    @danielbertrand6675

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ewwww, Marxist commie trash

  • @niceshirt7633

    @niceshirt7633

    2 жыл бұрын

    at least there wasnt a order 227 for american troops lol

  • @comradeconnolly4538

    @comradeconnolly4538

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@niceshirt7633 No instead they kill anyone over the age of 13 and male and classify them a “combatants.”

  • @minhnguyenhuu9710
    @minhnguyenhuu97102 жыл бұрын

    As a Vietnamese, i am quite impressed of how accurate this video is. The time and events are accurate. Vietnam and the US had been enemies for more than 30 years and both bared unmeasurable losses and grief. The wound made by the war still exists to this day. But we Vietnamese are resilient. We stand up and move on. We never want to be hostile against the US either before or now. I hope that we can be friends in many fields including the digital world like KZread. As for the Kabul evacuation, it is somewhat similar yet quite different from the fall of Saigon (i will not explain how similar and different they are cuz that would be very long). I don't know what u guys feel about US troops in Afghanistan, but my point of view is the retreat from Afghan is a wise decision of the US. Why make a bloodshed for nothing in a foreign country? And American people will no longer see their sons/ husbands,/dads/ friends go to war and might never see 'em again. It's their country, they must deal with the problems themseves. As for the Ta.li.ban, if they are truly evil, the Afghan people will stand up and fight, just like the Vietnamese or any other people would do for their homes. But now, we will have to wait and time will tell the truth

  • @ohhello3037

    @ohhello3037

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey u from the north or the south of vietnam ?

  • @khanhshiroshi8700

    @khanhshiroshi8700

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ohhello3037 lol this is not Korea XD

  • @ohhello3037

    @ohhello3037

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@khanhshiroshi8700 I know that. but in vietnam the south and the north speak different accents, different traditional customs, different interests…and there are many different things. Up to now, regional discrimination in Vietnam is also a problem. Because the southerners used to be capitalists and the northerners were communists, their views on the Vietnam war were completely opposite.

  • @khanhshiroshi8700

    @khanhshiroshi8700

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ohhello3037 lol ye in Vietnam this is still a problem but you don't need to ask him whether he is south or north tho. Vietnam right now is a unified county it's really doesn't matter which places you are born from, you and I we both from the same county so why discriminate each other and judge people base on their whereabouts right ?

  • @khanhshiroshi8700

    @khanhshiroshi8700

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Yang Wen Li lol sound like you have issues brub :v

  • @keithmoon3190
    @keithmoon31902 жыл бұрын

    America in Vietnam 1975: Nooo, *WE LOST THE WAR!* (46 years later) America in Afghanistan 2021: Oh no, *NOT AGAIN!*

  • @SyndicateSuperman

    @SyndicateSuperman

    2 жыл бұрын

    America was out of the fighting by 1973 (Paris Peace Accords).

  • @Person84112

    @Person84112

    2 жыл бұрын

    “We are evolving. Just backwards”

  • @moisesmatias1125

    @moisesmatias1125

    2 жыл бұрын

    ​@@SyndicateSuperman America was kinda out of Afghanistan too, around 2018 (Qatar-Doha Accords), except by some military instructors and few small missions. The History, looking not so deep, repeated itself.

  • @nimomemre9567
    @nimomemre95672 жыл бұрын

    That scene of Chinook helicopter lifting US ambassy staff from Siagon was ironically repeated in the very much same manner in Kabul US ambassy.

  • @kevindouglas5333

    @kevindouglas5333

    2 жыл бұрын

    Biden: "There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.

  • @thecowboy8474

    @thecowboy8474

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've heard (not 100% sure) that it was literally the same Chinook helicopter in Kabul that was used in siagon.

  • @tugalord

    @tugalord

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thecowboy8474 that sounds too coincidencential

  • @proger1960

    @proger1960

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thecowboy8474 Impossible no way lmao

  • @wongjimmy3189

    @wongjimmy3189

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was CH-46 sea knight

  • @JacF6734
    @JacF67342 жыл бұрын

    Vietnam: "Prepare for trouble!" Afghanistan: "Make it double!"

  • @outermiddlegamer2591

    @outermiddlegamer2591

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Miguel Cisneros the Democrats and the Republicans are both in the pockets of corporations, there needs to be a new system

  • @averagecustodes2562

    @averagecustodes2562

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vietnam "to protect the world from western aggression" Afganistan "to unite all people in our Arab nation

  • @ANTHONY-vg1be

    @ANTHONY-vg1be

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@outermiddlegamer2591 that system is socalism

  • @ANTHONY-vg1be

    @ANTHONY-vg1be

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Miguel Cisneros capitalists poision everything*

  • @jsuoar6394

    @jsuoar6394

    2 жыл бұрын

    Team America is blasting off again

  • @jeremyronald
    @jeremyronald2 жыл бұрын

    Man, good timing on this one, SimpleHistory 😂 But for real, Vietnam is the one war i do so much reading into. It was our first step into the modern battlefield.

  • @matias5817
    @matias58172 жыл бұрын

    "Those bastards lied to me" - The Afghan army probably

  • @richardcollins9356

    @richardcollins9356

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Afghan army had their chance

  • @SurplusTrader

    @SurplusTrader

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@richardcollins9356 *chance to surrender*

  • @artym2000

    @artym2000

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@richardcollins9356 ANA: we will fight to the end!!!! *PROCEED TO SURRENDER* some of the ANA members started to work with the Taliban, you can check the news from Al Jazeera.

  • @moisesmatias1125

    @moisesmatias1125

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@richardcollins9356 No, they never had. Plagged by corruption (in all the political and military spheres), lack of people's support in the villages (because of the government corruption) and failure in logistics, how could they stand against their enemies?

  • @moisesmatias1125

    @moisesmatias1125

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@artym2000 The officers told that. The regular soldier knew that thy din't even had a chance. Everyone must accept by now. The war is lost. Bush's mission accomplished is an epic failure. Its only natural that they now are helping the Taliban government (Which will more likely to succeed and keep the power for maybe the next 30 years). It's their nation and home, and they need to rebuild it, whoever has the power.

  • @Deadsphere
    @Deadsphere2 жыл бұрын

    "Boy, I'm sure glad Vietnam is over!" October 7th, 2001: "Wanna see it again?"

  • @hefywefy5331

    @hefywefy5331

    2 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236

    @youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vietnam: 19 years and fell within 2 months Afghanistan: Hold my Beer *20 Years later and fell within 2 weeks*

  • @dr.woozie7500

    @dr.woozie7500

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236 not two months two years

  • @7ElevenAlphaCentauri

    @7ElevenAlphaCentauri

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vietnam was a much deadlier war than Afghanistan

  • @Deadsphere

    @Deadsphere

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc Bot alert

  • @IdarkphoenixI
    @IdarkphoenixI2 жыл бұрын

    "Afghanistan will not be another Saigon!" *24 hours later...*

  • @herberd5116

    @herberd5116

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now the communsit invade sai gon one again,they send the military to suppress any revolt,and the people here is staving because of the lockdown,and all the people in ho chi minh city run back to their home town in a mass migration

  • @herberd5116

    @herberd5116

    2 жыл бұрын

    They government trying to use ak47 to shoot corona

  • @skypher7936

    @skypher7936

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ikr? Afghan looks like another RVN there

  • @herberd5116

    @herberd5116

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now the quarantine center is like a concentration camp,like the reeducation camp after the war

  • @caleblott399

    @caleblott399

    2 жыл бұрын

    The man who said that was a senator in Congress at this time Saigon fell. I'm confident he learned from the past... Totally confident.

  • @louisfk9880
    @louisfk98802 жыл бұрын

    Some people: Something like this will never happen again in the future. Afghanistan: *Hold my turban*

  • @agelessrebellion8271

    @agelessrebellion8271

    2 жыл бұрын

    Taliban: you better put that damn turban back on >n>

  • @imshrpysart3672
    @imshrpysart36722 жыл бұрын

    Saigon and an escapee from the Vietnam was a huge unit for me in English. This video really helped me understand things that weren't explained, like why were helicopters plunging themselves into the water.

  • @deathclawdaddy
    @deathclawdaddy2 жыл бұрын

    "Us soldiers left weapons to its allies after evacuating from the area" ...why do i feel like i heard that recently

  • @vincenthu9773

    @vincenthu9773

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know right? It’s so weird

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    @nana-by8qc

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @borisslavk01nolastname91

    @borisslavk01nolastname91

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc Get out of here comment bot

  • @will1223141

    @will1223141

    2 жыл бұрын

    At leat the avrn USED THEM!!! And not surrendered like cowerds within 2 weeks it tock the nva 2 years to take south veitnam with avrn haveing no us support and Afghanistan having all the support even drones 4ft Asian with a croupt president and no us support and fought an enemy how had tanks and jets fought harder then middle easterns with all 🇺🇸 support and a good goverment that was less croupt and an enemy that only has trucks with machine guns avrn 2 years Afghanistan 2 weeks wow

  • @cjmartinez8318

    @cjmartinez8318

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very SUS 👓

  • @alexanderchan76
    @alexanderchan762 жыл бұрын

    "There are Decades in which nothing happens and there are Weeks in which Decades happen" - Vladimir Lenin

  • @KaliChernenkov

    @KaliChernenkov

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can you name your source for that quote it sounds beautiful

  • @robbieaulia6462

    @robbieaulia6462

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KaliChernenkov Vladimir Lenin's mouth

  • @KaliChernenkov

    @KaliChernenkov

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robbieaulia6462 no I mean like what Book or what speech or article you clearly were not alive in lenins time

  • @kumikoOG
    @kumikoOG2 жыл бұрын

    *Taliban and now we’d like to thank our sponsors, American Taxpayers.*

  • @drphot6050

    @drphot6050

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pretty much lol… No wonder they don’t mind us being there.

  • @SpartanForces117

    @SpartanForces117

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder who elected the politicians that wastes US taxpayers money?

  • @iuyfshfiey3105

    @iuyfshfiey3105

    2 жыл бұрын

    Us still didn't learned what they do

  • @scentlessapprentice88

    @scentlessapprentice88

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@iuyfshfiey3105 aw that's cute. Nice try, A for effort!

  • @scentlessapprentice88

    @scentlessapprentice88

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@iuyfshfiey3105 us try best next times to learned what us did! How's that? How did I do??

  • @capncake8837
    @capncake88372 жыл бұрын

    I’ve come back on the 47th anniversary.

  • @person7597

    @person7597

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @blzflain1590
    @blzflain15902 жыл бұрын

    "Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind" -William Westmoreland

  • @JacF6734

    @JacF6734

    2 жыл бұрын

    Scary thought: if World War 2 hadn't been censored, would the Nazis have won?

  • @kevindouglas5333

    @kevindouglas5333

    2 жыл бұрын

    So we had Pinko Cronkite pretty much lying every night

  • @frederikw4028

    @frederikw4028

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JacF6734 Wdym, how would they win?

  • @Norwagen

    @Norwagen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JacF6734censorship doesn’t change anything, it just… well censores information

  • @SEAZNDragon

    @SEAZNDragon

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JacF6734 no but I think Westmoreland meant controlling the narrative. During WWII the government release a series of films called “Why We Fight” to first motivate the troops and to explain why the US in the war. The message: We got some evil empires out there and if we don’t stop them the world is screwed. There wasn’t anything similar messaging for Vietnam oof Afghanistan or Iraq. Just vague notions of stopping Communism or terrorism in countries most people couldn’t find on the map at the time.

  • @jeffbenton6183
    @jeffbenton61832 жыл бұрын

    "This will be the final message from Saigon (CIA) station. It has been a long fight and we have lost... Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it. Let us hope that we will not have another Vietnam experience and we have learned our lesson. Saigon signing off." - Thomas Polgar, station chief

  • @whitezombie10

    @whitezombie10

    2 жыл бұрын

    And they didn't even learn

  • @Nathan-ys9vk

    @Nathan-ys9vk

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@whitezombie10 they did learnt but Afghanistan was too fierce

  • @thepoliticalgunnut8018

    @thepoliticalgunnut8018

    2 жыл бұрын

    U.S( Oh no, Anyway.)

  • @exactlybasically8603

    @exactlybasically8603

    2 жыл бұрын

    “Well, about that, Thomas..”

  • @zackrack8942

    @zackrack8942

    2 жыл бұрын

    His descendant : i learn nothing :))

  • @mikhailkomorovsky3754
    @mikhailkomorovsky37542 жыл бұрын

    1:10 "Nobody believed that after 19 bitter years of conflict the war would end in just two months" now isn't that familiar

  • @TrongNguyen-mv7kc
    @TrongNguyen-mv7kc2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Simple History for make videos for Vietnam history

  • @GuhTheBruh
    @GuhTheBruh2 жыл бұрын

    There’s a difference between Vietnam and Afghanistan, when the US pulled out of vietnam in 1973, the south Vietnamese had a trained army that at least held their ground and fought the Vietcong for *2 WHOLE YEARS* before the war ended in April 1975 As soon as the US rage quit on Afghanistan, so did the afghan army

  • @marth8000

    @marth8000

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah that's because at this point the US had improved the tactic. we can do it allot faster now.

  • @GuhTheBruh

    @GuhTheBruh

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@marth8000 they can quit a lot faster 💀

  • @loathsomebear4655

    @loathsomebear4655

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like the cut of this guy's jib

  • @thecommentguy9380

    @thecommentguy9380

    2 жыл бұрын

    and they stood against an army backed by china and russia

  • @Wolf-wc1js

    @Wolf-wc1js

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thecommentguy9380 just Russia, China sat this one out because of their historical dominance of Vietnam plus the Sino-Soviet split and China would invade Vietnam after an unified Vietnam would invade Cambodia to topple the Khmer Rouge

  • @kevinyang5926
    @kevinyang59262 жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait for simple history to do “Fall of Kabul” in 10 years time

  • @tomaszzalewski4541

    @tomaszzalewski4541

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or the potential "Fall of Baghdad"

  • @0xsn1pe36

    @0xsn1pe36

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomaszzalewski4541 that most probably won't be For the following reasons Their Army's morale Superior Leadership No one absolutely no one likes Daesh

  • @facelessman9224

    @facelessman9224

    2 жыл бұрын

    I caught KZread trying to shadow ban this comment.

  • @jameslebron2403

    @jameslebron2403

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomaszzalewski4541 Didn't it fall in 2003?

  • @merearly

    @merearly

    2 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @mobiusraptor7
    @mobiusraptor72 жыл бұрын

    Releasing this video is the best example of "chaotic neutral". Well done.

  • @kennethrkennedy
    @kennethrkennedy2 жыл бұрын

    Impeccable timing!

  • @nasirazeem3429
    @nasirazeem34292 жыл бұрын

    "The more the things change, the more they stay the same" Humiliating defeat in Afghanistan tells us that US learned nothing from Vietnam.

  • @stephenwright8824

    @stephenwright8824

    2 жыл бұрын

    The trouble was, while in the first Gulf war, the most TV-friendly commanders, to a man Vietnam vets, knew enough to have an exit strategy in place before even going in, the Draft Dodging Fake Texan Son of Another Fake Texan had none of that experience and therefore none of that simple common sense. (Don't forget Dubbyah was born in CT and his dad in Mass.).

  • @ShinigamiInuyasha777

    @ShinigamiInuyasha777

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well they did take conscription off so at least every US casualty was voluntary...

  • @nokachi3339

    @nokachi3339

    2 жыл бұрын

    More like a lack of showing up

  • @BuckBlaziken

    @BuckBlaziken

    2 жыл бұрын

    The military learned, they advised to Biden that pulling out from Afghanistan would be disaster, but Biden didn’t listen and pulled out anyways. Our military has learned, but our government and congress did not.

  • @tonyweaver2353

    @tonyweaver2353

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, what do you want us to do? Be civil and "modern" try to explain civil liberties to a people that blow themselves up and cut off heads? Or do we revert back to what worked in the past? Mass executions of suspected POWS, strip them naked, take no prisoners. I mean we cant win because either way you cut the cake, someone is gonna make a fuss about it

  • @joshuad1716
    @joshuad17162 жыл бұрын

    My dad always told me history repeats itself, and it always, always does

  • @thatmemestar378

    @thatmemestar378

    2 жыл бұрын

    ' History don't repeat itself the same . It often rhymes in a similar way ' - Mark Twain

  • @devilpupbear09

    @devilpupbear09

    2 жыл бұрын

    "No, the cycle ends here. We must be better than this" - Kratos

  • @nana-by8qc

    @nana-by8qc

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @glenchapman3899

    @glenchapman3899

    2 жыл бұрын

    My Dad used to say nothing ever changes except the numbers on the calendar. Stuff like this just proves he was a heck of a lot smarter than I gave him credit for.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Жыл бұрын

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

  • @octavioarellano186
    @octavioarellano1862 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video!! My suggestion: You should add a video about "The Hamburger Hill Battle" to the Vietnam War playlist. Keep up the good work, congratulations on your awesome channel! 😃👍🏻

  • @keithdean9149
    @keithdean91492 жыл бұрын

    And now, since we don't learn from history, we are seeing it happen again.

  • @cgt3704

    @cgt3704

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

  • @absolutfreeman1033

    @absolutfreeman1033

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well youtube hate history content, they keep banning and demotize every history channels in youtube, so youtube is the doomed one who want to repeat the war.

  • @slamshift6927

    @slamshift6927

    2 жыл бұрын

    We were calling this the Neocon Vietnam for over 15 years now.

  • @spacewargamer4181

    @spacewargamer4181

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@absolutfreeman1033 Tipical american media then

  • @ComicalRealm
    @ComicalRealm2 жыл бұрын

    And eventually we all saw a repeat of history. The fall of Kabul, Afghanistan

  • @anthonyrufino9271

    @anthonyrufino9271

    2 жыл бұрын

    Facts

  • @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876

    @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably in our lifetimes 15th like

  • @stuckonaslide

    @stuckonaslide

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876 probably in our lifetimes? dude, it just happened.

  • @xbaumann

    @xbaumann

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876 it’s happening as we watch

  • @PaladinsLight

    @PaladinsLight

    2 жыл бұрын

    dont blame me i voted Trump

  • @YouROCKSouthPark
    @YouROCKSouthPark2 жыл бұрын

    “In Vietnam, we finally reached the end of the tunnel and there is no light there. What is there perhaps is best said by president Ford. For that is finished.” I heard this from a music video about the war with riders on the storm by the doors. Full credit to Flying Dutchman and his channel!

  • @Jarod-te2bi
    @Jarod-te2bi2 жыл бұрын

    Current events aside this is a great and informative video about what happens in Saigon at the time, thank you simple history.

  • @Robbstark2024
    @Robbstark20242 жыл бұрын

    1975: “what a horrible failure of foreign policy, I hope we learn from this so it happens never again!” 2021: “don’t count on it”

  • @YouTube_is_full_of_trolls

    @YouTube_is_full_of_trolls

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol this was the best policy we made in over a decade at that point - so is this... you seriously think people in America argue that we should have stayed in Vietnam longer these days?

  • @jeffbenton6183

    @jeffbenton6183

    2 жыл бұрын

    "This will be the final message from Saigon (CIA) station. It has been a long fight and we have lost... Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it. Let us hope that we will not have another Vietnam experience and we have learned our lesson. Saigon signing off." - Thomas Polgar, station chief

  • @jeffbenton6183

    @jeffbenton6183

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KZread_is_full_of_trolls Yes, there are Americans who believe we should've stayed longer, for various reasons. It should be noted, by the way, that victory was possible if the US took the fight to North Vietnam itself (most VC guerillas - distinct from NVA soldiers - just wanted a unified country, they didn't care for communism). The thing standing in the way was Communist China which didn't want a land border with a US ally (especially one they couldn't invade easily, as their war in the 80s would prove). However by that time the Sino-Soviet split occurred and the N. Vietnamese chose to side with the USSR, not the PRC. Nixon had been in negotiations with Mao, and if the US was willing to respond to the 1975 invasion in force, the PRC might've actually allowed an attempt to seize Hanoi to go through - since the USSR was in some ways a greater danger to them then the USA.

  • @YouTube_is_full_of_trolls

    @YouTube_is_full_of_trolls

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeffbenton6183 where are they? Cheney? Rumsfeld? Maybe 3% of the population if polled would say, "yes we should have been in Vietnam longer"

  • @rockmycd1319

    @rockmycd1319

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeffbenton6183 They could've held off the Viet Cong guerrillas without even touching North Vietnam by establishing a democratic government in South Vietnam, focus bombing efforts on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and other enemy supply lines instead of fruitless scorched earth campaigns like Linebacker II and Rolling Thunder, and focus more on better training the ARVN for counter-insurgency operations, as well as implement the Pheonix Program much earlier.

  • @willwhaley4845
    @willwhaley48452 жыл бұрын

    “Timing matters,”. -random poet

  • @nana-by8qc

    @nana-by8qc

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @racing-with-ryan-gamer

    @racing-with-ryan-gamer

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc bot

  • @theestudios8985
    @theestudios89852 жыл бұрын

    Your channel has taught me more than history class

  • @freshweezyboy1733
    @freshweezyboy17332 жыл бұрын

    So much for teaching history. It’s repeating itself

  • @guarmaz6316
    @guarmaz63162 жыл бұрын

    The narrator's voice always never gets old

  • @preest_nz

    @preest_nz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Always never 😂

  • @nana-by8qc

    @nana-by8qc

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @racing-with-ryan-gamer

    @racing-with-ryan-gamer

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nana-by8qc bot

  • @myles3856

    @myles3856

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@racing-with-ryan-gamer yeah

  • @TDJIMAGS

    @TDJIMAGS

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@myles3856 yes

  • @Xspy70
    @Xspy702 жыл бұрын

    *A few decades later* History: Did it happen? USA: Yes. History: What did we learn? USA: Nothing!

  • @whitezombie10

    @whitezombie10

    2 жыл бұрын

    History: and you got punished, because history can't be ignored and forgotten, or it will come back!

  • @tomaszzalewski4541

    @tomaszzalewski4541

    2 жыл бұрын

    As always. Literally every large power repeats in some way history. Whether it's China, US or Russia - it ain't new

  • @stephenwright8824

    @stephenwright8824

    2 жыл бұрын

    I say this as an American and the son of a Vietnam vet: AMERICA DOESN'T LEARN!

  • @whitezombie10

    @whitezombie10

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stephenwright8824 no one learns these days

  • @whitezombie10

    @whitezombie10

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomaszzalewski4541 yeah Germany repeated ww 2 times

  • @ives3572
    @ives35722 жыл бұрын

    Now the US is pulling out of Afghanistan after two decades of being there pretty much like this, really funny how history somehow repeats itself.

  • @ScoundrelSFB
    @ScoundrelSFB2 жыл бұрын

    I was wondering when someone would see this connection, and I'm glad its you.

  • @gabrielherman8229
    @gabrielherman82292 жыл бұрын

    I hope that simple history survives for another decade or two that way I get to watch the fall of Kabul in this animation style.

  • @Rationalific

    @Rationalific

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just watch this again but imagine that the green parts are brown. :)

  • @Noplayster13

    @Noplayster13

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rationalific :(

  • @nuclearpugg

    @nuclearpugg

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is actually already a video on it lmao m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoeLurmEdcmyotI.html

  • @dronespace

    @dronespace

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rationalific 😂

  • @raptorfromthe6ix833

    @raptorfromthe6ix833

    2 жыл бұрын

    you are acting like simple history would run out of content

  • @mikeyholland150
    @mikeyholland1502 жыл бұрын

    6:04 when I was younger I watched this episode on Hey Arnold it was a Christmas episode I believe it was about a Vietnamese man who hated Christmas because he had to give up his daughter during the evacuation of Saigon. That part of the video reminds me of that.

  • @Zymemaru

    @Zymemaru

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the same thing. I was too young to really understand the context but now that episode hits harder

  • @mikeyholland150

    @mikeyholland150

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Zymemaru Yeah I didn’t understand it until I was older.

  • @theskullboy8700

    @theskullboy8700

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember that episode. It was hard to watch

  • @Natedawg38
    @Natedawg382 жыл бұрын

    Nicely timed

  • @MultiKwolf
    @MultiKwolf2 жыл бұрын

    Thank u for educating us on this important topic ..

  • @MyGuy42069
    @MyGuy420692 жыл бұрын

    Funny how this casually drops after the Afghanistan situation.

  • @justvincent2083

    @justvincent2083

    2 жыл бұрын

    They knew what they are doing cuz it rhymes.

  • @AMM278

    @AMM278

    2 жыл бұрын

    After?

  • @randomstranger_3
    @randomstranger_32 жыл бұрын

    Compared to this, the Taliban actually gave the retreating forces a breathing room since if they didn't, we'd probably seen those C-130 planes never taking off and exploding by now but the whole thing remains to be seen since it's still unfolding as of now.

  • @cool06alt

    @cool06alt

    2 жыл бұрын

    The current Taliban is more pragmatic, they clearly wanted to be sort of buffer state of influence game between russia, china, india and US. Especially with their saudi arabia equivalent of Lithium mine and copper.

  • @jeffbenton6183

    @jeffbenton6183

    2 жыл бұрын

    There's also the complication of a third belligerent ISIS-K, which is at war with both sides.

  • @chevchelios7338

    @chevchelios7338

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeffbenton6183 so they’re EBK 🤔

  • @xkavarsmith9322

    @xkavarsmith9322

    2 жыл бұрын

    Multiple rockets were launched at the airport this morning, August 30 2021. The anti-missile system was able to intercept them all and flights have resumed, but the "breathing room" is almost gone.

  • @pugasaurusrex8253

    @pugasaurusrex8253

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@xkavarsmith9322 In other words, The US is about a month out of time

  • @thecoolestdaniel4554
    @thecoolestdaniel45542 жыл бұрын

    The people over at simple history have a sick sence of humour And i love it

  • @dalehenry7073
    @dalehenry70732 жыл бұрын

    "It took them 2 months to take over the country" Taliban: Hold my AK

  • @fireiron369

    @fireiron369

    2 жыл бұрын

    Taliban: Speed run time bois!

  • @usa5893

    @usa5893

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow so original

  • @Pwn3dbyth3n00b
    @Pwn3dbyth3n00b2 жыл бұрын

    "Resolved in two months" Afghanistan: I can do that in two weeks

  • @eriercandy3151
    @eriercandy31512 жыл бұрын

    The ARVN held out longer than the Afghans and made it possible for mass evacuations.

  • @mr.monhon5179

    @mr.monhon5179

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not really. The PAVN agreed to halt their assaults and bombardments for the evacuate operation. Battle resume when the last American chopper has evacuated.

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mr.monhon5179 Isn't there still some sort of agreement like that between the US and the Taliban? Well just the airport in this case

  • @ishrendon6435

    @ishrendon6435

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@googane7755 the taliban dont hate Americans like the media shows they respected Americans and gave them more time to evacuate as a result.

  • @jeffbenton6183

    @jeffbenton6183

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ishrendon6435 They do, but they hate ISIS more. They also want to have a functioning country after this is all over and rather not be a global pariah.

  • @danghoangluong2942

    @danghoangluong2942

    2 жыл бұрын

    At least they fought for their nation. Afghans didn't give an f

  • @mikesands4681
    @mikesands46812 жыл бұрын

    Your animation is steadily improving.

  • @R3TR0J4N
    @R3TR0J4N2 жыл бұрын

    those last min of the vid, always give me chills

  • @markone6861
    @markone68612 жыл бұрын

    You cannot defeat an enemy who is willing to take unimaginable losses

  • @historycritic4184

    @historycritic4184

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unless that enemy is Germany, or Japan, or China or literally any other great army in history that was willing to take a lot of losses

  • @FrankCastle-tq9bz

    @FrankCastle-tq9bz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Correction: you can’t defeat an enemy with an infinite interest in its home region via unconventional warfare.

  • @battleriteroyalevietnam8447

    @battleriteroyalevietnam8447

    2 жыл бұрын

    More like no matter how good your kd ratio. If you dont outdo enemy’s resupply, you cant win. In vietnam, they let NVA gain more and more support, even in the side of saigon, even let VC agents mass infiltrated inside Goverment, some was never discovered, some funnily was not die because of exposed, but die by the separate and a series of coup inside RVN goverment like Pham Ngoc Thao. in afgan, they fail to protect peoples outside of Kabul, let taliban resupply their soldier by force or propaganda or if peoples really understand how disfunctional kabul's goverment whatever it is. american still failed to stop taliban from recover and strike again and again. both Taliban and the man who is the reason why american put their hand on afgan (bin laden) are once was america's pawn, taliban is help established by america to fight a proxy war with soviet, Bin Laden was praised by america 's media for a while. i dont understand what usa upto, they cause more trouble for themself than actually solve 1.

  • @gamesnig

    @gamesnig

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@historycritic4184 the government isnt the people though

  • @historycritic4184

    @historycritic4184

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gamesnig wait what r u saying?

  • @randomka-52alligatorthatis34
    @randomka-52alligatorthatis342 жыл бұрын

    "Its advantage is rendered meaningless by the fact the Government was Weak and Corrupt." Now where have we heard of this before? Hmmmmmmm.

  • @Justanotherconsumer

    @Justanotherconsumer

    2 жыл бұрын

    At least in Vietnam we had some clue what we were doing there. Afghanistan was worse.

  • @batterynotincluded9492

    @batterynotincluded9492

    2 жыл бұрын

    Corruption did exist, no doubt, but it wasn't widespread or rampant. If it had been, they wouldn't have lasted 2 years without the Americans. At least the president (Thieu) stayed until almost the end and only left when Congress forced his resignation thinking they would be able to strike a deal with NVN with him out of the way. The next president (Huong) came and promised to go for broke defending Saigon. He was ousted days later (wonder why!). The last president was chosen because his brother was some high ranked PAVN officer and they hope a deal would be struck. He tried but then the PAVN forced him to announce the unconditional surrender. Corruption did at exist, but at the top level, people were pretty determined to fight.

  • @angelarch5352

    @angelarch5352

    2 жыл бұрын

    To be fair... is there ever such thing as a government that isn't weak and corrupt? The best you will get is 1 out of 2 if you are lucky...

  • @Davidpromaster
    @Davidpromaster2 жыл бұрын

    Nice timing, bro.

  • @jonathonfrazier6622
    @jonathonfrazier66222 жыл бұрын

    This video is especially relevant today.

  • @CT--eb2xr
    @CT--eb2xr2 жыл бұрын

    Gerald Ford: Prepare for trouble. Joe Biden: And make it double.

  • @matthewbadley5063

    @matthewbadley5063

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unpopular republican initiates pull out from a war, comes out of power, their successor completes the withdrawal and gets a bunch of the flak for getting handed the hot potato.

  • @Marinealver

    @Marinealver

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewbadley5063 and yet your most popular president in election history (with plenty of asterisks) refused to honor any promises. Well it was lost last year when Antifa shouted "Death to America" in one of their many 🔥Mostly 🔥Peaceful 🔥Protests. Well you just might get it. And when that happens I'll be around to watch you suffer, and won't even say told you so.

  • @matthewbadley5063

    @matthewbadley5063

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Marinealver lmao, I don't bother engaging with people living in an alternate reality.

  • @bigbenis9631

    @bigbenis9631

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewbadley5063 You and the people who liked your comment are of the lowest IQ. The pullout was handled awfully even when Biden extended the deadline for the pullout.Even if Trump didn’t do the pullout deadline Biden was going to pullout anyway as that was a part of his campaign.

  • @supremecaffeine2633

    @supremecaffeine2633

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewbadley5063 Ah, you forgot to mention the part where the Potato in Chief ignored the previous administration's agreements, scrapped the original plan (along with it's precautions and requirements), and performed the worst extraction in US history even with extra time.

  • @astudentpilotlife
    @astudentpilotlife2 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather was medic huey helicopter pilot and I remember him telling me about how he flew back and forth from the Air Craft carrier both the South Vietnamese and American soldier. He had the chance to flee to the U.S. but he stay behind trying to save as much people he can flying with his buddy. In the end, he was captured for 13 year in reduction camp. He told me other reason why he stay behind is for his family and to protect his church. Now, he is living a healthy live in the U.S

  • @blackallucid7905

    @blackallucid7905

    2 жыл бұрын

    Respect those who dared to stay and fight for the country and people

  • @DigitalSpectator

    @DigitalSpectator

    2 жыл бұрын

    Respect for the old man

  • @gabrieldantas63

    @gabrieldantas63

    2 жыл бұрын

    God bless your grandpa.

  • @flabby2142

    @flabby2142

    Жыл бұрын

    Respect

  • @herrgodfrey9563
    @herrgodfrey95632 жыл бұрын

    What an appropriate topic, for our current situation

  • @danelassiter6809
    @danelassiter68092 жыл бұрын

    11:30 i love how its up to interpretation if its screaming or cheering

  • @militaryjunkie6207
    @militaryjunkie62072 жыл бұрын

    “ bruh the US really has a second Vietnam “ - Sun Tzu, art of war

  • @vaterix4202

    @vaterix4202

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's not a real quote.

  • @dr.woozie7500

    @dr.woozie7500

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vaterix4202 it is. Sun Tzu was familiar with jungle warfare

  • @nana-by8qc

    @nana-by8qc

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @MrTuerte

    @MrTuerte

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vaterix4202 it is... its what sun tzu said

  • @militaryjunkie6207

    @militaryjunkie6207

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vaterix4202 He said it.

  • @GordonHorneOfficial
    @GordonHorneOfficial2 жыл бұрын

    As someone who loves the musical Miss Saigon, I found this so enjoyable, and now have context for the background to that one specific scene in the show. Brilliant video, thank you!

  • @ragingjaguarknight86

    @ragingjaguarknight86

    2 жыл бұрын

    You have a good memory. I saw it years ago, at a theater, when I was kid.

  • @vitraxgdanski1305

    @vitraxgdanski1305

    Жыл бұрын

    My dad tortured me with that musical.

  • @princessmarlena1359

    @princessmarlena1359

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ragingjaguarknight86 me too

  • @ragingjaguarknight86

    @ragingjaguarknight86

    Жыл бұрын

    @@princessmarlena1359 Cool. 😎👍 I haven't been the theater in years. Although the last thing I saw there was a ballet, a local production of the Nutcracker. It was pretty awesome. You have to admire the dancer's skills, even Jean Claude Van Damme said that ballet practice beats any martial arts workout as far as difficulty goes. o_O

  • @isaacschmitt4803
    @isaacschmitt48032 жыл бұрын

    Gotta say, nice timing on this one. . .