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@grdfhrghrggrtwqqu

25 күн бұрын

I am also of the opinion that the My Lai massacre was overblown, and we are not alone. Those numbers you're talking about aren't insignificant, that's the American people with a common sense opinion. Not hard to see why he was let go.

@geraintthatcher3076

23 күн бұрын

Great video. Will you be covering the 1877 Russo Turkish War or the 1895 Sino Japanese War out of interest

@duckbizniz663

18 күн бұрын

Thank you Real Tme History. North Vietnam like Communist China are pre-industrialized countries. Their weapons come from the Soviet Union. Look at North Korea and South Korea. Where would you like to live? In the land of free speech anyone can say anything. North Korea or South Korea? That is the question. Long live liberalism and republicanism.

@Don_Bustamanto

13 күн бұрын

Awfully fitting to post this video on the Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.

I am a Marine combat veteran of the Gulf War. There was a captain in my battalion who had served three tours in Vietnam and was an expert on our involvement and the history of Vietnam etc. He spoke to us in depth about the war. This is not the forum to go into too many details but suffice it to say that despite winning every major battle and inflicting massive casualties on the NVA and VC - the war was an unwinnable quagmire. After 1969 the men in the field had had enough. They knew the war was for nothing. The pressure at home was huge to get out. Everybody wanted out. We spent the next 3 years slowly withdrawing. I didn’t matter how many enemy soldiers we killed. They weren’t going anywhere. The South was doomed from the beginning. This is an excellent video.

@ThroneOfBhaal

24 күн бұрын

You have all the watches, they have all the time?

@DanielGarcia-kw4ep

23 күн бұрын

It was a matter of survival for the vietnamese, while american soldiers didn't feel like they had any real business being half a world away

@michaelcavallacci2945

23 күн бұрын

@@DanielGarcia-kw4ep exactly right.

@izzywatashi371

23 күн бұрын

Did your Capt. tell you how we Marines were turning on each other? Every problem America suffered back in the world we suffered in Nam. Drugs, race issues, suicides, fraggings were the reality I witnessed at Dong Ha from late 1968 until my rotation in July 1969; the difference was that in Nam we were all armed and dangerous - like America today. I began to feel it was safer outside the wire than inside. And I will always believe the Marine Corps got out of Vietnam because of these issues. Believe me, it got out of control.

@actualnotsorightguy3

22 күн бұрын

The South actually was not doomed from the beginning if the CIA didn't give the "green light" on the coup aganist Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and further putting troops into the South. The act of aking Diem out gave the Viet Cong a huge relief on their side.

Sun Tzu said: "Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

@RT-bt5ql

16 күн бұрын

Don't invade countries that got nothing to do w your country

@KonglomeratYT

15 күн бұрын

@@RT-bt5ql Someone had to cleanup the french mess. They're fond of leaving messes around the globe.

@MD72538

14 күн бұрын

@@KonglomeratYTcleaned up the french mess and created bigger mess 🥱

@xxatya

13 күн бұрын

Salute to general giap

@NazriB

11 күн бұрын

Lies again? App Store AVN SaiGon

I'm hyped for the next episode. I always wanted to know more about the post-US Vietnam War

@realtimehistory

25 күн бұрын

the outlook for the next three Vietnam episodes is: - a deeper analysis of the US/South defeat as well as the Fall of Saigon (late June) - Vietnam War: Forgotten Armies which will look at the non-US and non-Vietnamese armies in the conflict (summer) - Vietnam War: Forgotten Fronts which will look at Cambodia, Laos and also include the short Sino-Vietnamese War (fall)

@amotaba

25 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory thanks for sharing!

@robertortiz-wilson1588

25 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistorythanks.

@quano5409

24 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory Looking forward to this series "Vietnam War: Forgotten Fronts"!

@malcolm5514

21 күн бұрын

@@realtimehistory 3 more videos?!?! Wow fantastic!!

Cause we shouldn’t have been there to begin with.

@JuanCarrillo-Nava

25 күн бұрын

100% percent. The war was doomed to fail from the start.

@GeneralBlorp

25 күн бұрын

things Reddit tells us for $100, Alex 😅

@markgarrett3647

25 күн бұрын

Communist International radicals shouldn't have been there to begin with.

@amogusenjoyer

25 күн бұрын

​​@@GeneralBlorplol no Reddit has suddenly shifted into saying that the US had to be in Vietnam and that the 2003 Iraq war was justified, and bush is hecking wholesome. Get on with the times grandpa 😅

@chudleyflusher7132

25 күн бұрын

One sentence, four errors. Do better.

Thank you for continuing to cover The Vietnam war. It is still a very sore subject here in the US. So many history KZreadrs won't touch it.

@danielhutchinson6604

25 күн бұрын

Economic effects indicate that LBJ understood after 1967, that the cost of the Conflict was larger than any returns from exploiting Minerals or Oil, could provide US Investors. When the possibility of appropriating money for a War on Poverty became unaffordable, Johnson's re-election chances appeared to dim. The program was intended to fulfill Johnson's boyhood dream of eliminating poverty. The Money was used up delivering payments to Brown & Root for infrastructure construction in Nam. The clear implications of colonial conflicts that cost more, than they could produce any return on investment, appeared to make the continuation unaffordable. The incentive for continuation of the conflict was over by 1968.

@kleamat

23 күн бұрын

I wonder why that is. 🤔

@robertortiz-wilson1588

21 күн бұрын

Plus, they would do a horrible job of covering it. Just regurgitating clichés and false narratives from the new left boomer generation, who still view their opposition to the war as some great achievement of theirs while they further ruin the country at home in other areas.

@emerkamp1

17 күн бұрын

@@danielhutchinson6604 Many say it had no gain. it definitely helped Russia go bankrupt, that and the space race. Today's Vietnam still has the US footprint, I believe the economy is setup more like China's.

@iamf6641

15 күн бұрын

​@@kleamatwar crimes plus losing

Always a pleasure to watch. Fascinating and enthralling, as always! Thank you so much.

Great outtro to a fine episode as always.

Funnily enough, I just read an article about Vietnam a few days ago. According to the article, the USSR and China sent insane amounts of aid to North Vietnam, to the point that the bombing campaign by the US was essentially useless, since they couldn't disrupt the flow of supplies, and there were no manufacturing centers to destroy.

@morenauer

25 күн бұрын

Interesting point. Yeah, when you have two empire-sized superpowers behind you, you can pull impressive feats like beating the USA. Wow.

@realtimehistory

25 күн бұрын

they ran into the same problem in Korea

@huntermad5668

25 күн бұрын

Except the resources poured into NV was dwarfed by the amount poured into by US.

@markgarrett3647

25 күн бұрын

​@@huntermad5668All that resources meant nothing if their not being used properly and where they'd count like multi-purpose F4 Phantoms for the Vietnamese Republic Air Force.

@MadKlauss

25 күн бұрын

@@huntermad5668 US poured in a lot but as it was explained in the video the South Vitenamese were not trained enough to use it to its full potential.

I was a Vietnam Veteran before it became popular! Iron Triangle 1969

@jasonpalacios1363

18 күн бұрын

Thank you for your service.

@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw

18 күн бұрын

@@jasonpalacios1363 🙏🪖🇺🇸

@MD72538

14 күн бұрын

@@jasonpalacios1363 service? killing civilians = a service???

@jaypaige7550

14 күн бұрын

@@MD72538 The Russian are doing a lot of that in Ukraine , i'm sure you don't think so!

@MD72538

14 күн бұрын

@@jaypaige7550 stay on topic! If you want to switch, what about Iraq, Afghnistan and now Gaza?

Siempre se agradece esta serie documental, sigan así 👍

Great Video! Hoping they would make a video about the Battle of Ia Drang.

@thaophamthanh440

21 күн бұрын

In Vietnam, we watched all the battles and I personally learned about each battle from many different sides. Ia drang was a sacrificial battle to consume American manpower and it was very terrible.

Super wonderful historical coverage episode shared by an excellent ( RTH) channel... thanks for sharing 👍🏻

This is an awesome channel with first rate content. Thanks so much!

Amazing outro, as usual!

@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject

24 күн бұрын

You have to be kidding someone

Thank you.

My dad fought for the South, but you know how he was "drafted". He said the army rolled into his village in the early morning, kicked down doors and dragged out every male who looked near service age and tossed them in trucks. Congratulations, they're in the army now.

@robmar7190

21 күн бұрын

Sounds like Ukraine’ now

@thaophamthanh440

21 күн бұрын

Sorry, but the North Vietnamese side is the same. Even when they are only 13 years old, they are forced to join the army. What is advertised as voluntary is actually because their families are too poor and their families will be subsidized to join the army, so they go. Most of the children of officials above do not go to the battlefield. but were sent to study in the Soviet Union and China, most of them on the battlefield were commanders or not in suicide assault teams.

@ucanhvungoc7133

21 күн бұрын

@thaophamthanh440 Need a source for that bud. For now this just sounds like salty US revenge propaganda.

@thaophamthanh440

21 күн бұрын

@@ucanhvungoc7133 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2022.2073740 research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32163/1/POL_thesis_NguyenM_2022.pdf Salty? I don’t think so

@ucnguyenanh9414

20 күн бұрын

​@@thaophamthanh440Khmer Separatists propaganda. You have zero proof of this.

I'm usmc viet vet left Dec 1972 the country was in great shape then

@castlerock58

17 күн бұрын

It was torn by civil war.

@kenkahre9262

17 күн бұрын

Navy Vet here, I have two brother in laws, both Viet Nam Vets who served right after Tet, one who did two tours, who would disagree with you on that.

@aztkshorty9138

Күн бұрын

@@kenkahre9262in 1972 South Vietnam was fine, this was literally when South Vietnam was on the offensive, the Tet Offensive was a failure and was in 1968 so it really bares no relevance to this guys original statement.

My Great Grandpa was in the 1st Infantry Division during Vietnam. Yes, Great Grandpa. I'm younger and the Vietnam War is starting to get that old now. He saw his draft number coming up and figured he'd join as an MP, however was deployed on the front after partying with alcohol, and became an M60 Machine Gunner in the big red one. He got a purple heart after being hit by an enemy sniper (whether it's VC or NVA is unknown) as he didn't talk about it. Thankfully it missed most vital organs (including the spine), passing through his torso from the stomach out the back. Richard "Papa Lee" Hagan lived a long, happy life afterwards. However he never sought VA counsel, so around the end of his life he separated and lived alone in a cabin. The war haunted him until he passed in that cabin, but he had his dog Taco and neighbors checking every now and then. Rest in Peace, Papa Lee. Always missed.

@mikegreenguitar

14 күн бұрын

aka Big Red One. I was part of the forward division in West Germany late 80's. Got reassigned stateside, my 1SG was a 1st ID Vietnam vet. Doesn't seem that long ago to me!

Great video

Fascinating history.

Just curious, did the views go up, and the hate comments go down after you changed the title from Lost to Left?

I have lived here in Vietnam for 3 years in the North as an English teacher. Living history as both a US veteran and someone who loves history and wants to understand both sides

@bboomermike2126

10 күн бұрын

I am writing this in my wife's living room in District 12 Saigon. This is my 5th trip since 2020. I was told that Vietnamese do not want to talk about the "American War". People ask me if this is my first visit to Vietnam and I tell them my first was in 1970 for one year. I am 76 years old American male so it is obvious I fought in the war. The only response was from a young waiter who said "Oh Before Freedom". The only Vietnamese I have talked to about the war live in the US. I never leave the house without my POW bracelet on, my wife is the only one that has ever asked me about it.

I've watched a lot of content on the Vietnam War and this is very condensed and well presented, Also, it contains photos I've never seen before and that's always interesting.

I've seen lots of Vietnam War videos on here over the years, but few offering the unique approach and perspective and presentation, of yours. I have long felt that most American politicians knew that the Vietnam War was unwinnable after the Tet Offensive (and so much more) so what had been said after was mostly about politics and gaining the approval of the American public and winning elections. I too, had questioned the statement that the Christmas bombings were the sole reason that the North Vietnamese had returned to the negotiating table.

It is quite interesting that the Vietnamization programs were similar to the Americanization efforts of the American Revolution. Both Great Britain and the United States had to allocate resources to other conflicts as well as face political pressures from home, which required the use of locally raised troops to bear the brunt of the fighting and to hopefully pacify the populations. With the American Revolution, Great Britain's efforts came crashing down after the Battle of King's Mountain where Britain's best recruitment officer, Major Patrick Ferguson, was killed and his entire force of 900-1,100 men was annihilated. The United States' own major attempt to push ARVN to bear the brunt of the war in the first real test of its capabilities proved to be an unmitigated disaster during Operation Lam Son 719. And though the programs would continue with some mixed results, the fact was that this campaign was a major red flag for how ARVN would handle itself during future operations.

@BufordTGleason

23 күн бұрын

Defending one’s homeland cannot be compared to fighting for political ideology

@thaophamthanh440

21 күн бұрын

In fact, that campaign was exposed because North Vietnamese communist insiders were deeply embedded within ARVN. If the campaign was successful, it would have been a strong blow to the North Vietnamese communists

@robertortiz-wilson1588

21 күн бұрын

@@BufordTGleason if that’s your faulty logic, the Cham people were there longer than any Vietnamese, North or South. Both oppressed them.

@ucnguyenanh9414

20 күн бұрын

​@@BufordTGleasonThey were fighting for their homeland.

@rotwang2000

18 күн бұрын

@@ucnguyenanh9414 The secret sauce is that the North very cleverly had a massive public aid program thanks to Russian and Chinese imported food, medicine etc. Despite there being a war on, the people in the North saw their life continue to improve as the gouvernment kept delivering food, medicine and actively worked to build schools, hospitals and other ammenities. They may have been little more than rickety bamboo structures, but they had nothing before that under the French and Japanese. Now after the war things got a bit more messy as the gouvernment became more authoritiarian and had to deal with the people in the South. Left a bitter aftertaste, just like sidelining many of the people who had contributed to the ultimate victory like Giap and some who were too close to China when those relations became a bit dodgy. During the war many people saw clear improvement to their lives, so they figured "This is worth fighting for." After that, things were a bit more nuanced.

LBJ, early after the build-up whined to his military that he could not understand why the North Vietnamese did not just back off under American pressure. One military staffer said that the situation was deeply rooted in the history of that place. LBJ lost his temper and said... "I don't want to hear any history...we have American boys being killed." Like a surgeon refusing to listen to why he needed to disinfect his surgical instruments prior to an operation. Vanishing hope for a positive outcome... YP

Can you guys do a possible episode about Malayan Emergency? Or the Suez Crisis

Great work! Go on.

Do a video on the US leaving Afghanistan next! Very similar situation.

@conlee1980

18 күн бұрын

Ask mr joe In vn war that time biden did that too

The reason why Europeans and Westerners fought wars in the jungles of the Pacific region is difficult. Because of Western methods of fighting and Europe as a weak point, by not secretly, hiding, or using guerrilla warfare. The same is true for Vietnamese and Thai people The people of South Asia are forest experts and therefore have an advantage

Nixon’s foreign policy was all about a sharing of defensive responsibilities with states that the US had treaties with. The US didn’t have a treaty with South Vietnam and therefore Vietnamization was his policy to withdraw. Additionally, the Paris Peace Accords were prolonged by the NVA. Nixon’s response to bring North Vietnam to the negotiating table was to resume bombing of North Vietnam with Operations Linebacker I and II.

@huntermad5668

25 күн бұрын

LOL, NV already accepted the conditions, that was Thieu refused those conditions

@markgarrett3647

25 күн бұрын

I actually blame that slippery snake Kissinger for most of Nixon's disastrous Vietnam policy.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

25 күн бұрын

You are correct.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

25 күн бұрын

@@markgarrett3647 it wasn’t a disaster.

@markgarrett3647

23 күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 The Vietnamese boat people who fled by the millions beg to differ.

Excellent Video. It should have many more Views. Its a shame how youtube doenst support such formats more.

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Me when I realize this presenter and OverSimplified are the same guy:

Top tier presentation.

It really was a weapons test imo but I could be wrong. I mean especially in the air war we put guns back on fighters after the horrid performance of the f-4 without guns lol

Nguyen is pronounced "Win", not "New ee in".

@bboomermike2126

10 күн бұрын

So true, I made this same mistake for 50 years. I had to marry a Nguyen to get it correct.

@user-if8tg1or7m

6 күн бұрын

Nah, not even close.

It's important to note other aspects of the change in US policy. Bombing runs in the North had been systematic, predictable, and ineffective. The general military strategy was killing more than were lost rather than securing territory. Troops were repeatedly put into massive battles for the same territory over and over again, and when they needed air support, they would have to get permission from those all the way back in Washington. Furthermore, the media coverage following the Tet Offensive was completely biased against the war even though it marked essentially the end of the Viet Cong. Furthermore, the political situation was the worst it had been. The racial tensions, peak drug use, and the highest support for Communism all contributed to a defeatist attitude. There were many elites who believed that Communism would win the Cold War. This view was strong on college campuses as many young men stayed in college to avoid the draft.

@markgarrett3647

18 күн бұрын

You gotta go easy on the American military since they faced a lot of restrictions on how and where they could conduct the War but what would have helped was LBJ blockading the Communist ports along the Gulf of Tonkin and the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville.

This content is gold❤

Gi..discover Pattaya beach... when he get holiday..and now Pattaya is famous beach in the world.

Love that you present the facts and events as they happened and don't put a political spin or bias on it. The comment section does that for you guys haha

@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject

24 күн бұрын

Who doesn't like to spin a bias? You go first

My kind of mental hospital!

@TankerBricks

25 күн бұрын

I laughed out loud when he said "occasionally gets mistaken for a mental hospital"

9:05 Bamboo pentagon, lol.

Right then. That's my dad on the right of the photo with the M-16 on his shoulder.

Appreciate that you are willing to take a stab at the Vietnam war. It's still a living memory so there is a lot of debates and what if scenarios such as whether North Vietnam could be defeated if the decision was to keep US troops. It also really calls into question of US policy of supporting unpopular governments for the sake of containing communism.

The US just never had a proper plan for South Vietnam. They concentrated on the military part and made no real effort on the nation building part. Aside from being afraid of the communist north's wrath and not wanting to live in an oppressive regime the south-vietnamese didn't have any love for their own state as it was only a different shade of oppressive. Why should you fight tooth and nail for a country you have no love for, that doesn't provide for you in any meaningful capacity and that is unstable at best? And the sad part is they made the same mistake again three decades later in Afghanistan.

@user-iu3qn3tt7p

22 күн бұрын

chiếu đấu cho 1 đất nước mình không yêu mến . Không phải đâu. Vì US muốn ngăn chặn làn sóng đỏ từ trung quốc nga xô tràn xuống đông nam á sau VN là Lào. CAMBODIA. THAI LAN. PHILIPIN. NEWZILAND. USTRAYLIA. Do đó VN là tiền đồn ngăn chặn làn sóng cộng sản đỏ

@jackreacher8858

21 күн бұрын

Dont be silly It was for making profits And boy did they made money YAHOO

@robertortiz-wilson1588

21 күн бұрын

Afghanistan was different. There was tons of money for infrastructure and internal civilian programs poured in. The population outside of a few cities didn’t see what was so great about them and felt a huge disconnect over their necessity.

@ucnguyenanh9414

20 күн бұрын

Because most of the Southern population were all Communists symphathizer, not because they love communism, frankly only the anti-communists in the country give a s**t about ideology, but the communists were actually the one who fought against the French while the South Vietnam gov was formed by the people who fought for the French. To top it of this "South Vietnam" secceding half of their country and blew up the chance for the country to be reunited by the general election that should have been held in 1956. So it's no wonder few Vietnamese had any love for the Separatists.

@Julian-oy7hx

8 күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588bro the U.S. heavily collaborated local war lords in afghanistan who were so bad the locals perferred rule under the taliban than that

6:57 sounds so eerily similar to Afghanistan

One can not fight a war by way of political input which skews the overall goal to the troops who become confused of "Why We Fight."

Remember Free Birds, if the deal you sign after the fight remain much the same thing you rejected before, no matter how big you making up, you lost that fight

@topsuperseven7910

18 күн бұрын

You're made-up rules aside, yes indeed, the Vietnamese ultimately lost that fight and were defeated. Now Vietnamese have to have a giant Lenin statue pointing at them everyday. Oh well, Vietnam lost but they did at least win the next war when China invaded.

@vinhucnguyen2575

18 күн бұрын

@@topsuperseven7910 uh, come again, what is your evidence for the argument of VN losing ? And how come America have to sign the deal they rejected before could be considered a victory, Free Bird ?

@topsuperseven7910

18 күн бұрын

@@vinhucnguyen2575 hello, the 'evidence' would be when the Vietcong rebels surged into Saigon and took full control and Vietnam surrendered. It's in this video. Vietnam most definitely lost. Remember, if you sign a deal you considered a victory but rejected before it means it was a victory before. Mind you, the US wasn't interested in signing 'Victory' for Vietnam but rather anything that they hoped would keep both sides from continued fighting. It was temporarily successful but of course the traitors ignored it and went on to defeat Vietnam.

@vinhucnguyen2575

18 күн бұрын

@@topsuperseven7910 So you agree that not only the US had their puppet regime of South Vietnam fallen and have to withdraw their forces from VN ( which definitely sound like a loss), but also was acting treacherously and cowardly when leaving the Saigon government on the hand of the Vietnamese despite being its founder and claiming how the war must happened because the US need to protect its allies and interest in Vietnam ?

@KonglomeratYT

15 күн бұрын

@@vinhucnguyen2575 Being forced to signing a peace treaty to end a war sounds a lot like losing to me, and that's what happened with NV. Just cause NV decided to invade again a year later doesn't mean they "won" the prior war. They were fighting a completely unsupported SV lol.

rename the title to why the US LOST vietnam, stop coping son. the game is up

@andrewthomas695

Күн бұрын

Yeah, nah. They lost the battle of Vietnam, but won the Cold War. And Vietnam was but one theatre of the cold war..it sux, I know. But it is what it is.🙁

That does it! Viktor no longer on Klaus and Ursula's "People to Let Live" list.

nothing about the shape of the negotiating table.

"The truth is that the US won the war militarily but the US lost the war politically" as what Thomas Sowell said.

@davidbradley3735

15 күн бұрын

What would the US have won??

@jasonpalacios1363

14 күн бұрын

@@davidbradley3735 In other words there was no support of the war back home, so no support at home, you lose war, period.

@ucnguyenanh9414

13 күн бұрын

​@@jasonpalacios1363Well, duh. When you throw away a large numbers of lives and tax money to some country half the globe away that wouldn't threat your national security, people back home aren't going to appreciate it.

@thangnguyenvan1072

5 күн бұрын

​@@jasonpalacios1363Mỹ đã không thể đẩy lùi lực lượng Việt cộng ra khỏi Miền Nam Việt Nam. Bạn gọi đó là chiến thắng hả ?

@chainsawman6884

5 күн бұрын

@@jasonpalacios1363 so can you use that point to the Afghanistan war too? why us silently gone from that war and even get full support from the government every year with multi billion dollar support... so its meaning losing right?

at least the military industrial complex benefited from the warcrimes 🥰🥰🥰 that's all that matters

@robertortiz-wilson1588

25 күн бұрын

Hardly much sympathy when you’re fighting a side also committing war crimes.

@grdfhrghrggrtwqqu

25 күн бұрын

and how much money did they make from the my lai massacre?

@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral

25 күн бұрын

Investments in aviation paid out big dolla dolla bills 🤑

@Hys-01

24 күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 if believing that makes you feel better, sure

@robertortiz-wilson1588

24 күн бұрын

@@Hys-01 you have your coping narratives, but I don’t need them.

Just emphasizing how wasted South Vietnam Army was: The captured equipments have been repurposed to fight against the Pol Pot regime even Red Khmer was just nothing but the ashes in 1985. And those captured equipments were about to last "in few month" under South Vietnam's estimation.

To any Vietnam veterans who might see this comment, do you feel we should have stayed and continued the misson? As a gwot veteran, there's a sizeable amount of us who believe we should have stayed in Afghanistan. For both wars, all that blood and treasure for nothing more than some improved ttps and growing the bank accounts of war profiteers.

Score board

Hello do you plan to continue napoleon's downfall with the 1814 campaign?

Nixon is a fascinating president

Why is this 'Nixon's Vietnam War'? More accurate to say 'Kennedy's War' He got us involved. Under him, US troop strength hit 23K - he also gave us the Bay of Pigs disaster.

@realtimehistory

25 күн бұрын

see previous episodes for our coverage of that part of the war

@kiwitrainguy

Күн бұрын

Kennedy want to get out of Vietnam after he had won the 1964 election but history went differently.

And not a damn thing was learned

@Karlach_

21 күн бұрын

Surely we learned from Afghanistan now. Surely.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

21 күн бұрын

You don’t even understand the conflict.

@PP-wz7mp

17 күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 It is complicated with only 4th grade...

@peacefulamerican4994

15 күн бұрын

Our enemies learned.

@KonglomeratYT

15 күн бұрын

@@Karlach_ If you think wars over politics can impart lessons then you know nothing about Republics. Go back to school lmao. Elections drive decision-making. Not history.

Big question should be, could South Vietnam have survived(like South Korea) without too many US troops on the ground.

Am i dumb or did i watch this on nebula already?

It's a holiday in Cambodia! It's tough, kid, but it's life! It's a holiday in Cambodia! Don't forget to pack a wife!

It's amazing that the U.S. govt ended up making the exact same mistakes 30 years later in Afghanistan/Iraq. Especially considering that some of them were guys who experienced the war firsthand.

@ComicGladiator

19 күн бұрын

When you consider that they rose the ranks by being Yes Men, it isn't amazing at all.

@houm7571

18 күн бұрын

It's not mistakes. War is business

@angkhoanguyen6114

13 күн бұрын

​@@houm7571And US lost profits in this war

22:09 weird pause

There is nothing to "win" there...

USA didnt leave they were kicked out

@jakesmith7056

11 күн бұрын

You have no idea what you’re talking about the US could have defended Saigon indefinitely

@bboomermike2126

10 күн бұрын

BS. I did 2 tours in Vietnam. In 1970 VC and NVA didn't initiate any fight in daylight because they would die. The could only hope to survive at night with hit and run. Our problem was finding them when they ran away.

"How A peasant Nation humbled a Superpower." Is that it? Yeah,that's it.

@Karlach_

21 күн бұрын

The USA won almost every single battle in Vietnam. If China and the USSR wasn't supplying the Viet Cong then the USA would've starved them out. Despite this, the USA killed millions of Viet Cong and the Viet Cong couldn't Even kill a single 100k of US soldiers.

09:38 Historical fact: The Jackson State killings were not related to the war in Southeast Asia. This tragedy happened 11 days after the Kent State killings and is sometimes considered part the anti war protest movement but it actually was part of the civil rights struggle. The only thing these two events really have in common is overreaction by authorities to campus unrest. Some argue that the reason Kent State is more infamous is because it was white students that were murdered and Jackson State would hardly be remembered otherwise.

It cost an awful a lot of money to keep an army halfway around the world for 11 years. By that time, it was clear there would be no victory

Nixon the goat

Same situation as Afghanistan. They were unwinnable situations.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who's going to stop me? - Ayn Rand

@kiwitrainguy

Күн бұрын

I'm sure that thought goes through every criminals mind just before they commit a crime.

This war was such a disaster.

It's a fascinating and tragic story because the US knew they lost, but didn't want to pay the political and reputational consequences for losing. But they did anyway, and did so after the cost of more US and Vietnamese lives alike.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131

25 күн бұрын

Sunk cost fallacy...

@markgarrett3647

25 күн бұрын

The defeat was never inevitable and it took all of the pro-Communists within the Federal government and the MSM to produce it.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

25 күн бұрын

That was Kissinger‘s suspected opinion. In reality though, I don’t think it actually was his opinion. I think that’s what partisan historians and journalists have attributed as his thought process at the time when that wasn’t the case.

@Wilhelm-100TheTechnoAdmiral

25 күн бұрын

Ego won't let the leaders admit to wrongdoing and everyone suffers

@ArtSmosh1274

21 күн бұрын

We didn't lose

A correct title would be "why US was defeated in Vietnam"

@realtimehistory

25 күн бұрын

but this episode is only part of that. we will do a full analysis in a future video

@robertmaybeth3434

25 күн бұрын

Yeah maybe. "The USA failed to achieve our political and military goals" is the truth. But there was a certain amount of scheming combined with the stark truth being realized that, if the South Vietnamese were given every chance, every American resource including human blood, and billions of dollars, yet STILL was incapable of defeating the communists in the north, then there was no point for the US to prop them up any longer.

@lorenfranz3173

25 күн бұрын

The reasons why the US lost the war are numerous and sometimes contradictory, but in a nutshell, this is what someone once said to me about US involvement in Vietnam: "We couldn't win, but we refused to lose."

@grdfhrghrggrtwqqu

25 күн бұрын

the correct title should be "here's why the my lai massacre acstually happened, trust us" also here's a more accurate title "here's how the ARVN was defeated in Vietnam"

@42NewGuy

25 күн бұрын

@@grdfhrghrggrtwqqudo you doubt the historicity of the My Lai Massacre?!

Kinda like why dude left his old job, didn't feel right to hang around after I got fired. Or rather the company I was working for got taken over by North Vietnam

Who caused more torture or damage, North Vietnamese or the U.S.?

@angkhoanguyen6114

13 күн бұрын

US for sure, they started thís war.

What a disappointment, the Tet offensive gets a whole video dedicated to the subject but the Easter Offensive is reduced to a footnote despite it’s significant impact on the 1973 ceasefire and it’s interesting way of war, the most conventional of the entire war and the deadliest land invasion since the Chinese offensive in the Korean War. I guess western historians cannot escape heavily portraying the “Vietnam” war from the “American” perspective which had been regurgitated over and over again in most history outlets. However I do understand that it’s easier and safer to do a subject that’s statistically popular to portray and understand for a content creation channel.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

23 күн бұрын

I agree with you to a degree. I agree it should’ve been its own episode.

@extrahistory8956

23 күн бұрын

They will continue to cover the other more conventional parts of Vietnam from 1973-75, the third Indochina War and other battles

The My Lai massacre, and the widespread support for its perpetrators in the US, is something that I wish more Americans knew about. Most would rather forget all of the horrors of Vietnam, the millions of Vietnamese who died because a foreign power felt entitled to determine the country's political system and government. After the horrible crimes committed by Russian forces in Bucha during the invasion of Ukraine, many American commentators wondered how the Russian people could support an army which murdered innocent civilians. Sadly the answer can be found in America's own history, but the refusal to remember and learn from history makes that impossible. The video didn't mention it, but several US soldiers who attempted to stop the killing, and helped hide Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre, were ostracized and shunned within the Army. They were also called traitors by a multiple US Congressmen from both parties. It wasn't until 30 years after the war crime was committed that these soldiers were recognized for their attempts to help innocent civilians during wartime. Unfortunately very similar war crimes were later committed by American soldiers in Iraq, further demonstrating the cost of refusing to remember such crimes, or to properly bring war criminals to justice. Hopefully this channel and videos like this can make a small difference in fixing this problem, though a real solution needs to take place at a much larger, societal scale.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

21 күн бұрын

What do you think you’re babbling about? This almost sounds peak millennial.

@zvexevz

20 күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 It's called history. I'd encourage you to learn more about it, though it will require you to read a book, which you might consider a "peak millennial" waste of time. But I have to thank you at the same time, as you provided an excellent example of the refusal to confront difficult moments from US history. It's much easier for people to reach for juvenile insults than to actually reflect on what happened in places like My Lai.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

20 күн бұрын

@@zvexevz there you go again.

@kiwitrainguy

Күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Yes, and there YOU go again as well.

@joydevsarkar4474

7 сағат бұрын

@@zvexevzthe prison Abu gharib torture and its link to the birth of ISIS ,it seems USA orchestrat many problems in the part of world where significant regional power is not present sometimes i think that is why they fear the nuclear arms spreading , you don’t see USA taking steps against north korea except some sanctions and mouth blabbering.

During mid 50s, Soviet conflicted against China over who should be the leader of Communist World, leading to a border clash in 1969. Acknowledging that Soviet was a bigger threat, US secretly cooperated with China in order to isolate and topple the Union. (which eventually resulted in its dissolution in 1991). To swap their benefits, US withdrew from Vietnam and let South Vietnamese fight alone so that the South is faster and more easily to lose this war. From 1972-1973, ARVN had to rely on themselves and kept fighting against North Vietnam and their communist allies. Simply put, they used whatever ammos and weapons left. This was not included Long Bình Depot which was locked by US before withdrawing. 1974's Battle of Paracels was a test to see whether US had completely abandoned South Vietnam or not.

score board

*North Vietnam turns communist* US: hall nah that's not ok *gets into a war it can't win and then loses* People: well lets just hope they won't do some thing like this again US: about that 🤭

@georgefalcon14

25 күн бұрын

It wasn't that we couldn't win, it was that we weren't allowed to win because of politics, don't be disingenuous.

@heycidskyja4668

25 күн бұрын

@@georgefalcon14 Yeah, I know it's a tough pill to swallow but the US were beaten in Vietnam. Gotta take the L on this one, I'm afraid.

@PakBallandSami

25 күн бұрын

@@heycidskyja4668 yeah many historians agree that, the was going to loss this war because of the fact that the the vietnamese had home field advantage

@creepydwarf8714

25 күн бұрын

It wasn’t that we couldn’t win, we actually had won quite a bit in the north. But if you don’t have support from the domestic population then you’re not going to be able to sustain the war effort. The United States far and away could have won the Vietnam War as we had nuclear weapons and a vast technological advantage alongside superior tactics. The problem was nobody at home wanted to fight the war and thus America pulled out

@georgefalcon14

25 күн бұрын

@@heycidskyja4668 I said we lost, but reading comprehension seems to have eluded you, maybe take the W and research the truth of "Why," instead of just jumping on the defeatist bandwagon 🤔

Because US lost!

With due respect to those who fought the unpopular war. Soldiers obey, and politicians dictate all for nothing. It was deemed other people's war.

Why? It was hopeless.

bc we got bored

@user-td2jw9ze2c

25 күн бұрын

Ironically a war of attrition that backfired

@angkhoanguyen6114

13 күн бұрын

Becaus3 you got clapped hard

Nixon's Vietnam War? Nixon had to clean up LBJs mess!

I don't know why you say the 1968 election was closely contested. Even with Wallace spoiling Nixon had many more electoral votes.

The definition of "clusterf____k".

Intefering a foreign country, killing protesters, massacring civilians, breaking promises, chaotic strategy due to political system, and bringing back home drug addicts with PTSDs. Truly a beacon of light for all human beings. Unfortunately tho, Korea wasn't able to reunite under one flag. I wonder how things would have been for them.

@user-td2jw9ze2c

24 күн бұрын

Have you seen Vietnam today?

@songnguyenvan9640

24 күн бұрын

​@@user-td2jw9ze2cviệt nam giờ sao? Tao sống ở việt nam đây. Hòa bình và thoải mái.

@ArtSmosh1274

21 күн бұрын

You have been listening to too much propaganda

@ucnguyenanh9414

20 күн бұрын

Neither Kim or any South Korean defeated the Japanese. Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese people to victory agaisnt the French, while the "Southern" pretenders fought along side the French. There's the difference.

@angkhoanguyen6114

13 күн бұрын

​@@ArtSmosh1274same as yours

I still have not figured out why the US went into Viet Nam in the first place, I don't buy that domino theory at all. JKF, LBJ, Nixon and Macnamara are all on record saying that a war there would be unwinnable yet they all sent US troops there. I do know that the CIA was running drugs from the area, maybe they wanted to protect that operation. The military has a powerful lobby in Washington and always wants a war somewhere. When LBJ resigned he had ammassed a $900 million dollar fortune from investing in military stock. Perhaps it was just plain old hubris. In the end the US and South Viet Nam did lose and consequently lost a huge amount of prestige in the process, not forgetting the 58,000 Americns who gave their lives.

@tabull8180

25 күн бұрын

I think its hubris fueled by inconclusive result from Korea few years back. US wanted to show that its the main superpower in the world and can operate to high level from other side of the world. Give few years and they were so entangled to their pride that they just couldn't lose the war, dragging it to infinity.

@Yogurt4655

22 күн бұрын

The military-industrial complex wanted money, and the capitalists were afraid of a new economic system reducing their hold on the planet’s wealth. Whether they actually believed in the domino theory or just used it as justification, 🤷‍♂️

@ArtSmosh1274

21 күн бұрын

How do you know lol

@robertortiz-wilson1588

21 күн бұрын

Domino “theory” was observable reality before and after the fact of this conflict.

@kiwitrainguy

Күн бұрын

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 That was the bill-of-goods that was sold to us: "If we let the Communists win then this great tidal wave of communism will come sweeping down through Indonesia and take over Australia and New Zealand". Well, the Communists did win and we're still waiting 😄...well, not really waiting.😉

It's almost like wars against ideas can't be won🤔🤦‍♀️

No guts no glory.

Us.army no defeated in Vietnam..but politics in Washington defeated in the war..I am 66 year old from Thailand.😂

@extrahistory8956

14 күн бұрын

It certainly was certainly worn down. What's an army if their own soldiers and public are unwilling to support its actions? Well, it's a morally defeated army. It doesn't help that South Vietnam was itself a corpse eating away at itself, thus why it failed to even launch proper or successful military offensives against the North.

@SandfordSmythe

14 күн бұрын

It should be noted that Thailand contributed much to the Vietnam War.

@user-lw6gy9xm8l

14 күн бұрын

@@SandfordSmythe sorry my English very poor..ขอตอบเป็นภาษาไทยนะครับ/ไทยยืนข้างอเมริกันในสงครามเย็นที่เวียดนามใต้ ส่งทหารไปร่วมรบเคียงบ่าร่วมกับพันธมิตรในเวียดนามใต้..ให้อเมริกันมีฐานบืน (US.Airbase)หลายแห่งในประเทศ..มันเป็นการเลือกข้างระหว่างฝ่ายเสรีประชาธิปไตยกับฝ่ายคอมมิวนิสต์/เมื่อสงครามสงบ คนเวียดนามเกลียดไทยมาก หาว่าไทยเป็นลูกน้องอเมริกา.. และในวันนี้ไทยมีความเจริญ.มากกว่าเวียดนามและสหายคอมมิวนิสต์....คนหนุ่มสาวเวียดนามพากันมาเที่ยวไทยเป็นจำนวนมากในวันนี้ ..

@angkhoanguyen6114

13 күн бұрын

​@@user-lw6gy9xm8lBây giờ Việt Nam đang thịnh vượng hơn Thái Lan mới đúng. Việt Nam vượt trội hơn Thái Lan về công nghiệp lẫn nông nghiệp trong khi Thái Lan hòa bình và độc lập hơn 100 năm. Việt Nam không ghét Thái Lan, Thái Lan chưa bao giờ là đối thủ để Việt Nam cạnh tranh.

@angkhoanguyen6114

13 күн бұрын

​@@user-lw6gy9xm8lDu lịch Thái Lan đang bị Việt Nam bắt kịp, công nghiệp và nông nghiệp Việt Nam đã vượt trội Thái Lan rất xa. GDP thực của Thái Lan thấp hơn Việt Nam từ hồi năm 2020. 😂😂😂😂😂

Hello, please use the correct term "Lost" in the name of the video. Thanks!

@user-et4hp9sw3n

25 күн бұрын

Won? never happened

@realtimehistory

25 күн бұрын

The actual Northern Victory and the analysis why will happen in the next video, this video is about the decision to withdraw ground troops. Which didn't completely end US involvement.

Is a waste of time no cruel oil nothing only today we talk about investment.

Left/loss same thing?