American middle class is 27th in the world.

[Daldolma]

hallo vietnam was a proxy war. ussr was nearly our equal in military tech back then

even still north vietnamese died at nearly a 20-1 rate compared to americans. they just made the war more trouble than it was worth

[Ahldagor]

vietnam happened because the french wanted their colony back (rubber plantations) and we suck fuck off. we supplied ho chi minh's army to defeat the french army, put in a puppet government that gave us the finger so we killed the guy and his wife while they were sleeping, then ho chi minh gave us the finger and went commie to establish another government that wasn't a puppet government and shortly thereafter the gulf of tonkin incident "happened" which led to the passing of the gulf of tonkin resolution that expanded executive branch military powers to enable the start of full military operation without the approval of the congressional branch all because we wanted some damn rubber plantations. and opium.