Snake Featherston
Banned
The problem I find in almost all the Vietnam threads where there's a POD on how the USA "wins" the war is that they invariably almost always assume Saigon has to require foreign aid directly fighting for it to win. At that point in what's a glorified civil war Saigon is dead, because its soldiers will never do the dirty work of fighting and dying if they can get someone else to do it for them. I believe the sole and only way to change this is to create a second, anti-Communist nationalist movement, a Chetnik to Hanoi's Titoists. It would seem to me that the best POD to achieve this is during the Japanese occupation, where just having the IJA bring the Three Alls approach to Indochina could start that process, and allowing the French to overreach might complete it.
I think at the point where Saigon is transparently the product of white, European influences it's not a state so much as a sockpuppet for Europe in an international sense. For it to be a state means it has to have a Vietnamese base to represent Vietnam. Your thoughts?
I think at the point where Saigon is transparently the product of white, European influences it's not a state so much as a sockpuppet for Europe in an international sense. For it to be a state means it has to have a Vietnamese base to represent Vietnam. Your thoughts?