Points 1, 3 and 4 seem to relate critically to the governance of Vietnam.
You would need a profoundly transformative POD, as far back as the 20's perhaps, to have a realistic shot at that.
Take Land Reform - in fact, the political moves of the Diem regime were actively in the opposite direction. 'Land Reform' of a sort was taking place, in the form of actively transferring title and control of the agricultural land from the people who had been farming it for centuries, to a corrupt elite class.
You would literally need to turn South Vietnamese culture and government on its head to institute land reform. Not just changing the government itself, but really screwing over the entire governing class, the key constituencies that influenced and dominated the government - the ruling economic and political sectors of the population.
I don't see how you do that, short of putting those people on boats and floating them out to sea.
Okay, that's extreme. But the degree of resistance you'd face would be astonishing, and the land reform would perpetually under critical risk of subversion or delay, the process would take decades. And we didn't have decades.
Hell, look at Latin America. There's been a pressing need for Land Reform going on a century. Everyone knows that's the solution. But where and when has it actually happened to any meaningful extent?
You would need a profoundly transformative POD, as far back as the 20's perhaps, to have a realistic shot at that.
Take Land Reform - in fact, the political moves of the Diem regime were actively in the opposite direction. 'Land Reform' of a sort was taking place, in the form of actively transferring title and control of the agricultural land from the people who had been farming it for centuries, to a corrupt elite class.
You would literally need to turn South Vietnamese culture and government on its head to institute land reform. Not just changing the government itself, but really screwing over the entire governing class, the key constituencies that influenced and dominated the government - the ruling economic and political sectors of the population.
I don't see how you do that, short of putting those people on boats and floating them out to sea.
Okay, that's extreme. But the degree of resistance you'd face would be astonishing, and the land reform would perpetually under critical risk of subversion or delay, the process would take decades. And we didn't have decades.
Hell, look at Latin America. There's been a pressing need for Land Reform going on a century. Everyone knows that's the solution. But where and when has it actually happened to any meaningful extent?