WI, French win Indochinese war, What Happens Next

With all this talk of veitnam, what would have happend if the french and pulled of thier counter insurgency campign in Indochina in the 50's, how long could they have held on to thier colonies after that? Disscus?
 
With all this talk of veitnam, what would have happend if the french and pulled of thier counter insurgency campign in Indochina in the 50's, how long could they have held on to thier colonies after that? Disscus?

Not for long, I believe the Vietnamese were quite upset :), and there were plenty of foreign sources of assistance to the resistance.
 

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Not for long, I believe the Vietnamese were quite upset :), and there were plenty of foreign sources of assistance to the resistance.

I think it would end up like Algeria with spicier food and wetter weather, inevitably independent at some point in time, probably after a second independence struggle a la the Vietnam war.

With the additional blessing that if someone with an active neuron was paying attention in Foggy Bottom (ASB, yes, I know), the US might have managed to remember our anti-colonial roots, supported the independence movement, and been able to help steer them into at least a non-aligned course.
 
France was well on its way to recognizing an Independent Vietnam , whcih would have maintained ties to France. The number of Vietnamese soldiers serving in the French Indo China forces steadily grew during this period.
 
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