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re: #156 Gus 802

We used China for the Pacific front. Then we told Chiang Kai-shek to go fuck himself. And then we ended up with Mao. Pretty dumb if you ask me but that’s America.

Just like how we promised Uncle Ho to sponsor Vietnamese independence, so long as he helped harass and ultimately drive the Japanese out of Indochina. Then, soon as the war was over, we immediately turned a blind eye as France moved in and tried to assert its colonial rule. We only started paying attention after they got their asses kicked out, because suddenly Vietnam was the new battlefield in the grand struggle between communism and capitalism.

And the rest, of course, is history.