America and other allies aided South Vietnam against the communist North in the Vietnam war (1954 to 1975). From what I have briefly read and been told was the logic for America's involvement was it was apprehensive Vietnam will consequently form with China and USSR to form a super-power communist allegiance posing a threat to the United States. My question is how?
How does a group of communist countries pose a threat to a capitalist nation? I could visualize if it was religion vs religion may amount to war but communist vs capitalism, how does that pose sufficient threats to risk your countrymen's lives and to spend $738 billion on the war? They can justify that amount of money and domestic casualties if they were to send men in outer space to stop an Armageddon astroid but to go to war to change the economic system of another country because in 'theory' they will be 'teamed up upon' does not make sense to me.
Eventually America withdrew its' troops and my guess is the North Vietnamese took over the country. Was and is there any conflict or threats between America and Vietnam after the war? My presumption is 'no'. Thus, there would be no difference if America did not go to war because there are no threats whatsoever. On the other hand, since I do not understand this, I believe I could have missed a lot of information out on why USA went to war.
How does a group of communist countries pose a threat to a capitalist nation? I could visualize if it was religion vs religion may amount to war but communist vs capitalism, how does that pose sufficient threats to risk your countrymen's lives and to spend $738 billion on the war? They can justify that amount of money and domestic casualties if they were to send men in outer space to stop an Armageddon astroid but to go to war to change the economic system of another country because in 'theory' they will be 'teamed up upon' does not make sense to me.
Eventually America withdrew its' troops and my guess is the North Vietnamese took over the country. Was and is there any conflict or threats between America and Vietnam after the war? My presumption is 'no'. Thus, there would be no difference if America did not go to war because there are no threats whatsoever. On the other hand, since I do not understand this, I believe I could have missed a lot of information out on why USA went to war.
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