If you want to feel hugely conflicted visit the Vietnam War Museum here in Vietnam. In the 1960’s South Vietnam was fighting communism in the North. The US entered the war to help them push communism out. After 8 long years of limited success, over 58,000 American lives lost (& over 3,000,000 Vietnamese) the US had had enough. We then packed up and left and soon after Vietnam became 100% communist.
Even though Vietnam is still a communist country they have some limited, economic freedoms. They are now just happy there is no war going on….at the moment.
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