Vietnam is one of the reasons I have hope for Ukraine. The North Vietnamese were overwhelmingly outgunned and outmanned. But they had a “win or die” mentality and spent the better part of two decades forcing the enemy to play whack-a-mole until everybody got bored and went home.
Another analogy would be that the Ukrainian defense is being propped up by foreign military aid to fight indefinitely, similarly to the South Vietnamese puppet regime, which promptly collapsed when the US pulled back.
That’s not to conflate the legitimate Ukrainian fight against Russian invasion with the US’ immoral campaign against (North) Vietnamese liberation from colonialism or to detract from Ukraine’s agency and determination. However, the reliance on foreign assistance, particularly from Russian friendly regimes like the US, might prove precarious in the coming months.
Vietnam is one of the reasons I have hope for Ukraine. The North Vietnamese were overwhelmingly outgunned and outmanned. But they had a “win or die” mentality and spent the better part of two decades forcing the enemy to play whack-a-mole until everybody got bored and went home.
Another analogy would be that the Ukrainian defense is being propped up by foreign military aid to fight indefinitely, similarly to the South Vietnamese puppet regime, which promptly collapsed when the US pulled back.
That’s not to conflate the legitimate Ukrainian fight against Russian invasion with the US’ immoral campaign against (North) Vietnamese liberation from colonialism or to detract from Ukraine’s agency and determination. However, the reliance on foreign assistance, particularly from Russian friendly regimes like the US, might prove precarious in the coming months.