• loathsome dongeaterA
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    Tangential question. What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea and Vietnam? Does it strike as odd to the median American? These two countries posed no direct threat to the USA.

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      What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea

      they don’t, it’s completely left out of most American education. if it’s there it is a brief one-sentence mention

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      I do the same shit with Canadians about us having soldiers in Saudi Arabia, Africa, etc. They don’t care and seek to justify it totally and immediately.

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        I actually was in Canada for a bit and the impression that I got was that of a sense of banality where people did not know how buddy-buddy Canada has been with the US.

        I was not “political” at that point. But the people I knew used to believe that Canada was similar to the US but with the “derangement” separated from the substance.

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          Canada is just the USA with a roughly 10 year policy lag and none of the global geopolitical power. Most Canadians see this and develop a superiority complex. They think “at least it’s not as bad up here” or “at least we’re not as brutal as them”. Class consciousness and worker solidarity is basically non-existent. We’re truly a puppet state.

    • By the end of Vietnam most Americans were solidly against it, and I believe “Vietnam was a mistake” has broadly been the belief since then, but mostly because it got American soldiers killed, not because of the horrors they committed.

      • People opposed the draft. Vietnam itself didn’t see much more opposition than any other conflict America decided to stick its nose into, they just didn’t like the idea that they or their family members might be expected to go fight in it

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          Vietnam itself didn’t see much more opposition than any other conflict America decided to stick its nose into

          except by the conscripts, who first made the ground war untenable by organizing and direct action and then made the air war untenable by organizing and direct action

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      1) The median American’s default is simply 🇺🇸 👍

      2) The (bipartisan!) think tank version is: the U.S. is the world’s police and that’s a Good Thing because we have Good Intentions (™, ™)

      3) For the most part, the question is not asked outside of explicitly leftist circles