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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Tolouse

so japan was looking to increase their empire during WWII, they went into Asia and started to take over

which was also pushing the communist parts of Asia back into China and up through N.Vietnam

once the US had bombed their homes in those cities, the Japanese armies headed back home to take care of their loved ones and such

once they all left, it left a huge hole in the countries they had previously occupied which the communists filled by coming down

yes, at the time, the US was allies with the French

and to help protect French Indo-China, the US assisted them in the mid 50's (circa 1955)

i don't know why the French left, but the US stayed to try to keep the communist armies in the north

but by the 60's, the US were fully engaged in S.Vietnam against the N.Vietnamese armies

So what you are saying is if had allowed the Japanese to keep their empire we wouldn't have had to fight in Vietnam? Maybe so but I would have rather fought Vietnam than to be fighting a guerrilla war against the Japanese in the middle of the USA! I don't see any way allowing Japan to stay in the pacific would have done anything but help them conquer and enslave the world. At that time the Japanese Empire wasn't a very nice place to be anything but Japanese. No I don't think it would have helped at all, if not Vietnam against the communists it would have been somewhere else against the Japanese. An Empire couldn't have allowed a strong democracy like the US to exist. To them we would always have been a threat, then the cold war would have fought against the Japanese instead of the communists. An entrenched Japanese empire would have been much harder to fight than the USSR, at least the USSR didn't want to be nuked any more than we did. The Japanese at that time might not have been as reasonable as the USSR was. At the very least the Japanese were much more agressive than the USSR ever was. The real question is "should we have fought at all in Vietnam? Should we have allowed free elections to come about even if the communists were favored to win? I can't really answer that and hind sight is always 20/20.