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Re: A long, complicated, but ultimately fairly typical revolutionary war
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Originally Posted by CraigD
In summary, to answer the thread’s title question, “Did the US start [the 1946-1975 war in] Vietnam?”: no, by no reasoning I can imagine can the US be said to have significantly caused this War. In short, the main cause of the war was the 1858 colonization of Vietnam by the French, with WWII affording Vietnamese nationalist an opportunity for rebellion.
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An accurate post, that can be made - I think - more accurate if you add the rider " but the US did prolong the war, arguably unecessarily".
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