"Posts like this really make me wonder about you. You sound like a communist or someone else who can't stand the US"
No need to wonder! What if I am?
That bias would explain the irraitional claims.
"and immaturely is happy when others suffer."
I certainly am not happy when others suffer, which is why I have consistently opposed US foreign policy
Saving people from horrible dictators stops suffering. What you espouse increases suffering. Your bias against the US results in viewing things the complete opposite of reality.
The communists took power in North Vietnam by force they were not elected in fair elections. They have never held a single fair election they have bogus elections where the only choices they have are communists. They took over South Vietnam by force not by any legitimate method.
"The North Vietnamese didn't defeat the US. The US military left Vietnam in 1973. The extent of our military presence was Marine Security guards at the embassy and a handful of paper pushers."
The US was soundly thrashed, as you well know
This is where you bias comes into play you hate the US so much you WISH we were thrashed and since we weren't you will just pretend it.
The US never lost a battle and the casualties inflicted on the enemy were always considerably higher than we lost.
The Vietcong were wiped out. The only Vietcong units that remained were in name only they named some North Vietnamese units Vietcong regiments. They were simply NVA units with such designation.
They gave up on the idea of relying on the Vietcong and launched numerous conventional attacks in 1971-72 all of which were decisively defeated. The RVN forces thrashing the NVA with the aid of our airpower and planners. The casualties suffered by the RVN forces was way less than they were inflicting. That was why the North Vietnamese eventually agreed to the Peace deal. They coudl not make any progress all their attacks were beaten back with high losses.
They used the post peace deal to build a massive conventional force. They were no longer fighting so no longer suffering losses. They were training men and were being supplied by the USSR and China. The military aid during this period was more than during the war period combined the Chinese aid in particular skyrocketed. This was a direct violation of the Treaty but they didn't care. The US abided by it thus stopped providing fuel, ammunition etc. Instead of helping the RVN ot keep pace we simply stuck to the deal.
When the DRV attacked we should have countered because the treaty was null at that point. But we stuck by it and left them high and dry. Then a general invasion was launched including with tanks and refugees filled the roads preventing the RVN units form being able to get to where they needed to go. They had fuel issues anyway. US airpower could have cut the attack apart like we did past conventional invasions which you ridiculously suggest amounted to us being thrashed. I don't know how killing so many enemy and the feeling amounts to being thrashed... In any event we did nothing and doing nothing is why they won they didn't defeat us we weren't there.
The South Vietnamese civilians were fleeing attackers not liberators. They were filling choppers to get to the Philippines to get away from attackers not liberators. They were being shot dead by attackers not liberators. Those who remained after the takeover were brutalized by attackers not liberators.
Your version is a fantasy version fashioned around your hatred of America instead of reality.
"For years they terrorized South Vietnamese people. They invaded and killed South Vietnamese."
Utter rubbish. The terrorising was conducted by the US and their puppets in the South.
You either know nothing about Vietnam or you are so biased you are unwilling to admit the truth about the terrorist campaign that was conducted in South Vietnam. Tens of thousands of the intelligentsia were murdered to undermine the government and make it easier for the communists to take over. When those efforts all failed they then resorted to conventional attacks which also failed. Their success came after the US left and stopped aiding South Vietnam. The people of South Vietnam did not welcome the attackers they fled from them and tried to resist though they failed. They didn't try to resist because they wanted to be attacked.
You praise violence so long as the violence is in the name of communism, against people you don't like or simply harms US interests and the only harm to US interest that wound up being served by taking over South Vietnam was the harm caused to the people living there who we considered friends.
So at its core you applaud killing and attacking people because they were friends of the US. That's incredibly immature.
The liberating forces had massive support of the people of Vietnam, both in the North and the South
If that were the case the invasion would not have been necessary. Moreover they would have welcomed the attackers instead of trying to repel them and fleeing. Your version is pure fantasy but fantasy spread by communists and leftist who hate the US and thus couldn't care less about reality.
"The few Americans were able to leave. Cheering communists killing non-communist Vietnamese, stealing their property and brutalizing them is what someone with mental problems would do."
I agree, but it did not happen
It did happen. The communists killed large numbers of people in South Vietnam from the late 1950s to 1973 and then again late 1974-76. Those political enemies they didn't kill they imprisoned and they destroyed the economy of South Vietnam including taking resources owned by people for the government's use. Communism failed and they changed to a mixed economy like China which still has massive government control and there is still only one party in control of Vietnam it is not a democracy but rather a communist oligarchy with far less freedoms than are present in democracies.
This brings us full circle to one of the points made earlier. People not actually living under these horrible regimes think they are great. If you had to live under such regime then your views would be different.
I'm too honest to admit that abandoning Poland and the RVN was ultimately a good thing for the people of such countries. They were abandoned out of selfishness not charity. That is the same reason no one is doing crap about ISI it is about being too selfish to do what is right.
If people want to be selfish that is their right but be truthful about it don't make up BS excuses.