Of all the economies to praise, they pick the modern North Korean economy. Lmao.
It’s because they legitimately believe North Korea is actually a paradise
can afford a ton of stuff when your people are starving.
It could be a little easier to develop nuclear weapons in 2015 vs. 1943, also after a dozen other countries already did it.
Just to be clear. These are the guys the admins wanted to federate with?
that’s right!
though i would’ve still liked to remain federated, they were fun to mess with
[deports and exterminates Crimean Tatars]
Is this what multiculturalism looks like?
Cuba has the most progressive family code in the world
I don’t know about most, but I would like to point out that for all of Cuba’s other political faults, this one is true - they recently passed a very progressive family code.
Today, the Vietnamese view the U.S. in a positive light. About three-quarters of Vietnamese (76%) expressed a favorable opinion of the U.S. in a 2014 Pew Research Center survey. More highly educated people (89%) gave the U.S. especially high marks. Young people ages 18-29 were particularly affirmative (89%), but the U.S. is seen positively even by those who are old enough to have lived through the Vietnam War. Among those ages 50 and older, more than six-in-ten rated the U.S. favorably.
Shit, you probably couldn’t get those numbers even in the US.
Ho Chi Minh himself was a fan of the US. He spent some good time in the states though what he really did there is clouded in mystery. The first sentence of the Vietnamese declaration of independence is copied, verbatim, from the American one, generally speaking the anti-colonial attitude and liberalism where up his alley and back in the days the US politicians hadn’t yet really found their identity as imperialist swine… this was some 20 years before WWII.
Oh and he worked for a time for Auguste Escoffier.
Had the Yanks continued to antagonise Vietnam after the war the whole thing would probably look quite differently, also, if Vietnam was an island located in the Caribbeans. But having a country as ally there that really doesn’t like Chinese imperialism is something US hawks like so they were willing to overlook the fact that the local regime was state capitalist instead of fascist.
Makes sense the the Vietnamese have generally favorable views on America, after all compared to their hundreds of years of stuggle against China the American-Vietnam war was basically a particularly destructive skirmish.
