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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That was entirely unnecessary and missing the point.

I don’t want to ignore the human cost here. But we’re talking about specific quantifiable metrics here, not the emotional trauma

Then it's not a valid analysis.

What question are you even trying to answer here? Because whatever it is seems to be entirely unrelated to anything I was talking about.

I just realized you wrote the infuriatingly wrong claim, "North Vietnam traded manpower for resources, accepting high losses." No, dumbass, they didn't skimp on equipment because they were "willing to accept casualties," they didn't have money for equipment and fought tooth and nail with everything they had to avoid colonial subjugation. It wasn't some kind of policy choice.