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Also underlooked is living somewhere with war is worse than the living in the place that did the bombing and was never touched by its actions.
My friend's Italian grandma loved the Americans and moved to America because her family were poor and had 0 land, and the American troops gave her candy as a kid and weren't the mob or the Catholic church. They gave them vaccines and it was the first time she remembered going to a doctor.
This Vietnamese guy might've just been successful in America and sees he's better off (has more stuff) than his relatives without analyzing why. Or he might be a gusano, idk that much about Vietnam.
Not to mention, the US further punished Vietnam for winning through sanctions which made reconstruction significantly harder. There was no one to pay the country reparations and the aid they did receive was not enough to suddenly transition to a non-bombed, non-agent orange, non-massacred country. My parents lived as peasants through the war and famine and barely had any food for themselves or families - even the so called rich people at this time were barely above peasants, unless you were urban and had western connections. And the almighty, freedom loving Americans didn't lift a finger to help anyone. I don't care if my parents' anti communism is valid or not. Every American soldier, diplomat, intelligence agent, and their European and Asian stooges who was in Vietnam during the war deserves PTSD and suicide.