>>11014412French colonize Indochina.
Japan invades and kicks them out.
Japan loses WWII.
France wants their economic interests in Vietnam back.
Vietnamese are pretty over it.
Chinese see chance to create satellite state.
Americans see chance to take over French interests.
Americans arrange a "democratic election"
Chines communists arrange "lots of guns for Vietnamese communists"
Lines are drawn like in Korea
Chinese puppet state in north sends aid to guerrilas in south
Americans ostensibly provide "support" to the Vietnamese army, but in reality rampage across three different countries killing everything that moved
The American public fail to grasp the importance to their national sovereignty represented by the Michelin rubber plantations, and are uninterested in being drafted to secure them
The US eventually break the Viet Cong, but the war is so unpopular that politicians start looking for a way out.
The US arranges for the North and South to meet up for talks, while quietly letting the South Vietnamese army take over the fighting.
The North Vietnamese Army, not being stupid, nod their heads and smile.
The South Vietnamese Army, being run by criminals and war profiteers, clenches its butthole.
The very second the US military is effectively pulled out, the NVA heads down and kicks the South Vietnamese government right in the teeth, then sodomizes them for good measure.
Ironically, Communist Vietnam is uninterested in being a Chinese satellite state, and fights a few battles with their would be overlords.
Decades later, American war vets are treated to the news that Vietnam is now a strategic and economic ally, and everything they went through was for nothing.
The end.
