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Foreign policy wonk outlet (Foreign Affairs) is now laying the groundwork for a Ukranian defeat
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Vietnam War was incredibly popular until the release of the Pentagon papers
Like, that whole idea that there was a large anti-war movement from the beginning of it is just cope for everyone being rah-rah for almost a decade
This isn't correct. The Pentagon Papers came out in '71; there were tons of significant protests before then. Draft card burning dated back to '64, all sorts of SDS activity picked up in '65, Muhammad Ali dropped his "no Viet Cong ever called me n-----" line in '66, anti-war activism was a huge aspect of the '68 election (especially the Democratic National Convention), etc. This wasn't just a youth movement, either: half of Americans viewed the war as a mistake by July '67.
The causation probably ran the other way -- opposition to the war was so widespread by '71 that it reached people in positions high enough to leak meaningful documents.