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"Got defeated by a bunch of rice farmers lmao" is the worst expression of American arrogance. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Did you know.... there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a farmer?

The best soldiers are often from farming backgrounds. Best athletes too.

It would've been embarrassing for the Vietnamese if they'd been defeated by a bunch of waiters lmao

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[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A majority of the PAVN and NLF leadership and officers were old veterans who previously fought Japanese occupation during WWII, and French occupation during the 1950s. To say that they were all just plucky civilians who took up arms to fight the Americans is inaccurate. Many of them were already experienced soldiers.

Then a few years later they liberated Cambodia and fought off an attempted occupation by China in 1979.

Vietnam was a force to be reckoned with well before the US tried to get its claws in it.