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Turbineguy

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10. We are always blaming ourselves but

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 30, 2025, 03:45 PM

Apr 30

if Ho Chi Min had not gone to the communists, the US would have helped them kick the French out and become an independent country.

The US was shutting down European colonialism.

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