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In other words, the unjust war of the Vietnam War, the negative impact on the United States is not generally large, even the Yankees themselves did not expect that such a humble Vietnam, it is so difficult to fight, a war fought for 20 years, deeply involved in it, and finally had to end the war in ashes.
The Vietnam War was arguably the largest war in the United States since World War II, and the troops, armaments, and soldiers involved were the largest, and even so, they ultimately lost miserably.
Objectively proved that the outbreak of the Vietnam War was the most wrong war in the history of the United States, which not only made their losses extremely great, but also made the domestic people highly war-weary, but also put them at a disadvantage in the "US-Soviet hegemony".
Subsequently, an economic crisis broke out in the United States, and according to incomplete statistics, this crisis caused the United States to stagnate the economy for a long time.
With regard to the Vietnam War, the Americans also began to realize their strategic mistakes, and since then, the United States has not launched a large-scale war, although there have been cases of troops being transferred to the field, but they do not dare to easily launch large-scale conflicts. So why did the United States start the Vietnam War in the first place?
The united States and Vietnam have a huge difference in strength, and on the surface there is no connection, and the reason why the United States wants to fight the Vietnam War is mainly because of the Soviet-American relationship - the Cold War.
After the end of World War II, the domestic situation in Vietnam was complicated and the situation was antagonistic, including the "pro-Soviet faction" who believed in "red". After the war, Vietnam's pro-Soviet development was rapid, and the United States was very wary of this, because there was a previous example of China, which formed a Sino-Soviet alliance, which made the United States feel uneasy (the interests of the Asia-Pacific region), and the United States needed to support a strong force in the Asia-Pacific region to fight against the "red".
In the American blueprint, they do not want their enemies to have any power and development in the Asia-Pacific region, and in order to curb the spread of red, the United States must have its own forces to resist the Soviet Union.
Vietnam was america's best goal, and south Vietnam was very close to the United States, and they always wanted to seize north Vietnamese power and rule all of Vietnam. Vietnam's geographical location is very special, for the United States, if it takes Vietnam, then the control of Southeast Asia is just around the corner. The United States could think of it, and the Soviet Union naturally thought of it, so the Soviet Union provided all kinds of assistance to North Vietnam against South Vietnam, and the United States behind it.
As we all know, in the late period of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought in the Asian region, and both sides sought a lot of private interests by virtue of their powerful war machines, the United States occupied Japan, and South Korea built an "Asian empire" and wanted to use this as a springboard to gradually control the entire Asia-Pacific region.
The "red" countries such as China and the Soviet Union also considered it in this way, and they also wanted to extend their forces to the Asia-Pacific region and then fish for more oil and water, and at the same time, the Soviet Union also hoped to suppress the development of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region.
However, the United States and the Soviet Union took different approaches to the Vietnam War, with the United States directly participating in the war because it was he who provoked and invested heavy troops and a large amount of armaments and materials; the Soviet Union was relatively "euphemistic", avoiding its sharp edge, choosing to "watch the fire from the other side", secretly assisting North Vietnam and providing a large amount of military supplies.
Why, then, did the United States, on the premise that the Soviet Union did not enter the war, began to invest large forces in war against Vietnam? In fact, the reason why the United States adopts such a strategy is because it has a certain relationship with its domestic situation.
After World War II, although the United States rose, but also has been in the post-war recovery period, although much stronger than other countries, but the overall situation is not very good, development has been sluggish, then they want to launch a war, divert domestic attention, let the United States "switch" resources to war.
With the outbreak of the Vietnam War, the United States was stimulated by the war, which promoted the brief development of the domestic economy. For those big capitalists, the war is their printing press, and the more fierce the fight, the more they earn the "windfall."
It is true that at the beginning of the Vietnam War, the domestic development of the United States turned against the trend, but it was not yet a large-scale war, but when the war made many capitalists full of money, they were still not satisfied, and some "fanatics" hoped that the war would be further expanded to earn more money.
Since the victory in World War II, the Yankees have been overconfident in their country's overall strength, believing that as long as there is no direct conflict with the Soviet Side, they should be able to solve the vietnam war in a short period of time with their own efforts and a large amount of military force. However, people are not as good as heaven, and what the Yankees did not expect was that they stole chickens and did not become erosion of rice, not only did not achieve their purpose, but they were also dragged into the quagmire of war, falling deeper and deeper.
The Vietnam War lasted for 20 years, the US economy continued to be sluggish, the domestic people's life was not good, war-weariness was high, and they began to protest the war non-stop, and the US authorities were forced by pressure from all sides to declare defeat to the outside world. Although this war was inevitable, if the Yankees had not launched this "unjust" war, they would certainly not have easily fallen behind the Soviet Union during the "Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union".
References for this article: "Global General History", "Vietnam War", "The Struggle for Hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union - Cold War", "Four Major Wars after World War II - Vietnam War", "CNKI Related Literature - Vietnam after World War II", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Vietnam War, Soviet-American Cold War, Soviet-American Game, Vietnam-Soviet-Soviet Relations"