In 2021, the large-scale and hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, due to the large number of people fleeing and the interference of the Afghan people, resulting in the helicopter being unable to take off. This scenario also occurred in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam.
The United States is known as the world's largest power because during World War I and World War II, its armed forces and economic strength were among the best, and even after the end of World War II, the United States was still ambitious to occupy Vietnam. Vietnam's special geographical location, located in southeast Asia, bordering China's Guangxi and Yunnan in the north, also means that conquering Vietnam, which was weak at that time, can further threaten China's territory. In this particular context, the Vietnam War was a hit, but it is strange that the country that was hit the hardest was not the United States, nor Vietnam, which has not yet been able to rise.
No man is content
The peak period of the United States in both armed forces and economy was the period of World War II, when the United States took advantage of the world war, made a lot of war money, sold armed equipment and the most devastating atomic bombs to many countries at that time, and the strength of the Economic Strength of the United States at that time also trained many excellent scientists, and the research and development results of these scientists were eventually applied to the world war, which made the United States one of the countries with great say in the world at that time.
At that time, the United States ranked first in the world in terms of gold reserves, reaching a maximum of 70%, basically controlling western European countries, so the United States was far ahead at that time. But the more powerful it is, the more greedy it is, and the ambition of the United States to rule the world by force is well known, and even after the end of World War II, it is still a thief who wants to occupy more territory.
Stealing chicken does not make it into erosion of rice
After World War II, the first to be selected by the United States was Vietnam, which occupies a small area and is weak in both economy and armed forces. Coupled with Vietnam's border with China, after the failure of Japan's invasion of China, it is wisest to make a breakthrough from Vietnam.
In the 1950s and 1970s, the United States had been attacking Vietnam for nearly two decades, and the Vietnam War became the largest local war in the world after World War II, but the outcome of the war did not end in the success of either side, but ended in the defeat of the United States to withdraw troops. In 1975, U.S. troops withdrew from Saigon, Vietnam, ending a nearly two-decade-long war.
Why did the giant who once stood on the spire suddenly fall into a hasty evacuation?
The reason is that the war was too long, and the United States consumed a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources in the Vietnam War, and the United States killed nearly 58,000 soldiers and lost more than 8,000 fighters. The United States experienced a major economic crisis in 1974 and 1975, which left the economy of the war without support at that time, which was one of the main reasons why the United States was unable to continue the war.
The city gate caught fire, affecting the pond fish
Originally, the United States attacked Vietnam, and there should be only one unfortunate Vietnam, but Laos next to it was not spared. In order to cut off the assistance to Vietnam from Vietnam's neighbor Laos, the United States also launched an armed attack on Laos when it launched its occupation of Vietnam.
According to US media reports, the United States has dropped 260 million bombs on Laos, and more than 8,000 have not been excavated to this day, and the Lao people live in fear every day, which also makes the Lao economy unable to develop normally, compared with Vietnam, Laos is the biggest victim of this war. The victims of any war are the masses of the people, and we are glad that we grew up in a prosperous and powerful country, do not forget the national shame, and our generation is self-reliant!