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Through 2024, US public support for a false and destructive foreign policy has been driven by a false claim hiding the real reason for the US-Viet Nam War. In Foreign Policy Fault Line 1619–2024, with US in Viet Nam 1865–1975 (publication set for late April or early May 2025), this author shows that reason, and that US leaders, escaping blame for it, have continued around the globe to pursue business, often by force.
Virtually 100 percent of the US public believes the ludicrously false claim that the US entered Viet Nam in 1954, presented as a noble effort to fight communism. So, many midrange voters falsely think US foreign policy has continued for a noble purpose.
The truth, far from noble, is that US businesses operated in Viet Nam during 1865–1954, enabled by brutal French force. That is proven conclusively by thousands of reports filed by US State Dept consuls in Viet Nam from 1889 into 1954. These reports are the basis of two recent books by Southeast Asia veteran (1974–75) Brian Roesch.
Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise : 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam (2020) reveals that US leaders attacked to continue the early period of US business, That was the real reason for the US-Viet Nam War.
Virtually 100 percent of US voters believe the equally ludicrous false claim that a nation existed called North Viet Nam. Supposedly, US soldiers fought it. But the 1954 Geneva Accords left Viet Nam as one country, from the northern border with China to the southern tip in the sea.
Foreign Policy Fault Line 1619–2024, with US in Viet Nam 1865–1975 (publication set for late April or early May 2025) shows how that false claim has enabled US leaders to continue around pursue business worldwide, often by force.
Photo 1 shows the US military training soldiers in Niger, for control of Niger resources for Western profit. Under it, France paid 1/250 of the value of Niger uranium. So, Niger kicked the US out in 2024.
Much of the rice harvested from fields such as in Photo 2 was subjected to colonial thefts by France. By the late 1860s, US ships loaded rice cargoes in Viet Nam for transport to other countries. By the 1880s, widespread malnutrition hit Viet Nam. The malnourishment persisted the entire colonial period. So, the overwhelming majority angered. That makes the 1960s US-Viet Nam War easy to understand.
But the false claim leads six reasons for the public failure to find the real reason for that war.
Into 2025, BRICS and other blocs have reacted by seeking to reduce trade with the US. Moreover, local people sometimes fight back. US leaders mislabel them as terrorists. And much of the US public remains fooled by the false claim that ludicrously says the US entered Viet Nam in 1954.
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Photo 1. After attacking Viet Nam during 1954–1975, US leaders continued a similar policy worldwide. They pursued business expansion and access to resources, often by force. This 2007 photo shows the US training soldiers in Niger. US “security” in that nation enabled France, a US ally, to take Niger minerals at low cost. Much of Niger lived in poverty. Public domain photo 2007, Wikipedia: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Larson.
From 1865 onward, much of Viet Nam’s rice, grown in fields like shown here, was stolen by French colonials and sent overseas, some on US ships. The rice supported growth of the French and US economies. Widespread malnutrition struck Viet Nam in the 1880s. It lasted through the entire colonial period. Photo by Kieran Barry (2021).