Into 2024, US government misleads the public by falsely claiming that the US entered Viet Nam in 1954 to fight communism. But US businesses and consuls operated in Viet Nam during 1889–1954, enabled by French invasion violence. Reports long silent in the National Archives reveal that.

US leaders issued a 1943 report calling for the West to attack Viet Nam to keep it in “Colonial Relationships.” But Viet Nam defeated the French in 1954. US leaders quickly attacked. They killed “large numbers” by early 1955—a State Dept telegram says. So, attacking to keep the Colonial Relationship of the early business was the real reason for the US-Viet Nam war during 1954–75.

Viet Nam obviously played a huge role in these events. For, Viet Nam had a 2,000-year history of repelling all invaders from larger countries. Keeping that tradition, virtually all of Viet Nam’s 24 million people rallied to defeat France in a 1945–54 war.

The ensuing 1954 Geneva Accords recognized that Viet Nam was one country. The Accords gave France a duty to temporarily administer the southern half until 1956 elections.

A simple reading of the Accords shows that no one else had any right to govern.

The false claim by US leaders hides a foreign policy of resource control by force, from the Viet Nam era into today.

Into 2024, about 150,000 children (2021 estimate) are living with birth defects caused by Agent Orange/dioxin/poison sprayed during 1961–71 under orders by US civilian leaders. But in 1959, the US proved that dioxin kills or causes severe internal disease of a kind known to have killed as early as in 1935.