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During the midterm election campaign, Trump claimed that the United States could win the Vietnam War within a week, and mentioned the war in Afghanistan. However, he was immediately criticized for misrepresenting historical facts of Ho Chi Minh City, North Vietnam, and the US military.
President of the United Statestrump Existencemidterm elections On the campaign trail he criticized the strategic mistakes of the previous US government and claimed that he could win the Vietnam War within a week. However, the content of his speech was full of fallacies, and netizens pointed it out and slapped him in the face.
India Today reported that Trump said at a rally in Iowa on the 1st, “(We) could have won the Vietnam War in a week.” “They dropped that shit in the jungle: Agent Orange (Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide used by the US military during the Vietnam War)! Instead of directly attacking Ho Chi Minh City and other cities.” Apart from this, Trump also claimed that he can resolve the war in Afghanistan within a week.
However, Trump’s statement was immediately criticized for containing factual misconceptions. Critics pointed out that Ho Chi Minh City, then known as Saigon, was the capital of US ally South Vietnam; Hanoi was the capital of enemy North Vietnam. During the war the US military also directly attacked North Vietnam and conducted a regional bombing campaign called “Operation Rolling Thunder” from 1965 to 1968.
As the video went viral, a netizen said, “Huh? So he wants to bomb the South Vietnamese headquarters? In that case, I think the war will be over within a week.”
Another netizen said, “Don’t you know that Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon at the time and was ruled by the South Vietnamese regime? There were even American troops stationed there.”
This is not the first time Trump has made such comments. He had also said about one and a half years ago that he could win the Vietnam War in three or four months.
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He claimed that the United States could have won the Vietnam War within a week, and criticized the strategic mistakes of the previous government, believing that if stronger direct attack methods had been adopted, the war would have ended sooner.
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Because the Ho Chi Minh City he referred to was actually Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and not the enemy capital; The capital of North Vietnam was Hanoi. The US military also conducted Operation Rolling Thunder to bomb North Vietnam from 1965 to 1968.
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Many netizens directly pointed out that he was not familiar with the historical facts of the Vietnam War, and even asked him whether he wanted to bomb the South Vietnamese headquarters. He also reminded that Saigon was ruled by South Vietnam and American troops were stationed there, thinking that his statement was untenable.
