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POOR STUPID MHz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN WAS Viet Nam ever a member of NATO??????????????????????????????
France lost the war and the US stepped in until they got the poppy fields back. Next you will be saying the poppy fields in Afghanistan are not making the same players a lot of money. France did not have the manpower or the money. Shows what the life of a NATO soldier is really worth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France–Asia_relations#Decolonization_and_modern_collaboration
Decolonization and modern collaboration
A
French Foreign Legion unit patrols in a Communist-controlled area during the
Indochina War.
The 20th century was marked by the French difficulties during
World War II, and the general
decolonization that followed. In particular, the
Indochina War (1946–1954) marked the end of French military presence in southeast Asia.
[80]
Since then, contacts have resumed, and France has remained a strong economic partner to Asian countries. French exports include
nuclear power technologies, advanced transportation technologies such as
Airbus or
TGV, food products, and consumer industries. Asia in turn finds in France a receptive market for its manufactured goods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War
The
First Indochina War (generally known as the
Indochina War in
France, and as the
Anti-French Resistance War in
Vietnam) began in
French Indochina on 19 December 1946, and lasted until 20 July 1954. Fighting between French forces and their
Viet Minh opponents in the south dated from September 1945. The conflict pitted a range of forces, including the
French Union's
French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by
France and supported by
Bảo Đại's
Vietnamese National Army against the Viet Minh,
[30] led by
Ho Chi Minh[31] and the
People's Army of Vietnam led by
Vo Nguyen Giap.
[32] Most of the fighting took place in
Tonkin in northern Vietnam,
[33] although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina
protectorates of
Laos and
Cambodia.
