Nixon and Dulles wanted to Nuke North Vietnam.

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3. Another ugly facet of imperialism

The Japanese army had scarcely departed before corporatists and other pseudo-fascists were trying to prop up the previous colonial regime. Blind to the possibilities, Ho Chi Minh was dismissed out-of-hand for espousing socialist ideas in a post-war Indochina. When those overtures failed, he went full commie and got aid from the Soviet Union. Other opportunities were missed during the so-called Cold War, which amounts to clashing of empires.