Putin seeks Ukraine troop deployment (approval from Russian parliament)

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36. There's a common fiction. Or more.

Tet was a disaster for the US and a great victory (on the battlefield) for the North. So the story goes.

The photos of the evacuation of the US embassy are actually photographs of the Americans evacuating Saigon, for which the US continued to fight until Saigon fell. Some like to believe.

It was a geopolitical defeat as another country, supporting the North, gained the upper hand. It was a defeat on the battlefield of the press. It was a defeat when the US failed to uphold a treaty that had been signed the previous year.

It's like the embarrassment of the "boat people" and the reeducation camps. The good guys could never be responsible for that so all the boat people had to be CIA spies or wealthy oppressors; and for a long time I the reeducation camps were re-imagined as "refugee camps" or some such.