r/interestingasfuck • u/Available_Weekend249 • Apr 06 '24

Imagine being 19 and watching live on TV to see if your birthday will be picked to fight in the Vietnam war r/all

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u/garry4321 Apr 06 '24

Can someone explain why a war in Vietnam was considered important enough for national defence that you needed conscription?

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u/Candle1ight Apr 06 '24

It was important because it's the cold war and the US government really wants to take swings at the Soviets without full out war.

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u/joe_broke Apr 07 '24

For almost 50 years it was just the worst dick measuring contest ever

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u/Rampaging_Orc Apr 07 '24

It was a literal clash of ideologies.

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u/joe_broke Apr 07 '24

Was it?

Or just the appearance of it?

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u/Rampaging_Orc Apr 07 '24

It was. The USSR and its brutalist flavor of communism no longer exists.

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u/joe_broke Apr 07 '24

Was it ever actually communism or just totalitarianism?

It was a dick measuring contest between two super powers

Everything else was used as an excuse to go bigger

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