Putin - The Ho Chi Minh of Russia?

 

"First, compare Russia to Vietnam of fifty years ago.

• Vietnam was divided into North and South by the West, like the USSR was divided into Ukraine and Russia by the West.
• North Vietnam became independent; Russia became independent;
• South Vietnam remained under occupation, Ukraine remained under Western occupation.
• People of South Vietnam rose against their US-installed government and North Vietnam certainly supported their struggle.
• The US presented the war as “North Vietnamese aggression”, but North and South Vietnam weren’t two independent  states; this was one state artificially separated by the West.
• Likewise, the US presents now the war in Ukraine as “Russian intervention”, but Russia and Ukraine aren’t two fully independent countries; they are rather two halves of one country, in the eyes of Russians and Ukrainians. In their view, people of the Ukraine rose against the US-installed government, and independent Russia had to support their struggle.

"People of my generation remember as the US killed millions of Vietnamese people, bombed their cities and ruined their nature – under the banner of “resisting North Vietnamese aggression” but it ended by unification of Vietnam. Poroshenko (or Zelenskyy - ed.) is a Ngo Dinh Diem of the Ukraine, Putin is an unlikely Ho Chi Minh of Russia."

 

-------Israel Shamir, "The Guns of August II," www.israelshamir.net/English/GunsAugust-2.htm