they would have to stand down if americans put enough artillery bases on the mountain tops on the ho chi minh trail. that would have at least pulled them out of the conflict. it could have been temporary. in years they could have started up again. i want your opinion on that. do you think -- guest: those are very good questions. the artillery on the mountaintops. i worked in the vietnamese archives for almost 45 years. i go to hanoi almost every year and dig through those archives. i have never seen anything about artillery being something, a major concern for the vietnamese communist authorities. what was a concern was the bombing. the american bombing of northern vietnam. so, the continued presence of the air force could have changed things, but only momentarily. american involvement in the assassination of the south vietnamese president in 1963, the americans aren't involved. this is a coup carried out by his own generals. supported by the united states. it is problematic to say that the u.s. was behind the coup. diem's own detractors were behind it, but it was helpful to know that once di

ho chi minh has watched as america has spoken of peace and built up its forces, and now he has surely heard the increasing international rumors of american plans for an invasion of the north. he knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy. perhaps only his sense of humor and of irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation of the world speaking of agession as it drops thousands of bombs on poor, weak nation more than 8,000 miles away from its shores. at this point, i should make it clear that while i have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless in vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called "enemy," i am as deeply concerned abouour own trps there as anything else, for it occurs to me at what we are submitting them to in vietnam is notimply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. we are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after the short period there that none of the things we claim to be figh

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people are behind us the experience of the comintern look at the cultivation of the elite who was ho chi minhmething eric connecker deng xiaoming people who in history are so west sorry for expression in panama. these are the people who were raised by moscow, the great people in the history of mankind. we are still on this heritage somewhere going. i believe that it is necessary to raise this flag. russia, having launched a special operation in ukraine, does not encroach on ukrainian statehood there. as some try to imagine, russia encroached on an unjust world, which is based on unfair rules, and here with us the majority of humanity is convinced of this. we are their international coalition. we can break it down from the inside, you understand, if we systematically deal with this, bravo agrees, here i will say my position very simply, very clearly. it's almost a year since the anniversary. how did this operation or a large-scale military conflict between ukraine and russia began, of course, ukraine is supported by western countries and allies. basically. ukraine mainly supports with money. i

however, the ho chi minh trail is the name of the path by which the viet cong partisans transfer reservesons to the pro-american south, turns out to be invulnerable to uncle's raids. sam needs reinforcements on the ground. among one and a half million conscripts there was unp. who are you looking for you or smith are childhood friends of the baby boomer generation. children of winners whose fathers certainly did not want them to be on the side of the aggressor, both were taken from their native chicago to the marine corps. one returned the second. no, i saw. how my friends were killed. i saw my friend commit suicide. we were at the base chilin dani he blew himself up he was only 20. i had a feeling that he didn't want to go there. i have bad memories of this. here is the bridge. what is the scariest memory of the vietnam war for you? they set everything on fire, blew it up and stuff like that . i was scared, but we did the same thing at the peak of the apocalypse one time we bombed one height for 12 hours, when it was over, i went up there, we did not find any of them, not a single stinki

a confession, saying that he is a war criminal, that america needs to get out north vietnam and ho chi minh is the man. all right. so you're jim stuck in, remember the ground when you got shot down? do you lost? except, your honor and your to survive. so all you have left is your honor and, your ability to control what comes out of your mouth and what write all you have left. and there in that room, you make the choice of signing this confession. all right? it's a rabbit. says, come on, we please sign this confession. my boss wanted me to get this confession from you. just please. i got jobs i need to do. just help out. no one's going to read this thing. just. just sign it. but again, you have nothing but your name and your honor, and so you're not going sign this or have this. all right? the rabbit calls him a guy that was nicknamed pig. i think i was kind of short stocky guy. and he comes rabbit puts him socks on ground, puts you on the ground and your legs are out in front of you. your ankles are in irons. at this point. hey, guys, they're the cav. apply a little extra pressure. so he be

lumpy skin disease in malaysia and water buffalo as a child has got whooping cough in in ho chi minh city to curate these things and. she goes back to her desk and somebody is telling her, hey, there's a strange thing going on in wuhan china. there are people with a respiratory and they've been showing up at hospitals and there's more than a few of them. and knows what it is. oh, okay. so starts talking by email to her sources around the world. can i get a second source on this? can i get some information? she works on that for a couple hours and she posts one of the very earliest messages late on december 30/30 about atypical in wuhan, china and then gets up the next day. it's new year's eve day relaxes little bit goes to dinner again that night with her husband to a particular cafe they like in this little town in new york on long island and gets a phone in the middle of dinner at right is her food is about come and it's peter daszak of the eco health alliance you may recognize his name. he's been much attacked he's been much in in this story because ecohealth alliance is an organi

they would have to stand down if americans put enough artillery bases on the mountain tops on the ho chi minhld have at least pulled them out of the conflict. it could have been temporary. in years they could have started up again. i want your opinion on that. do you think -- guest: those are very good questions. the artillery on the mountaintops. i worked in the vietnamese archives for almost 45 years. i go to hanoi almost every year and dig through those archives. i have never seen anything about artillery being something, a major concern for the vietnamese communist authorities. what was a concern was the bombing. the american bombing of northern vietnam. so, the continued presence of the air force could have changed things, but only momentarily. american involvement in the assassination of the south vietnamese president in 1963, the americans aren't involved. this is a coup carried out by his own generals. supported by the united states. it is problematic to say that the u.s. was behind the coup. diem's own detractors were behind it, but it was helpful to know that once diem was overthrow

they would have to stand down if americans put enough artillery bases on the mountain tops on the ho chi minhld have at least pulled them out of the conflict. it could have been temporary. in years they could have started up again. i want your opinion on that. do you think -- guest: those are very good questions. the artillery on the mountaintops. i worked in the vietnamese archives for almost 45 years. i go to hanoi almost every year and dig through those archives. i have never seen anything about artillery being something, a major concern for the vietnamese communist authorities. what was a concern was the bombing. the american bombing of northern vietnam. so, the continued presence of the air force could have changed things, but only momentarily. american involvement in the assassination of the south vietnamese president in 1963, the americans aren't involved. this is a coup carried out by his own generals. supported by the united states. it is problematic to say that the u.s. was behind the coup. diem's own detractors were behind it, but it was helpful to know that once diem was overthrow

however, the ho chi minh trail is the name given to the path by which the viet cong partisans transfert turns out that they are invulnerable to uncle's raids. sam needs reinforcements on the ground. among the one and a half million conscripts , there was also the unp. who are you looking for willie smith friends childhood generation of baby boomers. children of winners whose fathers certainly did not want them to be on the side of the aggressor, both were taken from their native chicago to the marine corps. one returned the second. no, i saw. how my friends were killed. i saw my friend commit suicide. we were at the base. chilin deyene. he blew himself up he was only 20. i had a feeling that he didn't want to go there. i have bad memories of this. bridge what is the scariest memory of the vietnam war for you? honestly and stuff like that. i was scared, but we did the same. in connection with the map, he went to vietnam in the sixty-eighth at the peak. apocalypse love the smell of napalm in the morning once we bombed one height 12 hours when it was all over. i went up there, we did not

people are behind us the experience of the comintern look at the cultivation of the elite, who was ho chi minh by moscow, the great people in the history of mankind. we are still on this heritage somewhere going. i believe that it is necessary to raise this flag. russia, having launched a special operation in ukraine, does not encroach on the ukrainian state there. as some try to imagine, russia encroached on an unjust world, which is based on unfair rules, and here we are the majority of humanity, therefore i am convinced. we this their international ring. we can ruin it from the inside, you know, if we deal with this systematic, here. i will state my position very simply very clearly. it's almost a year since the anniversary. how did this operation or large-scale military the conflict between ukraine and russia, of course , ukraine is supported by western countries and allies. mostly. ukraine mainly supports with money. i’ll even say that according to official data, as of january 20, 25, there is official information that ukraine received more than four and a billion dollars and for the time

visible, led by ho chi minh city, fought for 30 years more than 30 years first with the japanese occupiersthe right to celebrate, and here the date, as the fiftieth anniversary of the great victory in their great war. well, we're running a special military operation. uh, strategic initiatives, as we have seen all the last days in our hands , yuri ivanovich podlyako is monitoring the progress of the operation. ivanovich good afternoon, i have a word for you, good afternoon. yes , indeed, our initiative is astronomical, and the enemy also recognizes this; moreover, he already, well, in his open sources and western media, it is said that the ukrainian armed forces are up to springs are absolutely incapable of serious offensive actions on kia and the main task that the forest faces today is to hold the line of contact without major defeats in general, so that, as they very much hope, thanks to the equipment that the west wants to provide to the ukrainian armed forces. they will be able to break something this spring. well, our task, respectively, is not to let them do this and to do it in the