and when the was ended the USA did not pay one single dollar of the 2 billion dollars it had promised in reparations and forced Vietnam into an economic isolation that pales alongside what they also did to Cuba.

If it wasnt for the fact that the VN dislike the Chinese so much the actions after the war of the USA would have been enough to push them straight into Mao's iron rice bowl of economic hegemony in the 'Indo-Pacific' region