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433 - What Would South Vietnam Look Like Without U.S. Intervention? Prof. Sean Fear
Historian and professor Sean Fear joins Kenneth to discuss the complexities of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and how it shaped the war’s outcome. Together, they revisit moments and ask a provocative question: What if South Vietnam had been better funded, structured, and supported? Could history have unfolded differently? This conversation offers a nuanced take on counterfactual history, American foreign policy, and the often-overlooked perspectives of Vietnamese actors in a war too often told from the outside in.
Dr. Sean Fear is a Lecturer in International History at the University of…
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