Vietnam . . . 50 Years Later (G&R 205)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Jan 18, 2023 · 1h 12m

On January 27th, 1973 the U.S. signed a peace treaty that ended its war in Vietnam so Scott and Scott and Bob got together to discuss the last stages of the war, the peace treaty, and some of the lessons and legacies of Vietnam.

The last phase of the war is not discussed as much as the earlier period, so we went into some detail about the last big battles of the war like the Easter Offensive. We discussed the background to negotiations before 1972 and the ways in which Kissinger and Nixon engaged in deceptive diplomacy--reneging on agreements and actually escalating the war. We also corrected…