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Vietnam isn’t a code for understanding every conflict. North Vietnam had two things Iran doesn’t: a superpower pumping in unlimited weapons and money, and a population willing to absorb catastrophic losses for decades. Iran has neither.Vegas » 18 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Everything you said about Iran applied to North Vietnam during the Vietnam war. We were there fighting for over 10 years. We won almost every battle. However, we called it quits because though we were winning the battles, we weren't winning the war. Consequently, North Vietnam won.
The U.S. didn’t leave Vietnam because Hanoi “out‑strategized” us, we left because it was a guerrilla war in someone else’s backyard with no strategic payoff. Iran isn’t a jungle insurgency. It’s a state with fixed infrastructure, mapped bases, limited industry, and an economy that collapses the moment a real war starts.
Trying to compare Iran to North Vietnam is like comparing a regional power with a fragile economy to a nation backed by the Soviet Union and China at the height of the Cold War. It just doesn’t translate.
