I wonder what the alternate timeline is like where Ho Chi Minh’s letters to President Truman were properly delivered. The US could have sided with Vietnam, and the second half of the 20th century would have looked so, so different.
I imagine Eisenhower’s very ‘red-scare’ administration still would’ve ended up putting the dominoes in motion, even assuming the letters were enough to keep Truman on the side of anti-colonialism.
I wonder what the alternate timeline is like where Ho Chi Minh’s letters to President Truman were properly delivered. The US could have sided with Vietnam, and the second half of the 20th century would have looked so, so different.
I imagine Eisenhower’s very ‘red-scare’ administration still would’ve ended up putting the dominoes in motion, even assuming the letters were enough to keep Truman on the side of anti-colonialism.