On January 23, 1973, in Paris, after 5 years of negotiations (ours have been ongoing since 2014, in case anyone has forgotten), a lasting peace was signed, ending the Vietnam War.
The Paris Peace Accords were signed by: the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, representing the South Vietnamese communists.
The main “stars” of the negotiations regarding the agreement were the then-U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and the member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of North Vietnam, Le Duc Tho. Both were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 (but Le Duc Tho refused to accept it).
Just twenty-seven months after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, South Vietnam would disappear from the political map of the world as a result of a massive North Vietnamese offensive, and millions of Vietnamese would be killed and sent to communist camps similar to the Gulag. On July 2, 1976, after 22 years of division, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam would be “restored.”
This turn of events would not be a surprise for the signatories of the Paris Peace Accords but would be an already well-known scenario, the inevitability of which they all recognized, except for the representatives of South Vietnam.
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“What was the White House’s strategy for exiting the war? To extract the U.S. from the Vietnam quagmire, shift the responsibility for events onto the ‘friends from Saigon,’ while preserving the face of the superpower and increasing Nixon’s chances for re-election in November 1972.
This became known many years later thanks to the release of the 2004 transcripts of the tape recordings, which, with Nixon and Kissinger’s consent, were made in the Oval Office ‘for history.’ From these conversations, it is clear that Washington had no illusions about the viability of Saigon after the peace agreement with North Vietnam. The goal was simply to ensure that the U.S. could distance itself from the epicenter of the future explosion in time.”
Trump and Witkoff – this duo, in terms of cynicism and pragmatism, will outdo the herbivorous Nixon and Kissinger. While Nixon and Kissinger simply fled from South Vietnam, trying to make sure that Americans and the whole world didn’t notice, today’s “masters of quick deals,” fleeing from Ukraine, are also trying to “grab some junk,” quickly sorting through “rare-earth metals,” “minerals,” or “nuclear power plants.” Putin’s true goal in this war is the disappearance of Ukraine from the political map of the world (and this has been known with certainty in Washington for a long time, make no mistake).
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