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1979 was a proxy war that had nothing to do with Vietnam.
Just like the current Ukraine war has nothing to do with Ukraine itself but a proxy war between Russia and USA using Ukrainians as guerrilla lab rats.
Viets were lab rats for the Soviet Union in its rivalry with China. Soviets provided weapons, they provided intelligence and training to Viet guerrillas to act on behalf of the Soviet Union to fight China. Just like US used Afghans as lab rats by providing the taliban weapons, intelligence and training to fight the battle for the US.
If Afghans are so tough why can't they fight and defeat the US now? Because nobody is providing them weapons, nobody is providing them intelligence and nobody is providing them training. So they have to fight with what they have and they have nothing to fight and the US just dismantled them like a hot knife through butter.
1979 war was a proxy war and it had absolutely nothing to do with the ability of Vietnamese. It was all the Soviet Union that did the work.
Afghans and Viets have that in common. 2 backward countries used as mere proxies.
Sino-Vietnam war 1979 is nothing to do with Chinese and Vietnamese. There is conflict of USA and Soviet Union.