ChineseTiger1986
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You can't blame Vietnam for siding with the Soviet, Soviet was a superpower with a military might but Vietnam Chess move backfire, they follow the bankrupt Soviet union and eventually left out in the cold with S.U collpased and file bankrupcy.
The US of the 1970s was badly hurt after the Vietnam War, while USSR didn't seize this opportunity to completely bury the wounded USA.
They also made another two mistakes:
1. To push China into the US side. During the Vietnam War, both PRC and USSR have helped to defend North Vietnam against USA. We became the brother in arms again. We thought this should be a good opportunity to rebuild the broken relationship with USSR since the Khrushchev era. But Brezhnev's imperial chauvinism was even more rude than Khrushchev's, they refused unless PRC accepted to submit them as a vassal state again. But we always wanted to become their partner, not their slave. Meanwhile Brezhnev's regime kept harassing China's fishermen on the border, then we fought back in 1969. Afterward, they threatened to nuke us. PRC has been pushed into the corner, we had no choice but to open our diplomatic relationship with the US. Meanwhile the US also needed to buildup a relationship with China in order to compensate its loss in the Vietnam War.
2. To start the war on Afghanistan. USSR obviously didn't learn the mistakes that the US made during the Vietnam War. With a weaker economy, they were destined to fail with so many foreign powers playing the proxy war against them during the battlefield in Afghanistan.
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