Viet Nam Celebration Parade Places Worldwide Truth Question to US Public

Brian D. Roesch, from Viet Nam, May 7, 2025

On April 30, 2025, the 50^th anniversary of Viet Nam’s 1975 victory over the US, the nation’s parade before a large international and domestic audience reaffirmed its well-earned, high stature in the world today. At the parade, Viet Nam’s General Secretary, To Lam, spoke to attending international dignitaries, to citizens of Viet Nam, and to the world. He said that Viet Nam has a Strategic Partnership with the US. He also said the war was an imperial invasion by the US (video Viet language, 4:04–5:21 invasion; 12:47–12:57 partnership). That simple truth is placed before the world. So, it puts a question on the table: Will the US public require US leaders to admit the truth, that it was an imperial invasion?

The US public has access to newly found documents in the US that provide strong proof of an imperial purpose. A succinct statement of facts showing it was an imperial invasion appears in this writer’s website Welcome page.

Briefly, those facts and more include: During 1865–1954, US businesses operated in Viet Nam, enabled by French invasion force. In 1954, Viet Nam defeated that French invasion. By 1955, US leaders ordered an attack. They were trying to continue the early business by force. That was the real reason for the US-Viet Nam War. The first attacks were by a proxy force. A declassified telegram dated Feb 1, 1955 says that this army, in contacts with civilians, killed “large numbers,” as shown in the writer’s books.

The early decades of US business enabled by force are part of extensive proof that fighting off communism, while a factor for the US, was only a factor in the sense of a bank robber fighting off other bank robbers in order to continue taking money from the bank by force. The extensive proof is detailed in this writers’ two books. (See briandroesch.com Welcome page)

Six reasons

For six reasons, the US public has long failed to unearth the facts of the 1865–1954 US business enabled by French invasion force, and many more facts, showing that the war was a US imperial attack. The failure is noteworthy. For, many US soldiers returned from Viet Nam angry, demanding to be told the truth. The public failure to support their well-earned pleas points to other, deep-rooted matters in US society.

Six reasons for the US public’s failure to dig enough to find the truth are:

1. The leaders’ false claim of a 1954 entry to fight communism has fooled virtually the entire public. The falsity finds fertile ground in people’s wish to be patriotic. Moreover, the falsity appears pervasively in US high schools, colleges, books, websites, and public forums. What US reader, student, or forum attendee has heard of the 1865–1954 US business presence in Viet Nam, enabled by force?

2. In the 1940s, in the course of targeting Viet Nam for attack in a worldwide plan (see onthat page, “smoking guns”) leaders said, “the whole plan would be ‘ditched’ if it became generally known that the State Department is working in collaboration with any outside group.” The public has remained “ditched” from its democratic role of guiding the general direction of foreign policy.

3. Many in the public have felt a sense of entitlement to work their jobs, raise their families, and pursue their personal happiness, without having to devote time and effort to foreign policy.

4. Virile US racism meant that many people saw nothing wrong in dominating a nation of yellow and brown people.

5. So-called “American Exceptionalism,” like so-called Aryan Supremacy” in Nazi Germany, is a false concept that posits that America is superior, so other countries do not deserve equal consideration.

6. “My country, right or wrong,” is a saying that asserts that it is acceptable to steal and murder overseas.

Because of those currents of thought, no significant civilian movement has discovered the real proof of the US leaders’ fault in attacking Viet Nam.

Free of blame for the real reason, US leaders have long continued pursuing business, often by force. As Viet Nam veteran, film producer Oliver Stone said in 2017:

But remember this. In the 13 wars we’ve started over the past 30 years . . . Remember that it wasn’t one leader, but a system, both Republican and Democrat. And call it what you will—the military-industrial-security-money-media complex—it’s a system that has been perpetuated the better, that has been perpetuated under the guise that these are just wars . . . but in the name of that wealth, we cannot justify our system as a center for the world’s values, when we continue to create such war and chaos in the world.

Over the years, at least three citizens in Viet Nam have told this writer, in discussions with them: ‘It is now 35 (40, etc.) years since the war, so the US public has a duty to make your government stop bombing and stealing from other nations.’

A high probability exists that many members of the public would now vote for corrective changes, upon realizing that US leaders drafted 58,220 members of the public from their families, schools, and work places and sent them to Viet Nam where they died unwittingly, not knowing the imperial, real reason for the war.

Even before such a corrective change, the world deserves to have confirmation from the US public: The truth is that after the 1954 defeat of the French invasion, the US did an imperial invasion of Viet Nam.

Viet Nam is now a strong partner with the US. Truth, not falsity, is a positive thing in a close relationship.