09-10-2020, 02:59 PM
** 10-Sep-2020 World View: Vietnam book
As I've mentioned in the past, there is a company that's interested in
investing in Vietnam and who are giving me a small amount of money to
write this book. It's a book on Vietnam in the same style as my books
on Iran and China. Assuming that I have time to finish, it will be
very, very nice to add one more book to my "Generational Theory Book
Series."
Vietnam is much harder to figure out and write about than either Iran
or China because there's no unique Vietnamese culture. Instead,
Vietnam is an amalgam of various warring cultures originating from
China and India. One example of how crazymaking it is to write about
Vietnam is the number of names that historians have for the country:
Van Lang, Au Lac, Nam Viet, Giao-Chi, Giao-Chau, Van Xuan, Dai Co
Viet, Dai Viet, Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Viet Nam, Vietnam, and
others. I'm working from about 250 sources that I've collected, many
of them entire books, and you wouldn't recognize the same country from
one source to the next. They all use different names for Vietnam.
Like many countries in southeast Asia, Vietnam is totally unable to
govern itself. Its population has 54 ethnic groups that mostly hate
each other, many of whom would be only too happy to see some or all of
the others exterminated, if that were possible.
You say that Vietnam isn't important, but the opposite is true.
Because of its powerful geographic position, Vietnam is the guardian
of the South China Sea, and has been for millennia. Vietnam is
China's enemy, and is allied with India and Russia. It's quite
possible that there will soon be a "Naval Battle of the South China
Sea," and Vietnam will play a very important part in that. So we may
not be expecting a war with Vietnam as an enemy, but we may be in a
war with Vietnam as a very important ally.
There's also a very interesting bit of history relevant to today. In
the late 1700s, a group of rebels engineered a coup and set up a
Marxist Socialist society -- decades before Marx was born. Every
attempt at Socialism is always an economic disaster, and this was no
exception. They stole from the landowners and soon ran out of other
people's money, so they linked up with Chinese pirates who attacked
Chinese commercial vessels. They gave the pirates safe harbor in
Vietnamese ports, and markets to sell their booty. In short, for 30
years, they constructed a plunder-based political economy that relied
largely on Chinese pirates for military and financial support.
That's similar to what Bernie Sanders et al want to do today.
Tom Mazanec" Wrote:> Why did you pick Vietnam? I would be interested in nations that
> might be important in America’s future. S&H did America itself,
> and you did Iran (where I suspect we could have a war) and China
> (our top adversary). But I see no war soon with Vietnam. Russia is
> a superpower and will be important, why not do them?
As I've mentioned in the past, there is a company that's interested in
investing in Vietnam and who are giving me a small amount of money to
write this book. It's a book on Vietnam in the same style as my books
on Iran and China. Assuming that I have time to finish, it will be
very, very nice to add one more book to my "Generational Theory Book
Series."
Vietnam is much harder to figure out and write about than either Iran
or China because there's no unique Vietnamese culture. Instead,
Vietnam is an amalgam of various warring cultures originating from
China and India. One example of how crazymaking it is to write about
Vietnam is the number of names that historians have for the country:
Van Lang, Au Lac, Nam Viet, Giao-Chi, Giao-Chau, Van Xuan, Dai Co
Viet, Dai Viet, Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Viet Nam, Vietnam, and
others. I'm working from about 250 sources that I've collected, many
of them entire books, and you wouldn't recognize the same country from
one source to the next. They all use different names for Vietnam.
Like many countries in southeast Asia, Vietnam is totally unable to
govern itself. Its population has 54 ethnic groups that mostly hate
each other, many of whom would be only too happy to see some or all of
the others exterminated, if that were possible.
You say that Vietnam isn't important, but the opposite is true.
Because of its powerful geographic position, Vietnam is the guardian
of the South China Sea, and has been for millennia. Vietnam is
China's enemy, and is allied with India and Russia. It's quite
possible that there will soon be a "Naval Battle of the South China
Sea," and Vietnam will play a very important part in that. So we may
not be expecting a war with Vietnam as an enemy, but we may be in a
war with Vietnam as a very important ally.
There's also a very interesting bit of history relevant to today. In
the late 1700s, a group of rebels engineered a coup and set up a
Marxist Socialist society -- decades before Marx was born. Every
attempt at Socialism is always an economic disaster, and this was no
exception. They stole from the landowners and soon ran out of other
people's money, so they linked up with Chinese pirates who attacked
Chinese commercial vessels. They gave the pirates safe harbor in
Vietnamese ports, and markets to sell their booty. In short, for 30
years, they constructed a plunder-based political economy that relied
largely on Chinese pirates for military and financial support.
That's similar to what Bernie Sanders et al want to do today.
