• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        The Vietnam War was fought almost entirely because of some dumb political theory that’s total bullshit.

        But if you want a less depressing answer, then look up the Pig War between the US and Britain.

        • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          10 months ago

          Successful communist government would encourage more communist revolutions. It’s not completely mad.

          The US largely fought in Vietnam to keep France in NATO. It stayed after France gave left because it didn’t want communism to spread.

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            10 months ago

            The US largely fought in Vietnam to keep France in NATO.

            Interesting. What’s the story there? NATO treaty limits it so that it wouldn’t have included Vietnam

    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      It was an Indian man, but I’m aware of any evidence he was an operative of the Indian government.

      Edit: Dumbass me, commenting before reading the article.

  • naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    10 months ago

    Naturally, our closest ally did what it does best and told us children (Canada and India) to stop fighting because they had more important interests in Asia.

    More important than the literal fucking assassination of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil by a foreign power, apparently. More important than supporting it’s single largest trading partner in the world. More important than supporting the country that forms the other half of NORAD.

    Then again, the US DOJ literally pushed Bombardier (a Canadian jet aircraft company and massive Canadian employer) to insolvency because it might compete with Boeing. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Bombardier killed itself through the incompetence of its management and C-suite, DOJ might not have helped but a good aircraft company should be able to survive without military contracts

      • naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        It wasn’t military contracts that killed Bombardier. It was the DOJ blocking Bombardier sales to the US under claims of “dumping”

    • Stamau123@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      Seems a pretty vitriolic response for America releasing details on planned assassinations

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A newly unsealed U.S. criminal indictment has unleashed an unprecedented flood of details about an alleged plot connected to the Indian government to carry out multiple assassinations in North America.

    Perhaps the most surprising allegation in the murder-for-hire indictment filed in New York State against Indian national Nikhil Gupta is a claim that there were plans to carry out three such killings on Canadian soil.

    The indictment, made public Wednesday, accuses Gupta of attempting this year to arrange one killing in New York after receiving instructions from an Indian government employee.

    The Indian government employee is not named in the indictment, but he is described as having held different roles, including intelligence, security management and in India’s Central Reserve Police Force.

    Last week, the Financial Times reported that U.S. officials had filed a criminal indictment and thwarted a similar plot against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

    “This is an indictment against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a known human-rights violator who has a track record of using violence to suppress criticism and dissenting political opinion,” Pannum said.


    The original article contains 832 words, the summary contains 179 words. Saved 78%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • lustyargonian@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    10 months ago

    India be like “we didn’t do it but if we did then it was probably coz separatism is terrorism”