Flames Beyond the Outfield

[Chau Doc, 1/12/25]

This morning at the café on General Uprising, a man said, “This is my prediction, and it’s only my opinion, soon after Trump is in, he will come to Vietnam, then Putin and Xi will follow.”

“You’re probably right,” I answered. “Vietnam’s location is too important.”

“We’re at an intersection.”

“That’s why there have been so many wars here. We’re lucky to have had peace for 50 years.”

Very relatively, of course. There were wars against Cambodia and China. When napalm isn’t droped, Agent Orange isn’t sprayed and My Lai type massacres aren’t occurring, it’s peaceful. This calmness did include economic collapse from pigheaded Marxism, gulag style reeducation camps and floods of boat people fleeing, with many robbed, raped, murdered or capsized. Would you rather be bombed or starved to death?