Well, it did propel further the withdrawal of US from Vietnam. It further de-legitimised US involvement in Vietnam by the public.
This time is far more consequential and existential though. If the guardsmen and marines killed any of LA civilians, it could cause a civil war and perhaps the collapse of the United States as we know it. But you still would not want to be the one to fire the first shot and give Trump legitimacy.
Well, it did propel further the withdrawal of US from Vietnam.
The Vietnamese people themselves did that. The US anti-war protest movement was a great thing, but the Vietnamese people defeated the US empire through their own efforts.
Of course, but the American public’s lost appetite to prosecute the war is what pushed Washington to pull out completely. After all, American troops actually killed more North Vietnamese soldiers than vice versa; but a North Vietnamese official declared “that may be the case, but that is irrelevant”. War is as much fueled by the will to fight as the number of bodies the belligerents throw into the battlefield. A country could attain more casualties than the opponent and still not lose the will to fight (like the USSR during World War 2).
Well, it did propel further the withdrawal of US from Vietnam. It further de-legitimised US involvement in Vietnam by the public.
This time is far more consequential and existential though. If the guardsmen and marines killed any of LA civilians, it could cause a civil war and perhaps the collapse of the United States as we know it. But you still would not want to be the one to fire the first shot and give Trump legitimacy.
The Vietnamese people themselves did that. The US anti-war protest movement was a great thing, but the Vietnamese people defeated the US empire through their own efforts.
Of course, but the American public’s lost appetite to prosecute the war is what pushed Washington to pull out completely. After all, American troops actually killed more North Vietnamese soldiers than vice versa; but a North Vietnamese official declared “that may be the case, but that is irrelevant”. War is as much fueled by the will to fight as the number of bodies the belligerents throw into the battlefield. A country could attain more casualties than the opponent and still not lose the will to fight (like the USSR during World War 2).