Another quick video review:
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By “we” do you mean France?
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No, the USA.
Ho Chi Minh asked Woodrow Wilson for help in fighting for independence after WW1, but was turned down. He was making speeches about Marxism-Leninism at that time but there was evidence that he still wasn’t fully committed to it at that point.
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If you mean the famous letter from 1920, I don’t think think you can read too much into that. The US had its own hegemonic interests, why would it start meddling with affairs that our staunch ally France considered their own? And why would France have paid an iota of attention to the US on the matter?
ETA: I find it odd when people who deplore US foreign policy for all its international interventions also seem to deplore the times the US doesn’t intervene.
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Wow. This is good. Thanks. I don’t remember seeing this.
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Yes, what @anon73430903 said.
If I remember correctly, he also employed the language of the American revolution, specifically citing Jefferson as well. And of course, in 1919, no one knew what the stalinist regime was going to be like in a few years. It really was a moment of global optimism not yet tainted by the gulag.
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No one is saying otherwise. We’re pointing out that there was Wilson advocating for self-determination, and then not following through in cases where it involved allies or countries that included people of color.
They clearly didn’t. But the US was a rising global power even back then.
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