The conflict in Vietnam began with the proclamation of independence in Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh in 1945.
France, the former colonial power, then tried to force the country back under its control
in the so-called Indochina War (1946-1954).
This is astonishing insofar as France - like many other countries as a lesson of the Second World War with 60 million
dead - had signed the UN ban on violence on October 24, 1945.
Article 2 states: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against
the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner
inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."</i
Nevertheless, France waged the next war just one year later with the support of the USA.
At the end of the war, the country was divided into North and South Vietnam and free
elections and reunification were promised soon.
However, this agreement was broken - and a counter-president was set up in South Vietnam with
the help of the American secret service, the CIA.
As a Catholic, he then took very brutal action against the communist supporters of North
Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh and the Buddhists.
The situation was publicized worldwide primarily through the public self-immolation of a Buddhist monk in Saigon in 1963.
On November 2, 1963, the CIA assassinated its own counter-president.
In the same year, on November 22, US President John F. Kennedy was also assassinated.
Shortly before, he had announced the withdrawal of all US advisors from South Vietnam.
A connection?
In October 1963, just over a month before his death, Kennedy also began the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.
In an official memorandum dated October 11, 1963, he ordered the withdrawal of a thousand American
military personnel from Vietnam by the end of the year.
Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense in John F. Kennedy's cabinet, later stated: Kennedy would have
withdrawn completely from Vietnam if he had still been alive.
With this policy, however, Kennedy fell foul of the military-industrial complex and the US secret services.
The aim of these was to extend the dominance of the USA through further wars of aggression and
military operations - including in Vietnam and Cuba.
This is precisely why the invasion of the Cuban Bay of Pigs took place in 1961 - but it failed.
This was a covert military operation by the CIA with the aim of overthrowing Cuba's President Fidel Castro.
Kennedy then dismissed CIA Director Allen Dulles and announced his intention to dismantle the power structures within the CIA.
His aim was to bring the CIA back under political control.
In the search for those behind the Kennedy assassination, the trail to the US secret service is unmistakable.
Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser:
"In my opinion, the Kennedy assassination was ordered by Allen Dulles.
Allen Dulles was the director of the American secret service CIA.
Richard Bissell is responsible for covert operations in the CIA department.
That's Allen Dulles' right-hand man. And he fired them both.
They both thought that Kennedy was a security risk for the USA and for the imperial interests of the USA.
Because they thought that if he didn't strike, for example against Fidel or against Cuba, if he didn't strike
against Vietnam, if he didn't wage war - then there would be no American domination of the world."
A few hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as
the new US President on board Air Force One.
Johnson had thus risen to the top of US politics unelected.
Johnson put an end to Kennedy's peace policy and led the USA into war with North Vietnam.
By 1968, over 500,000 US soldiers were stationed in Vietnam.
The CIA was extensively involved in this war and carried out numerous covert political and military operations.
Allen Welsh Dulles was the head of the CIA.
Dulles, one of the main suspects in the Kennedy assassination, sat on the commission of inquiry.
He and his brother John Foster Dulles had family ties to David Rockefeller and were
co-founders of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The 33rd degree Freemason Allen Dulles also served on the CFR board from 1927-1969.
Lyndon B. Johnson (President from 1963-1969) Johnson was also a Freemason.
He joined Johnson City Lodge No. 561 in Texas in 1937 and was also a member of the Masonic Lodge Janus.
On August 2, 1964, in the territorial waters of North Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin, there was a minor skirmish between the warship
USS Maddox and some lightly armed speedboats of North Vietnam.
But on the night of August 4, the new President Johnson announced that the USA had been attacked repeatedly that day.
They would now have to strike back in order to secure peace.
Years later, in December 2005, the NSA admitted that the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin was a lie.
The USS Maddox was no longer on site.
In doing so, they exposed President Johnson as a war criminal.
This had no consequences, because even today, reasons for war are invented or constructed - as in
Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, Syria, Yemen and so on.
Provocations, broken promises and media lies are omnipresent.
The war criminals who are still alive, such as Bush, Cheney or Colin Powell, will not be brought to justice.
The USA was also never officially condemned, although it had violated the ban on the use of
force that it had signed in 1945 countless times.
Back to the year 1964:
The media spread the US government's war lies, driving unsuspecting Americans into a devastating war.
Three million Vietnamese and 58,000 US soldiers died.
There were rapes, beheadings, torture - as in every war.
The special thing was that foreign journalists were able to move around freely back then.
They created authentic images of the war that can no longer be seen today.
Or have we ever seen photos from Afghanistan or Iraq of the USA and NATO countries committing war crimes?
At that time, the USA fought with the incendiary weapon napalm, a sticky petrol mixture that causes severe burns.
The same applies to the defoliant Agent Orange, which led to severe deformities in subsequent generations.
Another 400,000 Vietnamese died as a result in the post-war years. Comparison with today:
The equally inhumane weapons such as depleted uranium in the NATO wars from Iraq to Syria - we
see no images of this in the mainstream today.
But that's not all.
The USA also attacked the neighboring country of Laos in 1964, dropping 2 million tons of bombs.
This corresponds to one airplane load every 8 minutes for nine years.
In 1969, Cambodia was also attacked - initially with falsified aircraft deployment
protocols that pretended to be fighting in Vietnam.
These three illegal wars were carried out without a UN mandate and in violation of the UN ban on the use of force.
The peace movement of the hippies and the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King gained strength from 1967 onwards
as a result of the images of war and reports from Vietnam.
Celebrities such as boxer Muhammad Ali also expressed their criticism in no uncertain terms.
He said: "white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people." .
In the end, the USA had to negotiate a peace treaty.
In 1975, after eleven years, the Vietnam War ended.