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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:37AM (#40003365)
Poverty kills people. (Statistically - you can't say "that person died from poverty", but you can say that a certain number of deaths were due to poverty.)

$27 billion is a lot of people in poverty who otherwise wouldn't be. How many people died (or will) from that? Died from lack of food, lack of shelter, lack of medical care, lack of hope?

Mind you, I'm not sure that the death penalty is the right answer. But if you accept the death penalty for murder, it's not completely absurd in this situation.

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Re:Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to dea... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 11, 2024 @01:15PM (#40004510)
Perhaps you have things a bit backwards.

The US wasn't trying to conquer North Vietnam. North Vietnam was trying to conquer South Vietnam (for a political-economic "principle"). The US was, yes, trying to stop expansion of a political-economic principle that the US considered hostile, but also to defend South Vietnam from attack.

Why, in your view, does the US get the blame rather than North Vietnam and/or the USSR?

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