Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Here is a pre-Xmas bauble to consider for the new year.
Virtually all the debate and controversy over the future sovereignty and integrity of Taiwan and Ukraine have rested on preventing the worst from happening. The worst is that China will absorb Taiwan and Ukraine will fall under the influence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But, has the time come when these possibilities must be seriously discussed? Some argue that should both states lose independence, the conditions of 1938 and Czechoslovakia will be recreated -- and they were not Hitler's last move.
Yet, 50 years ago last April 30, North Vietnamese forces marched into Saigon, ending that war. What were the strategic consequences of that defeat for the United States? None.
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