Title states all, Vietnam is a country that fought for it's independence, fought off multiple invaders including 2 industrialized western superpower nations, and now is one of the fastest growing economies in East Asia and is generally speaking seen as a positive nation on the global stage, without all of the baggage that China or North Korea carry. Obviously this is an abridged understanding of Vietnam but on paper it looks good, unless there's some brave posters willing to tell me otherwise?
-7DeadlyFetishes
This is literally all it is. They aren't constantly in the New Cold War propaganda like China, we are no longer occupying the southern half of their country and need to be opposed like Korea, and they aren't floating ninety miles off Miami where an affluent and influential voting expat minority lives like Cuba.
Therefore "leftists" in the heart of empire dont feel obligated to pick a side and have a "take" like the others. Its like how a lot of babby leftists don't even know communist Laos even fucking exists.