not much reported in the West, but there was a big commie love fest in Hanoi this week with military parades by Red China, Russia, Cambodia, Laos, and maybe a couple others .
Interestingly, the Hanoi commies requested the North Koreans to stay home . They didn't like the look of it.
Anon had the distinct impression the Hanoi regime is prepping Vietnamese youth for war in the near future.
Against whom? That's the question. Vietnam hasn't seen much active warfare since the Khmer Rouge fighting died down around 1985.
But it seems Russia, China, and the Indochinese neighbors are being touted as allies even though there was a long period circa 1990-2010 when the Russians were despised in Vietnam for cutting off foreign aid during perestroika.
Hanoi announced its version of TrumpBucks last week, giving each citizen $4 (100,000 VND) in exchange for signing up for digital ID. Anon suspects the price of taking the $4 bribe will be blood for a lot of Vietnamese, but time will tell.