The mess in Vietnam was caused by the failure of the Vichy French to protect the Vietnamese from the Japs, or even to try to.

the Vichy France had no army anymore, remember since 1940, what remained of soliers after the Dunkeerke retreat was going war prisonners into Germany, and the rest of the french army was dismobilised as stipulated by the armistice

Anyways, Vietnameses would still prefer a french occupation than the Japanese’s

But hadn’t your government not supplied the french army in Vietnam, then, either Vietnam would have been independant, but more likely to fall quicker into communist hands

Ol right the Anglosaxon sphere is the world savior’s

but not many wanted to be ruled by them too !