since the normalization of relations Reunification Day has become more of a “peace and reconciliation” type of deal. The US went to previous ones and then sold Vietnam a bunch of Boeing engines and shit, the diplomatic relationship has been quite warm considering the history.

This snub is 100% just another Trump own goal that will hopefully push Vietnam back closer to the AES states

The US was invited, but they’re being sore losers about it this year and refusing to join in this years celebrations

Not so much lines for bread but more special items that ran out quickly, the USSR had plenty of bread and sausage coming out of state-owned bakeries on the cheap. Complaints about shortages were about things they mostly had to trade for like sugar, fruit, coffee, chocolate (the Cuban revolution was a godsend for the Soviets in that regard). Even then the lines were for the cheap subsidized versions of those products in the normal grocery stores. most of the time these were still available in special foreign imports stores, but obviously these were more expensive.

America can and should be protectionist and buy American

why? So you can get something of worse quality for 5 times the price? Are you ever going to understand that 21st century globalization was designed for YOUR benefit so some sweatshop worker in SEA can make you a pair of sneakers for barely more than the cost of materials? Maybe if chuds like you opposed the international slaughter and oppression of ecological activists, labor unionists, and anti-imperialists the fucking coddled modern American “worker” (consumer) wouldn’t feel like they’re getting outcompeted by the rest of the world now. Get your shit together and realize a global proletarian revolution is in your best interest, before the armed guard drags you back into the coal mines.

dig the fucking coal asmonfilth

MAGA wants the cops/army to machine gun a crowd of liberal protesters so bad, and I have a sinking feeling that will happen at least before the end of this term, if not the year. Hell they might just do it themselves freikorps style. its going to be on camera though, and it will be viral and instantly memeified by the fascists. They are going to want everyone to see them or the authorities “own” the libs. Maybe they’ll even fuck that up by massacring a bunch of retirees trying to get the phones at the social security office turned back on.