Nekostan-e Gharbi wrote:Senkaku wrote:The American ambassador's borderline-proconsular influence on the ostensibly sovereign Saigon government's decisionmaking and even its composition should at least raise doubts as to whether we can really characterize South Vietnam as fully decolonized (especially when you factor in the continued influence of Francified colonial elites in the government and the military right up to the end). No, it wasn't as formally under imperial control as it was under France, but...
That’s a really funny definition of “colony”. Well, I guess Nigeria remains a British colony today, right? Not all post-colonial governments are established by anti-colonial fighters. Guess what? Countries such as Malaysia are legit too.
No, because the British ambassadors to Malaysia and Nigeria can't topple their respective governments with a quiet word to military leaders, or determine extremely detailed aspects of their security policies, and there aren't tens of thousands of British troops in either country? Read the whole post, please.