Chawosauria in the Vietnam War

Due to an executive branch still reigned by anti-communists while a Communist Party was ruling the legislative branch of the Chawosaurian Imperial Government, the Empire of Chawosauria had to keep a very neutral and a very low profile in the Vietnam War. Prominent Chawosaurians: Sydney Lucas Webster, Chester Lucas Webster, Timothy Max Roosevelt II, and Leonid Ivan Bzovsky, have all fought in the war on behalf of either side. The Webster boys fought for the United States and Bzovsky and Roosevelt fought for the Soviet Union.

The Vietnam War was a conflict mainly between the communist North Vietnam and the anti-communist South Vietnam. The Soviet Union aided North Vietnam while the United States aided South Vietnam as part of a proxy war between the two post-WWII superpowers. The United States and the Soviet Union were caught up in a cold war for world dominant status, though not actually a war, a cold war is when two powerful countries were having fierce geopolitical tensions that would normally lead to a war between these exact nations but are too hesitant to fight each other directly because they are both superpowers. The United States was obsessed with suppressing the spread of communism out of fear that the number of communist nations could one day outnumber the United States that it leaves the U.S. vulnerable to be next, and since both the United States and the Soviet Union now have nuclear weapons, the fear of communism grows stronger including the fear of a nuclear war or a third world war among both Americans and Soviets.

Since China fell to communism in 1949 after a civil war, communism was gaining steam in Southeast Asia, prominent in the former French colonies of Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). The United States chose Vietnam to mark its territory on the world that communism was not to expand all across Southeast Asia. During World War II, Mainland France was conquered by Nazi Germany, resulting in France's colonies to be carved up by the Axis powers, the Japanese Empire overtook French Indochina while the Nazis overtook the rest. After France was liberated and World War II ended in 1945, France regains control of their colonies including Indochina, but regaining Indochina won't guarantee France this moment without problems, there was already a growing sentiment among the people of the region that they want independence from French colonialism, thus this begins the First Indochina War. It was mostly communists in the region who called for independence, the Viet Minh was leading the charge for independence, the war was over in 1954 and at the Geneva Conference resulted in French Indochina to be broken up into four independent states: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam, and the already existent State of Vietnam is left with just South Vietnam for them to rule. Cambodia and Laos all became communist states as well.

Eventually, the Vietnam War begins in 1955 and thus beginning a near-20-year life of war would taunt Vietnam on both fronts and for the United States, the beginning of an ultimate foreign policy embarrassment as it continues to clash with the Soviet Union at every given opportunity.

Meanwhile, in the Chawosaurian world, there is a divided government, the executive: Emperor Santiago and Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, both staunch anti-communists but having to deal with the headache of an unbowing legislative branch controlled by the Chawallian Communist Party, the first native political party to control a Chawosaurian government institution after years of being controlled by British political parties since the Chawo-Wolfsberg War. Emperor Santiago and Prime Minister Bismarck supported the Vietnam War to stop the spread of communism, but the problem is that they have a legislative branch controlled by a communist party, the reason that is a problem are actually two reasons: the first reason is that the Communist Party won't support a Vietnam War that is opposed to their ideology, while at the same time, it would be hypocritical for an anti-communist Chawosauria to participate in the Vietnam War though Chawosauria has a Communist Party controlling a majority of seats in its national legislature.

The Chawosaurian general public was sharply polarized on the conflict, public opinion polls showed that very slim pluralities of Chawosaurians supported the Vietnam War but lopsided majorities of Chawosaurians as high as 70% or over opposed the United States' involvement in the conflict.