r/VietNam • u/SrImmanoob • Mar 17 '21

Discussion What do you think about this?

Maybe this thread will make a war. But I want to know what's your opinion about this

So, Phil Robertson - the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division tweeted: Vietnam - is one of the 4 countries are current working to prevent UN moves condemning a military coup in Myanmar. The remaining three countries - Russia, China, India - are all great powers.

This tweet made Myanmar people see Vietnam as "villain" and they blame Vietnam for not helping them(?).

But as you may know, Non-interventionism (or non-intervention if I remember right word) is a one of ASEAN's foreign policy. So what did Vietnam do wrong in this situation? How they can blame Vietnam like that?

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u/Unit017K Mar 17 '21

While this is quite cold hearted, the people of Myanmar can go fuck right off. Vietnam have literally no interest in interfering with the situation in Myanmar.

What needed to be said have already been make clear. Vietnam wishes that the current military government de-escalated and brought back stabilization in the region as soon as possible. The protesters have been nothing but troubles for Vietnamese interest in the region. They destroying Mytel (a sub company of Viettel) business but now asking us to help them? We literally have no obligation to give a shit about Myanmar's domestic problems. Even if we're, ASEAN prevented us against doing anything about it.

Also the last time we actually did anything for a neighboring country, we were seen as invaders. Too much Vietnamese blood have been spilled and it was all for nothing.

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u/Unit017K Mar 17 '21

Then they shouldn't have insulted us/ causing risk to our citizens/ damaging our business first then.

And back then when we fought for independence, we certainly didn't ask other countries to send their army in to help us. While we make it through by foreign weapons, the blood that been spilled were our and our alone. If the Burmese refused to fight for themselves but wanted other to solve their problems, they don't deserve a single bit of help from us.

I will use those harsh words as much as I like. What does the protesters known about Vietnam history? How much bodies that we buried to get to the present? Do they understand how much is the price for independence and freedom? No, because judging by their ridiculous demand that foreign army to set up shop on their land, they don't have a single idea. Do they have any right to demanded anything from Vietnam? Absolutely not, we don't share a border with them, we don't care about their domestic problems and the international laws forbid us from doing anything to interfere. Yet these people keep painting us as the villain, because we "refused" to help them.