@therizzler had SIGNIFICANTLY more candor than most of the slithering people on this app, my response is as follows:
That’s friendslop, you only believe it because pleasant people said it… fair enough. Viet Nam is trying to escape a brutal dependent situation, & Israel is treated like another part of the first world doing the usual gatekeeping through certain monopolies, but that treatment is different than what they get from non-communist countries.
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The Vietnamese Ministry of Interior warns that it currently has “no policy allowing the recruitment & placement of workers in Israel” in any field or profession. Workers should only seek information from official sources such as the Department of Overseas Labor Management & avoid trusting ads or promises on social media platforms like Facebook & Zalo.
It’s not some kind of purely moral framing I’m trying to apply here about the attempted genocide, Phoenix Program, claiming defectors were POWMIAs & trying to assassinate them, chemically exterminating the whole ecosystem, creating a persistent public health crisis setting back the development of the region (agricultural self-sufficiency not just for cash crop export is the core of a nation’s development). Those things are awful & created the situation where the periphery is unable to launch a unilateral global siege on Israel, which is what would be required to block resale of key resources to it by its allies, which utterly bankroll it. BDS, while rhetorically effective, is vastly overshadowed by the effectiveness of smashing Israeli infrastructure with missiles, thus rendering firstoid supplies of investment, military aid,&SSettlers ineffective / counterproductive+costly / proper scared. VN is an ally of IR. The US has targeted the VN petroleum industry for violating IR sanctions (use VPN or archive it (I’m too lazy)). Different vessels have been labeled part of a “shadow fleet” 🙀🙀. VN’s response: “Regrettable. 😎” [continues trading with Iran epic China-style].
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Iranian FM Hossein Amirabdollahian & Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Hang underlined joint efforts to boost cooperation across political, economic, commercial, scientific, & cultural fields, with Hang reporting that bilateral relations are “growing & satisfactory” & that recent talks had “useful & fruitful” results, stressing that existing deals must be followed up & implemented.
In light of the economic cost of the war in Iran, opening up high-level industries provides a lot more leverage than taking a rhetorical stance that isolates VN at a critical point in ts development. The punishment is harsh it is like asking a man just out of the hospital & recovering in the gym from an injury to fight.
Iran Seeks to Strengthen Ties with Viet Nam in Various Areas: President — Nhan Dan [2025-06-04]
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President Masoud Pezeshkian told the new Vietnamese ambassador that Iran is seeking to bolster cooperation across politics, defence & security, economy, culture, & people-to-people exchanges, expressing his belief the ambassador will make “significant contributions to boosting the friendship & cooperation between the two nations” & serve the needs & interests of both peoples.
This one really sticks in my mind for obvious reasons 😎:
Iran Frees Vietnamese Tanker Seized After US Navy Confrontation — Al Jazeera [2021-11-10]
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Iran freed the Vietnamese tanker Sothys, seized in late October after the IRGC said it “thwarted an attempt by the US navy to ‘steal’ Iranian oil by force.” The IRGC reiterated that “the operation of the navy force of the terrorist US army was foiled” when its elite forces boarded the ship, warned off US vessels & aircraft, then returned the tanker to Iranian shores. Tehran said Washington was trying to enforce unilateral sanctions, while the US denied any effort to steal the Iranian oil, saying its forces only monitored. IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami called the seizure an “unforgettable” day & “major victory,” with another commander noting US ships were “less than 30 meters away”—proving that they were not just observing. The incident was publicized ahead of nuclear deal talks in Vienna.
Response part two, part three.
Under DotP, foreign investment & trade controls allow funneling of resources into productive industries. VN has an even more sophisticated understanding of this than the USSR, because of the USSR & China (the master) in part ofc (not to say there aren’t a lot of contradictions resulting from this, I could go on about CIA influence on the VN education system forever I should actually but not here), the structure of which I will address in long form on this site when I get off my lazy aSSSS. Lenin put a very fine point on the utilization of trade with imperialists against imperialists.
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One of the weakest spots in Balfour’s speech is the statement that the Japanese are going to help the Russians.{2} Which Russians?
In Russia today there is one power, which by its nature is destined to wage a life & death against the attacks of international imperialism-that is the Power of the Soviets. The first step, however, of those Russians, whom the Japanese intend to “help”, as soon as they heard rumours of the advance of the latter, was to demand the abolition of the Soviet Power. Should the Japanese move into Siberia, these same “Russians” whom the Japanese are going to “help”, will demand the abolition of the Soviets throughout the whole of Siberia. What can take the place of the Soviet Power?
The only power that can take its place is a bourgeois government. But the bourgeoisie in Russia has proved clearly enough that it can only remain in power with foreign help. If a bourgeois government, supported by outside help, should establish itself in power in Siberia, & Eastern Russia become lost to the Soviet, then in Western Russia the Soviet Power would become weakened to such an extent that it could hardly hold out for long; it would be followed by a bourgeois government, which would also need foreign help. The Power to give this help would, of course, not be England. It is easy to understand what avenues are opened up by this possibility.
I confirm that I really said this in a conversation with .Ransome, & I give permission for it to be printed.
Lenin
Moscow 23.III.1918
Notes
{1} A photo copy of the typewritten text of this interview with a postscript in Lenin’s own handwriting (as well as an English translation of it) was published in 1932 in the book: B. H. Bruce Lockhart, Memoirs of a British Agent. The copy of the typewritten text of the interview bears the following note by Lenin: “23/Ill given to Ransome#8221; (Central Party Archives of the Institute of MarxismLeninism of the C.C. of the C.P.S.U.).
Daily News—a bourgeois newspaper published in London from 1846 to 1928.
{2} Lenin is referring to the speech of A. Balfour, the British Foreign Minister, in the House of Commons on March 14, 1918, in which the latter tried to cover up the true aims of the Japanese intervention by hypocritically alleging that in occupying Siberia with the consent of the Allies, & seizing the Siberian railway, Japan would be preventing a German invasion of northern Asia.
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Israel is an important geographic lynchpin of the imperialist triad (US, core Europe, Japan (+RoK, Taiwan, Singapore, Aus, NZ, etc.). The threat of Iran’s growth thru bilateral trade like with VN led to this imperialist war of aggression. But VN remains locked in a dependent situation, even with Israel, because the structure resulting from partly isolating the communist world undermined it (among other things). Capital flows from the core to the periphery cease after the port, the mine, the railway, & later the sweatshop, until its hand is forced. But thereafter it must be kept from wandering to places it doesn’t belong!
Samir Amin — Russia & the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism [2016-07-01]
Monthly Review Press | 9781583676011 | 143 pp.
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“Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society” & “the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism—a long transition that continues even today.” Russia’s “geopolitical isolation” produced a distinctive capitalism & perceived backwardness, yet this soil allowed the Bolsheviks to take power. Deeply-researched critique of the Soviet system spanning three decades, weighing Lenin & Stalin’s strategic choices, then tracing the post-1991 collapse, examining “the return of fascism in contemporary capitalism.” Exploring the uneven, protracted character of any genuine socialist transformation, Amin hopes for a rapid exit from capitalism.
The online spaces (feeding into this tiny bookstore nook site) flooded with selfproclaimed anti imperialist hot takes that condemn Vietnam for trading with Israel are not organic. They are saturated by an intellectual apparatus funded ultimately by the US State Department, private banks, and the privatized state apparatus. These outfits churn out messaging that sounds radical but actually cleaves to US premises. They treat any deviation from a pure boycott as collaboration without explaining the ongoing strangulation which produces the necessity of it.
The core’s monopolies over technology, finance, & arms force even resistant states like VN to engage with multiple imperialist poles at the same time, capturing surplus from the south. Meanwhile VN deepens military & economic ties with Iran, defies US sanctions on petroleum, & builds licensed weapons production with Israeli firms. Does not signal approval of the genocide.
Intan Suwandi — Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism [2019-01-01]
Monthly Review Press | 9781583677810 (paper) & 9781583677827 (cloth) | 215 pp.
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A study of “exploitation of labor in the Global South” under multinational control. Global North firms “capture value” via state-of-the-art strategies that “enforce ‘economical’ & ‘flexible’ production.” Two Indonesian case studies show workers bearing the burden, their labor creating “surplus value that enriches the capitalists of the North.” These “relations of unequal exchange” extend Samir Amin’s foundational work on core-periphery exploitation & the “law of worldwide value”—now updated for contemporary global commodity chains. “Labor & class” remain central to understanding world capitalism.
In closing, I justify the latter with the former lol, to do some bro-geopol as has grown popular online. I’m serious btw Singapore is where a lot of kkkapital flight will be heading. I hope they get Dubai treatment someday
Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP: Turning Singapore into a Portal for Israel in SEA [2025-11-10]
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As Singapore marks the upcoming 71st anniversary of the People’s Action Party (PAP), established on 21 November 1954, former trade unionist, activist, and scholar Amir Dastan revisits Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy through a critical lens. In this book excerpt, he challenges the heroic narrative surrounding the PAP by uncovering the power struggles and ideological contradictions shaping Singapore’s postcolonial trajectory and its continuing role within a neo-colonial regional project.
Vietnam Orders Israeli L-Spike1X Loitering Munitions Worth $250M — DefenseMirror [2026-02-09]
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VN signed a $250M agreement with Israel’s Rafael for L‑Spike1X loitering munitions. The deal includes “a dedicated manufacturing facility” in VN operating under a Rafael license, with “knowledge & technology transferred from Israel to a local company.” The lightweight (2.2kg), man‑portable system “loiters over the target area, transmits real‑time video to the operator, & detonates only after final authorization.” Its range extends to ~5km; with a warhead it loiters for 15 minutes, & for reconnaissance only up to 30 minutes.