Blood of War

Personal Chronicle: Looking Back to 2014 …

Markus:

Uncle Josh had returned to the United States and given the United Nations evidence about the Chinese atrocities in Vietnam, but the reaction was not what he or the President had hoped for. Even in the U.S., many people were so opposed to war that they wanted to ignore the danger of Chinese aggression. They didn’t think that danger could reach our shores.

They were wrong about that.

What none of us knew at the time was that the president had already sent advisors to help the Vietnamese. And he had ordered a U.S. warship to stand by in the region.

Many think he was trying to provoke war.