Vietnam War

I'm having a hard time getting my head around this.

How did America, an advanced capitalist country with inexhaustible military capabilities lose or capitulate to North Vietnam in the Vietnam war?

serous answers only please

Pressure from back home, sons being killed in the thousands, commies pressuring them, just so much pressure and pressure and pressure and pressure until they thought ok no more pls

It was a proxy war between the US and Soviet Union/China. The KGB also funded most of the antiwar movement in the US.

We learned it wasn't worth it.

Public support of the war dropped.
We kicked Vietnamese Arse in the Tet Offensive but the coverage of the war by the media meant not many supported the war.

we pulled out of Vietnam before the end of the war.

>reiterating what I just said

So, basically, Nixon bombed the living shit out of north vietnam and got them to negotiate a cease fire, and then brought everyone home saying we'd won

The cease fire being backed with the implicit threat of America nuking vietnam. Henry Kissinger of all fucking people won the nobel peace prize for talking Nixon out of just nuking them.

Then watergate happened and Nixon couldn't afford the PR hit to back up South Vietnam as his administration fell apart. He was replaced by Gerald Ford, who wasn't psychotic enough to nuke anybody, and the south vietnamese got their shit pushed in

>The KGB also funded most of the antiwar movement in the US.

WTF I love KGB now!

All those leftist groups like the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, and Weather Underground? All on the Soviet payroll. Thankfully Nixon pushed their shit in.