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In mid-2025, military sources in Vietnam began circulating unconfirmed rumors that new multi-billion-dollar contracts with Russia were imminent.

Documents from Rostec identify Vietnam under the discreet label “Customer 704.” According to the sources and those documents, one deal could be worth ~$8 billion and include up to 40 new fighter jets.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

North Vietnam was 100% a Russian proxy in the Vietnam War, and they won, so despite any convenient economic alliance with America, they will always have a friendly relationship with Russia.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Why are you talking like the US didn't invade and firebomb Vietnam to ashes and the Vietcong liberated them from oppression with help of the Soviets?

The north was the proxy, not the US backed puppet in the south???

Holy American Superiority complex.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not forgetting any of that, I was just pointing out a fact about the relationship and history between Vietnam and Russia. It was a phantom war between Russia and the US, with both North and South Vietnam being proxies, and the North prevailed.

The point being that Vietnam has understandable reasons to cooperate with Russia, and there's not a whole lot we can say about it.