You got it. Uncle Ho was driven to the Marxist camp by the French rebuff at Versailles and after spending a few years in Lenin's Russia became a full blown Revolutionary.
Ho was a commie from the get go after WWI like you say, and that is why we backed France. After WWII the US embarked on an anti-empire crusade, pressuring all the colonial powers to divest themselves of empire, naively thinking all the colonies would turn into mini-USAs. Same schit happened with Castro, he was a commie all the way and we got suckered because Batista was a dictator. We reluctantly helped the French as a buffer against communism (China) , but we turned around and stabbed them at the Brits in the back in Suez and Iran. US Foreign policy post-WWII made no bones about their anti-colonial policies almost as fervently as anti-communism.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
