[bert]

France:Britain as Vietnam:India

[Cronos]

No, there is no such comparison. India was the crown jewel in the British Empire. EVERYTHING they did, from the Suez canal to the scramble for Africa, was to protect the loads of money they made off india

Remember that it was due to india largely that Britain pulled itself up from being a poor, dirty, gin-filled outlier in the early 1700s to the richest state in Europe in the early 1800s. The industrial revolution and a captive supplier (Indian mines, cotton farms, farms etc had to sell to England only) and captive market (India had to buy from England only) made London rich

Vietnam was nowhere near as pivotal to the French.

Algeria comes close to the pivotal nature

[Cronos]

A side track, but the entire Vietnam war and America's ignominy there was caused by the French

The French lost badly tot he Japanese and then after WWII, instead of starting the process for Vietnamese independence to Ho Chi Minh (who wasn't quite communist yet), they thought they could traipse back as lord colonizers.

Then they sucked in the USA

In contrast the British knew when to leave.