Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too.
South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces we trained, armed, and supported with our own troops, ultimately at the cost of more than 58,000 of our service members’ lives.
The grim anniversary is a reminder that those we support to the utmost can lose, as President Donald Trump works to prevent Kyiv from suffering a fate like Saigon’s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army occupies less than a fifth of Ukraine’s territory, yet three years after he began his full-scale invasion, Putin shows no willingness to end the war, despite the price his soldiers pay in their own blood every day.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may well believe that an American-negotiated peace promises as little safety for his country as America’s negotiations with North…
