Ever read a history book?

Jeffrey Race, former American Army advisor in South Vietnam:
The [South Vietnamese] government terrorized far more than did the revolutionary movement ... for example, by liquidations of former Vietminh, by artillery and ground attacks on 'communist villages' and by roundups of 'communist sympathizers'.

The South Vietnamese Government was a US puppet régime forced upon the population. Of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem Look magazine (January 28, 1965) said:
Secretary of State Dulles picked him, Senator Mansfield endorsed him, Francis Cardinal Spellman praised him, Vice-President Nixon liked him, and President Eisenhower supported him.
In June 1956 Diem organized two massive expeditions to the regions that were controlled by the communists without the slightest use of force. His soldiers arrested tens of thousands of people ... Hundreds, perhaps thousands of peasants were killed. Whole villages whose populations were not friendly to the government were destroyed by artillery. These facts were kept secret from the American people.

there was no aggressive invasion, at least not int eh beginning.

the U.S was paying 80% of the French war costs (in Indo-China, Vietnam, in case of you don't know, OK I being to cautious, YOU surely knew about it). U.S. President Eisenhower defended U.S. aid to France on Aug. 4, 1953, when he stated, "We are voting for the cheapest way that we can to prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance for the USA, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indochinese territory and from Southeast Asia.

Secretary of State Dulles said on March 29, 1954, of Vietnam, "It's rich in many raw materials such as tin, oil, rubber and iron ore... This area has great strategic value... It has major naval and air bases." U.S. News and World Report on April 4, 1954, ran an article under the title, "Why U.S. Risks war for Indo-China: It's the Key to Control of All Asia." The article stated that "one of the world's richest areas is open to the winner in Indochina. That's behind the growing U.S. concern ... tin, rubber, rice, key strategic raw materials are what the war is really all about. The U.S. sees it as a place to hold at any cost."

Hence, the credit system accelerates the material development of the productive forces and the establishment of the world-market. It is the historical mission of the capitalist system of production to raise these material foundations of the new mode of production to a certain degree of perfection.

They didn't want any cosmonauts landing the craft in the West.

Real "spycraft" and methods don't get declassified for decades.

In March, I met a lawyer named Anas Joudeh, who took part in some of the 2011 protests. Joudeh no longer considers himself a member of the opposition. I asked him why. “No one is 100 percent with the regime, but mostly these people are unified by their resistance to the opposition,” Joudeh told me. “They know what they don’t want, not what they want.” In December, he said, “Syrians abroad who believe in the revolution would call me and say, ‘We lost Aleppo.’ And I would say, ‘What do you mean?’ It was only a Turkish card guarded by jihadis.” For these exiled Syrians, he said, the specter of Assad’s crimes looms so large that they cannot see anything else. They refuse to acknowledge the realities of a rebellion that is corrupt, brutal and compromised by foreign sponsors. This is true. Eastern Aleppo may not have been Raqqa, where ISIS advertised its rigid Islamist dystopia and its mass beheadings. But as a symbol of Syria’s future, it was almost as bad: a chaotic wasteland full of feuding militias — some of them radical Islamists — who hoarded food and weapons while the people starved.

[PHOTO of a bombed hospital]
The roof of the Aleppo Eye Hospital, which rebels used as a military headquarters.

smugfunt: It is undeniable that the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society are western funded yet operate only in jihadi held territory.

No, that's not how China became capitalist or even state capitalist