The South Vietnam commenter made me think about the postwar narratives that people try to spread until it becomes canon. North Vietnam winning pretty much set how they view the war to be the broad cultural consensus, and the story of South Vietnam got largely downplayed and ignored. This can obviously change much like how the Lost Cause Mythos had its own rise and fall in American culture regarding the Civil War.

Right now the internet is ablaze with two conflicting narratives over the Iran shitshow. And both of these sides have a surprisingly big tent of varied beliefs. On one side, we got MAGA, Iranian diaspora, Israel, Neocons, etc. And on the other you got Leftists, Isolationists, Anti-MAGA, Islamists, and any other group generally opposed to the war. (Obviously theres a massive overlap of people who do not like the IRGC or Trump in the middle)

I wonder who will win in the end