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> It's just going to be a long brutal war
Yeah, I recently looked up the series of conflicts in Vietnam, starting from clashes with French in end of the 50, then civil war and US intervention until 75, soon after they got a war with Cambodia, and then China invaded. 
It's just a decades non-stop bloodshed, in which millions died.
Can't get more grim than that. I wonder how it felt for them at the time.

And look at the Vietnam today, I feel it's doing pretty fine by the standarts of South Asia.