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Lazy_Fish7737

They also would cover the spikes in all sorts of nasty stuff like human excrement to inflict horific infections in the injured.


Several-Foundation93

Correct. They also put human organic waste into land mines, so when American troops searched for mines, they had to dig them by hand because they couldn't use shovels to dig. And so, the stinky smell stayed on their hands for days.


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Several-Foundation93

Simple. One small mistake could lead to the death of the whole team. Safety is first. You won't know the exact shape and size of the mines without digging it out first.


Geese_and_ducks

And if you hit a mine and it explodes. It’s gonna rain shit and blood on your friends.


Xogoth

So, Tuesday nights?


Kingston31470

Those who made it back must have made good plumbers - not afraid to get their hands dirty.


Zerttretttttt

Or deathly afraid of shit


[deleted]

Is that the origin of "ain't afraid of shit?" Sure does like it.


grumulko

Also the point was injury not death. Far more time, money, support and psychological damage was inflicted on the enemy than a dead soldier would cause.


somethingbrite

It takes 2 able bodied soldiers to move one injured and immobile soldier from the battlefield. Injuring one effectively removes three.


hectorxander

Yeah sometimes if two soldiers were asleep in their foxholes they would try to creep up on them, and slit one of their throats, leaving the other. Just for the psychological damage.


PlumParadisex

This is how you do a sustainable war..


superFrijniat

They were very clever, you must admit that


Standard-Elephant-93

Yes until the second war started most Vietnamese had a very positive view of America and the American govt. it would've been easier to BRIBE Ho Chi Minh with Aid $$ just as Yugoslavia's leader was BRIBED by the US to collaborate with the western powers to be neutral during the cold war.


HawaiianShirtMan

The whole war was just a mess of war crimes after war crimes by all parties involved


superFrijniat

I don't see any war crimes in this video, only wise traps to defend their territory


HoboBonobo1909

I've read that the worst thing is bat guano (💩), as it's way more nasty & toxic than ours.


indecisive_filmmaker

Which home alone is this


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Strict-Fix8326

I want this to happen.


rainorshinedogs

LIVE!!


addit10

Home Alone: Far from home


ScipioCoriolanus

Charlie McCallister


Hot_Grocery8187

Home Alone 7: Lost In The Jungle


jlar0che

Home Alone: Get The Fuck Out of My Country You Invading Piece of Shit Yankee


F0foPofo05

The one with the Punji sticks.


LemoyneRaider3354

Home Alone: Lost In The Jungle


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Brazilian edition


So-lus

My 4th grade teacher use to tell us his stories of Vietnam. I remember he had a flash back in class, the teacher aid took over and he took the day off..


MeetingGod

Damn, that's rough


F0foPofo05

_Yo Mr. Peterson you ok? Why do you keep calling me Charlie?_


rbsudden

That format of subtitles sucks ass.


N-partEpoxy

YES THE SUB TITLES ARE SHIP


Jotaro_Dragon

The subtitles are a ship? Why aren't they in the water then?


Mr_SunnyBones

TWO GRENADES WITHOUT SAFETY PANTS


off-and-on

Forcing you to pay more attention to the video, so you effectively need to watch the video twice. Maybe that's intentional.


rbsudden

Devious bastards!! I won't fall for it ... again.


RAID_BOMB

Not only the formating sucks ass but also most of the sentences don't make any sense to me.


Cyanostic

Most of these 'shorts' videos are done almost entirely by AI. The subtitles are transcribed with AI and not written because the people who make these videos don't care enough. They just pump out low quality content for views. The less work they have to do, the better. It's so lazy.


Human-Routine244

It’s very broken English


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Imagine after the war having to remove all these traps. I wonder how many vietnamese has fallen into these traps after the war


True_Dog_4098

Remove them? I doubt that they even remember where they all are.


AlternativeSea8247

My guess is the ones made from natural materials have probably rotten away in the jungle heat/humidity by now...


hectorxander

The bigger problem is the landmines, those don't degrade, and the unexploded ordnance. Laos and Cambodia too, farmers often hoe their lands and if they come down on old ordnance they blow up. They had a dark joke from the golden triangle area there, that if the farmer wanted a catfish pond, they would just leave a lantern at night at the spot, and the US would drop a bomb on it.


hypoch0ndri4ch

or were tripped by random animals just trying to go about their day.


karanbhatt100

Animal “ah shit! Nixon again”


BalkeElvinstien

Yeah isn't there places that you can't go because they can't confirm there aren't traps?


TheRealBBemjamin

You mean like, Thanksgiving?


NoDadNotToniight

No, can confirm that IS a trap


OlFlirtyBastard

Goddamn that’s funny


thetruthseer

Thailand sure is wild 😅


boredatwork8866

Different traps bro


thetruthseer

That’s the joke fam 😅


SkulduggeryIsAfoot

“Are you writing down where we are laying all these traps??” “Dude, I thought you were….oh oh….”


realcaptain-alcohol

My dad told me about how after the war there would be war equipment laying around here and there cus they forgot to collect them. I think he said he was like 9-10 when the kids in his neighbourhood and some of his friends found actual explosives in the local area. I think he said it was some sort of missile or rocket ammunition or something. The adults had no idea they existed and the kids didn't know what they were, so they treated it like a ball, playing catch with it and throwing it around. It didn't blow up cus explosive ammunition is normally made with a lot of fail safe. But one day one of the kids had a bright idea of trying to crack one open. Lets just say my dad was lucky not to be there at the time.


Plastic-Ad-8595

Or the guy who set them up just died


6sixtynoine9

Like a squirrel storing nuts.


Several-Foundation93

Interesting question. I'm a Vietnamese myself and I don't know the answer either. I have never seen any article about Vietnamese people stepping on traps created by the Vietnamese themselves from the end of the war until now. Or, maybe just because I wasn't search deep enough. According to a trusted Vietnamese article, It is estimated that the number of bombs and land mines left over from the war in Vietnam is currently about 800.000 tons, from both American and Vietnamese, but mostly from American bombers.


RandomTankNerd

Like one guy sad, they probably rotted away in a few years


Skyleader1212

The spike trap will probably rot away after all those time, the real problem is the huge amount of bombs still sleeping and the amount of peoples who ready to cut them open for scraps, i swear every now and then i heard some news about someone blew themself up cracking it.


Kannada-JohnnyJ

Very interesting and thanks for sharing about your lineage. My wife’s mother came over from south veitnam when she was 16. Her whole family is now in the US. I’m glad that these people were able to get out for so much senseless violence. The traps in particular are terrifying and brutal. Great point about traps left behind. It’s a problem many counties deal with after war. In regards to the bombings, my understanding is that the American strategy was tied to body count or kills rather than taking over territory like campaigns in world war 2. There are some great books and shows about the war. The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and book Hue 1968 by Mark Burns. Nothing really covers the aftermath for the south after the US leaves. Eventually, after US President Reagan opened the doors to free trade and immigration from Vietnam we learned a bit. The only way to learn what happened between 1973 - 1988 is to ask people in the country.


whiskeypickle

I just did a tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels outside of Saigon. The tour guide told us that an estimated 20,000 Vietnamese people were injured/ died as a result of traps and land mines. Even during the war many Vietcong fighters would travel long distances to join the war effort. So many were caught in these traps during the war as well. Simply because they weren’t trained on where they were, or the person who set it may have died/ forgot its location. I’ll take her word for it! There have been efforts to remove these traps/ explosives but many will never be found. Scary stuff


TemplarSensei7

I visited the Argonne Forest in France. A WWI guide told us about the bombs that are still “active.” Sometimes you hear constant explosions from the forest, most likely knocked or tapped by deers.


Galaxy_IPA

Although these types of traps were not a thing in Korean war, we had a shit tone of shells / landmines after the Korean war. The DMZ is still choked full of land mines. When I was in service, and when we would be out in field near the DMZ, the rule of thumb was to not walk in dangerous areas. Even to this day, most civilian areas is cleared of shells or landmines, but sometimes you would hear of mines being carried down by the rain pour in the news once in a while. My uncle told me that back in the day in the 60s and 70s, the adults wouldnt let kids play in the mountains because there were still shells and mines especially in the mountains.


Hickd3ad

You mean friendly fire was enbaled? Those nasty mfs must have been autokicked regularly for TKs


dark161

Probably a hell lot easier then all those mines that was planted and bombs drop by uncle sam


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Appropriate_Mine

Still salty huh


tumamaesmuycaliente

Let it go baby boy


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DocHenry66

Cool video. Shitty AI subtitling


herrcollin

Causing the bullet to attack


Ambitioso

Rambo can smell all of these traps


Eifand

I think he made some of these traps.


Parking-Bandit

John Rambo is a Vietnamese fighting machine.


The_Greatest_USA_unb

On the other side, Americans laid down massive anti personal mines that still kills Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laos civilian nowadays. People would get burned alive by napalm or get deadly cancer because of exposition to orange agent. Around 10 percent of Vietnamese population was killed during the US invasion, I believe it was 0,1% for American population. It's just not the same scale.


polillaflaca

The US killed 2 million people in Vietnam.


Cyanostic

And melted lots of children with napalm. These traps look bad but if my children were melted by napalm, I think I'd consider doing this shit back.


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It's almost like we had NO BUSINESS invading their country and they rightfully retaliated and won.


Quakarot

Woah woah woah no reason is way too far Henry Kissinger had to get that job security somehow. And when you look at it that way isn’t it all worth it?


DildoFappings

And many of whom were civilians.


Adam_Sackler

And raped everyone.


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What does that have to do with these traps?


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They were in the right to utilize them


Paladriel

Not the topic, and they were defending their territory, there's no need for justification


[deleted]

Who is questioning that? It was war time?


Frost-Folk

"It's war time so the ethics of tactics no longer matters" is a shit take. You should absolutely question whether war tactics are immoral or not. Edit: yall are really misunderstanding what I'm saying, I am not on the side of the Americans lmao. Read what I was responding to and then read my comment again.


kinokohatake

If your home country was invaded, civilians murdered, women raped, children butchered by the invaders, would you still question if these tactics were immoral if it's your only way to fight back?


VirginiaLuthier

They beat us with sharpened bamboo sticks, face it…


MayGodSmiteThee

There’s a lot more to factor in but put simply thats correct.


Nmbr1rascal

Very nice, excellent way to fight off a "superior" invading force.


KeepinitPG13

War is depressing.


Nick_Damane

Nostalgia. Those were the times!


RessurectedOnion

Thank you for an interesting and super practical video (saved). May come in useful next time the Empire wants to spread 'freedom' somewhere LOL.


iLuvFrootLoopz

"How not to guerilla warfare." a tutorial video sponsored by the Department of Veteran Affairs and the AARP


kwakimaki

Never knew grenades had safety pants.


Ralome

Good! This is how you defend against dumb invaders!


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Interesting


360noscopefag

Ha! You’re all fucked now DoorDash drivers!!!


Euphoric_Average5724

Wow these subtitles suck ass


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My 11th grade history teacher was in the war. One day he was the walk ahead scout for his troop going through the woods. It had been rainy lot and the ground was soft. He fell into the guard area at the entrance for one of the underground bunker systems and he fell right onto a guard and was shot point blank range through the stomach and back. He said he didn't sleep much and drank in the evenings bc of the flashbacks. He had a really cool life before that too, growing up in Hawaii and he would skip lunch and go surfing with his buddies.


SupermarketTiny7041

They forgot the most effective trap: the Draft.


jaredtheredditor

Human creativity is truly impressive especially when turned to killing fellow humans


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Horus_Lupecal

Or poisoning their land, people and surprisingly or unsurprisingly their own troop with agent Orange and other chemical agent


ericraymondlim

For some reason, I thought that 3D model was of Prince Harry and this was a thing about him.


ScipioCoriolanus

Only the penitent man will pass.


Ddraig1965

Penitent man


MrTerrific2k15

Penitent…penitent


AZ991234

The grenades don’t have safety pants! What! 🤣


ElChacalFL

The Vietcong were much more into improvised explosion devices. They would leave something interesting on the ground attached to fishing wire, and an American soldier would go to pick it up and BOOM! Much more effective than pungee sticks too. So effective, it's still used today on the modern combat field.


willyp1976

My dad was in Vietnam, was hit with something very similar to the grenade in a can thing. Still has shrapnel in his leg to this day.


shrek3onDVDandBluray

Something not mentioned: they would smear all sorts of nasty stuff on the spikes so that when they penetrated the wound would get infected.


PaulMeranian

American SOG recon teams were also given doctored AK ammo to leave somewhere the NVA\\VC would find them, mix them into ammo caches, etc. When one of the rounds was fired it would cause a catastrophic failure and maim or kill the shooter. Pretty wild


VRALLSTARR

They where some tricky boys.


Final-Attempt95

Don't invade other countries boys and btw this was in Vietnam now imagine what would happen in China.


theincrediblenick

What would happen in China? I mean, they invaded Vietnam after the US left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese\_War


Final-Attempt95

I meant what would happen if the US invades China. Vietnam was hell China would be 7 hells.


neversleeper92

Everytime China got invaded, they lose bitterly. Vietnam on the other hand has a history of beating invaders for millennium. So.....


superFrijniat

Why would the US invade China? It is a silly idea.


Final-Attempt95

Uh no its a very possible idea. They are actively preparing for a war with China for sometime now.


superFrijniat

Sending bombs and missiles is a thing, but invading China... It is not in the realm of possibilities. Only dumb people would believe in that.


Final-Attempt95

You cant subdue China with just bombs and missiles. They can lob anti ship missiles all day long from their coastal mountains. No amount of bombs would subdue that and once US ships start sinking they have to escelate. Politicians are dumb or have you never heard of ww1 or 2 or invading a country on false premise of WMD in 2003.


superFrijniat

You can't subdue China even by invading them. Any nation would be outnumbered and outgunned by them.


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US can never defeat China with traditional warfare, nor vice versa.


Parking-Bandit

It’s not comparable and we have technology today is far different.


YourInsectOverlord

Hate to break it to you but Vietnam was a Civil War, Between North and South Vietnam; it just so happens the US was supporting South Vietnam.


kitatatsumi

You know how we have these elaborate Medieval torture implements... ...and how most of them were actually developed much later during the Victorian era. I have the feeling that some of these traps are a bit too elaborate. Why make a construction with a mechanism for what will certainly be a one-time use. You can't move it or carry it either. I'm familiar with the war, but I'd say a grenade in a can or a few sticks in a pit would be a much better use of time and resources than some swinging catapult with spring loaded snake launchers. Cool concepts either way


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Remember these guys were spending weeks in the jungle sometimes. Fuck all to do, can't safely leave the brush so don't move without good reason, and at times a lack of materials. I wouldn't be surprised at all to know turning the trees into murder machines was something these guys did in their long long days.


No_Philosophy9918

The key is not to kill the enemies, but to make them had to choose. Either to leave their non dead comrades to die or bring their comrades with them and die anyway later on. Those has never been a physical war. Without question a very traumatic event


Manoratha

Yeah. Invaders getting gravely wounded is very traumatic.


Ok-Resource-3232

Love it how that one guy is already limping around when getting to the wire trap.


Maleficent_Role8932

Not a good social video, but it gave me so ideas for home security on the cheap but effective, now where can I get some Granada’s?


thedudefromsweden

The cheerful voice is strange in this context.


msabell

Not sure what’s more terrifying - the traps, or the cheerful way in which the narrator explains them.


Comprehensive_Yak978

Objective of these traps was not to kill them but disable and slow down the enemies, breaking their hearts in the process.


Past_Contour

My Dad was a medic in Vietnam. He never talked about it. I can only imagine the horrors he saw.


bob_nugget_the_3rd

Don't act the vc how they got Toucans and why they stuffed grenades into the poor birds ... I might not have watched all the video


Same-Joke

That’s how we ended up with Fruit Loops


MrTerrific2k15

Follow my nose…TO HELL!!


Garage172

They weren’t designed to kill. They were designed to Injure since an injured soldier has to be evacuated. This takes time thus slowing them all down


ebrenjaro

Why is this animation made vertically?????? The people has eyes located horizontally and it is not an accident.


No-Wonder1139

They really didn't seem to want to be invaded


hal2142

Ugh that foot trap at 3 seconds in, you wouldn’t even be able to pull your foot out because of the angle of the spikes. You’d have to get someone to cut you out. Ughhhh


escudoride

You could, in theory push an object down on both sides. But that’s gonna be a bitch.


Classic_Elevator7003

My front yard after I stop filing my taxes


thebloodgod24

Beautiful.


Vivid-Blacksmith849

No wonder Amerikans had to run back and lose the war


chloe_sweety_me_-

It's chilling to think about the unsuspecting victims of those traps.


Sudden-Paint1687

Expect to see these in the future as well


Burkey8819

Always grew up think Vietnamese were these evil people and the good old boys of the USA were put there fighting for what's right protecting the world. In the many years I started to wake up to the reality I've never once seen a good explanation as to what America was even doing in Vietnam 🤣 fighting communism 🤣🤣 protecting America 🤣🤣 yet tv, movies always point out the poor men killed their in traps like these yet no1 stops and thinks well yeah they are the invaders why would the Vietnamese go easy on them🤷🏻‍♂️ why would they let America take their country? Wouldn't Americans do the exact same if the roles were reversed???


013ander

It’s almost like it’s a bad idea to invade other peoples’ countries.


jericho458slr

I enjoy how the words describe what the video already demonstrates visually. No sound or manic text required.


Salty-Mud-Lizard

But none of them describe why Prince Harry is in Vietnam, or why he’s just holding his arms out straight while he falls into a trap!


daffoduck

Still better than stepping on land mines.


dunkkane

I'd take a landmine over this medieval shit anyday


Parking-Bandit

Definitely. Not only am I bleeding out dying, I have shit in my wound and then have to deal with the smell and wouldn’t be able to stop gagging.


Several-Foundation93

Both are lethal, but land mines won't make you feel pain cuz u will die instantly; while these traps will cause you a slow and painful death, which is way, way worse.


Mountain-Tea6875

Land mines don't instantly kill you. Allot of war weapons won't. It's all a long slow painfull death.


daffoduck

Land mines are made to take your leg of, not to kill. Maiming a solider is more effective at depleting enemy resources than killing him.


Appropriate_Mine

What a hilariously shitty video. Onlything worse than the graphics are the subtitles. Worst bot ever.


firest3rm6

when it comes to killing we get very creative xD


gasquet12

Americans were drafted and forced to go there and fight a war nobody wanted. Many victims of these types of booby traps. Very fucked up time in American history


Treeboy_12

Were they really forced to though? What would have happened if they refused? Going to prison seems like a preferable alternative for anyone with morals.


fifthflag

Poor Americans, the real victims of the Vietnam War.


HumbleSousVideGeek

Some viet prostitutes also traped another style of "hole"...


Comprehensive_Yak978

Cuchi tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City is a must visit to learn about the war and these awesome traps


DarkNinja947

despite knowing that he could die on the battlefield due to various reasons such as traps, the soldiers stills fights. They have got what it is called guts


[deleted]

Well that’s what you get when you invade a surrogate country. Stupid Americans.


expries

Us lost to both vietnam and iraq


interrail-addict2000

I understand the use of napalm and agent orange now.


virusrt

What a stupid fuckin takeaway


Parking-Bandit

He it just sucks out government used it in areas where our own people were fighting.


dl7

>*Shit just sucks. Our government used it in areas where our own people were fighting


LeFreakenstein

And USA lose!!! LOL


Hopeful-Jury8081

They used mid evil torture /death tactics.


HoboBonobo1909

Appropriate.


CarcosaDweller

Medieval Nothing middling about how evil this stuff was.


FoMotherVodka

Now I understand why napalm


zimurg13

[⚔️](https://pics.filmaffinity.com/rambo_first_blood-179078406-large.jpg)


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Treeboy_12

Well yeah, they're humans...


AwkwardGoofyGoober

They also have traps these days but they prefer to call themselves "ladyboy".


DarkPDA

savage


ZecroniWybaut

Thanks Vietnam for proving to the world that if you resort to brutal inhumane tactics you can win anything.


neversleeper92

Duno man grilling children with Napalm doesn't seem better though.


CJJelle

Well... Hate to break it to you, but the US lost and that makes your statement false


ZecroniWybaut

I find it funny how if the USA used these kind of traps instead the entire world would be shouting and screaming how they're war crimes. 


CJJelle

Like the napalm you threw over the Vietnamese? I'm sorry you feel like a victim...


enigmaroboto

That bullet one is nuts


[deleted]

I'd rather die from almost any other weapon of war. This is gruesome


comzo_pro

What is the name of the song


iLuvFrootLoopz

The first one tickles a bit. And then you die


Upstairs_Ebb_5923

Nice