“The war exacted an enormous cost: estimates of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million. Some 275,000–310,000 Cambodians, 20,000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 US service members died”. It only took that many dead bodies to figure out that socialism/communism might not be the right way to govern.
I see an opening. Think China and their historical contempt for each other. We give them the $4 billion Kissinger promised and they give is back Cam Ran Bay.
The $4 billion could be military equipment.