[ThanhPhero]

Some dominoes fell but it was an attenuated series, Việt Nam, Laos, Cambodia. That more did not fall is surely attributable to the War. It gave the other countries the time needed to take care of their own Communists, especially Indonesia. The British had taken care of the Communists in Malaya two decades before.

[daniel1212]

My own feeling is that in some way the Vietam war much exhausted the expansionist zeal of Communism, after paying such a large price for what they gained, while becoming more well-known for its repression, and need to gain allegiance by force. Had they taken Vietnam quickly i think it would have been encouraged expanded much more.

Meanwhile, the ideological revolution of rebellion against moral authority (with relative little valid quest for a better reality, but which instead sought fantasy thru drugs) which sympathized with Communism, and helped them win over S. Vietnam, also enabled a ideological Communist victory in the US.