"never get involved in a land war in Asia"
The Chinese won’t fight them with one hand tied behind their back like we did.My money’s on the Chinese...first round...knockout.
China and Vietnam are both communist countries. The Vietnamese simply don’t want the Chinese taking over their territory and ruling over them. There’s much more to it, though. The commie mob boss state of the Soviet Union has tried to buy its way in to influence in Vietnam for generations.
Considering how these riots only started recently, it sure is suspicious that China is able to mobilize this quickly. An analyst of the Kremlin predicted that if Russia goes all-in on Ukraine, that China, which is a secret partner of Russia on this, would do the same in their sphere, the idea being that they are the two blades of a scissor in a larger campaign against the United States. This is merely the beginning. Vietnam, which will receive no sympathy for me, may just be the first victim that gets the ball rolling.
This ought to be quite a show
iirc it didn't work out too well the last time they did this, they better go BIG or stay home...Guess the Chicoms didn’t learn from the last invasion.
Let’s see who the aggressors in Indochina were:
1954-64: No. Vietnam leaves troops behind in South Vietnam in violation of the 1954 Geneva Agreements between ONLY France and No. Vietnam. Infiltration continues unabated until fullscale invasions in 1965 including Idrang and Ashua Valley battles
1965-75: No. Vietnam openly invades S. Vietnam, esp. in 1965, 1968 (Tet), 1972 Easter Offensive, 1975, Final Offensive despite “Peace Agreement” in 1973
1959-75: No. Vietnamese troops invade and stay in “neutral” Laos until they take it over in 1975 with their puppet troops the Pathet Lao
1959-75: No. Vietnamese troops invade and stay in Cambodia despite all kinds of peace agreements and the exortations of Prince Sihanouk that they leave the Parrott’s Beak and Fishhook regions along the SVN border.
Literally create, train and arm the genocidal Khmer Rouge until the Red China influence dominated the KR leadership and lead to a 1973 split with Hanoi.
Khmer Rouge and No. Vietnam fought in 1975, then again in 1979, with NVN troops reinvading Cambodia. Then Red China invaded NVN to aid the KR. War lasted almost 2 years with very high casualties.
Meanwhile the Khmer Rouge had murdered almost 2 million Cambodians and some Vietnamese.
Now Peking is looking for another fight with their neighbor.
I’m actually rooting for the Vietnamese, not because I like the red dictatorship in Hanoi, but because they control the defensive positions which can inflict massive casualties on Red Chinese troops.
“There will be blood”.
Meanwhile, the US bugged out in 1973 and officially in 1975. Pisspoor aggressors we were.
[My friends were freedom-fighters and liberators. Period]
Commies fighting among themselves. Hmmm.