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There was time and place in history where people thought this
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There was time and place in history where people thought this was actually a real possibility.

What. The. Fuck.
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>>899103
Why India before Bangladesh?
Why would anybody give a fuck about what happens to Bangladesh after India goes?
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>>899103
Americans were scared about Cuba and China, so obviously they invaded Vietnam, because they didn't realize it was on the opposite side of the alphabet.
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>>899103

But Laos, Cambodia and Burma all became communist with Thailand having a communist insurgency for 2 decades?
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>>899103

It WAS a real possibility, which is why America so aggressively asserted it's interests in Asia, not just in Vietnam and Korea but in South Asia and the Middle East, too. Had America retreated to isolationism, the USSR and China would have had a free hand.
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>>899103
Most of those countries became communist, and some of them had decades long communist insurgencies.

Including my country which isn't shown int that pic, so fuck off you commie-sympathizing piece of shit.
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>>899127
And Africa as well.

Even after they epically failed in Vietnam they still thought the domino theory a good one to wheel out in terms of Zaire (Today the DR Congo).

Getting involved in the withdrawal of the Portuguese in Angola and the ensuing civil war there. Not a good idea.
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America funded a lot of shady stuff in indonesia the only country that supposedly broke the domino of communism, even if there was little chance of it succeeding, the us government took spared no expense including propping up some very bad individuals
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>>899133
The Philippines?

If so, the Philippine Commie threat was well neutralized until some wacko dictator gave people reason to go commie...
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Reminder that America lost
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>There's nothing bad about Communism
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