What Ninurta said about neutrality.
So let's pull apart this particular aspect of the Vietnam War Narrative, as gifted to the world by the American Left.
Neither Laos nor Cambodia were "neutral" countries in the sense of a country like Switzerland. Both countries served as highways, depots, and staging areas for North Vietnamese forces, as well as their Chinese and Soviet advisors.
From the start, the U.S. government should have made this clear and told the American people and the rest of the world, those countries will be legitimate areas for U.S. / South Viet / etc. military operations.
Instead, they chose the "Switzerland myth" such that the *-wipes in American media were shocked and outraged when the U.S. "invaded" Cambodia. Cambodia had already been invaded for many years, by Ho Chi Minh's forces.
It should not have been special ops or CIA or whatever in Laos, it should have been conventional forces pushing north and ultimately "turning right" and driving on Hanoi while amphibious landings seized Haiphong. And then tell the Soviets and Chinese they could go to nuclear strike Hell if they didn't want to accept that. The worst that would have happened is another Chinese intervention in the war like they did in North Korea.
Instead, all of former French Indochina was gifted to the communists while the American Left became insane with their success in mobilizing public opinion against the war and forcing Nixon to leave the presidency.
So let's pull apart this particular aspect of the Vietnam War Narrative, as gifted to the world by the American Left.
Neither Laos nor Cambodia were "neutral" countries in the sense of a country like Switzerland. Both countries served as highways, depots, and staging areas for North Vietnamese forces, as well as their Chinese and Soviet advisors.
From the start, the U.S. government should have made this clear and told the American people and the rest of the world, those countries will be legitimate areas for U.S. / South Viet / etc. military operations.
Instead, they chose the "Switzerland myth" such that the *-wipes in American media were shocked and outraged when the U.S. "invaded" Cambodia. Cambodia had already been invaded for many years, by Ho Chi Minh's forces.
It should not have been special ops or CIA or whatever in Laos, it should have been conventional forces pushing north and ultimately "turning right" and driving on Hanoi while amphibious landings seized Haiphong. And then tell the Soviets and Chinese they could go to nuclear strike Hell if they didn't want to accept that. The worst that would have happened is another Chinese intervention in the war like they did in North Korea.
Instead, all of former French Indochina was gifted to the communists while the American Left became insane with their success in mobilizing public opinion against the war and forcing Nixon to leave the presidency.
Fire In The Hole