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Interesting. I could've sworn I'd read something about Nixon threatening the USSR during the Sino-Soviet crisis on AH.com ages ago, but always thought that was almost certainly a bluff in line with his & Kissinger's madman theory. It doesn't really make sense for Nixon to commit so hard to...

I don't doubt it, Laos & Cambodia only fell after South Vietnam did (so in a way you could say the domino theory was real, although its effect was far more limited than may have been initially thought). Historically the ARVN was sent into both Cambodia and Laos during Vietnamization (when the US...

Tfw I forgot there not only existed a similar thread to my own a year ago, but that I had even posted there myself :oops:

Well I've certainly made China threads in the past (discussing PODs ranging from the Taiping Rebellion to the CCW), but I don't recall ever posting a Sino-Soviet War thread before, or trying to discuss the topic (both the war itself and the aftershocks) in any significant detail. At least, not...

In 1969, tensions between the Soviet Union and PRC were at an all-time high. Longstanding border issues from Xinjiang to Manchuria had been exacerbated by the ideological break between the two Communist powers, with Chairman Mao disavowing the Soviets after Khrushchev succeeded Stalin and began...