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As we all know, the government of Democratic Kampuchea, led by Pol Pot, caused a genocide, killing millions of Cambodians, most of them being ethnoreligious minorities. What if these scenarios happened instead?

1. The Soviet Union drops a nuke in Phnom Penh, with the reason being DK being an ally of the (Maoist) People's Republic of China, and is therefore a rogue state
2. Vietnam develops its own nuclear program and drops a nuke in Phnom Penh, establishing a puppet regime in the process
3. China, antagonizing the Khmer Rouge regime halfway through the genocide, "liberates" the Cambodian Chinese by dropping a nuke in Phnom Penh, then occupies other cities, using Laos as a proxy
4. The United States drop a nuke in Phnom Penh, then invades Cambodia to counter Vietnamese influence in the Indochina Peninsula
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