AHC/PC: Intra-South East Asian war

With a POD after 1946 would it be possible for a war to break out involving most or all South East Asian nations?

Bonus points for Singapore doing an Israel, holding out against numerical superiority. (Although I admit this is nearly ASB)
 
With a POD after 1946 would it be possible for a war to break out involving most or all South East Asian nations?

Bonus points for Singapore doing an Israel, holding out against numerical superiority. (Although I admit this is nearly ASB)

Well, OTL saw the "Konfrontasi" and Sukarno's Indonesia following a "Crush Malaysia" policy.

Maybe a major open war breaks out between them?

Of course, back then Singapore was part of Malaysia, so the Israel part won't work.

Perhaps Indonesia balkanizes as a result and sometime later, some ambitious warlord decides to organize an inter-island coalition to seize Singapore and tax the trade through the Straits?

Then we can see Singapore-as-Israel.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Konfrontasi escalates would be the most obvious, though that's not gonna primarily be about Singapore.

ASEAN is sometimes said to have been founded to contain Indonesia the same way the ECC/EU is sometimes said to have been founded to contain Germany.

Have Malaysia go communist or al least as anti-colonial as Indonesia and they may well gang up on Singapore (assuming Singapore still becomes independent, which would be strange, considering a red/Sukarno-esque Malaysia is probably going to be the most ethnic Chinese-friendly regime you're going to get in Malaysia). An anti-colonial Malay alliance may also start another Konfrontasi over Mindanao.
 
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