Diem's vice was Buddhist, he could have been used to defuse that crisis. Nhu, can be bought off, with a title and a lot of pistars. Kill Khanh, to avoid the coup of the month for three years. If Diem goes, Ky, and Thieu should stroke minh so he won't be the poster adult of third forces.
 

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Ky thought they could, he devotes an entire section to his autobiography to his meeting with Ibrahim, the main spokesperson.
Actions speak louder than words, and the Montagnard's participation in the FULRO insurgency and various mutinies spoke very loudly.
 
As i envisaged in a past thread i made, a large-scale Sino-Soviet War in 1969 could leave the communist sponsors of North Vietnam exhausted, which could in turn means much less material aid for the Vietcong cause, for quite a long time. As a result, South Vietnam would be able to get some breathing space and stave off rural insurgency, consolidating in the former French Cochinchina region.
If you can get the USSR to collapse even earlier as a result of the costs incurred by defeating and occupying China, even better for Saigon.
Good luck achieving sch a war.
 
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