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If President Nixon (or a President Humphrey) did not invade Cambodia in 1970, what is Cambodia's most likely political fate in the short-run and long-run:

A) Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge still take over, possibly earlier and have at least a few years to conduct auto-genocide

B) Sihanouk is restored by Vietnamese military and/or a brokered deal with Lon Nol regime, and remains titular head for decades. Khmer Rouge perhaps control local pockets but never take national power.

C) Vietnamese install a "domesticated" version of the "Khmer Rouge" lacking the most radical tendencies of the movement and purged of overtly anti-Vietnamese elements (much like the Heng Samrin and Hun Sen governments) at some point in the 1970s, and before Pol Pot ever gets a chance to rule.
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