Happy to recommend a number of books if you are interested.
Cool. Also, do you have any specifically about the genocides under the Khmer Rouge?
Happy to recommend a number of books if you are interested.
If Sihanouk is not around, as long as North Vietnam wins who is to stop the Khmer Rouge from taking power unless there is a strong domestic presence that is friendly with Vietnam? Without Sihanouk, you have no hope of having a pro-Vietnam government. Sihanouk was a sell out, but not a puppet. A sihanoukless government is a US puppet, and if so, will inevitably allow the Khmer Rouge to take power as North Vietnam will win eventually.
Cool. Also, do you have any specifically about the genocides under the Khmer Rouge?
Are you aware that after Sihanouk was deposed the North Vietnamese and the Chinese communists made an offer to the Lon Nol government in 1970? Their offer was that they would not support the Khmer Rouge and regard the deposement of Sihanouk as an internal matter if the Sihanouk trail remained open. There were also other economic incentives on offer, which were declined by the Lon Nol government.
Given that Lon Nol was our boy, that wasn't going to happen.
How is this contrary to my point? Lon Nol won't play with the NV. That means the KR take power in that event.Are you aware that after Sihanouk was deposed the North Vietnamese and the Chinese communists made an offer to the Lon Nol government in 1970? Their offer was that they would not support the Khmer Rouge and regard the deposement of Sihanouk as an internal matter if the Sihanouk trail remained open. There were also other economic incentives on offer, which were declined by the Lon Nol government.
How is this contrary to my point? Lon Nol won't play with the NV. That means the KR take power in that event.
The only way this is possible is if Sihanouk does not get sick (and thereby avoids his trip to France, which allowed the 1970 coup to occur), he purges the military (and nips the coup at the bud), overtly makes overtures to the US and aggressively assists in fighting North Vietnam (averting the 1970 coup), or as a wildcard he declares war on the US and openly seeks North Vietnamese support.
I don't remember saying that. I said istory showed Sihanouk can work with the Khmer Rouge.I was referring to your assertion that the Communists would not treat with any other participant other than Sihanouk is incorrect..0.